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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦

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2024 Winner Toronto Star SS contest| @SmokeLong Fellow 2024|Best Microfiction 2024 2025|words:The Forge,The Cincinnati Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Room Magazine, Fractured Lit+| Pushcart, Best SF noms| rep:Joanna Rasheed, Ultra Literary *debut ms ON SUB🤞

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much for reading and sharing!🥰

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 2d

"I remember the sharp sizzle of a match, the haze of smoke curling from my mother’s mouth like a sigh."

My lord, I love the use of sensory details in this brilliant piece by @dawnwriter.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Motel on the Edge of Everything

by Dawn Miller I remember the motel on the outskirts of town—brown-bricked and unexceptional, the neon sign by the highway missing the “L”. I remember the first-floor room I shared with my parents,…

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much, Dan! 🥰

Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Aw thanks Ceci!🥰

Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Thrilled to have a piece in the Fall Issue of The Citron Review! 🥰
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#flash #cnf #flashlit #writing #writer

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!🎉

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Liz Rosen @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social · 14d

Read this beauty by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in @fabulistmag.bsky.social this morning. If only…

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Press Me to Your Heart > The Fabulist Words & Art

The beguiling strains of Edith Piaf are a counterpoint to some gristly magical heart surgery in this tale of love and loss on the streets of Paris.

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you so much for reading and sharing!🥰

Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you so much, James, for reading and sharing!🥰

Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 23d

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 25d

“Even the jogger—the last person to see the girl alive—who passed her on the bridge right there—right there! —on the CCTV camera video later aired in a loop on the local news—only remembered an indistinct presence …”

@dawnwriter.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/blur/

Blur

Dawn Miller Later, after the officer fishes the red hat out of the lake—adrift like flotsam on surface tension—after he notes the two small moles like an exclamation mark on the girl’s bloated chee…

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 25d

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 26d

Gorgeous piece by @andreabishop.bsky.social in @psmokejournal.bsky.social

Andrea Bishop @andreabishop.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excited to share this. My feather of a story is in one of my fave journals.

Peatsmoke Journal @psmokejournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

"She turns herself upright but otherwise remains still, like she’s choosing whether to give up or go on. It takes a moment to regain your bearings when you survive."
Read "Our Goldfinch Math Doesn't Add Up" by @andreabishop.bsky.social on our website!
Art: “Queencard” by Lindsay Liang

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 26d

Wonderful! Huge congratulations!🎉

Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you!🥰

Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you!🥰

Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 28d

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · 29d

Thrilled! Huge thank you to @westtradereview.bsky.social ❤️ #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #shortstory #writing #writer #litfiction

West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 29d

We are thrilled to announce the results of the second annual 704 Prize for Flash Fiction contest. Ashni Math’s “Monsoon Worms” was selected by Maggie Armstrong as the winner of the $704 prize.

Details below:

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#writingcommunity

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you Kim 🥰🥰🥰

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · Aug 31

Happy to have a new micro in scaffold lit! www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

time machine by elena zhang
I clicked and whirred when the atmosphere contracted in agony. A swaying world. My skin knew the people I loved and spoke.

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks so much for reading! 🥰

Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you!🥰

Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · Sep 1

❤️🥰❤️

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · Sep 1

I have a story in Ghost Parachute today alongside this beautiful artwork by Brett J Barr. Will be reading the whole September issue on my back porch for the next hour with coffee.

ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congratulations!🎉

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