Dawn Miller 🇨🇦
@dawnwriter.bsky.social
2024 Winner Toronto Star SS contest| @SmokeLong Fellow 2024|Best Microfiction 2024 2025|words:The Forge,The Cincinnati Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Room Magazine, Fractured Lit+| Pushcart, Best SF noms| rep:Joanna Rasheed, Ultra Literary
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Good news! You are invited to WRR's 10-Year Anniversary Reading!
Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025
9:00 a.m. Pacific Time
Register in advance:
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Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025
9:00 a.m. Pacific Time
Register in advance:
pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Good news! You are invited to WRR's 10-Year Anniversary Reading!
Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025
9:00 a.m. Pacific Time
Register in advance:
pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025
9:00 a.m. Pacific Time
Register in advance:
pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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I was the new girl, the girl with no father, the girl other girls’ mothers pretended not to recognize in the day-old food section at Walmart. I missed my father even though I wasn’t supposed to.
Congratulations on your 2nd place win, Dawn! @dawnwriter.bsky.social @thesunlightpress.bsky.social
Congratulations on your 2nd place win, Dawn! @dawnwriter.bsky.social @thesunlightpress.bsky.social
Thrilled to win Second Prize in @thesunlightpress.bsky.social Flash Fiction Contest! Thank you to the readers and judge @kelliborges2.bsky.social for this honour!❤️ #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #litmag #shortstory #writing
Our judge Kelli Borges shares her insights on all the winning stories. Find out our 2025 Flash Fiction Contest second and third place winners.
Special thanks to Kelli and our readers, Susan Pohlman and Elizabeth Spencer!
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Special thanks to Kelli and our readers, Susan Pohlman and Elizabeth Spencer!
bit.ly/47ZNYyG
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I was the new girl, the girl with no father, the girl other girls’ mothers pretended not to recognize in the day-old food section at Walmart. I missed my father even though I wasn’t supposed to.
Congratulations on your 2nd place win, Dawn! @dawnwriter.bsky.social @thesunlightpress.bsky.social
Congratulations on your 2nd place win, Dawn! @dawnwriter.bsky.social @thesunlightpress.bsky.social
Thrilled to win Second Prize in @thesunlightpress.bsky.social Flash Fiction Contest! Thank you to the readers and judge @kelliborges2.bsky.social for this honour!❤️ #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #litmag #shortstory #writing
Our judge Kelli Borges shares her insights on all the winning stories. Find out our 2025 Flash Fiction Contest second and third place winners.
Special thanks to Kelli and our readers, Susan Pohlman and Elizabeth Spencer!
bit.ly/47ZNYyG
Special thanks to Kelli and our readers, Susan Pohlman and Elizabeth Spencer!
bit.ly/47ZNYyG
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Thrilled to win Second Prize in @thesunlightpress.bsky.social Flash Fiction Contest! Thank you to the readers and judge @kelliborges2.bsky.social for this honour!❤️ #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #litmag #shortstory #writing
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(in case you missed it, my whimsical middle grade witchy series Broomsticklers will be coming from Atheneum/S&S starting 2027!)
October 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
(in case you missed it, my whimsical middle grade witchy series Broomsticklers will be coming from Atheneum/S&S starting 2027!)
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“Now, he peers inside the shark’s gaping maw, the tongue soft and fuzzy, and pulls out yet another shark, palm-length, and identical.”
Excerpt from “Shark Boy” by @dawnwriter.bsky.social . It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
Read below:
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Excerpt from “Shark Boy” by @dawnwriter.bsky.social . It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
Read below:
buff.ly/8hktzOb
#writingcommunity
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“Now, he peers inside the shark’s gaping maw, the tongue soft and fuzzy, and pulls out yet another shark, palm-length, and identical.”
Excerpt from “Shark Boy” by @dawnwriter.bsky.social . It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
Read below:
buff.ly/8hktzOb
#writingcommunity
Excerpt from “Shark Boy” by @dawnwriter.bsky.social . It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
Read below:
buff.ly/8hktzOb
#writingcommunity
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“…and what if his parents were waiting, arms outstretched, instead of the door locked, no lights on except for his sister’s room, and she looked down at him from her window for a moment before dropping the blind like…”
@dawnwriter.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
@dawnwriter.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
An Alternate History of Inmate 2090-54C, Age 20 | MrBullBull
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November 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
“…and what if his parents were waiting, arms outstretched, instead of the door locked, no lights on except for his sister’s room, and she looked down at him from her window for a moment before dropping the blind like…”
@dawnwriter.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
@dawnwriter.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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What a great story @dawnwriter.bsky.social!
Delighted to have a story in BULL Magazine @mrbullbull.bsky.social Thank you to the wonderful editors 🥰#flash #flashfiction #flashlit #shortstory #flashpack #writer #writing
"What if he didn’t meet the older boys behind the high school or the people under the overpass with their trash-can fires and shouts of buddy, pal, bro, people who handed out belonging like the rainbow of pills they stole and sold." Dawn Miller mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
October 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
What a great story @dawnwriter.bsky.social!
Delighted to have a story in BULL Magazine @mrbullbull.bsky.social Thank you to the wonderful editors 🥰#flash #flashfiction #flashlit #shortstory #flashpack #writer #writing
"What if he didn’t meet the older boys behind the high school or the people under the overpass with their trash-can fires and shouts of buddy, pal, bro, people who handed out belonging like the rainbow of pills they stole and sold." Dawn Miller mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
October 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Delighted to have a story in BULL Magazine @mrbullbull.bsky.social Thank you to the wonderful editors 🥰#flash #flashfiction #flashlit #shortstory #flashpack #writer #writing
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"Fingertips snag on a ripped seam, and he pushes until stitches release and the shark’s insides fall apart just like the silvery body of the trout his dad cleaned when the three of them camped by the lake before everything changed." Superb work! @dawnwriter.bsky.social @westtradereview.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"Fingertips snag on a ripped seam, and he pushes until stitches release and the shark’s insides fall apart just like the silvery body of the trout his dad cleaned when the three of them camped by the lake before everything changed." Superb work! @dawnwriter.bsky.social @westtradereview.bsky.social
Thrilled to have a piece included in @westtradereview.bsky.social Fall 2025 collection!🥰 #flash #flashfiction #flashpack #flashlit #poetry #cnf #writing #litmag #shortstory
We’re excited to present the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by @jrigamonti.bsky.social, Michelle Bitting, and Joseph Byrd among others; fiction by @dawnwriter.bsky.social ; CNF by Candace Kelsey and John Jacobson
Read it below:
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Read it below:
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October 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Thrilled to have a piece included in @westtradereview.bsky.social Fall 2025 collection!🥰 #flash #flashfiction #flashpack #flashlit #poetry #cnf #writing #litmag #shortstory
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We’re excited to present the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by @jrigamonti.bsky.social, Michelle Bitting, and Joseph Byrd among others; fiction by @dawnwriter.bsky.social ; CNF by Candace Kelsey and John Jacobson
Read it below:
buff.ly/CauWXGD
#writingcommunity
Read it below:
buff.ly/CauWXGD
#writingcommunity
October 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We’re excited to present the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by @jrigamonti.bsky.social, Michelle Bitting, and Joseph Byrd among others; fiction by @dawnwriter.bsky.social ; CNF by Candace Kelsey and John Jacobson
Read it below:
buff.ly/CauWXGD
#writingcommunity
Read it below:
buff.ly/CauWXGD
#writingcommunity
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Our Fall 2025 Creative Nonfiction celebration continues featuring Motel on the Edge of Everything by Dawn Miller. citronreview.com/2025/10/05/m...
October 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Our Fall 2025 Creative Nonfiction celebration continues featuring Motel on the Edge of Everything by Dawn Miller. citronreview.com/2025/10/05/m...
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"I remember the sharp sizzle of a match, the haze of smoke curling from my mother’s mouth like a sigh."
My lord, I love the use of sensory details in this brilliant piece by @dawnwriter.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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My lord, I love the use of sensory details in this brilliant piece by @dawnwriter.bsky.social 💙💙💙
citronreview.com/2025/10/05/m...
Motel on the Edge of Everything
by Dawn Miller I remember the motel on the outskirts of town—brown-bricked and unexceptional, the neon sign by the highway missing the “L”. I remember the first-floor room I shared with my parents,…
citronreview.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"I remember the sharp sizzle of a match, the haze of smoke curling from my mother’s mouth like a sigh."
My lord, I love the use of sensory details in this brilliant piece by @dawnwriter.bsky.social 💙💙💙
citronreview.com/2025/10/05/m...
My lord, I love the use of sensory details in this brilliant piece by @dawnwriter.bsky.social 💙💙💙
citronreview.com/2025/10/05/m...
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Read this beauty by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in @fabulistmag.bsky.social this morning. If only…
fabulistmagazine.com/press-me-to-...
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Press Me to Your Heart > The Fabulist Words & Art
The beguiling strains of Edith Piaf are a counterpoint to some gristly magical heart surgery in this tale of love and loss on the streets of Paris.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Read this beauty by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in @fabulistmag.bsky.social this morning. If only…
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fabulistmagazine.com/press-me-to-...
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“Even the jogger—the last person to see the girl alive—who passed her on the bridge right there—right there! —on the CCTV camera video later aired in a loop on the local news—only remembered an indistinct presence …”
@dawnwriter.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/blur/
@dawnwriter.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/blur/
Blur
Dawn Miller Later, after the officer fishes the red hat out of the lake—adrift like flotsam on surface tension—after he notes the two small moles like an exclamation mark on the girl’s bloated chee…
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September 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“Even the jogger—the last person to see the girl alive—who passed her on the bridge right there—right there! —on the CCTV camera video later aired in a loop on the local news—only remembered an indistinct presence …”
@dawnwriter.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/blur/
@dawnwriter.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/blur/
Gorgeous piece by @andreabishop.bsky.social in @psmokejournal.bsky.social
Excited to share this. My feather of a story is in one of my fave journals.
"She turns herself upright but otherwise remains still, like she’s choosing whether to give up or go on. It takes a moment to regain your bearings when you survive."
Read "Our Goldfinch Math Doesn't Add Up" by @andreabishop.bsky.social on our website!
Art: “Queencard” by Lindsay Liang
Read "Our Goldfinch Math Doesn't Add Up" by @andreabishop.bsky.social on our website!
Art: “Queencard” by Lindsay Liang
September 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Gorgeous piece by @andreabishop.bsky.social in @psmokejournal.bsky.social
Thrilled! Huge thank you to @westtradereview.bsky.social ❤️ #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #shortstory #writing #writer #litfiction
We are thrilled to announce the results of the second annual 704 Prize for Flash Fiction contest. Ashni Math’s “Monsoon Worms” was selected by Maggie Armstrong as the winner of the $704 prize.
Details below:
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Details below:
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September 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thrilled! Huge thank you to @westtradereview.bsky.social ❤️ #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #shortstory #writing #writer #litfiction
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Happy to have a new micro in scaffold lit! www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
August 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Happy to have a new micro in scaffold lit! www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
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I have a story in Ghost Parachute today alongside this beautiful artwork by Brett J Barr. Will be reading the whole September issue on my back porch for the next hour with coffee.
ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...
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September 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I have a story in Ghost Parachute today alongside this beautiful artwork by Brett J Barr. Will be reading the whole September issue on my back porch for the next hour with coffee.
ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...
ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...
New micro from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social !
I have a new micro in @claudineliterary.bsky.social! Thank you Diana Hardy for including me in your inaugural issue!!
www.claudineliterary.net/melissallane...
www.claudineliterary.net/melissallane...
September 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
New micro from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social !
When the moms and dads come to the door, the dads say, You look just like your mother. The moms whisper to the dads, Yeah, like trash.
Wow! Fantastic story by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social in House of Arcanum!
Wow! Fantastic story by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social in House of Arcanum!
@bradymicheller.bsky.social put a lot of editorial love for these stories in the latest House of Arcanum! Check out "Every Day is Halloween" for Mandy's story.
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Every Day is Halloween... — House of Arcanum
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September 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
When the moms and dads come to the door, the dads say, You look just like your mother. The moms whisper to the dads, Yeah, like trash.
Wow! Fantastic story by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social in House of Arcanum!
Wow! Fantastic story by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social in House of Arcanum!
New story out by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in Sundog Lit!
Huge thank you to Sundog Lit and Eric Rasmussen for really seeing this story and loving it as much as I do. It was a complete pleasure working with Eric and I totally love this lit mag! They are awesome!
Dawn Tasaka Steffler
The Menopausal Woman Can’t Understand Why Anyone Would Want to Be a Woman If They Didn’t Have To Dawn Tasaka Steffler The Menopausal Woman startles from a dream: a person in drag is tossed from a c…
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September 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
New story out by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in Sundog Lit!
Time froze. It felt like it froze, but I swear it actually froze, too. Did it advance in normal time for the rest of the world, all while we stood there, time standing still?
Wonderful story by @aaronburch.bsky.social in the newest issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
Wonderful story by @aaronburch.bsky.social in the newest issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
I have a new story out today! Huge thanks to @kimmagowan.bsky.social & @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. And to you, for reading! (No thanks AT ALL to you if you don't read it 😤)
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The Bowling Story
Aaron Burch What happened was, I got divorced. You could take it back further—moving out, separation, sleeping in different rooms, therapy, affairs, fights, resentment, etc.—but none of that really…
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September 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Time froze. It felt like it froze, but I swear it actually froze, too. Did it advance in normal time for the rest of the world, all while we stood there, time standing still?
Wonderful story by @aaronburch.bsky.social in the newest issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
Wonderful story by @aaronburch.bsky.social in the newest issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
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Incredible story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social today. Haunting and gritty and so real. I will be paying much more attention to my surroundings today…
Thrilled to have a story in the September issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social ❤️Thank you @kimmagowan.bsky.social #flash #flashfiction #flashpack #shortstory #flashlit #writing #writer #litmag
Our September issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/09/01/v...
Words:
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@dawnwriter.bsky.social
CHARLES GROSEL
@patrickobrienstrickland.com
@gsmithgoodin.bsky.social
ALLISON ZHANG
E. FERRELL
CHRISTOPHER NOTARNICOLA
Cover art:
AL KRATZ
Words:
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@dawnwriter.bsky.social
CHARLES GROSEL
@patrickobrienstrickland.com
@gsmithgoodin.bsky.social
ALLISON ZHANG
E. FERRELL
CHRISTOPHER NOTARNICOLA
Cover art:
AL KRATZ
September 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Incredible story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social today. Haunting and gritty and so real. I will be paying much more attention to my surroundings today…