@saraschansarkar.bsky.social
Writer: Morsels of Purple (2021), Skin Over Milk (2022)
ELJ Micro Prize, Larry Brown Short Story Award, NFFd Micro Prize
ELJ Micro Prize, Larry Brown Short Story Award, NFFd Micro Prize
I return to my draft every morning, tending to it like a baby that doesn't cry or demand time and attention. Just waits. Wasn't sure before, but I am in love with it.
January 28, 2026 at 1:06 PM
I return to my draft every morning, tending to it like a baby that doesn't cry or demand time and attention. Just waits. Wasn't sure before, but I am in love with it.
“Now, in the hush before morning,
I recall its branches,
light threading through them—
a secret passed from leaf to leaf.”
Sam Aureli @chestnutreview.bsky.social :
I recall its branches,
light threading through them—
a secret passed from leaf to leaf.”
Sam Aureli @chestnutreview.bsky.social :
“What else have I touched / without knowing its holiness?” Sam Aureli’s poem “What Remains” is a beautiful and nostalgic reflection on the simple memories we cherish later in life.
Check it out in our new issue available now on our website!
chestnutreview.com/sam-aureli-w...
#poetry #reflection
Check it out in our new issue available now on our website!
chestnutreview.com/sam-aureli-w...
#poetry #reflection
January 19, 2026 at 11:42 PM
“Now, in the hush before morning,
I recall its branches,
light threading through them—
a secret passed from leaf to leaf.”
Sam Aureli @chestnutreview.bsky.social :
I recall its branches,
light threading through them—
a secret passed from leaf to leaf.”
Sam Aureli @chestnutreview.bsky.social :
"You’re here, Avi, in my home and my imagination gets unleashed. I imagine we’d fled, pursued music together. I imagine you’ve placed your arm around me. I imagine holding your callused hands."
The amazing @sudhab.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social:
The amazing @sudhab.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social:
Happy to have my story included in this wonderful bumper issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social ! Thank you, editors🙏🙏🙏
www.frazzledlit.com/p/before-aft...
www.frazzledlit.com/p/before-aft...
Before, After, Now
A short story by Sudha Balagopal
www.frazzledlit.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:28 PM
"You’re here, Avi, in my home and my imagination gets unleashed. I imagine we’d fled, pursued music together. I imagine you’ve placed your arm around me. I imagine holding your callused hands."
The amazing @sudhab.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social:
The amazing @sudhab.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social:
Sharing my piece “Alley Huddle” published in the wonderful Milk Candy Review last year.
It’s winter once again.
It’s winter once again.
January 19, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Sharing my piece “Alley Huddle” published in the wonderful Milk Candy Review last year.
It’s winter once again.
It’s winter once again.
“I watch him speak and wonder how long ago he stopped being the man I love.”
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social @lostballoon.bsky.social:
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social @lostballoon.bsky.social:
We have a great new piece today by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social! Check out “Rewind.” lost-balloon.com/2026/01/07/r...
Rewind by Cole Beauchamp
I have something to tell you, my husband says, but I’m not listening. I’m trying to shift the stone lodged in my mountain boot. Rain has slicked the narrow path covered in last year’s crushed leave…
lost-balloon.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM
“I watch him speak and wonder how long ago he stopped being the man I love.”
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social @lostballoon.bsky.social:
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social @lostballoon.bsky.social:
“We measured the police sirens in little droppers and mixed them into our flasks of music, dancing with teeth bared.”
Vaneeza Sohail in “Party Song” @smokelong.bsky.social:
Vaneeza Sohail in “Party Song” @smokelong.bsky.social:
"Poetry often reminds me of Karachi" Vaneeza Sohail is our featured author this week. Read her interview and "Party Song," a finalist for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Vaneeza Sohail - SmokeLong Quarterly
Your story is set in Karachi, which is also where you are from. What do you want people who have never been there to know about the city? You will never figure it out. Some days the city will make sen...
www.smokelong.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:56 PM
“We measured the police sirens in little droppers and mixed them into our flasks of music, dancing with teeth bared.”
Vaneeza Sohail in “Party Song” @smokelong.bsky.social:
Vaneeza Sohail in “Party Song” @smokelong.bsky.social:
“But by the time I grew up, I had jumped out of my dream. I didn’t see the point in why God should be happy with so much bloodshed.”
Love this piece by Rahad Abir @theforge.bsky.social.
Do spare a minute to read it.
Love this piece by Rahad Abir @theforge.bsky.social.
Do spare a minute to read it.
January 3, 2026 at 12:22 AM
“But by the time I grew up, I had jumped out of my dream. I didn’t see the point in why God should be happy with so much bloodshed.”
Love this piece by Rahad Abir @theforge.bsky.social.
Do spare a minute to read it.
Love this piece by Rahad Abir @theforge.bsky.social.
Do spare a minute to read it.
“C’mere she says and you know it’s a mistake, you know you gonna regret it”
The one-and-only @mynachang.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute!
The one-and-only @mynachang.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute!
Happy for my first publication of the year to be in Ghost Parachute! Huge thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social! And thanks to Brett J Barr for the illustration!
(It's always a treat to find an editor who doesn't want to "edit" my use of dialect! 💜)
Hope you enjoy my tiny devil story!
(It's always a treat to find an editor who doesn't want to "edit" my use of dialect! 💜)
Hope you enjoy my tiny devil story!
Deal Breaker, 1937 — Ghost Parachute
Devil days got that fool magic brewin’ in the hot, you know what I’m talking about, those close Kansas afternoons when the thunderheads build and build, climbing up the sky like they trying to get int...
ghostparachute.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:16 AM
“C’mere she says and you know it’s a mistake, you know you gonna regret it”
The one-and-only @mynachang.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute!
The one-and-only @mynachang.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute!
Loving everything about this book!
January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Loving everything about this book!
Happy New Year to all my friends here! Hoping to catch up on writing news and stories published by everyone. Also hoping to write something share-worthy! :)
January 2, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Happy New Year to all my friends here! Hoping to catch up on writing news and stories published by everyone. Also hoping to write something share-worthy! :)
Can't wait for this event tonight! Hope to see you all there!
It's today! 🌰🥳
Prose Chapbook Night & Q&A with Chestnut Review Press featuring Sue Mell, Mario Aliberto III, Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar, and Maya Cheav is coming up next month!
This event takes place Thursday, 11/20/2025 at 4:30 pm PST/7:30 pm ET.
Sign up for this free event. Link in bio.
This event takes place Thursday, 11/20/2025 at 4:30 pm PST/7:30 pm ET.
Sign up for this free event. Link in bio.
November 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Can't wait for this event tonight! Hope to see you all there!
Thanks for doing this for my book, @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social! Thanks @danbillyc.bsky.social for sharing the love here.
Yay! I love this collection by @saraschansarkar.bsky.social! A perfect review by the amazing @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social 💙💙💙
⚡️Fast Flash Review: Morsels of Purple by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar. Such moving and vivid stories of migration, change and discovery. @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Thanks for doing this for my book, @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social! Thanks @danbillyc.bsky.social for sharing the love here.
I have a new story "Biryani Fridays" in the lovely @fictivedream.bsky.social Would love for you all to read it.
#fiction #shortstory #writingcommunity
#fiction #shortstory #writingcommunity
"Two Fridays ago, her husband brought handsome Tahir along unannounced." Biryani Fridays by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar saraschansarkar.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction #writingcommunity. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/03/b...
August 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I have a new story "Biryani Fridays" in the lovely @fictivedream.bsky.social Would love for you all to read it.
#fiction #shortstory #writingcommunity
#fiction #shortstory #writingcommunity
Reposted
#PoetryMoment
"An Octopus Has Three Whole Hearts"
by Joy Sullivan
from Instructions for Traveling West
Dial Press, 2024
"An Octopus Has Three Whole Hearts"
by Joy Sullivan
from Instructions for Traveling West
Dial Press, 2024
July 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
#PoetryMoment
"An Octopus Has Three Whole Hearts"
by Joy Sullivan
from Instructions for Traveling West
Dial Press, 2024
"An Octopus Has Three Whole Hearts"
by Joy Sullivan
from Instructions for Traveling West
Dial Press, 2024
My story "Between Chamisa and Rengyō" is out!
Thank you to the @smokelong.bsky.social judges for selecting it as the winner of The Smokey award. I am so moved by the recognition 🙏🏻
I hope you enjoy this story:
www.smokelong.com/stories/betw...
Thank you to the @smokelong.bsky.social judges for selecting it as the winner of The Smokey award. I am so moved by the recognition 🙏🏻
I hope you enjoy this story:
www.smokelong.com/stories/betw...
Between Chamisa and Rengyō - SmokeLong Quarterly
I. The rain doesn’t smell the same here, and neither do I. Warm, resinous, alive: piñons and junipers, greasewood and ponderosa, the ghost bloom of Apache plume snagged on old barbed wire, claret cup ...
www.smokelong.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A poem I wrote a few years ago. Those who can call or be with their dads, please make every effort to do so.
June 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A poem I wrote a few years ago. Those who can call or be with their dads, please make every effort to do so.
"My porch stood inundated with carnations and casseroles I left to rot, the stench seeping into the foyer."
My micro "Fortune Cookie" published in @centaurlit.bsky.social:
centaurlit.com/fortune-cook...
My micro "Fortune Cookie" published in @centaurlit.bsky.social:
centaurlit.com/fortune-cook...
Fortune Cookie by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar | Centaur
centaurlit.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"My porch stood inundated with carnations and casseroles I left to rot, the stench seeping into the foyer."
My micro "Fortune Cookie" published in @centaurlit.bsky.social:
centaurlit.com/fortune-cook...
My micro "Fortune Cookie" published in @centaurlit.bsky.social:
centaurlit.com/fortune-cook...
"The pockets of her dress grew heavy with skeletons, darkened with wet."
@jadjosey.bsky.social @soflopojo.bsky.social:
@jadjosey.bsky.social @soflopojo.bsky.social:
I’m excited to have a flash piece in the newest issue of @soflopojo.bsky.social and I’d be honored to have you read it. 💙
www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-37-may...
www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-37-may...
May 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"The pockets of her dress grew heavy with skeletons, darkened with wet."
@jadjosey.bsky.social @soflopojo.bsky.social:
@jadjosey.bsky.social @soflopojo.bsky.social:
Reposted
It’s Wednesday. The Smokey deadline is midnight, NYC, Saturday. It’s time to step away from that comma, now. That’s right. Eaaaasy does it. No, I don’t know if it should “maybe be an em-dash”. Did you drink water today? You seem to have an olive in your hair. C’mon. That story is DONE. Send it.
You know us and numbers. But we do know today is Monday (we checked). So here's a helpful writer countdown calendar for getting your entry in for the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025 before Saturday's deadline of midnight, NYC time. You're welcome. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
May 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
It’s Wednesday. The Smokey deadline is midnight, NYC, Saturday. It’s time to step away from that comma, now. That’s right. Eaaaasy does it. No, I don’t know if it should “maybe be an em-dash”. Did you drink water today? You seem to have an olive in your hair. C’mon. That story is DONE. Send it.