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This week's story is "The Pop Star’s First Solo Concert" by @tinazhu.bsky.social, selected by guest editor @demisty.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/the-...

Catch me in Necessary Fiction with another flash piece from my pop star series! In this one, our pop star gives her first concert :D 🎹

Aww thank you! It was great meeting you too!

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Hello from AWP!

The Split Lip Magazine Fiction Team sits at the Split Lip booth. Tote backs, stickers, and pins sit on the table, including a Library Kids Club tote bag.

The fiction team is here! 🤩 Have you stopped by for a tote bag yet?? @whatll-i-do.bsky.social @tinazhu.bsky.social @ellenrhudy.bsky.social

The Split Lip team at their booth: Reader Joey Hedger, Fiction Editor Anne Rasmussen and Assistant Fiction Editor Tina Zhu.

Need a candy break? Come see us at Table T960! @joeyhedger.bsky.social @whatll-i-do.bsky.social @tinazhu.bsky.social

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

An Asian person with glasses and a dark blue sweater on a sunny day.

Check it out fam ✨ Ethan Lam interviews SLM Assistant Fiction Editor @tinazhu.bsky.social about her work as both a writer and editor, her love for the Gothic genre, and her upcoming novel! ✨ buff.ly/E3js0Bs

We are at stage 1 and approaching stage 2

On March 31, Hedone Books will be closing.

After March 31, How to Survive This Fairytale will not be available for purchase.

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if the womens free skate yesterday also had you feeling like you could run through a brick wall, might i suggest: sapphic cyberpunk figure skaters?

Please join our FLASH authors on Friday 2/20/2026 @ 7 PM
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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure : Short Wave The 2026 Winter Olympics are unfolding in Milan and Cortina, and we can’t look away: We’re watching athletes fly down mountains on skis and glide — sometimes slipping and falling — on the ice. Vikram ...

Neuroscience supporting the writer career advice to keep your eyes on your own paper and not fuss too much about awards and sales and comparing yourself to others.

Some evidence that focusing on externals leads to failure and burnout. Go figure.

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some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Next Month! SPLIT LIP & FRIENDS A Reading to Benefit CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth Thursday March 5th 7pm-9pm Offsite AWP26: Baltimore Unity Hall 1505 Eutaw Place w/snacks & drinks Please RSVP

FEATURING: Nini Berndt Priyanka Champaneri jason b. crawford Tope Folarin Adam Gianforcaro Kat Giordano Hannah Grieco Jon Chaiim McConnell Crystal Odelle Sebastian Páramo Albert Phillips, Jr. Stella Wong Please RSVP

🚨 It's official: we're only ONE MONTH away from our AWP reading to benefit CHARM! 🤩 Don't forget to RSVP right here: buff.ly/AiaUbPG

We have 12 days to go on our crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS and still need to raise about $7k. We've just added a reward "add-on" for a short story critique with editor dave ring if that would be of interest.

We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.

sapphic fairy tale story by audrey alert 🚨

Six Sides of a Fairy Tale - Lightspeed Magazine 1. KING Once upon a time there was a king who had a daughter that he loved very much, and when she disappeared, he called you to the throne room and requested your services. “Tell me what happened to ...

My fantasy flash is free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com as of today! It's about fairy tales (of course), but also a little about what retellings can do to a thing + the differences between what makes something a story and what makes something a truth
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We hope you enjoyed ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY fam 😄 Assistant Fiction Editor @tinazhu.bsky.social’s story AT THE DENTIST'S IN ARLINGTON HEIGHTS is in @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2026! Find it here and have a good night: buff.ly/8PabzEH

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Jennifer’s Daughter - Nightmare Magazine My mom was sixteen when a band of boys took her out to the woods and bound her to a tree and tortured her to death, like in Jennifer’s Body, so you see her womb was kinda already out of commish by the...

MY JENNIFER'S BODY X JUNO WEIRD FLORIDA HORROR NOVELETTE IS LIVE on @nightmare-magazine.com! Lane just wants to make friends with the boy next door, who she’s afraid of, because, hey, that thing happened to her mom.

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I am now the Co-Editor of the @bsfa.bsky.social fission anthology.

We open for submissions midnight on 13th February, and now pay 3p (roughly 4c) a word.

I hope to see lots of great stories. I am very excited about this! 😁

www.bsfa.co.uk/fission

Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had.

I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

the big problem with roving death squads is not the roving you dumbass

Thanks so much!! “Deeply weird” is a huge compliment in my book 😆

😂 you would really like it

"We put my body double together in June Lee’s basement."

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