ICYMI we're open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction #submissionsopen #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We're looking fwd to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...
We’re thrilled to announce that the judges for our microfiction comp are: Joanna Campbell, Emily Devane, Debra A Daniel & David Swann! The comp opens on 1 Dec for micros up to 100 words. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...
Huge congrats!
Truly grateful for this wonderful review of THIS IS HOW THEY MOURN by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social included on the @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog today.
I thoroughly enjoyed this collection by @kristintenor.bsky.social Highly recommend!
Great to be back reviewing for BG! Thanks for the space, Robert!
Heads up!
We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
Now there’s one actual week left, if you count the deadline day as a day and today as a day. $1,000 1st; $500 2nd; $300 3rd; $100 finalists. Winners and finalists published in the December issue of SmokeLong Quarterly. 250 words max. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
I remember this one—great article on the form! Hope you’re doing well, Dan. I’m back (again). Social media yo-yo.
"We can, for example, avail ourselves of the tools of poets to create emotional power via language and imagery, rhythm and sound. Flash fiction is a form uniquely suited to experimentation and innovation and hybridity...."
I love this post from the amazing @kathyfish.bsky.social 💙💙💙
The incomparable Len Kuntz leads a workshop this month @bendinggenres.bsky.social and I’m so excited bc Len does indeed slay every time with his words. Sign up here! bendinggenres.com/writing-grou...
It's the first of the month, which means OKD's free subs are back open until we reach our cap!
Check out what we're into, then submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/
The cover of Every Galaxy a Circle by Chloe N. Clark.
I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
We have a new music column, curated by Maia Cardew. She wrote about the Massive Attack concert on June 5, 2025 in England, which she attended with her Dad, @cardewjcardew.bsky.social who is a massive fan of theirs. bendinggenres.com/review-of-ma...
Congrats 🥳 🥳 to our June 16 Micro Madness shortlist winner Jonathan Cardew – Milwaukee, Wisconsin/ Sheffield, UK
#flashfiction #microfiction #micromadness
Thank you so much, Sarah! I’ve been off the socials for a bit—nice surprise!
Kelli, this is awesome! I’ve been off the socials for a while, so this is a nice surprise. Congrats
Cheers, Tom!
Superb!
‘When my wife came back, she wore a sheet printed with the NASA logo.’
Ghost 2.0. by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social
Thanks for sharing, Anika!
Thank you, Janet!
Much love to Paragraph Planet for publishing this exactly 75 word story, "Ghost 2.0" www.paragraphplanet.com/authors_a_e....
Looks interesting! I'm in the middle of rereading The Rings of Saturn by Sebald. He was the "famous professor" at my undergrad uni (UEA). Never read anything else by him, though.
Thank you for reading!!
“Why would we want words when we have each other?”
Read all three of @cardewjcardew.bsky.social’s stellar micros in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
We just finished a terrific @bendinggenres.bsky.social weekend workshop with @cardewjcardew.bsky.social called "Hybrid Memoir." Thanks to the writers who posted such creative shorts!!! Coming in May, our genius, hilarious and newly published @sfreligh.bsky.social !!! More soon.
SUCH an amazing workshop @bendinggenres.bsky.social this weekend with the wonderful @cardewjcardew.bsky.social! Three new stories and I’m reinvigorated and can’t wait to polish and send them out! Thank you Jonathan and @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🙌
Kelli--it was wonderful to work with you! (back on Bluesky!)
