Back in my favorite place to write.

Here is Nectar! Very grateful to LIT Magazine for publishing this piece that's part prose poem, part story, and all my heart. www.litmagazine.org/nectar/

Life lately

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · last mo.

Owning a lot of books is great. Packing and moving with a lot of books is not great.

Story acceptance for a piece I've been working on for eight (!!) years. It's very close to my heart and I can't wait to share it. 🍯

I love reading the stories that come through each week! We are always looking for more great ones 👀

Okay Donkey Magazine@okaydonkeymag.com · 3mo ago

Wait, you haven’t submitted yet?! Even though we have free subs every month? Well, I guess we can forgive you… if you submit now at okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

Chat with community educator, historian, and author/editor extraordinaire Nisi Shawl. Ask Nisi about writing inclusive fiction, the history of black SF, their own writing, or that of Octavia Butler. Donate at https://twp.ai/9PcNcp or through our bio!

💥 THIS WEEKEND💥 I’ll be teaching CRAFTING STRUCTURE IN FLASH FICTION at Rutgers’ Cooper Street Workshop! Want to write your heart out? Learn more about bending form in flash?! Then this workshop is for you! ✨Details✨ When: April 11, 2026 Time: 10 am - 1 pm camden.rutgers.edu/event/cooper...

What this shows is that no matter where one goes or no matter how much technology one has, what humans need most is each other.

Our second spotlight is by @catherinebuck.bsky.social 🦝 We loved the short searing sentences that make this micro feel tense and breathless, the sense of encroaching danger and escalation and the last lines that land scalpel sharp. Read and listen here: trashcatlit.com/tattler/

"You should have seen it, a monster, through the window, yes I did, with my own two eyes I did. You shut up, you weren’t brave enough. You’ve never been brave like me." Tense, propulsive writing from @catherinebuck.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social trashcatlit.com/tattler/

Tattler

Catherine Buck Listen to Catherine read her story Two boys in the tall grasses. Send a dare. See the witch and the witch’s pup. Transformed from a cat. No, a deer. No, a bat. Your mother’s missing …

trashcatlit.com

Catherine Buck@catherinebuck.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So happy to be in this micro issue and excited to read the rest of these stunning pieces!

So happy to be in this micro issue and excited to read the rest of these stunning pieces!

Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 5mo ago

She is compact and gorgeously bijou - our March Mini Bin full of microfiction is now live 🦝 Dip in and out and enjoy sixteen tasty morsels. We'll be spotlighting each in the coming days. trashcatlit.com/march-mini-b...

Thinking of this piece by @pegahouji.bsky.social today. splitlipthemag.com/flash/0924/p... #flashinthefeed @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

In the Name of Those Optimist Iranian Fools — Split Lip Magazine

Minutes after my feet touched moon dust, your voice creaked in the video message.  “The virus wins,” you chuckled in that half-slanted way you did when nothing was funny. Jaundice yellow laced i...

splitlipthemag.com

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

March 18, 2026

Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

medium.com

Teasing our upcoming March Mini Bin micro issue with these two crackers 🦝 @catherinebuck.bsky.social follows two boys into the woods and has us question who the monsters are @stuartcavet.bsky.social shows us what happens when something that should help us, chooses to help itself More teases later

Today! Come meet "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet"! othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 5mo ago

ISSUE 1 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Please enjoy our debut issue in all its messy, wonderful, heartbreaking, joyful queer energy. We love these poems and stories, the reprints and nonfiction, the cover and interior art—all of it! And we hope you will too 🪐🗡️ othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

Here they are! Our sixteen Micro Binners! Their amazing smol works are coming on the 21st March. Be there! 🦝 @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social Ron Arbuckle @lmbayley.bsky.social Jesse Binger @catherinebuck.bsky.social @stuartcavet.bsky.social @travisflatt.bsky.social @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social 💜 1/2

6 - The Homeowner's Bride by Ayida Shonibar. i love the haunted house POV in this story. ayida is so good at clandestine relationships with a body count. ❤️ othersidespec.com

OTHERSIDE - Queer Speculative Fiction

OTHERSIDE is a queer-led literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

othersidespec.com

Got a whole bunch of stickers at AWP and am not going to stick them on anything until I get into their respective mags. Wish me luck!

Love AWP. Love writers! Goodnight

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

Thrilled to be nominated and grateful to the @lostballoon.bsky.social team for all their care and work in creating this wonderful magazine.

Lost Balloon @lostballoon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are happy to announce our nominees for Best Small Fictions! Please congratulate @catherinebuck.bsky.social, @onmytangent.bsky.social, Alex Juffer, Maggie Maize, and Annabelle Taghinia!

The minute it goes above 30 degrees I can feel my brain unfurl like a giant leaf

open again for another 45 newbies! anyone who's submitted to us before need not (better not!) apply

HAD@havehashad.com · 6mo ago

open now to 45 of you who've never submitted to HAD before!

Stunningly powerful new piece from @ayidashonibar.bsky.social! A true voice to watch.

Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS. Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social Check it out here: www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

Smokelong is the best group for building community and writing flash! So excited to rejoin for 2026.

SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Just a couple days left to start in January! We're already letting new particitrousers into the workshop. Try SmokeLong Fitness in January and February. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...

With MFA app deadline coming up, I've been getting lots of emails from prospective students about the state the Rutgers-Camden program; please note that we are once again FULLY funded, with strong assurances of continued full funding moving forward. We're not going anywhere.

Tom McAllister@tmcallister.bsky.social · 9mo ago

we are back in business, folks mfa.camden.rutgers.edu

So glad to have my dialogue flash on this list! @mattkendrick.bsky.social is a deeply thoughtful reader of flash and I always love his recommendations: it's a joy to be included.

Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I've taken the reins for this month's #Mondettes - it's my end-of-year round-up of some of my favourites from 2025, also known as the MAFFIAS!!! mondettes.substack.com/p/december-2...

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"