Adam Shaw- Creative Nonfiction Memorial Day Dad visited the cemetery on the west side of town each Memorial Day to see the graves of my half-brother and sister, both of whom died when they were little. My brother Isaac and I wer...

ICYMI, I have a new essay over at @flightlit.bsky.social! It's about an awkward visit to my dad's grave with my kind of estranged half sister. I take a nap in the grass. It was a day.

Emily Rinkema- Fiction Tiny Little Babies My sister Sarah texts me our secret emoji code–squirrel, Portuguese flag, martini glass–which means no questions, I need you now. We’ve only used this once, when Mom showed up at...

I have a story at @flightlit.bsky.social! Check out “Tiny Little Babies” if you have a moment. flight-literary.ghost.io/emily-rinkem...

Stoked to have an essay in Flight 4! Really loved reading the first three and can’t wait to check out the other pieces in this one.

Super thankful to @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social for picking this one up.

Happy Easter Sunday! @ketchi_klein and I thought it would be funny to drop a loosely parent-themed issue on the ultimate daddy-issues holiday

This story is hilarious, one of those pieces that hit the inbox and had our editors sprinting to accept it before it got taken elsewhere

You want to read this one. A fiction piece in the form of a naval report…and also there’s witches? One of the most inventive things our editors have read in ages.

Flight 4

Need a little extra something in your Easter basket?

Flight 4 launches today with four killer pieces from @adamshaw502.bsky.social @nataliemarino.bsky.social @benkline.bsky.social Holly Prochaska and @emilyrinkema.bsky.social

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ICYMI I was the poetry choice for Issue 3 of @flightlit.bsky.social. You can read "Ars Poetica: Tulips" below and look for their next issue this weekend!

Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam- Brewer's Choice Editor's Note: as part of the Brewer's Choice feature for Flight 3, we asked authors Kathryn Reese and Sumitra Singam to respond to interview questions about their collaborative process. This intervie...

Collaborative work by Kathryn Reese and Sumitra Singam

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@kathrynreese.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

Dominik Slusarczyk- Creative Nonfiction An Analysis of Transfiguration In this painting Jesus is floating near the top, He is surrounded by brightly lit clouds. I think this is a depiction of Jesus rising into Heaven. After he died he wa...

Dominik Slusarczyk's essay, "On Raphael 3- An Analysis of Transfiguration"

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Paul Luikart- Fiction Rose Parade Some kid knocked and I opened up. Why? I never do that. He was raising money for the band. The band. They were off to Pasadena, he said, for the Rose Parade. I went into my pocket, hand...

Paul Luikart's story, "Rose Parade"

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@paulluikart.bsky.social

Alex Carrigan- Poetry Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne (Alien B...

Alex Carrigan's poem, "Ars Poetica with Tulips"

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@carriganak.bsky.social

Flight 4 launches on Sunday! Prepare your hearts and minds by reading these amazing pieces from Flight 3:

Absolutely ridiculous the amount of snow we're getting at the tail end of March. Send us things to read!

Not a joke, although it sounds like one:

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ALSO: we had an editorial meeting today and spent a not-insignificant portion of it talking about how Ryan Coogler is on record saying that Sinners was influenced by the Disney Channel Original Movie, Luck of the Irish

And if we met you at AWP and invited you to submit…we meant it! We want to read your stuff!

Brewer’s Choice Our Brewer’s Choice category will feature a different genre of writing or art each month. This is the category to submit your weird stuff that doesn’t fit in our other three categories. Send us: photography, comics, visual art, reviews (of books, movies, your mother-in-law’s lasagna), humor, lists, one act/ten minute plays, interviews (with someone real or imagined), self contained novel excerpts, etc. -Prose: 2,500 words maximum -Image: one .jpg image of at least 300 dpi

For Brewer’s Choice, we want…

Fiction Rich characters, engaging conflict, and a fresh hook: these get our attention. Genre elements are fine as long as they don’t distract from the good stuff. -Please send one story, up to 2,500 words in length, double-spaced and in Times New Roman.

For fiction, we like…

Creative Nonfiction Our ideal CNF piece asks us an interesting question and confidently guides us to the answer. We’re looking for language that is clear and expressive, and a story that deepens our perspective. -Please send one essay, up to 2,500 words in length, double-spaced and in Times New Roman.

For CNF, we’d love to see…

Submission Guidelines Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...

It’s *still* snowing in Alaska, and the Flight crew needs submissions of essays and stories to read while we’re cooped up inside!

Share this with your writer friends who are finally down off their AWP high and ready to submit again!

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Last day of AWP! Editors Frances and Will are at the convention center going to panels and wandering the book fair—if you see one of them say hi!

@fklein907.bsky.social @ketchiklein.bsky.social

Right?! Continuing the nepotism, our logo was designed by our incredible sister in law Caroline Klein (@secondstorystudiointeriors on instagram, she’s an amazing artist)

A picture of four people, all wearing black shirts and AWP lanyards, standing in front of the troublemaker firestarter booth

Our (sibling) editor team of @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social with the sibling team from @troublemakerfire.bsky.social

Will, a white man with a dark beard in front of a blue car

Frances, a white person with dark hair and glasses smiling in front of an airport

Our editors are en route to AWP! If you see us around the convention, say hi!

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Authors at AWP getting ready to tell an editor "you rejected my work."

We would certainly consider an excerpt of 2500 words or less!

Our editors checking the submission folder:

Submission Guidelines Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...

We have responded to all submissions in our queue, and could use a few more! We still need fiction, nonfiction, and brewer's choice for issue 5, and we're free to submit!

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Alex Carrigan- Poetry Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne (Alien B...

This is so beautifully sad. Melancholy.

@carriganak.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social

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