Avitus B. Carle
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social
Writer of the weird and experimental flash. Words @FracturedLit, @Xraylitmag, @NecessaryFic, @TBQuarterly, and elsewhere.
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com
She’s just a baby 🥹
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
She’s just a baby 🥹
There be DRAGONS!
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
There be DRAGONS!
A couple of close encounters 😱
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A couple of close encounters 😱
TONIGHT AT 7PM EST!
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social will be in conversation with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of BITTER OVER SWEET!
Hosted by yours truly ☺️
There’s still time to register!
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social will be in conversation with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of BITTER OVER SWEET!
Hosted by yours truly ☺️
There’s still time to register!
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
TONIGHT AT 7PM EST!
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social will be in conversation with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of BITTER OVER SWEET!
Hosted by yours truly ☺️
There’s still time to register!
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social will be in conversation with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of BITTER OVER SWEET!
Hosted by yours truly ☺️
There’s still time to register!
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Whew, that’s all for now! I mean…not really since if you know…you know 😉
Stay tuned cause I’ve got some more stories coming at you and, once again, if you’d like a copy of my book DM me, check the link, drop a review, and thank you, thank you, thank you!
Stay tuned cause I’ve got some more stories coming at you and, once again, if you’d like a copy of my book DM me, check the link, drop a review, and thank you, thank you, thank you!
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Whew, that’s all for now! I mean…not really since if you know…you know 😉
Stay tuned cause I’ve got some more stories coming at you and, once again, if you’d like a copy of my book DM me, check the link, drop a review, and thank you, thank you, thank you!
Stay tuned cause I’ve got some more stories coming at you and, once again, if you’d like a copy of my book DM me, check the link, drop a review, and thank you, thank you, thank you!
December 7th has me jumping genres with @thewriterscenter.bsky.social where I’ll be leading a workshop on one of my favorite flash forms: the listicle!
I hope you’ll add this course to your to-do list 😝
Register here:
writer.org/event/genre-...
I hope you’ll add this course to your to-do list 😝
Register here:
writer.org/event/genre-...
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
December 7th has me jumping genres with @thewriterscenter.bsky.social where I’ll be leading a workshop on one of my favorite flash forms: the listicle!
I hope you’ll add this course to your to-do list 😝
Register here:
writer.org/event/genre-...
I hope you’ll add this course to your to-do list 😝
Register here:
writer.org/event/genre-...
November 7th, I have the extreme pleasure of hosting the book launch for @lumchanmfa.bsky.social’s BITTER OVER SWEET (@sfwp.bsky.social)! Melissa will be in conversation with the one, the only, @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social!
Register here:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
November 7th, I have the extreme pleasure of hosting the book launch for @lumchanmfa.bsky.social’s BITTER OVER SWEET (@sfwp.bsky.social)! Melissa will be in conversation with the one, the only, @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social!
Register here:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Already have a copy and want to keep the celebration going? I’ve got several events coming up including workshops AND readings!
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Already have a copy and want to keep the celebration going? I’ve got several events coming up including workshops AND readings!
Thank you everyone who has purchased, reviewed, shared, celebrated, ranted, and raved about my weird, form bending stories! Who has asked me to teach, speak, and read.
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Thank you everyone who has purchased, reviewed, shared, celebrated, ranted, and raved about my weird, form bending stories! Who has asked me to teach, speak, and read.
THESE WORN BODIES (@mooncitypress.bsky.social) officially hit the streets 1 year ago TODAY and when I say it’s been a JOURNEY I’m talking about one of the most wonderful experiences within the writing community I’ve had.
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
THESE WORN BODIES (@mooncitypress.bsky.social) officially hit the streets 1 year ago TODAY and when I say it’s been a JOURNEY I’m talking about one of the most wonderful experiences within the writing community I’ve had.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get the registration numbers needed to make this class happen, and will have to cancel.
However, though my class isn’t happening this go around, I encourage you to check out the amazing course offerings @flashfictioninst.bsky.social!
flashfictioninstitute.com/courses/
However, though my class isn’t happening this go around, I encourage you to check out the amazing course offerings @flashfictioninst.bsky.social!
flashfictioninstitute.com/courses/
October 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Unfortunately, I didn’t get the registration numbers needed to make this class happen, and will have to cancel.
However, though my class isn’t happening this go around, I encourage you to check out the amazing course offerings @flashfictioninst.bsky.social!
flashfictioninstitute.com/courses/
However, though my class isn’t happening this go around, I encourage you to check out the amazing course offerings @flashfictioninst.bsky.social!
flashfictioninstitute.com/courses/
Website refresh is complete including my upcoming workshops with the @flashfictioninst.bsky.social and Blue Stoop!
www.avitusbcarle.com/workshops
www.avitusbcarle.com/workshops
October 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Website refresh is complete including my upcoming workshops with the @flashfictioninst.bsky.social and Blue Stoop!
www.avitusbcarle.com/workshops
www.avitusbcarle.com/workshops
Come listen to me read some weird flash stories alongside Delco and Friends writers this Sunday hosted by Blue Stoop!
Books will be sold by Celia Bookshop
Open mic to follow
Books will be sold by Celia Bookshop
Open mic to follow
September 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Come listen to me read some weird flash stories alongside Delco and Friends writers this Sunday hosted by Blue Stoop!
Books will be sold by Celia Bookshop
Open mic to follow
Books will be sold by Celia Bookshop
Open mic to follow
I will be stopping by the stoop at Blue Stoop in Swarthmore, reading with several amazing writers!
Books will be sold, I’ll have stickers AND the favorite dry erase magnets to be given with every purchase of my flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES
www.bluestoop.org/events/delco...
Books will be sold, I’ll have stickers AND the favorite dry erase magnets to be given with every purchase of my flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES
www.bluestoop.org/events/delco...
September 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I will be stopping by the stoop at Blue Stoop in Swarthmore, reading with several amazing writers!
Books will be sold, I’ll have stickers AND the favorite dry erase magnets to be given with every purchase of my flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES
www.bluestoop.org/events/delco...
Books will be sold, I’ll have stickers AND the favorite dry erase magnets to be given with every purchase of my flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES
www.bluestoop.org/events/delco...
Fastest way to my heart
✔️ Good food
✔️Good friends
✔️Plantains
✔️Mango Sticky Rice
✔️and always more mango
✔️ Good food
✔️Good friends
✔️Plantains
✔️Mango Sticky Rice
✔️and always more mango
August 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Fastest way to my heart
✔️ Good food
✔️Good friends
✔️Plantains
✔️Mango Sticky Rice
✔️and always more mango
✔️ Good food
✔️Good friends
✔️Plantains
✔️Mango Sticky Rice
✔️and always more mango
Join @lauraparnum.bsky.social, @novarensuma.bsky.social, @christinarosso.bsky.social, and I as we read stories exploring the 5 senses A Novel Idea to celebrate the paperback release of @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social’s A MISFORTUNE OF LAKE MONSTERS
Register here:
anovelideaphilly.com/events/
Register here:
anovelideaphilly.com/events/
August 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Join @lauraparnum.bsky.social, @novarensuma.bsky.social, @christinarosso.bsky.social, and I as we read stories exploring the 5 senses A Novel Idea to celebrate the paperback release of @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social’s A MISFORTUNE OF LAKE MONSTERS
Register here:
anovelideaphilly.com/events/
Register here:
anovelideaphilly.com/events/
Captured rare footage of me out in the wild enjoying yesterday’s Philly Bookstore Crawl including the required breakfast shot AND posing with my book, THESE WORN BODIES at A Novel Idea
August 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Captured rare footage of me out in the wild enjoying yesterday’s Philly Bookstore Crawl including the required breakfast shot AND posing with my book, THESE WORN BODIES at A Novel Idea
TONIGHT!
Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social)
Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me!
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social)
Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me!
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
August 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
TONIGHT!
Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social)
Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me!
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social)
Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me!
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
WITHOUT DIBBY MUNSEN, a flash based on what happened to a boy my father once played basketball with back in the day, has been nominated for BEST OF THE NET!
Thank you so much @brettpribble.bsky.social for publishing and nominating my story! And congrats to my fellow nominee, @djpoissant.bsky.social
Thank you so much @brettpribble.bsky.social for publishing and nominating my story! And congrats to my fellow nominee, @djpoissant.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
WITHOUT DIBBY MUNSEN, a flash based on what happened to a boy my father once played basketball with back in the day, has been nominated for BEST OF THE NET!
Thank you so much @brettpribble.bsky.social for publishing and nominating my story! And congrats to my fellow nominee, @djpoissant.bsky.social
Thank you so much @brettpribble.bsky.social for publishing and nominating my story! And congrats to my fellow nominee, @djpoissant.bsky.social
You ever get the feeling that you might be on to something great, that the writing is finally flowing out of you after so long, just to look up and see your greatest critic has also returned with that familiar look of judgment????
August 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
You ever get the feeling that you might be on to something great, that the writing is finally flowing out of you after so long, just to look up and see your greatest critic has also returned with that familiar look of judgment????
You know the reading MUST be good if a swarm of wasps go to war with you over the book!
Lucky for me I won the battle and can’t wait to read @writesloud.bsky.social’s latest from @stanchion.bsky.social
Lucky for me I won the battle and can’t wait to read @writesloud.bsky.social’s latest from @stanchion.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
You know the reading MUST be good if a swarm of wasps go to war with you over the book!
Lucky for me I won the battle and can’t wait to read @writesloud.bsky.social’s latest from @stanchion.bsky.social
Lucky for me I won the battle and can’t wait to read @writesloud.bsky.social’s latest from @stanchion.bsky.social
THESE WORN BODIES and I are hitting the streets once again!
We’re returning to our forever favorite indie bookstore A Novel Idea on Passyunk in celebration and exploration of the 5 senses through literature alongside Nicole M. Wolverton, Laura Parnum, Nova Ren Suma, and @christinarosso.bsky.social!
We’re returning to our forever favorite indie bookstore A Novel Idea on Passyunk in celebration and exploration of the 5 senses through literature alongside Nicole M. Wolverton, Laura Parnum, Nova Ren Suma, and @christinarosso.bsky.social!
July 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
THESE WORN BODIES and I are hitting the streets once again!
We’re returning to our forever favorite indie bookstore A Novel Idea on Passyunk in celebration and exploration of the 5 senses through literature alongside Nicole M. Wolverton, Laura Parnum, Nova Ren Suma, and @christinarosso.bsky.social!
We’re returning to our forever favorite indie bookstore A Novel Idea on Passyunk in celebration and exploration of the 5 senses through literature alongside Nicole M. Wolverton, Laura Parnum, Nova Ren Suma, and @christinarosso.bsky.social!
Some afternoon company while I read BLOB: A Love Story by Maggie Su
June 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Some afternoon company while I read BLOB: A Love Story by Maggie Su
Though my time in New York was short, I had so much fun reading with such incredibly talented Writers AND a surprise Francine Witte spotting!
Sending all the thanks and lovings to Sunday Salon (but on a Saturday) for having me!
Sending all the thanks and lovings to Sunday Salon (but on a Saturday) for having me!
June 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Though my time in New York was short, I had so much fun reading with such incredibly talented Writers AND a surprise Francine Witte spotting!
Sending all the thanks and lovings to Sunday Salon (but on a Saturday) for having me!
Sending all the thanks and lovings to Sunday Salon (but on a Saturday) for having me!