Coleman Bigelow
@cbigs.bsky.social
pushcart and best microfiction nominated writer | recent stories: ghost parachute| cleaver| BULL | your impossible voice | new chapbook: http://InRareCases.com
What a list of awesome writers. Impressive how many great stories came out of these workshops. Happy to have one on here.
Help us celebrate the more than 60 publications reported to us by our workshop participants in December! Onward, trousers!
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December Workshop Celebration 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:18 PM
What a list of awesome writers. Impressive how many great stories came out of these workshops. Happy to have one on here.
Check out my story “May I have this…” in the latest issue of #FlashFrontier.
Big thanks to Michelle and the whole team there. #flashfiction #microfiction #dance #celebrity #amwriting
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Big thanks to Michelle and the whole team there. #flashfiction #microfiction #dance #celebrity #amwriting
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December 2025: DANCE | NGĀ KANIKANI | Flash Frontier
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January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Check out my story “May I have this…” in the latest issue of #FlashFrontier.
Big thanks to Michelle and the whole team there. #flashfiction #microfiction #dance #celebrity #amwriting
flashfrontier.com/december-202...
Big thanks to Michelle and the whole team there. #flashfiction #microfiction #dance #celebrity #amwriting
flashfrontier.com/december-202...
Didn't want to end 2025 without giving huge thanks to the editors who published my work in 2025 including: @natflashfictionday.bsky.social @trashcatlit.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social @welkinprize.bsky.social @blinkink50.bsky.social @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social @brettpribble.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Didn't want to end 2025 without giving huge thanks to the editors who published my work in 2025 including: @natflashfictionday.bsky.social @trashcatlit.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social @welkinprize.bsky.social @blinkink50.bsky.social @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social @brettpribble.bsky.social
Got a late December acceptance from one of my favorite flash journals! A great Friday morning surprise.
December 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Got a late December acceptance from one of my favorite flash journals! A great Friday morning surprise.
December 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Just bought a Grace Paley collection from this awesome book boat anchored in a London canal. @wordonthewater #shortstories #flashfiction #amwriting
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just bought a Grace Paley collection from this awesome book boat anchored in a London canal. @wordonthewater #shortstories #flashfiction #amwriting
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🚨 Come join us!!! @cbigs.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @csquareh.bsky.social @francinewitte.bsky.social
Please join Meg Pokrass and me for the PROSE GARDEN, Sat. November 15, 2 PM EST.
Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Please register here for zoom link:
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Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Please register here for zoom link:
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November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Thank you @therelphian.bsky.social and @trashcatlit.bsky.social and congratulations to all! Love this trash family.
We have just made it for our October newsletter!
News and Subs and SO MANY Trash Family successes incl. @cbigs.bsky.social @madeleinewrite.bsky.social @adlibby.bsky.social @angelajoynes.bsky.social @leighloveday.bsky.social @meproctor.bsky.social and more!!
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News and Subs and SO MANY Trash Family successes incl. @cbigs.bsky.social @madeleinewrite.bsky.social @adlibby.bsky.social @angelajoynes.bsky.social @leighloveday.bsky.social @meproctor.bsky.social and more!!
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October 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thank you @therelphian.bsky.social and @trashcatlit.bsky.social and congratulations to all! Love this trash family.
So honored and excited to receive my second #Pushcart nomination! And grateful to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for his support of my story.
The #WelkinWritingPrize is pleased to announce nominations for this year's Pushcart Prize:
@laurabesley.bsky.social
@cbigs.bsky.social
Clyde Liffey
NmaHassan Muhammad
@shiramusicant.bsky.social
@thisisguan.bsky.social
Congratulations all!!!
@laurabesley.bsky.social
@cbigs.bsky.social
Clyde Liffey
NmaHassan Muhammad
@shiramusicant.bsky.social
@thisisguan.bsky.social
Congratulations all!!!
October 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
So honored and excited to receive my second #Pushcart nomination! And grateful to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for his support of my story.
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www.sandandgravelpress.com/interviews Interview with @travisflatt.bsky.social up! November 2nd release party over zoom (link on website) featuring @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @cbigs.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social and Lucas Flatt.
Interviews — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS
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October 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
www.sandandgravelpress.com/interviews Interview with @travisflatt.bsky.social up! November 2nd release party over zoom (link on website) featuring @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @cbigs.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social and Lucas Flatt.
Excited to share that my second chapbook “Man’s Best Friends” was published this week:
a.co/d/6jUlAjs
This #flashfiction collection “digs into the strange, tender, and sometimes absurd ways people and animals collide.”
I’ll be donating all my proceeds to the ASPCA.
I hope you’ll check it out!
a.co/d/6jUlAjs
This #flashfiction collection “digs into the strange, tender, and sometimes absurd ways people and animals collide.”
I’ll be donating all my proceeds to the ASPCA.
I hope you’ll check it out!
October 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Excited to share that my second chapbook “Man’s Best Friends” was published this week:
a.co/d/6jUlAjs
This #flashfiction collection “digs into the strange, tender, and sometimes absurd ways people and animals collide.”
I’ll be donating all my proceeds to the ASPCA.
I hope you’ll check it out!
a.co/d/6jUlAjs
This #flashfiction collection “digs into the strange, tender, and sometimes absurd ways people and animals collide.”
I’ll be donating all my proceeds to the ASPCA.
I hope you’ll check it out!
Thanks so much for sharing @therelphian.bsky.social ! Wonderful to be part of the @trashcatlit.bsky.social family. #ekphrastic #flashfiction.
September's newsletter is live 🦝
We've got subs, Trash Family stuffs from @cbigs.bsky.social @matgost.bsky.social @meproctor.bsky.social & @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, three quick reads from Genrepunk Award nominees and some autumnal ekphrastic writing prompts 🧡
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We've got subs, Trash Family stuffs from @cbigs.bsky.social @matgost.bsky.social @meproctor.bsky.social & @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, three quick reads from Genrepunk Award nominees and some autumnal ekphrastic writing prompts 🧡
trashcatlit.com/2025/09/22/h...
Hello from the welcome chill of September
Welcome to our latest newsletter. We have news, submission stuffs, Trash Family publications, Quick Reads from award nominees and a seasonal ekphrastic writing prompt.
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September 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Thanks so much for sharing @therelphian.bsky.social ! Wonderful to be part of the @trashcatlit.bsky.social family. #ekphrastic #flashfiction.
I have a new story up @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social. Thanks to the team there and to @sfreligh.bsky.social for the Hopperroebics inspiration!
www.ekphrastic.net
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The Ekphrastic Review
the ekphrastic review: visual art and writing, ekphrastic poetry, ekphrastic flash fiction, ekphrastic prose, ekphrastic essays, writing and literature responding to visual art
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September 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I have a new story up @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social. Thanks to the team there and to @sfreligh.bsky.social for the Hopperroebics inspiration!
www.ekphrastic.net
www.ekphrastic.net
Guess I need to check my socials more often. Thank you @mattkendrick.bsky.social !
September 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Guess I need to check my socials more often. Thank you @mattkendrick.bsky.social !
looking for places to submit spooky, #ghost, thriller #flashfiction. I'm assuming magazines would be looking right about now but not sure where to send. Any thoughts? #feedback
August 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
looking for places to submit spooky, #ghost, thriller #flashfiction. I'm assuming magazines would be looking right about now but not sure where to send. Any thoughts? #feedback
August 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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"...and—between you and me—the secret best thing about mamas is that they're temporary."
"The Way My Mother, Who Refuses to Die, Is Like A Ford Taurus" by @daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"The Way My Mother, Who Refuses to Die, Is Like A Ford Taurus" by @daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
The Way My Mother, Who Refuses to Die, Is Like A Ford Taurus by Danielle Barr
My mother died of a massive stroke, but she swears she didn’t. Dropped down dead right there at the breakfast buffet, then climbed back up to her feet—pardon me, she said to the coveralled man behi…
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July 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"...and—between you and me—the secret best thing about mamas is that they're temporary."
"The Way My Mother, Who Refuses to Die, Is Like A Ford Taurus" by @daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"The Way My Mother, Who Refuses to Die, Is Like A Ford Taurus" by @daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
Happy to have my micro "Seeking Companionship" up at 101words. This was one of my favorites from the @smokelong.bsky.social marchmicro session. #microfiction #flashfiction #seekingcompanionship #parakeet 101words.org/seeking-comp...
Seeking Companionship - 101 Words
As the breeze through the open convertible ruffled what was left of his greying hair, Mort tapped in time with […]
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July 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Happy to have my micro "Seeking Companionship" up at 101words. This was one of my favorites from the @smokelong.bsky.social marchmicro session. #microfiction #flashfiction #seekingcompanionship #parakeet 101words.org/seeking-comp...
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From our latest issue 🦝
We loved the setting we were plunged into, the instant tension and confusion. Then @cbigs.bsky.social MC taking this time to reflect and regret and ultimately reveal himself was a rollercoaster.
Read and listen to Coleman's story here:
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We loved the setting we were plunged into, the instant tension and confusion. Then @cbigs.bsky.social MC taking this time to reflect and regret and ultimately reveal himself was a rollercoaster.
Read and listen to Coleman's story here:
trashcatlit.com/divine-inter...
July 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
From our latest issue 🦝
We loved the setting we were plunged into, the instant tension and confusion. Then @cbigs.bsky.social MC taking this time to reflect and regret and ultimately reveal himself was a rollercoaster.
Read and listen to Coleman's story here:
trashcatlit.com/divine-inter...
We loved the setting we were plunged into, the instant tension and confusion. Then @cbigs.bsky.social MC taking this time to reflect and regret and ultimately reveal himself was a rollercoaster.
Read and listen to Coleman's story here:
trashcatlit.com/divine-inter...
This is a must read by @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social - I love how this all circles (or should I say slithers) around to the title. powerful stuff!
So happy to have my third skull with @havehashad.com!
started our "squares" with a lawnmowing piece, & now we're ending with another!
today from Timothy C Goodwin:
"You mow over a snake just like your father did back when you were very young sitting at the picnic table holding his beer and being USELESS..."
https://www.havehashad.com/0bacg
today from Timothy C Goodwin:
"You mow over a snake just like your father did back when you were very young sitting at the picnic table holding his beer and being USELESS..."
https://www.havehashad.com/0bacg
July 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is a must read by @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social - I love how this all circles (or should I say slithers) around to the title. powerful stuff!
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don’t miss this unsettling banger with some hard scary truths at its core 👏👏👏
(i expect nothing less from Coleman & editor @therelphian.bsky.social @trashcatlit.bsky.social natch!)
#flash #fiction
(i expect nothing less from Coleman & editor @therelphian.bsky.social @trashcatlit.bsky.social natch!)
#flash #fiction
My story "Divine Intervention" is up @trashcatlit.bsky.social today. You can even listen to me READ it! I have to say that working with @therelphian.bsky.social was a fantastic experience and I highly recommend. This story was born in @smokelong.bsky.social workshop. trashcatlit.com/divine-inter...
Divine Intervention
Coleman Bigelow Listen to Coleman read his story Content Warning active shooter On bended knee, he came to me. Well, it was more like an army crawl. “Get down!” he hissed. I was confused. Couldn’t …
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July 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
don’t miss this unsettling banger with some hard scary truths at its core 👏👏👏
(i expect nothing less from Coleman & editor @therelphian.bsky.social @trashcatlit.bsky.social natch!)
#flash #fiction
(i expect nothing less from Coleman & editor @therelphian.bsky.social @trashcatlit.bsky.social natch!)
#flash #fiction
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@cbigs.bsky.social damn! just read your #flash #fiction in new @trashcatlit.bsky.social & damn!!!
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July 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
@cbigs.bsky.social damn! just read your #flash #fiction in new @trashcatlit.bsky.social & damn!!!
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My story "Divine Intervention" is up @trashcatlit.bsky.social today. You can even listen to me READ it! I have to say that working with @therelphian.bsky.social was a fantastic experience and I highly recommend. This story was born in @smokelong.bsky.social workshop. trashcatlit.com/divine-inter...
Divine Intervention
Coleman Bigelow Listen to Coleman read his story Content Warning active shooter On bended knee, he came to me. Well, it was more like an army crawl. “Get down!” he hissed. I was confused. Couldn’t …
trashcatlit.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
My story "Divine Intervention" is up @trashcatlit.bsky.social today. You can even listen to me READ it! I have to say that working with @therelphian.bsky.social was a fantastic experience and I highly recommend. This story was born in @smokelong.bsky.social workshop. trashcatlit.com/divine-inter...
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COMING 1st JULY 🦝
Coleman @cbigs.bsky.social forces his MC to consider what kind of man he is
Ian @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social explores love, passion and regret
Jude @judepickledplum.bsky.social takes us to the seedy side of a magic show to teach us life lessons
Coleman @cbigs.bsky.social forces his MC to consider what kind of man he is
Ian @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social explores love, passion and regret
Jude @judepickledplum.bsky.social takes us to the seedy side of a magic show to teach us life lessons
June 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
COMING 1st JULY 🦝
Coleman @cbigs.bsky.social forces his MC to consider what kind of man he is
Ian @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social explores love, passion and regret
Jude @judepickledplum.bsky.social takes us to the seedy side of a magic show to teach us life lessons
Coleman @cbigs.bsky.social forces his MC to consider what kind of man he is
Ian @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social explores love, passion and regret
Jude @judepickledplum.bsky.social takes us to the seedy side of a magic show to teach us life lessons