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Joan Dempsey @joandempsey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm delighted to announce the winners of the 7th Annual Page One Prize, selected from 777 international entries. Please visit the website to celebrate the winners, notables, and honorable mentions and read their winning entries. Congratulations, everyone! gutsygreatnovelist.com/page-one-pri...

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I used a thesaurus to find a word other than "honoured" or "delighted" (yes, I energetically use a thesaurus). I landed upon the following. I am exultant to be published in JMWW. What a journal. Some of the best lit fic. And now I'm there. Thank you @jmwwjournal.bsky.social

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

"I Watch Whales Fall", by me, Michael Diaz, now published and available to purchase via the wonderful @indianareview Gold Whale Fall. Troubled Siblings. Mummy/Daddy Issues. Deep Sea Stations. #writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"Billy Birch" by me. To be published 11 Feb 26 in the outstanding @jmwwjournal.bsky.social Fire. Memory. Pain. Bodies changed. In a journal that’s carried work by George Saunders, Roxane Gay, Denis Johnson & Joy Williams #writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #promosky #booksky

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Read my latest short story in the Indiana Review, and find gold whales and fractured siblings: "An agent of inaction, an observer of the slow-falling rot. That is what I do; I watch whales fall." Buy it here: tinyurl.com/2c4v5n24 #writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #promosky #booksky

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This page contains the contents of the most recent issues of Indiana Review.

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Waiting for the physical print to arrive, here's me, and here's the apt cover of the @indianareview. My story, I Watch Whales Fall, is the first in the magazine. In it, you'll find sisters, mothers, and gold whales. #writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Here I am, published in Moonday Mag, the wonderfully raw LA based art & lit magazine. In this short story: heads in buckets, hangovers, and slugs (in no particular order). Hands together, because @moondaymag was just awarded an Annual Best Lit Mag Award via @chillsubs.bsky.social #writingcommunity

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

1st draft down of my literary speculative fiction novel - now I’m rethinking the titles. Thoughts. Single word titles, or multi-word titles?! #writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The door sliced her in half. He couldn’t speak, trembling deeply. Her face, the waxing half, caught every inimical shadow. Even the pores across her nose looked moon-like. And her lace front dress, yellowed frayed edges, reaching. “You look well, Mum,” he said. #WriteCBC @cbcreative.bsky.social

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Oxford Flash Fiction Prize @oxfordflashfiction.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025 is now open! One story. 1,000 words. One shot at glory. This year, we’re going big: one annual competition to celebrate the best in flash fiction. Enter now! 👉 oxfordflashfictionprize.com #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #OxfordFlashFictionPrize

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The publishing world has been kind. You can find my latest/upcoming publications, awards/accolades, and there might even be a novel on the way. Get ready, the absurd is coming: michaelediaz.com #writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I've been absent (sue me). I've been a busy bunny- novel course with @cbcreative.bsky.social, shortlisted by @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, confidentially a finalist at a lit mag in New York & a publication forthcoming in Indiana. Social media? Pa! #authors #writers #litfic #booksky #promosky

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

MISSION SUBMIT UPDATE-to the Krouse/Brecht top 200 in 2025. 57 rejections, 41 currently submitted, 5 placed (shortlist/accolades), 3 published & 1 positive-pending. Publish + Place rate of 1 in 7.13, & Publish Rate of 1 in 19, predicted 9 more pubs- all in top 118 #writingcommunity #litfic 📚💙

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

@eliarieh.bsky.social wanted to say hi! I think you must have read my first chapter as part of the Retreat West competition a while back, my (now very different book) Splinters From Boxes. Thanks for taking the time to do that.

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Submissions update: Mission submit to the Krouse/Brecht top 200 in 2024. So far, 50 rejections, 31 currently submitted, 5 placed (shortlist/accolades), 2 published & 2 positive-pending. Publish + Place rate of 1 in 7.14, and a publish rate of 1 in 25, all in top 120 #writingcommunity #litfic 📚💙

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My short story Dog Toothed is a quarterfinalist in the ghastly Killer Shorts competition. Let's all howl in celebration. Careful, it bites. #writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙michaelediaz.com

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The smell of sour bodies hit Christie like a tepid slap. Their breathing hidden, moved only by the gasping door, signalled the scarce greeting. Placing her bag down, it stuck to the flytrap floor that had claimed magazines, pizza boxes and a buzzing Nokia 3310. @cbcreative.bsky.social #WriteCBC

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Mission submission: targeting the top 100 lit mags this year, top to bottom. So far 12 rejections, 2 from the top 20, giving praise & requesting more work. 8 standard rejections, & 2 top-tier rejections. #writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The wonderfully indie & beautifully crafted @moondaymag will be publishing one of my short stories based on a recurring nightmare I had as a child. The image is a hint. You'll see. #writersofinstagram #writer #writerscommunity #author #authorsofinstagram #authorlife #authorscommunity #queer #lgbtq

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"He suckled with the immunity of a chick upon his mother’s gifts, tiptoeing against the metal fencing that contained us unwillingly in homogeneity." From my current WIP. Can I read a line from yours? Post below #writingcommunity #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Thoroughly recommend registering to Authors Publish. Fantastic source of information for submissions

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"On the last day I saw Marcus, I remember the painful scrapes of stool against scarred resin and crowds of Bunsen burners lining the desks like torch-bearing mobs. Lino print art spilled over from next door, their half-formed depictions like old scars." My short story FREE here: shorturl.at/0EHLX

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And Only I Remain

Michael Pearson I lived in a small town and attended a small school, in a suburb west of Sheffield, a place where people didn’t much care for novelty. My best friend was Marcus, the name I also hol…

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

En route to a writing retreat, a privileged opportunity to develop my post-PhD thinking around human-wildlife interactions in #reintroductions. And it's off to a beautiful start, with views of my local estuary from the train window

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Publishing news: I'll have a piece published with the wonderfully indie Moonday Magazine (it's beautiful, take a look). It'll be a while, so I'll hold you in suspense until then: moondaymag.com #writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky

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Moonday Mag

Moonday Mag is a speculative art and literary magazine celebrating the fantastic and fantastically strange.

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hey, you. Say hi. If you don't know who I am, look at my website. It's like a big, yellow resume. A wasp even. But cooler than that. Find my weird, and my mug, here: michaelediaz.com #writingcommunity 📚💙 #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

For the fact it taught me ‘ekphrastic’ just from the title, check out this poetry collection

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

"Even people who don't generally enjoy fantasy novels absolutely love these books!" Servants of the Moon and Sun, an epic fantasy reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. What if Maleficent was Aurora's mother and what if she wasn't really evil? www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D

4 book covers by Joel C Flanagan-Grannemann. Mother of Exiles, Fairy Court in Exile, Talia:On the Shore of the Sea and Talia:Heir to the Fairy Realm.

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Thanks @jamespenha.bsky.social for the beautiful summary, in better words than I could of chosen, of my short story And Only I Remain

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A dark, introspective, quantum-mechanics-filled short story about the repression of sexuality. You might cry. Read now, free, with @pitheadchapel.bsky.social - and let me know what you think! #WritingCommmunity #LGBTQ #queerwriters #litfic #promosky #authors #writers

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

So, #writingcommunity, do you have pitch events over here on Bluesky? Help me out.

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This story emanates atmosphere, like the pink neon lights that flit across the MCs hand in the tattoo parlour. Read it now #writingcommunity #litfic

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Please get my award winning dark speculative #litfic piece OUT THERE #writingcommunity! There's not enough #lgbtq+ dark fiction. Let's give it what it deserves. How about it @stephenking.bsky.social ?! Help a twisted gay author out.

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Dr Luke Deckard | Crime Writer 🕵🏻‍♂️ @lukedeckard.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Check out my new (free) article on Substack about writing with reason: open.substack.com/pub/lukedeck... #WritingSky #Substack

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Finished my first short story of the year. At least, the first draft. I've placed a date in the calendar for revision in one month. Related: do you write an explicit 'The End'? I do. I know it's not de rigueur, but I get so much closure/pleasure out of writing it. Superfluous? Maybe. 🤷🏾

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It's been a long, weird road for my speculative story "Four Words" about a society sliding into silence. I'm delighted that it has found a home, with excellent company, in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social Read it here --> pitheadchapel.com/four-words/

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N.A. Soleil | Metacosm Chronicles @metacosmchronicles.com · 02/01/2025

7.3k into the Project:Freqs script and we meet Dae! I love my stiff lizard man. I can't wait to put him in a jar with a bunch of crazies and shake it. ngl this third person present tense is fucking with my brain and I'm not sure if I'm gonna keep it lmao #Writing #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

A screenshot of a word processor document with the text:
TL: “You the new lead HQ sent over? Tracer Sokwa?”
D: “Correct.”
TL digs around in his jacket and produces a datapad, which Dae accepts and turns his body to shield from the rain. Datapads are weatherproofed, but wiping the screen is a pain in the ass.
TL: “Your reputation precedes you. Glad to have you on-ground for this shitshow, we’ll need your expertise.”
Dae furrows his brows in displeasure at the TL’s informality, but continues scrolling through the information on the datapad. C4 peeks over his shoulder cheekily and verbally echoes as Dae reads:
C4: “No objects left behind. No changes in terrain. Even the calculated central point left no traces other than energy, though it looks like there’s a lot of it.”

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

#writercommunty #writingcommunity I would GENUINELY love to hear your best writing tips, let’s share them (apart from show don’t tell, please for the love of life). I love the “ticking bomb”, ensuring your story has some sort of count down to something, in order to build tension. What have you got?

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

If your chopping board looks like this, please throw it away. Otherwise I’ll feature it in my next horror story #writingcommunity (send pics!)

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I'm now systematically targeting submissions at the Krouse 500 (thanks @ErikaKrouse), working my way top down, particularly to avoid large submission fees & to get my name out there more. Interested? Get in touch. I'll keep you posted on how it goes #WritingCommunity

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Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Don't forget to take a look at my award winning piece in January, And Only I Remain - #writercommunity #writerscommunity #litfic #fictionauthor #author

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