Best Microfiction
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Anthology series edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, published by Pelekinesis
Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com
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Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
www.bestmicrofiction.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com
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BIG NEWS! @megpokrass.bsky.social & Gary Fincke are thrilled to announce that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social will be serving as final judge for Best Microfiction 2026! Subs re-open in Nov. Stay tuned.
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September 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
BIG NEWS! @megpokrass.bsky.social & Gary Fincke are thrilled to announce that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social will be serving as final judge for Best Microfiction 2026! Subs re-open in Nov. Stay tuned.
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Our Founding Editor is teaching a dystopian micro workshop this weekend.. Don't miss my dystopian workshop this weekend! A few spots left. megpokrass.substack.com/p/dystopian-...
Dystopian Microfiction Workshop: August 1st-3rd (200 words max)
“When life gives you robots, make robotade.” -Anonymous
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July 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Our Founding Editor is teaching a dystopian micro workshop this weekend.. Don't miss my dystopian workshop this weekend! A few spots left. megpokrass.substack.com/p/dystopian-...
It's out in the world! Available from online booksellers worldwide! Congrats to all the amazing contributors! #FlashFiction #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork
July 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's out in the world! Available from online booksellers worldwide! Congrats to all the amazing contributors! #FlashFiction #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork
We're honored that Best Microfiction received First Runner Up in the prestigious Eric Hoffer Book Awards! 🍾 😍Congrats to Gary Fincke, Grant Faulkner, @pelekinesis.bsky.social,and the Best Microfiction 2024 authors! #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork #BookSky
May 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
We're honored that Best Microfiction received First Runner Up in the prestigious Eric Hoffer Book Awards! 🍾 😍Congrats to Gary Fincke, Grant Faulkner, @pelekinesis.bsky.social,and the Best Microfiction 2024 authors! #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork #BookSky
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Dear 2025 Winners, you should all have received your acceptance letters and contracts today. Please check spam mail if you have not received one.
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January 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Dear 2025 Winners, you should all have received your acceptance letters and contracts today. Please check spam mail if you have not received one.
Our founding editor has a fun and free 15-word David Lynch inspired story contest going on! open.substack.com/pub/pokrassp...
Hint Fiction Contest: 15-Word David Lynch Inspired Stories
The late David Lynch was a huge inspiration to many of us.
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January 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Our founding editor has a fun and free 15-word David Lynch inspired story contest going on! open.substack.com/pub/pokrassp...
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Congratulations to the winners!!
Dear friends, the winners of Best Microfiction 2025 are live! A huge thanks to 2025 judge Dawn Raffel! BM 2025 will be released in the Spring! If you're on this list, expect an email and contract from us in the next 2 weeks. www.bestmicrofiction.com? #flashfiction #microfiction #writingcommunity
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
www.bestmicrofiction.com
January 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Congratulations to the winners!!
Dear friends, the winners of Best Microfiction 2025 are live! A huge thanks to 2025 judge Dawn Raffel! BM 2025 will be released in the Spring! If you're on this list, expect an email and contract from us in the next 2 weeks. www.bestmicrofiction.com? #flashfiction #microfiction #writingcommunity
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
www.bestmicrofiction.com
January 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Dear friends, the winners of Best Microfiction 2025 are live! A huge thanks to 2025 judge Dawn Raffel! BM 2025 will be released in the Spring! If you're on this list, expect an email and contract from us in the next 2 weeks. www.bestmicrofiction.com? #flashfiction #microfiction #writingcommunity
Best Microfiction is looking for an intern. Please let us know if someone comes to mind! We're going into the 6th year of our award winning series.
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Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
www.bestmicrofiction.com
December 8, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Best Microfiction is looking for an intern. Please let us know if someone comes to mind! We're going into the 6th year of our award winning series.
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I have an interview at The Adroit Journal about First Law of Holes: New and Selected Dzanc Books)! theadroitjournal.org/2024/12/05/a...
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A Conversation With Meg Pokrass - The Adroit Journal
First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories brings together the best of Meg Pokrass’s flash fiction from over a decade of her career. Families reel from losses, doomed couples devour buttered popcorn...
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December 6, 2024 at 7:32 PM
I have an interview at The Adroit Journal about First Law of Holes: New and Selected Dzanc Books)! theadroitjournal.org/2024/12/05/a...
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Read "Animal Planet" written by @megpokrass.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J. Barr.
"He said he was feeding a mouse to Priscilla the boa constrictor in a terrarium he had built, and he invited me to come check it out."
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"He said he was feeding a mouse to Priscilla the boa constrictor in a terrarium he had built, and he invited me to come check it out."
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Animal Planet — Ghost Parachute
Dad’s cousin Bob slipped a note under our front door while Ma was at her second job. He said he was feeding a mouse to Priscilla the boa constrictor in a terrarium he had built, and he invited me to c...
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December 1, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Read "Animal Planet" written by @megpokrass.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J. Barr.
"He said he was feeding a mouse to Priscilla the boa constrictor in a terrarium he had built, and he invited me to come check it out."
tinyurl.com/mtrcwajk
"He said he was feeding a mouse to Priscilla the boa constrictor in a terrarium he had built, and he invited me to come check it out."
tinyurl.com/mtrcwajk
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I'm over the moon that my flash "After" won the New Flash Fiction Review 2024 NEW FLASH FICTION PRIZE. @nffr.bsky.social Incredibly grateful to judge Nathan Leslie @nathan72.bsky.social, Valerie Fox, and @megpokrass.bsky.social
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After by Claudia Monpere | Issue #35
and after and after and nothing changes, just the names of the children. This one drew birds wearing hats. That one had an orange juice popsicle for an imaginary friend.
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December 1, 2024 at 9:36 PM
I'm over the moon that my flash "After" won the New Flash Fiction Review 2024 NEW FLASH FICTION PRIZE. @nffr.bsky.social Incredibly grateful to judge Nathan Leslie @nathan72.bsky.social, Valerie Fox, and @megpokrass.bsky.social
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My new flash story, "Animal Planet", is live at the wonderful Ghost Parachute! Thank you to @brettpribble.bsky.social. ghostparachute.com/issue/decemb...
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Animal Planet — Ghost Parachute
Dad’s cousin Bob slipped a note under our front door while Ma was at her second job. He said he was feeding a mouse to Priscilla the boa constrictor in a terrarium he had built, and he invited me to c...
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December 2, 2024 at 10:40 PM
My new flash story, "Animal Planet", is live at the wonderful Ghost Parachute! Thank you to @brettpribble.bsky.social. ghostparachute.com/issue/decemb...
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A huge honor to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize by @fracturedlit.bsky.social for my story "Horsebroken". I'm so grateful! fracturedlit.com/horsebroken/
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Horsebroken – Fractured
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December 2, 2024 at 10:42 PM
A huge honor to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize by @fracturedlit.bsky.social for my story "Horsebroken". I'm so grateful! fracturedlit.com/horsebroken/
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Made a starter pack of lit mags and presses that have been around a while and made their way to Bluesky.
November 25, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Made a starter pack of lit mags and presses that have been around a while and made their way to Bluesky.
Please add us to your lit mag and submission opportunities lists here on Bluesky. We have completely stopped using X now and would love help spreading the word.. 🥰 Thank you for finding us here!
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November 25, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Please add us to your lit mag and submission opportunities lists here on Bluesky. We have completely stopped using X now and would love help spreading the word.. 🥰 Thank you for finding us here!
Our Founding and Managing Editor Meg Pokrass is also here on Bluesky. @megpokrass.bsky.social
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Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
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November 13, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Our Founding and Managing Editor Meg Pokrass is also here on Bluesky. @megpokrass.bsky.social
It’s time! Best Microfiction open for magazine editors' nominations! Now until 12/15. This year's anthology judged by @DawnRaffel. Edited by @megpokrass & Gary Fincke. Editors: Sub 5 stories (up to 400 words each). #flashfiction #microfiction tinyurl.com/5aakrphh
November 13, 2024 at 2:04 PM
It’s time! Best Microfiction open for magazine editors' nominations! Now until 12/15. This year's anthology judged by @DawnRaffel. Edited by @megpokrass & Gary Fincke. Editors: Sub 5 stories (up to 400 words each). #flashfiction #microfiction tinyurl.com/5aakrphh
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! bestmicrofiction.com
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
bestmicrofiction.com
February 13, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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! bestmicrofiction.com
Drumroll…. Watch this space.. Winners of Best Microfiction 2024,will be announced early this week. 🍾
February 11, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Drumroll…. Watch this space.. Winners of Best Microfiction 2024,will be announced early this week. 🍾
Best Microfiction wants to thank the following journals for nominating stories for our anthology this year! www.bestmicrofiction.com
January 5, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Best Microfiction wants to thank the following journals for nominating stories for our anthology this year! www.bestmicrofiction.com
Magazine Editors: Last week to submit! We close on the 15th… www.bestmicrofiction.com
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
www.bestmicrofiction.com
December 12, 2023 at 6:15 PM
Magazine Editors: Last week to submit! We close on the 15th… www.bestmicrofiction.com