If you don't try, you won't succeed. Submit to Thin Skin!

Because this feels like my life, and I yearn for a Tilly. Gone Lawn Journal SmokeLong Quarterly gonelawn.net/journal/issue4…

A drum roll please... The FFF Competition Twenty-Eight Long-list is here! Congratulations to those who made the Long-list and commiserations to those who did not make it this time. #writingcompetitions #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/competition-tw…

You can't escape the imagery of this. Once you've been shown it, you can't unsee it. Gone Lawn Journal SmokeLong Quarterly gonelawn.net/journal/issue5…

I want to think, 'serves him right,' but I ache for him. Gone Lawn Journal SmokeLong Quarterly gonelawn.net/journal/issue7…

I’d laugh if I wasn’t crying. (From the new Private Eye.)

The Dalesman crossing Ribblehead Viaduct 🚂

One of the most beautiful things in the world is kindness and unselfish generosity.

Delighted to have a poem and five visual works up with Backwards Trajectory When I Long to Hold You backwardstrajectory.com/2025/07/16/whe…

Speech Notes is wonderful except when it records 'for journeys' as 'vaginas' and 'cliff' as 'clit', turning my wanderer's ballad into an entirely different genre. #WritingCommunity #writerslife

Here are a few more journals opening for submissions soon! 🗓️ ➡️Michigan Quarterly Review - 1 August ➡️New Ohio Review - 15 August ➡️Copper Nickel - 15 August

Once more for the evening crowd... You send more than just your manuscript and it pays to get your timing right. Here's what I learned when submitting my novel to publishers ⬇️

I admit it. I have yet to grow out of needing a dressing-up box.

brb checking the archives

#WritingCommmunity Serious question - what is prose? Is flash fiction prose? Does it stop being prose if it has rhythm, lyrical language, or repetition? What defines prose? And if it's fiction, told in words, but not prose, and not poetry, what is it?

We want all good things for Jukebox Judy. Empowering new story, A Green Guitar Case and a Pocket Full of Cash at a Bus Stop in Texas by Rosemary Porto now up on DarkWinter Lit! darkwinterlit.com/post/a-green-g…

It lives! Thanks for all the fish Northodox Press 📖

The trouble with giving your characters agency is that they make a right mess of the plot. #WritingCommunity #writinglife

#poetrylovers #poetry #poem

Sign Up for the Story Clarity Challenge! youtu.be/hL8d_4TwPUU?fe… via YouTube