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Made something recently? Now until September 30th submit it for a chance to get into our Winter Issue. You can submit in any of these categories: ✏️ Poetry 📸 Flash 📃 Prose 🖼️ Visual Art & Photography 🎨 Mixed-Genre & Mixed-Media For more info, click here 👉https://chestnutreview.com/submissions/
We're now accepting flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about social media, algorithms, and the insidious appeal of the infinite scroll. Submit to DOOMSCROLL by August 15: www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/do...
Doomscroll - August 2026 Writing Challenge | Glossy Planet
Submit flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry about social media, algorithms, and how it feels to use a product that uses you back.
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gorge yourself on the reddest of fruits--juicy plums, sweet grapes, ruby grapefruit--while you read Mario Senzale's "Rouge." #flashfiction #writersky #prose #litmag #rouge
August 7 is your last day to submit to @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social! The editors seek flash fiction, short fiction, and creative nonfiction that is “tart, rotten, or dripping with sweetness.” Submissions are free: www.clmp.org/members/open...
Shortlisted in the Joy Prize, "Behold the Adam and Eve of Huntingfield" by @kawalker.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
Behold the Adam and Eve of Huntingfield | MattKendrick.co.uk
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Hullabaloo! Ballyhoo! Broohaha! Hoopla! The Long and the Short of It is capping Volume I with a party, issue VI, themed Hoopla! We have four pieces for you this month---can't wait to share! Read what our editor, Mary, has to say in regard to the work: longandshortlit.substack.com/p/letter-fro...
Our final round of Flash 405 for 2026 is OPEN! We’re delighted to welcome #ExpoContributor @charlesjensen.bsky.social as our guest judge! Send him your “Quake”-themed short-form entries in any AND all genres through Sept. 5 for your chance to win cash prizes and publication: tinyurl.com/FlashQuake!
Call for Entries: Flash 405, August 2026: “Quake” - Exposition Review
The final Flash 405 contest of 2026 is almost here, and we’re excited to share that another member of the Exposition Review fam is joining the ranks of our guest judges! Former contributor Charles Je...
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Our August opener is a dark fantasy in the style of breathless prose. “Pomegranates” by G.M. Mitchell is now free to read at FFO 🦄 #writingcommunity #flashfiction #darkfantasy #horror @gmmitchell.bsky.social flashfictiononline.com/issues/augus...
August 2026 - Flash Fiction Online
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"I wanted this story to move at the speed of thought." Lane Michael Stanley is our featured author this week. Read Coleman Bigelow's interview with the author at SmokeLong, and then read "Sugar," a finalist in The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Lane Michael Stanley - SmokeLong Quarterly
You begin your story with a breathless sentence. The technique works beautifully to pull us into this world of online hookups. What do you like about the breathless sentence and why’d you choose to st...
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The FFF Critique Service... Anne O’Leary @anneoleary.bsky.social will critique, include a general analysis, a line edit an overall analysis, suggestions for improvement. #critiqueservice #flashfiction £10.50 for fiction max 500 words All the info... freeflashfiction.com/critique-ser...
Our full Madrid programme is out!! Check out the yoga sessions, workshops, dinners, tours, public readings and more that we have planned for our 3-day Annual Salon. We only have a handful of tickets left, so get yours while you still can✨
Introducing Our Madrid Programme!
Last few tickets left – don't miss out on 3 days of creativity, inspiration and community
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New Microfiction by @noranadj.bsky.social!! YOLO “the girls I teach with their eagle-claw nails and slug-plump lips have no idea what a sentence is or a paragraph is” www.claudineliterary.com/noranadjarian
Nora Nadjarian | YOLO
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ICYMI: Pithead Chapel's EiC on writing style trends she's noticed, a story that exemplifies the journal's goals, specific things that stop a “nearly” story getting accepted and the decision-making process at the journal.
The Village with All of the Flash Writers@heyflashvillage.bsky.social · 5mo agoIn The Village editor Kim Magowan talks about what it's like to edit Pithead Chapel. smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/intro-...
In The Village editor Kim Magowan talks about what it's like to edit Pithead Chapel. smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/intro-...
"Its throat pulses, slow and steady. Just breathing. Just hanging on." A Wet Plop Against the Window by Scott Bolendz #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please follow the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/08/03/m...
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A Wet Plop Against the Window by Scott Bolendz It’s over. I told him. Finally. In the middle of a hurricane. Everything flying apart, even us, but we’re still stuck together. Forced to ride out the…
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This Saturday!! The August issue of takahē will be live, featuring special guests Rebecca Hawkes, Caoimhe McKeogh and Ann Palmer, plus Tara Black, Pip Goldsbury, and Vashti Johnstone (who’s behind this lush cover art) 🖤
@smokelong.bsky.social "I wanted death to be a beautiful, positive surprise, because why not?" Mamie Willoughby Pound is our featured author this week. Read Amy Marques' interview with the author at SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Mamie Willoughby Pound - SmokeLong Quarterly
I love the title! It has length (which can be a fun twist in flash or micros) and humor. It sets a stage for a story where there could be multiple meanings and layers of meaning and interpretation. Wo...
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@maureenlangloss.bsky.social talks everything @splitlipthemag.bsky.social in The Village. All the hearts to Split Lip! smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/intro-...
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The community spaces of SmokeLong Quarterly
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📣 Big announcement!! 📣 Starting now, & every summer, we’ll open for submissions to a special prize edition of TTLJ. We’re calling it The Ginkgo Prize, and yes, there’s money! These prize issues are themed. This year, the theme is ✨yellow✨ Details: turningleafjournal.com/the-ginkgo-prize/
Today's listing of the day is: Monkeybicycle #WritingCommunity
Listing of the Day
Today's listing of the day is: Monkeybicycle #WritingCommunity
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Epistemic Literary @epistemiclit.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: Epistemic Literary
Epistemic Literary @epistemiclit.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/epistemic-literary-37442 #amwriting
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Issue 9 Submissions are now open! Details: epistemiclit.com/submissions/ Submission form: forms.gle/tycBEc2GhxuY...
Horizon Review (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: Horizon Review
Horizon Review (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/horizon-review-39634 #amwriting
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@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Story of the Week. From our Archives Published Oct 3, 2024 @kristintenor.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-day-bega...
The Day Began With A Storm - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Yuki Dog on Unsplash by Kristin Tenor The wind blows deep, guttural like the lonely coyote we heard down by Schutt’s Pond those late August nights we slipped away, careful not to overextend t...
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The Digest from the week of June 8 is live, featuring micromemoirs from @tamaramc.bsky.social @markhpoetry.bsky.social Laurinda Lind, Earianne Evangelista, and, from the archives, Ellen Y. Mueller. Read them all at fiveminutesweeklydigest.substack.com.
As we approach spooky season, we'd love to see more horror, cozy-spooky, and autumn themed flash fiction in our inbox! Full submission details available at: hollowoakpress.com/acorns-submi...
