Thank you! The commentary is a wonderful lesson in haiku analysis, especially since I’m new to the form.
Thanks, @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social for publishing my haiku in this beautiful issue and for such thoughtful commentary! ❄️🌼
So in a completely terrifying and vulnerable shift from my normal flash, I wrote a very personal essay, up at Herstry today. Hope it resonates. herstryblg.com/true/2026/3/...
But my favorite pictures from Venice is not cats but this combination that I think of as “missed connections.”
“The Bridport Prize is an open door… people take notice.”
Writer and former judge Toby Litt on the momentum, reputation and impact of the Bridport Prize.
#BridportPrize #WritingPrize #WritersLife #CreativeWriting
Love this, Liz! Congrats.
I'm behind on this, but the winners of the National Grammar Day Poetry Contest last week were all great. If you're looking for a quick, delightful diversion, check them out!
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We're halfway through our Mini Bin sub call - so today's Preloved Stories spotlight is very relevant 🦝
Guest reader Madeleine said of @charlylou.bsky.social's microfiction: "I’m impressed with what this has packed into a tiny word count."
Read and listen here:
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In the latest tsuri-doro edited by Tony Pupello:
ice dawn
a road salting truck
spins new stars
#haiku #micropoetry
Read more here: tsuridoro.org
More haiku news: I received an honourable mention in the ACES: The Society for Editing’s Grammar Day contest. (I had fun making up this one!) aceseditors.org/news/2026/20...
(And thankfully Kevin doesn’t need glucose tests anymore!)
Thanks to The Haiku Foundation for publishing my animal haiku in this list of gems.
❤️ He has only recently started writing poetry regularly again and sending it out, and I’m so glad.
Loved reading this poem by my dad in the winter issue of Prudence Dispatch. prudencedispatch.com
“Felix is eight years old, and I have no idea how to keep him safe in this world. When a child’s gravity inverts the family has two choices…”
Wow, this story is bursting with imagination and beauty.
Thanks so much,Timothy! Super new to writing haiku and learning so much from others (I fell into it through microfiction and I’m also fascinated by hybrid forms like haibun).
Up on 02 Haiku Literary Magazine today. bit.ly/3OOuarY
It's release day for Tiny Vessels! Thank you so much to Rita Bullwinkel for this amazing introduction!
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Thank you! 😊
Just gorgeous, @belindarowe.bsky.social!
"The children bear the world lightly."
@belindarowe.bsky.social in @centaurlit.bsky.social centaurlit.com/grizzly-bear...
My first time in a Top 10/advancing to Round 2! My silly, video-game walkthrough-style story was inspired by a childhood of ‘90s PC games. So thanks, Hugo! Ha. IYKYK
The people have SPOKEN!!!
And the winners of the people's prize are @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social and J.M.C. Kane.
Congratulations!!!
Links to their brilliant micros below 👇
Hmm…Blue and yellow? 🙂
A stunning, cinematic micro to end this wonderful series. Congrats to Yara Zgheib — and everyone published here. And thanks @mattkendrick.bsky.social for giving us these sharp gems to return to and learn from. 💎 Such a gift.
What a lovely surprise to see my story as a finalist! Congrats to flash winner J.P. Bellipanni — and to everyone who placed. @newmillwritings.bsky.social
I was *just* thinking about this song! And remembering seeing Silverchair in Toronto — my first concert.
Love this one too, Timothy. Such a vivid, energetic slice of youth—a micro on the move! (An aside, but I’m also primed to enjoy even casual mentions of Bono and Toronto — first saw U2 in TO in college days. 🕶️)
In case you missed it, our latest issue is now available—a perfect reason to curl up with a cup of tea. 💫🌸☕
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