Hey friends, I’m offering two opportunities to write with me and a small cohort of other writers in southern France in May of next year! A couple of spots left in each session. See inside for details. 💙 www.artofflashfiction.com/retreats/cre...

Hey there, just FYI I'll be at NYCC this week and if you're also there + want a (paperback or hardcover) copy of Supersex for $20 just DM me 😎

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

At this bagel shop and everyone is pronouncing jalapeño as hal-a-pea-no and one of the workers just handed me my crem-ee-brew-lee coffee and, ope, I have to get out of the Midwest.

We're happy to announce our nominations for Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions! You can read them all here: www.whaleroadreview.com/nominations @barlowadams.bsky.social @nataliamartinez.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @caseyreiland.bsky.social and more!

@smokelong.bsky.social Do you know about The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest? It's an annual comp now, open to fiction, CNF, prose poetry, previously published and unpublished, and also translations. We want it all. Deadline Nov 15. 250 words or fewer. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

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Dude is about to rename planet Earth “America World.”

@smokelong.bsky.social We'll be sending out the invitation to join the workshop site on August 27th. Come write with us! Fitness is not a cult no matter what people say. #kumbaya www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

SmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong Quarterly

In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...

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Happy Publication Day to the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee, @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social, and the long awaited, never duplicated HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY!!! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

Issue One is live and full of nerve! Featuring work by @emmabolden.bsky.social, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social, @williamfargason.bsky.social, @sonyahuber.bsky.social @mattkendrick.bsky.social, @gabemontesanti.bsky.social, @zachpowers.bsky.social and more! www.nervetowrite.com/issue-1

Issue 1 | Nerve to Write

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SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

Read Gooseberry Pie’s winning entries from our first writing competition 2 years ago, judged by world-famous Peg Mokrass …this year’s comp opens for submissions on April 1 with judge @danbillyc.bsky.social link to details about the competition is in comments gooseberry-pie.com/special-issu...

Special Issue 1 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Courtesy of Unsplash+ And the Winners Are!!! Peg Mokrass and I enjoyed reading the submissions for Gooseberry Pie’s first writing contest in celebration of National Gooseberry Month. And with over nin...

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After a deluge of incredible reader applications and some very difficult decisions, we’re thrilled to announce our brand new 2026 Multigenre/Chapbook reading team! Please help us welcome the MG/C team, who along with our MG/C Editor Erin will be ready for your multigenre books when subs open on 4/1!

Still can’t believe I’m in this, along with some of my favorite flash fiction friends, including @lumchanmfa.bsky.social & @claudiamonpere.bsky.social 💕 Catching a plane today, & so excited to have this read on my travels 🤗 TYSM to @altcurrent.bsky.social & @southeastreview.bsky.social🙏

I'm finally allowed to reveal the cover for my book! This is Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies. It's coming from @beaconpress on September 29. Isn't it beautiful? Dan McCarthy is the artist and Louis Roe is the designer.

It should never be forgotten that MEL BROOKS had the World Premiere of BLAZING SADDLES (1974) take place at the Pickwick Drive-In Theater in Burbank, Los Angeles for 250 invited guests - ALL ON HORSEBACK.

I have a new book out this summer! Wolf’s Belly is a graphic novel illustrated by the incredible Simón Estrada. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Wolf's Belly

An engaging and surprising retelling of Little Red Riding Hood that follows Lu (aka Little Red) and her grandmother into the wolf’s belly—a magical dimen...

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Holly Mitchell is our featured author this week. Read America Marvel's interview with the author, in which Mitchell talks about narrative structure, in SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Smoke Signals with Holly Mitchell - SmokeLong Quarterly

This story is such a perfect image of gay panic, and it encapsulates the insecurity of youth and self-discovery. Was there a particular moment or image that inspired this story? It started with the ph...

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I would be so much happier if I just wrote, read, played the occasional video game, and hung out with my dog and family, while doing my best to avoid any inkling of news about the horrors, but the idea is so antithetical to who I have always been: a person who knows things and cares about the world.

Thrilled to share that my new collection—Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment—is available for pre-order! It’s a book about belonging & becoming & finding our way together. I hope you will read it. ❤️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Lots of stuff to be sad about, but can confirm puppies are still awesome.

"Chang’s prose lets us float on the idea, and for a moment, breathe the world in and dream. Sometimes—maybe—it’s enough to touch the possibility of something more." This review from Claudine Lit left me teary-eyed. Huge thanks to @claudineliterary.bsky.social ❤️ Off to read the rest of the issue!

The Potential of Radio and Rain | A Review

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Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

We’ve still got some space! Weird sword and sorcery? Beautiful body horror? Send it!

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75% full 😈🙏

It's sign-up time! If you'd like to start SmokeLong Fitness in April, we are inviting all new members to join the workshop on March 25th to do some onboarding. Come write with us! Monthly subscriptions are possible until the end of March, then again in August. www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

SmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong Quarterly

In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...

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In honor of the great @mattkendrick.bsky.social's 40th birthday, read this ridiculously joyful and weird flash from 2024 in @moonparkreview.bsky.social. I have thought about this story so many times since I first read it. moonparkreview.com/issue-29-fal...

The Lick

By Matt Kendrick It was the first painting we looked at on our visit to the gallery. I said it was kind of beautiful. The tongue had a sensual quality. But Hadley didn’t see it. She said the painti…

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Death finally worked up the courage to tell Chuck Norris he died 20 years ago. RIP (Roundhouse in Peace), legend.

The more time you can spend around creatives who value kindness and equal rights, the better. It can feel isolating to believe in those things right now, but even those of us who are islands in hostile waters are not alone. There is an archipelago of artistry and compassion if you just reach out.