I'm excited to host our first zoom reading! I hope to see you there!

New substack on Character Intentions creating scenes! I loved taking a close look Edie Meade 's fantastic flash published in Fractured Lit 's first anthology! Please share widely!

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Ready for our first Zoom reading? Join us to celebrate the release of our third anthology! Please register via submittable to attend.

my favorite Oregon writer/animal rescuer got her account hacked and deleted. good news: she’s back! if you were following her before, or even if you weren’t, take a second to follow now!

Kind version. I had some assurances about work next year that have fallen through for reasons out of my control. I've had 5 years straight of great peer and student reviews, won a press award and have 2 more books coming. I have not been idle. LMK if you know of something!

'A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.... When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell him to read the story.' -- Flannery O'Connor #shortstorymonth

I’m looking for 1-2 more writers to join a panel proposal for AWP for writers jumping genres. Did you start in one genre (and publish) and then hop to another? Specifically interested in folks who have moved into or out of CNF, or into poetry from prose.

I love how Tommy Dean breaks down Edie Meade’s flash, “As Solid as an Ashtray.” Learn from these two masters of craft in Tommy’s newsletter: tommydean.substack.com/p/using-charac…

Longing for a quiet moment to listen to this. 🛋️ ☕️

Honored that Tommy Dean has taken the time to do such a close read of my story.

We are open for submissions! Send us your gorgeous flash, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We can't wait to see what you've been up to!
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Just finished DEAD IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA by Venita Blackburn 🔥

Wow, no tweet can do this book justice. But trust in Blackburn and dive head first into this ride. Highly recommend!

May is stuffed with terrific debuts that will feed your shelves.

Check out titles from Andy, Charlee Dyroff, 'P., J. Nicole Jones, Emma Copley Eisenberg, Melissa Mogollon, Zoë Bossiere, and more!

debutiful.net/2024/05/02/15-…

🎙ONLINE READING 5/22 log-on from wherever you are for this gangbusters reading: T. De Los Reyes, Jenny Molberg, & Hananah Zaheer! 8pm EST | free w registration: bit.ly/hananah-jenny-…

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'...the woman calls me honey and God’s little angel and tells me all about which money-seeds we can plant for different kinds of miracles.'

This brilliance by Sara Hills in Fractured Lit 💙💙💙

Thrilled to have a new ghost story up at Uncharted Mag today! It’s my first work of historical fiction, set in the Biddeford mills in the mid-1800s. unchartedmag.com/stories/knocki…

Hyperbole is great, but is it keeping you from telling/revealing a truth? #flashwritingtip

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