Gillian O’Shaughnessy
@gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social
▪️Relentless optimist.
▪️Salt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️Best Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
▪️Salt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️Best Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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So glad you did Sumitra! It’s fantastic 🩷🩷🩷
I almost didn’t sub this piece (fear, shame). Thank you so much @epistemiclit.bsky.social for being such amazing supporters of me and the writing community. Humbled by this Pushcart nom 🧡
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November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
So glad you did Sumitra! It’s fantastic 🩷🩷🩷
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It looks like it needs to stop drinking. It’s had enough.
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It looks like it needs to stop drinking. It’s had enough.
A perfect read. Such quiet impact. Love the first line. Brilliant @mattkendrick.bsky.social
Thrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read:
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Nothing certain ~ by Matt Kendrick
The day the sun forgets to rise, Mr White sits down for breakfast at precisely twelve minutes past seven. This is in the dining room. It is Tuesday. His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opene…
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November 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A perfect read. Such quiet impact. Love the first line. Brilliant @mattkendrick.bsky.social
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Thank you so much to @mynachang.bsky.social for giving me the chance to yap about Vile Lady Villains — and also to share the love about some of my favorite SFF publications
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social
New interview with Danai Christopoulou about VILE LADY VILLAINS!
"So Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth had always been favorites of mine, and growing up I started seeing the parallels between their characters, how they were almost an allegory for female ambition and power."
@danaiwrites.bsky.social
"So Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth had always been favorites of mine, and growing up I started seeing the parallels between their characters, how they were almost an allegory for female ambition and power."
@danaiwrites.bsky.social
Author Interview * Danai Christopoulou
Danai Christopoulou’s writing consistently makes me smile and/or cry—often within the same story. Danai’s work features lyrical prose, incisive character choices, and an undercurrent of triumph aga…
mynachang.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Thank you so much to @mynachang.bsky.social for giving me the chance to yap about Vile Lady Villains — and also to share the love about some of my favorite SFF publications
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social
Love some ‘Greek rage!’ Great interview!
New interview with Danai Christopoulou about VILE LADY VILLAINS!
"So Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth had always been favorites of mine, and growing up I started seeing the parallels between their characters, how they were almost an allegory for female ambition and power."
@danaiwrites.bsky.social
"So Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth had always been favorites of mine, and growing up I started seeing the parallels between their characters, how they were almost an allegory for female ambition and power."
@danaiwrites.bsky.social
Author Interview * Danai Christopoulou
Danai Christopoulou’s writing consistently makes me smile and/or cry—often within the same story. Danai’s work features lyrical prose, incisive character choices, and an undercurrent of triumph aga…
mynachang.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Love some ‘Greek rage!’ Great interview!
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Delighted to know you enjoyed this heartbreaker. Thank you for reading and sharing @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday #readingcommunity
Beautiful
Today from #MicroMonday we're thrilled to be featuring Mama, I'm Home by Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social #microfiction #writingcommunity #readingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/17/m...
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Delighted to know you enjoyed this heartbreaker. Thank you for reading and sharing @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday #readingcommunity
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⚡️Fast Flash Review: Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. A stunning read. Plus, Melissa writes in Hawaiian Pidgin Creole & English, this book is a masterclass on authentic own voice writing. Unmissable.
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
⚡️Fast Flash Review: Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. A stunning read. Plus, Melissa writes in Hawaiian Pidgin Creole & English, this book is a masterclass on authentic own voice writing. Unmissable.
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
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Does ecohorror count? I’d recommend Haunted Ecologies by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Does ecohorror count? I’d recommend Haunted Ecologies by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
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Apparently a few of you are, so without further ado, here is the cover of my forthcoming NiF Mother Karma. It’s a wee piece of my heart, and I hope you’ll all love this family as much as I do 🧡🧡🧡. Cover art @nmals.bsky.social Publisher @publishedbyjake.bsky.social Forthcoming in December
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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✨ICYMI✨
“the instructor says to breathe deep and let go, and my mind peels back the pastry folds of time and brings me to the beach on the northwest side of the island, fifteen and doing a star float in the twilight”
@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social
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“the instructor says to breathe deep and let go, and my mind peels back the pastry folds of time and brings me to the beach on the northwest side of the island, fifteen and doing a star float in the twilight”
@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social
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Kleopatra Olympiou | Here I Am
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November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
✨ICYMI✨
“the instructor says to breathe deep and let go, and my mind peels back the pastry folds of time and brings me to the beach on the northwest side of the island, fifteen and doing a star float in the twilight”
@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social
www.claudineliterary.net/kleopatraoly...
“the instructor says to breathe deep and let go, and my mind peels back the pastry folds of time and brings me to the beach on the northwest side of the island, fifteen and doing a star float in the twilight”
@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social
www.claudineliterary.net/kleopatraoly...
Work awaits under greenish bars of light. It is unclear who should move away first.’ ….such atmosphere and tension in these gorgeous stories from @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
My two short works featured today. Many thanks, Pangyrus editors!!
Susie, Do I Write You a Letter? and Siren | Pangyrus
Susie, Do I Write You a Letter? Susie, do I write you a letter, the way you did to Tom after he died? You asked me if I minded if you wrote him a letter and ...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Work awaits under greenish bars of light. It is unclear who should move away first.’ ….such atmosphere and tension in these gorgeous stories from @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
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Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection!
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection!
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
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ICYMI!
New review/interview with L.D. Colter about her upcoming novel, WHEN THE WINDS SING! Part of her Perilous Gods Trilogy!
@ldcolter.com
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
@ldcolter.com
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Author Interview * L.D. Colter
L.D. Colter’s Perilous Gods trilogy (Solaris Nova, 2025) has been generating a lot of attention lately, so I was excited to receive an ARC of the second book in the series, When The Winds Sing. I b…
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November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
ICYMI!
Woooo!!!!
**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Woooo!!!!
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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
gonelawn.net
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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⚡️Fast Flash Review: Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. A stunning read. Plus, Melissa writes in Hawaiian Pidgin Creole & English, this book is a masterclass on authentic own voice writing. Unmissable.
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🔥🔥🔥
⚡️Fast Flash Review: Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. A stunning read. Plus, Melissa writes in Hawaiian Pidgin Creole & English, this book is a masterclass on authentic own voice writing. Unmissable.
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
⚡️Fast Flash Review: Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. A stunning read. Plus, Melissa writes in Hawaiian Pidgin Creole & English, this book is a masterclass on authentic own voice writing. Unmissable.
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
Beautiful
Today from #MicroMonday we're thrilled to be featuring Mama, I'm Home by Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social #microfiction #writingcommunity #readingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/17/m...
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Beautiful
The brilliance of this story 🩷🩷
A tiny story of the warm, sweet shock of being loved by the indefatigable and lion-hearted @pleomorphic2.bsky.social
There’s joy in the words and in the sureness of the writing. Let your heart skip along just a little with this one
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There’s joy in the words and in the sureness of the writing. Let your heart skip along just a little with this one
templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...
Temple in a city literary journal
You-and-Kate in a Field, Loving me flash fiction by writer Sumitra Singam. Published in Temple in a city literary journal.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The brilliance of this story 🩷🩷
“Let’s say you didn’t wade out to the island at low tide to sit among the nodding tussock grass watching Little Blue Penguins fresh from their hidey-holes diving for sardines and pilchards and krill.” Stunning @belindarowe.bsky.social 🩷🩷🩷
Super thrilled to have a micro up at @fracturedlit.bsky.social - thank you so much to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and editors! Big shout out to the editors at @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece was born and to everyone who gave feedback 🙏💚🙏
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Green to Gray | Fractured
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November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
“Let’s say you didn’t wade out to the island at low tide to sit among the nodding tussock grass watching Little Blue Penguins fresh from their hidey-holes diving for sardines and pilchards and krill.” Stunning @belindarowe.bsky.social 🩷🩷🩷
Huzzah!!
BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social made @msmagazine.com's list of November 2025 Reads! buff.ly/JmWs33l
Make sure to get BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/bBDbW53
@susanschulman.bsky.social
Make sure to get BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/bBDbW53
@susanschulman.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Huzzah!!
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Chuffed to be reading at the Prose Garden hosted by @francinewitte.bsky.social and @megpokrass.bsky.social with these brilliant names! Sat Nov 15 2pm EST. Rego link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Chuffed to be reading at the Prose Garden hosted by @francinewitte.bsky.social and @megpokrass.bsky.social with these brilliant names! Sat Nov 15 2pm EST. Rego link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📚Last chance! Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna TONIGHT, 10/10/25 at the National Hotel Fremantle. I’ll be talking to Sofie about her new book, The Underworld. Full of myths and misfits, it’ll be a great conversation. 6.30pm start.
Register at New Edition books
Register at New Edition books
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
📚Last chance! Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna TONIGHT, 10/10/25 at the National Hotel Fremantle. I’ll be talking to Sofie about her new book, The Underworld. Full of myths and misfits, it’ll be a great conversation. 6.30pm start.
Register at New Edition books
Register at New Edition books
Kathryn is the BEST on this
I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚
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Buy tickets – Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom
Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom, Sat 22 Nov 2025 - Curious about how to move from publishing standalone flash to a body of work? This 2-hour workshop breaks down everyth...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Kathryn is the BEST on this