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I'm going to gather materials to pitch this, so start thinking about your favorite flashes!

This place may be an in-progress morality tale about the dangers of oligarchy and misinformation that would make the pigs in Animal Farm blush, but, damn, if the Lit community isn’t tearing it up! A buoyancy of brilliance in SmokeLong Quarterly, Split Lip Magazine, and Literary Namjooning | Subs Closed!.

'I don't think there is such a thing as an ordinary life. They're all extraordinary. Every life is extraordinary.' Loved the Elizabeth Strout event at the Southbank Centre last night (she's also hilarious)! Only read Olive Kitteridge so far, but will defo check out more 😊

weekly ukulele video (from 2 years ago 😂) enjoy ❤️ full vid on inst@ 🥰

For anyone interested in the idea of composing a novel from short-short stories... Here's an interview with the American writer Peter Cherches, about his brand new novel-in-episodes, Everything Happens to Me, in which he talks about the writing process: novella-in-flash.com/2024/09/19/nov…

Haven’t submitted anything in a while. Then Bath Flash Fiction was calling… 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️Phew!

Thank you to every reader! 6 years after its 1st publication, my hybrid novella Three Men on the Edge (2018) has gone to a 3rd print run. Many other flash / poetry publications by V. Press authors I really admire here - lots to discover via this link! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/three-men-on…

In the middle of #HurricanMilton coming at us, perfect time for a HURRICANE STORY Keep the prayers up for #Florida and thank you SmokeLong Quarterly!!!!

King Mihály says this counts as writing

We're open for submissions for both our Spring Web Issue and our next print issue! Send us your work: haydensferryreview.com/submit

On November 10! 11am ET. What makes a flash narrative solid and ready for publication? This webinar is included in SmokeLong Fitness. smokelong.com/product/polish…

This is our official 1-WEEK ALERT. Tell all your friends who write micro fiction. Not just here since they've probably already left this train wreck. Word limit: 250. Previously published and unpublished work considered. Time is of the essence. Please RT. smokelong.com/the-smokelong-…

Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.

Meow! (That’s the cat, out the bag… 🐈 😉) I couldn’t be more excited about judging National Flash Fiction Day’s 2025 Microfiction Competition with these three flash stars! 🌟 🌟 🌟 It opens on my birthday, 1 December, so help me celebrate by sending lots of amazing entries to read 🎉

Let’s try this again… ICYMI: a Sunday (for those on the other side of the dateline) read about boys, their fathers (figures) and fishing… Check out the postcard too! Wigleaf

HFR Issue 75 Web Preview is live! Read and listen to work by: Eduardo Martínez-Leyva Noémi Scheiring-Oláh Noémi Scheiring-Oláh Sana Wazwaz Sharon Dolin and Gemma Gorga Jaz Sufi ｊａｚ 🪬 ｓｕｆｉ and Hector Viramontes haydensferryreview.com/issue-75

The peer I’m sharing this week is Noemi Schering-Olah Noémi Scheiring-Oláh , a Hungarian writer who is a Best Small Fictions Winner, amongst other things, and has published in many venues, including SmokeLong Quarterly and Passages North. A selection of her pieces is here, and I think my