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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 2d

Here at Apex, we're drawn to good horror like a moth(man) to a flame 🔴🔴🕯️

You have FOUR WEEKS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! The theme for October is FOLKLORE. You have until the 31st to submit!

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a black bird with red eyes stands in the dark

Alt: mothman reaches out to you with one wizened little moth finger

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · 12d

Can’t wait to delve into these beauties, as selected by @mariahaskins.com 👀 💜 ⬇️

Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 12d

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

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A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · 12d

My little map story for #AugurMicros2025. Thanks, @augursociety.bsky.social 🗺️ ✨

The Cartography of Lands That Shall Remain Lost

The cartographer travels to unknown lands, tasked by the emperor to inventory anything of value. Here the forest grows thick and she makes virgin paths in her yellow gumboots. She marks rivers blooming with pearls, villages built on pink stone, trees with leaves as wide as wingspans.

In these lands of wonder, she begins to survey her heart.

Soon silver rain unspools from the clouds and the cartographer doesn’t think twice. She unfolds her maps and lifts them to the sky. She imagines the emperor's fury, his failed ambitions.

The ink dark-trickles into the earth the way new roots might.

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bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · 16d

This weekend & one more till our 31st Award ends on Sun 5th Oct. Up to 300 word #flashfiction Results by end Oct. £1460 in prizes + publication offer in our 10th anniversary anthology for all 50 longlisted
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ALT: a cartoon duck is writing in a notebook with a pencil

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Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social · 18d

September sub window: OPEN 🪟

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · 19d

Beautiful stories alert! ✨✨

My fav was @colettelh.bsky.social’s “How to Respond When Your Hairdresser Asks if You Have Any Children.” It’s a real stunner, see link to the issue ⬇️

SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 27d

Issue 89 with new CNF by Aimee Bender, our first featured author in our Master Series, is live! Work by established writers and those new to the form rubbing elbows in this issue. All rare gems by writers from around the globe. So proud of everyone in this issue. www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...

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The Fabulist Words & Art @fabulistmag.bsky.social · 19d

Hey poets! Just a heads-up that The Fabulist will be opening a SPECULATIVE POETRY SUBMISSIONS WINDOW in late November. Woo! Details and links to come; meanwhile, sharpen yr quills, refresh the inkwell and start scratching on that vellum…

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · 23d

Thanks so much, Cindy!! ✨

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · 23d

Ahh I’m so glad you liked it! Thanks, Angela! ✨

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · 24d

ICYMI my latest #flashfiction in @electricliterature.com ✨ ⬇️

Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 25d

A flash story by Nadia Born, about a woman who copes with her own impending death by 3D printing the world.

My Husband's Dream Woman Will Outlive Me - Electric Literature

“3D-Printing the World and Other Dreams,” flash fiction by Nadia Born

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · 25d

This absolutely made my day!Thanks, Hallie! ✨

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · 25d

Psyched to share my story “3D-Printing the World and Other Dreams” in today’s Commuter (@electricliterature.com)! 🌎 ✨

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My Husband's Dream Woman Will Outlive Me - Electric Literature

“3D-Printing the World and Other Dreams,” flash fiction by Nadia Born

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · 25d

Ahh thanks so much!! 💛

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨👻 ONE WEEK left to get in those ghost stories!

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a group of cartoon ghosts are dancing in a cave .

Alt: a group of cartoon ghosts are dancing and playing instruments in a cave .

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · Jul 11

Love this 💛

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · Jul 9

✨ Last day of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

Obsessed with the playful irreverence of this one ➡️ “Driving my Seven-Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother at Rehab” by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social -
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Emily Rinkema June 2024 Second Prize

Driving my Seven-Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother at Rehab by Emily Rinkema It’s his turn, and from the back seat he tosses out an easy one. “Would you rather eat a mile of garbage or a mile of …

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Jul 7

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨

We want your books.

So we can acquire them.

And print them.

For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨

Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.

Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.

Pass it on 👀

Augur press novella and novelette submissions now open! Be a part of augur press’ debut line up. We’re looking for works from 12,500-40,000 words to launch as print books in 2027-2029. Canadian & international authors welcomed. Open July 6-August 30. Guidelines at augursociety.org/press-submissions.

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · Jul 8

✨ Day 14 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

Absolutely gorgeous language in this one ➡️ “Diamonds in the Earth” by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2023/06/jame...

James Montgomery June 2023 Highly Commended

Diamonds in the Earth by James Montgomery The bat splinters, the crowd roars, and the boy’s held fast by the arc of the baseball, blitzing a course straight at him, a mere speck in the outfield, tw…

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · Jul 7

✨ Day 13 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

The ending of this one hits the emotional bullseye ➡️ “McDonald’s” by @sfreligh.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2022/10/sara...

Sarah Freligh October 2022 Second Prize

McDonald’s by Sarah Freligh The boys again, their sneakered feet and chin zits and peach fuzz. Her boy at that age had been slow to grow, slow to do anything. At fourteen, he still had a voice like…

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · Jul 6

✨ Day 12 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

Captivated by the unique (and beautiful) conceit of this one ➡️ “A Roadmap of Womanhood” by @louisemangos.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2022/02/lous...

Louise Mangos February 2022 First Prize

A Roadmap of Womanhood by Louise Mangos The vein travels east from her cleavage across her right breast. Its trail is blue-green, like the motorways in her faded, water-damaged AA Atlas from the ni…

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · Jul 5

✨ Day 11 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

Gorgeous and strange ➡️ “Snow Crow” by Doug Ramspeck - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/10/doug...

Doug Ramspeck October 2021 First Prize

Snow Crow by Doug Ramspeck And the days were made of auguries. And the cricket calls arrived disembodied from the field. And a dead mole lay on its back by the garage, gathering its thin blanket of…

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · Jul 4

✨ Day 10 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

Whisked away by this dark little fairy tale ➡️ “The Button Wife” by @daraelerath.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/06/dara...

Dara Yen Elerath June 2021 First Prize

The Button Wife by Dara Elerath The button wife bends her body across the bed, but the cloth husband is not interested in touching her. Instead, he phones the burlap wife. He likes the way her coar…

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · Jul 3

✨ Day 9 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

One gorgeous, breathless paragraph ➡️ “1902” by @raygunnoelle.bsky.social - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2021/02/rega...

Regan Puckett Feb 2021 Commended

1902 by Regan Puckett When their silk skins shrivel and wither, the corn stalks are ready to be stripped, so you’re sent into the field with the metal bucket they bathed your brother in before your…

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · Jul 2

✨ Day 8 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

Just captivating rhythm and language ➡️ “Our fathers, who we have strewn like seaweed behind us” by Alison Powell - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/10/alis...

Alison Powell Oct 2020 Commended

Our fathers, who we have strewn like seaweed behind us by Alison Powell We buried our fathers to their necks at Llangennith Beach, at Swanage Bay, at Portreath. They are still there now in their th…

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Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com · Jul 1

✨ Day 7 of @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge ✨

This ghost story is always beautiful, never over-explaining ➡️ “Sea Change” by Fiona Perry - www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/06/fion...

Fiona Perry June 2020 First Prize

Sea Change by Fiona Perry He arrives breathless with excitement, clutching a thick plastic bag bulging with shells. At the kitchen table, he points to the bag and tells me they fattened up over win…

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