Flávia Monteiro

I Want a Do-Over by Helen Collins Sitler | The limits of change.

This flash by Helen Collins Sitler completely floored me.

www.short-reads.org/i-want-a-do-...

If My Mom Was So Angry Around Me, I Must Have Been the Reason - Electric Literature “Queen Bee” by Flavia R. Montiero

“I can only take so many apologies, she often said. Once I give up on a person, there’s no turning back.” (@flaviamonteiro.bsky.social)

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And so I find out (slightly late as a perfect Latina/Miamera) that my work was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 😱💀

Thank you @havehashad.com for publishing it and @wigleaf.bsky.social for finding it <3

I wrote a funny essay, but don't trust me: there will be evil mom and there will be heartbreak.

Out today in Shenandoah ✨
www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/this-...

So honored to see my lil crab essay included in this week's roundup 🦀

(Also stunned by another essay on the list: In the Deepest of Night, by @judybf.bsky.social)

Solid background with copy that says: "I ask myself if my mother loves me. The more I ask the less I know the answer. But they say no love is greater than a mother's love."

I have four short pieces out this month about my mother's micro-abuses. This one, up in Fatal Flaw, is probably the most heartbreaking of them.

www.fatalflawlit.com/essay-pieces...

GOOD GRIEF by SG Huerta About the book: GOOD GRIEF is a collection of flash essays about grief in all its everyday ugliness and, well, goodness. These essays grieve a writing journey marred by racism and queerphobia, a fathe...

If you feel art might help you process grief, get a copy: fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/goo...

The poet in disguise did it again. @sgpoet.bsky.social's new chapbook is stunning 🐅

Thrilled to be one of the 2025 Periplus fellows 🤸🏽‍♀️