finally doing that thing you didn't want to do because now you have something you want to do even less
Zoe Flavin
@zoebflavin.bsky.social
writer & sex educator | NYU mfa zoebflavin.substack.com
Please help us celebrate the Long List for the 2025 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey)! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction – The Long List - SmokeLong Quarterly
Our 14 judges have been hard at work over the last few days—and the last few months—narrowing down the field in our now-annual competition, The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey)...
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I wrote about the novel writing process and the best books to take on vacation, check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/zoebflav...
We need a vacation
randomly, a travel blog
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LAST CALL to read our JANUARY ISSUE before it hits the archive!! https://buff.ly/2Z36noR 💖 So much love to our contributors 💖: WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro ART: Daisuke Takakura PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa
"What I wanted was to be in love. For all this initial calculus to be dissolved by commitment and mutual aspiration. A tapestry with all its colors blended." Read the fantastic INNER CHILD WORK by @zoebflavin.bsky.social from our JANUARY ISSUE while you still can: https://buff.ly/42h1b58
"That’s when I learned that having an old dad who died when he was in high school was one of Dan’s core wounds. Knowing that, I felt closer to him." Find @zoebflavin.bsky.social explicitly poignant INNER CHILD WORK in our JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/42h1b58
My first publication!!! A short story out with Split Lip today @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0125...
Inner Child Work — Split Lip Magazine
On our third date, Dan suggested we introduce our inner children into our sex lives. We were drinking whiskey on his uncomfortable sofa that was just two hard pieces coming together at a surprising an...
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Art & words will help us get through 2025. We are honored & grateful to present our beautiful JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro ART: Daisuke Takakura PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
yesterday marked one year since I and several others were laid off by yahoo sports, in one of the most callous ways possible: en masse, via zoom, by a total stranger who conveyed not a drop of empathy for the scary situation we were all being thrown into with zero warning
I love chocolate cake so much like I think about her all the time
I wrote about why we need fiction right now. Let me know what you think? open.substack.com/pub/zoebflav...
Against Cozy Lit
Let me explain...
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I rly hate the feeling of taking the subway in a winter coat. Is there any way to remedy this??
National book award fiction finalists reading last night. Unreal!!!
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
We're only halfway through Native American Heritage Month, so there's still plenty of time for you to read one of our many titles by and about indigenous people, including @sgj.bsky.social, @morgantalty.bsky.social, Joy Harjo, and Ned Blackhawk. Not that you shouldn't be doing that every month.
You know what would make great lunch-break reading? Split Lip's brand new NOVEMBER ISSUE! https://buff.ly/2Z36noR
Split Lip Magazine
Split Lip Magazine is a voice-driven literary journal with a pop culture twist. We publish online monthly and in print. Poetry, fiction, memoir, flash, reviews, interviews, art.
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Starter pack for #literaryfiction writers to find each other! Comment/repost and I'll add you go.bsky.app/FsRTjvt
Another starter pack, this time for anyone in the lit mag submission space. 🤗 #WritingCommunity bsky.app/starter-pack...
Hey look, a starter pack of 2025 debut novelists! There are so many amazing books hitting shelves next year. Check it out, #writingcommunity! go.bsky.app/H13XQTN
2025 Debuts
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Because tedious tasks are my therapy right now: are you a short fiction writer (flash or short stories only, please) publishing in litmags or aspiring to? I'd like to make a starter pack of short story and flash people! Comment here and please share for visibility #writingcommunity