Why I'm Voting Yes on Virginia's Redistricting Amendment Today Virginia votes on a constitutional amendment that would allow mid-decade redistricting — redrawing congressional maps in a way that would eliminate mos...

the case for strategic gerrymandering youtu.be/YgMSs_aMP84?si…

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Open mic writers' night, Thursday April 16, 6:30pm, Sign up with mary@eastwoodfarmandwinery.com

I'm delighted to guest host a literary open mic night at a local winery, this Thursday 4/16 at Eastwood. Come read! Or listen. And drink wine. They also have a nice food menu available if you want to come be entertained while you eat dinner.

I admire this and I'm so curious about how you shut out the distractions of your home. I'm unable to not do the laundry, or take out the dog, or or or -- the dozens of things I do in my home every day that disrupt my working/writing flow.

But . . . what if that's all you get to eat the whole time? Also: let it go. You are fine just the way you are.

Peak Gen X experience. Same!

She drinks the fiber drink. She drinks the protein drink. She drinks the vitamin drink. She drinks the weed drink. She seems to remember the good times. She knows we are living in the bad times.

Yay!

Loved this!

A SmokeLong Summer 26 - SmokeLong Quarterly A SmokeLong Summer 26 is closer than you think. This year we’re starting early and staying late. The summer just got longer. As always, at the heart of A SmokeLong Summer is our peer-review workshop i...

What are you doing this summer? We're celebrating community. When you book A SmokeLong Summer 26, you can bring a friend. You don't need to write alone. www.smokelong.com/a-smokelong-...

Thank you!

Welkin me up!

Tomorrow night! Please register for zoom link.

Super excited to get an acceptance today from one of my short list dream publications! I once had to withdraw a piece that was accepted elsewhere, and the editor of this pub said that they were going to accept that piece (argh!) but now, I'm IN! Wooo! #flashfiction

I love Claudine and I’m so thrilled to have this little one-sentence micro in the new issue. Give it a read.

This is great, Chris!

Please don't miss my story in the amazing @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social - if you like a) bees b) the UK c) crying you will love this one:

It's that weird week when everyone with kids is out of town on spring break.

Icymi

What an impressive first publication! Don't miss "Labelmaker" by K.P. McLaughlin, published just yesterday (March 26). Love it!
#flashfiction #fabflash

wigleaf.com

This whole issue is fantastic!

Submission Guidelines We publish short stories, including translations, of up to 2,500 words that have not previously appeared elsewhere, either in print or online (including your own blog and social media). We offer th…

We're open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We look fwd to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

A new competition for microfiction up to 100 words that aims to celebrate writing around different genres and themes. For 2026, the categories are:

​🌍The "Earth" Prize
🌻The "Joy" Prize
🫀The "Body" Prize
🏛️The "History" Prize
🧚The "Firefly" Prize

Crawdad Update Sophia Tone I’d been trying for months to write a poem about Crawdad, a boy my father knew in high school Crawdad had no friends he came to school with mud in his hair smelling like his nickname and the blood of the deer he’d hunted in their redwood-dappled dawn it just seemed to me this guy embodied something the lost art of living wildly plain otherness these ideas got boring one day I looked up “Crawdad” + the name of my father’s town where it turns out the guy’s been contributing articles about his life to the local newspaper eg. his stint as a professional mushroom-picker which put him in contact with itinerant degenerates, fungal in nature and capitalistic to a fault in another post he considers the flaw of narrative, in presuming a story begins or ends he writes only the mud seems permanent, just kind of sitting out there I was like whoa I was like can this be the same....? it was momentarily upsetting

"people are never who I decided they were they are like piles of snow brief, mutable yes, I thought I felt sorrow it was not sorrow"

piece of 🔥 and wonder today from Sophia Tone

https://www.havehashad.com/yp3dt

Tomorrow night I'll read at the literary open mic at Eastwood Farm and Winery -- there's still room on the list to sign up -- check the socials for more info. This is unlike the other open mics I do since there is wine. Yay! Come listen if you're in the Charlottesville area.

We All Know About Margo - SmokeLong Quarterly When Margo takes off her shirt, we all know what’s coming. Margo, who we all say has the best tits in the senior class, has a shot of tequila in one hand and the shirt in the other. It’s a flimsy litt...

The story I'm sharing for @smokelong.bsky.social's Flash in the Feed is Megan Pillow's "We All Know about Margo," which I read years ago but packs such a wallop that whenever someone asks about favorite flashes, it's the first one I mention. www.smokelong.com/stories/we-a...

Jeez, that's a knockout of a flash. Thanks for sharing, Beth!

So beautiful, Emily. Thank you for sharing.

So good -- "Lies I Tell My Children" by @ruthjoffre.bsky.social

a man with blue paint on his face is standing in front of a crowd of people with their arms in the air . ALT: a man with blue paint on his face is standing in front of a crowd of people with their arms in the air .

Me, trying not to cover my gray hair.