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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**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.
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
**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.
Excited to share that my little map story won the Augur’s Choice award!! 🗺️ ✨
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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 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
October 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Excited to share that my little map story won the Augur’s Choice award!! 🗺️ ✨
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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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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
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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You have FOUR WEEKS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! The theme for October is FOLKLORE. You have until the 31st to submit!
www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
Can’t wait to delve into these beauties, as selected by @mariahaskins.com 👀 💜 ⬇️
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
Can’t wait to delve into these beauties, as selected by @mariahaskins.com 👀 💜 ⬇️
My little map story for #AugurMicros2025. Thanks, @augursociety.bsky.social 🗺️ ✨
September 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My little map story for #AugurMicros2025. Thanks, @augursociety.bsky.social 🗺️ ✨
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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
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
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
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September sub window: OPEN 🪟
September 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
September sub window: OPEN 🪟
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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
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
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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
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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
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…
ICYMI my latest #flashfiction in @electricliterature.com ✨ ⬇️
A flash story by Nadia Born, about a woman who copes with her own impending death by 3D printing the world.
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 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
ICYMI my latest #flashfiction in @electricliterature.com ✨ ⬇️
Psyched to share my story “3D-Printing the World and Other Dreams” in today’s Commuter (@electricliterature.com)! 🌎 ✨
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#flashfiction
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
Psyched to share my story “3D-Printing the World and Other Dreams” in today’s Commuter (@electricliterature.com)! 🌎 ✨
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#flashfiction
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#flashfiction
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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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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
✨ 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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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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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 👀
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 👀
July 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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 👀
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 👀
✨ 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...
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
✨ 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...
Absolutely gorgeous language in this one ➡️ “Diamonds in the Earth” by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2023/06/jame...
✨ 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...
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
✨ 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...
The ending of this one hits the emotional bullseye ➡️ “McDonald’s” by @sfreligh.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2022/10/sara...
✨ 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...
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
✨ 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...
Captivated by the unique (and beautiful) conceit of this one ➡️ “A Roadmap of Womanhood” by @louisemangos.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2022/02/lous...
✨ Day 11 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
Gorgeous and strange ➡️ “Snow Crow” by Doug Ramspeck - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/10/doug...
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
✨ Day 11 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
Gorgeous and strange ➡️ “Snow Crow” by Doug Ramspeck - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/10/doug...
Gorgeous and strange ➡️ “Snow Crow” by Doug Ramspeck - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/10/doug...
✨ 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...
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
✨ 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...
Whisked away by this dark little fairy tale ➡️ “The Button Wife” by @daraelerath.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/06/dara...
✨ Day 9 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
One gorgeous, breathless paragraph ➡️ “1902” by @raygunnoelle.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/02/rega...
One gorgeous, breathless paragraph ➡️ “1902” by @raygunnoelle.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/02/rega...
Regan Puckett Feb 2021 Commended
1902 by Regan Puckett When their silk skins shrivel and wither, the corn stalks are ready to be stripped, so you’re sent into the field with the metal bucket they bathed your brother in before your…
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July 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
✨ Day 9 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
One gorgeous, breathless paragraph ➡️ “1902” by @raygunnoelle.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/02/rega...
One gorgeous, breathless paragraph ➡️ “1902” by @raygunnoelle.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/02/rega...
✨ Day 8 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
Just captivating rhythm and language ➡️ “Our fathers, who we have strewn like seaweed behind us” by Alison Powell - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/10/alis...
Just captivating rhythm and language ➡️ “Our fathers, who we have strewn like seaweed behind us” by Alison Powell - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/10/alis...
Alison Powell Oct 2020 Commended
Our fathers, who we have strewn like seaweed behind us by Alison Powell We buried our fathers to their necks at Llangennith Beach, at Swanage Bay, at Portreath. They are still there now in their th…
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July 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
✨ Day 8 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
Just captivating rhythm and language ➡️ “Our fathers, who we have strewn like seaweed behind us” by Alison Powell - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/10/alis...
Just captivating rhythm and language ➡️ “Our fathers, who we have strewn like seaweed behind us” by Alison Powell - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/10/alis...
✨ Day 7 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
This ghost story is always beautiful, never over-explaining ➡️ “Sea Change” by Fiona Perry - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/06/fion...
This ghost story is always beautiful, never over-explaining ➡️ “Sea Change” by Fiona Perry - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/06/fion...
Fiona Perry June 2020 First Prize
Sea Change by Fiona Perry He arrives breathless with excitement, clutching a thick plastic bag bulging with shells. At the kitchen table, he points to the bag and tells me they fattened up over win…
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July 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
✨ Day 7 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
This ghost story is always beautiful, never over-explaining ➡️ “Sea Change” by Fiona Perry - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/06/fion...
This ghost story is always beautiful, never over-explaining ➡️ “Sea Change” by Fiona Perry - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/06/fion...
✨ Day 6 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
Loved how the unique structure supports this emotionally heavy moment ➡️ “[No Audible Dialogue]” by @skytterstad.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/02/remi...
Loved how the unique structure supports this emotionally heavy moment ➡️ “[No Audible Dialogue]” by @skytterstad.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/02/remi...
Remi Skytterstad February 2020 Commended
[No Audible Dialogue] by Remi Skytterstad The commotion and clamour of the airport is deafening. We are turned to lip-readers by the pack of people and their cacophonic humming composed and orchest…
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June 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
✨ Day 6 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
Loved how the unique structure supports this emotionally heavy moment ➡️ “[No Audible Dialogue]” by @skytterstad.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/02/remi...
Loved how the unique structure supports this emotionally heavy moment ➡️ “[No Audible Dialogue]” by @skytterstad.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/02/remi...
✨ Day 5 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
Won over by the simple language yet complex punch of this one ➡️ “The Games People Play” by Xavier Combe - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2019/10/xavi...
Won over by the simple language yet complex punch of this one ➡️ “The Games People Play” by Xavier Combe - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2019/10/xavi...
Xavier Combe October 2019 Third Prize
The Games People Play by Xavier Combe When I got on the métro at Bastille, there was standing room only. I squeezed in and found a space next to a young guy who was on his cellphone, playing a war …
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June 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
✨ Day 5 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
Won over by the simple language yet complex punch of this one ➡️ “The Games People Play” by Xavier Combe - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2019/10/xavi...
Won over by the simple language yet complex punch of this one ➡️ “The Games People Play” by Xavier Combe - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2019/10/xavi...
✨ Day 4 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
I’m forever drawn to the strange logic and beauty of this one ➡️ “The Falling Silent” by @timcraig.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2019/06/tim-...
I’m forever drawn to the strange logic and beauty of this one ➡️ “The Falling Silent” by @timcraig.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2019/06/tim-...
Tim Craig June 2019 Commended
The Falling Silent by Tim Craig My mother gave me the small pots and pans, while she took the large ones, and together we went outside to kill the birds. When we got down to the street, most of our…
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June 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
✨ Day 4 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨
I’m forever drawn to the strange logic and beauty of this one ➡️ “The Falling Silent” by @timcraig.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2019/06/tim-...
I’m forever drawn to the strange logic and beauty of this one ➡️ “The Falling Silent” by @timcraig.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2019/06/tim-...