In this week's Short Reads, Dinty W. Moore (@dintywmoore.bsky.social) remembers the sounds of his childhood in just 183 words.
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#flashnonfiction #shortreads #minimemoir
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There Was a Time in My Life When I Knew
by Dinty W. Moore | The soundscape of a childhood.
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November 13, 2024 at 5:23 PM
In this week's Short Reads, Dinty W. Moore (@dintywmoore.bsky.social) remembers the sounds of his childhood in just 183 words.
www.short-reads.org/there-was-a-...
#flashnonfiction #shortreads #minimemoir
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#flashnonfiction #shortreads #minimemoir
My memoir in flash from ELJ Editions, SCRAP: SALVAGING A FAMILY, is now available on Amazon and the ELJ website. Great news last night: the book earned a STARRED Kirkus review! #bookreview #booklaunch #memoir #flashnonfiction #hybridmemoir
March 20, 2026 at 2:50 PM
My memoir in flash from ELJ Editions, SCRAP: SALVAGING A FAMILY, is now available on Amazon and the ELJ website. Great news last night: the book earned a STARRED Kirkus review! #bookreview #booklaunch #memoir #flashnonfiction #hybridmemoir
Gray clouds block the lanai. Microbursts of day peek beneath this noir— Some Saturdays slide sullenly slow.
#vss365 #micropoetry #flashcreativewriting #flashnonfiction #smallpoems #poetry #noir #writingcommunity
#vss365 #micropoetry #flashcreativewriting #flashnonfiction #smallpoems #poetry #noir #writingcommunity
August 22, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Gray clouds block the lanai. Microbursts of day peek beneath this noir— Some Saturdays slide sullenly slow.
#vss365 #micropoetry #flashcreativewriting #flashnonfiction #smallpoems #poetry #noir #writingcommunity
#vss365 #micropoetry #flashcreativewriting #flashnonfiction #smallpoems #poetry #noir #writingcommunity
Beautiful Things, daughter magazine of River Teeth, features micro-essays that are 250 words or fewer. Within these essays, readers can find beauty and meaning in everyday things.
Beautiful Things is accepting submissions from Jan. 1 to April 1!
#BeautifulThings #FlashNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
Beautiful Things is accepting submissions from Jan. 1 to April 1!
#BeautifulThings #FlashNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
March 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Beautiful Things, daughter magazine of River Teeth, features micro-essays that are 250 words or fewer. Within these essays, readers can find beauty and meaning in everyday things.
Beautiful Things is accepting submissions from Jan. 1 to April 1!
#BeautifulThings #FlashNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
Beautiful Things is accepting submissions from Jan. 1 to April 1!
#BeautifulThings #FlashNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter
Ooh! I'm excited about this new magazine. Will be submitting for sure.
#flashfiction #flashnonfiction #microfiction #newliterarymagazine #emergingwriters
#flashfiction #flashnonfiction #microfiction #newliterarymagazine #emergingwriters
Countdown!
Open for subs in 7 days. . . June 30!
Submissions are always free.
Micro prose. 🐈⬛ Curious. Clever. Quick.
Open for subs in 7 days. . . June 30!
Submissions are always free.
Micro prose. 🐈⬛ Curious. Clever. Quick.
June 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Ooh! I'm excited about this new magazine. Will be submitting for sure.
#flashfiction #flashnonfiction #microfiction #newliterarymagazine #emergingwriters
#flashfiction #flashnonfiction #microfiction #newliterarymagazine #emergingwriters
Hey all my writer pals! Hope you had a great weekend. I’ve been working on a few different micro nonfiction pieces. What are you guys working on? #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Nonfiction #WritersOfBluesky #CreativeProcess #SciFiWriters, #EssayWriting #FlashNonfiction
March 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Hey all my writer pals! Hope you had a great weekend. I’ve been working on a few different micro nonfiction pieces. What are you guys working on? #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Nonfiction #WritersOfBluesky #CreativeProcess #SciFiWriters, #EssayWriting #FlashNonfiction
Eremition
24-hr rebuttals:
A guttural solar
Flare.
My mask breaks.
My weighted nice,
Grates me twice.
“I just needed space”
#vss365 #micropoetry #smallpoems #poetry #writingcommunity #flashnonfiction #eremition
24-hr rebuttals:
A guttural solar
Flare.
My mask breaks.
My weighted nice,
Grates me twice.
“I just needed space”
#vss365 #micropoetry #smallpoems #poetry #writingcommunity #flashnonfiction #eremition
August 23, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Eremition
24-hr rebuttals:
A guttural solar
Flare.
My mask breaks.
My weighted nice,
Grates me twice.
“I just needed space”
#vss365 #micropoetry #smallpoems #poetry #writingcommunity #flashnonfiction #eremition
24-hr rebuttals:
A guttural solar
Flare.
My mask breaks.
My weighted nice,
Grates me twice.
“I just needed space”
#vss365 #micropoetry #smallpoems #poetry #writingcommunity #flashnonfiction #eremition
What's a word for the delight you feel when you open your inbox and see a publication by an author you admire? @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @riverteeth.bsky.social Beautiful Things this morning. Wonderful micro essay. #flash #flashnonfiction #cnf #writingcommunity
July 20, 2026 at 3:12 PM
What's a word for the delight you feel when you open your inbox and see a publication by an author you admire? @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @riverteeth.bsky.social Beautiful Things this morning. Wonderful micro essay. #flash #flashnonfiction #cnf #writingcommunity
Scrap: Salvaging a Family is a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards! Yay! #memoir #flashnonfiction #flashmemoir #hyridmemoir
May 12, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Scrap: Salvaging a Family is a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards! Yay! #memoir #flashnonfiction #flashmemoir #hyridmemoir
Enjoy my musing for April and thanks for reading!
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April 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Enjoy my musing for April and thanks for reading!
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#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingnonfiction #flashnonfiction #personalessay #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literarynonfiction #horses #warmbloods #Germany #BlackForest #WIP #writersky #authorsky
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New essay at goneoffthegridlock.substack.com! #creativenonfiction #tallships #flashnonfiction #substack
October 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
No 404 #FromOneLine #vss365 ghost
He couldn't be found among the living, so I searched among the ghosts. There in my broken heart his love lurked with all the other lost loves of my life.
#BlueSkyPoet #FlashNonfiction #MicroPoem 💔
He couldn't be found among the living, so I searched among the ghosts. There in my broken heart his love lurked with all the other lost loves of my life.
#BlueSkyPoet #FlashNonfiction #MicroPoem 💔
February 4, 2026 at 5:14 PM
No 404 #FromOneLine #vss365 ghost
He couldn't be found among the living, so I searched among the ghosts. There in my broken heart his love lurked with all the other lost loves of my life.
#BlueSkyPoet #FlashNonfiction #MicroPoem 💔
He couldn't be found among the living, so I searched among the ghosts. There in my broken heart his love lurked with all the other lost loves of my life.
#BlueSkyPoet #FlashNonfiction #MicroPoem 💔
“The night before my surgery I thanked my uterus: for carrying my two little guys, as well as the tadpole whose heart faded two months in.”
-from "Uterus," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Carol Dannhauser
Read the rest: tinyurl.com/57mwkj2m
#BeautifulThings#FlashNonfiction#WritingCommunity
-from "Uterus," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Carol Dannhauser
Read the rest: tinyurl.com/57mwkj2m
#BeautifulThings#FlashNonfiction#WritingCommunity
April 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“The night before my surgery I thanked my uterus: for carrying my two little guys, as well as the tadpole whose heart faded two months in.”
-from "Uterus," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Carol Dannhauser
Read the rest: tinyurl.com/57mwkj2m
#BeautifulThings#FlashNonfiction#WritingCommunity
-from "Uterus," this week's Beautiful Things essay by Carol Dannhauser
Read the rest: tinyurl.com/57mwkj2m
#BeautifulThings#FlashNonfiction#WritingCommunity
A Horror Story
How To Ruin World’s
Universe-all New, Through
In Words 3…+…2…
“tHiS iS jUsT oBjEcTiVeLy TrUe”
•••
#poetry #flashnonfiction #poem
How To Ruin World’s
Universe-all New, Through
In Words 3…+…2…
“tHiS iS jUsT oBjEcTiVeLy TrUe”
•••
#poetry #flashnonfiction #poem
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A Horror Story
How To Ruin World’s
Universe-all New, Through
In Words 3…+…2…
“tHiS iS jUsT oBjEcTiVeLy TrUe”
•••
#poetry #flashnonfiction #poem
How To Ruin World’s
Universe-all New, Through
In Words 3…+…2…
“tHiS iS jUsT oBjEcTiVeLy TrUe”
•••
#poetry #flashnonfiction #poem
The House of Glass — Memoir Opening Scene
#AmWriting, #Memoir, #CreativeNonfiction, #OpeningScene, #WritingCommunity, #WritersLife, #Identity, #PersonalNarrative, #MemoirWriting, #FlashNonfiction, #AuthorLife, #MemoirCommunity, #RWhiteAuthor, #TheQuietAftertheSirens
#AmWriting, #Memoir, #CreativeNonfiction, #OpeningScene, #WritingCommunity, #WritersLife, #Identity, #PersonalNarrative, #MemoirWriting, #FlashNonfiction, #AuthorLife, #MemoirCommunity, #RWhiteAuthor, #TheQuietAftertheSirens
The House of Glass — Memoir Opening Scene
A house built of glass, fragile as my childhood. Cracks spread with every argument, shaping the person I’d become. This is where my story begins.
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April 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The House of Glass — Memoir Opening Scene
#AmWriting, #Memoir, #CreativeNonfiction, #OpeningScene, #WritingCommunity, #WritersLife, #Identity, #PersonalNarrative, #MemoirWriting, #FlashNonfiction, #AuthorLife, #MemoirCommunity, #RWhiteAuthor, #TheQuietAftertheSirens
#AmWriting, #Memoir, #CreativeNonfiction, #OpeningScene, #WritingCommunity, #WritersLife, #Identity, #PersonalNarrative, #MemoirWriting, #FlashNonfiction, #AuthorLife, #MemoirCommunity, #RWhiteAuthor, #TheQuietAftertheSirens
So I'm reading 100 ESSAYS I DON'T HAVE TIME TO WRITE by Sarah Ruhl (loving it) and I am super curious--what other flash nonfiction would people recommend? Also, I am suddenly DYING to teach a multigenre flash class! #flashfiction #flashnonfiction
November 9, 2023 at 7:40 PM
So I'm reading 100 ESSAYS I DON'T HAVE TIME TO WRITE by Sarah Ruhl (loving it) and I am super curious--what other flash nonfiction would people recommend? Also, I am suddenly DYING to teach a multigenre flash class! #flashfiction #flashnonfiction
We are excited to introduce our first flash nonfiction piece, a personal essay by Agatha Valencia called "the kind of man i want".
Read it at carminepen.com/the-kind-of-man-i-want-by-agatha-valencia/
#PersonalEssay #FlashNonfiction #IndiePublishing #IndiePress
Read it at carminepen.com/the-kind-of-man-i-want-by-agatha-valencia/
#PersonalEssay #FlashNonfiction #IndiePublishing #IndiePress
March 12, 2026 at 9:19 PM
We are excited to introduce our first flash nonfiction piece, a personal essay by Agatha Valencia called "the kind of man i want".
Read it at carminepen.com/the-kind-of-man-i-want-by-agatha-valencia/
#PersonalEssay #FlashNonfiction #IndiePublishing #IndiePress
Read it at carminepen.com/the-kind-of-man-i-want-by-agatha-valencia/
#PersonalEssay #FlashNonfiction #IndiePublishing #IndiePress
Hi. I write flash memoir and memoiristic essays at amyyuki.com. I like the little things. I go hiking almost every weekend. I’m autistic. I’m basically a feral cat lady, except I don't have any cats. I'm looking forward to finding some like-minded people here. #introduction #flashnonfiction #memoir
April 17, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Hi. I write flash memoir and memoiristic essays at amyyuki.com. I like the little things. I go hiking almost every weekend. I’m autistic. I’m basically a feral cat lady, except I don't have any cats. I'm looking forward to finding some like-minded people here. #introduction #flashnonfiction #memoir
Call for Submissions for #flashnonfiction #poetry #hybrid #visualart for an Anthology on fear foods and eating disorder recovery. See submission info duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
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August 27, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Call for Submissions for #flashnonfiction #poetry #hybrid #visualart for an Anthology on fear foods and eating disorder recovery. See submission info duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
#writingcommunity #writesky
#writingcommunity #writesky
“Mirror, Mirror”
In honor of National Share-a-Story Month, I’m sharing my story, “Mirror, Mirror” published by Quibble Lit. Enjoy!
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#story #storytelling #creativenonfiction #cnf #flashnonfiction @quibble.lit
In honor of National Share-a-Story Month, I’m sharing my story, “Mirror, Mirror” published by Quibble Lit. Enjoy!
www.quibblelit.com/mirror-mirro...
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#story #storytelling #creativenonfiction #cnf #flashnonfiction @quibble.lit
May 27, 2026 at 10:21 AM
“Mirror, Mirror”
In honor of National Share-a-Story Month, I’m sharing my story, “Mirror, Mirror” published by Quibble Lit. Enjoy!
www.quibblelit.com/mirror-mirro...
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#story #storytelling #creativenonfiction #cnf #flashnonfiction @quibble.lit
In honor of National Share-a-Story Month, I’m sharing my story, “Mirror, Mirror” published by Quibble Lit. Enjoy!
www.quibblelit.com/mirror-mirro...
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#story #storytelling #creativenonfiction #cnf #flashnonfiction @quibble.lit
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July 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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We're #OpenForSubmissions #CallForSubmissions until August 31. hmu if you have questions but we're eager to share your #flashfiction #flashnonfiction #poetry #illustrations #linedrawings #photos
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Writers - have you written an exceptional story under 1,000 words? (Fiction or nonfiction.) Enter our competition & blow our minds with your words. First prize in each category is $1,000, so at a minimum that’s a dollar a word.
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The Forge Literary Magazine
Our ProcessThe Forge Literary Magazine publishes one prose piece per week selected by a rotating cast of editors. Each submission is read anonymously. If a story is chosen to move forward, it is read ...
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September 8, 2023 at 8:45 AM
Writers - have you written an exceptional story under 1,000 words? (Fiction or nonfiction.) Enter our competition & blow our minds with your words. First prize in each category is $1,000, so at a minimum that’s a dollar a word.
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