T.L. Tomljanovic
@tomljanovic.bsky.social
Flash Fiction 🇨🇦Writer ~ Member of @theprideroars.bsky.social ~ Words @moonparkreview.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social ~ https://tomljanovic.wordpress.com/publication-credits/
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T.L. Tomljanovic
@tomljanovic.bsky.social
· Oct 23
We are over the moon to be able to nominate the following pieces from theprideroars.blogspot.com for a Pushcart Prize, congratulations everyone!
@fionamckay.bsky.social
@ninamiller.bsky.social
@tomljanovic.bsky.social
@joycebingham.bsky.social
@sugarpigblog.bsky.social
@delgeo14.bsky.social
@fionamckay.bsky.social
@ninamiller.bsky.social
@tomljanovic.bsky.social
@joycebingham.bsky.social
@sugarpigblog.bsky.social
@delgeo14.bsky.social
This is pretty cool, but what’s even better is being part of a group of women that support one another.
After 6 years of writing about the trades in my day job, I made the cover story!
'The Real Impact of the Underground Economy in B.C.' is on page 9 and free to read.
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#writingcommunity #freelancewriter
'The Real Impact of the Underground Economy in B.C.' is on page 9 and free to read.
bcbuildingtrades.org/media/tradet...
#writingcommunity #freelancewriter
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
After 6 years of writing about the trades in my day job, I made the cover story!
'The Real Impact of the Underground Economy in B.C.' is on page 9 and free to read.
bcbuildingtrades.org/media/tradet...
#writingcommunity #freelancewriter
'The Real Impact of the Underground Economy in B.C.' is on page 9 and free to read.
bcbuildingtrades.org/media/tradet...
#writingcommunity #freelancewriter
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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 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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:
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
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"She meets other Ladies with The Call to Adventure. Some try to help her where they can, but some are threatened by her Adventure. Her Adventure might diminish their own Adventures. Are there even enough dragons for all the Ladies to slay?" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Lady Hero’s Journey
A woman tries to set out on The Hero’s Journey only to find that Joseph Campbell didn’t believe that women take The Hero’s Journey. She must instea...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"She meets other Ladies with The Call to Adventure. Some try to help her where they can, but some are threatened by her Adventure. Her Adventure might diminish their own Adventures. Are there even enough dragons for all the Ladies to slay?" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
One of my favourite forms of storytelling (novella-in-flash) by one of my fav storytellers. Preorders available.
Preorder link for physical and ebook for Mother Karma by Sumitra Singam (who is she?) @publishedbyjake.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
One of my favourite forms of storytelling (novella-in-flash) by one of my fav storytellers. Preorders available.
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This month's #Mondettes picked by
Shome Dasgupta
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Shome made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/november-2...
Shome Dasgupta
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Shome made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/november-2...
November 2025
Ten stories picked by Shome Dasgupta
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November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This month's #Mondettes picked by
Shome Dasgupta
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Shome made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/november-2...
Shome Dasgupta
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Shome made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/november-2...
A fairytale for modern times by @hilary55.bsky.social 😉https://theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/11/and-people-said-hilary-ayshford.html
And The People Said ... / Hilary Ayshford
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November 19, 2025 at 6:19 AM
A fairytale for modern times by @hilary55.bsky.social 😉https://theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/11/and-people-said-hilary-ayshford.html
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Raw Lit deserves your vote! It is so beautiful and @delgeo14.bsky.social is the most considerate editor!!
This is your chance to nominate your favourite lit mags ❤
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It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Raw Lit deserves your vote! It is so beautiful and @delgeo14.bsky.social is the most considerate editor!!
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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 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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
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Who brings this joy to you
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social @prairievixen.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @cake-girl.bsky.social @ramccafferty.bsky.social @kristinwrites.bsky.social @deniseb.bsky.social @kawalker.bsky.social
@sgscarso.bsky.social
Patrick Johanneson
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@pleomorphic2.bsky.social @prairievixen.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @cake-girl.bsky.social @ramccafferty.bsky.social @kristinwrites.bsky.social @deniseb.bsky.social @kawalker.bsky.social
@sgscarso.bsky.social
Patrick Johanneson
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JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Latest horror drabble up @blackharepress.bsky.social
Check it out!
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Check it out!
blackharepress.com/blogs/dark-m...
How Dominique Got Their Glass Eye by Nina Miller
’Twas just a pinhole at first. A blind spot fixed within my vision as headaches pulsed, ravaged. Doctors weren’t concerned, though it grew each day. Stretched open by something within. Millimetre, the...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Latest horror drabble up @blackharepress.bsky.social
Check it out!
blackharepress.com/blogs/dark-m...
Check it out!
blackharepress.com/blogs/dark-m...
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I'm so grateful to @anwinkle.bsky.social for giving my weird tale a home in Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
'By the time she turns fifteen, green-haired Maxine’s irritation itches like the wool jumpers of her childhood.'
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'By the time she turns fifteen, green-haired Maxine’s irritation itches like the wool jumpers of her childhood.'
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/the-cat-in-t...
The Cat in the Guest Bedroom
The Cat in the Guest Bedroom by Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos CW: Child Abuse & Mental Health Their mother had prayed for a son. His name would have been Arthur—a strong name for a strong...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I'm so grateful to @anwinkle.bsky.social for giving my weird tale a home in Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
'By the time she turns fifteen, green-haired Maxine’s irritation itches like the wool jumpers of her childhood.'
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/the-cat-in-t...
'By the time she turns fifteen, green-haired Maxine’s irritation itches like the wool jumpers of her childhood.'
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/the-cat-in-t...
I didn't know that e-books cost libraries more than print. I love my Libby app, but I'm going to try borrow hard copies whenever possible moving forward. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
E-borrowing exceeds print at Vancouver libraries — can it keep up with the cost? | CBC News
For the first time in its history, loans of digital materials, such as e-books, e-magazines and music, have exceeded those of physical copies at the library, although online facsimiles cost three to f...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I didn't know that e-books cost libraries more than print. I love my Libby app, but I'm going to try borrow hard copies whenever possible moving forward. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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An Honour & A Privilege with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social is at the printer! Pre-order now from Stanchion to get a H&P free bookmark delivered with the most innovative craft writing book you've ever experienced.
Discounted UK shipping is available!
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Discounted UK shipping is available!
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November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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A haibun I wrote about our little neighborhood park in Mount Pleasant. Thank you, @coldmoonjournal.bsky.social!
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Tea Swamp Park, a haibun by Isabella Mori
haiku senryu tanka micropoetry tanshi
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A haibun I wrote about our little neighborhood park in Mount Pleasant. Thank you, @coldmoonjournal.bsky.social!
coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/tea-...
coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/tea-...
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My #WritingCraftArticle for November is an exploration of the speculative. What it is. Why it's great. What it can teach us. And what to bear in mind:
🪞🌎👽👻🤖🧜🧙♀️🧞🧟
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🪞🌎👽👻🤖🧜🧙♀️🧞🧟
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Holding a mirror up to the world
I don’t know whether something has shifted inside of me or whether it’s something in the air, something in the shifting sands of the world, but I find myself more and more leaning into the speculative...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
My #WritingCraftArticle for November is an exploration of the speculative. What it is. Why it's great. What it can teach us. And what to bear in mind:
🪞🌎👽👻🤖🧜🧙♀️🧞🧟
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/holding-a-...
🪞🌎👽👻🤖🧜🧙♀️🧞🧟
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/holding-a-...
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Thirty days to write 100 words. Simple!!! Hope lots of you will consider sending in entries 👇
**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 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Thirty days to write 100 words. Simple!!! Hope lots of you will consider sending in entries 👇
““It is the ones who don’t tick you should watch out for.”
This line gave me chills. A stunning hybrid piece by my talented friend Sumitra.
This line gave me chills. A stunning hybrid piece by my talented friend Sumitra.
Friends, I have a piece that isn’t entirely fictional in this issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Thanks for reading 🙏🏾
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
“Wendy, darling and I talk about crocodiles, and ticking clocks, and people with hooks for hands.”
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
October 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
““It is the ones who don’t tick you should watch out for.”
This line gave me chills. A stunning hybrid piece by my talented friend Sumitra.
This line gave me chills. A stunning hybrid piece by my talented friend Sumitra.
Happy Halloween! 👻 🎃 This is my favourite scary story, written in 2nd person because I think that’s the voice of psychos.
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#horror #flashfiction
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#horror #flashfiction
The One
I look across a crowded room, and there you are. You don’t notice me at first. Invisibility is my superpower, but by God, I notice you. Your laugh is effortless. Your joy, palpable. You toss your s…
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October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Happy Halloween! 👻 🎃 This is my favourite scary story, written in 2nd person because I think that’s the voice of psychos.
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#horror #flashfiction
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#horror #flashfiction
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ICYMI: I am deeply honored to receive my second Pushcart nomination, from @theprideroars.bsky.social, for my raw and personal essay, "Exploding into Parenthood."
"To bring a child into the world, you must explode."
Read it here: theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/expl...
"To bring a child into the world, you must explode."
Read it here: theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/expl...
Exploding Into Parenthood / Megan Hanlon
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October 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
ICYMI: I am deeply honored to receive my second Pushcart nomination, from @theprideroars.bsky.social, for my raw and personal essay, "Exploding into Parenthood."
"To bring a child into the world, you must explode."
Read it here: theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/expl...
"To bring a child into the world, you must explode."
Read it here: theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/expl...
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SO happy to be part of Your Impossible Voice with this rage-filled #FlashFiction piece:
"The bus driver brakes hard and I stumble, my 37 weeks pregnant belly stumbles, my whole big self stumbles into a woman in a baseball hat who mutters fat bitch and I open my mouth to say I’m pregnant, as if she’s right to say it."
New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
A List of the Reasons Women Feel Shame | Your Impossible Voice
By Sage Tyrtle — "The bus driver brakes hard and I stumble, my 37 weeks pregnant belly stumbles, my whole big self stumbles into a woman in a baseball hat who mutters fat bitch and I open my mouth to ...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
SO happy to be part of Your Impossible Voice with this rage-filled #FlashFiction piece:
New blog post: tomljanovic.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/p...
Pushcart Prize
The fine folk over at the Pride Roars writing collective nominated my short story Price v. Price for the Pushcart Prize. Wow, that’s a shocking amount of alliteration. I wrote Price v. Price …
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October 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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🌟 Workshop highlight: Generative writing prompts tailored especially for emerging marginalized writers.
Come write, learn, and strategize with Mandira Pattnaik.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
Come write, learn, and strategize with Mandira Pattnaik.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
October 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🌟 Workshop highlight: Generative writing prompts tailored especially for emerging marginalized writers.
Come write, learn, and strategize with Mandira Pattnaik.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
Come write, learn, and strategize with Mandira Pattnaik.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
“A last ditch swing of the lasso as the slowest grains of sand eke from her egg timer.”
"And here I am, on a road I had long since abandoned, humming an old nursery rhyme for comfort; three blind mice, three blind mice — see how they run?"
Today on The Pride Roars "Mother" by Marie-Louise McGuinness
@mlmcguinness.bsky.social
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Today on The Pride Roars "Mother" by Marie-Louise McGuinness
@mlmcguinness.bsky.social
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Mother/ Marie-Louise McGuinness
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October 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“A last ditch swing of the lasso as the slowest grains of sand eke from her egg timer.”
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In Your Orbit / Fiona McKay
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/in-y...
Life Within A Dormant Bough / Nina Miller
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Price v. Price / T.L. Tomljanovic
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/pric...
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/in-y...
Life Within A Dormant Bough / Nina Miller
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Price v. Price / T.L. Tomljanovic
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In Your Orbit / Fiona McKay
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October 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
In Your Orbit / Fiona McKay
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Life Within A Dormant Bough / Nina Miller
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/life...
Price v. Price / T.L. Tomljanovic
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/pric...
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/in-y...
Life Within A Dormant Bough / Nina Miller
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Price v. Price / T.L. Tomljanovic
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Powdered Scrambled Egg and Prosecco / Joyce Bingham
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/powd...
Exploding Into Parenthood / Megan Hanlon
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/expl...
The Almost Mother / Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/powd...
Exploding Into Parenthood / Megan Hanlon
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/expl...
The Almost Mother / Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
Powdered Scrambled Egg and Prosecco / Joyce Bingham
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October 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Powdered Scrambled Egg and Prosecco / Joyce Bingham
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/powd...
Exploding Into Parenthood / Megan Hanlon
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/expl...
The Almost Mother / Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/powd...
Exploding Into Parenthood / Megan Hanlon
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/expl...
The Almost Mother / Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos
theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...