NEW BOOK REVIEW: Vicki Mayk reviews The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly. Read it here: https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-the-irish-goodbye-micro-memoirs-by-beth-ann-fennelly/ #BookReview

REVIEW: The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly | Hippocampus Magazine

"For those of us who aspire to write micro, Beth Ann Fennelly shows us how it’s done in a book that brilliantly leverages the shortest of forms..." - Vicki Mayk

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Thanks for sharing @claudiamonpere.bsky.social! Appreciate you!

Claudia Monpere@claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Dad gives me a present. Just between us, he says. A secret. It’s round—no, oval. Pointy at one end. Creamy-white in color with tiny dark speckles. Dad says to guard it with my life. To sleep with it." Stunning, heart-breaking @kimsrogers.bsky.social ghostparachute.com/issue/march-...

Mahalo @mattkendrick.bsky.social for sharing and your kind words. This one is a special favorite of mine:-)

Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"That night I dream I’m in a forest, skimming treetops, slurping nectar from bright red blossoms when I hear a sound like a rusty gate" Quietly heart-breaking piece from @kimsrogers.bsky.social that works on so many levels. Such a clear message in this as well.

Read "Evie" written by @kimsrogers.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social. "When the last bird goes extinct, Dad calls the 3D Printer Man and pays for me." tinyurl.com/2vkem4fm

Evie — Ghost Parachute

When the last bird goes extinct, Dad calls the 3D Printer Man and pays for me. My back is downed vermillion red and my long fish-hook curved beak is painted the salmon of spawning fish heading upstrea...

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Another stellar collection of stories in Ghost Parachute, curated by @brettpribble.bsky.social. ghostparachute.com/issue/march-...

March 2026 Issue — Ghost Parachute

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Happy to share I’ll be published in the March issue of Ghost Parachute alongside so many of my favorite flash writers! Gratitude to @brettpribble.bsky.social for saying YES. And mahalo to @francinewitte.bsky.social for the prompt that somehow pulled this speculative story from my subconscious.

This is good. 👇

@cyn3matic.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Dear Human, what world do you want to live in? And how do we get there? Now seeking short stories, send by March 1, '26 for consideration in Dear Human 2026 Issue 2. dearhumans.substack.com/p/editor-let... #writingcommunity #booksky #hopepunk #solarpunk #ethnofuturism #futurisms #litmags #writers

Honored to be joining many writers I admire in the upcoming Ghost Parachute anthology (editor @brettpribble.bsky.social) for this speculative story. Strangely, feels like a good match for the speculative world in which we find ourselves living right now. ghostparachute.com/issue/june-2...

Confession at the Last Bar in the World — Ghost Parachute

It started with birds. We named the first one Martha, a nod to her namesake, the last of the passenger pigeons, who died in 1914. Then, we went for a whole flock of ‘em and Carolina parakeets and Ivor...

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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

Huh?

What a lovely surprise to see this again and a lovely reminder of a piece that has special meaning for me. Thanks for sharing @pdforan.bsky.social

Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“When the days tick off the calendar and the anniversary inevitably rolls around, what I really want is …’ @kimsrogers.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/august/

I know. I know. I say this every time @marioaliberto3.bsky.social publishes a new story, but this really truly, once and for all, could be my all-time favorite! www.vestalreview.net/last-play-of...

Last Play of the Game — Vestal Review

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Read this!

SFWP@sfwp.bsky.social · 9mo ago

BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social made @msmagazine.com's list of November 2025 Reads! buff.ly/JmWs33l Make sure to get BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/bBDbW53 @susanschulman.bsky.social

@jenwithwords.bsky.social Jenny, thanks so much for sharing.

Please enjoy this interview w Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social about her amazing new collection, Bitter Over Sweet, 2023 winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards. LINKS to her book and to her AMAZING launch on Nov 7 w Deesha Philyaw & Avitus Carle are in the interview.

First off, I just have to say, I love the Bath Flash Fiction Award! Thank you so much to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for seeing and appreciating my cranky, zero-fucks-given Menopausal Woman character. She's a real hoot!

bathflashaward.bsky.social@bathflashaward.bsky.social · 9mo ago

www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/high... Congratulations @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!

As soon as I wrote this one, I knew where to send it. Ghost Parachute Rules! Happy reading, everyone... Also, a big thank you goes to @erinvachon.bsky.social who jiggled loose the seed of this triptych in their prose poem webinar. Seriously, what would I do without @smokelong.bsky.social ??

Brett Pribble@brettpribble.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Read "Sex In Public: A Triptych" written by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and illustrated by @courtneyb77.bsky.social. "She is ten and obsessed with porn. Been around it her whole life. Her uncle, who still lives with her grandmother, has stacks of it under his bed." tinyurl.com/5af9m2rw

And now you can get the ebook as well. Thanks @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social for bringing us together in this beautiful anthology which became a home for my first micro chapbook (Preparing to be wrecked) elj-editions.com/grieving-hope/

Grieving Hope | ELJ Editions

Grief and hope. Two words that aren’t used together often. Yet, through stories of nature and nurture, of reckoning and coming to terms, Charlotte Hamrick, Kim Steutermann Rogers, Ronita Chattopadhyay...

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You’re back in the 8-0-8 @lumchanmfa.bsky.social Congratulations on your a-maz-ing story collection!

Thanks @charhamrick.bsky.social for the engaging questions. And I also did learn a lot from your writings @charhamrick.bsky.social @kimsrogers.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social and Janet Murie @emergejournal.bsky.social @dianegotauthor.bsky.social reckonreview.com/the-nitty-gr...

THE NITTY GRITTY INTERVIEW WITH RONITA CHATTOPADHYAY – Reckon Review

The eight pieces in Ronita’s collection explore feelings of grief and confusion as a young girl at the death of a dear friend, her first loss, and how the experience might influence future losses.

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I’m happy to say my first poem ever is in the Writers Resist Fall 2025 issue. Thanks to @kbgressitt.bsky.social and the entire WR staff for making the biggest wish of teenage-me-poet come true. Thanks also to @smokelong.bsky.social where this story (and pretty much every story of mine) was drafted.

If you ever have an opportunity to work with editor @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, jump. Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks. dianegottlieb.com/conversation...

Conversations on Grieving Hope - Diane Gottlieb

Hi all! I am so very excited to bring to you this month not one interview but five!! Earlier this year, ELJ Editions published a GORGEOUS volume of five micro-chapbooks (for those not ensconced in the...

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weekly talk story about @bambooridge.bsky.social Pop-Up hosted by @mistahdonald.bsky.social and @expositionreview.bsky.social's FLASH 405 announcement coming this Friday... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

Online Pop-Up For Blood Work and Keep Your Eyes Peeled For The FLASH 405 Winners — Melissa Llanes Brownlee

I don’t know how everyone is doing out there but I hope you are okay and giving yourself space. Hugs. I wanted to let you know that I was invited to be a part of Bamboo Ridge’s Pop-Up Reading to cele...

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Open ‘em. Break ‘em down. Maybe even walk through a door or two into your next story! Nice tip @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!

Patricia Q. Bidar@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Open all the doors. Wisdom from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social via Vancouver Flash Fiction! #writinglife #flashfiction #writingcommunity

“No shame auntie.” Oof! New story by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social

Melissa Llanes Brownlee@lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I have a new micro in @claudineliterary.bsky.social! Thank you Diana Hardy for including me in your inaugural issue!! www.claudineliterary.net/melissallane...

Oh, Mandy! New story by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social

Mario Aliberto 3@marioaliberto3.bsky.social · 11mo ago

@bradymicheller.bsky.social put a lot of editorial love for these stories in the latest House of Arcanum! Check out "Every Day is Halloween" for Mandy's story. www.houseofarcanum.org/current-issu...

“Later, after the officer fishes the red hat out of the lake—adrift like flotsam on surface tension….” New story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social.

Dawn Miller 🇨🇦@dawnwriter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thrilled to have a story in the September issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social ❤️Thank you @kimmagowan.bsky.social #flash #flashfiction #flashpack #shortstory #flashlit #writing #writer #litmag

This title! And that ending! 😍 New story by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social

Dawn Tasaka Steffler@dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Huge thank you to Sundog Lit and Eric Rasmussen for really seeing this story and loving it as much as I do. It was a complete pleasure working with Eric and I totally love this lit mag! They are awesome!

Looking forward to this @marioaliberto3.bsky.social!

Michelle R. Brady@bradymicheller.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Sept 1 at www.houseofarcanum.org!! @marioaliberto3.bsky.social

Really admire how the definitions add depth to this wonderful story by @charhamrick.bsky.social. www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Hamri...