Lori Cramer

Submissions - Hot Flash Literary Submissions Guidelines From January 5 through February 20, 2026, we will be open for submissions for Issue 3. The theme: Fire and ice. Creative interpretations of the theme are encouraged. To get a fe...

Reminder: Hot Flash Literary is open for subs for just two more weeks (!) for Issue 3: Fire and Ice. Subs open to women-identifying writers. #flashfiction #flashCNF #prosepoetry hotflashliterary.com/submissions/

feeling angry or depressed? why not fix yourself a cup of tea? then you can be angry and depressed while also holding a cup of tea

MicroMonday #42 Every Sunday Morning at 9, Dad Honks the Horn of His Midlife-Crisis Mustang by Lori Cramer cuing my little brother, Asa, and me to hurry outside as if there’s nothing we’d rather do than hop into D…

'Actually, Asa does look forward to our breakfasts with Dad—but that’s because Mom never buys us fast food. Not that she’s opposed to us eating it. It’s just too expensive, she says.'
Stark bittersweet micro by @loricramerwriter.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
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Thank you so much, Laura!

ICYMI today we're feat. "Every Sunday Morning at 9, Dad Honks the Horn of His Midlife-Crisis Mustang" by Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/02/02/m...

When I saw the title I had to read it right now - And I'm so glad I did. Wonderful little micro. Congratulations🎉

This is so brilliant! "as if there’s nothing we’d rather do than hop into Dad’s look-how-cool-I-am-mobile and be whooshed across town"! I love the narrator's voice and attitude here. Great #microfiction by @loricramerwriter.bsky.social out in @fictivedream.bsky.social this morning!

#MicroMonday

Thank you so much for reading and sharing--and for your kind words!

Thrilled to have my micro "Every Sunday Morning at 9, Dad Honks the Horn of His Midlife-Crisis Mustang" featured today on #MicroMonday in @fictivedream.bsky.social. Thank you, Laura Black!

New month, new words. #amwriting

Trimmed a 150-word story to 125 words. #amwriting #microfiction

and you may find yourself reading everything you wrote in your notes app at 4am and you may tell yourself this is not my beautiful story

Anthology Submissions for the 2026 anthology are OPEN from 1 December 2025 – 15 February 2026 2026 Theme The theme for this year’s anthology is BRIDGES. What does the theme mean to you? Burning bridges…

Brightening a grey day reading sparkling takes on this year's theme, BRIDGES for @natflashfictionday.bsky.social anthol. You've still got over 2 weeks to get your story in. Closes 15 Feb, Max 500 words.

Please share - all welcome! #FlashFiction

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With the Super Bowl upon us, a LOT of grocery stories have major sales going on (B1G1, etc) so it's great time to help stock your local food pantry. It's cold and people are hungry. Let's get them fed.

It didn't survive the draft, but it got the story started, so it was worth it!

Congratulations, Laura!

When a weird first line pops into your head and you just go with it. #amwriting #flashfiction

Yay! Congratulations!

Congratulations, Cheryl!

Cowboy Jamboree says so.

Just SEVEN more stories left in our countdown of brilliant micros. So sad that the Welkin will be over (or will it?) for another year in just 7 days. Last 2 pieces from the shortlist today & tomorrow. After that, the vote for the People's Prize will be open. And from Tuesday, the winners...! 🤩

All the People Are Becoming Birds, by Natalie Warther — The Bulb Region All the People Are Becoming Birds — Natalie Warther WE EACH WAIT OUR TURN, knowing...

"In my lap, his knees, feet, elbows, all of it fits inside my arms like a shopping bag full of doorknobs."

Read Natalie Warther in @bulbregion.bsky.social

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That's a really good idea!

pretending my novel is a collection of short stories about the same characters to trick myself into writing it

I like reading books by authors who say they had fun while writing it.

Congratulations!

Thank you!

"...how I'm glad you didn't know me back then; how you'd have stopped, aghast, if we'd passed in the street...."

Read @cake-girl.bsky.social in @welkinprize.bsky.social .

"Drink circled back to memory, and memory unlocked my father's watch, still ticking like it wasn't finished."

Read David Anson Lee in @welkinprize.bsky.social.

First acceptance of 2026! #amwriting