Everyone has those pieces they are especially proud of. For me, it's "Clean Cuts." Thank you to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing my flash fiction about culling plants and friends. #flashfiction #fiction #writing #writesky #fictionsky

Clean Cuts — Susurrus

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Feat.: Julia DesRoches, D Bedell, Niamh Carmichael, Neil Corbett, Logan Elizabeth Craig, Jayda Gilliard, Joanna Grant, @emhall47.bsky.social, Lola Haskins, Kale Hensley, Tyler Jagt, Spencer Jewell, Stacy Miller, Hannah Lane Patterson, Samantha Renee Ratcliffe, Murray Rice, and Kimberly Ann Southwick

Everyone has those pieces they are especially proud of. For me, it's "Clean Cuts." Thank you to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing my flash fiction about culling plants and friends. #flashfiction #fiction #writing #writesky #fictionsky

Clean Cuts — Susurrus

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Normally I have dozens of happy zinnias this time of year. The drought hobbled all the seeds, except for this one, which bloomed 3 days ago. Check out the teeny white spider in the center. It’s happy about the rain we’ve had too! #gardensky #gardening #flowers #flowersky #spiders

It's the last day of the submission window for your prompted stories 🦝 Get those final edits sorted and lob it our way before 8pm (UK Time). Our next sub call is for prose poetry inspired by Jimothy the raccoon. See our pinned post for details 💜

Please spread the word to the #KidLit writers and illustrators, teachers, parents, and children in your lives! Subs are sloooow epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit...

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Nimblewitlit Mag@nimblewitlit.bsky.social · 4d ago

Want to submit to our “choices” issue but don’t know what to write or draw? We got you! Enjoy this writing and drawing prompt worksheet bundle, and send us your creations!

I quit teaching a few years ago, after a 14-year career in academia. I wrote about leaving it, and recovering from the subsequent burnout, in "Goldenrod," which was published today in Short Reads. #writing #creativenonfiction #flashcnf #writersofbluesky

Goldenrod

by Emily Hall | In search of color.

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More art and CNF please!!! Subs open through August 31 AGENCY VS DETERMINISM epistemiclit.com/submissions/

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Submission guidelines for a fully digital literary anthology that explores themes to open conversations through the written word.

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Not a bad place to be sitting and reading some advance review copies today. #books #reading #booknook

This is a really beautiful piece @ckrich.bsky.social As someone whose family hails from Delmarva and traveled to Chincoteague often, this piece reminded me of home. ♥️ #flashfiction #writing #writersofbluesky

Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · last wk.

"It reminds us of the beach castles we made as children with carefully constructed moats and shell windows, swamped and quickly swept away by high tide." from "Barrier Islands" by @ckrich.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/barrier-isla...

Snap! Criticism: @danhartland.bsky.social takes Rhett Davis's ARBORESCENCE (in which people turn into trees) and Christopher Warley's AUERBACH'S RENAISSANCE (in which imitation and rebirth are considered) to see what they have to say to each other. Read it here:

Snap! Criticism: Rhett Davis & Christopher Warley

Dan Hartland An arborescent form is effectively a tree, and—although the sight of what remains of the human embedded in its trunk can be confronting—it may be cut down or removed in the traditional…

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Take the time to read this! A lovely, wry little poem about death.

The Disappointed Housewife~Submissions always open!@offbeatlit.bsky.social · 2w ago

Death as Whack-A-Mole. It's been staring us in the face all this time! #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #sonnets thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/08/13/w...

Yesterday I was in Book City (awesome indie #Toronto bookstore) and saw Geist and ran over and turned it to my story and showed it to the clerk. I! AM! IN! A! BOOKSTORE! 5 year old Sage: you're welcome.

IVYMI: My flash story came out yesterday in Bending Genres. 🎉

Emily Hall@emhall47.bsky.social · 2w ago

Many thanks to @rgvaughan.bsky.social for publishing my story, “Employee Complaint Form” in this issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social. It features a Pegasus. What can be better than that!? #writesky #flashfiction #writing

Surprised and delighted to have my #haiku selected by the Frost Entomological Museum for their Hexapod Challenge. gentle autumn rain — slanting sunlight discovers a spider web Many more delightful haiku on the topic here ento.psu.edu/about/facili...

2026 Selections (The Frost Entomological Museum)

The Frost Entomological Museum congratulates the poets of the 2026 Hexapod Haiku Challenge!

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Bending Genres Issue 52 is now LIVE!! Full of fascinating, amazing CNF, poetry and flash fiction. Check it out here: bendinggenres.com

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Many thanks to @rgvaughan.bsky.social for publishing my story, “Employee Complaint Form” in this issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social. It features a Pegasus. What can be better than that!? #writesky #flashfiction #writing

Employee Complaint Form

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Many thanks to @rgvaughan.bsky.social for publishing my story, “Employee Complaint Form” in this issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social. It features a Pegasus. What can be better than that!? #writesky #flashfiction #writing

Employee Complaint Form

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Live your life in such a way that you don’t need to hide in a catering cart on your return flight home when traveling internationally.

For reasons I don’t understand, I am constantly summoned for jury duty. And I’ve served on a jury, so I sometimes even make it all the way through the trial. This message brought to you by the jury summons I received today. 🥲

We finally have a reprieve from the drought. Our crepe Myrtle celebrated with a late-season bloom. Hoping everyone else suffering drought sees some much needed rain! 🌧️ #gardensky #trees #gardens #plantsky

Had this mauve fleece in my stash for a while, so I made the Toaster Sweater (version 2) by Sew House Seven. I’ve sewn with stretch fabrics before but I learned how to make vents and use a double needle. Really rewarding project! #garmentsewing #sewsky #sewing

Well over 100 books/zines downloaded for free so far today. Well over. Keep going!

Malarkey@malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hello friends and happy Friday we are making all our ebooks free today with code FREEFRIDAY malarkeybooks.com/ebooks

Nothing is free in 2026. Except these books! Go get some! #booksky #books #writesky

Thad DeVassie@thaddevassie.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is ridiculously generous. Consider test-driving authors you don't know or want to get to know better -- then buy their physical book. That's my approach. We need Malarkey and small indies to thrive for years to come.

My letter in this week’s issue of @thetls.bsky.social Finding myself in uncharted waters, I felt it necessary. Share if you care about making room in our literary culture for work that swims against the tide.

Found this today while reading the backlog on @offbeatlit.bsky.social . So much emotion arising out of a “quantitative” assignment. Really intriguing work, @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social 👏 👏 #poetry #poetsky #writing #writesky

The Disappointed Housewife~Submissions always open!@offbeatlit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We have an extraordinary piece today, #poetry in the form of a poignant school assignment by Chrissy Stegman. #mustread thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/07/08/h...

A lil’ bit of microfiction up on Nailpolish Stories. (A 25 word limit is such a good challenge! And I love the idea of titles inspired by the wild, endless world of nail polish names.) nailpolishstories.wordpress.com

Congratulations to editor Kerri Andrews & other contributors of Women, Walking, published by Batsford on Thursday. A rich collection of diverse essays exploring who, where, why & how we walk. I particularly enjoyed the final two essays by @helenmort.bsky.social & @katedavispoet.bsky.social.

We need some new heartbreaks for the gallery. Doesn't have to be about someone who broke your heart. Maybe its a song or movie that always makes you tear up, a spot you used to love in your home town that's gone now, a lost family recipe. 50 words or less and one photo is all we need. Sub link ⏬️

Being publishing in Trash Cat Lit is such a delight!! Check out the sub calls, writing friends, and find one that’s for you! 🦝 #writing #flashfiction #writesky

Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 3w ago

With our August challenge underway, we're thinking about what's still to come at Trash Cat Lit. Here is a post summarising the rest of our 2026 sub calls. Pencil us in if something takes your fancy 🦝 trashcatlit.com/2026/08/02/a...