Illustration of a solemn priest in white robes holding a cross, standing beside an ATM marked “Out of Service,” evoking themes of broken systems and quiet endurance.

My essay Gospel of the Broken ATM is out now in Disco Kitchen.

A story about faith, systems, and what happens when both stop working.

Read here:
www.discokitchenmag.com/nonfiction-v...

#CreativeNonfiction #LiteraryEssay #FlashNonfiction #WritingCommunity #IndieLit

My memoir in flash from ELJ Editions, SCRAP: SALVAGING A FAMILY, is now available on Amazon and the ELJ website. Great news last night: the book earned a STARRED Kirkus review! #bookreview #booklaunch #memoir #flashnonfiction #hybridmemoir

We are excited to introduce our first flash nonfiction piece, a personal essay by Agatha Valencia called "the kind of man i want".

Read it at carminepen.com/the-kind-of-man-i-want-by-agatha-valencia/

#PersonalEssay #FlashNonfiction #IndiePublishing #IndiePress

A black & white dog sleeping next to a book opened to p. 13, piece number XIII of There Is News Along The Ohio River. It reads: XIII. There is news along the Ohio River: he comes to visit and asks about her anger, how it's doing, like her shadow's learned to breathe. She tells him it's still there but maybe not quite as bad with some distance, wonders if he has any idea how dificult it was to keep him alive. She shows him the Big Four, buys them cappuccinos from a shop that hosts Dungeons & Dragons tournaments. She used to be the master sometimes, she confesses, but not on the real game, on the version she and her elder sibling played out in the yard when their mama was at work and they looked after each other on sick days, teacher work days, most of summer. She has never recovered from that period, not really, and the old anger mixed with the new has driven her to drink, walk, weep, on repeat like some tragic Victorian protagonist not yet sure she can untangle it all. He misses her more when he's packing his things. She shimmies and sings to seventies rock in the kitchen where the dogs join in with their dinosaurs and the pot's about to boil over. She sends her husband postcards, still trying to add brightness to his fractured days. She does not tell him about the divers who go deep into the river or how they recently found tennis shoes tied to a cinder-block a few feet off shore.

XIII. from There Is News Along The Ohio River next to a sleeping Bruce (aka Bubba). Avail now from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social #cnf #flashnonfiction #flashfiction #prosepoetry #indie

Screenshot from Copenhagen Light Festival App, showing satellite image of Copenhagen with coloured map pins for the location of art works.

Photograph of paper map of Copenhagen, with blocks in grey, streets in white, rivers and lakes in blue. There are silhouettes of museums, places of worship and other prominent buildings. Pedestrian streets are in yellow, and there are coloured lines for public transport routes.

Close up photograph of paper map of Copenhagen, with blocks in grey, streets in white, rivers and lakes in blue. There are silhouettes of museums, places of worship and other prominent buildings. Pedestrian streets are in yellow, and there are coloured lines for public transport routes.

Mapping Copenhagen - bead by bead, we thread this city onto a yarn.

New flash non-fiction, as writer-in-residence @walklistencreate.org

#FlashNonFiction #WriterInResidence #Walking #Map #WalkingArt #Resistance #AmWriting

walklistencreate.org/2026/02/24/m...

Michelle Strausbaugh | Burningword Literary Journal

In 6th-grade a boy tried to make fun of me for being fat. It did not work out like he expected: burningword.com/2026/01/mich... #fatacceptance #literarymagazines #flashnonfiction #cnf @burningword.bsky.social

Last boarding call Saying goodbye at the airport was emotionally challenging, with excitement mixed with anxiety.

Last boarding call anaastrioreilly.com/2025/12/10/l... #flashnonfiction #CNF #flash

No 404 #FromOneLine #vss365 ghost

He couldn't be found among the living, so I searched among the ghosts. There in my broken heart his love lurked with all the other lost loves of my life.

#BlueSkyPoet #FlashNonfiction #MicroPoem 💔

The river has desire lines Penny Walker, 2026 story writer-in-residence, who invites you discover where a river might flow River Pant, Essex. 2 miles 13th January 2026  Seven of us and a dog walked down the track, ...

The river has desire lines.

New flash non-fiction, my second piece as writer-in-residence @walklistencreate.org

#FlashNonFiction #WriterInResidence #NaturalFloodManagement #WalkingArt #CatchmentBasedApproach #HabitatCreation

walklistencreate.org/2026/01/20/t...

Stoked for my one-sentence essay, “No More,” which covers those crucial moments when I quit drinking for good, to appear in this flash edition of The W(hole)! #sobriety #flashnonfiction #prosepoetry

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Last boarding call Saying goodbye at the airport was emotionally challenging, with excitement mixed with anxiety.

Last boarding call anaastrioreilly.com/2025/12/10/l...

#amwriting #nonfiction #personalessay #flashnonfiction #CNF

Background Music | Pangyrus That first year in Cambridge with the junkies in the hall and no heat because your mother could only pay 90 dollars a month instead of the 110 the landlord ...

Check out this lovely flash essay by my friend Caroline Wampole, in Pangyrus! #flashnonfiction #CNF #writingfriends

www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...

A Horror Story
How To Ruin World’s
Universe-all New, Through
In Words 3…+…2…

“tHiS iS jUsT oBjEcTiVeLy TrUe”

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#poetry #flashnonfiction #poem

Competition. At the top is a photo of an anvil, hammer, and hot piece of iron with the logo "The Forge Literary Magazine." Below, on a yellow background, text reads: The Forge 2025 Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Competition, September 1-14. Winners Awarded $1000. $5 Submissions. (no-fee options available)

Our annual competition opens tomorrow. Free entries, $1000 prize.
We’re looking forward to reading your exceptional work. #flashfiction #flashnonfiction #literarycompetition #LitWriters #FLM

Please share.

Sarah Starr Murphy - pictura journal Sarah Starr Murphy’s work has appeared in several journals, and has been listed as a special mention in the 2025 Pushcart Anthology.

Oh! This flash essay by @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social is so good. #CNF #Essay. #💖 #WiseWomen #Flash #FlashNonFiction

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#Writers #VisualArtists Send us your work!

We're #OpenForSubmissions #CallForSubmissions until August 31. hmu if you have questions but we're eager to share your #flashfiction #flashnonfiction #poetry #illustrations #linedrawings #photos

Need a little more inspo on the theme of Dialogues?

Ooh! I'm excited about this new magazine. Will be submitting for sure.
#flashfiction #flashnonfiction #microfiction #newliterarymagazine #emergingwriters

Sexism and Other Natural Phenomena By Diane Shipley The weather app on my phone flashes CAUTION: DANGER TO LIFE! Schools across England are closed this morning in case extratropical cyclone Storm Eunice whips herself into a frenzy—s…

I have a new flash piece out and it’s about hurricanes and sexism: moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
#amwriting #writingcommunity #flashnonfiction

@septimusbrown.com
#vss365 #prompt #splinter
#flashnonfiction #anscéal

“After the inciting spoonful of pea puree, the baby bundles each small set of fingers and smashes them tips-first to sign more.”
-from "Baby Food," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Natalie Goldberg

riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

#BeautifulThings #FlashNonfiction

Echoes from the Discount Nirvana Aisle “Third eye’s open, but I’m still blind—must’ve bought the knockoff.”—Whispers from the Algorithm The Third Eye Is Pointed at the Sky When I Bend Over This is soul-searching—but not the soft-focus, …

Saw the Buddha in a bargain bin.
He was smiling… but not at me.
Wrote this after a strange encounter in the supermarket of the soul > dodona777.com/2025/04/14/e...
#PoeticProse #SurrealMemoir #ModernSpirituality #FlashNonfiction

The House of Glass — Memoir Opening Scene  A house built of glass, fragile as my childhood. Cracks spread with every argument, shaping the person I’d become. This is where my story begins.

The House of Glass — Memoir Opening Scene

#AmWriting, #Memoir, #CreativeNonfiction, #OpeningScene, #WritingCommunity, #WritersLife, #Identity, #PersonalNarrative, #MemoirWriting, #FlashNonfiction, #AuthorLife, #MemoirCommunity, #RWhiteAuthor, #TheQuietAftertheSirens

A horse and rider in a stableyard. The horse is a tall brown and white warmblood in English tack. The rider is dressed for a casual hack.

Enjoy my musing for April and thanks for reading!
www.meredithwadley.substack.com

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingnonfiction #flashnonfiction #personalessay #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literarynonfiction #horses #warmbloods #Germany #BlackForest #WIP #writersky #authorsky

“My mother-in-law looks at me with a smile that knows nothing of shame. She mumbles something about being late to the dance, and I tell her not to worry, she’ll be right on time."
-from "Laughter Dies Last," this week's BT essay by Rebecca Dimyan

Read here: tinyurl.com/mcu78jjb

#FlashNonfiction

Hey all my writer pals! Hope you had a great weekend. I’ve been working on a few different micro nonfiction pieces. What are you guys working on? #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Nonfiction #WritersOfBluesky #CreativeProcess #SciFiWriters, #EssayWriting #FlashNonfiction

Beautiful Things, daughter magazine of River Teeth, features micro-essays that are 250 words or fewer. Within these essays, readers can find beauty and meaning in everyday things.
Beautiful Things is accepting submissions from Jan. 1 to April 1!
#BeautifulThings #FlashNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter

City Girls | The Manifest Station The grasses are so tall that the kids, following him in a single-file line, almost disappear behind him, as if the prairie is swallowing them up, one by one.

My story, “City Girls,” was just published by The Manifest Station!

‪@manifeststation.bsky.social‬
#essay #cnf #creativenonfiction
#flashnonfiction #storytelling
www.themanifeststation.net/2025/02/11/c...

Nightmares The nightmares that pull me back to wakefulness are marginally better than the nightmares that clutch me close, refusing to let me surface. I start wearing hoodies because they feel like armor, pro…

New blog post: themagpiemeditations.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/n...

Just a simple flash non-fiction I have floating around.
#writing #writingcommunity #blogsky #blogs #shamelessselfpromotion #flashnonfiction #flashprose #mentalillness

There Was a Time in My Life When I Knew by Dinty W. Moore | The soundscape of a childhood.

In this week's Short Reads, Dinty W. Moore (@dintywmoore.bsky.social) remembers the sounds of his childhood in just 183 words.

www.short-reads.org/there-was-a-...

#flashnonfiction #shortreads #minimemoir

Join Shorter to discuss @wendyoleson.bsky.social's flash memoir chapbook Everywhere, Tony Danza on Tuesday at 7:30 PM ET. Wendy will be dropping by for a Q&A! #flash #flashnonfiction #CNF

RSVP: everywhere-tony-danza.eventbrite.com