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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 28/09/2026

Life is life-ing, but also this was my view walking home from the grocery store this evening. Balance.

Sunset on a Scottish High Street backlighting the turrets and many chimneys.

Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 26/09/2026

My first Best of the Net nom!! Big thanks to @flashficfestuk.bsky.social 🥰🥰 You can read my nominated piece 'Fish Girl Summer' + fellow nominee @lunchontuesday.bsky.social's fabulous 'Swim' here: www.flashfictionfestival.com/november-29t...

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 23/09/2026

Give A man A horse He'll eat In a day Teach A man To horse And make him Drinks Water

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 23/09/2026

Suddenly have a strong urge to buy barrel jeans ✨️

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 23/09/2026

As a fellow immigrant renting in Scotland, this story is infuriating but sadly not surprising (ok, maybe the flue bit...) Please support if you can!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈

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Debbi Voisey @dublinwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First half readers at #WritersReading Thur 24th at 7pm. Lindy Newns (featured reader) Ian Coldicott @marionlougheed.bsky.social @lmbayley.bsky.social @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social Get your free ticket for the audience at the link - and please share this post and the link buytickets.at/dublinwriter...

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flashficfestuk.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Book for The Great Festival Flash Off! A trio of online days, 24th Oct, 28th Nov, 9th Jan 11.00 am to 6.3O pm London Time. Each day,two 60 min workshops & one 90 min workshop, flash fiction readings, a mini writing contest with prizes, yoga for writers. £35 each. £90 for 3. Flashfictionfestival.com

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Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hello if you send your poetry to @identitytheory.bsky.social today I will sit here with my Diet Dr. Pepper and give you a reply today 🤲

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Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Joy, Play & Community #writingworkshop Join me on Mon or Wed to explore the work of an artist whose projects get people together to celebrate creativity, history and the power of community. Come away with 3 - 4 drafts and a glow in your heart. 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

Typewriter on a striped background. Disembodied hands are typing the paper is dripping with blue paint. Text on the paper reads Art & Flash Ekphrastic Writing Workshops. Other text reads - MONDAY sep 21 11 am - 12 UK TIME or WEDNESDAYS sep 23 8 - 9 pm UK TIME www.anikacarpenter.com

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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Say—here are about 78 literary journals opening for submissions in October. Some are open now or will close soon in September or October. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well, friends.

Paris Review
Electric Literature
Quarterly West
Writers Space Africa
Reading Into Culture
Hoot Review
Petrichor
Encyclopedia Prismatica
128 Lit
Diamond Gazette
Brick
WayWords
The Gilded Weathervane
Shadowplay
Fiction
Amsterdam Review
Poet Lore
Room
Oakwood
Southern Quill
45th Paralelle
Apotheca Journal
MicroLit
Weird Lit
Gravity Of The Thing
Nimrod
Superpresent
Ink In Thirds
Beloit Poetry
Unbound Ink
New World Writing
Folio
Plume
The Shore
Banshee
Tractor Beam
SmokeLong Quarterly
Rome Review
Patrika Aranyak
Gyroscope Review
Letters
Forge
Two Hawks Quarterly
Seaside Gothic
The Rumpus
Westchester Review
Thieving Magpie
Kitchen Table Quarterly
Salamander
New Feathers Anthology
Shift
Portland Review
Barcelona Review
The Razor
Clockhouse
Tahoma Literary Review
Clackamas Literary
Gooseberry Pie
The Drift
Wigleaf
Craft
Pithead Chapel
Doric Literary
Reed Magazine
Harpur Palate
Trace Fossils Review
Ninth Letter
Black Fox
Redivider
The Meadow
Puerto Del Sol
Lolwe
Split Lip
Beaver Magazine
Lunch Ticket
Saw Palm
Bat City Review
Crab Creek Review

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Lost Balloon @lostballoon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In case you missed it!

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ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Submission details: www.ellipsis-zine.com/submit

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“He jerks up like a rabbit perked on her scent, but only to reveal an impish beam, clutch up handfuls of T-shirt and bra straps, lean back like a daredevil.” Such palpable panic & complexity in this fantastic story by @erinbondo.com in @lostballoon.bsky.social lost-balloon.com/2026/09/09/i...

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Imposter Mama by Erin Bondo

“Mama!” He is on her sticky-fingered, weaving into the finest wisps at her nape and yanking as he burrows, breathes deep, knees her in the bladder. She is frozen – unable to react, to hold him clos…

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“He is on her sticky-fingered, weaving into the finest wisps at her nape and yanking as he burrows, breathes deep, knees her in the bladder.” So Much sensory detail. So devastating. @erinbondo.com in @lostballoon.bsky.social 🧡💔😢

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 11/09/2026

Just signed up! Zero dollars! Muchos prompts! Who's in?

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A Demon Named Sam Kurd @samkurd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Burnham: The conditions for a Scottish Independence referendum would be exactly the same as for Northern Ireland. Swinney: Great, let's discuss the legal framework for a Scottish Independence referendum. Burnham:

Jessica Lange in American Horror Story saying "There's not going to be a Scottish Independence Referendum you stupid slut"

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 11/09/2026

"the smell of sagebrush, zizz of grasshopper wings, dull thud of your boots on the copper-rich soil" Loving the sensory details in this gorgeous piece by @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social 🙌💜

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Louise @louisehurrell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

‘He is on her sticky-fingered, weaving into the finest wisps at her nape and yanking as he burrows, breathes deep…’ Brilliant piece by @erinbondo.com !

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Postcard @postcardlit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We're reading for issue 4 which will feature 12 poems by 12 poets! Send us some semi-small, wonderful poems today!

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 09/09/2026

So pleased 'Imposter Mama' has been published with @lostballoon.bsky.social after making the Bridport Prize shortlist last year 🥰 Thanks to Chelsea and Madeline for giving it the perfect home, give it a read friends!!

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 09/09/2026

I fear this is genius promo, friends

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 07/09/2026

me: woe is me, an acceptance drought!! also me: currently has only two (2) active subs 🫠

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 06/09/2026

The tempo of Tom Waits' "Martha" has always reminded me of a train slowing down as it nears the final station. When you reach the last verse, that comma of a breath between "Martha, Martha" contains all forty years or more of Tom's regret and it drops into my stomach like a rock.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

Hello and hi! That magazine I've been teasing for funsies for like a year and a half is now mostly a real thing! soundandcolormag.com

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Sound & Color

A digital interdisciplinary magazine of speculative fiction

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This Angela Thorne poem. The power and rhe juxtaposition. The cool comparison about what some people can write about and what some others have to. The simmering rage and sadness. templeinacity.com/poetry-by-an...

then i look up at my own reflection
through bulletproof glass
a metallic disk inset
for speaking
while my child speaks
in another room
to a detective taking notes

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 03/09/2026

me: submissions? never heard of her also me: stays up until 3am for a @havehashad.com call hunting an elusive 💀

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 31/08/2026

Trying to hit a flash word count has real serial killer vibes sometimes, I'm murdering my darlings left right and centre today 🔪📝

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National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Save the date! The next NFFD will be Saturday 12 June! Exciting things being planned!

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

Black person plagarizes: they take your job, your money, they sneak into your house and steal your dog White person plagarizes: they’re very sorry, of course they’ve lined up a new job writing for the nation, isn’t it great that we all had a teachable moment together?

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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

this week’s pitch calls are a) paid b) open to different skill levels c) seeking hot takes on current events send them your work!

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT DO YOUR STRETCHES.

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 13/08/2026

They grow up so fast, one day they're hitting the 1 million user mark, next thing you know their committing electoral interference 🥹🥹

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’m partnering up with @smokelong.bsky.social on Saturday, September 12 at 10 am ET for an online workshop on discovering disabled forms and structures! We’ll discuss the ableist writing workshop and ways disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent experiences can guide our writing.

A blue background features a photo of a pixie haired woman wearing a cream colored sweater and smiling at the camera in a brightly lit forest. Alternating white and pink text reads, “Smokelong Live Workshop Discovering Disabled Forms and Structures Sarah Fawn Montgomery Saturday September 12 10 am ET”

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 07/08/2026

Brb, just buying copies of Crime and Punishment for all of my Gen Z nephews, I had no idea

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.

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Donate to Save 1 Million Black Books, organized by Black British Book Festival

Save 1 Million Black Books One of Britain's Largest Collections of Black Books… Black British Book Festival needs your support for Save 1 Million Black Books

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/08/2026

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 04/08/2026

Aren't we all but greenhorn wagtails and hedgeborn blaggards, ladies?

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 04/08/2026

Cat sitting is such hard work, I simply don't know how I will cope

A light orange cat is curled up and sleeping on a white woman's lap

A close up shot of a light orange cat curled up and sleeping on a white woman's lap

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you are an expert on air quality and have 10-15 minutes to talk to me today or tomorrow about important things journalists should know while reporting on wildfires and smoke, my DMs are open, or you can email me at karen at OpenNews dot org.

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 02/08/2026

My prompts are 🔥 who else is in??

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JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

August Submissions Open Open now! Submit to JMWW by August 15th. All categories (except for Poetry) are open, but some have limited entries.

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August Submissions Open

Open now! Submit to JMWW by August 15th. All categories (except for Poetry) are open, but some have limited entries.

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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com · 31/07/2026

'“Hello?” you [say]/[hear].' The structure of this is brilliant, @thisisguan.bsky.social 🙌 So effective (and affecting)

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