Sumitra Singam
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
MOTHER KARMA NOVELLA! https://jakethemag.com/books/
BSF 2025
Trauma writing workshops
Will probably rearrange your dishwasher.
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
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BSF 2025
Trauma writing workshops
Will probably rearrange your dishwasher.
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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YEAH NAH FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 7PM MELBOURNE TIME
Meet, chat, read online w me and other flashy people!
Zoom registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Meet, chat, read online w me and other flashy people!
Zoom registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Short fiction writers, finish out 2025 by polishing up your book manuscript, because TOMORROW we open for short story and flash fiction book submissions!
December 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Short fiction writers, finish out 2025 by polishing up your book manuscript, because TOMORROW we open for short story and flash fiction book submissions!
@zaryfekete.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social with this amazing CNF - such a tender evocation of that excruciating line as a parent “Stable feels like a word for boats…something that floats but could still capsize.”
CNF "Lakeside" by Zary Fekete
“I think of that old feeling under the lake, of weeds around my ankle, of being pulled up into light. Maybe love isn’t about rescue after all. Maybe it’s about staying close enough to reach if they call.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/cnf/lakeside
“I think of that old feeling under the lake, of weeds around my ankle, of being pulled up into light. Maybe love isn’t about rescue after all. Maybe it’s about staying close enough to reach if they call.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/cnf/lakeside
lakeside — Blood+Honey
by Zary Fekete “I think of that old feeling under the lake, of weeds around my ankle, of being pulled up into light. Maybe love isn’t about rescue after all. Maybe it’s about staying close enough to...
www.bloodhoneylit.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
@zaryfekete.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social with this amazing CNF - such a tender evocation of that excruciating line as a parent “Stable feels like a word for boats…something that floats but could still capsize.”
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I'm offering a Narrative Poetry Workshop through @smokelong.bsky.social on January 24th! We'll explore prose poetry that calls dreams, clouds, and gods down to earth, before crafting our own.✨⛅
Narrative Poetry with Erin Vachon - SmokeLong Quarterly
Does your narrative seem to lean poetic? Don’t fight the feeling and force a flash. As we bring in the New Year, we’re setting the intention to slow down and explore the narrative poem, line by line. ...
www.smokelong.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm offering a Narrative Poetry Workshop through @smokelong.bsky.social on January 24th! We'll explore prose poetry that calls dreams, clouds, and gods down to earth, before crafting our own.✨⛅
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And just like that and without any fanfare … Neither Fish Nor Foul is open for submissions. Closes 1 March 2026 or when 150 subs reached. 100-500 words, no theme.
Likely will take a while to respond this time - up to 90 days. Agonising, sorry.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
Likely will take a while to respond this time - up to 90 days. Agonising, sorry.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
Neither Fish Nor Foul Submission Manager
Submit to Neither Fish Nor Foul. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
duotrope.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
And just like that and without any fanfare … Neither Fish Nor Foul is open for submissions. Closes 1 March 2026 or when 150 subs reached. 100-500 words, no theme.
Likely will take a while to respond this time - up to 90 days. Agonising, sorry.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
Likely will take a while to respond this time - up to 90 days. Agonising, sorry.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
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The Village is a place for the global flash community to gather. Stay tuned. #ittakesavillage
December 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Village is a place for the global flash community to gather. Stay tuned. #ittakesavillage
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“... I retreated to my room, the ache like a bruise. I couldn’t get my tiny grasp around the heft of it.”
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @haydensferryreview.bsky.social haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @haydensferryreview.bsky.social haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam
HFR-Sumitra Singam
haydensferryreview.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“... I retreated to my room, the ache like a bruise. I couldn’t get my tiny grasp around the heft of it.”
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @haydensferryreview.bsky.social haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @haydensferryreview.bsky.social haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam
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"You beat the trunk of the great angsana, and I watched the snakes slither in, black velvet and green silk. We shed our clothes, and you wet a finger in the great rushing torrent."
READ @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @haydensferryreview.bsky.social !!
READ @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @haydensferryreview.bsky.social !!
December 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"You beat the trunk of the great angsana, and I watched the snakes slither in, black velvet and green silk. We shed our clothes, and you wet a finger in the great rushing torrent."
READ @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @haydensferryreview.bsky.social !!
READ @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @haydensferryreview.bsky.social !!
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Departures 3 comes from the incredible essay “When I Knew Nothing” by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social
published in Flight 1: flight-literary.ghost.io/claudia-monp...
published in Flight 1: flight-literary.ghost.io/claudia-monp...
December 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Departures 3 comes from the incredible essay “When I Knew Nothing” by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social
published in Flight 1: flight-literary.ghost.io/claudia-monp...
published in Flight 1: flight-literary.ghost.io/claudia-monp...
Collab for @the-engine-idling.bsky.social’s amazing collage call in progress! With @kathrynreese.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Collab for @the-engine-idling.bsky.social’s amazing collage call in progress! With @kathrynreese.bsky.social
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Departures 2 is inspired by @mehpoeting.bsky.social and his poem “it is not the stones/but the child’s mound” in flight 1: flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-e-he...
December 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Departures 2 is inspired by @mehpoeting.bsky.social and his poem “it is not the stones/but the child’s mound” in flight 1: flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-e-he...
“In the bedroom she opens her mother’s drawers as if a great truth might reveal itself” @belindarowe.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social amazing 🧡🧡🧡
Honoured to have my story up at @nffr.bsky.social alongside so many amazing writers. Many thanks to Valerie Fox and editors! 💚 And as always thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social & MMM where this story was born. 💚
newflashfiction.com/after-the-po...
newflashfiction.com/after-the-po...
After the potter is cremated | Issue #39
the father whispers, let’s get the hell out of here. At home, the father and son walk the path to the shed to put in a home-brew.
newflashfiction.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“In the bedroom she opens her mother’s drawers as if a great truth might reveal itself” @belindarowe.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social amazing 🧡🧡🧡
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Skelly and Candi-with-an-i discussing “Mother Karma” by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social - they both loved it, and I’m pretty sure they’re not giving my copy back. This collection is tender and at times a little bit tenderizing, in the best way.
December 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Skelly and Candi-with-an-i discussing “Mother Karma” by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social - they both loved it, and I’m pretty sure they’re not giving my copy back. This collection is tender and at times a little bit tenderizing, in the best way.
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Christmas is over, and New Years is coming. Here at Flight, we know how hazy time can get in that endless week between.
To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd
Mark the time by writing with us!
To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd
Mark the time by writing with us!
December 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Christmas is over, and New Years is coming. Here at Flight, we know how hazy time can get in that endless week between.
To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd
Mark the time by writing with us!
To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd
Mark the time by writing with us!
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Just finished this amazing novella @pleomorphic2.bsky.social published @publishedbyjake.bsky.social.
Get it, read it, share it.
Get it, read it, share it.
December 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Just finished this amazing novella @pleomorphic2.bsky.social published @publishedbyjake.bsky.social.
Get it, read it, share it.
Get it, read it, share it.
This imaginative piece by @mattkendrick.bsky.social is the 🔥 💣 !!
“She makes [face exhaling].” In @thecitronreview.bsky.social
“She makes [face exhaling].” In @thecitronreview.bsky.social
How wonderful to have one last publication of the year. This piece features [pictorials] and [stomach] [bubbles] and [dinosaur] [hourglasses]. Enjoy (I'm not sure that's the right word 😬)
citronreview.com/2025/12/22/e...
citronreview.com/2025/12/22/e...
December 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This imaginative piece by @mattkendrick.bsky.social is the 🔥 💣 !!
“She makes [face exhaling].” In @thecitronreview.bsky.social
“She makes [face exhaling].” In @thecitronreview.bsky.social
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Until now. Here in my kitchen, is the genuine article, grinding rice for dosa batter which will ferment on my bench overnight. Tomorrow I will make sambar & think of the people who are too far away to taste & understand.
💚 thankyou @pleomorphic2.bsky.social for sharing stories & appliances with me
💚 thankyou @pleomorphic2.bsky.social for sharing stories & appliances with me
December 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Until now. Here in my kitchen, is the genuine article, grinding rice for dosa batter which will ferment on my bench overnight. Tomorrow I will make sambar & think of the people who are too far away to taste & understand.
💚 thankyou @pleomorphic2.bsky.social for sharing stories & appliances with me
💚 thankyou @pleomorphic2.bsky.social for sharing stories & appliances with me
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So, 12 months ago, I was guest editor of @publishedbyjake.bsky.social and was given this story by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social jakethemag.com/mixie/amp/. I was not unfamiliar with mustard seeds & fenugreek or the taste of the cook in the food…
But I was unfamiliar with this “mixie” 1/-
But I was unfamiliar with this “mixie” 1/-
Mixie
CW: Parental absence
jakethemag.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
So, 12 months ago, I was guest editor of @publishedbyjake.bsky.social and was given this story by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social jakethemag.com/mixie/amp/. I was not unfamiliar with mustard seeds & fenugreek or the taste of the cook in the food…
But I was unfamiliar with this “mixie” 1/-
But I was unfamiliar with this “mixie” 1/-
I cannot recommend this amazing elegiac lyric essay enough. @dani-netherclift.bsky.social is a stunning writer (and person) 🧡🧡🧡
📣 Coming January 2026 📣 Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies by @dani-netherclift.bsky.social is a lyric bricolage of memoir, image, literature, history, and translation that wrestles with the shape death takes.
Add this one to your new-year book stack! 📚
Add this one to your new-year book stack! 📚
December 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I cannot recommend this amazing elegiac lyric essay enough. @dani-netherclift.bsky.social is a stunning writer (and person) 🧡🧡🧡
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So surprised to see Bitter Over Sweet on @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social The Best Short Story Collections of 2025 (with @adamalsirgany.bsky.social’s More Hell)! Thank you so much for your kind words.
@sfwp.bsky.social
@susanschulman.bsky.social
@sfwp.bsky.social
@susanschulman.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
So surprised to see Bitter Over Sweet on @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social The Best Short Story Collections of 2025 (with @adamalsirgany.bsky.social’s More Hell)! Thank you so much for your kind words.
@sfwp.bsky.social
@susanschulman.bsky.social
@sfwp.bsky.social
@susanschulman.bsky.social
It was a joy to choose ten stories by writers from the Global Ethnic Majority for March’s Mondettes. Thanks for asking me, @mattkendrick.bsky.social! Let’s give these amazing stories another airing: open.substack.com/pub/mondette...
December 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It was a joy to choose ten stories by writers from the Global Ethnic Majority for March’s Mondettes. Thanks for asking me, @mattkendrick.bsky.social! Let’s give these amazing stories another airing: open.substack.com/pub/mondette...
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Things that are bringing me joy this year number 6. @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's weekly ukulele videos are always a balm to the soul. This is her latest. Melissa is a "triple threat" or whatever the expression is that all the kids are using these days 😂 - music, writing, art - a master of all three!
December 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Things that are bringing me joy this year number 6. @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's weekly ukulele videos are always a balm to the soul. This is her latest. Melissa is a "triple threat" or whatever the expression is that all the kids are using these days 😂 - music, writing, art - a master of all three!
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Yay @pleomorphic2.bsky.social! Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉
Umm so because I only know how to do things the wrong way round, here is my (chaotic) unboxing video which happened a week after the launch of Mother Karma 😁
Link to buy (Phx US only, ebook worldwide) jakethemag.com/books/
If you are outside the US and you want a copy, please DM me!
Link to buy (Phx US only, ebook worldwide) jakethemag.com/books/
If you are outside the US and you want a copy, please DM me!
December 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Yay @pleomorphic2.bsky.social! Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉
Umm so because I only know how to do things the wrong way round, here is my (chaotic) unboxing video which happened a week after the launch of Mother Karma 😁
Link to buy (Phx US only, ebook worldwide) jakethemag.com/books/
If you are outside the US and you want a copy, please DM me!
Link to buy (Phx US only, ebook worldwide) jakethemag.com/books/
If you are outside the US and you want a copy, please DM me!
December 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Umm so because I only know how to do things the wrong way round, here is my (chaotic) unboxing video which happened a week after the launch of Mother Karma 😁
Link to buy (Phx US only, ebook worldwide) jakethemag.com/books/
If you are outside the US and you want a copy, please DM me!
Link to buy (Phx US only, ebook worldwide) jakethemag.com/books/
If you are outside the US and you want a copy, please DM me!
Then there is going out to lunch with Indian parents who specifically ask to try “western” food. Then ask for:
1. Chilli oil
2. Chilli because the oil is not hot enough
3. Salt
4. Pepper
The verdict: “it was very nice it just didn’t have any flavour at all”
1. Chilli oil
2. Chilli because the oil is not hot enough
3. Salt
4. Pepper
The verdict: “it was very nice it just didn’t have any flavour at all”
Considering writing a dark humour (non) fiction piece on the things Indian parents say to you on:
1. The birth of your novella
2. Your choice of wok size in your kitchen
3. The plants you have in your garden (“none of them are edible yams”)
4. Your packing tape dispenser that is clearly faulty
1. The birth of your novella
2. Your choice of wok size in your kitchen
3. The plants you have in your garden (“none of them are edible yams”)
4. Your packing tape dispenser that is clearly faulty
December 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Then there is going out to lunch with Indian parents who specifically ask to try “western” food. Then ask for:
1. Chilli oil
2. Chilli because the oil is not hot enough
3. Salt
4. Pepper
The verdict: “it was very nice it just didn’t have any flavour at all”
1. Chilli oil
2. Chilli because the oil is not hot enough
3. Salt
4. Pepper
The verdict: “it was very nice it just didn’t have any flavour at all”
This was awesome fun to chat all things trauma and flash with @haydensferryreview.bsky.social and @jameslrichie.bsky.social. Here's the recording www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFC...
And here's the link to my story, nommed for BOTN haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam
And here's the link to my story, nommed for BOTN haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam
December 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This was awesome fun to chat all things trauma and flash with @haydensferryreview.bsky.social and @jameslrichie.bsky.social. Here's the recording www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihFC...
And here's the link to my story, nommed for BOTN haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam
And here's the link to my story, nommed for BOTN haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam