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Swetha Amit

@swethaamit.bsky.social
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Writer/ interviewer/ Author of 1 memoir and 3 chapbooks- Fiction @ghostparachute @bendinggenres @soflopojo and others. Member @writersgrotto

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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 5h
A new flash up in September efition of Westword journal! westword.substack.com/p/finding-th...
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Finding the Right Notes
A Flash Fiction by Swetha Amit
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 16h
The B'K Magazine Volume 17, Issue 4 launches on October 1st! It features artwork by Aicha Benali, Ayinde Fatai Abiodun, Mai Keo, and Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel; fiction by: Belle Habs, @swethaamit.bsky.social, and Yi-Jung Chen...
Cover art from Aicha Benali, a digital drawing of a young woman with scarlet skin and pink, wavy hair gazing to her right while a centipede crawls up her neck. To the left are the logos for The B'K Magazine and Global Majority Press. Text says Vol. 17, Issue 4 and has the featured creatives listed. At the bottom is the webpage globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you @joshdale.co @thirtywestph.com for this nomination! Gratitude 🙏 link ti my story thirtywest.substack.com/p/riders-in-...
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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 29/09/2026
TW-Afterimages Best of the Net 2027 Nominations @sundresspub.bsky.social Congrats and good luck to all 10 writers! @ascoomer.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social @shomedasgupta.bsky.social @swethaamit.bsky.social
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June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Update. More dropped through the door today. @barbarabyar.bsky.social @tcboudreau.bsky.social
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My interview with Beth Winegarner up in @bendinggenres.bsky.social thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🙏 x.com/rgvaughan/st...
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Robert Vaughan (@rgvaughan) on X
Today on our @BendingGenres blog, @AmitSwetha0627 interviews poet/ author Beth Winegarner about her new collection, Swim Poems: https://t.co/oJQ4jh4Taw
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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happy to have a 50-word micro in the latest issue of @thehooletsnook.bsky.social . Thank you to editor G.R. LeBlanc! thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...
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Sleepover
by Lori Cramer Wide awake well into the night, the two tweens, side by side in glittery purple sleeping bags, giggle and gab about the careers they’ll pursue (choreography for one, cosmetology for...
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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"I think of my mother refusing help. Of the rent due next week. Of working double shifts." Read @swethaamit.bsky.social in Revolution John.
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A new story titled Karma Coffee up in Revolution John. Thank you editors 🙏 link 👉 revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/s...
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“I you are, the tree said, talk-singing through the wire’s whine. I’m here for you, too” beautiful and heartbreaking piece by @patforan.bsky.social
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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 11/09/2026
The Shortlist for Sept 11: See what you missed over the summer at Turn & Work: Featuring: Terena Elizabeth Bell @terenabell.bsky.social Huina Zheng Patrick Geraghty Michael Flavin @michaelflavin.bsky.social Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Read 'em here:
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The Shortlist for September 10, 2026 - Turn and Work
Fiction / Nonfiction from XXXXX
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Glad to have a flash inspired by my biking earlier this year in @turnandwork.com thank you Hugh 🙏
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just came in the mail. Happy to have my poem included. Thank you editors!
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My interview with Beth Sherman up in @bendinggenres.bsky.social thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🙏 bendinggenres.com/swetha-amit-...
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Swetha Amit interviews Beth Sherman about her new flash novella, How to Get There From Here
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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“The air is warm and dry, carrying the faint sweetness of grapes and dust from the winding roads” from “In a Grapevine ” by @swethaamit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/in-a-grapevi...
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In a Grapevine - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I have a new story “Tomatoes and Oil Paintings” in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. grateful to any of you who read this one + @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for giving it a home 🍅 🎨 fracturedlit.com/tomatoes-and...
Tomatoes and Oil Paintings
by Anna Vangala Jones
Fractured Lit
Excerpt of story: “The woman waters the plants in her garden before she leaves for her morning walk. The man sits at his easel, painting, before he leaves for his morning walk. Once outside, both glance at their watches and quicken their pace to avoid being late.”
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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Look at her, flying so effortlessly,” he’d tell his friends proudly, noticing me for the first time in months. This #FlashInTheFeed by @swethaamit.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social asks, What would happen if you jumped into a cloud? #archivechallenge mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thank you, @swethaamit.bsky.social, for these fabulous questions! You helped me articulate (I hope) the vision for this book and the experience of writing it! Q: How did you manage to break the rules? jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/a...
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A River Runs Through it: A Conversation with Nina Schuyler by Swetha Amit
Even if you’re someone who doesn’t “believe in climate change,” you know the weather has changed—it’s hotter; there’s less water, droughts, wildfires, floods, the ocean is warming, rising. Farmers …
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Got interviewed by BBC for 3 mins regarding a flash story about one of my fav songs and what the song meant to me. Listen to this clip from the 6th minute and see my written excerpt. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
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BBC Audio | Soul Music | Rasputin by Boney M
Why a disco song about a Russian priest still brings joy today.
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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Gooseberry Pie latest issue is live with work by @ckrich.bsky.social Barry Yedvobnick Lindsay Peliicia @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social @swethaamit.bsky.social Andrea Cavedo @abbywilliams.bsky.social Noreia Rain Tina Barry @iamchrisscott.bsky.social @sandraarnold.bsky.social photo by Guy Biederman
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A micro up in issue 45 of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social 🙏 gooseberry-pie.com/in-a-grapevi...
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In a Grapevine - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A new flash The croaking season up in @urbanpigspress.bsky.social thank you @markburrow.bsky.social 🙏 urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/08/09/t...
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The Croaking Season – Swetha Amit
After he was laid off that summer, Dad began to shrink. The first thing to change was his voice. When he addressed me, he cleared his throat often, each cough deeper than the last. Mom blamed it on…
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Urban Pigs Press @urbanpigspress.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A metamorphosis of the amphibian kind. Swetha Amit kicks off our ‘Transformation’ series of short stories with ‘The Croaking Season.’ @swethaamit.bsky.social urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/08/09/t... #shortstories #writingcommunity
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The Croaking Season – Swetha Amit
After he was laid off that summer, Dad began to shrink. The first thing to change was his voice. When he addressed me, he cleared his throat often, each cough deeper than the last. Mom blamed it on…
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Mark Burrow @markburrow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Do check out this short story by Swetha Amit here -- 'The Croaking Season.' urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/08/09/t... It opens @urbanpigspress.bsky.social call out on the theme of 'Transformation.' @swethaamit.bsky.social
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The Croaking Season – Swetha Amit
After he was laid off that summer, Dad began to shrink. The first thing to change was his voice. When he addressed me, he cleared his throat often, each cough deeper than the last. Mom blamed it on…
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Mark Burrow @markburrow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Urban Pigs is open for short story subs for its website -- the theme is 'Transformation'. Please check the details / guidelines here urbanpigspress.co.uk/contact/ #writingcommunity Get 'em in!
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Submissions
‘Transformation’ Urban Pigs Press is open for short story submissions! Mark Burrow will be running this one and the topic of choice is ‘Transformation’. Submissions should be between 500 and 1,500 …
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Three flashes up in A thin slick of anxiety! Thank you Cody 🙏 www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2026/08/fict...
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Fiction: Selections From Swetha Amit
Because Life is too Short to Read Bullshit
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Happy to have my flash story titled Mancala up is Issue 42 of @soflopojo.bsky.social along with so many amazing writers. Thank you @francinewitte.bsky.social 🙏 www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-42-aug...
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Flash #42 Aug '26
​ SoFloPoJo Content:     HOME ● ESSAYS ● INTERVIEWS ● REVIEWS ● SPECIAL ● VIDEO ● VISUAL-ARTS ● ARCHIVES    ● CALENDAR ● MASTHEAD ● SUBMIT ● TIP JAR ● SOCIAL MEDIA
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
excited to be in @havehashad.com again with a tiny micro about a bar for ghosts. grateful to @aaronburch.bsky.social + any of you who read it 💀 🍻 👻 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/whe...
at the top is a drawing of skulls
Title: Where Everybody Knows How You Died
Author: Anna Vangala Jones
Text of story: I like to ghost watch as I nurse my scotch. It's funny, scotch made me cough and sputter when I was a person but the burn is nice now—the warmth makes you feel alive. The bar is crowded tonight. Hit & Run Victim is arm wrestling Bungee Jump Splat (he tried to be known as Thrill Seeker but we were all too hung up on the splat.) Choked on a Chicken Wing While Living Alone is sitting at the piano, hands hovering over the keys but not touching them. Leaned Too Far Over the Yellow Line to See if the L Train Was Coming & Fell Onto the Tracks at the Exact Wrong Moment is dancing by herself, swaying to the music Choked on a Chicken Wing isn't playing. Fell Asleep & Didn’t Wake Up asks me if he can bum a cig so I go join him for a smoke. He knows I'm Abducted, Buried in the Woods, & Never Found but is polite enough to pretend he thinks I'm Lung Cancer. He asks if I ever miss it. Life, I'm assuming. I don't answer. Me neither, he says. We cheers with our cigarettes and look up at the night sky as mist floats through the moonlight.
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A new flash up in Whitewall review thank you editors 🙏 whitewallreview.com/firefly-glow/
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Firefly glow – White Wall Review
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“We told her she was banished but she still followed!” Terrific story that elicits goosebumps and shivers by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.com/kathrynkulpa
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Kathryn Kulpa | The Last Time We Saw Jennifer
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I am one of the panelists for the The Writers Grotto nights where we talk about Flash Fiction: How to Create More With Less if you are in the Bay Area. Do come by. It’s free and open to all. 📅 Tuesday, July 28, 2026 🕕 6:00-7:30 pm 📍 San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, The Page — 1st Floor
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Neither fish nor foul 📖 @neitherfishnorfoul.com · 23/07/2026
www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-7-amit... 'Dear Moon, Please come down for one day, and play with me' @swethaamit.bsky.social's story of childhood hope and magic
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Issue 7 Amit/The Moon Toy — Neither Fish Nor Foul
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Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Lovely, dreamy flash from @swethaamit.bsky.social . 🌖
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Christine H. @csquareh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Whenever my mother asked what I wanted for my birthday, I told her, ‘I want the moon.’ I wanted it the way other children wanted bicycles or dolls." by @swethaamit.bsky.social in @neitherfishnorfoul.com - beautiful, delicate, and dreamy www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-7-amit...
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Issue 7 Amit/The Moon Toy — Neither Fish Nor Foul
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LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
omg that ending @swethaamit.bsky.social 😳!!! www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-7-amit...
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Issue 7 Amit/The Moon Toy — Neither Fish Nor Foul
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Glad to have story titled The moon toy in the latest issue of @neitherfishnorfoul.com thank you @jackmmorris.bsky.social for including my story! 🙏 www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-7-amit...
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Issue 7 Amit/The Moon Toy — Neither Fish Nor Foul
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Neither fish nor foul 📖 @neitherfishnorfoul.com · 21/07/2026
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Issue Seven - Neither Fish Nor Foul — Neither Fish Nor Foul
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Such an innovative and wonderful story by @marijean.bsky.social kept my smiling the whole time!
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Marijean Oldham @marijean.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Lovely as always flas from @swethaamit.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social — love the ending www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-7-amit...
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Issue 7 Amit/The Moon Toy — Neither Fish Nor Foul
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A new flash up in Orange Rose lit! Thank you Editors! 🙏 theorangeroselitmag.com/2026/06/30/g...
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“Grandma’s Gooseberry Pickle” by Swetha Amit
If only I had known it would be the last time I saw Grandma alive, I would have stayed longer in her warm, spice-scented kitchen. The air always smelled of turmeric, mustard oil, and dried chilies.…
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Glad to see my chapbook Sailing paper boats & other stories reviewed by @sundresspub.bsky.social thank you 🙏 thank you @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social for supporting my work and publishing this chapbook. sundressblog.com/2026/07/14/sundress-reads-review-of-sailing-paper-boats-other-stories/
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Sundress Reads: Review of Sailing Paper Boats & Other Stories - The Sundress Blog
Swetha Amit’s short story collection, Sailing Paper Boats & Other Stories (Alien Buddha Press, 2025), is an earnest, poignant collage of stories that explore both the fragility and resilience of human...
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New flash up in @ellipsiszine.bsky.social thank you editors! www.ellipsis-zine.com/writing/wedd...
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Wedding Eve Jitters by Swetha Amit
Flash Fiction: Wedding Eve Jitters
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Glad to see my story is in the longlist! Thank you @mattkendrick.bsky.social 🙏
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Tonight - please come and Jesse us read and discuss the foggy season
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Glad to have a flash titled Riders in the storm up in @thirtywestph.com thank you so much @joshdale.co 🙏 thirtywest.substack.com/p/riders-in-...
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Riders in the Storm
Fiction by Swetha Amit. By the time Mark agreed to come to our regular New Year’s Eve horse riding retreat at Santa Margarita Ranch, it already felt like something between us had ended.
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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 30/06/2026
Run into summer with another tale by @swethaamit.bsky.social , one of our most published fiction authors in Afterimages. This one is for the horses, the riders, and the turbulence of a gallop. thirtywest.substack.com/p/riders-in-...
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Riders in the Storm
Fiction by Swetha Amit. By the time Mark agreed to come to our regular New Year’s Eve horse riding retreat at Santa Margarita Ranch, it already felt like something between us had ended.
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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"Pearl-white seagulls hovered above them as the scent of salt and seaweed drifted through the air, and the sun sank toward the horizon, swallowed by the ocean. .... Downstairs, the laughter of hotel guests rose and fell like waves." A great summer read from @swethaamit.bsky.social #flashfiction
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Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Since we only publish 24 pieces a year (including poetry), having 4 stories listed in @wigleaf.bsky.social this year is incredible. Massive congratulations to Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social, Coleman Bigelow, Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social & Nina Miller @ninamiller.bsky.social🥰
Wigleaf Top 50 2026

Winner:
​Swetha Amit "Dressed as a Donut"



Longlisted:

Coleman Bigelow "Cricket Cake"

Chris Cottom "How You Know Your Father's Heart is in the Military"

Nina Miller "Alone in an Endless Blue"
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Glad to have made the wigleaf top 50 list 2026! Thank you @sudhab.bsky.social @andrewporter01.bsky.social @delgeo14.bsky.social for publishing my story dressed as a donut 🙏🙏🙏
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