I’m reading poetry subs for Strange Horizons this month and we’ve received very few. I think this may be a record low for me, so if you’ve been meaning to submit, please do, soon.
Nadia Born
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✍️ Writer & fabulist | 📝 in Electric Lit, LitMag, New Letters, SmokeLong Quarterly, Augur Magazine, Small Wonders & more | ❤️🔥 #fairytales #fantasy #speculative #flashfiction | 🔗 www.nadiaborn.com
All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.
HFR’s 40-Word contest submissions are now OPEN! 🎊 In honor of Hayden’s Ferry Review turning 40 this year, you can find details and enter to win prizes through the submittable link in our bio. Happy writing!
Ahh thanks so much, @nffr.bsky.social!! ✨ And wowza, what a group of killer stories. Congrats all!!
New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 3w agoFor Best Small Fictions: @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social “Rock, paper, scissors“ Sherry Duggal’s “Vishnu’s Navel: My Creation Myth“ Guy Biederman “Collections“ @nadiaborn.com “The claw machine“ Ian Walker-Sperber’s “A Minor Inconvenience“
What’s your favorite metaphor for the absurdity of AI? Here’s a new one I’m smitten with ⬇️
David Gerard@davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 4w ago
Brave, raw, beautiful. ⬇️
Allison Field Bell@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 4w agoI never linked this piece on social media because I was worried about what men might see it and if one of the men in one of the stories might come across it. I was scared of them but I was also protecting them. I’m done with that now. www.aqreview.org/vol-38-numbe...
Orion’s Belt is now open for submissions until October 31!🎃 We are accepting flash fiction, micro fiction, poetry, translations, and reviews! For more information on submitting, please see the link below! We can't wait to read your work! 🔅 www.orions-belt.net/submissions
Submissions — Orion's Belt
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Guess who's opening to Original Flash Fiction on September 1st?! This magazine! We'll be open for the month of September, and once the portals to slushlandia have opened, you'll be able to submit here: smallwondersmag.com/submissions/
Submission Guidelines - Small Wonders
Small Wonders is looking for original flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), reprint flash fiction, original poems, and reprint art.
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😢❤️🧵Just reread this exquisite flash story by @nadiaborn.com . Awed by what she accomplishes in this tiny space. This silent minotaur speaks volumes. smallwondersmag.com/piece/in-whi...
In Which the Minotaur Just Wants to Get Out of the Labyrinth, Dammit - Small Wonders
He’s tried to explain this to the maidens but his bull’s tongue only rasps and scrapes, and he ends up licking the mud-bricked walls for relief.
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📌 SUBS ARE OPEN this July!! Submit your fiction and poetry to @augursociety.bsky.social Issue 10 📚️ Scroll for more info! 👇️ buff.ly/AKmSaxU 🧵
This month's #Mondettes picked by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social is on the theme of games as a way of telling a story slant ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis 🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/june-2026
June 2026
Ten stories picked by Cole Beauchamp
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Welcome, welcome to issue #41! Come read these beauties by Karen Arnold, Guy Biederman, @chriscottom.bsky.social, @scribblerotoole.bsky.social, Ian Walker-Sperber and @abbywilliams.bsky.social Issue 41 | New Flash Fiction Review share.google/NxgZIg7u7bqq...
Issue 41 | New Flash Fiction Review
Featuring new flash fiction from Karen Arnold, Guy Biederman, Chris Cottom, A.J. O'Toole, Ian Walker-Sperber, and Abigail Williams.
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Our June call for submissions is GENDER TROUBLE. We’re seeking writing that pulls apart the categories: gender and sex, heteronormativity and transgression, the body we were assigned and the one we actually inhabit. Open now until June 15! www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/ge...
Gender Trouble - June 2026 Writing Challenge | Glossy Planet
Seeking fiction, poetry, and nonfiction interrogating gender, transgression, and bodies. Learn more about our June 2026 writing challenge.
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The Commuter—Electric Literature's home for flash, poetry, and graphic narratives—and our personal narrative essay series will both open for submissions on Monday, May 18 and will close at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on Sunday, May 24 or when we reach our cap in each genre. buff.ly/Yhj4cdX
ONE WEEK left to enter the Smokey 2026. Use the Force. Win $2,500. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
the number seven is glowing in the dark
Alt: the number seven is glowing in the dark
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26 days! Deadline May 10th! You got this! Almost $5k in the prize pot! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026! - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey) is now an annual competition that celebrates and compensates excellence in flash. Our first grand prize winner in 2018 was “Whale Fall” by ...
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FYI Europe-based #flashfiction writers: ✨Check out this 100-word contest from EACWP - deadline 4/30! ✨ Theme is "silence" and entries can be in English or 9 other languages. There's a winner in each language, plus a grand prize of 600€. eacwp.org/flash-fiction/
Flash-Fiction EACWP Contest 2026 – EACWP
The final winner will be awarded a cash prize of 600€ and the runner-up will be awarded a cash prize of 400€.
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sorry I'm like this y'all but you have FIVE MORE DAYS, is all, and because I have totally forgotten to mention it, let me just add that one lucky nominator will win a whole pile of books, which is to say the entire 2025 shortlist! could be yours! go forth and nominate!
Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 8mo agoIt's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
The image of a claw machine baby is just a heartbreaker from @nadiaborn.com 'The Claw Machine' in @nffr.bsky.social The yearning just grabs you! 💔
New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 8mo ago"the claw machine now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home." Read The Claw Machine by @nadiaborn.com in Issue 40 of #NFFR. Wonderfully weird, beautifully written. newflashfiction.com/the-claw-mac...
"your sister thinks it’s a lame prize, she’d prefer a hello kitty or a pokémon. but you spend your evenings under the neon kaleidoscope of the seaside arcade" Such a rich and original piece from @nadiaborn.com in @nffr.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/the-claw-mac...
The claw machine by Nadia Born | Issue #40
now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home. no special instructions.
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Nadia Born@nadiaborn.com · 8mo agoThrilled to have a story in the latest issue of @nffr.bsky.social! ✨ ⬇️
‘you jimmy the joystick and imagine testing the bath water with your elbow…’ Wonderfully off-kilter story from @nadiaborn.com in @nffr.bsky.social 👶 newflashfiction.com/the-claw-mac...
The claw machine by Nadia Born | Issue #40
now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home. no special instructions.
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"gotta get the angle right, says the arcade manager. it’s just a matter of time, says your mother. maybe try another machine, says your sister." Big love for this gem by @nadiaborn.com in @nffr.bsky.social 💙💙💙 newflashfiction.com/the-claw-mac...
The claw machine by Nadia Born | Issue #40
now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home. no special instructions.
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"the claw machine now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home." Read The Claw Machine by @nadiaborn.com in Issue 40 of #NFFR. Wonderfully weird, beautifully written. newflashfiction.com/the-claw-mac...
The claw machine by Nadia Born | Issue #40
now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home. no special instructions.
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Thrilled to have a story in the latest issue of @nffr.bsky.social! ✨ ⬇️
New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 8mo agoIt's here 🎉 Welcome to Issue 40, with brilliant stories from: @nadiaborn.com, Bethany Bruno, Sherry Duggal, @rachelmhollis.bsky.social Tess Kelly, @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social Tarmo Rajasaari & Rob Walton newflashfiction.com/issue-40/
Have you grown your writing career & learned things you would like to share? Apply to be a mentor with the 3-month-long SFWA Career Mentorship Program! Through February 21, we’re taking applications for mentors & mentees. Learn more here: www.sfwa.org/mentorship-p...
Mentoring Initiative - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
The SFWA Mentorship Program is an all-volunteer service provided free of charge. We aim to connect writers who have questions, whether they are emerging writers or have expansive career experience,…
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Incredible story 🌨️🌨️🌨️
Nadia Born@nadiaborn.com · 9mo agoYes, the world is on fire. If you need a small break from the madness, read my first story of 2026! "the whiteout" was selected by @mandrigall.bsky.social as the winner of @baltimorereview.bsky.social's winter flash fiction contest. ❄️✨ ➡️ baltimorereview.org/winter_2026/...
🚨‼️💙🐸 LAST DAY ‼️🚨💙🐸 The Blue Frog closes tonight @ 11:59pm PST flash-frog.com/contest/
