Thank you so much @haydensferryreview.bsky.social for this BOTN nom! This story went through many iterations, much like my own coming out story, and though it is fiction, it holds a special place in my heart 🌈. Congrats fellow nominees! read it here: haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam

Congratulations, Sumitra. Beautiful story.

NEW POEM #273: "After Camping With Jeff in the Dismal Swamp I Consider Companionship" by Dustin King

"But Jeff, I followed you as you followed a heron, flirting with her, / or him, olympian wings beating air as we slid between cyprus knuckles"

stonecirclereview.com/after-camping/

#Poem #Poetry

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I even remember Rio, her boyfriend 😅

"...but before Mandy could say no way, the straw was in his teeth, braces glinting,...."

Big love for this award-winner by @sandrinado.bsky.social in @100wordstory.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Thanks so much, Dan!

Or Was It a Baby? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Diane Picchiottino on Unsplash by Emily Rinkema It’s 5:00 a.m. and I ask my husband if he wants to hear my dream, but he pulls the quilt over his shoulders. I ask my other husband, but he jus...

I have a story in the amazing new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social alongside so many of my flash heroes! gooseberry-pie.com/or-was-it-a-...

Thank you, Sumitra!

Photo Story: Milkshake - 100Words The afternoon sun and Lloyd Lovell’s bull-eyed stare were hot on Mandy’s back as she waited for the bus.

Thank you @100wordstory.bsky.social for choosing my entry as winner for the photo story for the month of April 🥤 #100words #flashfiction #writingcommunity

100wordstory.org/photo-story-...

Chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social with my CNF “Friday Night Is”. Thanks to @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for the beta (if we’d been at uni together you would totally have been Shell or Kez, babe)
Thanks @dehardy.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡
www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

So excited to share my new story out today in @fictivedream.bsky.social !! Thanks to editor Laura Black for selecting this story, and thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for their workshop where this was born!🍂 🍁 🍂

2026 will be a big year as we celebrate our 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲! We have some ideas percolating on how to celebrate our 10th anniversary, but we'd love to hear 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮! Leave us a comment or DM.

We are always looking for new art! Subs now open.
inkinthirds.org/submissions/

Wow 💥
- complex characters
- nuanced storytelling
- harrowing and tender
- delivered by an expert voice all the way

By Her Hand, Marion Taffe
#Writingcommunity
#Auslit
#Books

Submissions 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 for our 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 2026 issue!

Why INK?

•No Fees
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•We respond to all subs
•Literary Prize Nominations
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inkinthirds.org/submissions/

"Kindness" by @emhall47.bsky.social, whose prose has appeared, or is forthcoming, in places such as Portland Review, Passages North, 100 Word Story, Necessary Fiction, and Cherry Tree.

"Sea Lake" by @sandrinado.bsky.social in case you missed it

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This story racked up 19 rejections before @yourimpossiblevoice.com took it. This BOTN nomination means a lot to me. Thank you @keithjpowell.com 🙏🏾
Written in a @lumchanmfa.bsky.social workshop. Mahalo, my friend 🧡
Read it here: yourimpossiblevoice.com/when-i-final...

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So excited for my piece to be featured in the latest issue of @trampset.bsky.social. Do check it out & the amazing work of fellow writers <3

We’re free, free, free, with overgrown feathered bangs, hand-me-down tees on matchstick frames, sucking down raspberry Slurpees on steaming sidewalks . . . —"Sweet Dreams" by @carlyanderson.bsky.social

https://www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes/sweet-dreams

Long before language, when moonlight kissed the earth each green and lushy night, there were no words per se or even the mouths to say them.

And then there was the time by Francine Witte
For the full story visit 100wordstory.org

Amazing! Congratulations, Sumitra!!!

Thank you, @100wordstory.bsky.social for featuring my tiny sugary-but-not-sweet tale

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MODERATE DETH!

Wow.

Delighted to have my story, Lucille Ascends, take 3rd place in the latest @flash500.bsky.social competition! flash500.com/flash-fictio...

It came from a writing exercise set by the wonderful @noranadj.bsky.social at the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social last year (where so many good things begin) ❤️

Love this last line.