Only three weeks until our next issue drops! This is our biggest one yet, and I’m so happy with how it’s coming together. For now, feel free to browse—our categories are a great way to explore different moods and styles.
🦉🌸🌿💫 #microfiction #shortpoetry
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I didn't write today. But I read.
That counts in my book—no pun intended. 🤭
Thank you so much!
It’s happening!! 🧡🧡🧡
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#flashfiction #creativewriting #writingcraft
A #haiku of mine long-listed on The Haiku Foundation's Zoo themed Haiku Dialogue in March.
panda enclosure
— not everything is black and white
(Read more of the long-listed haiku here thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog... )
A #haiku of mine published in the Covid edition of Cicada's Cry in 2020
my morning blackbird sings in the garden lilac;
I know all the notes.
I have a new micro up today in Twisted Tongue Press! Many thanks to EIC Brenna Ebner and all at Twisted Tongue.
Publication day! I have a micro in this issue (tw: sexual assault). Many thanks to editor Charlotte Joyce Kidd, @tom1walsh.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social @kathyfish.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman, and the Shadowcliff Retreat crew for supporting me while I wrote it.
That story you love? Don't give up on it! #amwriting
When you haven't written a new story in a while and then one sneaks up on you. #amwriting #flashfiction
A week since my first wee publication of 2026: 100 words about a creepy whirlpool in the #SciFanSat 'Spiral' issue. Loads of good stuff in here. Give it a whirl! Take it for a spin! Go round and have a look! Etc.
🌿🦉💫🌸 All responses have gone out! Thanks to everyone who submitted. Here is our breakdown for anyone interested:
Fiction: 70 pieces (~29% accepted)
Poetry: 170 pieces (~11% accepted)
If you submitted and haven’t heard back, please let us know.
#writingcommunity #microfiction #shortpoetry #haiku
Submissions are now closed. Thank you so much to everyone who submitted—we’re in the final round of reviews and responses will follow shortly. Our next reading round opens on June 1. 🙏🏻🦉🌿✨🌸
Yeah, that sounds like a good rule of thumb. 👍😉
It’s a category I’m not quite sure of myself. I wonder at what point does it tip out too far and simply become something that was inspired by true events? Where is that line? 🤔
Gobsmacked! Mega thanks to @newwritersuk.bsky.social & all those who helped me with this one, incl @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, @jaimegill.bsky.social, @jrfenn.bsky.social, @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, @finnegag.bsky.social, @yalanchang.bsky.social & @norami.bsky.social.
Very well deserved, Chris—it's a phenomenal piece. Congratulations! 🎉👏❣️
Mentions like this are so appreciated! Thank you @iamagnat.bsky.social
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Thank you for the mention, Clodagh! It means a lot! 😊🦉
For the day that's in it #MothersDay #haiku
This one of mine made it into the current Kokako Issue 44
another whist drive
my mother, at eighty-five
doesn't miss a trick
Our submission guidelines can be viewed here: www.thehooletsnook.com/submissions....
We’re a small journal, and any shares to help spread the word mean a lot. Thank you! 🙏🦉✍️💫
#storieswithheart #shortfiction #micropoetry #dribbles #drabbles #100wordstories #50wordstories #amwriting
Delighted to have a micro in the latest issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social! Many thanks to EIC @dehardy.bsky.social, Claudine, and all the interns 🐈⬛
I wrote this one in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop 😊
low sunlight glimmers
-- stitching the clouds together
a skein of Brent geese
#haiku of mine (published in Seashores Issue 10)
Absolutely delighted to have my #microfiction piece "The Other Side of Perfect" included in the March issue of Bright Flash Literary Review! Thank you Kristen! 🙏🌸🌿
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A warm welcome to our newest followers—we’re so happy you're here! And sincere thanks to those who continue to repost our submission calls and featured posts. It means a lot.
🙏💫🌸🦉☺️ #Submissions are also open!
#microfiction #writersofbsky #poetsofbsky #poetry
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Excited to have a short story in the most recent issue of Magazine1, a publication from Southwest Florida's own Bookstore1 Sarasota.
www.magazine-1.com/scott-ortolano
