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Lover of Science, Art, Words | Best Microfiction 2024| Best Small Fictions 2024| Wigleaf Top 50 2023| Stories: CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Vestal Review, Ghost Parachute,Time & Space Magazine + christinehchen.com
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Congratulations to @didiwood.bsky.social and @jekwriter.bsky.social for having stories selected for Best Microfiction 2025. Click below to read.

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

This week's Thursday craft interview with one of the writers long-listed for the SmokeLong Workshop Prize features Ani King! Their March Micro Marathon 2024 story "Kitchen Dancing" was published in Exposition Review. @aniking.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/an-interview... ⭐

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Holy smokes! Incredibly grateful to have won this contest! Thanks @smokelong.bsky.social, @christopherallen.bsky.social and all the incredible writers I've met in Smokelong Fitness workshops who always make my stories better.

submitted 62 days ago • 16 comments

Yay! I just got news that my @wigleaf.bsky.social story was nominated for Best Small Fictions! ICYMI - here it is... (oh and don't skip the postcard! I had a lot of fun making it!) wigleaf.com/202411holoho...

submitted 62 days ago • 16 comments

"By coincidence Olive called him. It was evening on Father’s Day. The sun was sinking, and she was a couple of G&Ts in. " by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in Maryland Literary Review

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

"The snow fell even though it knew my father wasn’t here to shovel." by @francinewitte.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

‘Ah Ba says he sees particles drifting, flying everywhere, rains of dust, he says, speckles that land on the back of his hands…’ A gorgeous story from @csquareh.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social, so beautifully written ☁️ www.smokelong.com/stories/i-se...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

"He points the camera at her bulbous green nubs and touches her long, wispy white hair that reminds him of Myna’s. Hey, I’ve started singing in the shower again, he tells her, as if, like his late wife, she’ll be proud." -Meg Pokrass mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

What awesome news to wake up to!! Thank you @vastchasmmag.bsky.social for the @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nomination!! Congratulations and good luck to my fellow nominees!

submitted 85 days ago • 10 comments

What a stunning read. Beautifully crafted characters in @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social novelette, Wild Plums @emergejournal.bsky.social Remarkable skill with details. Copy machines, YWCA locker rooms, locks, jigsaw puzzles-- the seemingly mundane soars in this exquisite book.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

I'm honored and thrilled to have another story in @smokelong.bsky.social this time, a microfiction "I See You" alongside 9 other works by amazing talents! Huge Thanks and gratitude to the SmokeLong Quarterly readers, editors and EiC @christopherallen.bsky.social for his tremendous help 🙏🥰

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

ICYMI: We nominated Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey's marvellous Issue 85 micro, "Posthuman Walks Into A Bar" for this year's Pushcart Prize. You can read/listen to it here: www.smokelong.com/stories/post... @esmepromise.bsky.social

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Thrilled to share my flash fiction tale "How Lady Bai's First Human Husband Disappeared" in @gonelawn.bsky.social where I also had my very first publication in 2021. Many Thanks to EiC @owenwyke.bsky.social and Editor @amygcb.bsky.social for this acceptance 🙏🥰 gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

New flash fiction is live @lostballoon.bsky.social ! 💙

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

Have you read Stephanie Niu's Issue 85 story, "The Winter Swimmer", yet? You can also listen to the audio of the author's reading, here: www.smokelong.com/stories/the-...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

At the age of 53, I have gotten my first ever medal. And I couldn’t be any happier. It’s gorgeous and shiny and way heavier than I expected. Thank you to @lascauxreview.bsky.social for selecting my story for the 2024 Lascaux Prize! #flashfiction

submitted 96 days ago • 9 comments

I'm over the moon that my flash "After" won the New Flash Fiction Review 2024 NEW FLASH FICTION PRIZE. @nffr.bsky.social Incredibly grateful to judge Nathan Leslie @nathan72.bsky.social, Valerie Fox, and @megpokrass.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/after-by-cla... #flash #Flashlit #Flashfiction

submitted 98 days ago • 23 comments

Huge thanks and gratitude to The Ilanot Review for the @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nomination! Congratulations to fellow nominees!

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

"They just kneel and scoop their fingers through the sludge, dig as quickly as they can before the hardening, layers upon layers of fossilized rage by now." LOVE this stunning story by @melissabowers.bsky.social

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

The amazing and talented @amymarques.bsky.social has done it again! Check out her new creation, Duet +1, "a found poetry and collage book on top of a New Yorker magazine" chockfull of art and stories: Buy a print copy or read for free at amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com/duets-anthol...

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments