Sara Crowley
@saracrowley.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Human. Managing editor at The Forge Literary Magazine. Winner of the Excellence in Prison Libraries Award.
Pinned
Trying to take a photo of the moon that actually looks like what I can see.
Writing a novel.
Same disappointment. #AmWriting
Writing a novel.
Same disappointment. #AmWriting
Prisoner: "Who would want to be friends with a woman? They're hormonal and moany. I mean, nobody ever thinks, I'm gonna call a woman and see if they fancy a drink and a chat do they."
Me: 🙄
Me: "I have male friends who do just that."
Prisoner: "Well, call me old fashioned..."
#PrisonStories
Me: 🙄
Me: "I have male friends who do just that."
Prisoner: "Well, call me old fashioned..."
#PrisonStories
November 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Prisoner: "Who would want to be friends with a woman? They're hormonal and moany. I mean, nobody ever thinks, I'm gonna call a woman and see if they fancy a drink and a chat do they."
Me: 🙄
Me: "I have male friends who do just that."
Prisoner: "Well, call me old fashioned..."
#PrisonStories
Me: 🙄
Me: "I have male friends who do just that."
Prisoner: "Well, call me old fashioned..."
#PrisonStories
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I'm just asking questions.
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I'm just asking questions.
Trying to take a photo of the moon that actually looks like what I can see.
Writing a novel.
Same disappointment. #AmWriting
Writing a novel.
Same disappointment. #AmWriting
November 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Trying to take a photo of the moon that actually looks like what I can see.
Writing a novel.
Same disappointment. #AmWriting
Writing a novel.
Same disappointment. #AmWriting
I interviewed Victoria Chen who gave the best answer to the question, What did you buy yesterday?
#LitMag
@theforge.bsky.social
#LitInterview #Writers #SmashLits
#LitMag
@theforge.bsky.social
#LitInterview #Writers #SmashLits
Victoria Chen - The Forge Literary Magazine
Victoria Chen author interview
forgelitmag.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I interviewed Victoria Chen who gave the best answer to the question, What did you buy yesterday?
#LitMag
@theforge.bsky.social
#LitInterview #Writers #SmashLits
#LitMag
@theforge.bsky.social
#LitInterview #Writers #SmashLits
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*Optometrist hands person glasses* - “now, you wear them glasses AND YOU KEEP THEM GLASSES”
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
*Optometrist hands person glasses* - “now, you wear them glasses AND YOU KEEP THEM GLASSES”
Spotify pushing “Teddy Swims vibes reimagined with AI music” by putting this in my Discover weekly playlist absolutely disgusts me.
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Spotify pushing “Teddy Swims vibes reimagined with AI music” by putting this in my Discover weekly playlist absolutely disgusts me.
I published such a smart and sassy story by Victoria Chen. You should read it.
"Everyone was saying they were a people pleaser due to childhood neglect. Everyone was an asshole. I was waiting to be inspired."
"Everyone was saying they were a people pleaser due to childhood neglect. Everyone was an asshole. I was waiting to be inspired."
On Backsliding - The Forge Literary Magazine
On Backsliding, a short fiction by Victoria Chen
forgelitmag.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I published such a smart and sassy story by Victoria Chen. You should read it.
"Everyone was saying they were a people pleaser due to childhood neglect. Everyone was an asshole. I was waiting to be inspired."
"Everyone was saying they were a people pleaser due to childhood neglect. Everyone was an asshole. I was waiting to be inspired."
I’ve not seen telly as compelling and bingeable as Blue Lights in ages.
October 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I’ve not seen telly as compelling and bingeable as Blue Lights in ages.
This is such a good story by Rashmi Patel - I'm delighted we got to publish it.
"“The land is wise,” the hostess said. “You’ll feel it soon.” She closed her eyes for a moment, as if absorbing some ancient pulse only she could detect.
I closed my eyes too, just for a second. I felt nothing."
"“The land is wise,” the hostess said. “You’ll feel it soon.” She closed her eyes for a moment, as if absorbing some ancient pulse only she could detect.
I closed my eyes too, just for a second. I felt nothing."
The Retreat - The Forge Literary Magazine
The Retreat, a short fiction by Rashmi Patel
forgelitmag.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is such a good story by Rashmi Patel - I'm delighted we got to publish it.
"“The land is wise,” the hostess said. “You’ll feel it soon.” She closed her eyes for a moment, as if absorbing some ancient pulse only she could detect.
I closed my eyes too, just for a second. I felt nothing."
"“The land is wise,” the hostess said. “You’ll feel it soon.” She closed her eyes for a moment, as if absorbing some ancient pulse only she could detect.
I closed my eyes too, just for a second. I felt nothing."
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Hearty congratulations to the winners of this year's Forge Flash Competition, Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice and @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social ! 🎉🔥
Their pieces will be published in November.
The full results are here: forgelitmag.com/2025/10/04/2...
Their pieces will be published in November.
The full results are here: forgelitmag.com/2025/10/04/2...
October 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Hearty congratulations to the winners of this year's Forge Flash Competition, Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice and @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social ! 🎉🔥
Their pieces will be published in November.
The full results are here: forgelitmag.com/2025/10/04/2...
Their pieces will be published in November.
The full results are here: forgelitmag.com/2025/10/04/2...
Yes, please do read my little 👻🥊 story.
Read "Victorian Girl Gang" written by @saracrowley.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"That ghost girl is back, boxing me awake with her old leather gloves. I smell them just before the punch comes."
tinyurl.com/mr2aactj
"That ghost girl is back, boxing me awake with her old leather gloves. I smell them just before the punch comes."
tinyurl.com/mr2aactj
Victorian Girl Gang — Ghost Parachute
That ghost girl is back, boxing me awake with her old leather gloves. I smell them just before the punch comes. I inhale their sweet earthiness and think, oh no, but never manage to wake fast enough t...
tinyurl.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Yes, please do read my little 👻🥊 story.
I'm so chuffed to have a little flash of mine in Ghost Parachute.
Also, damn, look at the amazing line up! 🤩
#FlashFiction #👻
Also, damn, look at the amazing line up! 🤩
#FlashFiction #👻
Victorian Girl Gang — Ghost Parachute
That ghost girl is back, boxing me awake with her old leather gloves. I smell them just before the punch comes. I inhale their sweet earthiness and think, oh no, but never manage to wake fast enough t...
ghostparachute.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I'm so chuffed to have a little flash of mine in Ghost Parachute.
Also, damn, look at the amazing line up! 🤩
#FlashFiction #👻
Also, damn, look at the amazing line up! 🤩
#FlashFiction #👻
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We are excited to present the October 2025 issue, which is our Nine Year Anniversary issue. We've put out an issue every month on the first since we started, making this our 108th issue. Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/mtcaexjy
tinyurl.com/mtcaexjy
October 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute
tinyurl.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We are excited to present the October 2025 issue, which is our Nine Year Anniversary issue. We've put out an issue every month on the first since we started, making this our 108th issue. Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/mtcaexjy
tinyurl.com/mtcaexjy
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approx 1/3 of the way through september and submissions being open this month for Short Story, Long
I pay contributors, pay artists for original art to pair with stories, nominate for awards, and generally rave a bunch on social media about the stories I love (and I LOVE all the stories I accept)
I pay contributors, pay artists for original art to pair with stories, nominate for awards, and generally rave a bunch on social media about the stories I love (and I LOVE all the stories I accept)
Short Story, Long | Aaron Burch | Substack
Longer short stories, published biweekly. Click to read Short Story, Long, by Aaron Burch, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
ashortstorylong.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
approx 1/3 of the way through september and submissions being open this month for Short Story, Long
I pay contributors, pay artists for original art to pair with stories, nominate for awards, and generally rave a bunch on social media about the stories I love (and I LOVE all the stories I accept)
I pay contributors, pay artists for original art to pair with stories, nominate for awards, and generally rave a bunch on social media about the stories I love (and I LOVE all the stories I accept)
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It’s only taken a century or so, but would you look at that, some badass women have invented a better solution to the speculum (which is essentially a torture device).
www.brightvibes.com/lilium-specu...
www.brightvibes.com/lilium-specu...
After 180 Years of Pain, Dutch Women Engineers Reimagine the Speculum with ‘Lilium’
Dutch engineers redesign the speculum with Lilium; a soft, sustainable, patient-centered innovation set to transform women’s healthcare.
www.brightvibes.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
It’s only taken a century or so, but would you look at that, some badass women have invented a better solution to the speculum (which is essentially a torture device).
www.brightvibes.com/lilium-specu...
www.brightvibes.com/lilium-specu...
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i have a story in this from the lucy temerlin school for broken shapeshifters resident archives
please support us smol indies and the strange things we do
please support us smol indies and the strange things we do
Announcing BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales.
This little book has been terribly delayed, but it's finally going to print at the end of the month! Reserve your copy on Kickstarter, get your name in the acknowledgments, help us pay the bills!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
This little book has been terribly delayed, but it's finally going to print at the end of the month! Reserve your copy on Kickstarter, get your name in the acknowledgments, help us pay the bills!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
Seven Indian authors. Seven stories of the eeire, the gruesome, the demonic, and the melty.
www.kickstarter.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
i have a story in this from the lucy temerlin school for broken shapeshifters resident archives
please support us smol indies and the strange things we do
please support us smol indies and the strange things we do
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support us and i will critique your manuscript!
i know that sounds threatening for some reason
i know that sounds threatening for some reason
Past the 50% mark 🌟
Book now for t-shirts, signed copies, limited edition harcovers, and manuscript critiques by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
Book now for t-shirts, signed copies, limited edition harcovers, and manuscript critiques by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
Ever watched a girl you barely know get eaten alive by murder hornets in the mess hall? Ever spoken to a dead guy who came home to tell you about the demon who killed him?
Pre-order BANDIGOAT
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
Pre-order BANDIGOAT
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
September 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
support us and i will critique your manuscript!
i know that sounds threatening for some reason
i know that sounds threatening for some reason
Our annual competition opens tomorrow. Free entries, $1000 prize.
We’re looking forward to reading your exceptional work. #flashfiction #flashnonfiction #literarycompetition #LitWriters #FLM
Please share.
We’re looking forward to reading your exceptional work. #flashfiction #flashnonfiction #literarycompetition #LitWriters #FLM
Please share.
August 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Our annual competition opens tomorrow. Free entries, $1000 prize.
We’re looking forward to reading your exceptional work. #flashfiction #flashnonfiction #literarycompetition #LitWriters #FLM
Please share.
We’re looking forward to reading your exceptional work. #flashfiction #flashnonfiction #literarycompetition #LitWriters #FLM
Please share.
August 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Oh! This flash essay by @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social is so good. #CNF #Essay. #💖 #WiseWomen #Flash #FlashNonFiction
Sarah Starr Murphy - pictura journal
Sarah Starr Murphy’s work has appeared in several journals, and has been listed as a special mention in the 2025 Pushcart Anthology.
picturajournal.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Oh! This flash essay by @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social is so good. #CNF #Essay. #💖 #WiseWomen #Flash #FlashNonFiction
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Our story of the week is Why I Still Wash Used Saran Wraps and Dry Them on the Dish Rack by Christine H. Chen. @csquareh.bsky.social
Why I Still Wash Used Saran Wraps and Dry Them on the Dish Rack - The Forge Literary Magazine
Why I Still Wash Used Saran Wraps and Dry Them on the Dish Rack, a micro fiction by Christine H. Chen
forgelitmag.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Our story of the week is Why I Still Wash Used Saran Wraps and Dry Them on the Dish Rack by Christine H. Chen. @csquareh.bsky.social
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Ah well, no harm done
An exclusive survey for The Sunday Times found that 29% of people would vote to leave the EU, compared with 52% at the time of the referendum in June 2016 ⬇️
Only 29% would back Brexit now — poll proves tables have turned
We asked Britain about Europe, China and their least favourite world leaders, but one answer stands out
www.thetimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Ah well, no harm done
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My new Guardian Long Read. The one in which I talk about medical misogyny, my favourite Napoleonic battle, a handsome US civil war surgeon, cocaine pessaries, the terrors of Victorian medicine, punk icon Patti Smith, and lots (and lots) of vomiting.
Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
The long read: The Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until now
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
My new Guardian Long Read. The one in which I talk about medical misogyny, my favourite Napoleonic battle, a handsome US civil war surgeon, cocaine pessaries, the terrors of Victorian medicine, punk icon Patti Smith, and lots (and lots) of vomiting.
An essential read by my dazzling pal @abistephenson.bsky.social
"Far from languishing on the chaise longue without intervention, she could also receive the “rectal instillation” of morphine, laudanum or her own urine ..."
"Far from languishing on the chaise longue without intervention, she could also receive the “rectal instillation” of morphine, laudanum or her own urine ..."
Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
The long read: The Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until now
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
An essential read by my dazzling pal @abistephenson.bsky.social
"Far from languishing on the chaise longue without intervention, she could also receive the “rectal instillation” of morphine, laudanum or her own urine ..."
"Far from languishing on the chaise longue without intervention, she could also receive the “rectal instillation” of morphine, laudanum or her own urine ..."
Every now and then I remember that this Plath finger puppet exists. #SylviaPlath #SheCouldNeverHaveImaginedThis
July 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Every now and then I remember that this Plath finger puppet exists. #SylviaPlath #SheCouldNeverHaveImaginedThis