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✍️ Fiction writer | 📝 in LitMag, New Letters, New Orleans Review & more | ❤️‍🔥 #flashfiction #fairytales #speculative | 🔗 www.nadiaborn.com
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Elated to be included on @mynachang.bsky.social’s roundup! ✨ Check out all these tiny speculative beauties ⬇️

Psyched to have a story on this list!! 🎉 👀 ⬇️

So thrilled (+chilled?) for my debut #fantasy story now out in FFO’s “winter #folklore” issue! ❄️✨ Check out “The Ice Cutter’s Daughter and Her Looking Glass” here ➡️ www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-... Thank you @flashfictiononline.bsky.social & @carinabissett.bsky.social! 🙏

@haydensferryreview.bsky.social is an absolute gem of a #litmag. Can’t wait to read it! ⬇️ ✨

Enjoy these bone-shivering tales in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social’s winter folklore issue (including one by yours truly)! ❄️ ✨ #fairytales #flashfiction #sff

🚨The Blue Frog is now open! Theme: Voice Guest Judge: Gina Chung Guest Artist: @jiksuncheung.bsky.social $5 entry fee // $700 in prizes!! flash-frog.com/contest/

Writer folks: Give yourself the gift of reading these *free* #writingcraft articles by @mattkendrick.bsky.social. ✍️ 🎁 I’m slowly making my way through them. There’s lots of fresh info and inspiration to kick off 2025! #writingcommunity

This, this, this! ✨ ⬇️

A stellar #flashfiction contest for #specfic folks! ⬇️ 🔮 ✨ Submit up to 1,000 words by 12/31 here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/6

Cool opportunity for speculative (and literary!) folks! ✨✨ Submission 🔗: luminaliteraryjournal.submittable.com/submit

The Mikey--The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest--is open for entries! Send us something new or something previously published. We're easy. 250 word limit. Deadline: November 15! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

We're delighted to announce a new future for Ursula's home in Portland, Oregon. The Le Guin family will donate the house to Literary Arts as a site for the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency. apnews.com/article/ursu...

“We’ve all heard the axiom that comparing works of art is like comparing apples to oranges, but it’s really like comparing apples to poodles to waterslides.” ✨ ➡️ Great food for thought on writerly competition from Benjamin Schaefer via Electric Lit (electricliterature.com/we-need-to-t...)

We're open for submissions May 1 - June 30. We're looking for writing inspired by art for our Winter 2025 issue. See our Submittable page for more info.

🚨 FYI #SFF folks: @lightspeedmagazine.com is now open for Science Fiction Flash! Go get 'em! 💪 ➡️ adamant.moksha.io/publication/...

HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! We're giving $100 to help boost your writing in 2024—workshop, comp/submission fees, membership, critiques, books, pens—anything you find helpful, anywhere. Like & share to enter. We'll also give $100 to one of the organisations we support—winner to choose. Ends midnight NYC Dec 23

This tiny #fairytale is gorgeous. Read it for a healthy dose of beauty ⬇️

Writer-parents: Highly recommend this thoughtful essay by @shanders.bsky.social! ✨ Adding to my motherhood required reading list… ✅

Flash folks, don’t miss out! ⚡️ 400 words, $1,500 grand prize and publication in the ever-dazzling SmokeLong. 🔥

Happy belated birthday, Frodo and Bilbo! And merry #HobbitDay to the rest of us! I confess, I’ve always wanted to have a Party Tree… 🎉🌳✨

Just finished reading @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2023 on Scribd! ✨ All the stories are so so good. ❤️‍🔥 Some of my favs were: -"El Deliveryboy" by Christine Arroyo -"Breath" by Bruce Johnson -"A Queer Girl’s Guide to Reading Fairy Tales" by Rebecca Turkewitz Thanks for the inspiration! 🌻