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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Any flash writers proposing something for #awp26? I'm thinking of proposing something around teaching flash as the focus of a lit class. #flashfiction #flashlit

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Way back in 2011 I bought @benloory.bsky.social's book at a little shop on Newbury St. and sat between the stacks to read it with my friends. Now I assign "The Pot" to my #flashfiction literature in under 1,000 words class and listen as they say it's one of their favorites we've read.

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

A long time ago in @kathyfish.bsky.social flash memoir intensive (a WONDERFUL workshop), this piece came pouring out of me all at once, and I'm so happy that it found a home in the amazing JMWW! #flashCNF #author

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Creative Nonfiction: The Familiar Churn of the Unknown by Ariel M. Goldenthal

You should have told me you were going to jump into the ocean.

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

#flashfiction writers, what is the piece published in 2023 that you’re most proud of? This piece went through many iterations before I landed on this version that @bendinggenres.bsky.social published last year.

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Two Imaginings of a Conversation We Will Never Have

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! We're giving $100 to help boost your writing in 2024—workshop, comp/submission fees, membership, critiques, books, pens—anything you find helpful, anywhere. Like & share to enter. We'll also give $100 to one of the organisations we support—winner to choose. Ends midnight NYC Dec 23

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

After a few months off, I'm back in the submitting saddle and starting off strong with @mattkendrick.bsky.social mini-Welkin. #flashfiction

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Prompted by a couple of posts I saw yesterday, a thread about how it's really tough being a creative writing freelancer right now. Please read and share if you can. (1/13)

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

When I first drafted this story in 2020, it sprawled across 4 pages of my notebook and had lines all over the place. Thanks to feedback from my writing community, it found the perfect home (with fewer lines) in @bendinggenres.bsky.social. I can't wait for you to read it!

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Two Imaginings of a Conversation We Will Never Have

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

What a powerful piece! Congratulations!!

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

I have a fun little story in this issue and I’m so excited for you all to read it!

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Cat Rambo @catrambo.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

If you want there to be F&SF fiction mags, we need to do something now, while Amazon is removing their support. Check out one mag's website today and support them, if you have the means. Or just RT this if you can't, because the situation is pretty dire.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

My October newsletter is full of freebies for the writing community - example story lists, a character creator template, a story planner, a geeky submissions tracker spreadsheet... Hopefully some useful stuff for you all. PS - very grateful for re-posts to spread the word! #Flashfiction #writers

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Freebies

Over the last few weeks, my health has decided to explore a new dimension. Which is the most positive way I can find of saying it has tumbled over another cliff. It isn’t worse necessarily just diff...

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Janus Literary @janusliterary.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Our team has made its nominations for the 2024 Best of the Net. Congratulations to each of these talented writers/poets. @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @avramargariti.bsky.social @jaredpovanda.bsky.social @louisenorgate.bsky.social @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social @gretchenfilart.bsky.social

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗

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Bridge Access Program | CDCCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC twenty four seven. Saving...

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

If you read one story this week, let it be this heart-wrenching one by @jenniferfliss.bsky.social "It was an heirloom – gold paint cracking, faded letters for the ritual foods, though we knew where everything went." www.fivesouth.net/post/of-stol...

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Of Stolen Objects & Places by Jennifer Fliss

My mom kept spices in unused urine specimen cups she’d filched from her job at the hospital.

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

pre-orders are up for my new novel & here’s the cover, EXHIBIT will be out in May ‘24!!! EXHIBIT has been an 8-year obsession & it’s full of desire & ambition & revenge & queer exuberance & I’m so glad to get to share it with y’all 🖤💌 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635517/exhibit-by-r-o-kwon/

Cover of a novel, EXHIBIT, by R.O. Kwon, coming May 2024. Image of the torso & thigh of a woman whose elbow is jutting out, with what looks like long black hair but resolves into a strip of black paint

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

It’s the week of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, so it’s fitting that my story about teaching Hebrew school the day after the shooting at Tree of Life synagogue came out today. Thank you to @kathyfish.bsky.social for prompting this in her memoir flash class & to FIB-friends for feedback 💛

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A Sunday in October

By Ariel M. Goldenthal The day after the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, I lied to my second-grade students: You are safe at Hebrew school. You will love learning the Aleph-Bet this year. Y…

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Belle Point Press @bellepointpress.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Happy pub day to @amygcb.bsky.social! Her latest collection, CHILD CRAFT, officially enters the world today.

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

I’m not saying I was born to be a writer, but my HS English teacher once gave me a 48/50 where the 2 points lost were due to me saying “this quote shows,” which wasn’t concise enough for his tastes.

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Best Microfiction is here! Please help spread the word! 🙂🙂🙂

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

My planner for today says it all. After over 3 years of only teaching my writing classes online, I’m ready to try being back in the classroom once a week.

Planner with “first day of in-person class since spring 2020!” written

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

I missed so many new stories in the bird app to sky app transfer. If you published a #flash piece this summer, share a link here lease!

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

When you see a peer-reviewed scientific journal article, it often says “pay $35 to read this.” Did you know that $0 of that goes to the authors of the article? Just email us and we’ll be happy to send you a copy for free. We’re usually thrilled that anyone cares. 🧪🦑🦈

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

ICYMI @cherylpappas.bsky.social opened another flash in all its forms workshop. I can't praise this short and full workshop enough: The one I took in 2020 led to four pubs and inspired my newest piece in the form of a legal document that Exposition Lit published.

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Workshops & Readings — Cheryl Pappas

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

A #flash feed???? Yes please 😍

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

I need a list of #flash writers on here so desperately. I miss my people! Sound off or tag others if you’re here 🎉

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Sarah Freligh @sfreligh.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

Writing friends: Looking for examples of speculative stories to use as models for an upcoming class. Three hundred words or fewer. Drop links below or title/author/limag/book. Thanks in advance.

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Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

I published this short piece in the form of a legal document in June when the bird app was emptying out. I don't think Exposition Lit is on here (yet?), but they're amazing to work with and publish some fun and gut wrenching stuff.

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At Twelve Years Old, I Draft a New Custody Agreement - Exposition Review

by Ariel M. Goldenthal Experimental (Plain Text Version) Ariel M. Goldenthal is an assistant professor of English at George Mason University. Her work has appeared in The Citron Review, Flash...

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