I'm so excited! That turnaround was fast!

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I'm in the flood! Watch for "Smoke, Clacking, Bitter, Spaghetti Squash" on June 13 born in @mattkendrick.bsky.social Lyrical Writing workshop. @natflashfictionday.bsky.social #flashflood

Submissions open thru April 22 for our annual writing competition. $1100 in prizes.

Bizarre and interesting and Olive Garden so of course I’m in.

My pleasure—glad to see this excellent story found a good home.

A memorable story about a bathtub captain and PTSD.

Such an honour to be in @eunoiareview.bsky.social with the first of 3 poems. This one is about my struggles with fertility 🧡

If this is the first of three, I cannot wait to read the next two. Brava!

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FlashFlood opens for submissions on 19 April till 25 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Stories will be published on NFFD. Pre 2023 previously published considered. Reserved slots for unpublished writers. For more details see our submission guidelines: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

My prairie thriller “Pretty Bird” is out October 2026. Check out the trailer below!

“I believe covered heads lie on candy pillows grasped between a cage of teeth.”

All good—it’s a LOT of names.

Cool, I see my name, but it’s linked to Maeve McQueen (sounds like a super hero, which sadly I am not.)

Peeling Back the Skin: Winners of the 2025 2K Terrors Competition Peeling Back the Skin: Winners of the 2025 2K Terrors Competition [Press, TL;DR] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Peeling Back the Skin: Winners of the 2025 2K Terrors Competition

Very pleased to have a short story featured in this horror anthology: a.co/d/00q2jAzU
All proceeds from the sale of this book go towards the charity "Scares that Care" which every year, gives a gift of $10,000 to three individuals: a breast cancer patient, a severe burn victim, and a sick child.

That’s fantastic. @bangiigekek.bsky.social is hyper talented

Thanks😊

I read this piece the other day and really admired it!! Great work! 👏

Thanks so much, Emily. I appreciate you telling me that.

Welkin me up!

Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver

God this poem is haunting me again.

This perfect Tudor, which is walking distance from downtown and boasts plenty of space, will go to someone who bid exactly $7.34 more than you. Reference #582374

Real Estate: Guess You Should’ve Made Your Coffee At Home

Door Dash 🙈 my not so secret shame

We’re delighted to welcome Katrina Moinet to the team Katrina Moinet grew up bilingually on Ynys Môn, studied modern languages, lived in Europe and travelled widely before returning to north Wales to raise a family. Katrina’s poetry and fiction explore language, identity, memory, and gendered experience. Their debut pamphlet Portrait of a Young Girl Falling shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. The Art of Silence won Hedgehog’s pamphlet prize. A micro-collection Lessons in Language Learning released in 2026 and State of the Nations is out with Atomic Bohemian.

RAW LIT NEWS!

We are thrilled to welcome Katrina Moinet as our Poetry Editor.

Find out more on our masthead: rawlit.weebly.com/masthead.html

Katrina's site: katrinamoinet.com/contact/

Our next submission call will be on the 1st of June. Guidelines: rawlit.weebly.com/submissions....

“I wonder sometimes where the egg came from, if in the grief and confusion of being widowed I tore the egg from myself”

Oh, love this 3rd place Blue Frog from @ruthjoffre.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social

"But every day the babies kept not only reappearing, but multiplying. She’d find them in her kitchen cupboards, in the bathtub, even once on the ironing board in her basement."

This phenomenal award-winner by @jekwriter.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Got a little something coming up in @templeinacity.bsky.social started in @mattkendrick.bsky.social writing workshop.

A better late than never hug 🫂. Hope today is a better day, my friend.

I got chills reading this story.

We are delighted to announce our Highly Commended stories
Congratulations to Jenny Kingsley Emem, JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social & Nora Nadjarian @noranadj.bsky.social
Thank you @saloneurope.bsky.social for gifting the writers with a 1-month membership🥰
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