Ariel M. Goldenthal

Any flash writers proposing something for #awp26? I'm thinking of proposing something around teaching flash as the focus of a lit class. #flashfiction #flashlit

Way back in 2011 I bought @benloory.bsky.social's book at a little shop on Newbury St. and sat between the stacks to read it with my friends. Now I assign "The Pot" to my #flashfiction literature in under 1,000 words class and listen as they say it's one of their favorites we've read.

Thank you for coming! My students really enjoyed talking with you and I’m looking forward to seeing what they write about your visit in their next essay!

Thank you so much for encouraging me to put this one out there! JMWW is definitely a dream pub for me 😁

Thank you for reading and sharing!

Creative Nonfiction: The Familiar Churn of the Unknown by Ariel M. Goldenthal You should have told me you were going to jump into the ocean.

A long time ago in @kathyfish.bsky.social flash memoir intensive (a WONDERFUL workshop), this piece came pouring out of me all at once, and I'm so happy that it found a home in the amazing JMWW!

#flashCNF #author

Two Imaginings of a Conversation We Will Never Have

#flashfiction writers, what is the piece published in 2023 that you’re most proud of?

This piece went through many iterations before I landed on this version that @bendinggenres.bsky.social published last year.

Red background with a squirrel holding a parcel, parcel is wrapped in brown paper and has a red ribbon tied in a bow. Text: Holiday Giveaway. SLQ logo

HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! We're giving $100 to help boost your writing in 2024—workshop, comp/submission fees, membership, critiques, books, pens—anything you find helpful, anywhere. Like & share to enter. We'll also give $100 to one of the organisations we support—winner to choose. Ends midnight NYC Dec 23

Thank you for opening it up at the perfect time! I'm sure the other place is full of writers posting about the prize, but I'm honored to be the first here 🎉

The Welkin Prize Micro Wizard

After a few months off, I'm back in the submitting saddle and starting off strong with @mattkendrick.bsky.social mini-Welkin. #flashfiction

Prompted by a couple of posts I saw yesterday, a thread about how it's really tough being a creative writing freelancer right now. Please read and share if you can. (1/13)

Two Imaginings of a Conversation We Will Never Have

When I first drafted this story in 2020, it sprawled across 4 pages of my notebook and had lines all over the place. Thanks to feedback from my writing community, it found the perfect home (with fewer lines) in @bendinggenres.bsky.social. I can't wait for you to read it!

What a powerful piece! Congratulations!!

I have a fun little story in this issue and I’m so excited for you all to read it!

If you want there to be F&SF fiction mags, we need to do something now, while Amazon is removing their support. Check out one mag's website today and support them, if you have the means. Or just RT this if you can't, because the situation is pretty dire.

Freebies Over the last few weeks, my health has decided to explore a new dimension. Which is the most positive way I can find of saying it has tumbled over another cliff. It isn’t worse necessarily just diff...

My October newsletter is full of freebies for the writing community - example story lists, a character creator template, a story planner, a geeky submissions tracker spreadsheet... Hopefully some useful stuff for you all.

PS - very grateful for re-posts to spread the word!

#Flashfiction #writers

Our team has made its nominations for the 2024 Best of the Net. Congratulations to each of these talented writers/poets. @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @avramargariti.bsky.social @jaredpovanda.bsky.social @louisenorgate.bsky.social @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social @gretchenfilart.bsky.social

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗

Of Stolen Objects & Places by Jennifer Fliss My mom kept spices in unused urine specimen cups she’d filched from her job at the hospital.

If you read one story this week, let it be this heart-wrenching one by @jenniferfliss.bsky.social

"It was an heirloom – gold paint cracking, faded letters for the ritual foods, though we knew where everything went."

www.fivesouth.net/post/of-stol...

Cover of a novel, EXHIBIT, by R.O. Kwon, coming May 2024. Image of the torso & thigh of a woman whose elbow is jutting out, with what looks like long black hair but resolves into a strip of black paint

pre-orders are up for my new novel & here’s the cover, EXHIBIT will be out in May ‘24!!!

EXHIBIT has been an 8-year obsession & it’s full of desire & ambition & revenge & queer exuberance & I’m so glad to get to share it with y’all 🖤💌

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635517/exhibit-by-r-o-kwon/

Thanks for reading and sharing!

Thank you for reading and sharing!

Thank you for sharing (and prompting) this piece!

A Sunday in October By Ariel M. Goldenthal   The day after the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, I lied to my second-grade students: You are safe at Hebrew school. You will love learning the Aleph-Bet this year. Y…

It’s the week of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, so it’s fitting that my story about teaching Hebrew school the day after the shooting at Tree of Life synagogue came out today. Thank you to @kathyfish.bsky.social for prompting this in her memoir flash class & to FIB-friends for feedback 💛

Love this! And thanks for introducing me to another genre bending pub!

Happy pub day to @amygcb.bsky.social! Her latest collection, CHILD CRAFT, officially enters the world today.

I’m not saying I was born to be a writer, but my HS English teacher once gave me a 48/50 where the 2 points lost were due to me saying “this quote shows,” which wasn’t concise enough for his tastes.

Best Microfiction is here! Please help spread the word! 🙂🙂🙂