Here’s what’s coming up from your your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags and awesome independents over the next couple of months.

A night of Halloween storytelling, where YOU are the entertainment! Bring your sea shanties, monstrous myths, seafaring superstitions, ghostly legends and All Hallows' Tales.

Tommy Dean lives in Indiana with his wife and two children. Tommy Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks, Special Like the People on TV (Redbird Chapbooks, 2014) and&…

We watch them from the forest undergrowth. They park their hulking metal machines on top of the ancient pathways our ancestors trod. We sniff out our old trails, scents lingering from before they arri...

In this webinar, Emily Devane will explore how to fine-tune your micros with the perfect words and details that stick in the reader’s mind long after the last sentence. Using examples and prompts, she...

Just write it.

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash by Anika Carpenter, Sara Hills, Rosaleen Lynch, and James Montgomery David’s favourite fish is bream, which he will only eat off of our antique dinner set. His old mo...

Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

I'm attempting to climb Ben Nevis. Kind of. Since I live with a chronic health condition and can't actually get to Ben Nevis, I'm attempting to climb the equivalent of Ben Nevis by going up and down...

I love the beginning of your powerful story! How did you decide where to start this piece? Thank you so much! The first lines of the piece came to me before the whole premise did. I wanted to write a ...

Fifty-five responses to an everyday question, one of which is a lie. Reflections on illness.

We live inside the Yellow Pages floating in the yolk of yellow paper. Pepper-black phone numbers stick to our fingertips like crushed ants a...