Salena Casha
@salenacasha.bsky.social
writer. runner. product manager. 1×WigleafTop50 selection, 2xPushcart nom, 2×BOTN nom, 3xBSF nom. Join the waitlist for Teresa 2.0 here: teresaseesyou.com
Issue 5 has landed! We are delighted with it. Thanks for allowing us to showcase your work and trusting us with your words! www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-5-ha...
Issue 5 Has Landed
Welcome to the Frazzled Lit Short Story Award 2026 issue!
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Issue 22 is live! Check out incredible work by @fictionaljosh, Kate Penvari, Sarah Turbin, marion eames white, Esra Jackson, Grace McGovern, Z. T. Corley, Nicholas León, and Salena Casha. mudroommag.com
Super stoked to get this review from Michael! Other people reading your writing never gets old. Big thank you to @vestalreview.bsky.social for the publication.
Michael Staniforth@staniforthmick.bsky.social · 2w agoDay 242! I read She Tells Herself That Somewhere, Someone Else Will Build It Anyway by @salenacasha.bsky.social published in @vestalreview.bsky.social. The tech doesn't matter, it always ends the same. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/s...
These editors are just the most amazing humans / writing partners ever. Thank you, thank you for everything.
Vast Chasm Magazine@vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Unlike the rules you set at your house, the Millers have an under-18s go phone-free policy, which means that Marcy Miller’s kid beats you and yours at Scrabble in the low kitchen light.” — @salenacasha.bsky.social, “What You Practice For” in Issue 19 vastliterarypress.org/2026/07/18/2...
@salenacasha.bsky.social hit a triple word score with her fantastic flash in the upcoming Issue 19. For now, you should check out her “Alligator” from the always excellent @okaydonkeymag.com or it’ll be egg on your face. okaydonkeymag.com/2026/03/20/a...
Alligator by Salena Casha
I say to him, it’s been a year, and he looks at me across the table with its fake spider plant and starts talking about how he’s found a simple way to make lemon trees grow in the shade, like he di…
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This story absolutely bowled me over. Congrats, Andrei!
Five Minutes@fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 2mo ago"The Crossing" by Andrei Romanov, a Romanian-born writer & historian based in Portugal. He is author of the award-winning Masters of the Ocean Sea, and his work is held by major research libraries in the US and UK. "The Crossing" won our INHERITANCE contest, judged by @salenacasha.bsky.social.
Mega Congrats to our 5winners in the 33rd Award chosen by @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social 1st, @anneh23.bsky.social 2nd, David Swann 3rd,Cecilia Maddison Highly commended @sarahillswrites.bsky.social Highly commended @Katehorsleywriter.Bsky.social Read their fab stories on bathflashfictionaward.com
Congratulations! Confetti Celebration
ALT: Congratulations! Confetti Celebration
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Very rarely does the first message in my inbox bear good news!! Champagne all around for my fellow top twenty survivors - also, regardless of longlist / shortlist, this anthology is going to be a banger.
bathflashaward.bsky.social@bathflashaward.bsky.social · 3mo agoMany Congratulations to the twenty writers on our 33rd Award shortlist selected by our judge @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social Results out by end of the month https:// www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/short-list-bffa-june-2026-award/
My fever dream "We are our own destruction" is LIVE AND WELL over at @fullmoodmag.bsky.social Huge thanks and flowers to the loveliest of editors, @jaimedilleditor.bsky.social for bringing this galaxy of stars together again. www.fullmoodmag.com/mood-7-galax...
‘“It’s your time machine,” they say, not a good tell, not the type to lean into collective decision-making…’ Such an original story from @salenacasha.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social - just love this 🚀 www.vestalreview.net/she-tells-he...
She Tells Herself that Somewhere, Someone Else Will Build It Anyway — Vestal Review
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The corporate angle on time machines. Read “She Tells Herself that Somewhere, Someone Else Will Build It Anyway,” by Salena Casha. @salenacasha.bsky.social vestalreview.net/she-tells-herself-that-somewhere
Judges @salenacasha.bsky.social (Inheritance), Lisa Braxton (Unusual Vacations), and @jojthefirst.bsky.social (Loss) want your micromemoirs! 5 minutes 100 words. fiveminutelit.com/marathon
Today's story is "As Above, So Below" by Salena Casha. @salenacasha.bsky.social #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros
As Above, So Below
By Salena Casha
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Meet contest judges 1, 2, and 3! Amita Basu’s fiction appears/is forthcoming in 95+ venues. @salenacasha.bsky.social's work has appeared in over 180 publications in the last decade. John Holmes’ recent work has been published in People’s Friend, Five Minutes, Paragraph Planet, WestWord, and FFF.
True procrastination is running 20 miles in the snow and wind rather than editing the last 150 pages of my book. Glad to have finished something this weekend either way!
This one by @salenacasha.bsky.social seems like an excellent choice for #FlashInTheFeed because it was a liiiiiiitle too relatable for me to have read it at 6:30am on a Saturday. @smokelong.bsky.social
Okay Donkey Magazine@okaydonkeymag.com · 6mo ago“...all the seriousness and subject matter expertise in the world… can be diminished by a bit of spinach or a sesame seed or, in this case, egg and so I let it diminish him.” “Alligator” by Salena Casha @salenacasha.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/03/20/a...
“...all the seriousness and subject matter expertise in the world… can be diminished by a bit of spinach or a sesame seed or, in this case, egg and so I let it diminish him.” “Alligator” by Salena Casha @salenacasha.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/03/20/a...
Now announcing our contributors for the Sprawl Mag 3.1. We are so excited to share this volume with you! Featuring: Pablo Andrés Palo Viviana De Cecco @francesboyle19.bsky.social @themaust.bsky.social @sidellwrites.bsky.social Ivan Ndoma-Egba @lucienrstarchild.bsky.social
Mine is one of these lucky few on the shortlist! Gah, congratulations everyone.
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe are pleased to announce the shortlist for our Microfiction Competition. If you are on the list, please feel free to celebrate on social media, but don’t reveal your title! Thank you to everyone who entered! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
Line edits have arrived, coffee is in hand, and the Olympic Nordic sprint is on in the background. Teresa 2.0, let's do this thing. #amediting #amwriting
You might find yourself asking,what the heck even is a novelette?! Perhaps, the answer, or at least a chaotic attempt at one, is here: open.substack.com/pub/salenaca...
So, what even is a novelette?
An overview of this mysterious category of writing and some insight into my first published within that subset.
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Huh, this has not reached its cap yet...
HAD@havehashad.com · 7mo agothis call, and thus this link, will be live in just a bit over 4 hours. (betting it will be full, and the link dead, just a LITTLE bit thereafter) giving myself that as the deadline for responding to everyone from thursday's call! havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34839...
Big thank you to @havehashad.com and their Tacoma call for inspiring something new out of me in the last 48 hours. Grateful to write something new and weird that I now love.
'Lille' by Dan Deigh is playing on the speakers, coffee is steaming, and I'm reaching back into a rainy childhood memory to write for @havehashad.com's Tacoma call. open.spotify.com/track/6Hkows...
Lille
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My. Novelette. Is. Live. Which means I'm freaking out because people might read it and I might die of embarrassment but also, I'm freaking out because a person might actually read it. Huge thank you to @emergejournal.bsky.social for making my dreams come true. Order your copy here: a.co/d/0b5BfkX4.
'She won't survive this' is LIVE with FLASH THE COURT this morning. A bit of dystopia, a bit of cactus POV (weird I know, but I LOVED writing it). flashthecourt.com/2026/01/23/s...
We can't afford the house either. But the story is amazing. Thanks @salenacasha.bsky.social for sharing your words.
Salena Casha@salenacasha.bsky.social · 8mo ago🪧First publication of 2026🪧is LIVE with @neonandsmoke.bsky.social in their January issue! So grateful to the editors, T & J, for all their work. You will be my favorite reader ever if you check out this wonderful magazine: www.neonandsmoke.com/january-smok...
🪧First publication of 2026🪧is LIVE with @neonandsmoke.bsky.social in their January issue! So grateful to the editors, T & J, for all their work. You will be my favorite reader ever if you check out this wonderful magazine: www.neonandsmoke.com/january-smok...
A Conversation with One of the Many Houses in My Neighborhood that I Can't Afford | Neon & Smoke
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