An understated moving CNF
The Big Acceptance is UP! Today I'm in The Sun, with a personal, true piece I'm deeply proud of. I'd be so grateful if you read and shared this story.
(Keep reading for more info about how many times I submitted this piece.)
www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/611...
(Keep reading for more info about how many times I submitted this piece.)
www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/611...
Purple and Yellow and Green and Red
I picture her. That slight eighteen-year-old. Standing at dawn by the side of the highway. Thinking anything, anything would be better than staying in the house behind her.
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November 1, 2026 at 3:43 PM
An understated moving CNF
Immensely grateful to poet and Editor Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social for his kind words and publishing my work in @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social
Tuning in to the eye behind eyes—of phosphenes and hypnagogic drift—in my CNF “The girl on the Swing” #Oulens #writingcommunity
Tuning in to the eye behind eyes—of phosphenes and hypnagogic drift—in my CNF “The girl on the Swing” #Oulens #writingcommunity
November 2, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Immensely grateful to poet and Editor Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social for his kind words and publishing my work in @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social
Tuning in to the eye behind eyes—of phosphenes and hypnagogic drift—in my CNF “The girl on the Swing” #Oulens #writingcommunity
Tuning in to the eye behind eyes—of phosphenes and hypnagogic drift—in my CNF “The girl on the Swing” #Oulens #writingcommunity
Rawhead: Point Blank, “What We Owe Each Other”, a short CNF piece by Molly Higgins.
You can read Molly’s piece here
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#creativenonfiction #cnf #essayist #essaywriting #healpalestine
You can read Molly’s piece here
rawheadjournal.org/rawheadpoint...
Please donate to HEAL Palestine -
www.healpalestine.org/.well-known/...
#creativenonfiction #cnf #essayist #essaywriting #healpalestine
October 29, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Rawhead: Point Blank, “What We Owe Each Other”, a short CNF piece by Molly Higgins.
You can read Molly’s piece here
rawheadjournal.org/rawheadpoint...
Please donate to HEAL Palestine -
www.healpalestine.org/.well-known/...
#creativenonfiction #cnf #essayist #essaywriting #healpalestine
You can read Molly’s piece here
rawheadjournal.org/rawheadpoint...
Please donate to HEAL Palestine -
www.healpalestine.org/.well-known/...
#creativenonfiction #cnf #essayist #essaywriting #healpalestine
I am so grateful for this tiny CNF publication. Thank you to the wonderful team at @rfpress.bsky.social for including ‘the traces of us’ in their 101 Apparitions release.
#writingcommunity #indiepress #agoodplace #writers #CNF
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/the-tra...
#writingcommunity #indiepress #agoodplace #writers #CNF
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"the traces of us" by Andrea Damic
we came, to see them—my family I hadn’t seen in years—oceans between us; there wasCovid and lockdowns and life I suppose; time flew as we joked and cried and fellsilent—maelstroms of memories spilling...
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November 1, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I am so grateful for this tiny CNF publication. Thank you to the wonderful team at @rfpress.bsky.social for including ‘the traces of us’ in their 101 Apparitions release.
#writingcommunity #indiepress #agoodplace #writers #CNF
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/the-tra...
#writingcommunity #indiepress #agoodplace #writers #CNF
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Check out this month’s fiction, poetry, and CNF at the links below.
Poetry by Jo Angela Edwins : www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/november-202...
Fiction by Will Buckingham : www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/november-202...
CNF by Chloe Harris : www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/november-202...
Poetry by Jo Angela Edwins : www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/november-202...
Fiction by Will Buckingham : www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/november-202...
CNF by Chloe Harris : www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/november-202...
November 2, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Check out this month’s fiction, poetry, and CNF at the links below.
Poetry by Jo Angela Edwins : www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/november-202...
Fiction by Will Buckingham : www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/november-202...
CNF by Chloe Harris : www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/november-202...
Poetry by Jo Angela Edwins : www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/november-202...
Fiction by Will Buckingham : www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/november-202...
CNF by Chloe Harris : www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/november-202...
Something Worth Examining by Savannah Cottingham
I spent years believing survival was the only story worth telling. Creative nonfiction taught me that survival is only the beginning of the story....
#Writingcommunity #essay #cnf #creativenonfiction #writers
I spent years believing survival was the only story worth telling. Creative nonfiction taught me that survival is only the beginning of the story....
#Writingcommunity #essay #cnf #creativenonfiction #writers
November 1, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Something Worth Examining by Savannah Cottingham
I spent years believing survival was the only story worth telling. Creative nonfiction taught me that survival is only the beginning of the story....
#Writingcommunity #essay #cnf #creativenonfiction #writers
I spent years believing survival was the only story worth telling. Creative nonfiction taught me that survival is only the beginning of the story....
#Writingcommunity #essay #cnf #creativenonfiction #writers
No luck with any of my Flash or CNF submissions recently. Instead of which I get three, yes THREE, AI e-mails today about how wonderful my book is and how they can feature it but no information about how they want to prise £££ or $$$ off the poor author!
November 2, 2026 at 1:36 PM
No luck with any of my Flash or CNF submissions recently. Instead of which I get three, yes THREE, AI e-mails today about how wonderful my book is and how they can feature it but no information about how they want to prise £££ or $$$ off the poor author!
I can’t wait for this tiny CNF to see the light of day. It's great to be back 🥰
What's this? A bit of CNF to brighten your day! It's not like we can depend on the sunshine to do that this time of year in our little part of the world. This is "the traces of us" by Andrea Damic @damicandrea.bsky.social You can read all of it on Saturday in our 101st issue.
October 27, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I can’t wait for this tiny CNF to see the light of day. It's great to be back 🥰
We want to give your previously published CNF, memoir, personal essay, micro memoir, pop culture essay a second chance. See our sub guidelines: sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/submit
November 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
We want to give your previously published CNF, memoir, personal essay, micro memoir, pop culture essay a second chance. See our sub guidelines: sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/submit
Save the date!🔥
It’s almost time to celebrate our newest issue with a virtual launch!
Join us for readings from our CNF contest winner, Patti-Kay Hamilton, plus Maanvi Dhillon and Jade Palmer!
🔥Nov. 24, 7pm AST
🔥Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com for the Zoom link
We hope to see you there!
#canlit
It’s almost time to celebrate our newest issue with a virtual launch!
Join us for readings from our CNF contest winner, Patti-Kay Hamilton, plus Maanvi Dhillon and Jade Palmer!
🔥Nov. 24, 7pm AST
🔥Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com for the Zoom link
We hope to see you there!
#canlit
October 30, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Save the date!🔥
It’s almost time to celebrate our newest issue with a virtual launch!
Join us for readings from our CNF contest winner, Patti-Kay Hamilton, plus Maanvi Dhillon and Jade Palmer!
🔥Nov. 24, 7pm AST
🔥Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com for the Zoom link
We hope to see you there!
#canlit
It’s almost time to celebrate our newest issue with a virtual launch!
Join us for readings from our CNF contest winner, Patti-Kay Hamilton, plus Maanvi Dhillon and Jade Palmer!
🔥Nov. 24, 7pm AST
🔥Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com for the Zoom link
We hope to see you there!
#canlit
Today's your last chance to submit! We warmly welcome visual art, poetry, CNF + fiction 📚 This year's theme is "Connection: Networks, Relationships, and Alienation" 💛 Subs are always free, and our deadline's tonight at midnight 🌝 santafecommunitycollege.submittable.com/submit
November 1, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Today's your last chance to submit! We warmly welcome visual art, poetry, CNF + fiction 📚 This year's theme is "Connection: Networks, Relationships, and Alienation" 💛 Subs are always free, and our deadline's tonight at midnight 🌝 santafecommunitycollege.submittable.com/submit
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»This November there are more than three dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes range from $50,000 to publication. None charge entry fees.«
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#WritingCommunity
»This November there are more than three dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes range from $50,000 to publication. None charge entry fees.«
publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2026/10/38-w...
#WritingCommunity
38 Writing Contests in November 2026 - No entry fees!
This November there are more than three dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes ra...
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October 31, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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»This November there are more than three dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes range from $50,000 to publication. None charge entry fees.«
publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2026/10/38-w...
#WritingCommunity
»This November there are more than three dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes range from $50,000 to publication. None charge entry fees.«
publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2026/10/38-w...
#WritingCommunity
"Wheat is wheat, Van Gogh wrote. I joined a coven recently, started working retail. My cycle synced with uterined colleagues before onboarding completed."
www.claudineliterary.com/cnf/sonya-pe...
www.claudineliterary.com/cnf/sonya-pe...
Sonya Pendrey | Re-formation
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November 1, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"Wheat is wheat, Van Gogh wrote. I joined a coven recently, started working retail. My cycle synced with uterined colleagues before onboarding completed."
www.claudineliterary.com/cnf/sonya-pe...
www.claudineliterary.com/cnf/sonya-pe...
Opportunities for Writers in November
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#Writers #Artists #Photography #Fiction #CNF #Reading
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Opportunities for Writers in November
for those who are curious added a post for members!
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October 31, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Opportunities for Writers in November
ko-fi.com/post/Opportu...
#SubmissionCalls #GetPublished #OpenCall #NoFee #OpportunitiesforWriters #LitMag #Publishing #New
#Writers #Artists #Photography #Fiction #CNF #Reading
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#SubmissionCalls #GetPublished #OpenCall #NoFee #OpportunitiesforWriters #LitMag #Publishing #New
#Writers #Artists #Photography #Fiction #CNF #Reading
Thank you @elliottfielding.bsky.social for this mini-CNF that warms the heart
Micro creative nonfiction up at The Woolf today, for the theme Hide/Seek
The HIDE/SEEK issue is now live! Have a peek at the eye-opening work of 12 fab contributors including @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social, @elliottfielding.bsky.social, @tkhowell.bsky.social & @tahmores.bsky.social. #flashfiction #microfiction #prosepoetry #creativenonfiction #visualart
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November 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Thank you @elliottfielding.bsky.social for this mini-CNF that warms the heart
38 Writing Contests in November 2026 - No entry fees! #writingtips #amwriting #publishing #writing #pubtip #WritingCommunity #MondayBlogs publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2026/10/38-w...
38 Writing Contests in November 2026 - No entry fees!
This November there are more than three dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes ra...
publishedtodeath.blogspot.com
November 2, 2026 at 3:41 PM
38 Writing Contests in November 2026 - No entry fees! #writingtips #amwriting #publishing #writing #pubtip #WritingCommunity #MondayBlogs publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2026/10/38-w...
Ochlophobia (the one in the thumbnail) is a fairly exaggerated CNF about a family Christmas party with people who may as well be strangers.
Both are PWYW, including 0 of your local currency.
Both are PWYW, including 0 of your local currency.
November 2, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Ochlophobia (the one in the thumbnail) is a fairly exaggerated CNF about a family Christmas party with people who may as well be strangers.
Both are PWYW, including 0 of your local currency.
Both are PWYW, including 0 of your local currency.
from Isabelle's : “Biomimicry"
Read the full piece in our Summer 2026 Anniversary issue at LampLit.net
Submissions for our Winter 27 Issue are open!
We can’t wait to see you! 🛋️
#poetry #prose #cnf #fiction #inktober #drawtober #illustration #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
Read the full piece in our Summer 2026 Anniversary issue at LampLit.net
Submissions for our Winter 27 Issue are open!
We can’t wait to see you! 🛋️
#poetry #prose #cnf #fiction #inktober #drawtober #illustration #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
October 28, 2026 at 5:39 PM
from Isabelle's : “Biomimicry"
Read the full piece in our Summer 2026 Anniversary issue at LampLit.net
Submissions for our Winter 27 Issue are open!
We can’t wait to see you! 🛋️
#poetry #prose #cnf #fiction #inktober #drawtober #illustration #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
Read the full piece in our Summer 2026 Anniversary issue at LampLit.net
Submissions for our Winter 27 Issue are open!
We can’t wait to see you! 🛋️
#poetry #prose #cnf #fiction #inktober #drawtober #illustration #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
Very happy to have you and your heartening flash CNF with us 🫶
Proud to be in such fine company. Excellent reading!
November 1, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Very happy to have you and your heartening flash CNF with us 🫶
From now on, we will be telephone, we will be holiday visits. I put a kiss on my finger and press it to her cheek. In the air all around us, I hear our younger selves falling asleep.
Read this gorgeous CNF triptych by @francinewitte.bsky.social @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
Read this gorgeous CNF triptych by @francinewitte.bsky.social @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
Sister: Death Variations
Francine Witte Practice Pill-dead, but not real dead. Twelve years old and too beautiful. Ringlet hair and blue eyes and boys buzzing. One of those boys gets her happy with Seconals, Quaaludes, wha…
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November 1, 2026 at 6:02 PM
From now on, we will be telephone, we will be holiday visits. I put a kiss on my finger and press it to her cheek. In the air all around us, I hear our younger selves falling asleep.
Read this gorgeous CNF triptych by @francinewitte.bsky.social @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
Read this gorgeous CNF triptych by @francinewitte.bsky.social @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
1 day left to submit for Human Capital, issue no. 9 from MIDLVLMAG.
Subs close TONIGHT 11:59pm PST 10/31/26
Send us your on-theme poetry, fiction, and CNF.
We pay $25 USD per accepted piece
Read full details at midlvlmag.com/submissionguide
Subs close TONIGHT 11:59pm PST 10/31/26
Send us your on-theme poetry, fiction, and CNF.
We pay $25 USD per accepted piece
Read full details at midlvlmag.com/submissionguide
October 31, 2026 at 4:06 PM
1 day left to submit for Human Capital, issue no. 9 from MIDLVLMAG.
Subs close TONIGHT 11:59pm PST 10/31/26
Send us your on-theme poetry, fiction, and CNF.
We pay $25 USD per accepted piece
Read full details at midlvlmag.com/submissionguide
Subs close TONIGHT 11:59pm PST 10/31/26
Send us your on-theme poetry, fiction, and CNF.
We pay $25 USD per accepted piece
Read full details at midlvlmag.com/submissionguide