Love this story from one of my favourite writers @trentlewin.bsky.social.

Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 5d ago

🍂 Get your favorite fall beverage and cozy up with our new OCTOBER ISSUE 🍂 buff.ly/hJmnbBm Love & gratitude to our contributors 🧡 WORDS: @trentlewin.bsky.social, Kelly Luce, @janehammons.bsky.social & Thia Bian ART: Yezi Lou PLUS: @leeches.bsky.social interviews @eshanisurya.bsky.social

Reading Pale Blue Dot, I fell in love with Carl Sagan's writing. I have a 7-line story, more of a prose-poem, published in @doublebackreview.bsky.social today. The title, "This Pattern of Light Wanders All Over the Ocean, Collecting Prey," is after a Sagan line. doublebackreview.com/issue-8-2-oc...

"The gray, which first appeared on Lance’s face, is seeping further into the house, draping the furniture, coating the walls, the decorations." @kathyfish.bsky.social never fails to surprise. I love this new story.

Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · last wk.

New story up today! At the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. I'd love for you to read, "There's Something a Little Wrong with Jean." ⚡ matterpress.com/journal/2026...

“The undertow of grief buzzes between us as if I’d put my tongue on a power line.” @lisaalletson.bsky.social in SugarSugarSalt Lit sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/locating-t...

Locating the Body in Space by Lisa Alletson

I sit, folded, on a child-sized chair between our grief group leader and the biker-guy, Tim.

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It's hard to read about grief but we have all experienced it in life. This is a piece both gentle and powerful.

Lisa Alletson@lisaalletson.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank you @charhamrick.bsky.social and Jen Rouse for publishing my story, Locating the Body in Space, in SugarSugarSaltLit today. This creative non fiction piece first ran in @emergejournal.bsky.social a few years ago. sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/locating-t...

Lisa, this is such a moving piece already, and then I read your notes on the writing of it. A deeply, deeply moving and powerful read. I‘m so glad you wrote it, then shared it with us. ❤️

Lisa Alletson@lisaalletson.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank you @charhamrick.bsky.social and Jen Rouse for publishing my story, Locating the Body in Space, in SugarSugarSaltLit today. This creative non fiction piece first ran in @emergejournal.bsky.social a few years ago. sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/locating-t...

"On our final lakeside walk, my sister had crouched next to my daughter. Wrapped her strong hand around her small fist. Tried to teach her how to skip flat stones across the water." My lord, I really love this piece of writing (perfect last line) by @lisaalletson.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Lisa Alletson@lisaalletson.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank you @charhamrick.bsky.social and Jen Rouse for publishing my story, Locating the Body in Space, in SugarSugarSaltLit today. This creative non fiction piece first ran in @emergejournal.bsky.social a few years ago. sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/locating-t...

Thank you @charhamrick.bsky.social and Jen Rouse for publishing my story, Locating the Body in Space, in SugarSugarSaltLit today. This creative non fiction piece first ran in @emergejournal.bsky.social a few years ago. sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/locating-t...

Locating the Body in Space by Lisa Alletson

I sit, folded, on a child-sized chair between our grief group leader and the biker-guy, Tim.

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Absolutely thrilled that my debut book, a flash fiction collection, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social is out Oct. 13. Kindle preorders now on Amazon. Printed text available 10/13. Remote launch SAT 11/14, 10:00 am PT. Details soon. Heartfelt thanks @vanwinkle.bsky.social. #flashfiction

I miss what Twitter was. Miss reading the daily poems and micros from friends in the writing community. Miss being inspired to post my own daily writing.

Another time round with this piece in @lostballoon.bsky.social - would love you to read it as I really loved writing it 🧡

Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social · last mo.

“The song is in its death throes, Kylie throwing a dead girl’s name against an ending.” @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social lost-balloon.com/2026/08/12/m...

🏛️🏰📜 WINNER of the History Prize, "Outside a Vet’s Office: Boston, 9/11/2001" by @sfreligh.bsky.social A brilliantly-rendered microcosm that projects outwards in such a tragic way towards global events: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Outside a Vet’s Office: Boston, 9/11/2001 | MattKendrick.co.uk

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I haven't written for ages, so I'm delighted to have a story included in the Bending Genre anthology. Thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social & @amymarques.bsky.social My story, 'The Inn of Frozen Things' first ran in Atticus Review, then in the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50. www.amazon.com/dp/194502880...

The end of @claudiamonpere.bsky.social's story is touching and bewildered and sadly inevitable. fracturedlit.com/we-didnt-wea...

ICYMI today we're feat. Storm by Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social as part of our #TenYears celebrations. Please click on the link below and enjoy #flashfiction #readingcommunity fictivedream.com/2026/06/12/s...

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Dancing with my amazing Mom at the Toronto Brickworks after getting caught in a downpour. Eighteen months since her stroke and her spirit is stronger than ever.

Virtual book launch this Thursday for I’M THE UNDERTOW!! 👇🏼🌊👇🏼

Eric Scot Tryon@ericscottryon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Virtual Book Launch! I'm so excited to be able to chat with the incredible @andrewporter01.bsky.social about my debut novel I'M THE UNDERTOW, which is out now everywhere books are sold! Registration link in comments.

My pup Clover turned one last week. She's grown into a beautiful, loving, silly girl. My constant walking/writing companion. We celebrated at Toronto's Evergreen Brick Works and she greeted every dog and human with gusto. I miss Luna terribly. She died too young. But Clover has brought me joy again.

I'm back in Monkeybicycle today with a new flash story. This one is about comic books. Check it out if you wanna 💙 📚 Link to the story: monkeybicycle.net/downsizing/

What a beautiful story.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So, a quick story. I have been at @comicpalooza.bsky.social, been swamped with long lines almost the entire weekend so far, and there was this very nice gentleman named Jin (not sure of the spelling). He came the first day and said he was bringing books the next day to get signed. 1/

My story won first prize in the @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social annual contest! So much flash brilliance in this special issue. Congratulations to all and huge thanks to @jhhwriter.bsky.social and judge @danbillyc.bsky.social . 🥳💜🤩 gooseberry-pie.com/what-a-solit...

What a Solitary Bird Drifting on the Wind Might Have Witnessed When the Boy Disappeared - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

First Place Winner 2026 Gooseberry Pie Writing Competition by Kathryn Silver-Hajo A parent on a beach blanket, another in the water, the space between them, quizzical looks, triangulations, miles of w...

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Me too, my loves. Me too.

Survived the dentist and came home to this being announced, which is nice. My congratulations to all the nominees. www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

Love this fresh perspective from @mattkendrick.bsky.social on Show Don't Tell. Further down in his newsletter he continues with some examples and a prompt, which I'll be trying. I admire Matt's writing and teachings tremendously. prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/the-tell-a...

The Tell-and-vision Show

I was talking with one of my mentees this morning and they brought up the aphorism “show don’t tell” and I got myself in a bit of a lather about it.

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"It’s dark enough, moonless; his body moves inside shadows cast by the structures, his indigo shape etching through the deeper, stilled black." So many stunning sentences in Hypnagogia by David Ryan, 3rd place winner, the @fracturedlit.bsky.social 2025 Elsewhere Prize. fracturedlit.com/hypnagogia/

Thank you so much @alkratz.bsky.social and Silverbacked Punk Press for believing in Songs from the Blimp Ruins (in visible ink and in Sensurround®, we think). Coming soon. 💙

Al Kratz@alkratz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is such fun news to share: The Silverbacked Punk Project is coming along and ready to release the first book by someone other than me. Out soon, "Songs from the Blimp Ruins", a beautiful collection by Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social . More about the project at alkratz.com.

I'm looking for readers for both @fracturedlit.bsky.social & @unchartedmag.bsky.social It's a laidback way to get involved with a literary magazine, and it will help level up your writing! We ask for 2-4 hours of volunteer reading each week, but I'm flexible with vacations and other commitments.

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊