Add the Glossy Planet writing challenge for September to your calendar! The theme will be revealed on September 1, 2026.

Add the Glossy Planet writing challenge for September to your calendar! The theme will be revealed on September 1, 2026.

Add the Glossy Planet writing challenge for September to your calendar! The theme will be revealed on September 1, 2026.

Read "For You" by Jack Fisher, the first-place winner from Glossy Planet's Doomscroll writing challenge in August 2026.

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Read "the blue hour" by Hero Jason Uchebenu, the second-place winner for Glossy Planet's Doomscroll writing challenge.

Read "Salt" by Paley Dreier, the third-place winner for Glossy Planet's Doomscroll writing challenge from August 2026.

It may seem like writers work better in solitude, but we need our peers, too. These practical tips will help you find and build a writing community to fuel your creative practice.

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Our Lit Mag Submission Kit is a free, practical guide to writing your cover letter and bio for literary magazine submissions.

Read "Countdown" by Shea West, the third-place winner for Glossy Planet's Silent Spring writing challenge.

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Submit flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about bodies, chronic illness, and surviving a healthcare system that makes it expensive to live.

Submit flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about bodies, chronic illness, and surviving a healthcare system that makes it expensive to live.

Join us in celebrating the three winners from our August writing challenge. Check out the finalists from Doomscroll.

Our Doomscroll shortlist recognizes the writers whose fiction, poetry, and nonfiction brought the challenge theme to life.

Submit flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about bodies, chronic illness, and surviving a healthcare system that makes it expensive to live.

Submit flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about bodies, chronic illness, and surviving a healthcare system that makes it expensive to live.

Submit flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about bodies, chronic illness, and surviving a healthcare system that makes it expensive to live.

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An interview with first-place winner Marnetta Singleton on smartphone notifications as voyeurism and how to create tension in snippets.

Read "Money Trees" by Marnetta Singleton, the first-place winner from Glossy Planet's Cost of Living writing challenge.

Read "Hushes and Hums in Texas" by Zenobia, the second-place winner for Glossy Planet's Cost of Living writing challenge.

Read "In Situ" by Jessica Hincapié, the third-place winner for Glossy Planet's Cost of Living writing challenge.

Submit flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that feels urgent, wild, and wonderfully weird during our free submission window.

Read "Extra Minutes" by Cate McGowan, the first-place winner from Glossy Planet's Cult of Productivity writing challenge.

Submit flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that feels urgent, wild, and wonderfully weird during our free submission window.

Even your roughest writing is worth keeping. Here’s why holding onto your messy poems, failed drafts, and incoherent brain dumps can help your writing practice.

Submit flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that feels urgent, wild, and wonderfully weird during our free submission window.

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Submit flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that feels urgent, wild, and wonderfully weird during our free submission window.

Read "Shine Early, Spring Salmon" by Emily Woodworth, the second-place winner in Glossy Planet's Silent Spring writing challenge.

Submit flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry about social media, algorithms, and how it feels to use a product that uses you back.

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Submit flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry about social media, algorithms, and how it feels to use a product that uses you back.

Our Lit Mag Submission Kit is a free, practical guide to writing your cover letter and bio for literary magazine submissions.

Submit flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry about social media, algorithms, and how it feels to use a product that uses you back.

Register for Urgent Writing: A Generative Flash Fiction Workshop led by writer, poet, and instructor Jaclyn Desforges!

Register for Urgent Writing: A Generative Flash Fiction Workshop led by writer, poet, and instructor Jaclyn Desforges!