Issue 9 Submissions are now open! Details: epistemiclit.com/submissions/ Submission form: forms.gle/tycBEc2GhxuY...

🌿 We've added a new Author Index to The Hoolet's Nook! It's still evolving, but we hope it makes discovering and revisiting the work of our contributors even easier. We'll be adding direct links for repeat contributors over time. Happy browsing! #readersofbsky 🦉💫 www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issue

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Spring has arrived, and with it, a brand new issue of The Hoolet’s Nook —our biggest one yet!  While compiling the issue, it became evident how drawn we are to work that whispers and invites...

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Submission update: All responses from our recent reading period have now been sent. Thank you to everyone who submitted! If you haven't heard back, please let us know and we'll be happy to check on it.

Delighted to share "Beyond the Break," my micro in @thecitronreview.bsky.social. Congratulations to The Citron Review: A Journal of Brief Literature, which recently had several of its past pieces placed on the esteemed @wigleaf.bsky.social's 2026 list. TY Citron! citronreview.com/2026/06/30/b...

Beyond the Break

by Liz deBeer   Limping to the ocean’s edge, my broken foot’s worried, wondering if the podiatrist would approve, but I say Screw it, adding, Salt water’s healing. Wading in further, frothy fo…

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I’d love it if you read my new story “Secondhand” in the July issue of Ghost Parachute. Lots of incredible work there to discover!

Explore our new archive tag, Among Creatures—a home for stories and poems featuring the creatures we share our world with. I hope you enjoy exploring this growing category. #shortpoetry #microfiction #readersofbsky #writersofbsky #wildlife #animals 🦉🐗🐕🦔❣️ www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...

Category: Among Creatures

by Andrea Tillmanns After the rain, the air tastes like summer, blowing in through the open window and enveloping you in night. The quiet grunting of hedgehogs in the garden, above which bats flit...

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Here's the old stone pier in the story below. Had no gates or warning signs back in the day so Ffion would have been way down at the far end, flanked by the Dragons' Teeth, looking back.

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Looking for a brief escape from the noise? Check out “Port of Dragons” by @leighloveday.bsky.social in our latest issue. www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu... 🐉🐲 #dragons #amreading #fantasy #shortfiction #microfiction #speculativelit #shortfiction #fantasyreaders #readersofbsky

A #haiku of mine that was included in the @thepoetrypea.bsky.social podcast on creepy-crawlies curled fig leaf a pale green spider stitches edge to edge More wriggly stuff here - poetrypea.com/s8e39-creepy...

Looking for a brief escape from the noise? Check out “Port of Dragons” by @leighloveday.bsky.social in our latest issue. www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu... 🐉🐲 #dragons #amreading #fantasy #shortfiction #microfiction #speculativelit #shortfiction #fantasyreaders #readersofbsky

Port of Dragons

by Leigh Loveday Her hometown, Ffion had decided, looking back towards land from the old stone pier, was full of dragons. A wyrm here, a wyvern there, tucked into parks and factories and the warren...

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“You’d wrapped me in bubble wrap like a precious heirloom, but my lungs needed crisp fall air and hints of bonfire smoke.” From "An afternoon bike ride" by Moira Richardson. @moirariom.bsky.social Just one of the many lovely gems in our May issue. 🍂🚲🦉 www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...

An afternoon bike ride

by Moira Richardson My calves burned like fire, my hair streaming behind me in the wind of my own creation. For the first time in a long time, I felt free. You’d wrapped me in bubble wrap like a...

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#nextgenerationfinalist #memoir #flashnonfiction #lotsagenres elj-editions.com/scrap-salvag...

So thrilled to appear in this dream journal, thank you wonderful editor-people @nffr.bsky.social. Thank you also to the Group 10 word wizards in March Micro Madness @smokelong.bsky.social for their help with this piece.‬

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"At long past bedtime, Mum digs a hole in the border, snips her veil confetti-tiny, entombs the scraps near the bones of our bunnies." Family dynamics, a one-legged Barbie and My Little Pony at play in this wonderful #flash from @chriscottom.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/when-dad-mov...

Delighted to have a piece in this flip-book. The Reprise - Tidal (pg56, near the end). Remembering the Beach is a lament about coastal destruction, which began life in @mattkendrick.bsky.social 's Glorious Words course. inesmeow.com/magazine/

This is a DREAM COME TRUE! “[an] unflinching tale of captivity and resilience, and the power of stories.” — Kenneth Oppel, author of the bestselling Silverwing series. #WHALEFALL hits shelves September 15, 2026. PREORDER NOW! 🔗 in bio! #amreading #booksforkids #middlegrade#middlegrade #2026debut

A #haiku of mine (from Cicada's Cry 2020 Covid edfition) for #PoetryDayIRL my morning blackbird sings in the garden lilac; I know all the notes.

"Mighty as an orca breaching water and equally as silly in its lighter moments, this debut novel is a solid recommendation for fans of Rosanne Parry and Sara Pennypacker.” -- Booklist #WHALEFALL hits shelves September 15, 2026. Ages 10+ #PREORDER NOW! #bookreviews #amreading #middlegrade

For #StunDay x #BloomScrolling, a little filter fun from the iPhone app applied to the Nikon image #rose #flower #photography

Thanks @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social for including me in the 2026 anthology!

Two pieces I've published in the past month, both very short. If you give them a look, thank you! www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu... www.activemuse.org/2026_Collect...

Happy to have a 50-word micro with an 11-word title in @templeinacity.bsky.social. Thank you to editor @eireneeleni.bsky.social! templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

Temple in a City literary journal

Micro fiction Because If I Hadn’t Taken Your Call, I Would’ve Always Wondered by writer Lori Cramer. Published in Temple in a City literary journal

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#Iris in #mygarden for #BloomScrolling x #ColorADay #YellowThu #yellowthurs grab shot on phone camera #flower #photography

So, so grateful this poem found a home in issue 8 of @epistemiclit.bsky.social 🥹💗

Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now!@epistemiclit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Issue 8 #Poetry A POEM IN WHICH I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT BEING ANGRY by @cake-girl.bsky.social “and i am trying to be angry / but you see, i was hungry for decades / in hidden ways that swallowed my words / before they could catch fire” epistemiclit.com/issue-eight/...

So happy to have a teensy micro in issue 4 of @thehooletsnook.bsky.social 🌸 www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...

A message from the exclamation point in your draft email:

by Karen Baumgart Oh love, don’t apologise—I understand.  It’s not you it’s me, right?  I wonder, though, could you maybe just hit send sometime? Let them see you’re anxious, how it comes...

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Big thanks to EIC Giselle LeBlanc for publishing my tiny story The Umbrella at @thehooletsnook.bsky.social www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...

The Umbrella

by Luanne Castle When she saw the umbrella she envisioned their hereafter. Tattered, dirty, obviously pulled from a nearby trashcan, the umbrella’s frame still functioned. He held the umbrella...

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@leighloveday.bsky.social Thank you again for contributing to THN! And honestly, we’re fully on board with the idea that dragons would improve any hometown. 🐉☺️ www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...

Port of Dragons

by Leigh Loveday Her hometown, Ffion had decided, looking back towards land from the old stone pier, was full of dragons. A wyrm here, a wyvern there, tucked into parks and factories and the warren...

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Leigh Loveday@leighloveday.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some lovely things in here, and a fleeting one about how my hometown would be improved by the addition of dragons if you're so inclined.

@iamagnat.bsky.social Thank you so much for sending this delicate, atmospheric haiku our way. We're grateful for the chance to feature it. 🙏🏼💫🌸😊

ClodaghO@iamagnat.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Delighted to have this #haiku in the latest edition of, the delightfully named, A Hoolet's Nook. @thehooletsnook.bsky.social Venus suspended, a low-slung crescent moon ready to catch her Take a look at the all the stories and poetry contained within www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issue

Issue #4 is now live! A heartfelt thank you to all our wonderful contributors for trusting us with their work and helping bring this issue to life. We’re grateful these poems and stories found their way to THN. www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issue 💫🙏🦉🌸🌿 #microfiction #shortpoetry #amreading

Current Issue

Spring has arrived, and with it, a brand new issue of The Hoolet’s Nook —our biggest one yet! While compiling the issue, it became evident how drawn we are to work that whispers and invites...

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Two more days! We can't wait to share this one. In the meantime, there’s still plenty to explore at The Hoolet’s Nook. www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issue 👀 🦉🌸🌿🦉🌸🌿 #microfiction #shortpoetry #writingcommunity #readersofbsky #flashfiction #shortstories #haiku #poetsofbsky

Thank you for the shout out from @fictivedream.bsky.social — and for publishing the title story of my debut chapbook - the inspiration for the novelette 🧡🧡

Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congratulations to Liz deBeer on the publication of her collection Farewell to Emptiness (Thirty West Publishing House) @lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social @thirtywestph.com #flashfiction. And if you've yet to read the title story, please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/05/02/f...

I have a new story up on @paragraphplanet.bsky.social today — started in the @smokelong.bsky.social March Micro Marathon!