Blink Ink

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Any #5amwritersclub members? While you sharpen your pencils remember our #submissions are open, free & get a quick decision…

Theme: MUSEUMS

“The earthquake weather peeps through the dusty half-drawn blinds.” So begins Richard A. Perez Jr’s nonfiction piece EARTHQUAKE WEATHER from our “Spring” issue. Read it here: tinyurl.com/ExpoEarthquake.

Thank you!

Magazine Stand :: Blink-Ink - #61 Blink-Ink #61 features 50-word stories about "Phones," exploring their impact on our lives, past, present, and future.

Always a delight, Blink-Ink #61 share the best stories of 'approximately 50 words' on the theme of "Phones" - past, preset, and future.

#litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity

A white wall dominates. Museum is written on it. A person on their phone sits on a bench in the foreground.

Theme: MUSEUMS
Quickish response & FREE!
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50 words #flashfiction
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I will have a new micro out in @blinkink50.bsky.social!

The Branches Fall 2025 Call for Submissions - VOICE Contribute to The Branches Fall 2025 Call. Submit your unpublished work related to the theme VOICE in writing or art.

The Branches is seeking unpublished written & visual work on the theme of VOICE for their fall issue. They especially want cultural criticism, personal essays, & book/movie discussions. No fee. Read some past issues & send work by September 13.

#writer #litmags #callforsubmissions

New theme!
SUBMISSIONS OPEN
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Our new issue, "Phones" #61 has mailed out, and we are very excited about it. Take a look at the amazing art from Francisco Graells, Julian Wong, Anne Anthony, plus read the wonderous fictions enclosed. So much to see! Copies available:
www.blink-ink.org

It’s here it’s here it’s here! Thank you, @blinkink50.bsky.social!

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Mailing out!
Let us know when yours arrives…

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Our new issue "Phones" is back from the printers and looking good! If you’re not already a subscriber now would be a great time to join us. Four issues a year: each one is v different but always has fantastic writing and art

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12 Magazines Seeking Microfiction Though not everyone can write a famous 6-word story (and here is a short take by OpenCulture on the story attributed to Hemingway), it is a great exercise to try. And while magazines have different l

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#LitMags publishing #microfiction. Some of them also publish #shortstories, #flashfiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry. Some of them pay up to $100.

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Flipping through this beauty from @blinkink50.bsky.social and getting even more excited to see my silly little story in the September issue 👀

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Submissions are now closed. Thank you everyone who sent in their work, the nw issue will be great thanks to you. Submissions will reopen September 1st, 2025 and we hope to see you there.

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Send us a story FREE
QUICK RESPONSE 50 words
Theme: PHONES
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Just a couple of weeks left:
Theme: PHONES
50 words… FREE to Enter
Quick response #submissions
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Old style telephone… our theme is Phones!

Submissions OPEN
Free with Quick Response…
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Have you sent anything in yet? Submissions open…
theme: PHONES #writers
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photograph of small paperback book by Blink-Ink with Seeds number 60 written on the cover, which is black and has a picture of a man in a brown suit and a woman in a green dress dancing in a flower pot. The book is in a plant pot and a cactus and other plant are at the bottom edge of the photo

couldn't resist posting this photo of my new contributor's copy of @blinkink50.bsky.social taking pride of place on my windowsill...

It’s a fab looking edition isn’t it?

So thrilled to have my tiny story, The Visitor, in this exquisite little book, which arrived this morning! Thank you @blinkink50.bsky.social 😍

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Submissions OPEN!
Theme: PHONES
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Latest Edition
OUT NOW…
Look at that Fab Cover!

Currently at the printers!

New up on our performance space: blink-ink.org/performance-... #flashfiction

It’s at the Printers!

Who sent a story for the Seeds issue? Have you heard back yet?

The book cover of Wolfbaby by Susan Holcomb. Shades of orange and a stripe of green form an inverted rainbow that covers the book.

Very nice chapbook from Susan h0lc0mb.bsky.social available now. A couple of the stories first appeared in Blink-Ink…

📚 susanaudreyholcomb.com/wolfbaby/ #author #writingcommunity

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And Subs are closed!