Ran my final material checks for my structure in flash workshop tomorrow only to realize so many litmags that published my favorite experimental stories have closed…
Excuse me while I just…😭
💥 TOMORROW💥
I had the EXTREME pleasure of teaching one of my favorite subjects in flash: STRUCTURE!
I’ll be at the Cooper Street Workshop with generative prompts, examples of flash that break the mold by using borrowed forms!
camden.rutgers.edu/event/cooper...
A copy of ALIENS ATTACK (@masonjarpress.bsky.social) by @housleydave.bsky.social AND a zine by @aniking.bsky.social before the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference?!?!? YES PLEASE!
“She wanted something to spice their lives up, or at least that’s the story she concocted for Theo. She suggested the fishbowl and keys from a movie she watched once.”
@marioaliberto3.bsky.social | @bulbregion.bsky.social
bulbregion.com/Key-Party-by...
💥 THIS WEEKEND💥
I’ll be teaching CRAFTING STRUCTURE IN FLASH FICTION at Rutgers’ Cooper Street Workshop! Want to write your heart out? Learn more about bending form in flash?!
Then this workshop is for you!
✨Details✨
When: April 11, 2026
Time: 10 am - 1 pm
camden.rutgers.edu/event/cooper...
“I am cradling my grandmother. I am rocking her against my bony chest. I am ten years old and she is fat, squalling, inconsolable. She knows who I am, but she cannot be consoled.”
— Time Can Do So Much
@kathyfish.bsky.social | @bulbregion.bsky.social
bulbregion.com/Two-Stories-...
“If you are sad or depressed, obey. A sulky beauty or a gloomy genius should obey. This means you should obey. The quicker the better. With snap and accuracy.”
— The Good Soldier
@kathyfish.bsky.social | @bulbregion.bsky.social
bulbregion.com/Two-Stories-...
Project: Imposter is LIVE!
I finally hit “post” on the first of hopefully many dispatches from my writing spot at the kitchen table, documenting my chaotic, creative life from flash fiction to the (dry heave) let’s just say the mysterious beyond!
open.substack.com/pub/projecti...
“The tornado is sexy, sultry, a slut. She sucks up everything in her path. Since she was born, since she touched down seven minutes ago, in a midwestern prairie, she has known her purpose: to consume.”
Skyler Melnick | @fracturedlit.bsky.social
fracturedlit.com/she-sucks/?f...
Are you in need of a village? We are The Village with All of The Flash Writers. And here's the invitation link:
smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/plans/191340...
“João wanted to sleep with the camel because he’s four and misses you. He climbed onto the camel’s hump and wrapped himself around it, just like when he was a newborn and would sleep skin-to-skin on your chest…”
@kellypedro.bsky.social | @necessaryfiction.com
necessaryfiction.com/stories/a-ca...
“These couples exist in group chats and email threads with an extended universe of metamours. Their Google calendars burn rainbow bright with dates, weekend trips, birthdays, anniversaries all blocked out…”
@livesinpages.bsky.social | Grist
gristjournal.com/2026/03/make...
Of course!!!! So sad I missed you in Baltimore 😭😭😭
“I wonder sometimes where the egg came from, if in the grief and confusion of being widowed I tore the egg from myself, infusing it with a great and terrible magic that has lain dormant all these years.”
@ruthjoffre.bsky.social | @flashfrog.bsky.social
flash-frog.com/2026/03/16/l...
“…and here is a bone from Tommy Jessup’s hand, the little pinky bone, after he came to the river and never left, and here is your mother’s wedding ring from that night she called your father a bastard…”
Cathy Ulrich | @flashfrog.bsky.social
flash-frog.com/2026/03/09/r...
Why not welcome the warm weather with a new flash workshop?
I’ll be teaching CRAFTING STRUCTURE IN FLASH FICTION and yes this is an in-person workshop!
writershouse.camden.rutgers.edu/events/coope...
I heard you were there but couldn’t find you 😭😭😭😭 yes definitely next time!
I was so excited to see you that first day ahhhhhhhhh we must have more reunions!!!! 💙💙💙
I can’t believe over the years I’ve made so met so many wonderful, creative, lovely writers that I didn’t have a chance to see them all in person at #AWP2026!
If I missed seeing, know I was there in spirit!
For those I did see, thank you for all the laughs and fun!
ONE COPY LEFT of THESE WORN BODIES @mooncitypress.bsky.social table (T 773; 775)
#AWP2026
GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!!!!
Complete with dry erase magnet 🧲
Ahhhhhhhhh I’m so close it’s happening!!!!
On a plane for Baltimore after a 3-year AWP hiatus. Got nothin to show for all that time except a quiet stack of research notes on the historical novel I swear I’m actually gonna write someday soon. Catch me happily following @avitusbcarle.bsky.social around, per usual.
And YES, back by popular demand, the dry erase magnets are back as well and will be given with proof of purchase of THESE WORN BODIES
Also, I wouldn’t DARE show up empty handed! If you LOVE flash, experimental forms and femme characters breaking boundaries I have the book for you! I’ll have copies of my flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, and would be more than happy to sign your copy.
The events are SWARMING all over social media for #AWP26 so imma just post my “Where to Find Me at #AWP” in the hopes that I’ll see you there!
@ettereview.bsky.social @mooncitypress.bsky.social
Soooo the draft binder is not exactly…bindering the drafts anymore…
Writer friends who write by hand…what do you do with/ how do you store all your hand written drafts?!?!
💙💙💙💙
Thank you Matt!!!!! 💙💙💙💙
"Did you hear about the Black man? The Black woman? Black boy? The Black girl gone missing?"
Wow, this is incredibly powerful writing from @avitusbcarle.bsky.social. If you haven't read it, please read it. Such an important piece.
Thank you for reading and sharing!!!!