Christopher Allen

Hey, everyone! Please do try to get there as early as possible!

We'd love to see you! We're getting there at around 4:30 to hang out, eat and drink before the reading, so even if you have obligations later, please stop by and say hello!

The Bedtime Emptying of Our World Short Stories Joel Hans 978-0-913785-69-0 Paper February 2026

Preorder alert! Snag your copy of @joelhans.com's The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, winner of @mooncitypress.bsky.social's 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award!

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Always love karaoke with you!

The image shows an otter with a unicorn horn and Christopher Allen's "where to find me" info for AWP: the panel "Lightning Strikes Twice" on Saturday at 1:45pm and the SmokeLong reading on Thursday evening at Old Major.

Thank you, Helen Rye, for making a graphic for me. She'll also be leading me around at AWP! Watch for us. If you see us wandering aimlessly around the bookfair, stop us and say hi!

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026! - SmokeLong Quarterly The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey) is now an annual competition that celebrates and compensates excellence in flash. Our first grand prize winner in 2018 was “Whale Fall” by ...

We're reading for the 2026 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. Prize pot: $4700. Be sure to read the previous years' issues before you enter. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

I need someone to plan AWP for me. Just tell me where to go. Shove me in to one Uber after another. I'll be uploading my Find Me at AWP post soon, as soon as someone tells me.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Trump is actively making our goods more expensive by blocking a piece of key infrastructure - apparently all because his most Epstein-linked Cabinet Secretary conveyed a request from a billionaire GOP donor. America does not have to tolerate this kind of corruption.

Thank you so much, Matt!

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Oh no. We never know how long we have. youtu.be/kPBzTxZQG5Q?...

Thank you so much, Claudia!

Thank you, Patricia!

Thank you, Timothy!

Yay!!!!

Breaking News — Ghost Parachute Did you hear about the Black man? The Black woman? Black boy? The Black girl gone missing? Kidnapped. From thoughts and prayers. From the news. A child turned memory turned muted turned into a body, f...

Sadly, this is timeless. New work by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute. ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

Thank you, Cole! And the art by Kaylan Stedman Friedman is wow.

Thank you, Kik!

Thank you, Bronwen!

Thank you, Ani!

Thank you so much, Sumitra!

Thank you so much, Emily!

Thank you so much, Lori!

Thank you so much, Tracie!

Chrysalis — Ghost Parachute Mama can’t see me, but I’m watching over her. From the kitchen. She’s on the couch in the den, recumbent, because she’s depressed, which she never says, but I know. I can read her mind. She lays my ni...

It's been a minute since I published something of my own! SmokeLong and SmokeLong Fitness are like having two full-time jobs (which I LOVE), so I'm thrilled to have found time to write something. Sending a huge hug to this kid. ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

Thank you, Belinda!

Thank you so much to
@brettpribble.bsky.social for giving this story a great home.

Chrysalis — Ghost Parachute Mama can’t see me, but I’m watching over her. From the kitchen. She’s on the couch in the den, recumbent, because she’s depressed, which she never says, but I know. I can read her mind. She lays my ni...

It's been a minute since I published something of my own! SmokeLong and SmokeLong Fitness are like having two full-time jobs (which I LOVE), so I'm thrilled to have found time to write something. Sending a huge hug to this kid. ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

Thank you so much, Dan!