Belinda Rowe
@belindarowe.bsky.social
Flash writer. Teacher. Night gardener.
Words published/forthcoming in Gone Lawn, X-R-A-Y, Ghost Parachute, Lost Balloon, Fictive Dream, Literary Namjooning, Unbroken, BSF 2025, Fractured Lit
SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow 2025
Words published/forthcoming in Gone Lawn, X-R-A-Y, Ghost Parachute, Lost Balloon, Fictive Dream, Literary Namjooning, Unbroken, BSF 2025, Fractured Lit
SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow 2025
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It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
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You are going to love today’s new piece by Carol M. Quinn! Check out “Clean.” lost-balloon.com/2025/11/12/c...
Clean by Carol M. Quinn
Doreen forces thick, unwaxed floss between your molars, between your bicuspids and your canines. She is always honest, no messing around, and she needs you to hear this: even two, three times a day…
lost-balloon.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
You are going to love today’s new piece by Carol M. Quinn! Check out “Clean.” lost-balloon.com/2025/11/12/c...
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we have an amazing 73 word micro by Sarah Chin !
it's called 'Ages' & u should read it right now
xraylitmag.com/ages-by-sara...
it's called 'Ages' & u should read it right now
xraylitmag.com/ages-by-sara...
AGES by Sarah Chin
Thirteen was the year I discovered spite. Fourteen, eyeliner. Fifteen, seduction in a slow blink. At sixteen, I mailed seventeen birthday cards to myself, all unsigned. My mother asked who loved me th...
xraylitmag.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
we have an amazing 73 word micro by Sarah Chin !
it's called 'Ages' & u should read it right now
xraylitmag.com/ages-by-sara...
it's called 'Ages' & u should read it right now
xraylitmag.com/ages-by-sara...
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This poem “In the History of the Glass Hospital Universe” might be my favorite of the year. From Izzy Casey in the recent issue Bennington Review.
Izzy Casey — Bennington Review
www.benningtonreview.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This poem “In the History of the Glass Hospital Universe” might be my favorite of the year. From Izzy Casey in the recent issue Bennington Review.
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The Saturday after this one is now this Saturday, because that’s how time goes. This means that as of midnight NYC tonight, Tuesday Nov 11, there will be 96 hours to enter the 250-word, $1,000-top-prize SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025. Please let this be right. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Saturday after this one is now this Saturday, because that’s how time goes. This means that as of midnight NYC tonight, Tuesday Nov 11, there will be 96 hours to enter the 250-word, $1,000-top-prize SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025. Please let this be right. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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If you're looking for a spot of calm in the day's chaos, do read this micro by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social. She writes some of the most evocative sentences. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
If you're looking for a spot of calm in the day's chaos, do read this micro by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social. She writes some of the most evocative sentences. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
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So honored to be nominated in such great company by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for the @monarch.gay awards! You can read my piece here:
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...
November 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
So honored to be nominated in such great company by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for the @monarch.gay awards! You can read my piece here:
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...
Super thrilled to have a micro up at @fracturedlit.bsky.social - thank you so much to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and editors! Big shout out to the editors at @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece was born and to everyone who gave feedback 🙏💚🙏
fracturedlit.com/green-to-gray/
fracturedlit.com/green-to-gray/
Green to Gray | Fractured
fracturedlit.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Super thrilled to have a micro up at @fracturedlit.bsky.social - thank you so much to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and editors! Big shout out to the editors at @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece was born and to everyone who gave feedback 🙏💚🙏
fracturedlit.com/green-to-gray/
fracturedlit.com/green-to-gray/
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Eee! Pushcart nom. from the amazing @literarymama.bsky.social for my story "Fighting Wind" which starts "Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was strong. Passionate. Because he was too big for the car, too big for the house, too big for an office job..." Read more below:
#FlashFiction #FlashLit
#FlashFiction #FlashLit
Congratulations to our Pushcart nominees! For links to their work, visit our below blog post!
@susanperabo.bsky.social, @sagetyrtle.bsky.social, Jill Finnessy, Julie Pfeiffer, Francine Diodati, and Caedra Scott-Flaherty!
@susanperabo.bsky.social, @sagetyrtle.bsky.social, Jill Finnessy, Julie Pfeiffer, Francine Diodati, and Caedra Scott-Flaherty!
Literary Mama Pushcart Prize Nominations
The staff of Literary Mama is delighted to share our nominations for the Pushcart Prize.
Ficton: "Your Sixty Seconds" by Susan Perabo and "Fighting Wind" by Sage Tyrtle
Nonfiction: "Slicing Pe...
literarymama.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Eee! Pushcart nom. from the amazing @literarymama.bsky.social for my story "Fighting Wind" which starts "Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was strong. Passionate. Because he was too big for the car, too big for the house, too big for an office job..." Read more below:
#FlashFiction #FlashLit
#FlashFiction #FlashLit
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Now there’s one actual week left, if you count the deadline day as a day and today as a day. $1,000 1st; $500 2nd; $300 3rd; $100 finalists. Winners and finalists published in the December issue of SmokeLong Quarterly. 250 words max. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Now there’s one actual week left, if you count the deadline day as a day and today as a day. $1,000 1st; $500 2nd; $300 3rd; $100 finalists. Winners and finalists published in the December issue of SmokeLong Quarterly. 250 words max. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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NFFD will open our MicroFiction Comp ((up to 100 words) & subs to our new anthology (theme to be announced) on 1 Dec. More details coming soon!
a cartoon drawing of snoopy sitting at a desk writing on a piece of paper
ALT: a cartoon drawing of snoopy sitting at a desk writing on a piece of paper
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November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
NFFD will open our MicroFiction Comp ((up to 100 words) & subs to our new anthology (theme to be announced) on 1 Dec. More details coming soon!
My copy is wending its way across a large body of water - 🙌🎉 Can’t wait!
Might I recommend one for your e-reader (THANK YOU for being available on Kobo!) and one for your shelf? Then you always have a copy close by or to lend a friend :D
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My copy is wending its way across a large body of water - 🙌🎉 Can’t wait!
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⚡️Fast Flash Review: Other Household Toxins by Christopher Allen.
@christopherallen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
@christopherallen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
⚡️Fast Flash Review: Other Household Toxins by Christopher Allen.
@christopherallen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
@christopherallen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
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Blessèd Samhain, everyone!
We're still looking for submissions for our micro-excerpt, #63. ≤200 words. If you can fit it in that little room, send it along!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
We're still looking for submissions for our micro-excerpt, #63. ≤200 words. If you can fit it in that little room, send it along!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
gonelawn.net
November 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Blessèd Samhain, everyone!
We're still looking for submissions for our micro-excerpt, #63. ≤200 words. If you can fit it in that little room, send it along!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
We're still looking for submissions for our micro-excerpt, #63. ≤200 words. If you can fit it in that little room, send it along!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
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"The bus driver brakes hard and I stumble, my 37 weeks pregnant belly stumbles, my whole big self stumbles into a woman in a baseball hat who mutters fat bitch and I open my mouth to say I’m pregnant, as if she’s right to say it."
New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
A List of the Reasons Women Feel Shame | Your Impossible Voice
By Sage Tyrtle — "The bus driver brakes hard and I stumble, my 37 weeks pregnant belly stumbles, my whole big self stumbles into a woman in a baseball hat who mutters fat bitch and I open my mouth to ...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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What an honor! Check out my story, “Vagina First”
Congratulations Emily Rinkema! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/2nd-...
www.bathflashfictionaward.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
What an honor! Check out my story, “Vagina First”
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Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : About
gonelawn.net
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
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Just under 20 days to get your micros (-250 words) in! Fiction, CNF, hybrid, published, unpublished, translations. We're so easy. What about that killer micro you published 20 years ago? It's eligible. We're searching for the best. Deadline Nov 15th. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...
www.smokelong.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just under 20 days to get your micros (-250 words) in! Fiction, CNF, hybrid, published, unpublished, translations. We're so easy. What about that killer micro you published 20 years ago? It's eligible. We're searching for the best. Deadline Nov 15th. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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ICYMI We're open for #submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction #translations and looking fwd to reading your work #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...
October 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
ICYMI We're open for #submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction #translations and looking fwd to reading your work #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...
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Fantastic piece of historical flash by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
#flash #historical
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
#flash #historical
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
Cole Beauchamp — Does It Have Pockets
1989: Every day is the same in East Berlin, until it’s not
www.doesithavepockets.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Fantastic piece of historical flash by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
#flash #historical
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
#flash #historical
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
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My #Writing craft essay on writing from a child's point of view is up on Writer's Digest! You can read it here:
www.writersdigest.com/3-tools-to-h...
#WritingCommunity #WritingCraft #Essay #WritersSupportingWriters
www.writersdigest.com/3-tools-to-h...
#WritingCommunity #WritingCraft #Essay #WritersSupportingWriters
3 Tools to Help You Write Convincingly From a Child's Point of View in Fiction
Sage Tyrtle shares three tools to help writers write convincingly from a child's point of view in fiction (with writing exercises).
www.writersdigest.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My #Writing craft essay on writing from a child's point of view is up on Writer's Digest! You can read it here:
www.writersdigest.com/3-tools-to-h...
#WritingCommunity #WritingCraft #Essay #WritersSupportingWriters
www.writersdigest.com/3-tools-to-h...
#WritingCommunity #WritingCraft #Essay #WritersSupportingWriters
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Thrilled beyond words with this review of Cold Toast at @smokelong.bsky.social! Massive thanks to Amanda Krupman and the SLQ team! 🤩🙏🥂
Read Amanda Krupman's review of Kathryn Aldridge-Morris's collection Cold Toast at SmokeLong now. Available from Dahlia Books. @kazbarwrites.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/book-review-...
Book Review: Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris - SmokeLong Quarterly
Reviewed by Amanda Krupman Kathryn Aldridge-Morris’s flash collection Cold Toast [Dahlia Books, October 2025] opens with an ekphrastic story referencing its cover art by Irish printmaker Lee Mara. It’...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thrilled beyond words with this review of Cold Toast at @smokelong.bsky.social! Massive thanks to Amanda Krupman and the SLQ team! 🤩🙏🥂
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Súper excited for the release party, and this is a great interview with Travis!
www.sandandgravelpress.com/interviews Interview with @travisflatt.bsky.social up! November 2nd release party over zoom (link on website) featuring @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @cbigs.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social and Lucas Flatt.
Interviews — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS
www.sandandgravelpress.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Súper excited for the release party, and this is a great interview with Travis!
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As we head into the weekend, take a moment to read this masterclass in white space by @miriamgershow.bsky.social. "Delicious Trees" will make you feel things. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
October 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
As we head into the weekend, take a moment to read this masterclass in white space by @miriamgershow.bsky.social. "Delicious Trees" will make you feel things. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
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This month's #Mondettes picked by @happilander.bsky.social
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Mileva made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/october-2025
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Mileva made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/october-2025
October 2025
Ten stories picked by Mileva Anastasiadou
mondettes.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This month's #Mondettes picked by @happilander.bsky.social
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Mileva made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/october-2025
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Mileva made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/october-2025