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Nadia Born
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✍️ Fiction writer | 📝 in LitMag, New Letters, Electric Lit & more | ❤️‍🔥 #flashfiction #fairytales #speculative | 🔗 www.nadiaborn.com
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🚨The 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction contest is now open!!

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Blue flier for the 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction prize. Theme: Family. Guest Judge: Camille U. Adams. Jan 1-31st. $5/story. $700 in prizes.
January 1, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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night shades is OPEN!

🛸 500 words max, any speculative
🛸 sim subs ok (multiples not)
🛸 quick response and pro+ pay

please read the guidelines!

www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
Submissions
Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is OPEN Night Shades opens sporadically and for indeterminate periods of time. The detai...
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December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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"and she shakes her head what nonsense you young people you can’t tend to a sentence make it grow"

Oh, I love this one from @nadiaborn.com in @smokelong.bsky.social, the way the title (and artwork) works with the piece. A breathless stunner:

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December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Ahh thanks so much @flashfrog.bsky.social for the nomination!! 🎉🎉
flashfrog.bsky.social Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 21d
We are excited to announce our nominations for Best Small Fictions 2026! 🐸🎉

@sarahillswrites.bsky.social, @nadiaborn.com,
@brandonmcneice.bsky.social, @tom1walsh.bsky.social,
Elise LeSage
Green and yellow background with the announcement: “Best Small Fictions nominations.” The following authors are listed down the middle: Sara Hills, Nadia Born, Brandon McNeice, Elise LeSage, Tom Weller. Flash Frog logos are found in the two bottom corners.
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Just fell in love with this story by @nadiaborn.com in the new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social

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the sentence tree - SmokeLong Quarterly
what the devil is a sentence tree baba asks so i show her the diagram the words the branches give me a sentence i’ll show you and she says today’s the fortieth are you coming and i write it out noun v...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Overjoyed to be a finalist!! I didn’t write as much as I hoped this year, but “the sentence tree” may be my favorite. ✨

And major congrats to winners Claire Y. Guo, @ktherr.bsky.social & @lapharr.bsky.social!! And fellow finalists Vaneeza Sohail, Max Steiner & @valeriehughes.bsky.social!! 🎉🎉🎉
December 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.
THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Excited to share that my little map story won the Augur’s Choice award!! 🗺️ ✨

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augursociety.bsky.social Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Oct 21
Drum roll please...🥁 the WINNERS for the 2025 Microfiction Contest‼️are LIVE!

A huge, huge thank you to everyone who submitted; we had a BLAST reading the 80+ fantastic stories 🌌 on this year's theme!

Winning pieces ⬇️💫

#augurmicros2025
A red background with a purple galaxy graphic near the bottom. A purple four pointed star appears at the top. The text "augur society, microfiction contest, winners" appears in the upper half of the image. A dark purple translucent rectangle is in the middle of the screen. Within it are the names of the winners and their stories, with a golden medal above each entry. The winners are as follows: READER'S CHOICE: Taran Bhartt's “…I’m an artist, so I can add colours to the Moon” AUGUR'S CHOICE: Nadia Born's The Cartography of Lands That Shall Remain Lost PUBLISHER'S CHOICE: Shantell Powell's The Bison Return With the Prairie Grass
October 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Here at Apex, we're drawn to good horror like a moth(man) to a flame 🔴🔴🕯️

You have FOUR WEEKS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! The theme for October is FOLKLORE. You have until the 31st to submit!

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a black bird with red eyes stands in the dark
Alt: mothman reaches out to you with one wizened little moth finger
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October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Can’t wait to delve into these beauties, as selected by @mariahaskins.com 👀 💜 ⬇️
mariahaskins.com Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · Sep 30
Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

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A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives
Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…
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September 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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My little map story for #AugurMicros2025. Thanks, @augursociety.bsky.social 🗺️ ✨
The Cartography of Lands That Shall Remain Lost The cartographer travels to unknown lands, tasked by the emperor to inventory anything of value. Here the forest grows thick and she makes virgin paths in her yellow gumboots. She marks rivers blooming with pearls, villages built on pink stone, trees with leaves as wide as wingspans. In these lands of wonder, she begins to survey her heart. Soon silver rain unspools from the clouds and the cartographer doesn’t think twice. She unfolds her maps and lifts them to the sky. She imagines the emperor's fury, his failed ambitions. The ink dark-trickles into the earth the way new roots might.
September 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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This weekend & one more till our 31st Award ends on Sun 5th Oct. Up to 300 word #flashfiction Results by end Oct. £1460 in prizes + publication offer in our 10th anniversary anthology for all 50 longlisted
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a cartoon duck is writing in a notebook with a pencil
ALT: a cartoon duck is writing in a notebook with a pencil
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September 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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September sub window: OPEN 🪟
September 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Beautiful stories alert! ✨✨

My fav was @colettelh.bsky.social’s “How to Respond When Your Hairdresser Asks if You Have Any Children.” It’s a real stunner, see link to the issue ⬇️
smokelong.bsky.social SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · Sep 15
Issue 89 with new CNF by Aimee Bender, our first featured author in our Master Series, is live! Work by established writers and those new to the form rubbing elbows in this issue. All rare gems by writers from around the globe. So proud of everyone in this issue. www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...
September 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Hey poets! Just a heads-up that The Fabulist will be opening a SPECULATIVE POETRY SUBMISSIONS WINDOW in late November. Woo! Details and links to come; meanwhile, sharpen yr quills, refresh the inkwell and start scratching on that vellum…
September 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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ICYMI my latest #flashfiction in @electricliterature.com ✨ ⬇️
September 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Psyched to share my story “3D-Printing the World and Other Dreams” in today’s Commuter (@electricliterature.com)! 🌎 ✨

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My Husband's Dream Woman Will Outlive Me - Electric Literature
“3D-Printing the World and Other Dreams,” flash fiction by Nadia Born
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September 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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🚨👻 ONE WEEK left to get in those ghost stories!

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a group of cartoon ghosts are dancing in a cave .
Alt: a group of cartoon ghosts are dancing and playing instruments in a cave .
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July 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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✨ Last day of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

Obsessed with the playful irreverence of this one ➡️ “Driving my Seven-Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother at Rehab” by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social -
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Emily Rinkema June 2024 Second Prize
Driving my Seven-Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother at Rehab by Emily Rinkema It’s his turn, and from the back seat he tosses out an easy one. “Would you rather eat a mile of garbage or a mile of …
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July 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨

We want your books.

So we can acquire them.

And print them.

For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨

Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.

Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.

Pass it on 👀
Augur press novella and novelette submissions now open! Be a part of augur press’ debut line up. We’re looking for works from 12,500-40,000 words to launch as print books in 2027-2029. Canadian & international authors welcomed. Open July 6-August 30. Guidelines at augursociety.org/press-submissions.
July 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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✨ Day 14 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

Absolutely gorgeous language in this one ➡️ “Diamonds in the Earth” by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2023/06/jame...
James Montgomery June 2023 Highly Commended
Diamonds in the Earth by James Montgomery The bat splinters, the crowd roars, and the boy’s held fast by the arc of the baseball, blitzing a course straight at him, a mere speck in the outfield, tw…
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July 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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✨ Day 13 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

The ending of this one hits the emotional bullseye ➡️ “McDonald’s” by @sfreligh.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2022/10/sara...
Sarah Freligh October 2022 Second Prize
McDonald’s by Sarah Freligh The boys again, their sneakered feet and chin zits and peach fuzz. Her boy at that age had been slow to grow, slow to do anything. At fourteen, he still had a voice like…
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July 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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✨ Day 12 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

Captivated by the unique (and beautiful) conceit of this one ➡️ “A Roadmap of Womanhood” by @louisemangos.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2022/02/lous...
Louise Mangos February 2022 First Prize
A Roadmap of Womanhood by Louise Mangos The vein travels east from her cleavage across her right breast. Its trail is blue-green, like the motorways in her faded, water-damaged AA Atlas from the ni…
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July 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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✨ Day 11 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

Gorgeous and strange ➡️ “Snow Crow” by Doug Ramspeck - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/10/doug...
Doug Ramspeck October 2021 First Prize
Snow Crow by Doug Ramspeck And the days were made of auguries. And the cricket calls arrived disembodied from the field. And a dead mole lay on its back by the garage, gathering its thin blanket of…
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July 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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✨ Day 10 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

Whisked away by this dark little fairy tale ➡️ “The Button Wife” by @daraelerath.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/06/dara...
Dara Yen Elerath June 2021 First Prize
The Button Wife by Dara Elerath The button wife bends her body across the bed, but the cloth husband is not interested in touching her. Instead, he phones the burlap wife. He likes the way her coar…
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July 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM