My flash, Queen Mary’s Marmalade, will ride the waves at 9.20am ✨ 🌊 ✨
Thanks to the #NFFD team for including my piece this year 🤗
"The Chosen One" by @markhpoetry.bsky.social (he/him/his), a gay poet and writer in the Des Moines area using words to navigate the Sturm und Drang of daily life.
Amended post: Clear your diaries! Saturday is National Flash Fiction Day! Read with us & write with us! FlashFlood will publish a flash every five or ten minutes and our Write-in will publish a prompt on the hour every hour!
Emily Hall
Christine Collinson
It’s been such a long wait to see this tiger lily bloom! This lived, despite the heat, drought, and deer. 🐅 #gardensky #plants #plantsky
Mine will go up at 7:50 pm EST
On June 12th (that’s 0:50 BST on the 13th). Can’t wait to share my weird micro story, “Philodendron,” with everyone! 🪴 #writesky #flashflood #flashfiction #write #fiction
Amended post: Clear your diaries! Saturday is National Flash Fiction Day! Read with us & write with us! FlashFlood will publish a flash every five or ten minutes and our Write-in will publish a prompt on the hour every hour!
Two more days to submit to Hot Flash Literary’s Issue 4: Instant Karma!! Open to work up to 500 words by women-identifying writers. Full guidelines here: hotflashliterary.com/submissions/
The Ear Is the Organ of Fear: Matthew Eatough reviews Mónica Ojeda’s ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social, tr. Sarah Booker)
National Flash Fiction Day
hotflashliterary.com
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for Issue 4! Theme: Instant Karma. We are open for submissions for Issue 4 from May 1, 2026, through June 12, 2026. Hot Flash Literary accepts previously un...
Matthew Eatough Under Review:Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun. Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker. Coffee House Press, May 2026. It’s fascinating to consider why cutting-edge devel…
Love being part of this. My “Cloud 10” will go up around 12:10 PM EST on Saturday June 12. Excited to see what the Flood brings
Jessica Klimesh
My flash fiction novella ‘Bereft of Reason’ is published today by V. Press. Set in the 1890s, it is inspired by a shocking crime that happened in my family’s history.Many thanks to V. Press & also to Michael Loveday & Alison Woodhouse for the fab quotes.Signed copies are available from my website.
Amended post: Clear your diaries! Saturday is National Flash Fiction Day! Read with us & write with us! FlashFlood will publish a flash every five or ten minutes and our Write-in will publish a prompt on the hour every hour!
Open submissions! Find out how to submit your work to Hopper Mag, @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social, A Public Space, Sweet Lit, Hollow and Sky, Root Smoke, & After Brunch Journal
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