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Melissa Ostrom

@melostrom.bsky.social
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Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com

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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Your Monday Mocha.🐶🤎
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Gillian Isaacs Russell @girussell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
COVER REVEAL! My #microfiction #fantasy available next week for preorder from @lemonjellypress.bsky.social--coming out 21 October! #IndiePublishing #Flashfiction #WritingCommunity #wipsnips #writesky #author #writer #fairytale #womenwriters www.lemonjellypress.com @taniahershman.bsky.social
Red roses against a red background--The title "Rose Red" at the top.
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Psssst… hi… c’mere for a sec… Direct preorders are open for physical copies of Family Night now :D masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...
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Family Night (Preorder Now!) — MASON JAR PRESS
Now Available for Preorder! FAMILY NIGHT is by turns a lyrical celebration of queerness and an exploration of family and loss, often through a lens of magical realism. Ani King's collected flash fic...
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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We're still trying to raise funds to help my elderly parents and brother who is disabled get into a permanent home after a house fire. We have some estimates and all of them are pretty far out of our reach. Would greatly appreciate any shares of this link! gofund.me/ac93c03d5
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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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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
At first it seems @pdforan.bsky.social is out to break your heart... then you realize he's working to heal it, with chisel & hammer, knocking off calcified pieces around your heart so you can feel more fully. Love this story. His book offers more. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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This New Zealand by Pat Foran
I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congratulations, @susanlleary.bsky.social!💙📚🎉
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“They prey on your fear. They know you’re stranded…” Oh, wow, this wonderful flash by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social! 🔥
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looking forward to be in conversation about my novel The Imagined life with author Jeff Condran at the Six Bridges Book Festival in Little Rock, Arkansas on Sept 30. The event starts at 6 PM in the Ron Robinson Theater! I’d you’re in the Little Rock area, I’d love to see you! ❤️
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beauty by @susanbarryschulz.com!💙
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Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
new new: FIRST OF SEASON! Cameron MacKenzie's brilliant "The Tilted World": wigleaf.com
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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New soup cups & plates in sour apple & pink shadow. Happy soup season, friends.🍏💛💕 #pottery
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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICYMI We're open for #submissions of contemporary #microfiction #MicroMonday #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We're looking forward to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...
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https://fictivedream.com/submission-guidelines/
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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There are such beatific moments, grace points, where for the briefest time all of our troubles seem to fade away. If you've experienced it you know there aren't really words for it. Still, words are what we have. Friends, share your words with us. heroinchic.weebly.com
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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Preorders are officially open for my new collection, This Fear We Harbor from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social ! This Fear We Harbor is a flash fiction collection that explores what happens after a rupture, a violence, or a moment that cannot be undone. www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/this-...
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This Fear We Harbor by Tommy Dean | Flash Fiction Collection — Unsolicited Press
Shop This Fear We Harbor by Tommy Dean, a literary flash fiction collection exploring violence, fear, family, memory, moral consequence, and what happens after the moments that change us. Published by...
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — the wall behind us, the one we lean on. The one between us. The one you don’t mention" I'm just so in awe of @pdforan.bsky.social's writing. This is ANOTHER stunner: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Kissing, Still by Pat Foran
after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good news, everyone! (yes, it's a Futurama reference). We're celebrating our Issue 3 authors with a LAUNCH PARTY!! Do come, hear them read their work, chat with Lit Nam Eds, and have a generally good literary time! Friday, Oct 2, 9:00 PM EST. Registration link : us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey friends, my new round of 3-in-90 live, generative workshops begins THIS Saturday (Sept. 26th)! Sign up for one, two, or all three! www.artofflashfiction.com/threein90
Moods, Memories, and Mishaps: Immersive Storytelling to Elevate Your Flash Fiction
Great flash fiction doesn't just tell a quick story. It conveys strong feeling and tone, goes deep with emotional history, and propels the reader irresistibly forward. In this three-part series of 90-minute workshops, we will explore three fundamental forces that will elevate your flash storytelling to the level of rich and resonant, unforgettable art.

These workshops offer a concentrated immersion into the art and craft of flash fiction, encouraging writers to take risks, write from the gut, and generate new work. Though centered on writing, sessions will also include some craft discussion, sharing of published examples, and writing tips.

Expect to generate new material in every session and leave with fresh drafts that surprise you.
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Sabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"A body is just a house of passing hours." This gorgeousness by @susanlleary.bsky.social.
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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My fourth book of poetry, Contemplation of Roses, published by Lapwing Publications is now available from: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HG7ZY1Z4 'Rich in sensory imagery and rooted in both place and imagination, this collection celebrates the extraordinary within the everyday.' —Jim Bennett
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Your Monday Mocha.🐶🤎
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"In this New Zealand, I felt the fidelity-for-shit moon, and I heard, felt and heard, a little night music" Oh wow. This piece by @patforan.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social A must read: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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This New Zealand by Pat Foran
I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Promptember is coming. October 11th to November 2nd. An in-between sort of almost month of prompts, webinars, open mics. And Promptember is free. Yep. Zero dolares. This one is on us. Stay tuned for details.
Against a prairie landscape with horses dancing through the sky, the text reads "another mysterious, in-between month of live write-ins, workshops and prompts"
PROMPTEMBER
October 11 - November 2 2026
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Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A beauty ❤️
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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Friends, our submission inbox is completely empty. If you'd be so kind as to help us spread the word among your communities it would be so greatly appreciated. heroinchic.weebly.com
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@shomedasgupta.bsky.social! Thank you!💙
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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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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
AMAZING NEWS!!! So excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection THE LUNATICS’ BALL is the runner-up for the Gournay Prize and will be published in the 21st Century Essay series by Mad Creek Books (the literary imprint of Ohio University Press) in 2027. My dream publisher!
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David Luntz @dluntz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
happy to be back in @ergot.bsky.social with a tropical gothic story set in Manaus, Brazil in the late 1980s. Part of a WIP. www.ergot.press/authors/Davi...
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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Love comes and goes the way the wind blows, the world cuts you open, and you don’t close. You don’t close. You don’t close."
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Poetry By Susan Musgrave
Daniel Tuttle   CC SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE CREMATORIUM  This is where I last see you, in a cardboard casket “friendly to the environment,” which would have  made you laugh, filled with...
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"People only see the juicy bits in the world, glue them to themselves for protection. I know the danger, but I want someone to chomp down hard" Such evocative sense of character and scene from @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Bus Windows by Will Musgrove
I watch as Sammy breathes on the glass, fogs it up. With a finger, he writes BEHIND YOU in the condensation. The bus parks at its next stop, and Sammy, his hoodie hood up so he resembles a ghost, slap...
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I have been a prisoner of what I see” Three powerful poems by @sreelekha2024.bsky.social!💙💙💙
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Cassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excited to read with these fine poets! Please join us on October 1st, free! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-very-lit...
Lineup Nicole Tallman, host Donna Vorreyer, Sarah Carey, Cassandra Whitaker
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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Thrilled to share that my new collection—Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment—is available for pre-order! It’s a book about belonging & becoming & finding our way together. I hope you will read it. ❤️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Image of a nest against a black book cover. Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment by Steve Edwards
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Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Reading @kiklodge.bsky.social 's BULLY IN MY PILLOW today and keep breaking off to stare at the mizzle through the window and go, damn, how did she come up with the premise for this story and this story?! So good!
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Ann VOTE EARLY Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Open new pathways in your writing with timeless techniques…
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Excited to have a new poem in the beautiful Sweet Lit.💙
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This Stone House It’s curious. The rocks have faces. There’s Mother in bed, too blue to rise, a crack in the foundation. Father, all show, as decorative as cornices. Siblings, gone: My older sister…
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Sreelekha Chatterjee @sreelekha2024.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Thrilled to have my microfiction “Untangle” up at The Rush Magazine. Warm thanks to the amazing editors, Juana Moriel-Payne and Jennifer Frost! Please visit the link below to read my piece. www.therushmagazine.com/post/untangle
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Untangle
Greyness of monochrome realism in my world reigned, both inside and outside. A pale-cheeked man grabbed several frozen-white plastic bags of over-masticated-bubblegum-pink chicken from the freezer beh...
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“And we are kissing still.” Pat, this beauty: ❤️❤️❤️!
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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It's here!! 🎉
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Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I just finished SILVER GIRL by @lesliepwriter.bsky.social Late to the party I know but what a party! This novel has incredible heart, voice, clever turns of phrase, and utterly unforgettable characters! ♥️ ♥️ ♥️
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matchbook literary magazine @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Last week, completely by accident, I traveled three days into the future…” - Check out Jeffrey Hermann’s ( @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social ) story “What’s the Weather Where You Are” on mb www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/hermann/w...
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What’s the Weather Where You Are? | matchbook
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's finally the 12th! Which means, Issue 3 is LIVE, folx! 23 fabulous pieces of fiction and non-fiction. Come on in, grab a beanbag, your beverage of choice, and read! And if any of the pieces speak to you, let the author know! And so, here we go! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue3
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ISSUE 3 | Litnamjooning
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Join us 9/24 @ 8pm NYC time for "We'll Be Birds" release! Readers @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @noramaynard.bsky.social @willmusgrove.bsky.social @pahoehoe.bsky.social @cwtellstales.bsky.social @amygcb.bsky.social & I would love to see yr face 🐦‍⬛ link➡️ www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornto...
A graphic with ink drawings of some silos and a hand along with the date 9/24 and time 8pm NYC, inviting everyone to a Zoom launch for Lisa Thornton's new chapbook "We'll Be Birds" from Sand and Gravel Press. It includes the list of readers: Sumitra Singam, Nora Maynard, Will Musgrove, Evan Williams, Claudia Wair, and Amy Cipolla Barnes.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 15/09/2026
America's Compact for Higher Education is our unified response against the Trump admin's attack on higher ed, attempting to apply authoritarian control to knowledge taught at higher ed institutions. Read & share the compact with your school's leadership at the link: tr.ee/NyrCgh
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Demand your school's leadership publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Email your school's president urgently asking them to publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Heard what he said and didn’t say.” Oh, this poignant piece by @pdforan.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social. So good! Check it out, friends.❤️
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Did you know that we are enjoying the gentle breeze from a wide open free submissions window? Until September 30th.
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Pusheen Window
Alt: Three fluffy cats looking through a window overlooking the sea. A gentle breeze is tickling the curtains.
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Jenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Delighted to be facilitating a short online session for the Society of Authors on Sept 18th. We'll free-up positive energy for our work, and find ways to love it even more in the face of set backs. Hope to see you there. 🦋 societyofauthors.org/event/feel-g...
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Feel Good Friday - Transforming doubt into creativity - The Society of Authors
This session led by writer, Jenny Mitchell is for any writer who has felt their work isn’t good enough or who has moments of self-doubt, especially after facing rejection.
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social! Congratulations!💜📚🎉
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“I comb the pattern/ for its crime.” This excellent poem by @catherineobrien.bsky.social in @stonecirclereview.bsky.social!❤️
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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“An idea is a breathing thing. Meaning it can suffocate.” Oh, I really enjoyed @susanlleary.bsky.social and @darkwebtofu.bsky.social’s poetry collaboration. Check it out, friends!💙💙
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