In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction
@inshortlit.bsky.social
An indie lit mag for flash nonfiction 📸
Publishing flash of 1,000 words or fewer; micros of 400 or fewer; and short-shorts 100 or fewer ⚡️
https://inshortjournal.com/
Publishing flash of 1,000 words or fewer; micros of 400 or fewer; and short-shorts 100 or fewer ⚡️
https://inshortjournal.com/
Congrats to all our Best American Essays nominees!! Check out all their pieces at inshortjournal.com!
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Congrats to all our Best American Essays nominees!! Check out all their pieces at inshortjournal.com!
Looking back on Issue 3!! Today we are reviewing Flash (1000 words or fewer).
Read the full pieces at the link in our bio!
Read the full pieces at the link in our bio!
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Looking back on Issue 3!! Today we are reviewing Flash (1000 words or fewer).
Read the full pieces at the link in our bio!
Read the full pieces at the link in our bio!
Reposted by In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction
So honored to be included in the inaugural issue of a journal that uplifts flash nonfiction and receive the recognition from Best American Essays. Thanks, In Short!
Congrats to contributor, @debfenwrites.bsky.social, whose “Escape Route,” from Issue 1 was listed as Notable in Best American Essays ‘25!
Congrats, Deb 🎉🎉 Read it here: inshortjournal.com/deb-fenwick/
Congrats, Deb 🎉🎉 Read it here: inshortjournal.com/deb-fenwick/
Deb Fenwick
inshortjournal.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
So honored to be included in the inaugural issue of a journal that uplifts flash nonfiction and receive the recognition from Best American Essays. Thanks, In Short!
Congrats to contributor, @debfenwrites.bsky.social, whose “Escape Route,” from Issue 1 was listed as Notable in Best American Essays ‘25!
Congrats, Deb 🎉🎉 Read it here: inshortjournal.com/deb-fenwick/
Congrats, Deb 🎉🎉 Read it here: inshortjournal.com/deb-fenwick/
Deb Fenwick
inshortjournal.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Congrats to contributor, @debfenwrites.bsky.social, whose “Escape Route,” from Issue 1 was listed as Notable in Best American Essays ‘25!
Congrats, Deb 🎉🎉 Read it here: inshortjournal.com/deb-fenwick/
Congrats, Deb 🎉🎉 Read it here: inshortjournal.com/deb-fenwick/
📢 ONE MONTH left to submit!
We close for submissions on Nov. 30 or whenever we reach our 300-sub cap in each category.
Send us your:
✔️flash cnf (< 1,000 words)
✔️micros (< 400)
✔️short-shorts (< 100)
We can’t wait to read your work 🖤
inshortjournal.com/in-short-hom...
We close for submissions on Nov. 30 or whenever we reach our 300-sub cap in each category.
Send us your:
✔️flash cnf (< 1,000 words)
✔️micros (< 400)
✔️short-shorts (< 100)
We can’t wait to read your work 🖤
inshortjournal.com/in-short-hom...
Submissions
In Short is an independent literary journal for flash nonfiction at every length. We publish creative nonfiction of 1,000 words or fewer, micros of 400 words or fewer, and short-shorts of 100 words or...
inshortjournal.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
📢 ONE MONTH left to submit!
We close for submissions on Nov. 30 or whenever we reach our 300-sub cap in each category.
Send us your:
✔️flash cnf (< 1,000 words)
✔️micros (< 400)
✔️short-shorts (< 100)
We can’t wait to read your work 🖤
inshortjournal.com/in-short-hom...
We close for submissions on Nov. 30 or whenever we reach our 300-sub cap in each category.
Send us your:
✔️flash cnf (< 1,000 words)
✔️micros (< 400)
✔️short-shorts (< 100)
We can’t wait to read your work 🖤
inshortjournal.com/in-short-hom...
Reposted by In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction
It’s spooky season so perhaps you’d enjoy my piece about the Rapture and organ donations 😀🫀
![[Terrible is the Punishment of the Lord] by Darby Price
Price creates such a poetic and intense moment with only 214 words. The scene and the rhetorical questions in the piece force readers to wonder about reclaimed with her.
Sneak peak: "Terrible is the punishment of the Lord for those who believe in such things."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jug2cmn5zfrfu2rcchpqyr44/bafkreidmlnirodtrvfbfplmexp5ogkquo2a744wejxgwlh5zyh2tlf3q5e@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It’s spooky season so perhaps you’d enjoy my piece about the Rapture and organ donations 😀🫀
Looking back on Issue 3!! Today we are reviewing the Micros (400 words or fewer).
Read the full piece at Inshortjournal.com!
Read the full piece at Inshortjournal.com!
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Looking back on Issue 3!! Today we are reviewing the Micros (400 words or fewer).
Read the full piece at Inshortjournal.com!
Read the full piece at Inshortjournal.com!
Want a submissions secret? 🤫 We get way fewer short-short and micro submissions than flash, so if you want to increase your chances, why not give one of those a try?
Here’s a short-short from Issue 3 we love by @ezhang77.bsky.social
inshortjournal.com/elena-zhang-2/
Here’s a short-short from Issue 3 we love by @ezhang77.bsky.social
inshortjournal.com/elena-zhang-2/
Elena Zhang
inshortjournal.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Want a submissions secret? 🤫 We get way fewer short-short and micro submissions than flash, so if you want to increase your chances, why not give one of those a try?
Here’s a short-short from Issue 3 we love by @ezhang77.bsky.social
inshortjournal.com/elena-zhang-2/
Here’s a short-short from Issue 3 we love by @ezhang77.bsky.social
inshortjournal.com/elena-zhang-2/
Happy #FlashFriday! Today’s feature is “Man-Sized Boots” by @brandihandley24.bsky.social .
We love its structure, its lines. And boy did it resonate:
t.co/TZ13lROCKy
We love its structure, its lines. And boy did it resonate:
t.co/TZ13lROCKy
https://inshortjournal.com/brandi-handley/
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October 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Happy #FlashFriday! Today’s feature is “Man-Sized Boots” by @brandihandley24.bsky.social .
We love its structure, its lines. And boy did it resonate:
t.co/TZ13lROCKy
We love its structure, its lines. And boy did it resonate:
t.co/TZ13lROCKy
Love seeing our contributors IRL! @darbyprice.bsky.social read from her new collection—including [Terrible is the punishment of the Lord] from Issue 3 of In Short!—at the 804 Lit Salon in DC last weekend.
Read it here: t.co/qKZMNdJPpH
Read it here: t.co/qKZMNdJPpH
October 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Love seeing our contributors IRL! @darbyprice.bsky.social read from her new collection—including [Terrible is the punishment of the Lord] from Issue 3 of In Short!—at the 804 Lit Salon in DC last weekend.
Read it here: t.co/qKZMNdJPpH
Read it here: t.co/qKZMNdJPpH
As we gear up for Issue 4 of In Short we are going to take a look back at the past issues; starting with the Short-Shorts of Issue 3!
Read full pieces as inshortjournal.com
Read full pieces as inshortjournal.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
As we gear up for Issue 4 of In Short we are going to take a look back at the past issues; starting with the Short-Shorts of Issue 3!
Read full pieces as inshortjournal.com
Read full pieces as inshortjournal.com
Did you know that we publish 100-word CNF? We call them “short-shorts”! And today’s feature is @melissahung.bsky.social’s “Border Crossings, Macau to Hong Kong, 1957.”
We love its long, breathless sentence with an ending that cuts like a 🔪
inshortjournal.com/melissa-hung/
We love its long, breathless sentence with an ending that cuts like a 🔪
inshortjournal.com/melissa-hung/
Melissa Hung
inshortjournal.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Did you know that we publish 100-word CNF? We call them “short-shorts”! And today’s feature is @melissahung.bsky.social’s “Border Crossings, Macau to Hong Kong, 1957.”
We love its long, breathless sentence with an ending that cuts like a 🔪
inshortjournal.com/melissa-hung/
We love its long, breathless sentence with an ending that cuts like a 🔪
inshortjournal.com/melissa-hung/
Meet the In Short team!
For more information about how to join our team and more of our members please visit our website.
For more information about how to join our team and more of our members please visit our website.
October 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Meet the In Short team!
For more information about how to join our team and more of our members please visit our website.
For more information about how to join our team and more of our members please visit our website.
We love your work, Sean! Best of luck and thank you for sharing with us 😊
Delighted that my painting Artists At Work (2024) has been nominated for the Best Of The Net Awards by In Short Literary Journal
Thank you @inshortlit.bsky.social!
Thank you @inshortlit.bsky.social!
October 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We love your work, Sean! Best of luck and thank you for sharing with us 😊
We're so excited to announce our nominees for the 2026 Best of the Net anthology!
Stay tuned for a look into these great works 📸
Stay tuned for a look into these great works 📸
October 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We're so excited to announce our nominees for the 2026 Best of the Net anthology!
Stay tuned for a look into these great works 📸
Stay tuned for a look into these great works 📸
We are officially open for submissions through November 30th!! What are you going to send? 📸
September 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We are officially open for submissions through November 30th!! What are you going to send? 📸
ONE WEEK! Send us your:
✔️Flash cnf (1,000 words or fewer)
✔️Micros (400 or fewer)
✔️Short-shorts (100 or fewer)
Submissions open Sept. 30-Nov. 30.
Art Credit: Camellia Paul
✔️Flash cnf (1,000 words or fewer)
✔️Micros (400 or fewer)
✔️Short-shorts (100 or fewer)
Submissions open Sept. 30-Nov. 30.
Art Credit: Camellia Paul
September 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
ONE WEEK! Send us your:
✔️Flash cnf (1,000 words or fewer)
✔️Micros (400 or fewer)
✔️Short-shorts (100 or fewer)
Submissions open Sept. 30-Nov. 30.
Art Credit: Camellia Paul
✔️Flash cnf (1,000 words or fewer)
✔️Micros (400 or fewer)
✔️Short-shorts (100 or fewer)
Submissions open Sept. 30-Nov. 30.
Art Credit: Camellia Paul
Today’s featured piece from Issue 3 is @mehpoeting.bsky.social's micro, “The Quiet Part.”
This one had us from the title, and the structure, the use of the |, and all the things the narrator doesn’t have to say aloud, had us 👀
Read it here: inshortjournal.com/matthew-e-he...
This one had us from the title, and the structure, the use of the |, and all the things the narrator doesn’t have to say aloud, had us 👀
Read it here: inshortjournal.com/matthew-e-he...
Matthew E Henry
inshortjournal.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Today’s featured piece from Issue 3 is @mehpoeting.bsky.social's micro, “The Quiet Part.”
This one had us from the title, and the structure, the use of the |, and all the things the narrator doesn’t have to say aloud, had us 👀
Read it here: inshortjournal.com/matthew-e-he...
This one had us from the title, and the structure, the use of the |, and all the things the narrator doesn’t have to say aloud, had us 👀
Read it here: inshortjournal.com/matthew-e-he...
Today’s featured piece is Sue Silverman's “The Long Road Out of Eden.” We love the worm in the narrator’s strawberry, the perfect objective correlative.
Read Sue’s piece, an excerpt from her new book Selected Misdemeanors here: inshortjournal.com/sue-william-...
Read Sue’s piece, an excerpt from her new book Selected Misdemeanors here: inshortjournal.com/sue-william-...
Sue William Silverman
inshortjournal.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today’s featured piece is Sue Silverman's “The Long Road Out of Eden.” We love the worm in the narrator’s strawberry, the perfect objective correlative.
Read Sue’s piece, an excerpt from her new book Selected Misdemeanors here: inshortjournal.com/sue-william-...
Read Sue’s piece, an excerpt from her new book Selected Misdemeanors here: inshortjournal.com/sue-william-...
Starting today, we are sharing one piece from Issue 3 we love & why to help you get your subs ready!
Today’s featured piece is “Crack” by Brian McGuigan. We read this flash out loud in my 456 class and then sat in stunned silence a while after.
inshortjournal.com/brian-mcguig...
Today’s featured piece is “Crack” by Brian McGuigan. We read this flash out loud in my 456 class and then sat in stunned silence a while after.
inshortjournal.com/brian-mcguig...
Brian McGuigan
inshortjournal.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Starting today, we are sharing one piece from Issue 3 we love & why to help you get your subs ready!
Today’s featured piece is “Crack” by Brian McGuigan. We read this flash out loud in my 456 class and then sat in stunned silence a while after.
inshortjournal.com/brian-mcguig...
Today’s featured piece is “Crack” by Brian McGuigan. We read this flash out loud in my 456 class and then sat in stunned silence a while after.
inshortjournal.com/brian-mcguig...
Reposted by In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction
"The Quiet Part," a bit of micro creative nonfiction, was just published in the latest from @inshortlit.bsky.social
inshortjournal.com/matthew-e-he...
inshortjournal.com/matthew-e-he...
Matthew E Henry
inshortjournal.com
June 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"The Quiet Part," a bit of micro creative nonfiction, was just published in the latest from @inshortlit.bsky.social
inshortjournal.com/matthew-e-he...
inshortjournal.com/matthew-e-he...
Reposted by In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction
It’s Saturday & there’s a new issue of @inshortlit.bsky.social, which means that you can now read this micro piece about how my mom didn’t want to be an organ donor because of the Rapture. Thanks to Steph Liberatore for giving this piece the best home! 🙏
inshortjournal.com/darby-price/
inshortjournal.com/darby-price/
Darby Price
inshortjournal.com
May 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It’s Saturday & there’s a new issue of @inshortlit.bsky.social, which means that you can now read this micro piece about how my mom didn’t want to be an organ donor because of the Rapture. Thanks to Steph Liberatore for giving this piece the best home! 🙏
inshortjournal.com/darby-price/
inshortjournal.com/darby-price/
Hello Bluesky!
We are so excited to start posting content over here as well as our Instagram and X account!
More to come soon ;)
We are so excited to start posting content over here as well as our Instagram and X account!
More to come soon ;)
September 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hello Bluesky!
We are so excited to start posting content over here as well as our Instagram and X account!
More to come soon ;)
We are so excited to start posting content over here as well as our Instagram and X account!
More to come soon ;)