Jonathan Cardew
@cardewjcardew.bsky.social
Writer. Micro maniac. Words in SmokeLong Quarterly, wigleaf, Cream City Review, Best Microfiction, and elsewhere. Author of A WORLD BEYOND CARDBOARD (ELJ Editions).
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We’re thrilled to announce that the judges for our microfiction comp are: Joanna Campbell, Emily Devane, Debra A Daniel & David Swann! The comp opens on 1 Dec for micros up to 100 words. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We’re thrilled to announce that the judges for our microfiction comp are: Joanna Campbell, Emily Devane, Debra A Daniel & David Swann! The comp opens on 1 Dec for micros up to 100 words. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...
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Truly grateful for this wonderful review of THIS IS HOW THEY MOURN by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social included on the @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog today.
On our @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog, @cardewjcardew.bsky.social reviews @kristintenor.bsky.social This is How They Mourn. And a nod to @maureenlangloss.bsky.social for inspiring our new BG logo with her bald cypress hybrid tree photo:
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Review of Kristin Tenor’s This is How They Mourn by Jonathan Cardew
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November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Truly grateful for this wonderful review of THIS IS HOW THEY MOURN by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social included on the @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog today.
I thoroughly enjoyed this collection by @kristintenor.bsky.social Highly recommend!
On our @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog, @cardewjcardew.bsky.social reviews @kristintenor.bsky.social This is How They Mourn. And a nod to @maureenlangloss.bsky.social for inspiring our new BG logo with her bald cypress hybrid tree photo:
bendinggenres.com/review-of-kr...
bendinggenres.com/review-of-kr...
Review of Kristin Tenor’s This is How They Mourn by Jonathan Cardew
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November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed this collection by @kristintenor.bsky.social Highly recommend!
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Heads up!
We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
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November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Heads up!
We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
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Now there’s one actual week left, if you count the deadline day as a day and today as a day. $1,000 1st; $500 2nd; $300 3rd; $100 finalists. Winners and finalists published in the December issue of SmokeLong Quarterly. 250 words max. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Now there’s one actual week left, if you count the deadline day as a day and today as a day. $1,000 1st; $500 2nd; $300 3rd; $100 finalists. Winners and finalists published in the December issue of SmokeLong Quarterly. 250 words max. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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"We can, for example, avail ourselves of the tools of poets to create emotional power via language and imagery, rhythm and sound. Flash fiction is a form uniquely suited to experimentation and innovation and hybridity...."
I love this post from the amazing @kathyfish.bsky.social 💙💙💙
I love this post from the amazing @kathyfish.bsky.social 💙💙💙
A flash is not a cupcake...https://open.substack.com/pub/artofflashfiction/p/from-the-archives-flash-fiction-as-49d?r=4e5y2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
From the archives: Flash Fiction as Its Own Unique Form
A little artist.
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September 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"We can, for example, avail ourselves of the tools of poets to create emotional power via language and imagery, rhythm and sound. Flash fiction is a form uniquely suited to experimentation and innovation and hybridity...."
I love this post from the amazing @kathyfish.bsky.social 💙💙💙
I love this post from the amazing @kathyfish.bsky.social 💙💙💙
The incomparable Len Kuntz leads a workshop this month @bendinggenres.bsky.social and I’m so excited bc Len does indeed slay every time with his words. Sign up here! bendinggenres.com/writing-grou...
Writing Groups
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October 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The incomparable Len Kuntz leads a workshop this month @bendinggenres.bsky.social and I’m so excited bc Len does indeed slay every time with his words. Sign up here! bendinggenres.com/writing-grou...
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It's the first of the month, which means OKD's free subs are back open until we reach our cap!
Check out what we're into, then submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/
Check out what we're into, then submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/
October 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It's the first of the month, which means OKD's free subs are back open until we reach our cap!
Check out what we're into, then submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/
Check out what we're into, then submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/
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I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
September 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
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We have a new music column, curated by Maia Cardew. She wrote about the Massive Attack concert on June 5, 2025 in England, which she attended with her Dad, @cardewjcardew.bsky.social who is a massive fan of theirs. bendinggenres.com/review-of-ma...
Review of Massive Attack’s June 5th performance at Manchester’s Co-op Live by Maia Cardew
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September 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
We have a new music column, curated by Maia Cardew. She wrote about the Massive Attack concert on June 5, 2025 in England, which she attended with her Dad, @cardewjcardew.bsky.social who is a massive fan of theirs. bendinggenres.com/review-of-ma...
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Congrats 🥳 🥳 to our June 16 Micro Madness shortlist winner Jonathan Cardew – Milwaukee, Wisconsin/ Sheffield, UK
#flashfiction #microfiction #micromadness
#flashfiction #microfiction #micromadness
June 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Congrats 🥳 🥳 to our June 16 Micro Madness shortlist winner Jonathan Cardew – Milwaukee, Wisconsin/ Sheffield, UK
#flashfiction #microfiction #micromadness
#flashfiction #microfiction #micromadness
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Superb!
Much love to Paragraph Planet for publishing this exactly 75 word story, "Ghost 2.0" www.paragraphplanet.com/authors_a_e....
May 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Superb!
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‘When my wife came back, she wore a sheet printed with the NASA logo.’
Ghost 2.0. by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social
Ghost 2.0. by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social
Much love to Paragraph Planet for publishing this exactly 75 word story, "Ghost 2.0" www.paragraphplanet.com/authors_a_e....
May 12, 2025 at 6:53 AM
‘When my wife came back, she wore a sheet printed with the NASA logo.’
Ghost 2.0. by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social
Ghost 2.0. by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social
Much love to Paragraph Planet for publishing this exactly 75 word story, "Ghost 2.0" www.paragraphplanet.com/authors_a_e....
May 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Much love to Paragraph Planet for publishing this exactly 75 word story, "Ghost 2.0" www.paragraphplanet.com/authors_a_e....
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“Why would we want words when we have each other?”
Read all three of @cardewjcardew.bsky.social’s stellar micros in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
Read all three of @cardewjcardew.bsky.social’s stellar micros in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
Spelling Eros - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Freepix by Joanathan Cardew We gave each other words to spell. Sexy words like frangipane and assimilate, words with weird workings, woke words, wobbly words, words like blancmange you wouldn...
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February 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
“Why would we want words when we have each other?”
Read all three of @cardewjcardew.bsky.social’s stellar micros in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
Read all three of @cardewjcardew.bsky.social’s stellar micros in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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We just finished a terrific @bendinggenres.bsky.social weekend workshop with @cardewjcardew.bsky.social called "Hybrid Memoir." Thanks to the writers who posted such creative shorts!!! Coming in May, our genius, hilarious and newly published @sfreligh.bsky.social !!! More soon.
April 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We just finished a terrific @bendinggenres.bsky.social weekend workshop with @cardewjcardew.bsky.social called "Hybrid Memoir." Thanks to the writers who posted such creative shorts!!! Coming in May, our genius, hilarious and newly published @sfreligh.bsky.social !!! More soon.
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SUCH an amazing workshop @bendinggenres.bsky.social this weekend with the wonderful @cardewjcardew.bsky.social! Three new stories and I’m reinvigorated and can’t wait to polish and send them out! Thank you Jonathan and @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🙌
April 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
SUCH an amazing workshop @bendinggenres.bsky.social this weekend with the wonderful @cardewjcardew.bsky.social! Three new stories and I’m reinvigorated and can’t wait to polish and send them out! Thank you Jonathan and @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🙌
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"I know you have a story to attend to."
And:
"I clink my champagne flute accidentally against a vase."
And:
"Words for the things we love most in the world."
Massive love for these tiny flashes of brilliance by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙
And:
"I clink my champagne flute accidentally against a vase."
And:
"Words for the things we love most in the world."
Massive love for these tiny flashes of brilliance by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Excited to have something (3 things) published today. Thanks @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for taking my tinies on board! gooseberry-pie.com/untitled-aft...
Untitled (After Vivian Maier) - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by ifer endahl on Unsplash by Jonathan Cardew You stand there, framed in green. I know you have a story to attend to. Your shoulders are rounded, your steps light. You don’t even flinch at the b...
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February 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"I know you have a story to attend to."
And:
"I clink my champagne flute accidentally against a vase."
And:
"Words for the things we love most in the world."
Massive love for these tiny flashes of brilliance by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙
And:
"I clink my champagne flute accidentally against a vase."
And:
"Words for the things we love most in the world."
Massive love for these tiny flashes of brilliance by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Time for Issue 26 of Gooseberry Pie with new work by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social @suzannehicks.bsky.social
Gary Fincke
Gary Fincke
Issue 26 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Jake Oates on Unsplash Stories Congratulation to Didi Wood and Jessical Klimesh for having their stories selected for Best Microfiction 2025!
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February 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Time for Issue 26 of Gooseberry Pie with new work by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social @suzannehicks.bsky.social
Gary Fincke
Gary Fincke
Excited to have something (3 things) published today. Thanks @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for taking my tinies on board! gooseberry-pie.com/untitled-aft...
Untitled (After Vivian Maier) - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by ifer endahl on Unsplash by Jonathan Cardew You stand there, framed in green. I know you have a story to attend to. Your shoulders are rounded, your steps light. You don’t even flinch at the b...
gooseberry-pie.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Excited to have something (3 things) published today. Thanks @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for taking my tinies on board! gooseberry-pie.com/untitled-aft...
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Best Microfiction Nominations 2025 Gooseberry Pie Lit Mag. Congratulations to Pat Foran, Jamy Bond, Sudha Balagopal, Guy Biederman, Melissa Llanes Brownlee
November 29, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Best Microfiction Nominations 2025 Gooseberry Pie Lit Mag. Congratulations to Pat Foran, Jamy Bond, Sudha Balagopal, Guy Biederman, Melissa Llanes Brownlee
Just popped back onto Twitter and this is the first post I see. It’s an absolute shithole there. I’m so happy to be connected with you all here (no more toxic tossers and breathtakingly stupid logic). I’m done with antisocial media.
November 23, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Just popped back onto Twitter and this is the first post I see. It’s an absolute shithole there. I’m so happy to be connected with you all here (no more toxic tossers and breathtakingly stupid logic). I’m done with antisocial media.
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Hey Bluesky friends, I'm finding lots of examples from poetry and songs, but does anyone have examples of flash fiction that takes on social issues / speaks truth to power / addresses injustice, etc.? Thanks. 💙
November 23, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Hey Bluesky friends, I'm finding lots of examples from poetry and songs, but does anyone have examples of flash fiction that takes on social issues / speaks truth to power / addresses injustice, etc.? Thanks. 💙