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erikadreifus.bsky.social
Dan Wickett was also, to the best of my knowledge/memory, the founder of #ShortStoryMonth. And my introduction to the work of @imdavidabrams.bsky.social. Sad news here via this morning's @shelf-awareness.com. www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...
Obituary Note: Dan Wickett
Dan WickettDan Wickett, founder of Emerging Writers Network and later co-founder of the non-profit publishing company Dzanc Books, died September
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September 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
mizgolightly.bsky.social
Hi, #readers!
I thumbed through my BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES for the end of #shortstorymonth and found a lot of very interesting ephemera I'd used as bookmarks.

Y'all know me. I thought, "How cool!"
So, I've created a thing: #EphemeralBookmark

Let's post & hashtag our favorite curious bookmarks!
June 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
mizgolightly.bsky.social
Welp. #ShortStoryMonth has drawn to a close. I'm sharing my pride and joy: my BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES collection.

I've asked for BASS as a birthday/Christmas gift for years and years and years. My first was the 1989 volume, guest edited by Margaret Atwood, and the series ed was Shannon Ravenel!
June 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
alllitupcanada.bsky.social
"QUIETLY, LOVING EVERYONE is a reference to the ways we don’t show up for each other, or the ways we fail to show up [...]"

We talk to Curtis John McRae about his debut collection with Vehicule Press for our #shortstorymonth series #theshortofit

alllitup.ca/the-short-of...
A graphic with the text "The short of it: Short Story Month on All Lit up" with the cover of Quietly, Loving Everyone by Curtis John McRae and an inset photo of the author.
May 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
erikadreifus.bsky.social
Especially on this penultimate day of #ShortStoryMonth!
May 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
age-of-tempest.bsky.social
The end of #ShortStoryMonth is nigh!!

If you’re looking to read a FREE fantasy short story about hunting down a monstrous harpy (who isn’t??), look no further:

www.patreon.com/posts/rustbo...

Thank you for all the love and support 🫶🏻💙📚

#Fantasy #FantasyBooks #DarkFantasy #Author #BookSky
Rustborn - Chapter 1 - The Egg | Age of Tempest
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May 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
dmcwriter.bsky.social
BLOG POST: "My Five Available Short Story Collections" dawncolclasureblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/my-f... #books #Halloween #horror #scary #shortfiction #shortstories #ShortStoryMonth #stories #storycollection
Dawn Colclasure's Blog: My Five Available Short Story Collections
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May 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
gisellestclaire.bsky.social
Another recommendation for Short Story Month: Some People Let You Down by Mike Alberti. Beautifully written, melancholy stories by a local MN author and community asset.
💙📚 #booksky #books #reading #bookreviews #bookrecommendations #shortstories #shortstorymonth
May 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
gisellestclaire.bsky.social
It’s Short Story Month! These are a few short story collections I’ve recently enjoyed, across various genres and from several different countries.
💙📚 #booksky #books #reading #bookreviews #bookrecommendations #shortstories #shortstorymonth
May 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
fourthact.ink
Celebrate #ShortStoryMonth!!

If you want to support Canadian independent publishing, please read or share our FREE fantasy pirate short story!🏴‍☠️⚔️🔥

www.patreon.com/posts/from-f...

#Fantasy #FantasyBooks #DarkFantasy #Author #BookSky

#CanLit #SupportIndies #ShopIndies #IndieBookShop #IReadCanadian
From the Fog - Chapter 1 - The Trapper | Age of Tempest
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May 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
age-of-tempest.bsky.social
Happy #ShortStoryMonth #BookSky!!

If you want to read a FREE fantasy short story featuring pirates, bloody battles, and elemental magic, look no further! 🏴‍☠️⚔️🔥

www.patreon.com/posts/from-f...

Thank you for all the love and support, it means so much 🫶🏻

#Fantasy #FantasyBooks #DarkFantasy #Author
From the Fog - Chapter 1 - The Trapper | Age of Tempest
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May 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
#ShortStoryMonth
May 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
remcovans.bsky.social
#ShortStoryMonth
May 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
weemallard.bsky.social
It's #ShortStoryMonth. May I recommend this fantastic story by Tom Marcinko? Also free!
Please listen carefully because our menu options have recently changed
We’re here to help.
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May 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
weemallard.bsky.social
It is #ShortStoryMonth. May I offer you a free free free story? An old gay man, an ugly girl, and a talking horse hang out and discuss mean boys.
Mr. Pacifaker's House - Fantastic Metropolis
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May 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
squarebooks.bsky.social
Happy #NationalShortStoryMonth! Here's a small selection of some of our homegrown favorites. What are yours?

#WilliamFaulkner #BarryHannah #LarryBrown #TomFranklin #MississippiWriters #LiteraryMississippi #ShortStories #ShortStoryMonth #OxordMS #shopindie #shoplocal
May 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
deeholloway.bsky.social
in honor of #ShortStoryMonth next week's newsletter WILL have a never-before-seen story for subscribers! hit it n git it

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May 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
richienarvaez.bsky.social
Join us for a discussion of Latinx-forward literary magazines— "Short Fiction, Long Impact"
Wed., 5/28, 8 p.m. ET
With
Carribean Fragoza, Huizache
Raina J. León, PhD, Acentos Review
Rossy Evelin Lima, PhD, Latino Book Review
Russ López, LatineLit
#free #shortstorymonth
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May 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
rollwithheather.bsky.social
CBC Books: 14 Canadian books to read for #ShortStoryMonth #CanLit📚
www.cbc.ca/books/14-can...
14 Canadian short story collections to read for Short Story Month | CBC Books
May is Short Story Month. Celebrate by checking out one of these great Canadian short story collections.
www.cbc.ca
May 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
houseofanansi.bsky.social
📚🫶 Enjoy our very good short story collections for #ShortStoryMonth.

🔗 houseofanansi.com/collections/...

#booksky #writingcommunity #canlit
ID: A photo of sales associate Christina holding a pile of Astoria short story collections.
May 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
erikadreifus.bsky.social
Perfectly timed for #ShortStoryMonth, and for a moment when #libraries are on our minds (and, frankly, simply to brighten my own morning): Etgar Keret's "Library Lovers" (trans. Jessica Cohen). etgarkeret.substack.com/p/library-lo...
I could see Fabrizio over Marco’s left shoulder, shaking his head vigorously, trying, like Jiminy Cricket, to make me do the right thing. I knew that the right thing would be to look Marco in the eye and simply say “No.” But something inside me told me this was going to be a good story, and I’m willing to do a lot for a good story—including things I’m not always proud of.
May 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
Come and celebrate #ShortStoryMonth with JBC this Wednesday May 14 @ 12:30 p.m. ET on Zoom. We'll be chatting with the authors of the 3 stories published in the 2025 issue of PAPER BRIGADE, JBC's annual literary journal. Reserve your spot today! ⁠https://bit.ly/3RD99Pt
May 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
erikadreifus.bsky.social
This week's #SundaySentence comes from one of my favorite stories in @egreenberg.bsky.social's debut collection. Perfect reading for #ShortStoryMonth. www.erikadreifus.com/2025/05/sund...
But when the hospital called ME after he was stable, when the hospital called ME and asked if I could see him, when the hospital called ME because his only living relative was an ELDERLY AUNT holed up in a nursing home halfway across the country, when the hospital called ME because, quite frankly, he must have forgotten to update his emergency contacts after our breakup, when the hospital called ME because, to be even more frank, he was apparently still not on speaking terms with his EX-WIFE and had no one else, not a single relative or friend or halfway dependable acquaintance except for ME—RACHEL, his estranged EX, an ANXIOUS MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN HAVING A BAD HAIR DAY—I couldn’t help thinking that it already sounded like a movie.
May 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
expendablemudge.bsky.social
Still in #ShortStoryMonth, so this time it's Reservoir bitches : stories
by Dahlia de la Cerda. The translators from Spanish are Heather Cleary & Julia Sanches.
May 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM