Flash 500 Writing Competitions
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@mgliterary.bsky.social
A Canadian literary journal without borders, now accepting international submissions of artwork, fiction, and poetry | MoonLitGetaway.com
@madridlitmag.bsky.social
We're a bilingual literary magazine based in Madrid, Spain. We love new poetry, fiction and art and feature interviews with well-known writers and artists. Our Podcast is on Spotify. Subs closed. Next issue May 28th ✍️
@fictivedream.bsky.social
Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/
@jiksuncheung.bsky.social
Painter | Writer | Dad Art: IG / Threads @jiksuncheung Writing: jiksun.com | Stories in Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, Molotov Cocktail, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. Previously: Submissions Editor at SmokeLong, EIC at The Bureau Dispatch
@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social
Anthology series edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, published by Pelekinesis
@sophieneville.bsky.social
Author of "The Making of Swallows & Amazons', 'Funnily Enough', 'Ride The Wings of Morning' and other works.
@karjon.bsky.social
Writer. Editor NFFD Anthology. BSSA Team Member. First prize Reflex Fiction, TSS Publishing, Flash 500. 2nd prize Fractured Lit micro. Shortlist Bath Flash/Short Story, To Hull and Back and many others. Scottish Indy supporter.
@judepickledplum.bsky.social
Tea drinking fool, storyteller, humanist. Easily distracted by cats and reverb. Quiet voice, loud hands. Likes writers, books and awful puns.
@pippaesque.bsky.social
I write short things and long things. Buy me a ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/pippaesque. 🏳️🌈
@mickeyrevenaugh.bsky.social
Writer, wanderer, ed tech fangirl Proud member of #5amwritersclub www.mickeyrevenaugh.com
@bronwengriffiths.bsky.social
Writer, flash fiction writer, photographer. Author of two novels & two collections of flash fiction. My flash fiction has been published in many lovely magazines & I recently won the Mslexia flash fiction prize. Website: http://bronwengriff.co.uk/
@fuzzynick.bsky.social
Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' (Ad Hoc Fiction), available now from me or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/
@wizardhill.bsky.social
Irish writer and wizard enjoyer posting from the dungeons deep beneath Planet Dracula. I write Shadows & Sorcery, a weekly dark fantasy flash fiction publication over on Substack.
@mynachang.bsky.social
📖 THE POTENTIAL OF RADIO AND RAIN ✏️ Locus Rec List, Rhysling HM, Flash Fiction America, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction 💫 MicroVerse Recommended Reading ⚡Electric Sheep SFWA, HWA, SFPA https://mynachang.com
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social
San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
@megpokrass.bsky.social
Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
@lucienblackthorne.bsky.social
Author of dark fiction & haunting flash fiction. PhD. 📖 ✒️ 🌑 Upcoming book: Tiny Flames, Long Shadows. www.instagram.com/lucien_backthorne/ https://www.fiverr.com/s/WE8LpRl?utm_source=CopyLink_Mobile
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://emilyrinkema.wixsite.com/my-site
@erickholmberg.bsky.social
Urban Fantasy author of Regna Born, available. https://ninestarpress.com/product/regna-born/
@moiragauthor.bsky.social
Short fiction writer & poet. Feminist. Socialist. Northern England.
@boogawriter.bsky.social
Writer with words in Retreat West, Paragraph Planet, Free Flash Fiction among others. Words performed by Act Your Age, ArtsEd et al. Novel about a parallel world in the works. Watch this space!
@writebiggs.bsky.social
Reader, writer, sleeper agent Loves history, folklore & growing things ME + expansion packs ADCI network ♿️ | she/her Curtis Brown Breakthrough winner ‘24, Jericho Writers Mentorship, Novelry Octopus winner ‘23. LL Lucy Cavendish Prize ‘24
@teresamdouglas.bsky.social
Business/Lit Writer. Mexican Yankee in Canada. Sometimes I’m funny.
@gioclair.bsky.social
Writer from Paris and Lake Como http://gioclairval.blogspot.com/p/stories.html?m=1
@stevenlempriere.bsky.social
Jumbler of letters, baker, sometimes in two minds, and always in one of two locations, SW France and the West of Ireland. Ex of X.
@suzannewriter.bsky.social
Science & medicine writing by day, monologues & short stories by night. Crosses over fiction & science & queer identities, with a focus on unheard women’s voices. Threatening to write a novel & a play. LGBTQ+ ND http://www.thehouseofcorrection.com
@authorangela.bsky.social
Writer of short stories & flash fiction. Words in Cranked Anvil, Bristol Noir, Flash Flood (2024), Paragraph Planet, Cafe Lit, Ink Pantry & more UofG Mlitt (2023) www.angelafitzpatrick.com https://mybook.to/FitzpatrickWhy
@esfletcher.bsky.social
writer, yoga therapist, Bowie fan | asst cnf editor Pithead Chapel | Pushcart nom | BOTN nom | wigleaf LL | stage NED | ope Writing: www.esfletcher.com
@tmupchurch.bsky.social
Lives and writes in a little house on a big, wet rock overlooking the Atlantic. Mother, bioscientist, writer. https://www.instagram.com/traceyupchurch (nature, books, life) http://tmupchurch.com (reads and writes)
@jennyanydots.bsky.social
Long retired. Write flash fiction, play the recorder. Hoping to survive long enough to see proportional representation, a second referendum and a socialist utopia.
@hilary55.bsky.social
Writer of fiction, teller of tales, collector of words, lover of nature, insatiably curious, possessor of miscellaneous knowledge, devotee of all things dark and deliciously wonderful.
@tomljanovic.bsky.social
Flash Fiction 🇨🇦Writer ~ Member of @theprideroars.bsky.social ~ Reader @FracturedLit.bsky.social ~ https://tomljanovic.wordpress.com/publication-credits/
@shortpoemz.bsky.social
Haibun Editor ‘Modern Haiku’ Awards: Winner - Bridport & Touchstone / Finalist - Rattle 📚 CRAZY BITCHES (selected haibun), CAROUSEL, THE UNWORN NECKLACE, DEFLECTION, HAIBUN a writer’s guide https://robertabeary.com
@noranadj.bsky.social
Poet, Fiction Writer Placed @reflexfiction + elsewhere, @Wigleaf Top50... Poetry: Winner@anthro_poetry Finalist @Mslexia
@sharontelfer.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Keeps things short. Here (mostly) to share #FlashFiction, #ShortStories, writing community. My flash fiction collection, The Map Waits, is published by Reflex Press: https://www.reflex.press/product/the-map-waits/
@kateaxeford.bsky.social
Flashy writer/ social worker/ gig goer and ditherer. Lives in Brighton. Loves the sea.
@shipraagarwal.bsky.social
(she/her) 🌈 Doctor-turned-Writer from India | MFA Fiction ASU '27 | Tin House Summer Scholar '24 | Kenyon Review WW '23 | Stories in: Witness Magazine, The Rumpus | Nominated for: PEN/Dau, Pushcart | Working on a novel-in-stories www.shipraagarwal.com
@bdiggswrites.bsky.social
Writer, fiction and non. Highly Commended, Bridport Prize and Bath Flash Fiction. Nom for Pushcart & Small Fictions. Finalist BOTN. Work in SmokeLong, Fictive Dream, FlashBack Fic, and many other lovely journals. Ex-attorney. Mother of Boys.
@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social
Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Welkin Writing Prize, The Failing Writers Podcast, Emerge Literary Journal |🌟 HC Bath Flash Award ‘23 & NFFD Micro Competition ‘24 |🥇 Pokrass Prize ‘23 | 🥈 Micro Madness ‘24 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
@sgscarso.bsky.social
Writer, wine marketing consultant and lecturer based in Castel Gandolfo (Rome). Author of novella "All Their Favourite Stories" available from Ad Hoc Fiction. Other stories in Ghost Parachute, Mslexia, Fractured Lit, Gone Lawn & others. www.nanopausa.com
@coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social
Writer, reader, editor, cat convert, spoonie links to stories at https://coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/ Flash collection at Reflex Press https://www.reflex.press/product/families-and-other-natural-disasters/
@lunchontuesday.bsky.social
I read a lot. I write a bit. I like coffee and other things. www.ingridj.com
@jankaneen1.bsky.social
Award-winning writer, blogs here https://jankaneen.com/ '24 SL Rubery Award & First Pages Prize. 8/25 Short story collection, Hostile Environments pre order: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/hostile-environments-paperback-pre-order
@rosaleenlynch.bsky.social
☘️ Irish community worker, writer & teacher living in London with work selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 2023, Best of the Net 2024, Best Small Fictions 2024, with words in places you can check out here: http://52quotes.blogspot.com
@dublinwriter.bsky.social
Writer. Pushcart and Best Micro Fictions 2025 nominee. Published @fairlightbooks & @shortstorymag. Mentor. Tutor. Novel THE RESET coming 2025 with Bloodhound Books. Email dublinwriter@hotmail.co..uk
@juliaruthsmith.bsky.social
#flashfiction Flash Frog | Full House Lit | Vestal Review | New Flash Fiction Review | Bath Flash Fiction Award | Popshot | Chaotic Merge | Miniskirt Mag | Seaside Gothic | NFFD - Puschcart/Best of the Net
@ninamiller.bsky.social
Physician, Fencer and Creative Wigleaf top 50 https://ninamillerwrites.com/ Hybrids/Photos @ Cutbow Quarterly and Raw Lit Prose/Poetry @ Sci-Fi Shorts, Bright Flash, Five South, Roi Fainéant, Five Minutes and more.
@theliterarypig.bsky.social
WRITER. 2017 WINNER Commonwealth Prize Can & Eur. Author novella-in-flash Hairy On The Inside (Ad Hoc Fiction) S/L '22 Rubery Book Award. Short Story collection out now from Fly On The Wall Press. Buy now: rb.gy/esxcc. www.tracyfells.com