The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

Thank you to Editor Valerie Rubino for including my memoir piece “Not Mad” in the summer issue of The Avalon Literary Review. It’s a story close to my heart.

What fun to get the Intrepid Award!

@intrepidusink.bsky.social Well, I’ve given birth, and there’s nothing like that mix of pain, emotion, and instincts to concentrate the mind! I did draw on my own experience. Doing it in few words is largely due to repeated rewrites, I’m a compulsive culler of words.

@intrepidusink.bsky.social I discover the tension, but initially I have placed a complex character in a challenging position, so the tautness is not hard to find. It’s a question of ushering the story along using careful pacing and those shift moments.

@intrepidusink.bsky.social I’m so honored to receive the award!

Thank you so much @intrepidusink.bsky.social

Wow! Very exciting to have my story Held Up cited in this essay @intrepidusink.bsky.social on shifts in stories. Thank you @allisonwrites.bsky.social

The Shift Moment: How to Transform a Static Scene Into an Unforgettable Experience Don't settle for ho-hum scenes when you can make readers go, WOW. Create unforgettable experiences. You can! Here's how.

Shift. ✅
Change. ✅

Want to learn something new?

@allisonwrites.bsky.social says THIS about shift moments that will change YOUR perspective. 👇👇👇

Please share & follow! ♥️
@elizabethcollis.bsky.social
intrepidusink.com/shift-moment/

Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference | University of King's College The Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference's theme explores curation—how storytelling drives curation, and how curation functions as storytelling.

Just registered for the Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference, hosted by the Writing & Publishing MFA program at the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. (May 30 - June 1.) The conference theme is “curation.” Program available in the link.

Somewhere in the Lunar Wilderness A midnight bazaar vendor suspects a lone boy's danger and takes action that carries swift and lasting consequences.

At the midnight bazaar, with its "deep-fried illegal meat and contraband cigarette smoke," everybody needs saving.
Especially the boy.
But how?

Part 1 of @beardedbetts.bsky.social Limited Series premieres today. Only at Intrepidus Ink. 🙌
intrepidusink.com/somewhere-in... #flashfiction

Where You Got That Tan by Elizabeth Collis You bleed onto the Emergency Room floor. You crushed a finger in your apartment door on the way to work; called me. The finger’s swollen and cut, your eyes are swollen and wet, …

Very happy my flash CNF Where You Got Your Tan is in this double issue of Emerge Literary Journal today.

Can’t wait to dig in to the issue!

Thank you editors Ariana Den Bleyker and Diane Gottlieb.

These three scrumptious micros added zing to my Monday. Congratulations @aniking.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and Sheree Shatsky

Looking forward to this! @fictivedream.bsky.social

On the basis writers can be over-attached to their story beginning: “Your story actually begins here.”

Super grateful to @fictivedream.bsky.social and editor Laura Black for giving this story a home. Enjoy!

Very happy @fictivedream.bsky.social gave this story a home!

Read this gorgeous story, an immersive tour of the detour! Very enjoyable.

Thank you for the nomination @intrepidusink.bsky.social ! I am honoured to be among such awesome fellow nominees and excited to have my piece read by the fabulous @timonse.bsky.social

Thank you for the nomination @intrepidusink.bsky.social and I’m honoured to be in such awesome nominee company. Also excited that @timonse.bsky.social will read my piece.

Thank you Carol!

Excited to have my story, "Fling" included in the new Tangled Lives anthology, alongside work by @swethaamit.bsky.social @thepoetjade.bsky.social @michelecacano.bsky.social @shannonsavvas.bsky.social. Thanks @tangledlockslit.bsky.social for creating this book! tangledlocksjournal.com/2023/04/13/f...

So honored to have a story nominated by @tangledlockslit.bsky.social Thank you! #writing #authors