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Yes! New flash published today in @callmebrackets.bsky.social. This story was workshopped in The Freaky Flash Collection workshop with Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya @kaylakumari.bsky.social hosted through The Forever Workshop. Thank you, Kayla🙏! callmebrackets.net/call-me-supe...
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BOLD & WEIRD, dorks.
These lit mags passed the vibe check this year to be the Boldest & Weirdest!
Submit to them (and our longlist!) here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/bold-a...
#writing #writers #writingcommunity
Submit to them (and our longlist!) here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/bold-a...
#writing #writers #writingcommunity
December 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
BOLD & WEIRD, dorks.
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To round off the day, these are the lit mags that you guys voted as just A Damn Good Read!
Find out who else made the cut and submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/a-damn...
#writing #writers #writingcommunity
Find out who else made the cut and submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/a-damn...
#writing #writers #writingcommunity
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
To round off the day, these are the lit mags that you guys voted as just A Damn Good Read!
Find out who else made the cut and submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/a-damn...
#writing #writers #writingcommunity
Find out who else made the cut and submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/a-damn...
#writing #writers #writingcommunity
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Putting this out here so you can say, "I submitted to them before they were rich and famous." Which is obviously a super realistic goal for a lit mag.
Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/20-in-...
#writingcommunity
Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/20-in-...
#writingcommunity
December 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Putting this out here so you can say, "I submitted to them before they were rich and famous." Which is obviously a super realistic goal for a lit mag.
Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/20-in-...
#writingcommunity
Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/20-in-...
#writingcommunity
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really into both of these two new poems today from Joe Hall
"the men bent howling for blood
I’d rather a poet be a drug dealer than a prize winner in this sludge
a day of crushing, twilight in a shell, fishtailing along the glittering edge"
https://www.havehashad.com/knvhs
"the men bent howling for blood
I’d rather a poet be a drug dealer than a prize winner in this sludge
a day of crushing, twilight in a shell, fishtailing along the glittering edge"
https://www.havehashad.com/knvhs
2 Poems by Joe Hall
2025 There is nobody here but us chickens -George Oppen, “Of Being Numerous,” Section 17 The red, the gout, the condensed fury & labor, spraying out, my transmission was melting
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December 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
really into both of these two new poems today from Joe Hall
"the men bent howling for blood
I’d rather a poet be a drug dealer than a prize winner in this sludge
a day of crushing, twilight in a shell, fishtailing along the glittering edge"
https://www.havehashad.com/knvhs
"the men bent howling for blood
I’d rather a poet be a drug dealer than a prize winner in this sludge
a day of crushing, twilight in a shell, fishtailing along the glittering edge"
https://www.havehashad.com/knvhs
From the good people at The Forever Workshop: EVERYTHING You Need To Write The Best Dang Fiction of Your Life open.substack.com/pub/theforev...
EVERYTHING You Need To Write The Best Dang Fiction of Your Life
From short-shorts to a whole-ass novel (and everything in between)
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
From the good people at The Forever Workshop: EVERYTHING You Need To Write The Best Dang Fiction of Your Life open.substack.com/pub/theforev...
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Cozy up with our DECEMBER ISSUE. 🎁
WORDS by @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Dawid Mobolaji, Grzegorz Bogdał, Derek Maiolo, & Tariq Thompson.
ART by Eric Calloway.
PLUS @allisonwyss.bsky.social interviews @wiswell.bsky.social.
buff.ly/xfJzbi6
WORDS by @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Dawid Mobolaji, Grzegorz Bogdał, Derek Maiolo, & Tariq Thompson.
ART by Eric Calloway.
PLUS @allisonwyss.bsky.social interviews @wiswell.bsky.social.
buff.ly/xfJzbi6
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Cozy up with our DECEMBER ISSUE. 🎁
WORDS by @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Dawid Mobolaji, Grzegorz Bogdał, Derek Maiolo, & Tariq Thompson.
ART by Eric Calloway.
PLUS @allisonwyss.bsky.social interviews @wiswell.bsky.social.
buff.ly/xfJzbi6
WORDS by @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Dawid Mobolaji, Grzegorz Bogdał, Derek Maiolo, & Tariq Thompson.
ART by Eric Calloway.
PLUS @allisonwyss.bsky.social interviews @wiswell.bsky.social.
buff.ly/xfJzbi6
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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: HE DANCES IN HIS WHEELCHAIR by Charles Becker
On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/he-d...
He Dances in His Wheelchair, is a concentrically designed and embracingly choreographed chapbook of love poems about a life partner. #wheelchair#dances#love#differentlyabled
On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/he-d...
He Dances in His Wheelchair, is a concentrically designed and embracingly choreographed chapbook of love poems about a life partner. #wheelchair#dances#love#differentlyabled
December 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: HE DANCES IN HIS WHEELCHAIR by Charles Becker
On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/he-d...
He Dances in His Wheelchair, is a concentrically designed and embracingly choreographed chapbook of love poems about a life partner. #wheelchair#dances#love#differentlyabled
On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/he-d...
He Dances in His Wheelchair, is a concentrically designed and embracingly choreographed chapbook of love poems about a life partner. #wheelchair#dances#love#differentlyabled
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NEW STORY⚡️🐸
“Five Eulogies for Goldie” by Bethany Bruno is now up!
Art by Ali McLafferty
flash-frog.com/2025/12/15/f...
“Five Eulogies for Goldie” by Bethany Bruno is now up!
Art by Ali McLafferty
flash-frog.com/2025/12/15/f...
Five Eulogies for Goldie by Bethany Bruno
Toilet Bowl Funeral The first time Goldie died, my father flushed him without ceremony. “Quick and painless,” he muttered. I leaned over the bowl, watching the orange body spiral down. My mother ru…
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December 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
NEW STORY⚡️🐸
“Five Eulogies for Goldie” by Bethany Bruno is now up!
Art by Ali McLafferty
flash-frog.com/2025/12/15/f...
“Five Eulogies for Goldie” by Bethany Bruno is now up!
Art by Ali McLafferty
flash-frog.com/2025/12/15/f...
Yes! New flash published today in @callmebrackets.bsky.social. This story was workshopped in The Freaky Flash Collection workshop with Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya @kaylakumari.bsky.social hosted through The Forever Workshop. Thank you, Kayla🙏! callmebrackets.net/call-me-supe...
December 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Yes! New flash published today in @callmebrackets.bsky.social. This story was workshopped in The Freaky Flash Collection workshop with Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya @kaylakumari.bsky.social hosted through The Forever Workshop. Thank you, Kayla🙏! callmebrackets.net/call-me-supe...
Three of my recent works of flash just appeared at @FlashBoulevard -- Kindly check 'em out! 🙏 "Ruins," "Coaster," & "Break in the Case." flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/j...
JUSTIN NICHOLES: Break in the Case
Flash Fiction by Justin Nicholes Ruins My house ruins postwar foundations. Webs, decades intricate, send me into bobs and weaves. A bird head-deep in pest-excluding foam on the lately capped chimne…
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December 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Three of my recent works of flash just appeared at @FlashBoulevard -- Kindly check 'em out! 🙏 "Ruins," "Coaster," & "Break in the Case." flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/j...
I'll have new flash fiction coming soon from @callmebrackets.bsky.social 🙏
December 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I'll have new flash fiction coming soon from @callmebrackets.bsky.social 🙏
"She laid twelve feet of rubber pulling out of the parking lot."
December 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"She laid twelve feet of rubber pulling out of the parking lot."
After the eyelash thaw and preemptive Advil, something satisfying about digging your house outta the snow.
December 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
After the eyelash thaw and preemptive Advil, something satisfying about digging your house outta the snow.
2000+ words per day in November, 2000 more each day this month, and 80K of a first draft of this novel is done. substack.com/@firstdraftnov
First Draft November | Substack
NaNoWriMo is canceled. Your novel isn't. Thirty days, one messy draft. Join us for a month-long novel writing challenge helping you hit 50,000 words anyway.
substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
2000+ words per day in November, 2000 more each day this month, and 80K of a first draft of this novel is done. substack.com/@firstdraftnov
I don't write poetry. But for any poet pals out there!:
EVERYTHING You Need To Write Prize-Winning Poetry www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/everything...
EVERYTHING You Need To Write Prize-Winning Poetry www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/everything...
EVERYTHING You Need To Write Prize-Winning Poetry
From prompts to structure to metaphor to punching your reader right in the feels
www.theforeverworkshop.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I don't write poetry. But for any poet pals out there!:
EVERYTHING You Need To Write Prize-Winning Poetry www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/everything...
EVERYTHING You Need To Write Prize-Winning Poetry www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/everything...
Chase Shakespeare reading with dialogue writing today.
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Chase Shakespeare reading with dialogue writing today.
Completed the climax chapter this morning of novel-in-prog. Now I stew in the protag's chaos until tomorrow morning and 2000 word quota. Detectives will have questions.
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Completed the climax chapter this morning of novel-in-prog. Now I stew in the protag's chaos until tomorrow morning and 2000 word quota. Detectives will have questions.
Drafting climax chapters is exciting. Is harrowing. It took 65K words to get here, and now the rifles are being raised. Don't flinch.
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Drafting climax chapters is exciting. Is harrowing. It took 65K words to get here, and now the rifles are being raised. Don't flinch.
EVERYTHING You Need to Send Your Writing Out Into the World
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/everything...
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/everything...
EVERYTHING You Need to Send Your Writing Out Into the World
Triple dog dare you to submit something this week
www.theforeverworkshop.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
EVERYTHING You Need to Send Your Writing Out Into the World
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/everything...
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/everything...
Just here referring friends to The Forever Workshop. Kind of stumbled upon it half a year ago and can't be more thankful. This substack and link to Chill Subs have reinvigorated my writing. Anyhoo, recommend. www.theforeverworkshop.com?r=6ghecs
The Forever Workshop | Substack
New writing workshops from experienced instructors every month. Forever. Click to read The Forever Workshop, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
www.theforeverworkshop.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just here referring friends to The Forever Workshop. Kind of stumbled upon it half a year ago and can't be more thankful. This substack and link to Chill Subs have reinvigorated my writing. Anyhoo, recommend. www.theforeverworkshop.com?r=6ghecs
Wrote about 2000 words per day for every day in November on a novel about good-ole murderous adultery (fun!). Writing into Act 3 and (in two more days) the climax chapters. Thanks to www.firstdraftnovember.com for the support network!
First Draft November | Chill Subs | Substack
NaNoWriMo is canceled. Your novel isn't. Thirty days, one messy draft. Join us for a month-long novel writing challenge helping you hit 50,000 words. Click to read First Draft November, a Substack pub...
www.firstdraftnovember.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Wrote about 2000 words per day for every day in November on a novel about good-ole murderous adultery (fun!). Writing into Act 3 and (in two more days) the climax chapters. Thanks to www.firstdraftnovember.com for the support network!
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We've got an inventive and entertaining story for you today. Thank you, @pollyhedral.bsky.social, stories like this are the reason I do this.
www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com/drink-your-f...
www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com/drink-your-f...
Drink Your Feelings – Suddenly, And Without Warning
www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
We've got an inventive and entertaining story for you today. Thank you, @pollyhedral.bsky.social, stories like this are the reason I do this.
www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com/drink-your-f...
www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com/drink-your-f...
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Hello old friend! Sorry for not writing. I hope this letter finds you well. Luckily, others are less lazy than me and can furnish us with their writing instead.
Thank you Chloe Dehon for the tale that touches on something real.
www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com/the-coolest-...
Thank you Chloe Dehon for the tale that touches on something real.
www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com/the-coolest-...
The Coolest Girl in School – Suddenly, And Without Warning
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November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Hello old friend! Sorry for not writing. I hope this letter finds you well. Luckily, others are less lazy than me and can furnish us with their writing instead.
Thank you Chloe Dehon for the tale that touches on something real.
www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com/the-coolest-...
Thank you Chloe Dehon for the tale that touches on something real.
www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com/the-coolest-...
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If you're not in the lit journal editing biz, you probably don't know that making these noms takes a fair amount of time & energy & love...and we at South 85 sure love & believe in our writers!
We've sent in our nominations for Best Small Fictions!
Read these fab pieces now in our deluge | drought issue, and thank us later.
www.south85journal.com/fall-winter-...
Read these fab pieces now in our deluge | drought issue, and thank us later.
www.south85journal.com/fall-winter-...
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
If you're not in the lit journal editing biz, you probably don't know that making these noms takes a fair amount of time & energy & love...and we at South 85 sure love & believe in our writers!
