Delighted to contribute the fabulous Writers in the Storm blog today with a post about why I love writing micro fiction (and why you might, too!). writersinthestormblog.com/2026/04/i-fe...

I Fell in Love with Writing Micro Prose - You Could, Too

A subgenre of flash, a micro, fiction or nonfiction, is usually 400 words or less. The magic lies in what’s left to interpret. Kelli shares her process.

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Just finished “Burn” by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social and you guys it’s seriously 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. One of the best novels I’ve read in a very long time. Grab yours, you’ll thank me later!

Mocha & I are spending our morning with the latest beautiful issue of the Blue Earth Review. I’m so happy it includes my CNF flash “Good and Plenty.”💚🐶📚

Mail day! Can’t wait to read @stephanieaustin.bsky.social’s novel BURN!

I'm beyond thrilled and simply stupefied to have my collection picked as the winner! Thank you so much to @sfwp.bsky.social for their Literary Awards Program and to the fabulous @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social for picking my manuscript!🌷🙏🙏🌷

SFWP@sfwp.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the 2025 Literary Awards Program with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social. We are thrilled to announce our Winners' Circle: Congratulations to our our grand prize winner, @sudhab.bsky.social, and our runners-up Cara Lynn Albert and Terese Svoboda, and ! buff.ly/92ASZax

Look what came in the mail today! @karenschauber.bsky.social what a fantastic project and resource for flash writers!! Thanks so much for putting this stunning collection of flashy tips together! ❤️

FINAL DAY of the Early Bird Special for my upcoming 3-in-90 workshops! Would love for you to join us! 💙 www.artofflashfiction.com/threein90?ut...

Who wants something entirely wonderful for a Monday? This month I've handed over my monthly craft article to a dazzle of other writers who've provided tips and prompts for writing effective flash: prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/tips-and-p...

Tips and Prompts for the New Writing Year

January feels a little too early in the year to be fully engaging my brain.

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And in other news!! I had the great pleasure of taking some time to sit down and review @kossworks.bsky.social’s stunning poetry chapbook “Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect”. The review is now up and you can check it out here: www.sinisterwisdom.org/node/1084

Happy to have my story included in this wonderful bumper issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social ! Thank you, editors🙏🙏🙏 www.frazzledlit.com/p/before-aft...

Before, After, Now

A short story by Sudha Balagopal

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Register Now: ALL New 3-in-90 Workshop Series! open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

Register Now: ALL New 3-in-90 Workshop Series!

Early bird discount through January 12th

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Florida friends, I'll be in Vero Beach on February 7. The adult class needs 12 participants for it to go, so please share widely. And sign up!

What a ferocious treat. Micro by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Surfer Girl by Kathryn Kulpa

For Brian WilsonWhen you roll tumbled from the waves like a de-fuzzed towel from a dryer, fingers dragging sand from your mermaid hair gone free, stretched-out scrunchie lost to the waves, and you jel...

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ICYMI today's #shortstory is Ambulation by Fiona J. Mackintosh @fionajanemack.bsky.social #fiction #microfiction #readingcommunity. Please follow the link and enjoy

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🚨January Sale!🚨MORE FLOWERS + DRESSING THE BEAR! Check it out, friends! And thank you always, @triohousepress.org! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Trio House Press@triohousepress.org · 9mo ago

We are celebrating the upcoming release of @susanlleary.bsky.social’s More Flowers by offering you a special deal! Get a copy of Dressing the Bear for 50% off with every order of My Flowers this January: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/mor...

Congratulations, Louella Lester, @luannecastle.bsky.social @ @sfreligh.bsky.social , @andrewbertaina.bsky.social, @writesofkathryn.bsky.social, @kelliborges2.bsky.social, @jackmmorris.bsky.social, @kiklodge.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social and y'all!

New Classes! Jan. 24th, Feb. 21st, & March 21st. Register for all three this week and get a deep discount! Also offering a FREE bonus revision workshop from @litmatchcollective.com experts Steve Chang & Autumn Watts! 💙 www.artofflashfiction.com/threein90?ut...

Have you read @sfreligh.bsky.social short story collection Other Emergencies? If not, let me tell you why you should! shorturl.at/dh04I

Such Madness. Such Damage. A Review of Sarah Freligh’s Other Emergencies

This collection follows the hardscrabble lives of the working class and working poor as they lumber through the bleak, unending grit and wet gray ash of their lives. Even though some rise above the…

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Sooo excited to have my tiny story, “We Don’t Meet in Buda” selected for the @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social anthology! Huge thanks to judge @dsuess.bsky.social and to the wonderful @lynnmundell.bsky.social @centaurlit.bsky.social for nominating my story! ❤️❤️❤️

Best Microfiction@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hey everyone. Best Microfiction 2026 winners have been posted! We congratulate all the winners. Thank you so much to our brilliant Guest Editor for 2026, @dseuss.bsky.social ! www.bestmicrofiction.com? #FlashFiction #Microfiction #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork

“I listened along with Wilbur and we didn’t move. We felt her closeness and I felt the stories that came from her, that have inspired me to write.” Read the wonderful @sabrinahicks.bsky.social on Substack! Can’t wait for her book launch in March! ❤️❤️

Sabrina Hicks@sabrinahicks.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Finally published my first Substack that I wrote early this morning. I’d love a read if you have the time. open.substack.com/pub/sabrinah...

Friends, if you have the means to, please do support @mattkendrick.bsky.social by using his (amazing) editing, mentoring or teaching skills or by tipping his kofi. He’s a gem, and he needs our support at the moment prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com?utm_campaign...

Prattlefog & Gravelrap | Matt Kendrick | Substack

A monthly article series about the elements of short fiction: ideas for rocket-boosting your writing craft, reading recommendations, and other writing-related ramblings. Click to read Prattlefog & Gra...

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Here they are as promised! A new batch of prompts for 2025 from me to you with love & gratitude. 🎁 Give 15 minutes a day to your writing during this busy season and start 2026 with 15 fresh drafts or at least some glimmers. Use January to polish and send off. ❤ open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

With Gratitude: Fifteen Prompts to Get Us Through the Rest of (Another) Tired, Old Year

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language.

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NEWS! My story collection I'm Glad You Didn't Drown Yourself will be published with BOA Editions in 2027.

Wow. This powerful story by the wonderful @mattkendrick.bsky.social @thecitronreview.bsky.social blew me away. Fresh and simply brilliant!! ⭐️ ⭐️ citronreview.com/2025/12/22/e...

Efficiency measures

by Matt Kendrick   It’s [sunrise through mist] and I’m sitting with [old woman] in the [kitchen]. My [laptop] is open on the [table] in front of me. [Old woman] is scratching the yellowing [na…

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Look what arrived just in time for Christmas! So excited🎄 @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social

I had the honor of interviewing lapharr@bsky.social about her winning @smokelong.bsky.social micro, Submariner. It’s stunning. Don’t miss it! ⬇️

James Montgomery@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · 10mo ago

‘Images bubble up and embolize.’ What movement in this prize-winning @smokelong.bsky.social flash from @lapharr.bsky.social, and that beautiful, moving ending ⌚️ www.smokelong.com/stories/subm...

Always a wonderful feeling to put on my out of office for winter hibernation!!! Spent the afternoon looking ahead to 2026 and I'm excited for: 1) The @welkinprize.bsky.social winners (as tough as picking that will be: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Welkin Enter

An annual competition for microfiction up to 100 words. It is free to enter and aims to be a welcoming space for all writers. The competition is open to all forms of narrative prose. There is a whole ...

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Issue 90 is live! Please go read the amazing work within, including the top 7 stories chosen from hundreds submitted to the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest and the overall winner, Love; Sigh by Claire Y. Guo. Thank you so much to everyone who sent us work this quarter. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety/

✨A new episode has arrived!✨ Where does the Time Pirate go on a Friday night? Why, her favorite place, of course! Watch ‘Episode 3: Le Buffle of ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ to find out more. 🕰️ youtu.be/i8sXqjaTDJo #thetimepiratewhowaitsashore

The Time Pirate | Episode 3: Le Buffle

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“Alone, I’d neglect my hygiene. I’d forget to feed the cats or pay our bills and lose my phone. In the end, I’d forget language altogether.” I love this 💔 beauty by the wonderful @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com 💔

Okay Donkey Magazine@okaydonkeymag.com · 11mo ago

"We two share memories of being taken to the movies, her slipping alone to the back row where her married boyfriend waited." "On Your 60th Birthday, Resembling Our Mother, Dead at 61" by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD: