Flight: A Literary Sampler
@flightlit.bsky.social
A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social
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Welcome to Flight: a Literary Sampler!
We’re a literary journal, publishing four interconnected pieces in each edition.
You can learn more about us at our website: flight-literary.ghost.io
We’re a literary journal, publishing four interconnected pieces in each edition.
You can learn more about us at our website: flight-literary.ghost.io
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Lot's wife:
I am something of a salt
October 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Lot's wife:
You heard it here! Duotrope says we’re speedy!
October 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
You heard it here! Duotrope says we’re speedy!
Acceptances for Flight 2 have now officially been sent!
Our (very) small team is in the process of sending other responses as we speak. If you haven't heard from us yet, it's because you made it to our "serious consideration" folder, and we're still considering your work for Issue 3.
Our (very) small team is in the process of sending other responses as we speak. If you haven't heard from us yet, it's because you made it to our "serious consideration" folder, and we're still considering your work for Issue 3.
October 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Acceptances for Flight 2 have now officially been sent!
Our (very) small team is in the process of sending other responses as we speak. If you haven't heard from us yet, it's because you made it to our "serious consideration" folder, and we're still considering your work for Issue 3.
Our (very) small team is in the process of sending other responses as we speak. If you haven't heard from us yet, it's because you made it to our "serious consideration" folder, and we're still considering your work for Issue 3.
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Rereading is the real joy, to the extent that if it was worth reading once it's worth reading 20 times
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Rereading is the real joy, to the extent that if it was worth reading once it's worth reading 20 times
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Bartleby the Scrivener ass response to our submission questions:
October 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Bartleby the Scrivener ass response to our submission questions:
After the snarky response about pronouns I’m super tempted to send the response as:
“Thank I for sending My work to Flight Literary”
“Thank I for sending My work to Flight Literary”
Bartleby the Scrivener ass response to our submission questions:
October 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
After the snarky response about pronouns I’m super tempted to send the response as:
“Thank I for sending My work to Flight Literary”
“Thank I for sending My work to Flight Literary”
Bartleby the Scrivener ass response to our submission questions:
October 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Bartleby the Scrivener ass response to our submission questions:
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This is everything I mean when I talk about the breathless one paragraph flash. Form, in this case, perfectly serves content. That rush of despair / anxiety / bewilderment that is life today by @saralippmann.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute: ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
shelter in place — Ghost Parachute
Maybe it’s the rising sirens, maybe it’s the sudden soak, a complete wet heat through the cotton sack I’ve taken to wearing like a body flung overboard because this is who I am now, this is who I’ve b...
ghostparachute.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is everything I mean when I talk about the breathless one paragraph flash. Form, in this case, perfectly serves content. That rush of despair / anxiety / bewilderment that is life today by @saralippmann.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute: ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
Happy Saturday! Send us writing that feels like a kitten in a hotdog costume!
Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
September 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Happy Saturday! Send us writing that feels like a kitten in a hotdog costume!
Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
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one of my two poems published in @havehashad.com earlier this week
September 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
one of my two poems published in @havehashad.com earlier this week
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Thrilled to have a new little prose poem floating around over at @astrolabe.ooo (and they *happen* to be open for submissions)!
With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning.
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Thrilled to have a new little prose poem floating around over at @astrolabe.ooo (and they *happen* to be open for submissions)!
Lots of litmags had free submission windows for the month that have already closed, but not Flight!
We’re free to submit to, and your submission will be read and discussed by both editors
Send us something!
We’re free to submit to, and your submission will be read and discussed by both editors
Send us something!
September 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Lots of litmags had free submission windows for the month that have already closed, but not Flight!
We’re free to submit to, and your submission will be read and discussed by both editors
Send us something!
We’re free to submit to, and your submission will be read and discussed by both editors
Send us something!
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The Cobra and The Key, Sam Shelstad's satire of writers and writing, is readaloud funny. the call is coming from inside the house and we're, all of us, screwed.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/58af20...
app.thestorygraph.com/books/58af20...
September 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The Cobra and The Key, Sam Shelstad's satire of writers and writing, is readaloud funny. the call is coming from inside the house and we're, all of us, screwed.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/58af20...
app.thestorygraph.com/books/58af20...
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if I continue scrolling for just a few more minutes I will reach the end + enlightenment & be free
September 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
if I continue scrolling for just a few more minutes I will reach the end + enlightenment & be free
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Today’s writing assignment:
Do you know how hard it is to write an earnest flash about being a ska kid in the early 2000s? Do you?
September 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Today’s writing assignment:
Please write a poem using one of these titles and send it to Flight
poem titles:
The Super Mario 64 source code lists names for Mario's footstep sounds. The list starts off normal but becomes poetic with names like "Footsteps in the Fallen Leaves" and "More Than Anyone Else in the World". It turns out the names are actually taken from a 1994 dating simulator.
September 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Please write a poem using one of these titles and send it to Flight
Have a piece you're considering sending, but not sure it will be a good fit? Send us a DM with a quick pitch, and we'll let you know if it sounds up our alley.
Happy Monday!
Today is a good day (possibly the best day?) to send your CNF to Flight!
Whether flash CNF or essay, we want to read your nonfiction.
Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Today is a good day (possibly the best day?) to send your CNF to Flight!
Whether flash CNF or essay, we want to read your nonfiction.
Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines
Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...
flight-literary.ghost.io
September 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Have a piece you're considering sending, but not sure it will be a good fit? Send us a DM with a quick pitch, and we'll let you know if it sounds up our alley.
Happy Monday!
Today is a good day (possibly the best day?) to send your CNF to Flight!
Whether flash CNF or essay, we want to read your nonfiction.
Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Today is a good day (possibly the best day?) to send your CNF to Flight!
Whether flash CNF or essay, we want to read your nonfiction.
Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines
Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...
flight-literary.ghost.io
September 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happy Monday!
Today is a good day (possibly the best day?) to send your CNF to Flight!
Whether flash CNF or essay, we want to read your nonfiction.
Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Today is a good day (possibly the best day?) to send your CNF to Flight!
Whether flash CNF or essay, we want to read your nonfiction.
Guidelines here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Every editorial conversation devolves quickly into small town gossip
September 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Every editorial conversation devolves quickly into small town gossip
We at Flight, the only literary magazine, value free speech. That's why both editors have fired each other over insensitive remarks made in the family group chat.
September 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We at Flight, the only literary magazine, value free speech. That's why both editors have fired each other over insensitive remarks made in the family group chat.
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Saturday writing prompt!
1. Go to your bookshelf and pull the first red book you see
2. Turn to page 140
3. Choose a line of dialogue from the page and use it as the first line of a flash piece
1. Go to your bookshelf and pull the first red book you see
2. Turn to page 140
3. Choose a line of dialogue from the page and use it as the first line of a flash piece
September 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Saturday writing prompt!
1. Go to your bookshelf and pull the first red book you see
2. Turn to page 140
3. Choose a line of dialogue from the page and use it as the first line of a flash piece
1. Go to your bookshelf and pull the first red book you see
2. Turn to page 140
3. Choose a line of dialogue from the page and use it as the first line of a flash piece
The Flight editorial team is SUPPOSED to be having a meeting right now, and instead we've been talking about season 2 of Peacemaker for 20 minutes.
September 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The Flight editorial team is SUPPOSED to be having a meeting right now, and instead we've been talking about season 2 of Peacemaker for 20 minutes.
Saturday writing prompt!
1. Go to your bookshelf and pull the first red book you see
2. Turn to page 140
3. Choose a line of dialogue from the page and use it as the first line of a flash piece
1. Go to your bookshelf and pull the first red book you see
2. Turn to page 140
3. Choose a line of dialogue from the page and use it as the first line of a flash piece
September 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Saturday writing prompt!
1. Go to your bookshelf and pull the first red book you see
2. Turn to page 140
3. Choose a line of dialogue from the page and use it as the first line of a flash piece
1. Go to your bookshelf and pull the first red book you see
2. Turn to page 140
3. Choose a line of dialogue from the page and use it as the first line of a flash piece
It's 7 am (Alaska Time) on a Thursday...do you know where your submission to Flight: A Literary Sampler is?
(If you haven't sent it yet, we're still open for all categories! Send us your work! We're always free to submit)
(If you haven't sent it yet, we're still open for all categories! Send us your work! We're always free to submit)
September 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It's 7 am (Alaska Time) on a Thursday...do you know where your submission to Flight: A Literary Sampler is?
(If you haven't sent it yet, we're still open for all categories! Send us your work! We're always free to submit)
(If you haven't sent it yet, we're still open for all categories! Send us your work! We're always free to submit)
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"the hour floodwaters will
return with biblical accuracy and destroy your bedrock, rot
home from beneath your feet." I love this Golden Shovel poem by Matthew E. Henry in the terrific new lit mag @flightlit.bsky.social
flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-e-he...
return with biblical accuracy and destroy your bedrock, rot
home from beneath your feet." I love this Golden Shovel poem by Matthew E. Henry in the terrific new lit mag @flightlit.bsky.social
flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-e-he...
Matthew E. Henry- Poetry
“…it is not the stones, / But the child’s mound—"
A golden shovel from Robert Frost’s “Home Burial”
were it only true that tragedy howls in packs of three,
I wouldn’t so curse my retention, wish...
flight-literary.ghost.io
September 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
"the hour floodwaters will
return with biblical accuracy and destroy your bedrock, rot
home from beneath your feet." I love this Golden Shovel poem by Matthew E. Henry in the terrific new lit mag @flightlit.bsky.social
flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-e-he...
return with biblical accuracy and destroy your bedrock, rot
home from beneath your feet." I love this Golden Shovel poem by Matthew E. Henry in the terrific new lit mag @flightlit.bsky.social
flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-e-he...