Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to work with the amazing @saralippmann.bsky.social!!! She is a terrific author and amazing teacher as well!!!

Holy Mother

Soon, we’ll bring you new flash from @joannavtheiss.bsky.social, but for now Stop what you’re doing and read her “Holy Mother” @bendinggenres.bsky.social

bendinggenres.com/holy-mother/

Please join us for this exceptional and unique @bendinggenres.bsky.social online weekend workshop, January 19- 21 with Dominique Christina! Don't miss this terrific opportunity to delve into unknown waters, write fabulous work! #flashfiction #author #CNF #poetry #workshop #weekendworkshop #online

Honored to have my poem “Rising” published today in First of the Month: A Website of the Radical Imagination. Written during an online weekend workshop with @bendinggenres.bsky.social and @rgvaughan.bsky.social. www.firstofthemonth.org/rising/?fbcl... #WritingCommunity #poetry

Opinion | A child-care center lost its funding. Here’s what happened next. When one Wisconsin daycare lost its funding, the effects cascaded to a working parent with kids there and to her employer, too.

A doozy of a reported opinion piece by @crampell.bsky.social: when a childcare in WI lost its (modest!) government funding, the effects cascaded to working parents and then THEIR employers www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Photo of the anthology titled “Get Bent” from Bending Genres.

My kid is learning how to read and now she keeps saying “Get Bent”
🤣

@bendinggenres.bsky.social

My short story collection, The Disappeared, has been out in the world 6 months as of today, and I just wanted to express my gratitude to everyone who bought a copy or took the time read it, or talk to me about it, or write to me about it. I’m very grateful for the kindness and support.

i don't know how i've never seen this before but i just scared the fucking shit out of myself on my walk

New 2024 @bendinggenres.bsky.social Retreats dates are live at our website: www.bendinggenres.com!!! Come and play!

Retreats

Join Meg Tuite and me, for one of our 2024 @bendinggenres.bsky.social Retreats!!! bendinggenres.com/retreats/! Write, relax, hike, laugh, the retreats are generative, time to write, write, write!!! @lisaalletson.bsky.social @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @alkratz.bsky.social

Cedar Valley, Wisconsin? Synergia Ranch, New Mexico? Both locations await you and your creative pen/pads. Which will it be?!!!

Huge congrats, Shannon!!! And ohhh, that garden, also!!!

Thrilled to have a micro up at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social. I hope you can take a minute to read/listen to it.

I wrote Apocalypse at a @bendinggenres.bsky.social retreat, inspired by an abstract art card from the deck "Prose Scintilla" (Michael Todd Cohen). I interpreted the image as a mermaid.

Phobia

Such an original piece from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social : "The complex phobias knew they were superior. They conquered adults, not mere children. They were difficult to treat. They fucked up big chunks of people’s lives"

#FlashFiction

If Van Gogh Had Lived to Be Eighty

Always love a "what if" piece - this #FlashFiction from Kip Knott in @bendinggenres.bsky.social imagines Van Gogh's life in such a thought-provoking way:

Jeremy Brett striking poses as Dracula in the 1970s Broadway production.

Jeremy Brett striking poses as Dracula in the 1970s Broadway production.

Jeremy Brett striking poses as Dracula in the 1970s Broadway production.

Jeremy Brett striking poses as Dracula in the 1970s Broadway production.

Here's some more Jeremy Brett striking poses as Dracula in the 1970s Broadway production.

Red and black square graphic with text and CR logo (bottom right) in white. Reads: “submit to miCRo!”

Do you have excellent flash fiction, poetry, or non-fiction that's under 500 words and looking for a home? This is your friendly reminder that CR is always open to submissions for our online miCRo series. Our submission guidelines: buff.ly/46Q2OFY

Current Issue

Bending Genres Issue 35, Sept/Oct, is LIVE today! Exciting hybrid poems, CNF, and flash, truly an achievement due to our fantastic editorial staff!!! Congratulations to these amazing writers! To those who submitted and are not in this issue, please try again!…

www.bendinggenres.com

Two richly atmospheric micros from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social
"Night sea is wild women, waves howling their grief, swelling in the privacy of blood. Blood salt sea salt desire salt."

#flashfiction

Big Mouth Billy Bass

"...Billy got an apartment on the south side of town with a few other remember-this-things. A Furby ran Billy a bath. A Tamagotchi dropped Billy in the tub."

@willmusgrove.bsky.social | @bendinggenres.bsky.social

bendinggenres.com/big-mouth-bi...

this might be my favorite

@bendinggenres.bsky.social @pitheadchapel.bsky.social and @wigleaf.bsky.social are here.

Keith J. Powell — Does It Have Pockets Bog Baby Pant Rip

New very true story today up at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! Special thanks to the @bendinggenres.bsky.social roundtable crew where it originated. #flash #author

Diablo

"She should have known, of course. A man who needs that much heat? A man with that kind of appetite? A man who once ate an entire party pack, 12 tacos, and then picked her up and laid her on the hood of this truck…"

@writesloud.bsky.social | @bendinggenres.bsky.social

bendinggenres.com/diablo/

Is there anything better than meeting, in-person, writers you've long admired? I love this sunset moment with @rgvaughan.bsky.social @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social Kristen Henderson, Kathryn Silver-Hajo at the @bendinggenres.bsky.social retreat. Unforgettable week.

Writing in the desert at sunrise with a bunny for company. This is heaven. @bendinggenres.bsky.social