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Congratulations to our six 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees: Antoine Bargel, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Lucas Hubbard, Amy Lyons, Teresa Milbrodt, and Jack Powers. (Listed alphabetically.) Brilliant Flash Fiction appreciates all our writers and wish we could nominate more. :)

Good news, everyone! Literary Namjooning's first ever flash reading and open mic's happening soon! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Looks like I’m making BookToks again…might I interest you in some Librarian approved weird speculative short story recommendations???

True?

Amen

how i'd post if i ever got validation for my writing

Sounds good to me

#booksky

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

Awww

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

threw my back out carrying all this whimsy

I miss Ireland

Oh yeah!

Goodnight.

“The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”

Antonio Gramsci

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

A photo of me in an old foundry staring up at the chimney opening above.

Went into the woods this weekend.

Chilled in an abandoned foundry.

Definitely haunted…

Sybille Bedford

‘I write because I’m a writer. It’s rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.’
– Sybille Bedford
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

So tiny in stature, yet so powerful onscreen

This one hits a little too close to home :) <3
#writer #author #wip #bookstagram #procrasitnation #booksky
#bookworm #writing #buymybooks

Zary, you rock! Read another of his stories at brilliantflashfiction.com.

Remember if you can’t source fresh eyes of newt and toe of frog then store-bought is fine

Me wearing the blue Elton John commemorative Watford jersey which matches the Fitzcarraldo blue of the Nocilla Trilogy by Agustín Fernandez Mallo, translated by Thomas Bunstead.

I'm dressed like the book I'm reading, part of my (Nobel worthy?) life's work to integrate the worlds of football and literature.

❤️

I wonder what they talk about..

IG: Ralph loves Penelope ❤️

Resources | MattKendrick.co.uk Free resources from Matt Kendrick.

Continuing my theme of doing pseudo work rather than actual work 😬 I've updated my big list of "best of" lists - all the links for Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction and the Wigleaf Top 50 from 2020-2025:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/resources

SEPTEMBER 2025 CrowsBy Hugh Behm-Steinberg A crow, a big one, lands on the fence around the bins at the edge of the parking lot. I’m in our car, doomscrolling. It’s October, still broiling; I’m waiting in the onl…

Tons of good flash here:
brilliantflashfiction.com/2025/09/30/s...

Pat Conroy at writing desk

‘Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.’
– Pat Conroy
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

A striking, centered photograph of a partially open, highly ornate black wrought-iron gate framing a scenic view, set within a shadowed border of dense autumn foliage. The path leading up to the gate is a wide, light-brown gravel track. Beyond the gate, the bright landscape opens up to a sunlit, golden-hued field that slopes down to a wide, calm estuary or bay of water. A distant, wooded shoreline forms the far bank under a muted, overcast sky. The image has a dramatic contrast, emphasizing the dark, intricate metalwork of the gate against the bright vista. The location is an estuary view near Lauriston Castle in Edinburgh. The scene captures a feeling of stepping from shadow into light and a hidden, majestic view.

🪬🧿 Like a gate to a different world (Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh)

#edinburgh #scotland #estuary #landscape #nature #pathway #ironwork #alttext

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