Tori Walters
@victoriaceann.bsky.social
writer & educator | reading and editing CNF for Variant Lit | working at Austin College | livin’ the ranch life
https://linktr.ee/toriwalters
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Meet Tori Walters, Managing Editor of Flash Prose and Micros!
"I am looking for work that dives deeper, goes a shade more vulnerable—and does so in a way that feels fully realized within the constraint of flash prose."
"I am looking for work that dives deeper, goes a shade more vulnerable—and does so in a way that feels fully realized within the constraint of flash prose."
October 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Subs open soon!!!
chicago last weekend, amsterdam next weekend, salt lake city the week after that, then puerto rico, then boulder...my past self really underestimated the amount of energy I would have this summer 🫣
July 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
chicago last weekend, amsterdam next weekend, salt lake city the week after that, then puerto rico, then boulder...my past self really underestimated the amount of energy I would have this summer 🫣
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"I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum, the index cards with illegible scribbles..." - from "Greed" by Tori Walters, Finalist, 2025 Contest for Flash CNF.
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/greed-by-tori-walters/
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/greed-by-tori-walters/
Greed by Tori Walters | Hippocampus Magazine
"I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum, the index cards with illegible scribbles..." -- "Greed" by Tori Walters. Flash contest finalist.
hippocampusmagazine.com
July 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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A delightful and tender piece that I could read over and over and over again.
Is Harry Styles bagging groceries at a Trader Joe's in Indiana? Read this funny, tender story by Andrew Graham Martin to find out.
"My Teenage Daughter" variantlit.com/my-teenage-d...
"My Teenage Daughter" variantlit.com/my-teenage-d...
My Teenage Daughter
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July 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A delightful and tender piece that I could read over and over and over again.
This flash piece hasn’t left me since I first read it.
Do yourself a favor, and give it a read.
Do yourself a favor, and give it a read.
Friends! My new #flashfiction, “Sparrow’s Work Song,” is among the dazzling poems and stories in the new issue of @variantlit.bsky.social. It’s a story I really love. Huge thanks to prose editor Tori Walters for all the kindness & support.
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Sparrow’s Work Song
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July 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This flash piece hasn’t left me since I first read it.
Do yourself a favor, and give it a read.
Do yourself a favor, and give it a read.
Have you read our newest issue yet?!?
July 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Have you read our newest issue yet?!?
Still on Cloud 9 over this!
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CYMI: The 2025 We Love Short Shorts Finalists & Special Mentions! Congrats to winner Annamaria Formichella and finalists Hillary Wentworth and Tori Walters. Read all stories here:
hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/cont...
hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/cont...
July 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Still on Cloud 9 over this!
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I can't believe I get to share this piece with the world after it was named one of the finalists of the We Love Short Shorts Creative Nonfiction Contest put on by @hippocampusmag.bsky.social
I am so proud of these piece and honored to have been selected!
hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/gree...
I am so proud of these piece and honored to have been selected!
hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/gree...
Greed by Tori Walters | Hippocampus Magazine
"I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum, the index cards with illegible scribbles..." -- "Greed" by Tori Walters. Flash contest finalist.
hippocampusmagazine.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I can't believe I get to share this piece with the world after it was named one of the finalists of the We Love Short Shorts Creative Nonfiction Contest put on by @hippocampusmag.bsky.social
I am so proud of these piece and honored to have been selected!
hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/gree...
I am so proud of these piece and honored to have been selected!
hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/gree...
I'm so honored and excited to be one of the finalists for @hippocampusmag.bsky.social's We Love Short Shorts Contest! I have been reading Hippocampus Mag for years, so to be selected as a finalist means so much to me ☺️!!
We're thrilled to announce the three finalists and honorable mentions for the 2025 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Creative Nonfiction. The finalist stories and winner announcement goes live with our May-June 2025 issue next week. hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/cont...
May 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I'm so honored and excited to be one of the finalists for @hippocampusmag.bsky.social's We Love Short Shorts Contest! I have been reading Hippocampus Mag for years, so to be selected as a finalist means so much to me ☺️!!
working to pay for my daily strawberry matcha latte and protein smoothie 🍓🍓🍓
April 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
working to pay for my daily strawberry matcha latte and protein smoothie 🍓🍓🍓
Today's read: themorningnews.org/article/the-...
The Querent - The Morning News
Fortunetelling is easy to ridicule, frequently misunderstood, and, for some people, extremely powerful. Unfortunately, what’s very tough to predict is what reading futures will do to the person ...
themorningnews.org
April 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today's read: themorningnews.org/article/the-...
"They are beautiful. They are good. They do not doomscroll. They do not despair about what is to come. They do not live in the past, swimming in regrets. They are alive in the here and now."
www.thebeliever.net/the-magic-we...
www.thebeliever.net/the-magic-we...
The Magic Well - Believer Magazine
I. The first image came in black and white: slashes of sable, rosettes, slender legs. Echo’s eyes were zipped shut, her face marked with lines as if dripping with tears. Several babies curled up at he...
www.thebeliever.net
April 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"They are beautiful. They are good. They do not doomscroll. They do not despair about what is to come. They do not live in the past, swimming in regrets. They are alive in the here and now."
www.thebeliever.net/the-magic-we...
www.thebeliever.net/the-magic-we...
“I do not have one brain for thinking about a rubbled Gaza and another for thinking about my gentle cat wheezing through the night.“
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
www.thenation.com
March 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“I do not have one brain for thinking about a rubbled Gaza and another for thinking about my gentle cat wheezing through the night.“
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
happy spring sunsets everyone 🌹🌸🌷🌼🐝🐄🌅
March 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
happy spring sunsets everyone 🌹🌸🌷🌼🐝🐄🌅
Team Renae Update: The Power of Community
It has been one month since we first shared Renae’s story, and the response has been nothing short of awe-inspiring.
💛OVERWHELMED. GRATEFUL. INSPIRED. 💛
www.gofundme.com/f/rallyforre...
It has been one month since we first shared Renae’s story, and the response has been nothing short of awe-inspiring.
💛OVERWHELMED. GRATEFUL. INSPIRED. 💛
www.gofundme.com/f/rallyforre...
Donate to Support Renae's Fight Against Stage IV Lung Cancer, organized by Lauren Landry
Hi, my name is Eric Vere and I’m reaching out on behalf o… Lauren Landry needs your support for Support Renae's Fight Against Stage IV Lung Cancer
www.gofundme.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Team Renae Update: The Power of Community
It has been one month since we first shared Renae’s story, and the response has been nothing short of awe-inspiring.
💛OVERWHELMED. GRATEFUL. INSPIRED. 💛
www.gofundme.com/f/rallyforre...
It has been one month since we first shared Renae’s story, and the response has been nothing short of awe-inspiring.
💛OVERWHELMED. GRATEFUL. INSPIRED. 💛
www.gofundme.com/f/rallyforre...
Subs for @variantlit.bsky.social are open until April 5!!!
also I don't beleive any of them charge fees so SUBMIT YOUR WRITING WITH WILD ABANDON
March 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Subs for @variantlit.bsky.social are open until April 5!!!
Reposted by Tori Walters
“They’re fluffy and pastel, the kind of sweater a young girl would wear, a girl who still believed that presidents were kind and just. A girl who …”
@sfreligh.bsky.social in @variantlit.bsky.social variantlit.com/the-girl-mos...
@sfreligh.bsky.social in @variantlit.bsky.social variantlit.com/the-girl-mos...
The Girl Most Likely To
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March 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“They’re fluffy and pastel, the kind of sweater a young girl would wear, a girl who still believed that presidents were kind and just. A girl who …”
@sfreligh.bsky.social in @variantlit.bsky.social variantlit.com/the-girl-mos...
@sfreligh.bsky.social in @variantlit.bsky.social variantlit.com/the-girl-mos...
HVAC unit needs repairs, piles of laundry, left garage door broken, bones aching—Friday is hitting hard this week.
March 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
HVAC unit needs repairs, piles of laundry, left garage door broken, bones aching—Friday is hitting hard this week.
Reposted by Tori Walters
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
Reposted by Tori Walters
“They threaten to call Bruce the manager who’s usually doing Roberta the lifer waitress in his office upstairs or is passed out drunk in the wine room.”
You gotta give this piece by @sfreligh.bsky.social a read!
You gotta give this piece by @sfreligh.bsky.social a read!
New Rita story at Variant Lit. Thanks to the editors! variantlit.com/the-girl-mos...
The Girl Most Likely To
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March 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“They threaten to call Bruce the manager who’s usually doing Roberta the lifer waitress in his office upstairs or is passed out drunk in the wine room.”
You gotta give this piece by @sfreligh.bsky.social a read!
You gotta give this piece by @sfreligh.bsky.social a read!
Reposted by Tori Walters
If you're sending out work today, send us your poems or prose! We're open now through April 5 for our Summer issue.
variantlit.com/submit/
variantlit.com/submit/
Submit
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March 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If you're sending out work today, send us your poems or prose! We're open now through April 5 for our Summer issue.
variantlit.com/submit/
variantlit.com/submit/
"I can’t really fix anything, but I feel all this pressure to save everyone. To be of use./
My friends, they are coming apart at the seams. Not my problem, you say?"
Oh my. This may be my new favorite poem.
yalereview.org/article/emil...
My friends, they are coming apart at the seams. Not my problem, you say?"
Oh my. This may be my new favorite poem.
yalereview.org/article/emil...
Emily Skillings: "A Room in Dumb Bitchville"
A poem by Emily Skillings: "Hello. Can you hear me? If not me, do you hear the notifications sweetly intoning?"
yalereview.org
March 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"I can’t really fix anything, but I feel all this pressure to save everyone. To be of use./
My friends, they are coming apart at the seams. Not my problem, you say?"
Oh my. This may be my new favorite poem.
yalereview.org/article/emil...
My friends, they are coming apart at the seams. Not my problem, you say?"
Oh my. This may be my new favorite poem.
yalereview.org/article/emil...
"In the beginning, it was spring. That magical unfolding—viriditas."
Nancy Huggett's nonfiction piece, "The Beginning of Devotion," was a lovely way to start my morning and to intensify the yearning for spring today.
@thedodgemag.bsky.social
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Nancy Huggett's nonfiction piece, "The Beginning of Devotion," was a lovely way to start my morning and to intensify the yearning for spring today.
@thedodgemag.bsky.social
cymbals-corn-mx5t.squarespace.com/nancyhuggett1
The Beginning of Devotion by Nancy Huggett — The Dodge
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March 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"In the beginning, it was spring. That magical unfolding—viriditas."
Nancy Huggett's nonfiction piece, "The Beginning of Devotion," was a lovely way to start my morning and to intensify the yearning for spring today.
@thedodgemag.bsky.social
cymbals-corn-mx5t.squarespace.com/nancyhuggett1
Nancy Huggett's nonfiction piece, "The Beginning of Devotion," was a lovely way to start my morning and to intensify the yearning for spring today.
@thedodgemag.bsky.social
cymbals-corn-mx5t.squarespace.com/nancyhuggett1
Reposted by Tori Walters
New Rita story at Variant Lit. Thanks to the editors! variantlit.com/the-girl-mos...
The Girl Most Likely To
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variantlit.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
New Rita story at Variant Lit. Thanks to the editors! variantlit.com/the-girl-mos...
Reposted by Tori Walters
We’ve worked hard to bring you these wonderful poems and works of prose. Enjoy and share!
@variantlit Issue 20 is live! Read it here: variantlit.com/issue-twenty/
March 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
We’ve worked hard to bring you these wonderful poems and works of prose. Enjoy and share!