Reposted by Melissa OstromGillian Isaacs Russell @girussell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026COVER 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 53610
Reposted by Melissa OstromAni King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Psssst… hi… c’mere for a sec… Direct preorders are open for physical copies of Family Night now :D masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...masonjarpress.comFamily Night (Preorder Now!) — MASON JAR PRESSNow 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... 44122
Reposted by Melissa OstromChloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We'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/ac93c03d5gofund.meDonate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe ClarkOn 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. 02021
Reposted by Melissa OstromThad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026At 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/...literarynamjooning.wixsite.comThis New Zealand by Pat ForanI 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... 1164
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! 🔥 171
Reposted by Melissa OstromAndrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Looking 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! ❤️ 1114
Reposted by Melissa OstromWigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026new new: FIRST OF SEASON! Cameron MacKenzie's brilliant "The Tilted World": wigleaf.comwigleaf.comw i g l e a f : (very) short fictionAn online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words. 1246
Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New soup cups & plates in sour apple & pink shadow. Happy soup season, friends.🍏💛💕 #pottery 3454
Reposted by Melissa OstromFictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 23/09/2026ICYMI 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...fictivedream.comhttps://fictivedream.com/submission-guidelines/ 098
Reposted by Melissa OstromAnti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There 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 063
Reposted by Melissa OstromTommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Preorders 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-...unsolicitedpress.comThis Fear We Harbor by Tommy Dean | Flash Fiction Collection — Unsolicited PressShop 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... 0227
Reposted by Melissa OstromMatt 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/...literarynamjooning.wixsite.comKissing, Still by Pat Foranafter 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 — ... 1155
Reposted by Melissa OstromLiterary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Good 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... 0157
Reposted by Melissa OstromKathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hey 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 2146
Reposted by Melissa OstromSabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"A body is just a house of passing hours." This gorgeousness by @susanlleary.bsky.social. 1103
Reposted by Melissa OstromAnnest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My 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 25820
Reposted by Melissa OstromMatt 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/...literarynamjooning.wixsite.comThis New Zealand by Pat ForanI 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... 1125
Reposted by Melissa OstromSmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Promptember 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. 24115
Reposted by Melissa OstromAnti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Friends, 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 01315
Reposted by Melissa OstromClaudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Absolutely 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 219128
Reposted by Melissa OstromJacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 22/01/2026AMAZING 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! 118113
Reposted by Melissa OstromDavid Luntz @dluntz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026happy 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... 043
Reposted by Melissa OstromAnti-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."heroinchic.weebly.comPoetry By Susan MusgraveDaniel 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... 062
Reposted by Melissa OstromMatt 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/...literarynamjooning.wixsite.comBus Windows by Will MusgroveI 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... 1125
Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“I have been a prisoner of what I see” Three powerful poems by @sreelekha2024.bsky.social!💙💙💙 191
Reposted by Melissa OstromCassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Excited to read with these fine poets! Please join us on October 1st, free! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-very-lit... 035
Reposted by Melissa OstromSteve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Thrilled 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... 1311131
Reposted by Melissa OstromKathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Reading @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! 1105
Reposted by Melissa OstromAnn VOTE EARLY Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Open new pathways in your writing with timeless techniques… 021
Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Excited to have a new poem in the beautiful Sweet Lit.💙sweetlit.orgMelissa OstromThis 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… 147125
Reposted by Melissa OstromSreelekha Chatterjee @sreelekha2024.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Thrilled 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/untangletherushmagazine.comUntangleGreyness 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... 3154
Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“And we are kissing still.” Pat, this beauty: ❤️❤️❤️! 1132
Reposted by Melissa OstromAngela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I 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! ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ 192
Reposted by Melissa Ostrommatchbook 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...matchbooklitmag.comWhat’s the Weather Where You Are? | matchbook 185
Reposted by Melissa OstromLiterary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It'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/issue3literarynamjooning.wixsite.comISSUE 3 | Litnamjooning 04019
Reposted by Melissa OstromLisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Join 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... 12610
Reposted by Melissa OstromStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 15/09/2026America'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/NyrCghtr.eeDemand your school's leadership publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education — STAND UP FOR SCIENCEEmail your school's president urgently asking them to publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education 0235
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.❤️ 1133
Reposted by Melissa OstromSmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Did you know that we are enjoying the gentle breeze from a wide open free submissions window? Until September 30th.static.klipy.comPusheen WindowAlt: Three fluffy cats looking through a window overlooking the sea. A gentle breeze is tickling the curtains. 0166
Reposted by Melissa OstromJenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Delighted 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...societyofauthors.orgFeel Good Friday - Transforming doubt into creativity - The Society of AuthorsThis 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. 053
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!❤️ 241
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!💙💙 1132