Flight: A Literary Sampler
@flightlit.bsky.social
A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social
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Flight: A Literary Sampler
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Welcome to Flight: a Literary Sampler!
We’re a literary journal, publishing four interconnected pieces in each edition.
You can learn more about us at our website: flight-literary.ghost.io
We’re a literary journal, publishing four interconnected pieces in each edition.
You can learn more about us at our website: flight-literary.ghost.io
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First acceptance of 2026 yesterday and it's...not for poetry!
Here's to doing old things new while the world burns.
Here's to doing old things new while the world burns.
January 19, 2026 at 3:38 PM
First acceptance of 2026 yesterday and it's...not for poetry!
Here's to doing old things new while the world burns.
Here's to doing old things new while the world burns.
A few stats for the submission nerds out there!
During our quick response call we:
-received 48 subs
-accepted 3 (one fiction, one essay, one brewer’s choice)
This puts our current acceptance rate at 6%
During our quick response call we:
-received 48 subs
-accepted 3 (one fiction, one essay, one brewer’s choice)
This puts our current acceptance rate at 6%
January 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
A few stats for the submission nerds out there!
During our quick response call we:
-received 48 subs
-accepted 3 (one fiction, one essay, one brewer’s choice)
This puts our current acceptance rate at 6%
During our quick response call we:
-received 48 subs
-accepted 3 (one fiction, one essay, one brewer’s choice)
This puts our current acceptance rate at 6%
And although the Paris Review has been silent on the issue, Flight will tell you if Paris is any good or not
January 19, 2026 at 3:09 PM
And although the Paris Review has been silent on the issue, Flight will tell you if Paris is any good or not
All responses for our quick response window have been sent!
If you submitted and haven’t gotten an email, please reach out to us at our site email, [email protected]
Thanks to everyone who submitted! You didn’t make it easy on us!
If you submitted and haven’t gotten an email, please reach out to us at our site email, [email protected]
Thanks to everyone who submitted! You didn’t make it easy on us!
January 19, 2026 at 1:51 AM
All responses for our quick response window have been sent!
If you submitted and haven’t gotten an email, please reach out to us at our site email, [email protected]
Thanks to everyone who submitted! You didn’t make it easy on us!
If you submitted and haven’t gotten an email, please reach out to us at our site email, [email protected]
Thanks to everyone who submitted! You didn’t make it easy on us!
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Now we go live to antifa headquarters in Minnesota
January 18, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Now we go live to antifa headquarters in Minnesota
Hi folks! If you submitted to our quick response window and haven’t heard back yet, you’ll have a response by tomorrow
Our goal was to get back to everyone today, but you all are making it hard with the quality of submissions, and the debates have been fierce!
Our goal was to get back to everyone today, but you all are making it hard with the quality of submissions, and the debates have been fierce!
January 18, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Hi folks! If you submitted to our quick response window and haven’t heard back yet, you’ll have a response by tomorrow
Our goal was to get back to everyone today, but you all are making it hard with the quality of submissions, and the debates have been fierce!
Our goal was to get back to everyone today, but you all are making it hard with the quality of submissions, and the debates have been fierce!
After a brief pause while we started working through quick response submissions, our general rolling submissions form is back open for all categories for Issue 5:
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Submission Guidelines
Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
After a brief pause while we started working through quick response submissions, our general rolling submissions form is back open for all categories for Issue 5:
flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
That’s all, folks! Thanks to everyone who submitted. If you haven’t already heard back, you’ll get a response by Saturday
Clock’s ticking! You’ve got half an hour (give or take) to slip something in under the wire
8 hours! Send us something!
January 15, 2026 at 5:19 AM
That’s all, folks! Thanks to everyone who submitted. If you haven’t already heard back, you’ll get a response by Saturday
Clock’s ticking! You’ve got half an hour (give or take) to slip something in under the wire
8 hours! Send us something!
Two more days to get in a submission for a response this week!
We’d especially love to see more Brewer’s Choice submissions: send your collages, your photos, your humor pieces, your huddled reviews yearning to breath free
We’d especially love to see more Brewer’s Choice submissions: send your collages, your photos, your humor pieces, your huddled reviews yearning to breath free
January 15, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Clock’s ticking! You’ve got half an hour (give or take) to slip something in under the wire
Poets! Don’t make us tap the sign!
January 15, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Poets! Don’t make us tap the sign!
8 hours! Send us something!
Two more days to get in a submission for a response this week!
We’d especially love to see more Brewer’s Choice submissions: send your collages, your photos, your humor pieces, your huddled reviews yearning to breath free
We’d especially love to see more Brewer’s Choice submissions: send your collages, your photos, your humor pieces, your huddled reviews yearning to breath free
*Quick Response Submissions*
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
January 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM
8 hours! Send us something!
Two more days to get in a submission for a response this week!
We’d especially love to see more Brewer’s Choice submissions: send your collages, your photos, your humor pieces, your huddled reviews yearning to breath free
We’d especially love to see more Brewer’s Choice submissions: send your collages, your photos, your humor pieces, your huddled reviews yearning to breath free
*Quick Response Submissions*
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
January 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Two more days to get in a submission for a response this week!
We’d especially love to see more Brewer’s Choice submissions: send your collages, your photos, your humor pieces, your huddled reviews yearning to breath free
We’d especially love to see more Brewer’s Choice submissions: send your collages, your photos, your humor pieces, your huddled reviews yearning to breath free
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Hope you spend time with Episode 82 featuring @fklein907.bsky.social this week, if you haven’t yet—maybe the break you need from the news. Poets are good company. 🎙️📚💜
Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/7e12c6c8 @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social
Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/7e12c6c8 @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Hope you spend time with Episode 82 featuring @fklein907.bsky.social this week, if you haven’t yet—maybe the break you need from the news. Poets are good company. 🎙️📚💜
Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/7e12c6c8 @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social
Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/7e12c6c8 @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social
Gentle reminder, beloveds, that we are closed for poetry, and that submitting poetry under a different genre will not make us magically reopen
*Quick Response Submissions*
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
January 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Gentle reminder, beloveds, that we are closed for poetry, and that submitting poetry under a different genre will not make us magically reopen
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Them: "Audiobooks and graphic novels don't count as reading."
Me, about to verbally slap the shit out of them:
Me, about to verbally slap the shit out of them:
January 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Them: "Audiobooks and graphic novels don't count as reading."
Me, about to verbally slap the shit out of them:
Me, about to verbally slap the shit out of them:
We’re getting cool stuff in the queue! Add yours for a quick response!
We would especially love to see more visual art and non-text based pieces
We would especially love to see more visual art and non-text based pieces
*Quick Response Submissions*
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
January 11, 2026 at 5:39 PM
We’re getting cool stuff in the queue! Add yours for a quick response!
We would especially love to see more visual art and non-text based pieces
We would especially love to see more visual art and non-text based pieces
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Please sub to @flightlit.bsky.social - they’re an awesome team who run an awesome litmag! They’re quick anyway, but this is super quick 🧡
*Quick Response Submissions*
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
January 11, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Please sub to @flightlit.bsky.social - they’re an awesome team who run an awesome litmag! They’re quick anyway, but this is super quick 🧡
*Quick Response Submissions*
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
January 11, 2026 at 2:01 AM
*Quick Response Submissions*
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
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A joy to start the year seeing one of the very first poems toward my new project about faith(lessness) and the divine. Thank you, Allison Blevins, for believing in my work again and Jill Khoury for again giving my work a home at @rogueagent.bsky.social:
www.rogueagentjournal.com/tlau
www.rogueagentjournal.com/tlau
January 1, 2026 at 5:08 PM
A joy to start the year seeing one of the very first poems toward my new project about faith(lessness) and the divine. Thank you, Allison Blevins, for believing in my work again and Jill Khoury for again giving my work a home at @rogueagent.bsky.social:
www.rogueagentjournal.com/tlau
www.rogueagentjournal.com/tlau
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@flightlit.bsky.social is awesome! Thanks so much!
Departures 5 takes us to the *almost* end of the world with the @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social story “Polecatz,” from Flight 2: flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-czyz...
December 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
@flightlit.bsky.social is awesome! Thanks so much!
The Flight 2 fiction selection is a darkly funny comedy from @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social that made both our editors scramble to accept.
Read “Polecatz” here: flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-czyz...
Read “Polecatz” here: flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-czyz...
December 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The Flight 2 fiction selection is a darkly funny comedy from @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social that made both our editors scramble to accept.
Read “Polecatz” here: flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-czyz...
Read “Polecatz” here: flight-literary.ghost.io/michael-czyz...
If you write from one of our prompts, we want to see it! Send your piece to our press email (on our website) with “departures” in the subject line and we’ll respond within 30 days
Christmas is over, and New Years is coming. Here at Flight, we know how hazy time can get in that endless week between.
To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd
Mark the time by writing with us!
To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd
Mark the time by writing with us!
December 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If you write from one of our prompts, we want to see it! Send your piece to our press email (on our website) with “departures” in the subject line and we’ll respond within 30 days
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Departure 1 is inspired by the @seanennis.bsky.social story "Its Powerful Parking Lot," published in Flight 1
flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Departure 1 is inspired by the @seanennis.bsky.social story "Its Powerful Parking Lot," published in Flight 1
flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...
flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...
Reposted by Flight: A Literary Sampler
Christmas is over, and New Years is coming. Here at Flight, we know how hazy time can get in that endless week between.
To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd
Mark the time by writing with us!
To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd
Mark the time by writing with us!
December 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Christmas is over, and New Years is coming. Here at Flight, we know how hazy time can get in that endless week between.
To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd
Mark the time by writing with us!
To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd
Mark the time by writing with us!