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The Hoolet’s Nook
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Where microfiction and poetry linger long past the final word. www.thehooletsnook.com / Submissions OPEN until March 15.
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The Hoolet’s Nook @thehooletsnook.bsky.social · 10d
The Hoolet’s Nook is now accepting submissions! Send us your #microfiction and #shortpoetry by March 15.
We'd love it if you shared with fellow writers—it really helps us out! Thank you! 🦉❣️🙏
www.thehooletsnook.com/submissions....
#submissioncall #dribbles #drabbles #haiku #writersofbsky #amwriting
thehooletsnook.bsky.social
A reminder. 🎨 ✨ 🌸 🖋️ 💡 🌱
#quoteoftheday #creativity #HenriMatisse #writingcommunity #writersofbsky #quotesofbsky #dailyinspiration #art
February 9, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social
Today in Flash the Court. Many thanks to Court, the EIC. Delighted & honored to share this one - which is a blurry line between fiction & nonfiction.

#Flash #Watertower #Memories #Bus #wildeflowers #Younglove @flashthecourt @courtneyharler

flashthecourt.com/2026/02/06/w...
“Water Tower Views” by Liz deBeer
In “Water Tower Views,” Liz deBeer captures the intricacies of budding young love—it’s both charming and crude, both bashful and brazen. The reader is given a glimpse of young love’s potential futu…
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February 6, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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bsherm36.bsky.social
Something a little different -- "My Life as a Chaise Lounge" -- up at @januaryhouselit.bsky.social. januaryhouselit.com/2026/02/07/m...
February 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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adelegallogly.bsky.social
My first time in a Top 10/advancing to Round 2! My silly, video-game walkthrough-style story was inspired by a childhood of ‘90s PC games. So thanks, Hugo! Ha. IYKYK
February 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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floridasnow.bsky.social
A live picture of me right now… 🤦‍♂️
February 2, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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loricramerwriter.bsky.social
Thrilled to have my micro "Every Sunday Morning at 9, Dad Honks the Horn of His Midlife-Crisis Mustang" featured today on #MicroMonday in @fictivedream.bsky.social. Thank you, Laura Black!
fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 9d
Delighted to be feat. "Every Sunday Morning at 9, Dad Honks the Horn of His Midlife-Crisis Mustang" by Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/02/02/m...
February 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
thehooletsnook.bsky.social
Still working on this one. ✍️🌿📖🌸
#jamesclearquotes #writingcommunity #writersofbsky #showingup #quotesofbsky #writerlife #habits #focusontheprogress #perfectionnism
February 4, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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adelegallogly.bsky.social
What a lovely surprise to see my story as a finalist! Congrats to flash winner J.P. Bellipanni — and to everyone who placed. @newmillwritings.bsky.social
🏆 60th Awards Flash Fiction Victors: Big Wins for Short Tales!
mailchi.mp
January 30, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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anneh23.bsky.social
Delighted to have a little story here, thank you @thin-skin.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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luannecastle.bsky.social
How I Wrote about a Troubled Childhood
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How I Wrote about a Troubled Childhood
and Healed in the Process
open.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social
Ever See an Iguana Missing a Tail?
He's still a spectacular bad-ass.
open.substack.com/pub/lizardst...
February 1, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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suzannehicks.bsky.social
I have a CNF micro in the new issue of @inshortlit.bsky.social. Many thanks to EIC Steph Liberatore and all at In Short!
Suzanne Hicks
inshortjournal.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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loricramerwriter.bsky.social
New month, new words. #amwriting
February 1, 2026 at 11:58 PM
thehooletsnook.bsky.social
Wow—we just hit 100 followers! Thank you all for joining our little THN community. Your support makes it all worthwhile.
🦉🙏🏼💗
#grateful #followerappreciation #writingcommunity #tinywords
February 1, 2026 at 6:07 PM
thehooletsnook.bsky.social
The Hoolet’s Nook is now accepting submissions! Send us your #microfiction and #shortpoetry by March 15.
We'd love it if you shared with fellow writers—it really helps us out! Thank you! 🦉❣️🙏
www.thehooletsnook.com/submissions....
#submissioncall #dribbles #drabbles #haiku #writersofbsky #amwriting
February 1, 2026 at 11:06 AM
thehooletsnook.bsky.social
“The pilot warned of turbulence in a crackly voice. He wanted to scream at the woman, all the horrible things he couldn’t say out loud.”

Don't miss “The Insistent Throbbing,” a gripping #story by @dpbrownwrites.bsky.social
www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...
#shortfiction #microfiction #fear
The Insistent Throbbing
by Dustin P Brown He couldn’t tell her how he felt; it was too mean. His grandmother had taught him to keep his mouth  shut  if nothing good would come out of it. Still, he wanted to. The pilot...
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January 29, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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✨ 🧠 ✍️ 💫 🧞🌳
#johnmuirquotes #imagination #creativemind #writingcommunity #quotesofbsky #creativity
January 28, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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suzannehicks.bsky.social
I have a tiny story up today at @paragraphplanet.bsky.social
An image of typewriter style text within a white box.
January 27, 2026 at 7:00 PM
thehooletsnook.bsky.social
Wondering whether your work might be a good fit for THN? Why not take a peek at our latest issue: www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...
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Submissions reopen on February 1st—and we'd appreciate it if you helped spread the word! 💙🙏
#microfiction #flashfiction #micropoetry #writersofbsky #poetsofbsky
January 15, 2026 – Issue 3
With the start of a new year comes a new issue of  The Hoolet’s Nook , and we’re glad you’re here. THN has always gravitated toward understated, thoughtful work that values resonance over...
www.thehooletsnook.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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chriscottom.bsky.social
Thank you very much, Dan
danbillyc.bsky.social Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 19d
"In the dazzle of noon, Clem upends a couple of empty crates, places them side by side against the wall, bids me sit, says we’re to eat the fruit of our labour, ‘as we’re told in the Psalms’."

I really love this story by @chriscottom.bsky.social in @freeflashfiction.bsky.social 💙💙💙
freeflashfiction.bsky.social Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 19d
FFF Competition Thirty-One
As chosen by Judge Caroline McKenzie
Highly Commended:

Where the Apple Reddens
by
Chris Cottom
@chriscottom.bsky.social

chriscottom.wixsite.com/chriscottom

#flashfiction #shortfiction #fiction #writingcompetitions

freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
January 23, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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chriscottom.bsky.social
Big thanks to ‪@freeflashfiction.bsky.social for running this great comp, to ‬judge Caroline McKenzie for choosing my story, and to @raecowie.bsky.social, @norami.bsky.social, and September Cardio Group 2 at Smokelong Fitness for their help with it.
January 22, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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bsherm36.bsky.social
Thanks for including my story in this purr-fect issue!
trashcatlit.bsky.social Trash Cat Lit - OPEN FOR SUBS @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 21d
Today we have third bin offender @bsherm36.bsky.social with a spooky, monstrous cat story 🦝
We loved the way the feline narrator speaks about her human, how she sees herself as protector, and the tension in the battle she undergoes.

Read here:
trashcatlit.com/the-night-vi...
January 22, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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floridasnow.bsky.social
Excited to have “Vantage,” a work of flash creative nonfiction, in the most recent edition of @orangeroseli (theorangeroselitmag.com/2026/01/19/v...).
“Vantage” by Scott Ortolano
“The results will be back on Monday. Your questions will have to wait until then.” I shook my head and gazed down at the too-clean tile floor, but the white-coated assistant’s distracted eyes never…
theorangeroselitmag.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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floridasnow.bsky.social
The journal is great and growing, the editor is so dedicated and welcoming, and they have another submission window opening at the end of the month: theorangeroselitmag.com/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines
SUBMISSIONS OPEN January 31, 2026. Send all work to [email protected] Issue 5 Theme: Love You; Miss You The Orange Rose was originally inspired by our EIC’s cats, Biscotti and Ros…
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January 23, 2026 at 1:42 PM
thehooletsnook.bsky.social
In case you missed it, our latest issue is now available—a perfect reason to curl up with a cup of tea. 💫🌸☕
We’d love it if you shared! ❣️🙏
#microfiction #shortpoetry #micropoetry #haiku #drabbles #dribbles #readersofbsky #writersofbsky #amreading #lattebreak
www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...
January 15, 2026 – Issue 3
With the start of a new year comes a new issue of  The Hoolet’s Nook , and we’re glad you’re here. THN has always gravitated toward understated, thoughtful work that values resonance over...
www.thehooletsnook.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:10 PM