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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Sep 3

BIG NEWS! @megpokrass.bsky.social & Gary Fincke are thrilled to announce that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social will be serving as final judge for Best Microfiction 2026! Subs re-open in Nov. Stay tuned.
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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Jul 29

Our Founding Editor is teaching a dystopian micro workshop this weekend.. Don't miss my dystopian workshop this weekend! A few spots left. megpokrass.substack.com/p/dystopian-...

Dystopian Microfiction Workshop: August 1st-3rd (200 words max)

“When life gives you robots, make robotade.” -Anonymous

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Jul 8

It's out in the world! Available from online booksellers worldwide! Congrats to all the amazing contributors! #FlashFiction #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · May 19

We're honored that Best Microfiction received First Runner Up in the prestigious Eric Hoffer Book Awards! 🍾 😍Congrats to Gary Fincke, Grant Faulkner, @pelekinesis.bsky.social,and the Best Microfiction 2024 authors! #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork #BookSky

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Jan 22

How wonderful! I love this story. Can’t wait to listen. -Meg P.

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Jan 22

Yes!

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Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · Jan 21

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Jan 21

Dear 2025 Winners, you should all have received your acceptance letters and contracts today. Please check spam mail if you have not received one.

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Jan 19

Our founding editor has a fun and free 15-word David Lynch inspired story contest going on! open.substack.com/pub/pokrassp...

Hint Fiction Contest: 15-Word David Lynch Inspired Stories

The late David Lynch was a huge inspiration to many of us.

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megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social · Jan 18

Congratulations to the winners!!

Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Jan 18

Dear friends, the winners of Best Microfiction 2025 are live! A huge thanks to 2025 judge Dawn Raffel! BM 2025 will be released in the Spring! If you're on this list, expect an email and contract from us in the next 2 weeks. www.bestmicrofiction.com? #flashfiction #microfiction #writingcommunity

Best Microfiction

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Jan 18

Dear friends, the winners of Best Microfiction 2025 are live! A huge thanks to 2025 judge Dawn Raffel! BM 2025 will be released in the Spring! If you're on this list, expect an email and contract from us in the next 2 weeks. www.bestmicrofiction.com? #flashfiction #microfiction #writingcommunity

Best Microfiction

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Dec 8

Best Microfiction is looking for an intern. Please let us know if someone comes to mind! We're going into the 6th year of our award winning series.
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Best Microfiction

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

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megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social · Dec 6

I have an interview at The Adroit Journal about First Law of Holes: New and Selected Dzanc Books)! theadroitjournal.org/2024/12/05/a...
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A Conversation With Meg Pokrass - The Adroit Journal

First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories brings together the best of Meg Pokrass’s flash fiction from over a decade of her career. Families reel from losses, doomed couples devour buttered popcorn...

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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · Dec 1

Read "Animal Planet" written by @megpokrass.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J. Barr.

"He said he was feeding a mouse to Priscilla the boa constrictor in a terrarium he had built, and he invited me to come check it out."

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Animal Planet — Ghost Parachute

Dad’s cousin Bob slipped a note under our front door while Ma was at her second job. He said he was feeding a mouse to Priscilla the boa constrictor in a terrarium he had built, and he invited me to c...

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · Dec 1

I'm over the moon that my flash "After" won the New Flash Fiction Review 2024 NEW FLASH FICTION PRIZE. @nffr.bsky.social Incredibly grateful to judge Nathan Leslie @nathan72.bsky.social, Valerie Fox, and @megpokrass.bsky.social
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After by Claudia Monpere | Issue #35

and after and after and nothing changes, just the names of the children. This one drew birds wearing hats. That one had an orange juice popsicle for an imaginary friend.

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megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social · Dec 2

My new flash story, "Animal Planet", is live at the wonderful Ghost Parachute! Thank you to @brettpribble.bsky.social. ghostparachute.com/issue/decemb...
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Animal Planet — Ghost Parachute

Dad’s cousin Bob slipped a note under our front door while Ma was at her second job. He said he was feeding a mouse to Priscilla the boa constrictor in a terrarium he had built, and he invited me to c...

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megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social · Dec 2

A huge honor to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize by @fracturedlit.bsky.social for my story "Horsebroken". I'm so grateful! fracturedlit.com/horsebroken/
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Horsebroken – Fractured

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Identity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social · Nov 25

Made a starter pack of lit mags and presses that have been around a while and made their way to Bluesky.

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Nov 25

Ty!!

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Nov 25

Please add us to your lit mag and submission opportunities lists here on Bluesky. We have completely stopped using X now and would love help spreading the word.. 🥰 Thank you for finding us here!

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Nov 19

This looks wonderful!

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Nov 19

That’s lovely! Bobbie is the best! I hope you like my work Wes. 🙂

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Nov 13

Our Founding and Managing Editor Meg Pokrass is also here on Bluesky. @megpokrass.bsky.social

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Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland

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Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · Nov 13

It’s time! Best Microfiction open for magazine editors' nominations! Now until 12/15. This year's anthology judged by @DawnRaffel. Edited by @megpokrass & Gary Fincke. Editors: Sub 5 stories (up to 400 words each). #flashfiction #microfiction tinyurl.com/5aakrphh

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