→ The 2026 FISH List (Finest Indie Story Houses) of lively lit mags
• Flash Fiction Magazine - One flash story a day
• The Lascaux Review - Beautiful language is meant to be heard
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Literary adventure lantasy with flair and impact
• Consequence - Human realities of war and geopolitical violence
• trampset - Work with lost and wandering hearts
• The Sunlight Press - Moments that give birth to epiphany
• Okay Donkey - Home for the odd, off-kilter, or just plain weird
• Pangyrus - Stories connect here
• SmokeLong Quarterly - Honesty, emotional resonance, and vulnerability
• McSweeney's Internet Tendency - Daily humor since 1998
• BULL lit mag - Rewriting modern masculinity
• The Forge - Where literary excellence is the only criteria
• Emerge Literary Journal - Growth, change & experimentation
• Radar Poetry - Interplay between poetry and visual media
• Terrain.org - Work focused on place, climate, and justice
Painstakingly scored by Charlie Fish with data provided by Chill Subs and awards data by Brecht de Poortere.
The brilliant @charliefish.bsky.social's second annual FISH list is out! 4,000 magazines, 14 different criteria, all indie lit goodness.
Check it out here: www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/p/fish-list....
02.12.2025 17:01 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Bob Zwolinski
Quincy Jones – Killer Joe – 1969 [HQ REMIX/REMASTER]
Now listening to:
#MusicSky #KillerJoe #QuincyJones
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A106...
02.12.2025 02:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Baltimore Review
A journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
Just a heads-up that November 30 is the last day of our current submission period. Then we'll be catching up and getting the winter issue together. baltimorereview.org
24.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Celebrate Indigenous Literature With These 13 New Books by Native Writers - Electric Literature
Explore books by acclaimed and debut Native American writers
Thanksgiving is a perfect time to celebrate the many stories and experiences of Indigenous people and remember the true history and legacy of settler colonialism.
23.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
runway model
displays bold
onesie couture
24.11.2025 00:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
should add #MusicSky to this
24.11.2025 00:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Donald and Daisy
ducklings in love
23.11.2025 00:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
on my list to watch
22.11.2025 01:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by BFI
Street of Crocodiles (1986) clip | On BFI Blu-ray on 10 October | BFI
now watching an excerpt from The Street of Crocodiles, a stop-motion animation short by the Brothers Quay, inspired by the Bruno Schulz short story.
#Filmsky #WritingCommunity #BrothersQuay #BrunoSchulz
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW3d...
22.11.2025 01:41 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Writers!
Who are the best litmags of 2025?
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It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
17.11.2025 14:47 — 👍 65 🔁 36 💬 0 📌 41
Alvin watches Peas Porridge Hot game
14.11.2025 02:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Drawing of Robert Louis Stevenson (by Lucy Scott), with caption “RLS 13/11/1850”.
Happy birthday to Robert Louis Stevenson!
13.11.2025 13:51 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
a close up of a cat 's face looking to the side
Alt: A Pallas's cat sticking his lil tongue out
Everyone, quiet! 🤫 It's time to announce November's flash fiction theme!
This month's theme is...CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE! 👅🐱 The theme can be literal (a cat and a tongue) OR the metaphorical meaning of the saying (incapable of communication). Deadline is Nov. 30th!
www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...
07.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
A miniature basset hound stands in front of a miniature bone in the middle of a palm of a hand. A thought bubble with a drawing of a dog reading a book hovers above its head.
You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.
01.11.2025 13:02 — 👍 45 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 0
and the car in Detour (1945). a '41 Lincoln Cabriolet
06.11.2025 02:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Buddy watches
raccoons raid
nut stash
04.11.2025 02:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Winner of our Short Story Contest gets $400 and 5 copies of the anthology they appear in. Use the link in our bio to submit! #shortstorycontest #writersky
01.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Variatio24
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead, Symphonic poem Op. 29 - Andrew Davis
Now listening to: #MusicSky #ClassicalMusic #Rachmaninoff #IsleOfTheDead
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbt...
01.11.2025 01:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did you think it was over?! ☠️
The spirits are still calling and they want your horror short scripts! 🩸⛧
Answer the call for our Final Deadline on December 5th for only $35! ⏱️
🕯️Submit via killershorts.com/submit/, @filmfreeway.bsky.social, @networkisa.bsky.social, @stage32.bsky.social + Scrybe!
30.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
owl octet
rehearsing for
upcoming hootenanny
28.10.2025 02:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jekylls and Clyde
pose for photos
27.10.2025 01:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What Renan said. If you want to see @apexmag.bsky.social stick around and keep publishing great fiction, help them reach their goal. Donate if you can spare it, share either way.
25.10.2025 12:19 — 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
haven't heard this one in ages. vaguely remember their vid during the golden age of MTV
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YouTube video by X Time Goes By
The Big Sleep 1946. Lauren Bacall Humphrey Bogart about horses
Bogart and Bacall talk about the horses in The Big Sleep.
#Filmsky #FilmNoir #TheBigSleep
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxaH...
24.10.2025 01:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by FyAthyRio69
Julee Cruise - "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart" - ORIGINAL VIDEO - stereo HQ
now listening to: David Lynch's Industrial Symphony No. 1, featuring music by Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise
#MusicSky #Flimsky #DavidLynch #JuleeCruise #AngeloBadalamenti
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eZU...
18.10.2025 01:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A woman carrying an infant ina tikanagan, walks along a boardwalk in Attawapiskat in 1955. A girl and young boy walk ahead of her; the infant and girl are looking back at the camera. A black and white photo.
Along the boardwalk in Attawapiskat in 1955. From 'People of the Watershed: Photographs of John Macfie' now at The Muse: Lake of the Woods Museum, Kenore, Ontario until Dec. 21.
themusekenora.ca/.../people-o...
📷 John Macfie | © Macfie Family Estate
11.10.2025 16:32 — 👍 42 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
Owl choir
hooting Charlie Parker
Ornithology
11.10.2025 15:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Raven
battle ready
against the Gulls
11.10.2025 15:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Submit to the Driftwood Annual Anthology: Use the link in our bio to submit your best short story or poem for a chance to be published and get paid! #callforsubmissions
10.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Writer of crime books and thrillers, speculative and fantastic fiction and the weird. Winner Hercule Poirot Award, and nominated for several others. Please no DM except professional offers.
Writer for page and screen, guru of short stories, editor of www.fictionontheweb.co.uk. Rumoured to have killed wife with Scrabble and married self. He/him.
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Dendroarchaeology, shipwreck archaeology. I'm Irish & Danish. TIMBER
A journal of literature.
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poet and author of Spring Cleaning(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021)
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Digging up stories so my students, kids & pets think I'm cool. Still waiting. 🕵🏻♂️🐕
www.pamjenoff.com
Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
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Your home for short histfic on the web. Cover illustration by Hilary Ayshford. Subs are closed for now as we read through the submissions we received.
I’m a nice guy with darkness currently dripping from my fingers!
Three self-published books (mythology, mystery and family), plus free stories https://linktr.ee/andrewharrowell
Father. Author. Dreamer. Host A Tale Of Two Scribes Podcast Indie Pub - BruNoe Media Publishing. Out Now SUPREME JUSTICE Pick up The Body Man & The Omega Group Series wherever books are sold www.ericpbishop.com
Author of Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries; dog, cat, and horse lover; foodie; Pubbed by CrookedLaneBooks and repped by Terrie Wolf at AKALiteraryLLC
An editor at the Haiku Commentary blog and Frogpond journal. Author of "Beyond Emptiness," “Transported," and “Zen and Son.” See my poetry at https://nicholasklacsanzkyspoetry.wordpress.com/poetry/
Screenwriter - thrilling tales of popcorn adventure
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