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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

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.

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@PatriciaBidar

3 months

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?

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Where are my writing buds whose family members don't read their work?

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Just received a Submittable decline for a writer and several stories that are...not mine.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

Took 23 tries over several years, but I have received an acceptance from @MoonCityReview ! Thank you, editor @MCzyzniejewski .

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

10 months

Request for "a full." (It's a flash collection, not a novel.) I hope I don't screw this up.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

Just recorded my 100th story rejection received in 2023.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

3 years

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.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

@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!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

6 months

Beyond thrilled to be making my full-length debut in 2025!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

4 years

@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.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

Lovely a.m. birthday greetings, a little work, SLQ Fitness, and dinner with family. Happy birthday, me!

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@PatriciaBidar

2 years

@ZackBornstein Email lady was quite specific about it.

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@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Happy birthday, me!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Contributor copy in my hot paws!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

3 years

No vague tweets from me. Awoke to an acceptance from X-R-A-Y Lit. Stoked!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

3 years

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!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

3 months

Honored my story, Cuttlefish, is included. Sincere thanks to @Downith and @karjon from National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, and @altcurrent + @21045Nathan !

Alternating Current Press

@altcurrent

3 months

The selections for the 2024 Best Small Fictions anthology have been announced! Congrats to these great authors & pieces!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

7 months

Just sent the final draft of my collection to the publisher. Is this unmoored feeling normal?

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

23 days

@jodygerbig One is never remotely the same after raising teen during peri.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

3 months

Woke up in lovely Pismo Beach to this wonderful news. Grateful!

Revolution John

@RevolutionJohnM

3 months

Cheers to @PatriciaBidar for making the Wigleaf Long List with La Senora! Thrilled for her.

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@PatriciaBidar

3 years

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

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

7 months

Proud to see my story listed, and that it will be included in the anthology!!

Bath Flash Fiction

@BathFlashAward

7 months

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

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Proud to see my work in a journal I've admired for years: Monkeybicycle! Sincere thanks to the editor.

monkeybicycle

@monkeybicycle

2 years

ON THE SITE TODAY: "When We Vanished," great new fiction from @PatriciaBidar .

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

13. 18. 34. Three thrilling acceptances, after the longest dry spell yet. Numbers are the # of times submitted. Don't give up on the ones you love.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

8 months

What an honor! A first for me!!

Ruby Literary Magazine & Press

@LiteraryRuby

8 months

Congratulations & Best of Luck to our BEST AMERICAN FOOD WRITING nominees @writesforlife , @be_hahn , @patriciabidar , Linsey Lao & Christine Chen!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

9 months

Thank you, Editors, for selecting "Cuttlefish" for the Editor's Choice Award and for nominating it for the Pushcart Prize.

National Flash Fiction Day

@nationalflashfd

9 months

An exciting day here at National Flash Fiction Day. We are thrilled to share FlashFlood's Pushcart nominations. Congratulations to those nominated!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

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. ♥️🧡💛💜💙💚

Flash Fiction America: 73 Very Short Stories

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 months

"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!

June 27th, 2014 - Patricia Quintana Bidar

June 27, 2014 was the benefit gala at the Oakland Zoo, with that gorgeous 70-something blues singer in red kimono and black jeans and heels, silver dreads pulled back. Catering was by that Spanish...

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

I just want to live somewhere cheap and cold and beautiful, where a few other writers live.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Ahem. My first published short story, in this season's FRiGG Magazine. Thank you, @FRiGGmagazine editor, Ellen Parker. #amwriting

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

6 months

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.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

8 months

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.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

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!

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@PatriciaBidar

8 months

Delighted my story, Oxygen, will be included in @EllipsisZine 's Swansong issue. And just look at the company I find myself in. Swoon.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Honored to receive this nomination!

Atticus Review

@AtticusReview

2 years

We are thrilled to announce our 2022 #Pushcart nominations! Congratulations and good luck to all! @UnIambic @DrSaraPirkle @EliotLi2 @PatriciaBidar @RaeHoffmanJager @deadmediumdan

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@PatriciaBidar

1 year

The lunch bunch! Flash Friends meetup in Mountain View,CA. @doylejacq @MelissaBowers_ @DawnSteffler @ClaudiaMonpere @PatriciaBidar

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

I AM IN LOVE WITH THE STORY I JUST COMPLETED!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

7 months

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:

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

7 months

Thrilled to be nominated, and among these luminaries! Thank you, editors.

National Flash Fiction Day

@nationalflashfd

7 months

Today, we are excited to announce our NFFD nominations for the Best Small Fictions Anthology:

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

10 months

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!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

3 months

I just finished drafting and sending an invited essay; as in...NONFICTION. It's been a journey. Wish me luck.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

An acceptance from South Florida Poetry Journal in my in-box. Especially pleasing, as their online reading last night was stellar! #amwriting @SoFloPoJo

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

9 months

Grateful to the editors!

Ruby Literary Magazine & Press

@LiteraryRuby

9 months

Congratulations & the very best of luck to our @PushcartPrize nominees @patriciabidar , Christine H. Chen @be_hahn , @nazbk , @quotes_52 ! We are honored to publish and nominate such gorgeous writing. 💖

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

When you only send your micro to one place that you feel is perfect--and they accept it! #satisfying #gratitudeattitude

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

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.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

3 years

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!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

The most beautiful mug, handmade by @melostrom ! I use it daily and love the beauty it adds to my morning coffee.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Delighted and grateful! Thank you, editors.

Atticus Review

@AtticusReview

2 years

We're proud to nominate @pgarcialujan @DBrewerHarris @EliotLi2 @hegelincanada and @PatriciaBidar for the 2022 @BestSmFictions award! Please join us in wishing our nominees the best of luck. You can find links to each nominees' work here:

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

4 years

Proud to be a semi-finalist in Cutbank's chapbook contest. These things really do make me feel like I am on the right track.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Thank you, judge Pamela Painter and everyone at Brilliant Flash. Proud to see Sidelong Glances on the short list!

Brilliant FF

@AuroreLebas

2 years

Meet Patricia Q. Bidar, shortlisted author in our 2022 writing contest. Read her excellent flash, Sidelong Glances, on .

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

3 years

Delighted and proud to be joining the SLQ staff. (Melts into floor.)

SmokeLong Quarterly

@SmokeLong

3 years

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! ⚡️🎉❤️🎈

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 month

Got permission to walk a bit in regular shoes. First time without a cast or boot since February. #wheredshego

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

4 months

Grateful to @TinyMolecules and @sbdobbie for including my story, Liars, in Issue 19!

nineteen — Tiny Molecules

www.tinymolecules.com

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Please send kind thoughts.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

@mdbell79 I am so jaded my first thought would have been, here's a hostile extrovert.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

My mom, Georgie. 1938-2022. Artist, mother, ocean-lover. Thinking of her, always.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

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.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

Some of the best I've followed since joining the #flashfiction world in '17 @tara_zambrano @KaraVernor @francinewitte @megpokrass @LeonoraDesar @kathyfish @nancystohlman @sarahfreligh @nicolemrivas @BarlowAdams @francesgapper @doylejacq @danbillyc @MaryRuth69 @karjon @megtuite

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

Up at Instagram's Mugshot Writers 2! In which I rhapsodize about the big n' stunning mug @melostrom crafted for me.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 month

An old pic I like? Okay, I'll play. The blurry '80s!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

Enormous thanks to @judehwriter , @karjon , @Downith , @HanaKhalique , @coffeeandpaneer , @kazbarwrites @sarahillswrites , @kathyfish , @nancystohlman and ALL @FlashFicFest folk -- far too many to name -- that I got to meet for the first time. Felt so warmly welcomed!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

8 months

Bet Matt can hear me from there: YAHOO!! Proud to see my title listed.

The Welkin Writing Prize

@WelkinPrize

8 months

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!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

@clhubes Chummy?

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

4 months

Looks like I'm going to keep writing 1300 word stories.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

4 years

@lindsaydevon 60.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

Looking through old drafts, I realized that all five of the flash pieces I drafted in @TommyDeanWriter 's Raymond Carver-themed class were accepted for publication. @AtticusReview @GhostParachute @BendingGenres @AbandonJournal (and soon, @MISTERBULLBULL !) #flashfiction #Writing

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

8 months

I am so honored. Best of luck to my fellow nominees!

Ruby Literary Magazine & Press

@LiteraryRuby

8 months

Congratulations & Best of Luck to our BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES nominees @patriciabidar , @RobinZlotnick , @d_marcusa , @melostrom , @AliceKaltman !

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 months

Check it out! Many thanks to the editors.

Tiny Molecules

@TinyMolecules

2 months

Today we have "Liars" by @PatriciaBidar for your reading pleasure.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 month

One of the best and most artful depictions of hidden depression I have seen. Like an arrow. @LMariHarris in Your Impossible Voice!

To the Woman Across the Street Who Doesn’t Seem as Happy as She Once Was • Your Impossible Voice

L Mari Harris — "Watch the minutes tick by until the front door closes. Turn the morning news off. Go back to bed, the sheets still warm, the old black dog settling and sighing on the rug. Tell...

www.yourimpossiblevoice.com

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

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!😍

National Flash Fiction Day

@nationalflashfd

2 years

FlashFlood is open for submissions from 1 – 7 May 2022

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Oh! All I learned, reading this profile. Hold onto your hats for @EliotLi2 's closing tip. All the advice you'll ever need!

Oxford Flash Fiction Prize

@Oxfordflash

2 years

'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 -

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

Honored to be included. @bestmicrofic @megpokrass @GhostParachute

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Honored to learn my Wyoming story, The Little Jenny, has been nominated for Best of the Net by the editors at @invisiblecitySF !

Invisible City Literary Journal

@invisiblecitySF

2 years

Fiction: @PatriciaBidar The Little Jenny and @munckish The Uncanny Housewife

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

9 months

✨THANK YOU to @GhostParachute @BendingGenres @AbandonJournal @Heroin_Chic_Mag @masonjarpress @nationalflashfd @LiteraryRuby @The_Temz_Review @EtteReview , @flashfroglitmag , @VariantLit @NorthwestReview @MISTERBULLBULL @thebeavermag @RevolutionJohnM @PovertyHouse @CowboyJamboree !

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

3 months

Overjoyed to see Chaos in Fractured Lit. Thank you, @lumchanmfa and @MynaChang for the inspiration!

Fractured Lit

@FracturedLit

3 months

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."

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

11 months

@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!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

4 months

Late for work because I was enjoying bacon with my dog.

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@PatriciaBidar

9 months

Delighted and proud to be part of Cowboy Jamboree' s latest!

Cowboy Jamboree Press (subs open 4 A CASE OF KINK)

@CowboyJamboree

9 months

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:

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@PatriciaBidar

2 months

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.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

26 days

READ @desertdwellera3 @pdforan @joelhans @emilyrinkema @ClaudiaMonpere @elissafield @kazbarwrites @sarahillswrites @LMariHarris @tcboudreau @MarioAliberto3 @bbl_brett @francinewitte

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@MISTERBULLBULL

26 days

Y’all put these brilliant peoples on your to-read lists: @KarenCrawford_ @sfreligh @joey_hedger @okaydonkeymag @janstinchcomb @bronwenwriter @luntz_david @kathyhoyle1 @CourtlandAvenue @SuperHeavy666 @lacouvee @PatriciaBidar ... Keep the names a coming, y'all.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

3 months

@frecklysoprano1 Take the Metro. Learn L.A. history. Get into nature. Don't compare it to NYC.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

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

FOOD STORIES

Visit the post for more.

rubyliterarypress.com

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

So much talent! Worlds inside.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

7 months

Astonishing collection! Get yours!

Tommy Dean

@TommyDeanWriter

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@PatriciaBidar

1 year

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!

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@PatriciaBidar

3 years

28-year anniversary with @Ill_conceived ! Bought us dog-printed flannel sheets and signed up for 28 more!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

3 years

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.

Pidgeonholes

@pidgeonholes

3 years

"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

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@PatriciaBidar

11 months

“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!

The Old Painter - Patricia Quintana Bidar

“The world’s on fire and you’re aaaall talking about your inconsiderate roommates, banging like monkeys and then coming out afterward for fruit?” Behind him, the old painter has pinned a poster of...

nwreview.org

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

6 months

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.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

Grateful and humbled to have a story included in Get Bent, @BendingGenres brand new anthology!

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

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

FlashFictionFestival

@FlashFicFest

1 year

Big congrats to the 2023 Pokrass Prize Winners!. @JDMontgomery_ @StillSquirrel @PatriciaBidar and thank you to @megpokrass for the prompts & for judging via @FlashFicFest

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

11 months

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

Blur

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

4 months

Proud to be included in this lineup!

Tiny Molecules

@TinyMolecules

4 months

Our new issue is coming THIS WEEKEND with stories by @PatriciaBidar @JudyDarley @desertdwellera3 @EZhang77 Liana Johnson, Melissa Darcey Hall, @brainhawk @blforinash Khalid Mitchell, Craig Foltz, @bsherman36 @howdygiselle Gaby V. Everett, Adelina Sarkisyan and Ryan Bender-Murphy

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 months

Fine, I just killed one of my darlings.

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Grateful to be included!

National Flash Fiction Day

@nationalflashfd

2 years

And if our microfiction competition results weren't excitement enough, we can now reveal our 2023 anthology line up:

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

Guess what's coming!! The inaugural issue of @LiteraryRuby , with @april_bradley at the helm! Learn more about April -- and about Ruby Lit -- in this interview from last summer. @FlashMonsters #literaryjournals

The Patricia Q. Bidar Interview of April Bradley

Flash Monster April Bradley is a Durham, North Carolina-based writer, sailor, and feminist. Her fiction and essays appear or are forthcoming in CRAFT, CHEAP POP, JMWW, New Flash Fiction Review, and…

flashmonsters.wordpress.com

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

4 years

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

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

1 year

My story, Cuttlefish, is up at 7:40 PM Pacific time--today! Grateful to the hardworking NFFD staff, and proud to be part of this special event!

National Flash Fiction Day

@nationalflashfd

1 year

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:

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Patricia Q. Bidar

@PatriciaBidar

2 years

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.

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