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The grave of Augustus Dickens in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, surrounded by snow.

Callooh callay! My book, “& Please”, a collection of epistolary persona poems about Augustus Dickens, Charles Dickens’ youngest sibling, a subject heretofore unplumbed, is coming out in 2026 from @altcurrent.bsky.social. If you have a sibling, the worse the better, it’ll tickle ya. #writingcommunity

🎉 Congratulations to Faithna Geffrard, whose work "No Ponyboy" has been selected for @wigleaf.bsky.social's Top 50 2025 Longlist! This is also Faithna's second award for this story! "No Ponyboy" was also selected for @altcurrent.bsky.social's 2025 Best Small Fictions. 🎉

❤️‍🔥 I got to read two micros, which is always a thrill. For those who asked, ‘The Days the Cartoons Crept Out the TV’ was published by @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social last year, and will be in the upcoming Best Small Fictions 2025 from @altcurrent.bsky.social…

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We're not the music thingy. We're a publisher. Wrong tag. 🤗 But we're sorry it rained!

Announcement of the 2024 Electric Book Award Longlist The semifinalist longlist has been announced for the 2024 Electric Book Award to celebrate fantastic books.

My podcast play, "What Comes Next or Meet the Dunnes," is a semifinalist for the Electric Book Award from Alternating Current Press @altcurrent.bsky.social
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Lots of news incoming, but the biggest may be I won the Luminaire Prose award - organised by @altcurrent.bsky.social -
(same crew behind Best Small Fictions). Hundreds of entries, including published… and Things To Talk To Jim About came out top. I am SO HONOURED.

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The book THE GIRL WAKES: STORIES by Carmen Lau. Cover illustration is a sketched close-up of a girl’s head but her eyes are out of frame. Her mouth is the only thing colored in, and it’s smeared with pink across as if ambiguous whether it’s stained with blood or lipstick.The same pink is used in the swooping calligraphy of the title.

Got this book from @altcurrent.bsky.social at #AWP25 and ate it up like a meal.

THE GIRL WAKES by Carmen Lau is beautifully written. Gorgeous prose, dark edges, haunting whimsy. Feels like reading dark fairy tales or Wonderland again but subtly woven into modern settings.

🧵🪡 Faves listed below. ⬇️

Over 110 publications re-opened today, including @burnsidereview.bsky.social @cosmicrootsonline.bsky.social @hobocampreview.bsky.social @pulpasylum.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @rhppress.bsky.social @altcurrent.bsky.social https://duotrope.com...

The Best Small Fictions Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

A real “pinch me” moment to have a story selected for Best Small Fictions. Thanks to National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand’s Micro Madness for publishing ‘The Days the Cartoons Crept Out the TV’ last year 📺 💛 Little bit awestruck by that list of writers… 🙃

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Delighted to be included in the 2025 Best Small Fictions Anthology with 'Jewel Bearing'. Thanks to the folks @bansheepress.bsky.social for putting it forward and to the @altcurrent.bsky.social team for selecting it 🙏 altcurrentpress.com/best-small-fic… #flashfiction #WritingCommunity #shortstories

The Best Small Fictions Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

Fantastic to see flash fiction by Banshee contributors @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social and @atrodd.bsky.social included in Best Small Fictions 2025! @altcurrent.bsky.social Congrats to Chloe and Adam and to our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social 💫

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The Best Small Fictions Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

I’m fainting couch levels of excited that “Family Night” will be in Best Small Fictions 2025! Huge thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for loving, publishing, nominating this story & @altcurrent.bsky.social for including it with a frankly mindblowing list of work.

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"Teddy Bear Pancake" by Chris Scott | Weird Lit "Veronica picks up the sticky menu, comically large in her small hands, and considers it with a furrowed brow."

Many thanks to the amazing, super supportive folks at @weirdlitmag.bsky.social for publishing and going to bat for this story and @altcurrent.bsky.social for picking it. This was the first piece I ever got published in a lit mag, just a little under a year ago. www.weirdlitmag.com/fiction/tedd...

Best Small Fictions

"No Ponyboy" by Faithna Geffrard / Susurrus

🎉 We are thrilled to announce that Faithna Geffrard’s “No Ponyboy” is one of @altcurrent.bsky.social’s 2025 Best Small Fictions Selections! Congratulations Faithna! 🎉#BestSmallFictions

I'm excited to share that my short piece 'All Made-Up' has been selected for the 2025 Best Small Fictions Anthology! And thank you to The Diagram for originally publishing the piece!
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The Best Small Fictions Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

We at @barrelhouse.bsky.social are excited to see @ruthjoffre.bsky.social's story on the TOC for Best Small Fictions 2025! Thank you, @altcurrent.bsky.social

And thanks to Ofelia Montelongo for editing the Latine Monsters edition where it first appeared!

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The Best Small Fictions Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

Check out the full list of stories @altcurrent.bsky.social:

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Found out today that my piece, 'The Comeback" has been chosen for the 2025 Best Small Fictions (BSF) by @altcurrent.bsky.social . The anthology will be published later this year. Thanks to Michelle Elvy, Robert Shapard & Nathan Leslie.

So honoured to be included in the tenth year anniversary edition of BSF 2025! Thank you so much @gonelawn.bsky.social for the nomination and for your general awesomeness and the editors of BSF and @altcurrent.bsky.social for their tireless work. ❤️ Congratulations everyone!! ❤️

The Best Small Fictions Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

I'm thrilled to have "Girl Locks" selected for Best Small Fictions 2025. Huge thanks to @splitlipthemag.bsky.social for first publishing it and to the editors @altcurrent.bsky.social for selecting it. Congratulations, fellow writers!
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The Best Small Fictions Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

Happy writing news! I'm thrilled to have my story 'Blue-Naped Parrots See More Than They Say' chosen for the Best Small Fictions anthology 2024.
Thanks to #NewFlashFictionReview for the nomination, & to @altcurrent.bsky.social editors for picking it. So pleased! altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

The Best Small Fictions Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

You guys, I’m in the Best Small Fictions 2025!!! 😀 So grateful to the @altcurrent.bsky.social team. Also, renewed thanks to Robert Olen Butler and everyone at @southeastreview.bsky.social for publishing “Cowboy,” and nominating it for this amazing honor.💃 🎉 🤸‍♀️

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Delighted to see SLQ stories by Ani King and Ekpenyong Kosisochukwu Collins in this year's Best Small Fictions @altcurrent.bsky.social, alongside SLQ Fellow Belinda Rowe, some of our editors, and a bunch of SmokeLong Fitness members (aka Trousers). Stories in this thread. Congratulations, everyone!

#ExpoContributor Joseph Byrd’s piece from #ExpoReview, Vol. IX: “POP!” was selected for inclusion in the 2025 Best Small Fictions! Thanks to @robertshapardbooks.bsky.social, @altcurrent.bsky.social & the BSF team for choosing this piece! Celebrate Joseph & read his piece: tinyurl.com/ExpoThings

The Best Small Fictions Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

We couldn't be more thrilled for Ivan Niccolai and his story, "The Marionette," making BSF 2025! We 🖤 our writers!

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Friday Five: selections from ‘Best Small Fictions 2025’ A sampling from this year’s recently selected stories and prose poems

Today's Friday Five: selections from @altcurrent.bsky.social's 2025 Best Small Fictions, featuring @fracturedlit.bsky.social, Ghost Parachute, @dishsoapquart.bsky.social, @stanchion.bsky.social & @witcraft.bsky.social
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#WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #MicroFiction

Another shoutout to our “POP!” & Flash 405 literary prize nominations for @pushcartprize.bsky.social, @sundresspub.bsky.social’s Best of the Net, @altcurrent.bsky.social’s Best Small Fictions, @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social, Cave Wall Press’s Nina Riggs Poetry Award…

Work with Leah!

Thinking about my Dickens book. cc: @altcurrent.bsky.social

Front cover of Best Small Fictions 2024

Delighted that my copy of Best Small Fictions 2024 has arrived! It's such an honour to have my story "The Good Prizes" included along with work by so many talented writers. Massive gratitude to @ambersparks.bsky.social, @altcurrent.bsky.social and Nathan Leslie!