Jessica Klimesh
@jekwriter.bsky.social
creative writer/writing coach/editor flash, flash, and more flash! #flashfiction #microfiction Best Microfiction 2025 | Best of the Net 2025 jessicaklimesh.com https://jekwrites.substack.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@JessicaKlimeshWrites
So excited to have a story on the longlist!!!
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 4w agoDRUM 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...
Thanks for highlighting my story, @turnandwork.com!!
Turn and Work (Hugh)@turnandwork.com · 2mo ago...the shortlist 2/2: with Jennifer Ostopovich @jrostopovich.bsky.social and Kate Catinella in @xraylitmag.bsky.social Jessica Klimesh @jekwriter.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social links to all the stories here:
The Shortlist is up! Three recent pieces at Turn & Work plus links to great flash fiction elsewhere. With Beetle Holloway @beetleholloway.bsky.social, Paul Radcliffe, and Laura O'Meara in @turnandwork.com Jacqueline Chou in @mrbullbull.bsky.social S.H. in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social (...1/2)
The Shortlist for June 11, 2026 - Turn and Work
Short writing from Paul Radcliffe, Laura O'Meara, Beetle Holloway, Jacqueline Chou, S.H., Jennifer Ostopovich, Kate Catinella, and Jessica Klimesh
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"We’ve heard that some people go baby picking every year—tradition—but neither Meredith nor I can imagine that." Love this strange micro by Jessica.
Jessica Klimesh@jekwriter.bsky.social · 2mo agoHappy National Flash Fiction Day!! Here's my piece in the FlashFlood!! @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/just...
"You can’t put a baby back once you’ve plucked it off a tree. Why else would you come to a baby orchard?" A deliciously dystopian story by @jekwriter.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/just...
'Just Another Life Experience' by Jessica Klimesh
When baby-picking season comes around, Meredith says we should go, says it’ll be fun to pick newborns off trees, fill buckets with them. We ...
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You have a great selection here, Hugh. Thank you for including The Hitchhiker by @jekwriter.bsky.social. Congrats to @jrostopovich.bsky.social and Kate Catinella @xraylitmag.bsky.social @turnandwork.com #fiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity
Turn and Work (Hugh)@turnandwork.com · 2mo ago...the shortlist 2/2: with Jennifer Ostopovich @jrostopovich.bsky.social and Kate Catinella in @xraylitmag.bsky.social Jessica Klimesh @jekwriter.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social links to all the stories here:
Just love @jekwriter.bsky.social's surrealisms "The picking is easy, and our buckets fill up fast with chubby, noisy, smelly babies. " @natflashfictionday.bsky.social
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 2mo agoFlashFlood: 'Just Another Life Experience' by Jessica Klimesh #nffd2026
Happy National Flash Fiction Day!! Here's my piece in the FlashFlood!! @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/just...
'Just Another Life Experience' by Jessica Klimesh
When baby-picking season comes around, Meredith says we should go, says it’ll be fun to pick newborns off trees, fill buckets with them. We ...
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Two more days to submit to Hot Flash Literary’s Issue 4: Instant Karma!! Open to work up to 500 words by women-identifying writers. Full guidelines here: hotflashliterary.com/submissions/
Submissions - Hot Flash Literary
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for Issue 4! Theme: Instant Karma. We are open for submissions for Issue 4 from May 1, 2026, through June 12, 2026. Hot Flash Literary accepts previously un...
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ONE MORE WEEK to submit to Hot Flash Literary for Issue 4: Instant Karma!! We accept work up to 500 words by women-identifying writers!! Full guidelines: hotflashliterary.com/submissions/
Submissions - Hot Flash Literary
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for Issue 4! Theme: Instant Karma. We are open for submissions for Issue 4 from May 1, 2026, through June 12, 2026. Hot Flash Literary accepts previously un...
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"There’s no denying that the man Joanne picked up two days earlier has morphed into her son, though as time passes, she will wonder." Stunning story by @jekwriter.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social
Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social · 2mo agoICYMI today we're featuring The Hitchhiker by Jessica Klimesh @jekwriter.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy
ICYMI today we're featuring The Hitchhiker by Jessica Klimesh @jekwriter.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy
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So excited to have a story in Fictive Dream today--thank you, @fictivedream.bsky.social, for giving this story such a wonderful home!!
Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Over the phone, Joanne tries to explain it to her daughter, who shrieks, ‘You picked up a hitchhiker and he’s at your house?'"The Hitchhiker by Jessica Klimesh. Please click on the link below and enjoy @jekwriter.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity fictivedream.com/2026/05/31/t...
Just two more weeks left to submit to Hot Flash Literary Issue 4: Instant Karma! Guidelines: hotflashliterary.com/submissions/
Submissions - Hot Flash Literary
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for Issue 4! Theme: Instant Karma. We are open for submissions for Issue 4 from May 1, 2026, through June 12, 2026. Hot Flash Literary accepts previously un...
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"I was so lonely I would leave my hands on the sides of the microfiche machines after turning them off so I could feel some kind of warmth." I love this perfect piece of writing by @fklein907.bsky.social 💙💙💙 milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/05/14/g...
Good Samaritan ~ by Frances Klein
I told a story at a dinner party. The story went like this: I was in college and I was walking by the light rail line. A man in a wheelchair was on the track. The train was coming. I walked quickly…
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Welcome to Hot Flash Literary Hot Flash Literary is an online journal of flash whose mission is to give women-identifying writers a voice; specifically, it’s a place for women’s voices to ignite. Like...
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the thing about writing is that it is *so easy* unless you are good at it
Your weekly (sort of) reminder that Hot Flash Literary is currently open for subs for Issue 4: Instant Karma!! We accept flash and flash-like prose poetry up to 500 words from women-identifying writers. We'd love to see you in our queue!! hotflashliterary.com
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Welcome to Hot Flash Literary Hot Flash Literary is an online journal of flash whose mission is to give women-identifying writers a voice; specifically, it’s a place for women’s voices to ignite. Like...
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Editorial Freelancers Association@efafreelancers.bsky.social · 3mo agoJoin #EFA instructor Jessica Klimesh in Submitting to Literary Journals: Strategies for Writers to learn how submitting your work — and getting rejections — can actually help make you a better writer. Register before it starts May 14: bit.ly/KlimeshEFA?ut...
Hot Flash Literary is now open for submissions for Issue 4!! Theme: Instant Karma. We will be open through June 12. Subs are open to women-identifying writers; we welcome flash and flash-like prose poetry up to 500 words. Read full guidelines here: hotflashliterary.com/submissions/
Submissions - Hot Flash Literary
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for Issue 4! Theme: Instant Karma. We are open for submissions for Issue 4 from May 1, 2026, through June 12, 2026. Hot Flash Literary accepts previously un...
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Received my contributor's copy of Moon City Review (@mooncityreview.bsky.social) with my story "All My Old Selves" in it today--so excited to be among such amazing writerly company!!
Thrilled to have made the shortlist!! Good luck to all!!
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere's the shortlist for Gooseberry Pie's annual writing competition. The winning entries will be announced in early May with stories published in a special issue which drop of May 14, 2026. Congratulations to everyone! gooseberry-pie.com/gooseberry-p...
Excited to have made the longlist!! Good luck to all!!
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 3mo agoCongratulations to the authors on Gooseberry Pie’s longlist for our annual writing competition. Ok to celebrate but please don’t identify the title of your story online. Shortlist will be posted by end of April. gooseberry-pie.com/gooseberry-p...
Happy to be in the Flood again this year! Look for my piece on June 13th!!
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 4mo agoFlashFlood is open! We’d love to receive your subs 😊 Flashes up to 300 words, pre 2023 prev published considered, reserved spots for debut writers. You have until 23:59 on 25 April: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...
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“With no piano of your own (“down on his luck,” I’d heard my mother tell my father), you came to our house to practice, to tickle those ivories, in the late afternoon while my father was still at work” @jekwriter.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/strangers-2/
Strangers - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
by Jessica Klimesh You weren’t a stranger, though my mother said you were. You were the man who came to play the Steinway upright at our house, the piano collecting dust in our living room because no ...
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Thrilled to have a new #flashfiction story out in @rawheadjournal.bsky.social!! Big thanks to the editors! Read "Something Called Love" here: rawheadjournal.org/rawhead-issu...
Rawhead@rawheadjournal.bsky.social · 4mo agoIssue Two of Rawhead is live! rawheadjournal.org/rawhead-issu... #literarymag #artmag #newpoetry #flashfiction #cnf #newissue #rawheadjournal
“It’s March, the sun setting later but still early enough that by the time I leave the evening class, the campus is merely shadows, eerily empty, with only dots of light along the stretch of sidewalk from here to there,” @jekwriter.bsky.social
How Much Is It Worth to You? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
by Jessica Klimesh Henry says he’ll give me fifty bucks if I would please please please put his name on the assignment because he’s sorry he didn’t help but he had to work, and there’s his academic pr...
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"...and I’d watch my mother’s face light up with every expert note, as she transformed into a stranger, a woman I’d never met,...." These two remarkable pieces of writing by @jekwriter.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙 gooseberry-pie.com/strangers-2/
Strangers - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
by Jessica Klimesh You weren’t a stranger, though my mother said you were. You were the man who came to play the Steinway upright at our house, the piano collecting dust in our living room because no one in my family knew how and my mother thought someone should and had deemed me still too […]
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