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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Always a joy to be featured in @haikufound.bsky.social’s Haiku Dialogue. This edition was about the experience of writing/reading poetry. thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've got 4 free spots to give away for this for low income writers. If this is you, please DM me and I'll get you signed up! Everyeone else, I'd be grateful if you could share so this gets to the right people. I'll even throw in a free spot for someone (picked out the hat) who does just that!

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Speaking of lake life: Thanks, @megpokrass.bsky.social, for sharing my little ode to a loon in your latest hint fiction contest. These prompt exercises are always so much fun. pokrassprompts.substack.com/p/winners-of...

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Coleman Bigelow @cbigs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Great second person story about the misery of it's sober narrator. Congrats @lmbayley.bsky.social ! "Now here you are, surrounded by your drunken neighbours, the only one who can see clearly in a room full of smoke." And another great issue from @turnandwork.com www.turnandwork.com/guest-post/w...

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When the Shrooms Don't Work and It's Time to Go Home - Turn and Work

New Year's Eve isn't always about new beginnings.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

someone / once carried the weight of my life Kim Addonizio

Gravity

Carrying my daughter to bed
I remember how light she once was,
no more than a husk in my arms. There was a time I could not put her down, so frantic was her crying if I tried
to pry her from me, so I held her
for hours at night, walking up and down the hall, willing her to fall asleep. She'd grow quiet,
pressed against me, her small being alert
to each sound, the tension in my arms, she'd take my nipple and gaze up at me,
blinking back fatigue she'd fight whatever terror waited beyond my body in her dark crib. Now that she's so heavy I stagger beneath her, she slips easily from me, down
into her own dreaming. I stand over her bed, fixed there like a second, dimmer star, though the stars are not fixed: someone
once carried the weight of my life.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Promptember is coming. October 11th to November 2nd. An in-between sort of almost month of prompts, webinars, open mics. And Promptember is free. Yep. Zero dolares. This one is on us. Stay tuned for details.

Against a prairie landscape with horses dancing through the sky, the text reads "another mysterious, in-between month of live write-ins, workshops and prompts"
PROMPTEMBER
October 11 - November 2 2026

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The gift of a brief but beautiful waterfall visit on a busy day.

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Such a fun collection of Haiku Girl Summer one-liners today. Thanks for including mine, @teatimehaiku.bsky.social www.haikugirlsummer.com/hit-singles/

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megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

75 word story at the wonderful @paragraphplanet.bsky.social !

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"When the boy emerges in his boxer shorts, he raises his hands in supplication. His eyes are like islands." - Belinda Rowe mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Also a treat to see this featured in today's edition of Haiku Girl Summer. (Only wish it was hammock weather here! Not rain rain rain!) www.haikugirlsummer.com/where-sound-...

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“If you please, signorina, lower more your hat. The bright light, the deep shadow, it is everything.” @belindarowe.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com with this amazing piece of surrealism. Also, this is how you do a title 🧡

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thanks to Haiku Dialogue Editor Deborah Karl-Brandt for publishing this haiku throwback to the whirlwind days after I met my 🇺🇸 husband and we dizzied ourselves with lengthy long distance (surely cringeworthy) emails. 🤪🙈💘

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Next in @smokelong.bsky.social’s #archivechallenge: “Another Shadow” by Jeff Friedman, a @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social micro with such haunting physicality. “Hunger is eating my daughter. Driving from state to state, she lives on Trail Mix and Kind Bars—frail as the memory of a father long gone.”

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Another Shadow - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash by Jeff Friedman Hunger is eating my daughter. Driving from state to state, she lives on Trail Mix and Kind Bars—frail as the memory of a father long gone. She hears my ...

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

New story up on @paragraphplanet.bsky.social. Love this publication. paragraphplanet.com

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Mary Magdalen @mary-magdalen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New micro in Paragraph Planet today 😁 @paragraphplanet.bsky.social

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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So sad that the Welkin Genre Prize has come to an end. Missed any of these brilliant pieces? Or just want to read them again? So many gems to discover / re-discover here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stories

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Welkin-stories | MattKendrick.co.uk

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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

🏛️🏰📜 WINNER of the History Prize, "Outside a Vet’s Office: Boston, 9/11/2001" by @sfreligh.bsky.social A brilliantly-rendered microcosm that projects outwards in such a tragic way towards global events: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

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Outside a Vet’s Office: Boston, 9/11/2001 | MattKendrick.co.uk

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We're taking a break in August so this month please enjoy #fiction from our recent catalogue. Today we begin with Laura Besley's Love (a journey) @laurabesley.bsky.social #flashfiction. Please follow the link below and enjoy. fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...

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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🧝🧚🧙‍♂️ WINNER of the Firefly Prize, "And Also, In the Woods a Spaceship Landed" by Jo Withers: A piece that marries together a speculative event with a deeply personal tragedy. www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

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And Also, In the Woods a Spaceship Landed | MattKendrick.co.uk

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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🫀🫁🦴 WINNER of the Body Prize, "Dear Walt Whitman" by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social A lyrical, emotionally taut gem of a micro in epistolary form: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

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Dear Walt Whitman | MattKendrick.co.uk

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A lil’ bit of microfiction up on Nailpolish Stories. (A 25 word limit is such a good challenge! And I love the idea of titles inspired by the wild, endless world of nail polish names.) nailpolishstories.wordpress.com

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Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The buck moon is a wild one, they say, with his proud antlers, coated in soft velvet. Do not mistake those long white ears & bushy white tail! Those ears have heard all of your songs & they just make him more wild. Just wait a bit and see how cute they are. GL66 is up! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Abstract expressionistic painting, a variegation of blues and whites and spatterings of other colors.

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Happy dancing to see my flash "If Mother's Grief Had Been a Dog" published in Thin Skin Magazine alongside one of my favorite flash writers @nomad-sw18.bsky.social . Check out Issue 8! My story was written in @smokelong.bsky.social (where else?) thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...

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If Mother’s Grief Had Been a Dog - Thin Skin

Mother’s grief unfurled slowly, like paint blistering and peeling from the shed out back. For months after the sirens, she locked herself inside with our photo albums. She taped pink-stickered pages o...

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HAD @havehashad.com · 31/07/2026

"That I’ll recognize you in the coffee shop after all these years, that you’ll see my long scraggly mop and pierced nose as the bell chimes over the door knowing it’s me, and you’ll stand from the loveseat and open your arms..." 🔥 👀 from Lauren Kardos www.havehashad.com/mcqgx

July 31, 2026
Three wishes and a secret
Lauren Kardos
That I’ll recognize you in the coffee shop after all these years, that you’ll see my long scraggly mop and pierced nose as the bell chimes over the door knowing it’s me, and you’ll stand from the loveseat and open your arms. That we’ll refill our mugs until our fingers jitter, our hearts race, until the baristas side-eye us near closing, two women on the wrong side of forty with Cheshire cat smiles and laughing to tears, saying remember when so-and-so jumped the bonfire with her vaulting pole, saying I hear he runs the bank downtown now. That you’ll ask me to dinner because it’s been too long and maybe, if I’m up to it, we can split a cheesecake for dessert and play what was once our favorite game, the one you always said was better than truth or dare, the one that revealed a week before graduation that I was moving away, packed and ticket in-hand for a city across the country, that I wasn’t bringing you. That behind all these three

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It has been so wonderful to have these Welkin Genre Prize stories shared daily in my feed—100-word powerhouses, full of depth and often tenderness. Today’s shortlisted “Body” prize is no exception. (And very glad there are many more to read.)

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My poem is included in this Haiku Dialogue selection about technology and the overload of information. I happened to see it just after news of Glen Hansard’s death came up in my “feed.” A brilliant artist. Music can make musicians feel like “friends,” but I’m especially thinking of his loved ones. 💔

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Honoured to have a one-line poem featured on the latest Poetry Pea Podcast — in a wonderful episode that deepened my understanding of this intriguing form. Thanks, Patricia McGuire and @thepoetrypea.bsky.social team. poetrypea.com/s9e29-one-li...

https://poetrypea.com/s9e29-one-line-haiku-senryu-the-judges-choices-and-the-best-of-the-submissions/

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

First up in my @smokelong.bsky.social #blurbchallenge flash fiction recommendations: Widow Fantasies by Iranian 🇨🇦-ian Hollay Ghadery—an atmospheric collection about people grappling w/ regrets & longings. Wonderful concrete imagery throughout ( @hollay.bsky.social is also a poet/multi-genre writer).

Book cover of Widow Fantasies by Hollay Ghadery. The image features a soft pastel illustration of an empty fairground swing ride.

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thanks to Haiku Dialogue Guest Editor Alex Fyffe for including my one-line haiku in this technology-themed selection and for offering such insightful commentary.

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My first time on a Welkin list! 🤩 So many fascinating story titles in this longlist — and I can’t wait to see the different takes on the genres. What a unique contest, @mattkendrick.bsky.social!

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A nice surprise to see I have another haiku up on @haikuniverse.bsky.social today. ✈️ haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-ade...

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Friends, WHAT a day. I have two CNF pieces out today in The Sandy River Review. They’re both about my dear friend Jessica who passed 18 months ago. I’d love it if you gave them a read 🧡🙏🏾💔 sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/h... sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/s...

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Sugars by Sumitra Singam

Your mother and brother don’t know what to do with your sugars. On a summer’s evening, the air heavy with your loss, they bring them to me in a box. Icing sugar in a Tupperware, as if you’d packed …

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Highly recommend having a friend like Kevin to cheer you on during writing sessions. 😉👋😸

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This micro sprang to life in @smokelong.bsky.social’s amazing March Micro Madness!!! Thank you so much to the wonderful people at @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social for giving it such a lovely home!! ❤️

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Celebrating two 100-word story shortlist wins from @newwritersuk.bsky.social and tadpolepress.com. Contests aren’t my only focus, but I enjoy the schedule, guidelines, & community of these. Congrats, all! (And now to revisit/find homes for these micros, started in @smokelong.bsky.social workshops.)

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New Writers 100-Word Writing Competition 2026 - Results - NewWriters.org.uk

New Writers 100-Word Writing 2026 winners plus the honourable mentions and shortlisted and longlisted entries.

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