Twitter world: I have TWO chapbooks forthcoming in 2025! Poetry: WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY & CNF: EDGE OF THE SEA! Beyond grateful to the folks at
@FLPress
and
@cutbankonline
for selecting to publish these two little books! ❤️❤️❤️
Beyond excited to be included in the 2024
@bestmicrofic
anthology! Thank you to the judges and to
@GhostParachute
and
@brettpribble
for publishing and nominating my piece in the first place ❤️
So grateful to be a fiction editor for both
@The_Rumpus
and
@WaxwingMag
! If you haven’t already, check out both of these incredible journals and the stunning work they publish! ❤️
Wow, so delighted to see all these incredible writers on this
@Wigleaf
list! And I’m here too for my story, “A Story You Know” published by Midway Journal (
@PennelRalph
)! ❤️❤️❤️
The
@Wigleaf
Top 50 2024 & the Longlist are up! Thank you to our Guest Selecting Editor
@MauriceRuffin
& to our Readers & Associate Series Editors! Let’s celebrate writers, readers, & journals—all for very short fictions. All for the love: ! ❤️🌻✨
The list is live! So excited to see my flash “Carve” here! Thanks so much to everyone at
@BridportPrize
for publishing and nominating my story! Congrats to everyone— so grateful to be in such incredible company!
#bestsmallfictions
So excited that my story “Yes” found a home in the beloved
@SmokeLong
and will be published beside so many writers whose work I love and admire—including
@MarioAliberto3
@PaulWrites7
and so many others!
Thrilled to receive an acceptance from
@GhostParachute
! I love this journal so much! Thanks
@brettpribble
for making GP such an incredible journal and for including me in it! ❤️
Hi, folks! We've got a really terrific new flash fiction up on the site for you all today, "Stitch" by
@AFB16
! Be sure to check it out! You can read it here:
#flashfiction
#shortstory
I am a grad student in a program for creative writing. I make very little money and, in theory, I have tons of support/community. STILL, these
@SmokeLong
programs are 100% worth every penny. I have published over a dozen flash born in one of these workshops❤️ So, sign up already!
Are you a flash writer with no community? We have it. Our members come from all over this planet. Workshop. Make friends. Sign-up time now!
#supportive
#notacult
Grateful to be included in this
@thecitronreview
summer issue!
Included here is my flash (auto)fiction, “Heart,” about my mother’s recent heart problems. ❤️
Some more news: one of my poems was selected as a finalist for the Erskine J. Poetry Prize and will be published in the next issue of
@SmartishPace
!!! Thanks so much to the editor Stephen Reichert! ❤️🥰
Live Now! Wonderful new fiction & flash from:
Cat Parnell
Karen Arnold
Helena Aeberli
Joe Baumann
Allison Field Bell
Patrick Cash
Drew Coles
Lauren Davis
Emily Fernandez
Suzanne Hicks
Diane Josefowicz
Cecille Marcato
Lisa Thornton
Robert Crossley (review)
Yay! Thank you
@altcurrent
and everyone at BSF for this honor! And thanks so much to the folks at
@BridportPrize
for publishing and nominating my piece! Congrats to everyone here!
Here’s my story, “A Story You Know,” which won Midway Journal’s (
@PennelRalph
) 2023 ~1000 below contest and was longlisted for the
@Wigleaf
top 50 2024. This story has seen so many iterations, and I’m beyond grateful it found such an incredible home ❤️
My story, “Imagine the Fire” was a finalist in this year’s Blue Frog contest and now it’s up
@flashfroglitmag
! Thanks so much
@EricScotTryon
for giving this piece such a lovely home 💙🐸
The shortlist to our Micro Fiction Competition has now been announced. You can read the shortlisted titles in the link below. Thank you to everyone who entered!
We're thrilled to share with you the shortlist for our first-ever Spring Small Fiction Awards! Congratulations to all authors on this list, and thank you to every single one of our terrific submitters! Stay tuned for the winners next month.
Read more:
I’ve been publishing mostly flash lately, but here are 2 longer stories that are near and dear to me: “Be a Woman” (
@BulbCultCo
) and “Well Effect” (
@adroitjournal
) both appear in my collection-in-progress BODIES OF OTHER WOMEN
So thrilled to have 3 Flash Essays included in this new issue of
@VariantLit
! Thanks so much to the editors for the careful edits and for believing in my work ❤️
Curious how other editors feel about this thought: no matter what the work is the work, but I do appreciate when writers who are submitting address their cover letters to editors by name. Feels like maybe they’ve done their research and are mindful of the editor/journal aesthetic
We've narrowed down our selections for the 2023
@IHLR
and
@TTUPress
prize for a first book of collected prose!
Please congratulate our wonderful finalists 🥳
Selecting a winner from these stellar books will be a true challenge—you're all SUCH GOOD WRITERS, oh my goodness!
Wow, I can’t believe my name is on this list alongside so many incredible writers! Thank you
@GhostParachute
/
@brettpribble
for publishing and nominating my story “Tangerine” ❤️❤️❤️
Here they are! Our judge
@grantfaulkner
’s final selections are in!Congratulations to the winners of Best Microfiction 2024! This is going to be such marvelous book of gems ❤️🍾Thank you to all the nominating editors!
I have a flash forthcoming in
@flashfroglitmag
this spring! It’s a bit of a hybrid fiction / CNF piece that explores fire season in Northern California. So grateful to
@EricScotTryon
for seeing something in this little story! Excited to share it with y’all! 🐸💙
"But right now, you’re beside me on a bench humming. I can see the flutter of your breast beneath your shirt: heartbeat, breath. I reach for your hand and thread my fingers between yours."
from "Break" by
@AFB16
Allison Field Bell
Congratulations to the runners-up of our 2023 First Book Prize contest: Steve Chang, Katherine Connor, &
@AFB16
.
Narrowing down was SO hard, but we know these works will find good homes, & we can't wait to read them again when they do 💖
We'll announce the winner tomorrow!
📢📢Our inaugural issue is now LIVE...IVE...IVE! 📢📢Hope you enjoy the issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together! Now go, read!! Much love from
@lakshgiri
,
@lumchanmfa
&
@m_ixedbag
💜💜💜
Flower moon rising, four weeks until Gone Lawn 55, the strawberry moon issue, hits you like a sweet, sweet red thing. In the meantime, you know where your butt can go:
Didn’t make it onto the shortlist BUT so excited for those who did! And still beyond grateful that I was long-listed! It gave me a huge boost when I really needed one! Thanks to everyone at
@SmokeLong
for the incredible work you all do! ❤️
We have narrowed the field from almost 1500 to 17. Only very difficult decisions now as we continue anonymous judging to choose our finalists!
#themikey
What an incredible
@SmokeLong
end of summer reading yesterday! I’m still thinking about so many of the pieces that were read! I can’t wait to see where they all end up! And I think I can share now that my flash “Yes” (after Molly Bloom) is itself forthcoming in SmokeLong! ❤️
Issue 85 of SmokeLong Quarterly is published today! Ten stories. One Letter from the Editor. One incredible staff team. So many people to thank. If you're in the US, have you registered to vote, yet? Art is political.
So excited for this new
@FunFunFunicular
issue! I have two flash fictions in here— “Abdomen” and “We Raise Chickens” (the latter was born in a
@SmokeLong
workshop!) Beyond grateful to
@Chelsea_Stickle
and Jason Lee Norman for accepting these pieces!
14! Featuring: Thomas Acquistapace, Morgan Christie, Allison Field Bell, Kaley Hutter, Jessica Klimesh, Lisa Kouroupis, Lee Kvern, Kristi Majni, Terri Mullholland, Britni Newton, Meg Reynolds, Renee M. Sgroi, Megan Stobbe, Grace Taylor, Jordan Williamson
So thrilled to share that
@BridportPrize
is nominating my story “Carve” for Best Small Fictions 2024! Thanks so much to the editors and to
@Christopher_All
for choosing the piece in the first place 💙
Shō No. 5 is now available for pre-order!
Cover art by Harim Choi. This issue features 68 poems by 47 poets, whose names are threaded below. Please follow them and buy their books!
Orders will ship by the end of July.
Congrats to Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, the 2023 NMP/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest Winner, and also to the 3 finalists we'll be publishing
@steffantriplett
, Christopher Nelson, and
@projectiveind
!
So thrilled to be awarded 3rd for flash fiction in the
@BridportPrize
! Thanks so much to the judge
@Christopher_All
and to all the folks at Bridport for selecting my flash, “Carve” ❤️
Congrats to everyone on these lists and especially to my dear
@erinowhat
!!!
Beyond grateful that Jon found me in the Twitterverse so we could have this fantastic conversation.
@ShortStoryToday
is such an incredible podcast, and I’m honored to be a part of it. ❤️
Short Story Today: A Feedspot Top 20 Story Podcast
Allison Field Bell will be our guest author on 6/28. She's currently working toward her PhD in Prose at the U of Utah. We had a chance to discuss her writing over the weekend, and it was exhilarating. Allison's generosity of spirit shines through in this lively conversation.