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This came out a few days ago, but the second issue of Twist Magazine dropped with a ton of wonderful stories, including my second-place 500 story. It's great to be among such talented company. Download the issue here:
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December 22, 2025 at 5:42 AM
This came out a few days ago, but the second issue of Twist Magazine dropped with a ton of wonderful stories, including my second-place 500 story. It's great to be among such talented company. Download the issue here:
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I'm in here twice! (a 500 & a 250)
In good company with some talented friendos.
And pssssst, there's something sneaky happening on page 31. 👀🎵
Thanks, Twist!
In good company with some talented friendos.
And pssssst, there's something sneaky happening on page 31. 👀🎵
Thanks, Twist!
We are thrilled to share the second issue of the Twist Magazine.
Featuring the winners from the Twisted Tourney, winner interviews and a range of selected stories.
Read it here:
twistedtournament.com/magazine
Featuring the winners from the Twisted Tourney, winner interviews and a range of selected stories.
Read it here:
twistedtournament.com/magazine
December 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I'm in here twice! (a 500 & a 250)
In good company with some talented friendos.
And pssssst, there's something sneaky happening on page 31. 👀🎵
Thanks, Twist!
In good company with some talented friendos.
And pssssst, there's something sneaky happening on page 31. 👀🎵
Thanks, Twist!
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I have a new prose poetry piece, "Subway Surfing," out today at the lovely @lostballoon.bsky.social.
Thank you to Chelsea and the editors for giving this one a home.
Thank you to Chelsea and the editors for giving this one a home.
You are going to love our new piece by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social! Check out “Subway Surfing.” lost-balloon.com/2025/12/17/s...
Subway Surfing by Mizuki Yamamoto
Children throw their bodies into darkness, daring each other, further, surfing steel, blurring through tunnels, daring their bodies, further, further towards somewhere that is nowhere but feels lik…
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December 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I have a new prose poetry piece, "Subway Surfing," out today at the lovely @lostballoon.bsky.social.
Thank you to Chelsea and the editors for giving this one a home.
Thank you to Chelsea and the editors for giving this one a home.
"She didn’t know why, beyond the fact that she felt sad and alone in the body-breaking kind of way, where it was all too big to fit, and the next moment was impossible and inevitable and deeply, deeply dangerous."
Read the rest of @lyss-b.bsky.social's story here:
Read the rest of @lyss-b.bsky.social's story here:
If your Tuesday needed some sapphic sadness, this one's got you covered.
And of course, a ginormous thanks to the bold and weird Rat Bag for giving this bold and weird story a home 🐀🧀🐀
And of course, a ginormous thanks to the bold and weird Rat Bag for giving this bold and weird story a home 🐀🧀🐀
Today's story is "Grief in Glass" Lyss Buchthal.
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros
December 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"She didn’t know why, beyond the fact that she felt sad and alone in the body-breaking kind of way, where it was all too big to fit, and the next moment was impossible and inevitable and deeply, deeply dangerous."
Read the rest of @lyss-b.bsky.social's story here:
Read the rest of @lyss-b.bsky.social's story here:
Congratulations @sarlynh.bsky.social! A well-deserved nomination.
The biggest of thank yous to Laura at Fictive Dream for nominating my story for Best Small Fictions. So grateful to be thought of! <3
It's a joy to be nominating Playing Pretend by Sarah Lynn Hurd for Best Small Fictions 2026 @sarlynh.bsky.social #microfiction #nomination. If you missed it the first, here's another chance. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/07/14/m...
December 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Congratulations @sarlynh.bsky.social! A well-deserved nomination.
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My first Pushcart nomination! I am beyond grateful and honored. Thank you so much @paranoidxtree.bsky.social for loving my story as much as I did 💚
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My first Pushcart nomination! I am beyond grateful and honored. Thank you so much @paranoidxtree.bsky.social for loving my story as much as I did 💚
“I would normally read a book to kill this awful, slowly creeping time, but it feels disrespectful, like a declaration that my life is so easy and carefree that I can relax in the fantasy of fiction.”
Read the rest of Jaime’s powerful story here:
Read the rest of Jaime’s powerful story here:
Long time since I released a big beast into the wild but here is The Future Is Me, told from NHS waiting rooms during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. The siblings are my most Northumbrian characters though a Colombian walked in from nowhere and kidnapped the story.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“I would normally read a book to kill this awful, slowly creeping time, but it feels disrespectful, like a declaration that my life is so easy and carefree that I can relax in the fantasy of fiction.”
Read the rest of Jaime’s powerful story here:
Read the rest of Jaime’s powerful story here:
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There are stories that come along from time to time that, once you've read them, have given you not only the pleasure of being entertained and affected, but cause you to feel you know the world more than before you read it. I think of "The Wife of His Youth" often. This wonderful story is another.
Long time since I released a big beast into the wild but here is The Future Is Me, told from NHS waiting rooms during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. The siblings are my most Northumbrian characters though a Colombian walked in from nowhere and kidnapped the story.
waccamawjournal.com/fiction/the-...
waccamawjournal.com/fiction/the-...
December 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
There are stories that come along from time to time that, once you've read them, have given you not only the pleasure of being entertained and affected, but cause you to feel you know the world more than before you read it. I think of "The Wife of His Youth" often. This wonderful story is another.
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Thrilled to be a 3rd place winner of the CRAFT Literary First Chapters Contest! The opening pages of my speculative horror novel + craft essay are now live.
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thrilled to be a 3rd place winner of the CRAFT Literary First Chapters Contest! The opening pages of my speculative horror novel + craft essay are now live.
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Thank you Dana and team for nominating my tiny little poems at @tinywrenlit.bsky.social for the Pushcart Prize 🙏🏻🥰 Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to our wrensters nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2026!
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Thank you Dana and team for nominating my tiny little poems at @tinywrenlit.bsky.social for the Pushcart Prize 🙏🏻🥰 Congratulations to all!
"grow.spread.infect.change.devour.".. Katherine Garrison's trio of poems.
Very excited to have this trio of poems out today! Thanks @horrificscribs.bsky.social!
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! @katherinegarrison.bsky.social joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with _Approaching Dangers: Three Monstrous Poems_, which includes "Trolls!," "Bloodlust," and "The Spread of Incurable Things." Revel in the imagery! horrificscribblings.com
#darkpoetry #monsters #trolls #vampires #spores
#darkpoetry #monsters #trolls #vampires #spores
December 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"grow.spread.infect.change.devour.".. Katherine Garrison's trio of poems.
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My acerbicly tongue-in-cheek "How to Go From Book Idea To Literary Agent In Under One Year" just dropped in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social !
Want to write a book? Want a literary agent? Are you willing to sacrifice your sanity?
Have I got the article for you.
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Want to write a book? Want a literary agent? Are you willing to sacrifice your sanity?
Have I got the article for you.
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How to Go from Book Idea to Acquiring a Literary Agent in Less Than One Year – THE HOOGHLY REVIEW
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December 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My acerbicly tongue-in-cheek "How to Go From Book Idea To Literary Agent In Under One Year" just dropped in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social !
Want to write a book? Want a literary agent? Are you willing to sacrifice your sanity?
Have I got the article for you.
thehooghlyreview.com/how-to-go-fr...
Want to write a book? Want a literary agent? Are you willing to sacrifice your sanity?
Have I got the article for you.
thehooghlyreview.com/how-to-go-fr...
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I cannot quite believe it but my very small story "Receipt" has been nominated for the 2026 Best Microfiction Anthology! 🥳
Thank you a thousand times over to the @doesithavepockets.bsky.social team for believing in this piece. I am so incredibly honored 🙏🏻💚
Congratulations to all the nominees!
Thank you a thousand times over to the @doesithavepockets.bsky.social team for believing in this piece. I am so incredibly honored 🙏🏻💚
Congratulations to all the nominees!
Sending our hopes & adorations & happy dances alongside our five nominees for Best Microfiction's 2026 anthology!
December 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I cannot quite believe it but my very small story "Receipt" has been nominated for the 2026 Best Microfiction Anthology! 🥳
Thank you a thousand times over to the @doesithavepockets.bsky.social team for believing in this piece. I am so incredibly honored 🙏🏻💚
Congratulations to all the nominees!
Thank you a thousand times over to the @doesithavepockets.bsky.social team for believing in this piece. I am so incredibly honored 🙏🏻💚
Congratulations to all the nominees!
Congratulations @exeterstevens.bsky.social!
I am happy to announce that my Alternative History story won the 2025 Autumn Writing Battle competition.
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Congratulations @exeterstevens.bsky.social!
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Well I didn't win the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award for fiction (boo*) but as a shortlister I AM in the gorgeous anthology (hooray!) so it's a win. Can't wait to get this** onto my bookshelf
* unless you're the winner, in which case hooray!
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* unless you're the winner, in which case hooray!
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December 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Well I didn't win the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award for fiction (boo*) but as a shortlister I AM in the gorgeous anthology (hooray!) so it's a win. Can't wait to get this** onto my bookshelf
* unless you're the winner, in which case hooray!
** shop.aestheticamagazine.com/collections/...
* unless you're the winner, in which case hooray!
** shop.aestheticamagazine.com/collections/...
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Today, I have some new words in @havehashad.com!
And this one paired with a donation to Community Foodshare in my local county in the spirit of giving 💝 Thank you Crow & @aaronburch.bsky.social for giving my second skull a home!
And this one paired with a donation to Community Foodshare in my local county in the spirit of giving 💝 Thank you Crow & @aaronburch.bsky.social for giving my second skull a home!
new Mizuki Yamamoto today with that nice tidal pull!
https://www.havehashad.com/i2wjr
https://www.havehashad.com/i2wjr
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Today, I have some new words in @havehashad.com!
And this one paired with a donation to Community Foodshare in my local county in the spirit of giving 💝 Thank you Crow & @aaronburch.bsky.social for giving my second skull a home!
And this one paired with a donation to Community Foodshare in my local county in the spirit of giving 💝 Thank you Crow & @aaronburch.bsky.social for giving my second skull a home!
Knife in. Guts out.
Congratulations on your well-deserved win, @probablysomeone.bsky.social !
Congratulations on your well-deserved win, @probablysomeone.bsky.social !
Honored to have again won Writing Battle, this time with a flash-length Dystopia, "Disassembly." Interview and published story linked below.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Knife in. Guts out.
Congratulations on your well-deserved win, @probablysomeone.bsky.social !
Congratulations on your well-deserved win, @probablysomeone.bsky.social !
Congratulations @jaimegill.bsky.social!
"The lights are dimming across Europe, the darkness seeping through the cracks of the British everyday."
SO thrilled my 1930s, very British, allegorical domestic drama - Appeasement - was a finalist for the New Flash Fiction Award by @nffr.bsky.social.
Read here: newflashfiction.com/appeasement/
SO thrilled my 1930s, very British, allegorical domestic drama - Appeasement - was a finalist for the New Flash Fiction Award by @nffr.bsky.social.
Read here: newflashfiction.com/appeasement/
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Congratulations @jaimegill.bsky.social!
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So excited to have my story "Infinite Wisdom" published in the pages of this month's @elegantliterature.bsky.social, titled "Charmed and Chained." Check it out along with LOTS of great stories this month, here: www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/
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Amazing stories by upcoming talent. No query letters. Guaranteed acceptance/rejection timeline. Above-professional pay.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
So excited to have my story "Infinite Wisdom" published in the pages of this month's @elegantliterature.bsky.social, titled "Charmed and Chained." Check it out along with LOTS of great stories this month, here: www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/
Three little treats. Perfect for a late night snack.
Three little 🤏🏻 micros from yours truly are up in the December issue of @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! Thank you to Camille and the editorial team! ✨
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Mizuki Yamamoto — Does It Have Pockets
Receipt | Bath House | Molting Season
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December 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Three little treats. Perfect for a late night snack.
Love takes many forms.
"Loxley is One Thousand Bats" by @beingcam.bsky.social
"Loxley is One Thousand Bats" by @beingcam.bsky.social
To love in whatever form it takes: “Loxley Is One Thousand Bats” By Camden Clair is perhaps one of the gentlest moments in the whole FamPunk issue. 💗 Read it for free on FFO!
@beingcam.bsky.social
#flashfiction #fantasy #shapeshifters #loveislove #writing
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@beingcam.bsky.social
#flashfiction #fantasy #shapeshifters #loveislove #writing
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Loxley Is One Thousand Bats
Loxley is one thousand bats.The animals embrace each other, nestling in the shape of something semi-human.The first time Loxley burst into a thousand night creatures in front of me, I laughed and c…
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December 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Love takes many forms.
"Loxley is One Thousand Bats" by @beingcam.bsky.social
"Loxley is One Thousand Bats" by @beingcam.bsky.social