Andrea Bishop

It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yourself arguing inside your head w/someone who's not present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need.

A purple graphic for The Fiddle’s special Summer 2026 disability issue. At the top of the graphic is The Fiddlehead’s logo. Below is a purple image with two transparent light purple circles overlapping like a Venn diagram. On top of this, in white, is the work Revolution. Below is the text: call for submissions from disabled writers. Deadline November 30, 2025. Thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

Disability: The Revolution!

Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025

If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.

See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

I'd be grateful if you can send links for flash stories where climate change plays a role. I'd like my students to write these kinds of stories for an assignment, but I don't have many models. Thanks!

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Thanks so much for reading and sharing, Dawn. 🙏

Attention! (Fun to write that, that’s all). Pleased and proud to share that my story made this fancy longlist. As you were.

Excited to share this. My feather of a story is in one of my fave journals.

An advertisement for The Forge's Flash Competition. At the top is a photo of an anvil, hammer, and hot piece of iron with the logo "The Forge Literary Magazine." Below, on a yellow background, text reads: The Forge 2025 Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Competition, September 1-14. Winners Awarded $1000. $5 Submissions. (no-fee options available)

Applications due in ten days!

the writing process

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So excited to be included in this lineup. Thanks @psmokejournal.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️ Looking forward to reading the other stories.

Love this story! Quick, worthy read.

Descend ‘Down here, a thought was a precious thing. It carried our entire lives.’ Fiction by Chanel Sutherland.

This story! Powerful, heartbreaking, unique, & memorable. Highly recommend. By Chanel Sutherland @csuther.bsky.social
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Goat Song - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Chase Eggenberger on Unsplash by Eileen Frankel Tomarchio When the summer girl sang to them, everything slowed: the browsing, the chewing, the four-chambered bellies filling, the kids’ frolic...

"Before the summer girl sang, they hadn’t known they had souls, hadn’t known they could be serious." I loved this story by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social.
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Ahhhh!!! I already know I'd LOVE to read 4 of these collections because I ❤️ so many of their stories. I'm guessing the authors I don't know here have stories equally as good. Congrats all, good luck, and based on my sample of 4, you're all winners and I'll keep an eye out for your collections.

"I get up when it’s still dark because, if I wait until after the Tuscan sun rises, it will be too hot to bake a cake." This shortie by @brechtdp.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social stretched my heart. Recommended read.

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High Intensity Interval Training for Flash Writers: All New Editing Edition, 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly Have you just written some new flash and don’t know what to do next? Is there a story that won’t let you go but that never quite feels ‘there’? Do you keep submitting a piece you love that never quite...

Ingrid Jendrzejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social
is back in the house on May 17th! And we can't wait. These sessions are always exhilarating. Bring your drafty drafts. www.smokelong.com/product/high...

Naw, thank YOU.

AAAAH!! Look, everyone! I made THE LIST! Again. SO excited. (Thank you Hugh). Oh, and if you don't subscribe to his newsletter you're missing out. Great stories (I mean, other than mine 😊), music rec's, random interesting stuff. But don't blame me if you get less work done.

"They’ve passed beyond the lake now and the boy feels better until the car swerves a bit, sliding a few inches across the road in a layer of rain." Nothing Mechanically Wrong by @andreabishop.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/04/20/n...

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Nothing Mechanically Wrong by Andrea Bishop OUT HIS SISTER’S WINDOW a lake appears, almost level with the highway, peppered deep with rain divots. The boy reassures himself; reducing speed prevents fatalities. Crashes …

"Though it’s getting harder to remember the sound of his mom’s actual voice, he can easily picture the back of her head, hair loose and long..." Nothing Mechanically Wrong by @andreabishop.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction. Please follow and enjoy

Can't think of a better home for little Henry than @fictivedream.bsky.social. 🥰 6-minute read.

We're delighted to welcome Andrea Bishop with her short story Nothing Mechanically Wrong, out tomorrow @andreabishop.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction #writingcommunity

Full-On Badger - SmokeLong Quarterly Reading Festival 2010, a wet August bank holiday and the mud’s on special offer. We don’t care, we’re lost in never-never land—you in a tutu, me in badger costume. You love the thrill of lacy frills a...

Loved this story by Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social. "Carl says he’ll report him to the RSPCA. I want to laugh, but I won’t go out-of-character, not even for The Libertines."
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A Rhythm, A Breath, An Exhalation by L Mari Harris Monday, everything is in its place: There’s the sofa across from the picture window so you can keep one eye on your crime shows and the other eye on the hummingbirds. There’s the e…

And this. "Monday, everything is in its place: There’s the sofa across from the picture window so you can keep one eye on your crime shows and the other eye on the hummingbirds." Beautiful story. By @lmariharris.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social

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Mr. Gesup by J. Edward Kruft Can I tell you now – please? – how it all began? Can I tell you now, Gerry, what you never knew I knew? You telephoned Randall – my hairdresser, my john – and he put you on speak…

Getting caught up on stories I missed during my time away and obsessed with so many goodies in @fictivedream.bsky.social. Starting with this gem, both tender and biting, by @jedwardkruft.bsky.social.
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Fancy joining us for a literary shindig in Brussels? Tickets are on sale tomorrow! 🤸🏽‍♂️🤸🏽‍♂️🤸🏽‍♂️ @saloneurope.bsky.social