Much pleased to have a #haiku published in PJCA's First International Multilingual Haiku Anthology, Sakura Fubuki. Huge thanks to Editor, Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social #Oulens #poetrycommunity pjca-isb.org/pjca-1st-int...
Jenny Wong
@jenwithwords.bsky.social
Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean. 🇨🇦 SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024). LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA (Bull City Press, forthcoming 2026) jenwithwords.opencorners.ca
✨Belated Bookmail!✨ 📚📬 It took me a while to find the perfect backdrop for @pleomorphic2.bsky.social’s “Mother Karma”. Myth and motherhood come together in this beautifully woven novella-in-flash. A must read!
Look what came in the mail 😍😍😍 Loved blurbing this beauty by @jenwithwords.bsky.social published by @bullcitypress.com ❤️❤️❤️ bullcitypress.com/product/ligh...
Sunlight filtered through the curtains, fracturing her iridescent #texts. The #author stared at the scattered patterns they cast inside the metallic #waste bin. Then she wrote in colourful #pastels of opaque #departing skies—a #sight no light could break, no ink would retain. #vss365 #depart #Oulens
Coyote Girl chosen for best new release by Auraist! Thank you, Sean McNulty. 🙏 open.substack.com/pub/auraist/...
The best-written new release of the month
Read the opening of our pick below
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"School was a distant dream." And: "Maybe it was an owl scientists thought was lost forever, and I’d found it." These two extraordinary micros by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com 💙💙💙 okaydonkeymag.com/2026/07/10/w...
Winter’s Tales: Two Micros by Kathryn Kulpa
That Winter In quilted bedrooms we gathered around clock radios and cheered on announcers counting up inches of snow. More, we chanted. More! And there was more. Car antennas poked from mounds of s…
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"Instructions" by Héctor Hernández, who put his degree in civil engineering to good use for twenty-seven years. He is now retired and writes whenever inspiration demands his attention.
“Guide her to the table. Shuffle. Deal. Hush the unlit corner.” Oooh, a dark and quiet tale deftly woven by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in @crowkeys.bsky.social
James Montgomery@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · 4w agoI have a new flash in the gorgeous @crowkeys.bsky.social! 🐦⬛ Loved playing around with the imperative voice for this one. @keychild.bsky.social has been a delight to deal with, too. Send them something bejewelled and dark and bewitching. 🖤 crowcrosskeys.com/2026/07/11/h...
POETRY recs from the wonderful Loren Maria Guay!! @nightgleaming.bsky.social
Special Issue * Poetry Recs from Loren Maria Guay
Welcome to this special guest-edited issue, featuring poetry recommendations by Loren Maria Guay! I fell in love with Loren’s writing when I read “The Last Goodbye in the City of Electric Longing” …
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—"I Already Ate" 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. "I Already Ate" won our LIE TO ME contest, judged by Lara Peterson
Do you ever wake up and make brilliant decisions? Yeah me neither. Except that one time I decided to hire @mattkendrick.bsky.social as my mentor. Now life is frolicking unicorns, bubbling blossoms of foxy foxgloves in verdant meadows, and blackberry jam in five gallon buckets. I want this for you.👇🏼
Glorious Words and Other Glorious Things
In her most recent newsletter, the wonderful Jo Gatford began with a “confession”:
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"Not Just Yet" by @lisakbuchanan.bsky.social, in case you missed it. Lisa's writings appear in The Citron Review and elsewhere. Notable, BAE 2023. Current favorite book: Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain. www.lisakbuchanan.com
‘We’d promised Tessie—Tessie who was born sick, who might not make it to seven—that she could have her good boy forever.’ Oof, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social. And that title breaks my heart. Read this 100-word blinder in @100wordstory.bsky.social 🐕 100wordstory.org/we-chose-res...
We Chose “Resting Pose” Because He Was So Very Tired by the End - 100Words
Emily RinkemaRusty was in no condition to be taxidermied, but it was too late.
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Playing hooky from reading subs (me, not @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, who is a total star) for this mini Lit Namjooning retreat, sans @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, @jenwithwords.bsky.social , and Lakshmi, who were missed very much. #namjooning
happy thirty-third birthday sale, above/ground press! , in which an anniversary begins to be celebrated, / @meetthepresses.bsky.social @montrealprize.bsky.social @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/happy-thir...
Well, I'm back at it! Took a break after creating the Women of Babylon series (R) of #sculptures currently installed at a gallery. This time the fabric sculpture series (wall mounted, 3.5 ft tall) Shadows of Women starts with this draft of Midnight Red (L). #art #staycreative
What a beautiful and generous review of COYOTE GIRL! Thank you, @tracieadams.bsky.social! I am so touched. 🥰
Tracie Adams@tracieadams.bsky.social · last mo.MY FULL GOODREADS REVIEW OF COYOTE GIRL (also on Amazon) @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "Coyote Girl is one of the most beautifully crafted story collections I've ever read."
🥳 We've made it to the Wigleaf Top 50 lists! Many congratulations, @miriamgershow.bsky.social, @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social, and @happilander.bsky.social!! Thank you for taking us to our very first Top 50. Also deeply grateful to @sudhab.bsky.social, Scott Garson, & the entire WTF team! 💜 #namjooning
Today is pub day for Alison Lubar's AMERICAN KINTSUGI, a new microchap in the Inch series. Hooray!
And this is yet another reason I’m so proud to be in this Trash Family. @trashcatlit.bsky.social supports and promotes their contributors. 😻
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · last mo.Did you know we have a Trash Cat Bookfinder. A stack of hold-in-your-hand reads by/featuring Trash Family. If you love their stories on TCL, here's how you get more 🦝 trashcatlit.com/trash-family... 1/2
Here's a picture of my dog saying you should pre-order my book. Okay, she's asking for a treat, but she also wants you to pre-order my book 💙 Pre-order link: malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...
Pumped to have a twisty tale in this month's issue of SciFanSat Magazine! Check out my flash fiction piece "Origin", along with all the other fab offerings! 👽✨️
SciFanSat Magazine@scifansat.bsky.social · last mo.AVAILABLE NOW: Make contact with stories of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More written by the #SFF authors of today and tomorrow! The June issue of #SciFanSat Magazine is out at scifansat.com! Many thanks to all who contributed, and to our readers, just like you!
Watcha doing July 2 8pm EST? Wanna help me and a kickass lineup smash a bottle of champagne over @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social’s new @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social chapbook? Liz is a powerhouse and this collection is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥. Linky loo: www.sandandgravelpress.com/liz-rosen-ch...
Elizabeth Rosen Chapbook Release — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS
Sand and Gravel is a small but mighty press dedicated to the miniature. We publish pocket-sized collections of flash fiction, standalone stories, and poetry.
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Liz Rosen@thewritelifeliz.bsky.social · 2mo agoMark your calendars! You are cordially invited to the Zoom reading for my chapbook Survival Skills on July 2nd. There will be some kickass writers reading for it. Info 👇 www.sandandgravelpress.com/liz-rosen-ch...
Guess it's time to add a third book to my website. Available to pre-order from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social timothyboudreau.com/books/
Books
STEPDAD ON THE DANCE FLOOR — Unsolicited Press Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever–Stanchion Saturday Night (and Other Short Stories) Book – Bondcliff Books
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Definitely in need of more historical entries. Where are all the wonderful historical microfictionists hiding out?
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · last mo.Our third judge is the brilliant @susmitab.bsky.social who's judging the History Prize. One of my all-time favourite pieces of historical flash is this piece by Susmita in FlashBack Fiction: flashbackfiction.com/index.php/20...
🌺🌸 Happy birthday to me! 🌸🌺 And happy book sale to you! Let me send you some flowers! $6.22 includes shipping! DM me! @triohousepress.org
You've got just this weekend and next weekend (+ a few days) to finish scribbling your Welkin Genre Prize micros. Entries close on 30th June!
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 2mo agoI may have jumped the gun a little bit, but what are guns for if not for jumping... Anyway, entries are now OPEN for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!! Micros up to 100 words Free to enter Send UP TO TWO micros across FIVE categories Deadline 30th June www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
My little hermit crab "Rescue Worker's Notes for the "Forever Paws" Animal Shelter" is live in the summer Dribble Drabble Review along with friends @karenc.bsky.social @francesgapper.bsky.social @cbigs.bsky.social @damicandrea.bsky.social and many others! www.thedribbledrabblereview.com/about-7
