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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The clouds look like they approve - gorgeous!

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Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ICYMI! My poem ‘Nesting’ from the latest issue of the incomparable @magmapoetry.bsky.social 🪺

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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congratulations, @susanlleary.bsky.social!💙📚🎉

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I hope they understood that this is mandatory shopping 😍

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Congrats! I remember I was still hoarding nice notebooks and journals for my ideas after finishing. Reader, she still does this!

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Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A tiny slither of a book spotted in Damn Fine Bookstore, Lyon, cosying up to Toni Morrison. Oh yeah. 😬😮🙏

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

✨Light Chemical Sea | Unboxing Video✨ Only a few more months until 'Light Chemical Sea' is officially released on November 10, 2026. youtu.be/PJ9zOu6cZ_4

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Light Chemical Sea | Unboxing Video

YouTube video by jenwithwords

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thank you for reading and sharing, Melissa!

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Excited writer alert 🚨⚠️ Work forthcoming in Frazzled Lit Anthology @frazzledlit.bsky.social available to preorder now on Amazon Work forthcoming in The Honest Ulsterman and made the longlist for @northerngravy.bsky.social Thank you to all the hard-working editors out there making author's days.

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

'like lilies that fold in at night.' @melostrom.bsky.social in @necessaryfiction.com a triumph! necessaryfiction.com/stories/lost... stayed up past by bedtime to savour this.

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Lost Girls – Necessary Fiction

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This video is so cool! I love the reading of this awesome story @kiklodge.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thank you for reading and sharing, Pam! Means so much to me!

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

POEM 361: "Cry pretty" by Catherine O’Brien (@catherineobrien.bsky.social) "I lean on harmony. I’ve dropped the tempo and tickled the synth. I comb the pattern for its crime. I taste the blast of the furnace." stonecirclereview.com/cry-pretty #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 14/08/2026

⚡️ COMING SOON! ⚡️ The Rumpus is pleased to announce a new category for submissions, Flash Fridays. We will be accepting fiction and nonfiction, up to 1,000 words, to be included in our weekly newsletter on Fridays. Payment for this work is $200. Keep an eye our for when subs open: buff.ly/l4g69vI

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ooooooh that last line. A heartbreaker!

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Friends, I took a musical poser and wrote a 💔🏳️‍🌈🥂☠️ story about it and a total bucket list journal @lostballoon.bsky.social took it and I’m so stoked. It features karipap, Thai Song (what do you mean you’ve never tried it) and Richard Marx. Can u pls read it? Tx lost-balloon.com/category/fla...

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flash fiction – Lost Balloon

Posts about flash fiction written by Chelsea

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SoFloPoJo @soflopojo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

SoFloPoJo August Issue # 42 (We are now reading for November) www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com

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T.L. Tomljanovic @tomljanovic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I think my heart stopped 😭. Thank you @mattkendrick.bsky.social for seeing something in my CNF. There is a Nosehill Park. There was a boy. The thing I love best about writing is the agency it gives to write new stories and rewrite old ones.

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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“I am stalked by the silliness of smiles…” This poignant beauty by @catherineobrien.bsky.social in @soflopojo.bsky.social!💙

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Thanks so much for reading and sharing, Suzanne! 😍

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Thank you for reading and sharing, Melissa! Appreciate you always!!

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My flash 'Clapping with Ghosts' appears in @soflopojo.bsky.social latest issue alongside some very talented writers. My thanks to @francinewitte.bsky.social editor for giving this piece a great home! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-42-aug...

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Flash #42 Aug '26

SoFloPoJo Content: HOME ● ESSAYS ● INTERVIEWS ● REVIEWS ● SPECIAL ● VIDEO ● VISUAL-ARTS ● ARCHIVES ● CALENDAR ● MASTHEAD ● SUBMIT ● TIP JAR ● SOCIAL MEDIA

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My flash fiction piece 'Clapping with Ghosts' appears in this issue with lots of talented writers. Do yourself a favour and check out the issue.

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My flash fiction piece 'Clapping with Ghosts' appears in this issue with lots of talented writers. Do yourself a favour and check out the issue.

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sorry to hear this. Wishing you a swift recovery 💐

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SoFloPoJo @soflopojo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

SoFloPoJo Issue 42 - August 2026 www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com

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Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Such a thrill to see MIDNIGHT AT THE SALTMARSH 🌕🌊 for sale in the wonderful @booksupstairs.bsky.social 📚 💫✨ @thegallerypress.bsky.social

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hey friends i have a poem out in Abundance today - ekphrasis after a photo by @kathrynreese.bsky.social It features pineapples and leeches 🍍🪱🧡🧡🧡 online.fliphtml5.com/FunInTheZine...

Green graphic “Great News! My work is in volume 3 of Abundance Literary Magazine: Ekphrastic Creation” with 3 repeating pictures of the front cover featuring a lamp lit park

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What if I am the new story? 🧘‍♀️

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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Happy The Odyssey Day, friends—here are some literary journals opening for submissions in August. Some are open now or will close *soon* in July or August. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well

List of Journals:

Paris Review
Usawa Literary
Strange Pilgrims
Lunch Ticket
Unbroken
Baltimore Review
Redivider
Zhagaram
Boudin
Louisiana Literature
Yellow Arrow
Tiger Moth
Necessary Fiction
The Meadow
West Branch
Tinge Magazine
Little Patuxent
Philly Chapbook Review
Stereo Stories
House of Arcanum
Thimble
Rhino Poetry
Fairy Tale Magazine
Stoneboat
The Haikuist
Nude Bruce
Gooseberry Pie
Abandoned Mine
Tinywords
Same Faces Collective
Kennings Artistic And Literary
Trampset
Gutter
Eleventh Hour
Shoegaze Literary
Rawhead
Mockingheart Review
Broken Hearts Gallery Literary
Menagerie
Headlight Review
Flash Fiction Magazine
Trace Fossils
The Cincinnati Review (miCRo)
Indian Gothic
Tiny Molecules
NonBinary Review
Flash Boulevard
Equatorial
Pinyon
Worcester Review
Verse-Virtual
Bookends Review
PHIL Lit Journal
Santa Clara Review
Bear Paw

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Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

'A good engineer, she’d thought; not other nouns.' Loved the acerbic tone of this! @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social

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