Issue 6 update: It turns out that the only downside of a journal run by siblings is that a death in the family affects both editors. Due to the passing of our much-loved grandmother, Flight Issue 6 will be delayed until the end of September.
Flight: A Literary Sampler
@flightlit.bsky.social
A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social https://flight-literary.ghost.io/
Commercial break: Its Powerful Parking Lot is part of my new collection, RAT AESTHETICS from @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social https:// www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/rat-aesthetics-sean-ennis
Rat Aesthetics - Sean Ennis - 4.25 x 5.5 — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS
In Sean Ennis’s Rat Aesthetics, we meet the Old Rats: a mysterious motorcycle gang that has quietly infiltrated Bramble, Missouri. They aren't your typical outlaws. They eat duck confit croque madames...
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Pleased to say my piece, Its Powerful Parking Lot, has been nominated for Best of the Net by @flightlit.bsky.social ! I’m grateful to Frances and Will! flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...
Sean Ennis- Fiction
Its Powerful Parking Lot I did not sleep like a winner. Yes, I had watched Vivian turn one hundred dollars into almost three hundred thousand dollars at the craps table. And yes, we had made love i...
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Wow! So honored to be nominated by the incredible @flightlit.bsky.social. Thank you Frances and Will! And congrats to @seanennis.bsky.social as well (who was my instructor in one of the first online writing classes I ever took about a decade ago...oh tiny, tiny world).
Flight: A Literary Sampler@flightlit.bsky.social · 4w ago
I'm over the moon to have my CNF nominated by @flightlit.bsky.social. Thank you so much Frances and Will.
Flight: A Literary Sampler@flightlit.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's Best of the Net Season! The Flight Crew is psyched to nominate two essays:
So honored for Best of the Net nom by @flightlit.bsky.social. My CNF "When I Knew Nothing" explores my bizarre friendship with a fellow teacher during my first--disastrous-- year teaching high school. Thank you so much Frances & Will! flight-literary.ghost.io/claudia-monp...
Claudia Monpere- Creative Nonfiction
When I Knew Nothing Some Saturdays Meg woke up with a stranger she’d hooked up with at The Red Raven. I wondered— did he make her a Prairie Oyster for her hangover like I did when I stayed over in ...
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All responses to pending submissions have been sent! If you believe we owe you a response, please reach out to us by email at flightliterary@gmail.com
I received another Best of the Net nomination from @flightlit.bsky.social! I'm so honored to have "Ars Poetica: Tulips" as one of their choices and to be part of such a cool publication. You can read the poem here: flight-literary.ghost.io/alex-carriga...
Alex Carrigan- Poetry
Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne (Alien B...
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Flight: A Literary Sampler@flightlit.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's Best of the Net season! The Flight Crew nominated five killer poets:
It's Best of the Net Season! The Flight Crew is psyched to nominate two essays:
It's Best of the Net Season! The Flight Crew nominated two amazing stories:
It's Best of the Net season! The Flight Crew nominated five killer poets:
AND...with both of our editors in the same state (finally) your chances of a lightning-fast response are pretty good, if you submit TODAY.
Flight: A Literary Sampler@flightlit.bsky.social · last mo.Hey! Are you a fiction writer?! You should send us fiction to read! Micro, flash, short story, whatever you got! flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Hey! Are you a fiction writer?! You should send us fiction to read! Micro, flash, short story, whatever you got! flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines
Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...
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AND...with both of our editors in the same state (finally) your chances of a lightning-fast response are pretty good, if you submit TODAY.
Flight: A Literary Sampler@flightlit.bsky.social · last mo.Hey! Are you a fiction writer?! You should send us fiction to read! Micro, flash, short story, whatever you got! flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Hey! Are you a fiction writer?! You should send us fiction to read! Micro, flash, short story, whatever you got! flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines
Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...
flight-literary.ghost.io
‘For me this is: 🔲 Acceptable’ All those repeated ‘ifs’, that weary, wry title… Love this from @mattjakubowski.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social ✔️ flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-jaku...
Matthew Jakubowski- Brewer's Choice
Rarely Somewhat Acceptable Matthew Jakubowski (he/him) is a multi-genre writer based in Philadelphia. He is the author of a chapbook of micros & flash, Ghost in the Rain: Stories (Bottlecap Press, 20...
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Also, I have no idea what time it was when I shared this before, so I'll reshare. I'm stoked to have a new flash essay about @deathcabforcutie.bsky.social and music that makes me cry in the new @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/donna-vorrey...
Donna Vorreyer- Creative Nonfiction
What Ben Said Sarah Said The opening piano run ascends and descends at once, like rain on a windshield, the way it creeps up as it falls down. My body follows, heart accelerating while my breath sl...
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Hello! Thanks to Scott Garson, @sudhab.bsky.social, @andrewporter01.bsky.social, and everyone at @wigleaf.bsky.social for putting me on their Top 50 list this year! And thanks again to @m-ixedbag.bsky.social, Lakshmi Iyer, and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social for publishing it at @lit-namjooning.bsky.social.
We can't resist an opportunity to shout out our authors! The wigleaf top 50 and longlist were STACKED with Flight contributors wigleaf.com
No skips in this issue; just some beautiful, hopeful heartbreaks.
Flight: A Literary Sampler@flightlit.bsky.social · last mo.Flight 5 lands today! We have work from @djvorreyer.bsky.social @willmusgrove.bsky.social @selizabeth.bsky.social and @mattjakubowski.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-5/
My new hermit crab flash @flightlit.bsky.social is about confronting fears of growing older. Here’s the 1st section of “Rarely Somewhat Acceptable” and a link to the whole piece. flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-jaku...
I have a new flash story about a dreaming busboy and marshmallows. Thanks to @flightlit.bsky.social for giving it such a great home. Check it out if you wanna but make sure you read the other amazing work in the issue 💙 😊
Flight: A Literary Sampler@flightlit.bsky.social · last mo.Flight 5 lands today! We have work from @djvorreyer.bsky.social @willmusgrove.bsky.social @selizabeth.bsky.social and @mattjakubowski.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-5/
Every day with a new @willmusgrove.bsky.social story is a good day!
Claudia Monpere@claudiamonpere.bsky.social · last mo."Then Bob went and took the manager gig. And once you move forward, the world solidifies around you like cooling gelatin, and you can no longer speak in dreams." Great story @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/will-musgrov...
"Then Bob went and took the manager gig. And once you move forward, the world solidifies around you like cooling gelatin, and you can no longer speak in dreams." Great story @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/will-musgrov...
Will Musgrove- Fiction
The Marshmallow Story To stick it to management, I clocked in wearing a navy plaid three-piece with a matching tie instead of my normal T-shirt and apron. I’d bought a Goodwill suit because Bob had...
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My hermit crab flash fiction about aging & chronic health issues is in Issue 5 of @flightlit.bsky.social. Huge thank you to editors @fklein907.bsky.social & @ketchiklein.bsky.social for publishing “Rarely Somewhat Acceptable” ✨🍻✨ flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-jaku...
