Adrienne Rich, from "What Kind of Times Are These"

Adrienne Rich, from "What Kind of Times Are These"

My daily #peace offering. #vermont #photography #photographer #photographers #nature #protectyourpeace #reflections #nature #mothernature #naturephotography #northeastkingdom

The clock is ticking! ⏰ Just 2 days to get those 100-300 words together & polished for the @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Competition Thirty-Three!

There are two more days in our Prompted Stories submission window - get cracking! 🦝

Here's what the fabulous Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social did in 2024 with the prompts: a Storage Facility, a Demon, and a Found Camera

Go get inspired!
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April 2026 Ten stories picked by Katherine Plumhoff

This month's #Mondettes picked by @kplumhoff.bsky.social

⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Katherine made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing

mondettes.substack.com/p/april-2026

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FlashFlood is open! We’d love to receive your subs 😊 Flashes up to 300 words, pre 2023 prev published considered, reserved spots for debut writers. You have until 23:59 on 25 April: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

Be sure to submit your story to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Annual Writing Competition! 🎉🎉🎉

Potemkin's Boats — Susurrus

"After that day, he perched on the bathtub edge all day, idly folding paper into stacks of boats.

'I’m creating an armada.'"

Big love for this remarkable piece of writing by @amygcb.bsky.social 💙💙💙
www.susurrusthemagazine.com/potemkins-bo...

My daily #peace offering. #vermont #photography #photographer #photographers #nature #protectyourpeace #reflections #nature #mothernature #naturephotography #northeastkingdom

"Fired for rejecting classification, for preferring
wonder, for wanting to live forever in the moment
my son’s eyes opened so wide I could walk in,...."

I love this brilliant poem by @fklein907.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"I think writing is a form of howling. It can feel like a scream into the void. It’s always a thrill when someone hears it, echoes and returns the howl, and says a piece resonated with them."

I love this interview with @sabrinahicks.bsky.social by @ivygrimes.bsky.social so much! 💙💙💙

6-Sentence Story Workshop: "Messy Love Stories" May 1st-3rd May 1st-3rd

So thrilled to be running a 6-Sentence Story Workshop collaboratively with Jeff Harvey of the wonderful @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social from May 1st- May 3rd. There are a few spaces left. pokrassprompts.substack.com/p/6-sentence...? #FlashFiction #ShortStory

Very cool! Big congrats @rossmcmeekin.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

One week left before submissions close. Tell us about the fields set to fire, of the fires put out, of the smoldering in your chest. What time does. What life does.

Just joined Substack. If you’re interested in following, I’ll be posting about short story collections at @andrewporterwriter!

Thanks for putting this wonderful anthology out there, Karen! 💙

"They were so ordinary, her infirmities,...."

And:

"I wanted to be thirty, glamorous, living in Paris or Rome,...."

And:

"Would her heart be broken?"

I love these remarkable pieces of writing by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @newworldwriting.bsky.social 💙💙💙

🎉🎉🎉

OF POETRY PODCAST Beth Gilstrap PLAINWATER THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO (Of Genre as a Place to Leave & a Place to Come Back to, Finding the River's Flow, and Grief & Healing in Writing) EPISODE 87

Catch up on the poetic nonfiction of @bettysueblue.bsky.social on Episode 87–Beth is truly a hybrid & lyrical writer, and you can hear her read from her newest collection THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER here: share.transistor.fm/s/629f008d

Flyer for launch event at Green Apple Books. Eric Scot Tryon (with book cover and author photo) in conversation with Kim Magowan (with author photo)

Book launch!! I'm so excited to announce that I will be celebrating the launch of my debut novel, I'M THE UNDERTOW, at my favorite San Francisco bookstore!! 🍏
AND in conversation with the wonderful Kim Magowan!

@booksonthepark.bsky.social
@kimmagowan.bsky.social

My daily #peace offering. #vermont #photography #photographer #photographers #nature #protectyourpeace #reflections #nature #mothernature #naturephotography #northeastkingdom

Flaubert to Turgenev, later in March 1863 Rarefied, you are— tragic as the skin of the fox. Montaigne said that. I like page 51 and first love. My pillow is a psychologist with with feelings. A dagger is bad. A father is high drama. A live girl is ideal. A people is real. A friendship will not stand still startlingly

A found poem from one of Flaubert's letters to Turgenev . . . because my notes on their correspondence turned into short poems, as poetry is a language of inquiry into language.

Just a few more days to submit to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Annual Writing Competition! 🎉🎉🎉

Book Launch - Barbara Byar - Listowel Writers' Week Literary Festival

I will be launching my debut novel, IN THE DESERT at @writersweek.bsky.social on 29th May at Noon in Listowel Library.
Author, Noel O'Regan will be doing the honors.
FREE but spaces are limited.
Hope to see you there!
writersweek.ie/project/book...

Very cool! Big congrats Scott Garson @wigleaf.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

"...& I want her to take me inside her big house & I want her to say no puppies on the couch & let me do it anyways...."

I love this piece of writing by @aniking.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social 💙💙💙

With Sheldon Lee Compton's passing this week due to heart attack, it's been a shitty one to say the least. I'm somewhat buoyed this Friday by kind things I've seen written about COUNT THE DUST recently by @cwblackwell.bsky.social and @bryanharvey.bsky.social Small things. a.co/d/07kcaYhe

Have you really let over a week go by without grabbing one of the best flash fiction collections you'll read this year?

COYOTE GIRL by @sabrinahicks.bsky.social is yours for the having. Get it now from Cowboy Jamboree: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/coyote-girl....

Very cool! 🎉🎉🎉

NC/SC/PA/KY/OH Writers, Teachers, Festivals, Bookshops, Classrooms: Now that I’m officially moved back to Charlotte I’d like to plan some summer events for my latest, There Is News Along The Ohio River @riverriverbooks.bsky.social If interested in collaborating or having me visit, hmu. Blurbs below