Do you write micro nonfiction? Got a great short under 250 words? Enter our We Love Short Shorts contest! Deadline is Feb. 28.

Beautiful flash essay by @wendyfontaine.bsky.social and so timely with back to school around the corner.

Thank you!

Creative Nonfiction: This Is the Part Where You Leave Her by Wendy Fontaine Where you stand amidst the brand-new bedding and the unpacked textbooks and wrap your arms around her

I wrote this after dropping my daughter off at college. I wanted to see if I could capture that feeling in a single sentence story structure.
I'm about to drop her off again in two weeks, and I have a feeling this is going to happen to me all over again.
#emptynesting

If you're looking for an online literary weekend of workshops, check out HippoCamp, coming Aug. 16-18. I'll be there for most of the events, including this Evening with the Editors.
Other sessions include craft talks, readings, deep dives and mini sessions on hot topics. Very affordable!

The foods you love and hate say a lot about you, not just about where you come from but also who you are. I am red hot dogs and American chop suey and pizza on a Friday night.

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Interview with Wendy Fontaine, WOW! Q2 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest Runner Up Wendy Fontaine’s work has appeared in Jet Fuel Review, Short Reads, Sweet Lit, Sunlight Press, Under The Sun and elsewhere. She has receive...

Women on Writing was kind enough to interview me about my flash nonfiction piece, Lucky, in their newsletter, The Muffin.
PS: Sorry about the giant head photo.
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I'm going to ride along with my teen as she drives on LA freeways today. Send up prayers. And stay out of the slow lane for us, please.

Thank you, Mark.

Crushed by Wendy Fontaine | Young love, young heartbreak.

I'm a Short Reads story this week. Check it out.
www.short-reads.org/crushed/

Sending rejections on a holiday is bad literary form.

a basketball player wearing a celtics jersey is talking to another player wearing a bucks jersey ALT: a basketball player wearing a celtics jersey is talking to another player wearing a bucks jersey

Killer spin class this morning but I channeled my inner Al Horford and got her done. #GoCelts

a man in a suit and tie is standing in a field of flowers . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a field of flowers .

Me, waiting for barrel jeans to go away

Big thank you to Women on Writing. My essay, "Lucky," is a runner-up on their cnf contest.
This is my flash piece on close calls.

"Maybe we didn’t say no. Maybe we just didn’t say yes fast enough and the Thunderbird took off without us."

Tonight! Bonaventure Brewing Club, after hours at AWP. Four of the best nonfiction lit mags out there. Come listen to our great readers! See you there.

I wrote this as a response to the many ridiculous years of being around over-the-top swim parents. This is about moms but there are crazy dads too.
I always loved watching my child swim. I miss seeing how happy it made her to be part of a team. I do not, however, miss the politics of swimming.

My husband works on The Pitt and it makes me endlessly happy to see how much people are enjoying this show.

Wendy Fontaine, "Where Memory Fails, Writing Prevails: Using Fallacies of Memory to Create Effective Memoir" (1.1) ASSAY: A JOURNAL OF NONFICTION STUDIES 1.1

Spotlight today all the way back to our first issue and Wendy Fontaine's "Where Memory Fails, Writing Prevails: Using Fallacies of Memory to Create Effective Memoir"--enjoy!

Thank you, Assay!

Thank you!

New writing in Still Point Arts Quarterly here. Inspired by California wildfires and the question, what will you take with you when you go?

That song "What's My Age Again?" hits differently when you're over 50 and you have to stop and actually think about it.

I see a lot of writers here on Bluesky, but are we reading each other's work?
Send me the piece you published most recently. I want to read it and share it.
#writerlife

Lexicon for Saying Goodbye — Oyster River Pages A A girl, nearing the end of childhood, who knows the words to every Blink-182 song as well as thirty-nine digits of pi, who practices her driving skills in an empty community college parking lot on...

I have new writing in the world today.
This one is close to my heart. I wrote it when the #emptynest years were coming. Now here I am, navigating my way through.

We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction 2025 – Open for Subs Feb. 1-28 | Hippocampus Magazine The 2025 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction is looking for stories up to 250 words. Prize: $250 + pub. Send us your best flash CNF!

Attention flash #writers!
Short nonfiction contest. 250 words or less. 18 days left to enter.

Writers, get your best short flash #creativenonfiction ready! Hippocampus Magazine's 2025 Short Shorts #contest is open. Deadline Feb. 28. Entry fee only $5.

Moms: Here's why you should care about that House Budget Committee memo Some takeaways from reading the full 50 pages

If you have a kid in college, read this. Scholarships are about to be taxed and parent plus loans are about to disappear.

At The One Month Visit by Anne Falkowski | Hippocampus Magazine "The bandage used to bind Sam’s chest after top surgery lays crumpled on the exam room table." --from the flash essay "At the One Month Visit" by Anne Falkowski

Such a loving piece of writing.

Pardons for Southern California Jan. 6 defendants include those who attacked police The pardons, which cover all Jan. 6 defendants, also include a former Orange County police chief.

None of you trump supporters get to say "blue lives matter" anymore.