Ani King (they/them)

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Another amazing issue! Makes for a great vacation read :D

Issue 3 is LIVE! Spread the news! Like! Share! And, of course, check out all on the phenomenal work in this (amazingggg) issue!! 🥳

#folklorereview #folklore #literary #literaryfiction #prose #poetry #art #nonfiction #flash

This is such a damn stunner. Love it!

Against a background of a blue flower, in a white square, the text reads "Best of the Net Nominations. Guan Un. Sarah Freligh."

The Welkin Writing Prize is pleased to announce our nominations for Best of the Net:

@thisisguan.bsky.social for "A Parable of Slow Songs"

and

@sfreligh.bsky.social for "Nine One One"

Congratulations both! Such brilliant writing!

Story links in the thread below.

First, exciting teaser: Claudine pictured here with @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social‘s “Edge of the Sea.” Review coming in our inaugural issue September 1. Spoiler: this book is wowowowowow, jawdrop, whoa.

www.cutbankonline.org/2025-chapbooks

Stanchion '26 publication schedule, including Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever

Thrilled that my collection Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever is coming from @stanchion.bsky.social in '26!

www.stanchionzine.com/post/announc...

Announcing our FINALISTS! These six stories are the very best of the best!

We are honoured to bring you the six finalists in the Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social Short Story Award 2025!

These stories are the very best of the best, and will go forward to Nuala O’Connor for selection of our three winners.

Huge congrats to all!

www.frazzledlit.com/p/announcing...

How To Be A Resilient Writer First and floormoose,1 I have a book that comes out in two weeks. It’s called Lessons in Magic and Disaster and it’s about a witch named Jamie who decides to...

My latest newsletter is all about how to be a resilient writer in the face of career setbacks, ego death and creeping fascism.

I offer 17 handy tips on how to hang onto yourself and keep going when the challenging times just don't seem to stop.

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

say yes to distress — Ghost Parachute hey everybody’s doing it just let us shove this camera thingy down your throat don’t let your hands reach up to stop it to grab it to pull it back out don’t move your head don’t vomit and most of all ...

Read "say yes to distress" written by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.

"hey everybody’s doing it just let us shove this camera thingy down your throat don’t let your hands reach up to stop it to grab it..."

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FLASH #38 AUG '25 ​ SoFloPoJo  Contents:    ​ Essays    *   Interviews    *  Reviews   *  ​​​ Special    *    Video   *   Visual Arts   *     Archives    *    Calendar ...

So happy to be part of SoFloPoJo with this micro which starts, "Robert's grandfather was Videocamera Kid at high school, at parties, hauling around a Kodavision the size of his head..."

(search for my name)

www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-38-aug...

#FlashFiction #FlashLit #MicroFiction

We're collecting some info for future projects. If you've participated in a SmokeLong workshop (and maybe even if you haven't), please take a few minutes and reply to our survey. It's anonymous. fx4n25ehm8e.typeform.com/to/A78qM4SM

@aniking.bsky.social

His legs are covered in wounds, and he can’t play anymore.
He’s only five.
Please, help us find healing for him.
Your donation gives us hope.
bsky.app/profile/faye...

Picture of an all black hardcover book with the title, “I Do Know Some Things”, and the authors name, Richard Siken, written in white font that resembles hand writing. The book is sitting on a textured sage green blanket.

These two sentences mean the same thing:

“New Richard Siken dropped” and “go ahead and hurt me, then.”

Other Emergencies Stories by Sarah Freligh The 2025 Moon City Press Editors Choice Selection 978-0-913785-65-2 Paper April 2025

Here's a summer read . . . www.uapress.com/product/othe...

“…it was spring, and (even so) I saw winter.”

Oh, this poignant stunner by @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @centaurlit.bsky.social!❤️

“…this girl with all the persistence of a wildflower.”

This beauty by @aniking.bsky.social in @expositionreview.bsky.social.🌸🩷

Thank you so much for reading and sharing!

Americans Say No As Terrified ICE Agents Flee from Angry Citizens "It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming. Every day, anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!" a rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in Kansas.

"Did you not realize what this would be, being f*cking Gestapo? Quit your job. It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming...anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!” A rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in #Kansas. www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/americans-...

If I'm stuck while outlining, I'll start a list called "Stupid things that could happen next" and write a bunch of nonsense ideas down. Pterodactyl attack. Everyone starts singing. Someone transforms into a werewolf.

Eventually the ideas become less stupid, and usually I find a solution.

Congrats!!!

Girl Locks — Split Lip Magazine It’s very late, the policeman insists, for a woman and a girl. His flashlight drills into our car.

Stunned and thrilled to be a Best of the Net finalist for "Girl Locks," published in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. Thank you, @wendyoleson.bsky.social, @maureenlangloss.bsky.social , @amystuber.com, and Star Su for giving my story such a loving home. splitlipthemag.com/flash/0524/c...

Today from #MicroMonday please enjoy two superb stories: Boots by Beatriu Delaveda and Everyone Who Looked in This Mirror Before First Period on a Day in Late April by Martha Keller #microfiction #writingcommunity. Just follow the link to access fictivedream.com/2025/08/04/m...

This is incredible

Red Room Poetry prompt day 4 #30in30 “If the human is the limit, the human is the limit” - Stan Grant. Write a poem responding to this

What makes memory slack with age/is the skin that holds it/that which held a cutting edge/now saws and champs futilely/blitz the images that can survive it/sip them through a straw
#30in30 #RedRoomPoetry

Worked Security For GHF in Gaza? Beware of War Crime Charges, Democrats Say. Democrats said veterans working for U.S. security contractors on Trump’s GHF Gaza aid effort may face legal risks.

Grateful for the four senators who did this. theintercept.com/2025/07/31/g...

Trans people are now banned from UPenn, Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, intntnl track & field, the Olympics, chess, darts, most federal jobs, the US military & intelligence services, federal facilities, public bathrooms in most states, & many local sports. Seems bad! Let me know what I missed!

A beautiful water lily bloom

My next book (speculative short stories) comes out early next year. So I want to put out some feelers here if anyone is interested in reviewing/interviewing etc?

A hopeful water lily for your time.

Congrats!!

New, amazing footage of 90,000 people on Sydney Harbour Bridge, marching to end the genocide in Gaza.

A protest the city and New South Wales authorities did NOT want to happen.

(🎥 ABC News)