Elizabeth Collis
@elizabethcollis.bsky.social
Words in Emerge Literary, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Intrepidus Ink, The Good Life Review, Tangled Locks Journal, Ellipsis Zine and others. Pushcart Prize nominee, winner H. Bill Percy Short Creative Nonfiction Prize. https://elizabethcollis.com
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
Thank you to Editor Valerie Rubino for including my memoir piece “Not Mad” in the summer issue of The Avalon Literary Review. It’s a story close to my heart.
August 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Thank you to Editor Valerie Rubino for including my memoir piece “Not Mad” in the summer issue of The Avalon Literary Review. It’s a story close to my heart.
What fun to get the Intrepid Award!
“Held Up” showcases our brand of alarmingly individual characters who pursue goals despite the danger. Their triumph inspires us to believe we can overcome. 🙌
Congratulations on winning the Intrepid Award @elizabethcollis.bsky.social ‼️❤️
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intrepidusink.com/held-up/
Congratulations on winning the Intrepid Award @elizabethcollis.bsky.social ‼️❤️
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intrepidusink.com/held-up/
Held Up
A pregnant woman on laundry detail grapples with more than slippery sheets in this tale of unexpected danger & emotion.
intrepidusink.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
What fun to get the Intrepid Award!
@intrepidusink.bsky.social Well, I’ve given birth, and there’s nothing like that mix of pain, emotion, and instincts to concentrate the mind! I did draw on my own experience. Doing it in few words is largely due to repeated rewrites, I’m a compulsive culler of words.
@elizabethcollis.bsky.social you balance many elements in this piece: the narrator's emotions, her very real physical pain, and her goals of fight, flight, and survive.
How did you achieve so much in so few words?
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How did you achieve so much in so few words?
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April 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
@intrepidusink.bsky.social Well, I’ve given birth, and there’s nothing like that mix of pain, emotion, and instincts to concentrate the mind! I did draw on my own experience. Doing it in few words is largely due to repeated rewrites, I’m a compulsive culler of words.
@intrepidusink.bsky.social I discover the tension, but initially I have placed a complex character in a challenging position, so the tautness is not hard to find. It’s a question of ushering the story along using careful pacing and those shift moments.
@elizabethcollis.bsky.social, @allisonwrites.bsky.social wrote an essay this week about shift moments using "Held Up" as an excellent example of tightening tension.
What is your process? Do you plan or discover tension as you write?
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What is your process? Do you plan or discover tension as you write?
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April 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@intrepidusink.bsky.social I discover the tension, but initially I have placed a complex character in a challenging position, so the tautness is not hard to find. It’s a question of ushering the story along using careful pacing and those shift moments.
@intrepidusink.bsky.social I’m so honored to receive the award!
April 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
@intrepidusink.bsky.social I’m so honored to receive the award!
Thank you so much @intrepidusink.bsky.social
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT! ANNOUNCEMENT! ♥️
Drum roll, please:
CONGRATULATIONS to our 2025 Intrepid Award winner @elizabethcollis.bsky.social for her story “Held Up.”
Many thanks to Literary Judge & first award winner @esaiastimons.bksy.social!
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intrepidusink.com/held-up/
Drum roll, please:
CONGRATULATIONS to our 2025 Intrepid Award winner @elizabethcollis.bsky.social for her story “Held Up.”
Many thanks to Literary Judge & first award winner @esaiastimons.bksy.social!
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intrepidusink.com/held-up/
Held Up
A pregnant woman on laundry detail grapples with more than slippery sheets in this tale of unexpected danger & emotion.
intrepidusink.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Thank you so much @intrepidusink.bsky.social
Wow! Very exciting to have my story Held Up cited in this essay @intrepidusink.bsky.social on shifts in stories. Thank you @allisonwrites.bsky.social
Shift. ✅
Change. ✅
Want to learn something new?
@allisonwrites.bsky.social says THIS about shift moments that will change YOUR perspective. 👇👇👇
Please share & follow! ♥️
@elizabethcollis.bsky.social
intrepidusink.com/shift-moment/
Change. ✅
Want to learn something new?
@allisonwrites.bsky.social says THIS about shift moments that will change YOUR perspective. 👇👇👇
Please share & follow! ♥️
@elizabethcollis.bsky.social
intrepidusink.com/shift-moment/
The Shift Moment: How to Transform a Static Scene Into an Unforgettable Experience
Don't settle for ho-hum scenes when you can make readers go, WOW. Create unforgettable experiences. You can! Here's how.
intrepidusink.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Wow! Very exciting to have my story Held Up cited in this essay @intrepidusink.bsky.social on shifts in stories. Thank you @allisonwrites.bsky.social
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Shift. ✅
Change. ✅
Want to learn something new?
@allisonwrites.bsky.social says THIS about shift moments that will change YOUR perspective. 👇👇👇
Please share & follow! ♥️
@elizabethcollis.bsky.social
intrepidusink.com/shift-moment/
Change. ✅
Want to learn something new?
@allisonwrites.bsky.social says THIS about shift moments that will change YOUR perspective. 👇👇👇
Please share & follow! ♥️
@elizabethcollis.bsky.social
intrepidusink.com/shift-moment/
The Shift Moment: How to Transform a Static Scene Into an Unforgettable Experience
Don't settle for ho-hum scenes when you can make readers go, WOW. Create unforgettable experiences. You can! Here's how.
intrepidusink.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Shift. ✅
Change. ✅
Want to learn something new?
@allisonwrites.bsky.social says THIS about shift moments that will change YOUR perspective. 👇👇👇
Please share & follow! ♥️
@elizabethcollis.bsky.social
intrepidusink.com/shift-moment/
Change. ✅
Want to learn something new?
@allisonwrites.bsky.social says THIS about shift moments that will change YOUR perspective. 👇👇👇
Please share & follow! ♥️
@elizabethcollis.bsky.social
intrepidusink.com/shift-moment/
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Just registered for the Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference, hosted by the Writing & Publishing MFA program at the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. (May 30 - June 1.) The conference theme is “curation.” Program available in the link.
Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference | University of King's College
The Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference's theme explores curation—how storytelling drives curation, and how curation functions as storytelling.
ukings.ca
April 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Just registered for the Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference, hosted by the Writing & Publishing MFA program at the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. (May 30 - June 1.) The conference theme is “curation.” Program available in the link.
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At the midnight bazaar, with its "deep-fried illegal meat and contraband cigarette smoke," everybody needs saving.
Especially the boy.
But how?
Part 1 of @beardedbetts.bsky.social Limited Series premieres today. Only at Intrepidus Ink. 🙌
intrepidusink.com/somewhere-in... #flashfiction
Especially the boy.
But how?
Part 1 of @beardedbetts.bsky.social Limited Series premieres today. Only at Intrepidus Ink. 🙌
intrepidusink.com/somewhere-in... #flashfiction
Somewhere in the Lunar Wilderness
A midnight bazaar vendor suspects a lone boy's danger and takes action that carries swift and lasting consequences.
intrepidusink.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
At the midnight bazaar, with its "deep-fried illegal meat and contraband cigarette smoke," everybody needs saving.
Especially the boy.
But how?
Part 1 of @beardedbetts.bsky.social Limited Series premieres today. Only at Intrepidus Ink. 🙌
intrepidusink.com/somewhere-in... #flashfiction
Especially the boy.
But how?
Part 1 of @beardedbetts.bsky.social Limited Series premieres today. Only at Intrepidus Ink. 🙌
intrepidusink.com/somewhere-in... #flashfiction
Very happy my flash CNF Where You Got Your Tan is in this double issue of Emerge Literary Journal today.
Can’t wait to dig in to the issue!
Thank you editors Ariana Den Bleyker and Diane Gottlieb.
Can’t wait to dig in to the issue!
Thank you editors Ariana Den Bleyker and Diane Gottlieb.
Where You Got That Tan
by Elizabeth Collis You bleed onto the Emergency Room floor. You crushed a finger in your apartment door on the way to work; called me. The finger’s swollen and cut, your eyes are swollen and wet, …
emergeliteraryjournal.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Very happy my flash CNF Where You Got Your Tan is in this double issue of Emerge Literary Journal today.
Can’t wait to dig in to the issue!
Thank you editors Ariana Den Bleyker and Diane Gottlieb.
Can’t wait to dig in to the issue!
Thank you editors Ariana Den Bleyker and Diane Gottlieb.
These three scrumptious micros added zing to my Monday. Congratulations @aniking.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and Sheree Shatsky
Thrilled to be launching MicroMonday today and we're kicking off with a stellar lineup. Please enjoy stories by @aniking.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and Sheree Shatsky #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please follow the link and enjoy
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April 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
These three scrumptious micros added zing to my Monday. Congratulations @aniking.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and Sheree Shatsky
Looking forward to this! @fictivedream.bsky.social
We're launching MicroMonday tomorrow so do please check out our site and enjoy our selection of tiny gems #microfiction #MicroMonday #readingcommunity #writingcommunity
April 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Looking forward to this! @fictivedream.bsky.social
Super grateful to @fictivedream.bsky.social and editor Laura Black for giving this story a home. Enjoy!
"Sammy, I think, must have sought patterns in the dark as well; noted regular and irregular movements." Pattern Disruption in the Cosmos by Elizabeth Collis @elizabethcollis.bsky.social #shortstory #writingcommunity. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/03/28/p...
March 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Super grateful to @fictivedream.bsky.social and editor Laura Black for giving this story a home. Enjoy!
Very happy @fictivedream.bsky.social gave this story a home!
We're delighted to welcome Elizabeth Collis with Pattern Disruption in the Cosmos, out tomorrow. An original take on a disturbing subject @elizabethcollis.bsky.social #shortstory #writingcommunity
March 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Very happy @fictivedream.bsky.social gave this story a home!
Read this gorgeous story, an immersive tour of the detour! Very enjoyable.
ICYMI today's story is Badlands Detour by Evan Harris which we love for its originality #flashfiction. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/03/21/b...
March 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Read this gorgeous story, an immersive tour of the detour! Very enjoyable.
Thank you for the nomination @intrepidusink.bsky.social and I’m honoured to be in such awesome nominee company. Also excited that @timonse.bsky.social will read my piece.
Congratulations & best of luck @elizabethcollis.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social @viking2917.bsky.social Arden Baker @andreagoyan.bsky.social ❤️ Winner TBA in April only at Intrepidus Ink. MANY thanks @timonse.bsky.social @allisonwrites.bsky.social @amandahurleynet.bsky.social & Calie 🙌 #authors
March 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Thank you for the nomination @intrepidusink.bsky.social and I’m honoured to be in such awesome nominee company. Also excited that @timonse.bsky.social will read my piece.
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Excited to have my story, "Fling" included in the new Tangled Lives anthology, alongside work by @swethaamit.bsky.social @thepoetjade.bsky.social @michelecacano.bsky.social @shannonsavvas.bsky.social. Thanks @tangledlockslit.bsky.social for creating this book! tangledlocksjournal.com/2023/04/13/f...
February 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Excited to have my story, "Fling" included in the new Tangled Lives anthology, alongside work by @swethaamit.bsky.social @thepoetjade.bsky.social @michelecacano.bsky.social @shannonsavvas.bsky.social. Thanks @tangledlockslit.bsky.social for creating this book! tangledlocksjournal.com/2023/04/13/f...
