Wow I've had a busy summer leading up to my out-of-state move in under two weeks, but just got my first acceptance in a minute and it really reminds me how much I'm looking forward to settling into a new space and getting back to my work (':
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writer, reader, poet, film photographer, romantic, nostalgic, silly, thinking of bread (she/her) words in NFFR, Anti-Heroin Chic, HAD, trampset, Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, ONE ART, and elsewhere sarlynh.com
"...so you might call her, or you might not, because by that time she might not know who you are..." Such a powerful and poignant story by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social I loved it.
sarah lynn hurd@sarlynh.bsky.social · last mo.A lovely surprise to have my story make the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist! Thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social @jhhwriter.bsky.social for publishing it, and of course a big thank you to the @wigleaf.bsky.social team. Congrats to the 50 writers selected this year! gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...
Congrats to @ashdoeswords.bsky.social for making the @Wigleaf Top 50 LL for Issue 38's "Thursdays smell like you" newflashfiction.com/thursdays-sm...
Thursdays Smell Like You by Ashleigh Adams | Issue #38
They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds.
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A lovely surprise to have my story make the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist! Thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social @jhhwriter.bsky.social for publishing it, and of course a big thank you to the @wigleaf.bsky.social team. Congrats to the 50 writers selected this year! gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...
Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash by Sarah Lynn Hurd You might be flat on your back, picking at loose fibers in a worn Turkish rug you inherited from your mother, who managed a Pier 1 I...
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So very honored to be on this list and in such amazing company! <3
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · last mo.Congratulations to Mikki Aronoff Jo Gatford Sarah Lynn Hurd @kiptain.bsky.social for having their work selected for Wigleaf Longlist 2026. Links to their stories in Gooseberry Pie are in the post. gooseberry-pie.com/wigleaf-top-...
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FlashFlood: 'The Texan' by Bronwen Griffiths #nffd2026
'The Texan' by Bronwen Griffiths
I lose my heart to a Texan guy who says he has no name but calls me Sweetheart and Pepper and he holds my hand and takes me to the desert to look at the stars and he laughs louder than anyone I have ever known and he was born in Dallas and is big like a bear and his eyes are brown, his eyes are full of shit, this is what his father said, but to me they are like some kind of deep river you can’t be sure of getting to the bottom of and he wears a silver bracelet on his left wrist and a silver and turquoise ring on one finger and this makes me blue for a guy I once knew but all the time I am around the Texan guy I am together happy and sad but there’s never going to be a together with this Texan even though for a while we are close as we can be in this big lost country which is all dust and unknown plants with strange habits like his own. When I leave, forever leave, I am lost and found and lost again but I do not forget the places of dust, stars and strange plants or the Texan who still creeps into my heart and will always be trouble to any woman coming his way. --- Bronwen Griffiths writes longform and shortform fiction. Her latest novel, Longshore Drift, was published in March 2026, and her flash pieces have appeared all over the world. She lives in East Sussex, UK. 'The Texan' was first published by Ellipsis Zine in 2020.
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“Spends his days dirtygloving his phone to identify them on Merlin…”
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 2mo agoFlashFlood: '6' by Nick Black #nffd2026
“But maybe this, right here, right now, is closeness.” Love this one by @katherinegarrison.bsky.social <3
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 2mo agoFlashFlood: 'How to Prevent a Breakdown' by Katherine Garrison #nffd2026
"She races down the beltline with the other greyhounds. All the cars are silver and white and black these days, all in a hurry to catch their imaginary rabbits." - 'Milo's On Her Way' - @sarlynh.bsky.social (which has prompted me to now be playing Tammi & Marvin.) #amreading #nffd2026
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 2mo agoFlashFlood: 'Milo’s On Her Way' by Sarah Lynn Hurd #nffd2026
I love this day celebrating the flash form with so many other talented writers! Here’s mine (:
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 2mo agoFlashFlood: 'Milo’s On Her Way' by Sarah Lynn Hurd #nffd2026
Working on poems today--something in this crisp June air must be getting to me, and it feels nice.
embarrassing to admit, but I do, in fact, have a tummy ache /:
tell me why my local OLDIES station played drops of jupiter on my way to work this morning
Kirkus Reviews calls WHALE FALL "Somber and uncompromising; a stark call to end animal cruelty." WHALE FALL by Elysia Rourke hits shelves September 15, 2026 from Nancy Paulsen Books. Ages 10+ #PREORDER NOW! #bookreviews #whalefall #amreading #booksforkids #middlegradebooks #2026debut #debutauthor
So thrilled to have my first chapbook out in the world, from Bottlecap Press! 12 moody, spooky micros and flash stories. This is a huge milestone for me. Thanks to everyone who’s shared in the joy! bottlecap.press/products/gho...
"We imagined ourselves exclaiming, tremulous fingers to our lips, him coming over to wipe up the spill, our hands touching his like another exothermic reaction." Incredible energy, gorgeous, stunning prose, perfection!
Sumitra Singam@pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 3mo agoLads, I have a piece I love dearly out at Bottle Rocket today. Give it a read if you were ever a horny teenager and you’d like to know how teenagers were horny in a Malaysian girls’ school: www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/seq...
Volume 12.2 from Bear Review dropped on Friday, and I'm so grateful to have two poems in this beautiful issue. ❤︎ bearreview.com/br/v12-2-sar...
Volume 12.2 — Bear Review
Sarah Lynn Hurd / I Don’t Know Anything / Remove this Little, Little Mark / Published May 2026
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"She imagines the inside of the house bare, a sun-bleached ribcage picked clean." Love this flash by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 65 : Sarah Lynn Hurd
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So pleased to have a story in the flower moon issue of the incredible Gone Lawn Journal! Thank you Owen and team! Be sure to check out the full issue 🌼🌙 gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 65 : Sarah Lynn Hurd
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Gone Lawn Journal@gonelawn.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe flower moon has many colors, but you must look for them. Choose one and find a stem, pick it free. Care for it where you are. Listen to how the flower sings, Di di di. Sing back to the flower, La la la. Look at the moon, your color is there, too. #65 is live! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
My contributor copy of @mooncityreview.bsky.social arrived yesterday! Such a gorgeous thing—can’t wait to tuck in and read everyone’s great work! 🌙
Our past contributor Michael Emerald has been accepted into an MFA program & needs help coming to the US for their studies if you're so inclined.
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Excited to be part of the Flood on June 13 with my story “Milo’s On Her Way” Such a fun day celebrating the flash form <3 @natflashfictionday.bsky.social
It’s my sweet Flora girl’s ninth birthday today, my earth day bb 🐈⬛🖤
"I swear sometimes I rose a fraction, / like the moment a kestrel hovers mid-flight / before diving." Lovely piece by the lovely Katherine Garrison!
KGarrison@katherinegarrison.bsky.social · 4mo agoI’m so pleased that this poem found a home. Thank you to January House Literary Magazine for publishing it. 💚 If you like birds and wish you could fly sometimes you might like it! januaryhouselit.com/2026/04/17/b...
anyway, really excited to share that I'm moving to Wisconsin this summer to start my MFA in fiction at UW-Madison in the fall! feeling immensely grateful for the privilege to spend the next two years writing, learning, and teaching <3