Chris Doty-Dunn
@chrisdotydunn.com
Writer of weird and/or gay and/or spec fiction. Words in Crepuscular Magazine, Rat Bag Lit, Dream Theory Media, and more + forthcoming at Drabblecast. PhD in linguistics. ✡️🏳️🌈👬 Newsletter signup and stories: chrisdotydunn.com
Judging is underway for our Literal Contest—but a new contest lurks on the horizon. It smells like pumpkin spice and too much candy and... rhymes?
Odd Embers Writing Contest
Join the Odd Embers Flash Fiction Contest to spark creativity with strange prompts. Submit stories, receive feedback, and compete for prizes and publication.
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the 2026 1000 Word Herd contest has a winner! we'll post an announcement next week. we had so many good stories in this contest, and it was a blast reading them all. thanks to everyone who submitted their work! #1kwhc
HELLO AMERICA IT IS OFFICIALLY HOT 🥵 BOULEUTOPHAGY 🍔 SUMMER 💃
Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 5d agoAmericans, finally pissed enough, start eating their politicians. (Yes, it's a love story.) "Saul & Noah's Hot Bouleutophagy Summer" by @elijah.mea.rs has: 🚗two boys in a beater at the end of society ❤️queer love 🗽courage vs American fascists 🦺a safe zone? www.adventitious.net/stories/saul...
Subs for our next issue close TONIGHT! Polish it up and get it IN 🔥⏳
FIYAH Literary Magazine@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 2w agoOne week left for our last submission cycle of the year! If you have a Black magic school story this is your time to shine! Don't self reject ⏳
Guess what this list has in common: P.A. Cornell...Aimee Ogden...Elijah J. Mears...Ruth Joffre...Rio Lombana...Kaitlin Schmidt...Audrey Zhou...Liam Hogan...Kari Maaren...Holly Schofield...Jeanna Cammarano...Stewart C. Baker...Priya Sridhar...Adrian Ward...Hannya Kay...Moira Richardson
Are you looking for a writing contest that won't ask you to prove who you are with an ID and video call? Good news! Our literal contest begins today, and there's still time to sign up—join us as we take a literal spin on the 90s!
A Literal Contest Entry - Odd Embers's Ko-fi Shop
One entry to our upcoming Literal Contest, running July 28 to August 3. See www.oddembers.com for more details.
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It's such an honor to be in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social a second time. What makes me most proud about this story is that I wrestled with it & used my struggle to teach my GrubStreet and StoryStudio Chicago students. The vulnerability to try, fail, and struggle out loud served as a powerful tool. (1/2)
FIYAH Literary Magazine@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · last wk.We can FINALLY scream that our newest issue is out in the world! Get your download of FIYAH #39: Black Kishōtenketsu: fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
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The results for the first EVER Whimsy are in! 🦙🪶🥳 A big, WHIMSICAL congratulations to our Selected Stories and Honourable Mentions. These stories BLEW US AWAY for the imagination with which they captured the VAST possibilities of whimsical storytelling! www.whimsyfiction.com/contests/res...
Pretty chuffed to say that it was me who was in the top 25 twice! Checkout my third-place story, "If you still had thoughts, you'd be glad you don't" in the inaugural issue of Midnight Magazine!
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Midnight Writers@midnightwriters.bsky.social · 2w agoONE DAY to go, and here’s something I’ve been really excited to share: One person is in the Top 25 TWICE. Actually, 4 of the Top 25 are authors who subbed more than one story 👀
Hey! Look at this, @chrisdotydunn.com, one of our rat pack authors has a contest you should check out. For those of you who crave feedback, Odd Embers judges are giving it!
Odd Embers Writing Contest@oddembers.com · last mo.A new contest is coming at the end of July—literally. Register today!
THE BEST NEWS!!!!
celia winter 🦋@crossingwinter.bsky.social · 3w agoSometimes, the fates have a sense of humor, because yesterday an acceptance email landed in my inbox. My short story RIVER NIGHT HAS FALLEN will be appearing in an upcoming issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com. Pinch me, still can’t believe it and it’s been a full 24 hours. Happy birthday to me!
I hate Word and Google Docs, but given what we do here, it's basically required. For the last few months I've been working on a way to edit stories with writers without them having to sign-up for anything, but still be able to review, comment, accept/reject edits. I'm so close to the finish line.
DRUM ROLL!!!! Announcing the longlists for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026. Congratulations to the writers of these 50 wonderful pieces. Please feel free to celebrate wildly but don't reveal which piece is yours as judging is still ongoing! www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
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A writing prize open to all forms of narrative prose, be that flash fiction, short-short, vignette, haibun, hermit crab, prose poem or work that sits outside such labels.
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Today we are spotlighting @chrisdotydunn.com with People Always Look for Each Other 🦝 We loved the quiet, building menace in this speculative short, the imaginative "traps". Reader Leigh said "strong imagery and a beauty of a mic drop from the narrator" trashcatlit.com/people-alway...
My pro career has died a death lately, i cant find paid work anymore, but if you like my artwork and can support me making more in my slow chaotic way heres my patreon, thanks! patreon.com/c/AlexDuneBr...
You. Have. Less. Than. TWENTY-FOUR hours. Entries close at 3pm BST tomorrow 30th June. That's 3PM BST 30th JUNE. If I could underline and bold 3PM, I would!!! Those of you still scribbling, pruning, polishing, you might want to switch your settings to turbo mode.
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 2mo agoI may have jumped the gun a little bit, but what are guns for if not for jumping... Anyway, entries are now OPEN for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!! Micros up to 100 words Free to enter Send UP TO TWO micros across FIVE categories Deadline 30th June www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
Three days to submit to the Summer issue of Forgotten Ground Regained
Paul Deane@rhunedhel.bsky.social · 3mo agoLove Tolkien? Love alliterative verse? Want to put them together? The deadline for submissions to the Summer issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, "Alliterative Verse in Arda" is now July 1st. alliteration.net/call-for-sub... #submissions #opencall #submissionscall #alltiterative #poetry
New story day! "People Always Look for Each Other" is now live with @trashcatlit.bsky.social!
People Always Look for Each Other
Chris Doty-Dunn Bethany is the first to go off the path and not come back. The three had trudged for miles before it happened, single-file on the line of bare dirt and rocks that cut through …
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Many thanks to @trashcatlit.bsky.social for publishing my story, “Waxcap.” Utterly delighted to be in the bin, and reading the other stories now! 🍄🟫 🦝 #flashfiction #writesky #write #trashcatlit
Waxcap
Emily Hall Listen to Emily read her story It was a veiled lady. Phallus indusiatus. I remembered it from the times Mama had taken me foraging. Years ago, we’d sneak out while Jerry was sleeping off…
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Exciting news, reader peoples - we are launching our newest issue TOMORROW. Eleven flash and shorts celebrating plantlife coming to your screens 🦝🌳 Look out for the announcement and link to the issue. #flashfiction #shortstories #writing
Today's story is "Wreck Beach" by Jill Bonfman. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros
Wreck Beach
By Jill Bronfman
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