finally doing that thing you didn't want to do because now you have something you want to do even less

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction – The Long List - SmokeLong Quarterly Our 14 judges have been hard at work over the last few days—and the last few months—narrowing down the field in our now-annual competition, The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey)...

Please help us celebrate the Long List for the 2025 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey)! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

We need a vacation randomly, a travel blog

I wrote about the novel writing process and the best books to take on vacation, check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/zoebflav...

Composite photo: a girl dressed all in blue appears cloned, captured twirling in sundry positions. Her skirt billows and she smiles radiantly. Her brown hair and shadows dance with her in the sunlight.

LAST CALL to read our JANUARY ISSUE before it hits the archive!! https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

💖 So much love to our contributors 💖:
WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro
ART: Daisuke Takakura
PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa

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"What I wanted was to be in love. For all this initial calculus to be dissolved by commitment and mutual aspiration. A tapestry with all its colors blended."

Read the fantastic INNER CHILD WORK by @zoebflavin.bsky.social from our JANUARY ISSUE while you still can: https://buff.ly/42h1b58

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"That’s when I learned that having an old dad who died when he was in high school was one of Dan’s core wounds. Knowing that, I felt closer to him."

Find @zoebflavin.bsky.social explicitly poignant INNER CHILD WORK in our JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/42h1b58

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Also shoutout to @splitlipthemag.bsky.social fiction editors for such thoughtful edits. 🫶🏻

Inner Child Work — Split Lip Magazine On our third date, Dan suggested we introduce our inner children into our sex lives. We were drinking whiskey on his uncomfortable sofa that was just two hard pieces coming together at a surprising an...

My first publication!!! A short story out with Split Lip today @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0125...

Composite photo: a girl dressed all in blue appears cloned, captured twirling in sundry positions. Her skirt billows and she smiles radiantly. Her brown hair and shadows dance with her in the sunlight.

Art & words will help us get through 2025. We are honored & grateful to present our beautiful JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro
ART: Daisuke Takakura
PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

yesterday marked one year since I and several others were laid off by yahoo sports, in one of the most callous ways possible: en masse, via zoom, by a total stranger who conveyed not a drop of empathy for the scary situation we were all being thrown into with zero warning

Submitting to a writing workshop, everybody pray

I love chocolate cake so much like I think about her all the time

Having a girlfriend rly brings out the trad wife in me

How much dairy is too much dairy? Asking for a friend

Against Cozy Lit Let me explain...

I wrote about why we need fiction right now. Let me know what you think?

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I rly hate the feeling of taking the subway in a winter coat. Is there any way to remedy this??

National book award fiction finalists reading last night. Unreal!!!

Love my new writing mug from stereophonic

It worked this time!! Sorry for the trouble :)

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This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.