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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Absolutely thrilled that my debut book, a flash fiction collection, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social is out Oct. 13. Kindle preorders now on Amazon. Printed text available 10/13. Remote launch SAT 11/14, 10:00 am PT. Details soon. Heartfelt thanks @vanwinkle.bsky.social. #flashfiction

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I miss what Twitter was. Miss reading the daily poems and micros from friends in the writing community. Miss being inspired to post my own daily writing.

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another time round with this piece in @lostballoon.bsky.social - would love you to read it as I really loved writing it 🧡

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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

🏛️🏰📜 WINNER of the History Prize, "Outside a Vet’s Office: Boston, 9/11/2001" by @sfreligh.bsky.social A brilliantly-rendered microcosm that projects outwards in such a tragic way towards global events: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

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Outside a Vet’s Office: Boston, 9/11/2001 | MattKendrick.co.uk

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I haven't written for ages, so I'm delighted to have a story included in the Bending Genre anthology. Thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social & @amymarques.bsky.social My story, 'The Inn of Frozen Things' first ran in Atticus Review, then in the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50. www.amazon.com/dp/194502880...

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Bending in the Breeze: Vaughan, Robert, Marques, Amy: 9781945028809: Amazon.com: Books

Bending in the Breeze [Vaughan, Robert, Marques, Amy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bending in the Breeze

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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The end of @claudiamonpere.bsky.social's story is touching and bewildered and sadly inevitable. fracturedlit.com/we-didnt-wea...

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We Didn’t Wear Masks | Fractured

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

ICYMI today we're feat. Storm by Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social as part of our #TenYears celebrations. Please click on the link below and enjoy #flashfiction #readingcommunity fictivedream.com/2026/06/12/s...

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Dancing with my amazing Mom at the Toronto Brickworks after getting caught in a downpour. Eighteen months since her stroke and her spirit is stronger than ever.

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Eric Scot Tryon @ericscottryon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Virtual book launch this Thursday for I’M THE UNDERTOW!! 👇🏼🌊👇🏼

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My pup Clover turned one last week. She's grown into a beautiful, loving, silly girl. My constant walking/writing companion. We celebrated at Toronto's Evergreen Brick Works and she greeted every dog and human with gusto. I miss Luna terribly. She died too young. But Clover has brought me joy again.

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'm back in Monkeybicycle today with a new flash story. This one is about comic books. Check it out if you wanna 💙 📚 Link to the story: monkeybicycle.net/downsizing/

Legs with a hand hanging down into the image holding comic book in front of a brown couch.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Survived the dentist and came home to this being announced, which is nice. My congratulations to all the nominees. www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

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Current Ballot – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Love this fresh perspective from @mattkendrick.bsky.social on Show Don't Tell. Further down in his newsletter he continues with some examples and a prompt, which I'll be trying. I admire Matt's writing and teachings tremendously. prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/the-tell-a...

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The Tell-and-vision Show

I was talking with one of my mentees this morning and they brought up the aphorism “show don’t tell” and I got myself in a bit of a lather about it.

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"It’s dark enough, moonless; his body moves inside shadows cast by the structures, his indigo shape etching through the deeper, stilled black." So many stunning sentences in Hypnagogia by David Ryan, 3rd place winner, the @fracturedlit.bsky.social 2025 Elsewhere Prize. fracturedlit.com/hypnagogia/

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Hypnagogia | Fractured

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Thank you so much @alkratz.bsky.social and Silverbacked Punk Press for believing in Songs from the Blimp Ruins (in visible ink and in Sensurround®, we think). Coming soon. 💙

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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I'm looking for readers for both @fracturedlit.bsky.social & @unchartedmag.bsky.social It's a laidback way to get involved with a literary magazine, and it will help level up your writing! We ask for 2-4 hours of volunteer reading each week, but I'm flexible with vacations and other commitments.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Love working with Kat. She's straight to the point and has been a huge help as I write my first novel.

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Fabulous journal. Great choice of contest judge in @danbillyc.bsky.social.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

‘I would argue that this is what reading offers us: occasions for inappropriate, improbable identification. For powerful, reality-suspending identification with a character, a writer, an idea, an experience, a fantasy.’ —Kate Briggs, *This Little Art*

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

"I’d never been so jealous of a cigarette in my life, so envious of ash, to glow from the touch of her lips, to fall at her feet and be completely consumed." This is one of my favourite @barlowadams.bsky.social CNFs.

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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

So excited to share “dead Mother Card,” up at @fracturedlit.bsky.social today! fracturedlit.com/dead-mother-...

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Dead Mother Card | Fractured

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Trent Lewin @trentlewin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I never actually think anyone will read what I write, but when there's a positive indication, such as this photo taken in a local high school, I get all jammed up.

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for this publication in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Check out the whole issue, which includes stupendous work by @happilander.bsky.social, @amymarques.bsky.social, @pdforan.bsky.social and others! gooseberry-pie.com/obituary-sis...

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

So happy to join the team of readers at the brilliant @fracturedlit.bsky.social. Submit your "fiction that lingers long after the flash" micros and flash stories. I've admired this journal for a long time, and read every issue. Hope to read your words! fracturedlit.submittable.com/submit

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fiction that lingers long after the flashFractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance, with characters who come to life through their actions and responses to the world around them. ...

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I worked on my story, The Inn of Frozen Things, in @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social ky.social 's Settings Workshop. Tommy's a fantastic teacher. Thanks to his insights, my story was published by Atticus Review, then selected for the Wigleaf Top 50. I highly recommend signing up for his classes.

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

There's a wintry dusk hour when the snow glows blue and the mind stops scrabbling.

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Eric Scot Tryon @ericscottryon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Reading THE DISAPPEARED by @andrewporter01.bsky.social was like sitting on the back patio with on old friend on a balmy summer evening, sharing a bottle of wine and catching up, talking about the small things, that are the big things, that are everything. 10 out of 10! No skips! ✨

Book (THE DISAPPEARED by Andrew Porter) standing among bottles of wine.

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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I’ve got a new poem up @therumpus.net today. Thank you to Saeed Jones & editors for giving it such a wonderful home.

Given Limits Exist, Streets, Oblivion
I don't want to be at peace. Outside, the buffalograss rails at the houses. Terracotta storms the bougainvillea. Each street in any direction is directionless. I'm beginning to think the concreteness that I seek in theory is waking each day, walking along a tree-lined pond. Today, approaching a fallen aspen, my child turns to me and asks, do you want to live forever? Beyond April, trees are wildfire. The child is a stranger I held in a blood museum once. Our narrative, one of proximities. I like to imagine I knew aloneness before I was occupiable. Reterritorialization: a migration from within desire (or do I mean language?) —reality's jumble of tenses & imagined borders. Something must give. I have everything I thought I wanted, still I'm incurably lonely in the way of capitalism or an abandoned child. In the only photo I have of my dead father, the image refuses identity. Whom I can or cannot remember I murder or save. To stay alive, even the dead must endure temporariness. Despite disease. Despite the burden, by which I mean a refrain. Its vows. Without her child, today, a young friend calls home a chapel of wet grass. The black trees. Absence. And what of the symbolon? That unpronounceable name transmitted as a promise that connects touch to a touchable silence. Sometimes, I think pain is a world I am too tired to carry. A creek, creeklight. The bee crawling on a rope in the basement I crushed this morning. Lest, beestung on a Tuesday in some future June, I arrive. Last words: the rain falling through the child. My body, failing to imagine me. Asking to be known. What is death if not a dream of distance? I wish I could see my child to the end of their life and not see them die.

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Exquisite read in River Teeth today. This one hit home for me. I look forward to these micro-essays every Monday.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

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Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark

On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Nicely done, Merriam-Webster. Terribly sad to hear about the loss of Catherine O'Hara, my favourite comedic actress. Her performances in Best in Show and Schitt's Creek brought our household a lot of laughter.

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Delighted to be included in this collection of flash fiction writing tips, curated by @karenschauber.bsky.social. I'm spending this snowy day poring through it for inspiration. Wisdom from brilliant writers like @kathyfish.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social & more.

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Friends, if you have the means to, please do support @mattkendrick.bsky.social by using his (amazing) editing, mentoring or teaching skills or by tipping his kofi. He’s a gem, and he needs our support at the moment prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com?utm_campaign...

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Prattlefog & Gravelrap | Matt Kendrick | Substack

A monthly article series about the elements of short fiction: ideas for rocket-boosting your writing craft, reading recommendations, and other writing-related ramblings. Click to read Prattlefog & Gra...

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Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

📚What a writer. See why @sarahillswrites.bsky.social has won almost every major flash fiction prize there is, including the prestigious Bath award twice. Winner of the Narrative Poetry Comp. Free to read now in @smokelong.bsky.social Note the CW www.smokelong.com/stories/worm/

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Worm - SmokeLong Quarterly

Content warning: sexual violence And while it was happening, with J behind me and my cheek pressed hard against the pocked linoleum floor, I spied a worm there. Rusted, red, moving over the dirty blue...

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Great cause. Great writers. Looking forward to this.

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I’m over the moon to have my new flash, “Cut Shapes Cut from Raindrops,” in the new issue of @gonelawn.bsky.social among so many incredible poems and stories. Feeling so lucky and grateful to have placed this piece here. #flashfiction gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Good night, from six-month-old Clover, who is occupying my days and my heart.

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

"She has been this way since that wintered Tuesday in the long shadow of the war, the one they never talk about." Phenomenal writing from @mattkendrick.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review.

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Apparently a few of you are, so without further ado, here is the cover of my forthcoming NiF Mother Karma. It’s a wee piece of my heart, and I hope you’ll all love this family as much as I do 🧡🧡🧡. Cover art @nmals.bsky.social Publisher @publishedbyjake.bsky.social Forthcoming in December

Cover of my Novella-in-Flash “Mother Karma” rich, dark yellow background with a line drawing of an Indian mother with black bindi and hair in a bun with flowers in it, holding a baby. Text “Mother Karma A Novella-in-Flash Sumitra Singam”

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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

It's wonderful to watch @trentlewin.bsky.social soar, and to get the recognition he deserves for his work. Such a magnificent writer. We got to hang out in-person this year and he's a truly lovely guy.

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