I am dizzyingly proud to tell you my full-length collection of flash fiction, Pardon Me For Moonwalking, will be published by Portland-based
@UnsolicitedP
in December 2025.
We just want to find a place that is affordable, has access to nature, some kind of lit scene, bookstore and movie theatre/s, Ideally a few people we know, pedestrian friendly, not too far from an airport, near water, not too conservative, peaceful, did I mention trees?
My collection -- Everything’s About to Go Wrong, But So Far it Hasn’t -- is a finalist for the
@MoonCityPress
short fiction award. In there with a stellar group of writers. I'm just sitting here with my heart a'clatter.
@electra_rhodes
Oh, El. I'm grateful to hear this story of rare friendship. And from you, one of the best storytellers in the land. My heart grew, reading it. Pleeeeease record it in your gorgeous voice!
@PaulCrenstorm
Me? The fake-out regular ol' reflection in the bathroom mirror that, after the character breathes a sigh of relief and turn away, reveals the bloody hag.
Overjoyed that
@PitheadChapel
has accepted my story, "So You Think You Can Tell" for publication in September. I love this journal. Thank you
@kimmagowan
and staff!
OH!! A deep, unexpected honor: this is W.W. Norton's next flash fiction anthology! Used the first when I was in grad school, and still have it. Beyond grateful to eds.
@SherrieFlick
, James Thomas, and John Dufresne.
#KeepGoing
Congratulations to all the writers who have made our longlist of fifty stories in the 26th Award. Emails coming to confirm. And thank you to all who entered. As always it was very tough selecting. Shortlist selected by
@Susmitatweets
coming soon
Flash Fiction America, an anthology of contemporary flash fiction, coming from W. W. Norton Feb, 2023! Beyond grateful to the eds 4 including "Over There," first published in SmokeLong. Pre-order now--or request from your favorite indy seller. ♥️🧡💛💜💙💚
"I connected with an online community of writers from the U.S. and beyond and experienced more understanding, acceptance, and welcome than ever in my lifetime." Honored my essay (and giant mug) is featured in
@pasttenyears
's June 27th publication!
Two acceptances this week. One for a short story originally hatched in
@SmokeLong
Summer *2022* and the other drafted this week for a short workshop that is still in progress.
When women see aging as unattractive or pronounce themselves thrilled to look young, I see internalized ageism and misogyny. (I also see criticizing them as mean, given...reality.) Women 50+ are powerful and wise and beautiful.
I believe in my collection of stories. Its come nail -bitingly close to acceptance several times recently. I have this feeling of time running out. So I'm pressing onward!
It's here! Wild Plums is part of
@EmergeJournal
's Afternoon Shorts series. Many thanks to editor Ariana Den Bleyker and to
@francinewitte
and
@sfreligh
, creators of beautiful blurbs for the story. Purchase Wild Plums in paperback or for Kindle at:
Delighted to report
@CowboyJamboree
has accepted my story, Going Public, for its Fall 2023 issue, “Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now.” Can't wait!
An acceptance from South Florida Poetry Journal in my in-box. Especially pleasing, as their online reading last night was stellar!
#amwriting
@SoFloPoJo
Lost my mom this month--and now also a dear writer friend, just yesterday. It has been tough. I've been so buoyed by good news from friends here on Twitter.
My story, Rat Girl, has been picked up by
@fracturedlit
! The story was originally published in a print journal. I'm grateful to Editors
@TommyDeanWriter
and
@amygcb
and Fractured staff. I do hope folks'll check it out!
Please give our brilliant new Submissions Editors a big welcome! We’re so happy
@aedevaul
@PunyFingers
and
@PatriciaBidar
are joining our staff. Please follow them and check out their work! ⚡️🎉❤️🎈
This is happening. I am part of the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, CA. Reading with a panel of writers from Flash Fiction America anthology (
@wwnorton
). Some others include
@grantfaulkner
@KaraVernor
K-Ming Chang, and Molly Giles.
The longlist for the Welkin Mini is now live:
If you're on the longlist, please celebrate LOUDLY but please don't reveal the title of your piece.
If you're not there, commiserations, but as I've said before - wow! The standard has been HIGH all around!
Delighted to say my story, In The Midst of a Global Pandemic, Your Washing Machine Gives Up The Ghost, was accepted and will go up at around 4:40 AM on June 18th. Thank you, NFFD!😍
'I started writing really depressing poetry as an outlet for adolescent angst... I was fortunate that my parents never discouraged me from writing'
Read our interview with judge Eliot Li & find out how he fell in love with flash -
New Flash by
@PatriciaBidar
"The fourth-grade mothers learn that one of the fourth-grade girls, Jade, is missing. Their sons and daughters announce this at the dinner tables. The children are reluctant to provide the news."
@housleydave
@GburgReview
I AM a development professional. It is unnecessary for
@GburgReview
or any journal to be endowed in order to exist. In fact, if there is one that's endowed, I'd be interested to hear about that!
Our Fall/Winter 2023 issue is live! Flip through it on your web browser or download the PDF for your e-reader. Dig NOTHING'S GONNA CHANGE THE WAY YOU FEEL ABOUT ME NOW:
I'm sitting on a shaded bench at Lake Balboa. Been here about an hour. But ducks just started surrounding me. One keeps nudging my thigh with his beak. Another just tasted my tennis shoe.
I received an acceptance from a great journal this morning! And the subject line read, "An Acceptance From Ruby." So I got to be thrilled instead of steeling myself to open the email. Thank you,
@LiteraryRuby
and
@april_bradley
Trying on swimwear for this year's
#FlashFlood
-- National Flash Fiction Day in the UK, -- at 3:40 a.m. (BST) on Saturday, the 24th of June 2023 (that's 7:40 p.m. on June 23rd for Pacific Timers like me). Grateful to the soulful and attractive
@nationalflashfd
readers and staff!
Absolutely overjoyed my story has a home at Pidgeonholes, a journal I've admired for ages. It was my 12th submission to the journal. After seeing it here, I collapsed into a 2.5 hour nap.
"I am too old for Archie comics. I don’t care. I feel the comic strip characters have wisdom to impart about my failed attempts at friendship."
new fiction: "Orange Yellow and Black OR Everything Is Archie" by Patricia Q. Bidar
@PatriciaBidar
“The world’s on fire and you’re aaaall talking about your inconsiderate roommates, banging like monkeys and then coming out afterward for fruit?” My funny-but-not ha-ha-funny story at
@NorthwestReview
--where I served on fiction staff in the mid-'90s, kids!
I'd be too mortified to leave someone out. But trust me, I'm indebted and so grateful to ALL the women of our community who uplift others and whose writing is such an inspiration to me.
What a delight--and I'm SO glad people can access my flash* here, along with Annika's and James's. *which began in one of
@francinewitte
's popup write-ins
I finished
@danbillyc
's "Blur" last night, and all I can say is that THIS is what microfiction is meant to be: distilled yet containing the world. Heartbreaking. Magic. I don't know how he does it, but I'm glad he does. Check out at
@CowboyJamboree
and
Grateful to Flash Flood, the National Flash Fiction Day journal, for accepting my story, "What's Your Poison?"
It will appear at around 16:50 (BST) -- that's 8:50 am on the US West Coast and 11:50 for your East Coasters -- on Saturday, June 6th.
@nationalflashfd
#FlashFlood
National Flash Fiction Day is tomorrow! Hurrah! FlashFlood starts at 00.01 BST with the spots for debut writers at half past the hour. Flashes will be published every five or ten minutes. Why not take a peek to see what else is happening on the day:
Grateful to
@FracturedLit
editors and readers for including my wee one! I was so hesitant to read it again. that I just now saw the visual art, which I love.