Michael E. Diaz
@michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social
Fiction author, absurd & literary, psychotherapist, mental health expert. Work here: https://michaelediaz.com/ (Michael Pearson/ Michael E. Diaz) #writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #horrorauthor #booksky📚💙
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The publishing world has been kind. You can find my latest/upcoming publications, awards/accolades, and there might even be a novel on the way. Get ready, the absurd is coming: michaelediaz.com
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1st draft down of my literary speculative fiction novel - now I’m rethinking the titles. Thoughts. Single word titles, or multi-word titles?!
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#writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙
June 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
1st draft down of my literary speculative fiction novel - now I’m rethinking the titles. Thoughts. Single word titles, or multi-word titles?!
#writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙
#writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙
The door sliced her in half. He couldn’t speak, trembling deeply. Her face, the waxing half, caught every inimical shadow. Even the pores across her nose looked moon-like. And her lace front dress, yellowed frayed edges, reaching. “You look well, Mum,” he said. #WriteCBC @cbcreative.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The door sliced her in half. He couldn’t speak, trembling deeply. Her face, the waxing half, caught every inimical shadow. Even the pores across her nose looked moon-like. And her lace front dress, yellowed frayed edges, reaching. “You look well, Mum,” he said. #WriteCBC @cbcreative.bsky.social
Reposted by Michael E. Diaz
The Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025 is now open!
One story. 1,000 words. One shot at glory.
This year, we’re going big: one annual competition to celebrate the best in flash fiction.
Enter now! 👉 oxfordflashfictionprize.com
#FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #OxfordFlashFictionPrize
One story. 1,000 words. One shot at glory.
This year, we’re going big: one annual competition to celebrate the best in flash fiction.
Enter now! 👉 oxfordflashfictionprize.com
#FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #OxfordFlashFictionPrize
June 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025 is now open!
One story. 1,000 words. One shot at glory.
This year, we’re going big: one annual competition to celebrate the best in flash fiction.
Enter now! 👉 oxfordflashfictionprize.com
#FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #OxfordFlashFictionPrize
One story. 1,000 words. One shot at glory.
This year, we’re going big: one annual competition to celebrate the best in flash fiction.
Enter now! 👉 oxfordflashfictionprize.com
#FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #OxfordFlashFictionPrize
The publishing world has been kind. You can find my latest/upcoming publications, awards/accolades, and there might even be a novel on the way. Get ready, the absurd is coming: michaelediaz.com
#writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙
#writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙
May 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The publishing world has been kind. You can find my latest/upcoming publications, awards/accolades, and there might even be a novel on the way. Get ready, the absurd is coming: michaelediaz.com
#writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙
#writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙
I've been absent (sue me). I've been a busy bunny- novel course with @cbcreative.bsky.social, shortlisted by @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, confidentially a finalist at a lit mag in New York & a publication forthcoming in Indiana. Social media? Pa! #authors #writers #litfic #booksky #promosky
April 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I've been absent (sue me). I've been a busy bunny- novel course with @cbcreative.bsky.social, shortlisted by @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, confidentially a finalist at a lit mag in New York & a publication forthcoming in Indiana. Social media? Pa! #authors #writers #litfic #booksky #promosky
MISSION SUBMIT UPDATE-to the Krouse/Brecht top 200 in 2025. 57 rejections, 41 currently submitted, 5 placed (shortlist/accolades), 3 published & 1 positive-pending. Publish + Place rate of 1 in 7.13, & Publish Rate of 1 in 19, predicted 9 more pubs- all in top 118 #writingcommunity #litfic 📚💙
March 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
MISSION SUBMIT UPDATE-to the Krouse/Brecht top 200 in 2025. 57 rejections, 41 currently submitted, 5 placed (shortlist/accolades), 3 published & 1 positive-pending. Publish + Place rate of 1 in 7.13, & Publish Rate of 1 in 19, predicted 9 more pubs- all in top 118 #writingcommunity #litfic 📚💙
@eliarieh.bsky.social wanted to say hi! I think you must have read my first chapter as part of the Retreat West competition a while back, my (now very different book) Splinters From Boxes. Thanks for taking the time to do that.
March 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
@eliarieh.bsky.social wanted to say hi! I think you must have read my first chapter as part of the Retreat West competition a while back, my (now very different book) Splinters From Boxes. Thanks for taking the time to do that.
Submissions update: Mission submit to the Krouse/Brecht top 200 in 2024. So far, 50 rejections, 31 currently submitted, 5 placed (shortlist/accolades), 2 published & 2 positive-pending. Publish + Place rate of 1 in 7.14, and a publish rate of 1 in 25, all in top 120 #writingcommunity #litfic 📚💙
February 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Submissions update: Mission submit to the Krouse/Brecht top 200 in 2024. So far, 50 rejections, 31 currently submitted, 5 placed (shortlist/accolades), 2 published & 2 positive-pending. Publish + Place rate of 1 in 7.14, and a publish rate of 1 in 25, all in top 120 #writingcommunity #litfic 📚💙
My short story Dog Toothed is a quarterfinalist in the ghastly Killer Shorts competition. Let's all howl in celebration. Careful, it bites. #writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙michaelediaz.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My short story Dog Toothed is a quarterfinalist in the ghastly Killer Shorts competition. Let's all howl in celebration. Careful, it bites. #writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙michaelediaz.com
I should say this more, but to all the parents with F/T jobs, kids, and trying to manage a writing career at the same time, it is not easy I KNOW, so WELL DONE to us all #writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙
a man in a star trek uniform is clapping his hands in front of a starry sky
ALT: a man in a star trek uniform is clapping his hands in front of a starry sky
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February 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I should say this more, but to all the parents with F/T jobs, kids, and trying to manage a writing career at the same time, it is not easy I KNOW, so WELL DONE to us all #writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙
The smell of sour bodies hit Christie like a tepid slap. Their breathing hidden, moved only by the gasping door, signalled the scarce greeting. Placing her bag down, it stuck to the flytrap floor that had claimed magazines, pizza boxes and a buzzing Nokia 3310.
@cbcreative.bsky.social #WriteCBC
@cbcreative.bsky.social #WriteCBC
February 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The smell of sour bodies hit Christie like a tepid slap. Their breathing hidden, moved only by the gasping door, signalled the scarce greeting. Placing her bag down, it stuck to the flytrap floor that had claimed magazines, pizza boxes and a buzzing Nokia 3310.
@cbcreative.bsky.social #WriteCBC
@cbcreative.bsky.social #WriteCBC
Mission submission: targeting the top 100 lit mags this year, top to bottom. So far 12 rejections, 2 from the top 20, giving praise & requesting more work. 8 standard rejections, & 2 top-tier rejections. #writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙
January 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Mission submission: targeting the top 100 lit mags this year, top to bottom. So far 12 rejections, 2 from the top 20, giving praise & requesting more work. 8 standard rejections, & 2 top-tier rejections. #writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙
The wonderfully indie & beautifully crafted @moondaymag will be publishing one of my short stories based on a recurring nightmare I had as a child. The image is a hint. You'll see. #writersofinstagram #writer #writerscommunity #author #authorsofinstagram #authorlife #authorscommunity #queer #lgbtq
January 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The wonderfully indie & beautifully crafted @moondaymag will be publishing one of my short stories based on a recurring nightmare I had as a child. The image is a hint. You'll see. #writersofinstagram #writer #writerscommunity #author #authorsofinstagram #authorlife #authorscommunity #queer #lgbtq
Some of the literary journals I'm submitting to soon @TheSunMagazine @EmergeJournal @2hawksquarterly @SummersetReview @americanshortfic American Short Fiction @HistoryEpoch @fictionmag (most on X)
#writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky
#writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky
January 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Some of the literary journals I'm submitting to soon @TheSunMagazine @EmergeJournal @2hawksquarterly @SummersetReview @americanshortfic American Short Fiction @HistoryEpoch @fictionmag (most on X)
#writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky
#writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky
"He suckled with the immunity of a chick upon his mother’s gifts, tiptoeing against the metal fencing that contained us unwillingly in homogeneity." From my current WIP. Can I read a line from yours? Post below #writingcommunity
#queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky
#queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky
January 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"He suckled with the immunity of a chick upon his mother’s gifts, tiptoeing against the metal fencing that contained us unwillingly in homogeneity." From my current WIP. Can I read a line from yours? Post below #writingcommunity
#queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky
#queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky
Thoroughly recommend registering to Authors Publish. Fantastic source of information for submissions
#LitMags accepting #LiteraryFiction
These #literary magazines accept literary fiction. Some of them also accept #essays, #poetry, #artwork & more. Some of them pay up to $800.
Link 👇
🔗 authorspublish.com/30-magazines...
These #literary magazines accept literary fiction. Some of them also accept #essays, #poetry, #artwork & more. Some of them pay up to $800.
Link 👇
🔗 authorspublish.com/30-magazines...
January 21, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Thoroughly recommend registering to Authors Publish. Fantastic source of information for submissions
"On the last day I saw Marcus, I remember the painful scrapes of stool against scarred resin and crowds of Bunsen burners lining the desks like torch-bearing mobs. Lino print art spilled over from next door, their half-formed depictions like old scars." My short story FREE here: shorturl.at/0EHLX
And Only I Remain
Michael Pearson I lived in a small town and attended a small school, in a suburb west of Sheffield, a place where people didn’t much care for novelty. My best friend was Marcus, the name I also hol…
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January 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"On the last day I saw Marcus, I remember the painful scrapes of stool against scarred resin and crowds of Bunsen burners lining the desks like torch-bearing mobs. Lino print art spilled over from next door, their half-formed depictions like old scars." My short story FREE here: shorturl.at/0EHLX
Reposted by Michael E. Diaz
En route to a writing retreat, a privileged opportunity to develop my post-PhD thinking around human-wildlife interactions in #reintroductions.
And it's off to a beautiful start, with views of my local estuary from the train window
And it's off to a beautiful start, with views of my local estuary from the train window
January 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
En route to a writing retreat, a privileged opportunity to develop my post-PhD thinking around human-wildlife interactions in #reintroductions.
And it's off to a beautiful start, with views of my local estuary from the train window
And it's off to a beautiful start, with views of my local estuary from the train window
This really is fantastic advice #writingcommunity
Some sage advice from CS Lewis. Relevant today. Enter Pitch’s writing competition here… www.pitch-mag.co.uk/young-sports...
January 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This really is fantastic advice #writingcommunity
Publishing news: I'll have a piece published with the wonderfully indie Moonday Magazine (it's beautiful, take a look). It'll be a while, so I'll hold you in suspense until then: moondaymag.com #writingcommunity
#horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky
#horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky
Moonday Mag
Moonday Mag is a speculative art and literary magazine celebrating the fantastic and fantastically strange.
moondaymag.com
January 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Publishing news: I'll have a piece published with the wonderfully indie Moonday Magazine (it's beautiful, take a look). It'll be a while, so I'll hold you in suspense until then: moondaymag.com #writingcommunity
#horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky
#horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky
Hey, you. Say hi. If you don't know who I am, look at my website. It's like a big, yellow resume. A wasp even. But cooler than that. Find my weird, and my mug, here: michaelediaz.com #writingcommunity
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Michael E. Diaz
Author & Psychotherapist
michaelediaz.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Hey, you. Say hi. If you don't know who I am, look at my website. It's like a big, yellow resume. A wasp even. But cooler than that. Find my weird, and my mug, here: michaelediaz.com #writingcommunity
📚💙
#horrorwriterschat
#authors
#writers
#litfic
#queerwriters
#lgbtq
#promosky
#booksky
📚💙
#horrorwriterschat
#authors
#writers
#litfic
#queerwriters
#lgbtq
#promosky
#booksky
For the fact it taught me ‘ekphrastic’ just from the title, check out this poetry collection
January 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
For the fact it taught me ‘ekphrastic’ just from the title, check out this poetry collection
Reposted by Michael E. Diaz
"Even people who don't generally enjoy fantasy novels absolutely love these books!"
Servants of the Moon and Sun, an epic fantasy reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. What if Maleficent
was Aurora's mother and what if she wasn't really evil?
www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D
Servants of the Moon and Sun, an epic fantasy reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. What if Maleficent
was Aurora's mother and what if she wasn't really evil?
www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D
December 30, 2024 at 10:51 PM
"Even people who don't generally enjoy fantasy novels absolutely love these books!"
Servants of the Moon and Sun, an epic fantasy reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. What if Maleficent
was Aurora's mother and what if she wasn't really evil?
www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D
Servants of the Moon and Sun, an epic fantasy reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. What if Maleficent
was Aurora's mother and what if she wasn't really evil?
www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D
Thanks @jamespenha.bsky.social for the beautiful summary, in better words than I could of chosen, of my short story And Only I Remain
Diaz takes the two-schoolmates-dealing-with-their-gayness trope and shoots it into infinity. Daring and beautifully written.
A dark, introspective, quantum-mechanics-filled short story about the repression of sexuality. You might cry. Read now, free, with @pitheadchapel.bsky.social - and let me know what you think! #WritingCommmunity #LGBTQ #queerwriters #litfic #promosky #authors #writers
January 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Thanks @jamespenha.bsky.social for the beautiful summary, in better words than I could of chosen, of my short story And Only I Remain
Reposted by Michael E. Diaz
Heartbreaking work by @michaelediaz.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
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And Only I Remain
Michael Pearson I lived in a small town and attended a small school, in a suburb west of Sheffield, a place where people didn’t much care for novelty. My best friend was Marcus, the name I also hol…
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January 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Heartbreaking work by @michaelediaz.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
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