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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New micro story out with the incredible @fracturedlit.bsky.social: fracturedlit.com/i-should-lik... Thank you to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for the opportunity to share!

Opening paragraph of the microfiction story 'I Should Like to Collapse,' including photograph of a tiled bathroom.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Back in my favorite place to write.

Image from behind a round table. A Smokelong Fitness homepage is seen on a laptop screen, next to a blue notebook, pen, AirPods case, coffee mug and bottle of lemonade. The room behind the desk includes a wooden door, wooden window frame, and a glimpse of the Camden street outside. It is the Rutgers Writers’ House.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Here is Nectar! Very grateful to LIT Magazine for publishing this piece that's part prose poem, part story, and all my heart. www.litmagazine.org/nectar/

Pink carnation and lilies against a pink backdrop

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Story acceptance for a piece I've been working on for eight (!!) years. It's very close to my heart and I can't wait to share it. 🍯

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I love reading the stories that come through each week! We are always looking for more great ones 👀

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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Chat with community educator, historian, and author/editor extraordinaire Nisi Shawl. Ask Nisi about writing inclusive fiction, the history of black SF, their own writing, or that of Octavia Butler. Donate at twp.ai/9PcNcp or through our bio!

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

💥 THIS WEEKEND💥 I’ll be teaching CRAFTING STRUCTURE IN FLASH FICTION at Rutgers’ Cooper Street Workshop! Want to write your heart out? Learn more about bending form in flash?! Then this workshop is for you! ✨Details✨ When: April 11, 2026 Time: 10 am - 1 pm camden.rutgers.edu/event/cooper...

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lapin2.bsky.social @lapin2.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

What this shows is that no matter where one goes or no matter how much technology one has, what humans need most is each other.

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Our second spotlight is by @catherinebuck.bsky.social 🦝 We loved the short searing sentences that make this micro feel tense and breathless, the sense of encroaching danger and escalation and the last lines that land scalpel sharp. Read and listen here: trashcatlit.com/tattler/

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

"You should have seen it, a monster, through the window, yes I did, with my own two eyes I did. You shut up, you weren’t brave enough. You’ve never been brave like me." Tense, propulsive writing from @catherinebuck.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social trashcatlit.com/tattler/

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Catherine Buck Listen to Catherine read her story Two boys in the tall grasses. Send a dare. See the witch and the witch’s pup. Transformed from a cat. No, a deer. No, a bat. Your mother’s missing …

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

So happy to be in this micro issue and excited to read the rest of these stunning pieces!

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

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March 18, 2026

Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Teasing our upcoming March Mini Bin micro issue with these two crackers 🦝 @catherinebuck.bsky.social follows two boys into the woods and has us question who the monsters are @stuartcavet.bsky.social shows us what happens when something that should help us, chooses to help itself More teases later

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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Today! Come meet "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet"! othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Here they are! Our sixteen Micro Binners! Their amazing smol works are coming on the 21st March. Be there! 🦝 @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social Ron Arbuckle @lmbayley.bsky.social Jesse Binger @catherinebuck.bsky.social @stuartcavet.bsky.social @travisflatt.bsky.social @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social 💜 1/2

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Seoung @seoungkim.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

6 - The Homeowner's Bride by Ayida Shonibar. i love the haunted house POV in this story. ayida is so good at clandestine relationships with a body count. ❤️ othersidespec.com

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OTHERSIDE - Queer Speculative Fiction

OTHERSIDE is a queer-led literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Got a whole bunch of stickers at AWP and am not going to stick them on anything until I get into their respective mags. Wish me luck!

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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Thrilled to be nominated and grateful to the @lostballoon.bsky.social team for all their care and work in creating this wonderful magazine.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The minute it goes above 30 degrees I can feel my brain unfurl like a giant leaf

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HAD @havehashad.com · 31/01/2026

open again for another 45 newbies! anyone who's submitted to us before need not (better not!) apply

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Stunningly powerful new piece from @ayidashonibar.bsky.social! A true voice to watch.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Smokelong is the best group for building community and writing flash! So excited to rejoin for 2026.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

With MFA app deadline coming up, I've been getting lots of emails from prospective students about the state the Rutgers-Camden program; please note that we are once again FULLY funded, with strong assurances of continued full funding moving forward. We're not going anywhere.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

So glad to have my dialogue flash on this list! @mattkendrick.bsky.social is a deeply thoughtful reader of flash and I always love his recommendations: it's a joy to be included.

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kritty krat nyahah >w< @ BLFC @spookybiscuits.com · 10/11/2025

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Got really lovely news about a former student. As a 7th grader, he was always drawing and making elaborate comic books. A friend who worked with me then just realized he's now in her first year writing class, and is an animation major. 🥰

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

am I writing a novel or is it several short stories stacked on top of each other in a trench coat

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

"Who is your ideal audience," people sometimes ask me, and it's this kid and the people they grow up to become.

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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The Lambda Literary speculative fiction cohort just wrapped up 5 days of magical workshop with Nisi Shawl. Help them fund their next book, The Five Petals of Thought!

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I like how almost none of this makes any sense (complimentary). More writing rules should sound nonsensical.

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Running out of milk has made me realize that if you keep a tub of ice cream in the freezer, every morning can include a semi-affogato

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Dani Oliver @danioliver.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

My buddy Jud’s LARP camp is featured in a new documentary. Cannot wait to see this. ❤️❤️

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 15/07/2025

🚨 FUNDRAISING DEADLINE EXTENDED 🚨 This year, we have more emerging writers fundraising for their retreat tuition than ever before. We are calling on YOU, our community, to help these fellows get to the Retreat! Donate through Sunday, July 20. Link below. bit.ly/4lB4IC6

One! More! Week!
One last chance to support the emerging writers of lambda literary’s writers retreat.

Fundraising now closes on
Sunday, July 20, at 12:00 pm EST.

Check out how much our fellows still need to raise

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 03/07/2025

Welcome to the 2025 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellows! We can't wait to host you. Less than a month away! Check out the press release and our website to see all of the fellows and scholarship recipients. lambdaliterary.org/2025/06/pres...

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I have just a few weeks left to fundraise the remainder of my tuition ($602!) for @lambdaliterary.org's retreat this summer, and would love any help you can share! 🌈 secure.givelively.org/donate/lambd...

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

So proud of this story and grateful to @lostballoon.bsky.social for giving it a home!

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Lost Balloon @lostballoon.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

You are going to love our new piece from @catherinebuck.bsky.social! Check out “In Waiting.” lost-balloon.com/2025/06/25/i...

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Still a little stunned to share that I've been selected as a @lambdaliterary.org fellow. I've been applying for years (!) and can't wait to work with Nisi Shawl on speculative fiction this summer. I'll be extremely grateful for any help getting there:

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

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