Best Microfiction

BIG NEWS! @megpokrass.bsky.social & Gary Fincke are thrilled to announce that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social will be serving as final judge for Best Microfiction 2026! Subs re-open in Nov. Stay tuned.
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Dystopian Microfiction Workshop: August 1st-3rd (200 words max) “When life gives you robots, make robotade.” -Anonymous

Our Founding Editor is teaching a dystopian micro workshop this weekend.. Don't miss my dystopian workshop this weekend! A few spots left. megpokrass.substack.com/p/dystopian-...

It's out in the world! Available from online booksellers worldwide! Congrats to all the amazing contributors! #FlashFiction #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork

We're honored that Best Microfiction received First Runner Up in the prestigious Eric Hoffer Book Awards! 🍾 😍Congrats to Gary Fincke, Grant Faulkner, @pelekinesis.bsky.social,and the Best Microfiction 2024 authors! #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork #BookSky

How wonderful! I love this story. Can’t wait to listen. -Meg P.

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Dear 2025 Winners, you should all have received your acceptance letters and contracts today. Please check spam mail if you have not received one.

Hint Fiction Contest: 15-Word David Lynch Inspired Stories The late David Lynch was a huge inspiration to many of us.

Our founding editor has a fun and free 15-word David Lynch inspired story contest going on! open.substack.com/pub/pokrassp...

Congratulations to the winners!!

Best Microfiction The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

Dear friends, the winners of Best Microfiction 2025 are live! A huge thanks to 2025 judge Dawn Raffel! BM 2025 will be released in the Spring! If you're on this list, expect an email and contract from us in the next 2 weeks. www.bestmicrofiction.com? #flashfiction #microfiction #writingcommunity

Best Microfiction The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

Best Microfiction is looking for an intern. Please let us know if someone comes to mind! We're going into the 6th year of our award winning series.
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A Conversation With Meg Pokrass - The Adroit Journal First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories brings together the best of Meg Pokrass’s flash fiction from over a decade of her career. Families reel from losses, doomed couples devour buttered popcorn...

I have an interview at The Adroit Journal about First Law of Holes: New and Selected Dzanc Books)! theadroitjournal.org/2024/12/05/a...
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Animal Planet — Ghost Parachute Dad’s cousin Bob slipped a note under our front door while Ma was at her second job. He said he was feeding a mouse to Priscilla the boa constrictor in a terrarium he had built, and he invited me to c...

Read "Animal Planet" written by @megpokrass.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J. Barr.

"He said he was feeding a mouse to Priscilla the boa constrictor in a terrarium he had built, and he invited me to come check it out."

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After by Claudia Monpere | Issue #35 and after and after and nothing changes, just the names of the children. This one drew birds wearing hats. That one had an orange juice popsicle for an imaginary friend.

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
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Animal Planet — Ghost Parachute Dad’s cousin Bob slipped a note under our front door while Ma was at her second job. He said he was feeding a mouse to Priscilla the boa constrictor in a terrarium he had built, and he invited me to c...

My new flash story, "Animal Planet", is live at the wonderful Ghost Parachute! Thank you to @brettpribble.bsky.social. ghostparachute.com/issue/decemb...
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A huge honor to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize by @fracturedlit.bsky.social for my story "Horsebroken". I'm so grateful! fracturedlit.com/horsebroken/
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Made a starter pack of lit mags and presses that have been around a while and made their way to Bluesky.

Ty!!

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Please add us to your lit mag and submission opportunities lists here on Bluesky. We have completely stopped using X now and would love help spreading the word.. 🥰 Thank you for finding us here!

This looks wonderful!

That’s lovely! Bobbie is the best! I hope you like my work Wes. 🙂

megpokrass.bsky.social (@megpokrass.bsky.social) Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland

Our Founding and Managing Editor Meg Pokrass is also here on Bluesky. @megpokrass.bsky.social

It’s time! Best Microfiction open for magazine editors' nominations! Now until 12/15. This year's anthology judged by @DawnRaffel. Edited by @megpokrass & Gary Fincke. Editors: Sub 5 stories (up to 400 words each). #flashfiction #microfiction tinyurl.com/5aakrphh

Best Microfiction The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

Here they are! Our judge @grantfaulkner’s final selections are in!Congratulations to the winners of Best Microfiction 2024! This is going to be such marvelous book of gems ❤️🍾Thank you to all the nominating editors! bestmicrofiction.com

Drumroll…. Watch this space.. Winners of Best Microfiction 2024,will be announced early this week. 🍾

Best Microfiction wants to thank the following journals for nominating stories for our anthology this year! www.bestmicrofiction.com

Best Microfiction The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

Magazine Editors: Last week to submit! We close on the 15th… www.bestmicrofiction.com

#1 Nicole Rivas: Master Flash Fiction Author Everyone Should Read “You do not want to explain a thing. You want to bewitch the reader by the preservation of mystery” -Gordon Lish

Over on Meg Pokrass’ teaching substack: QUIET FLASH FICTION MASTERS EVERYONE SHOULD BE READING.. First up is Nicole Rivas. Check it out. Lhttps://t.co/ZzCPdEo8AZ