@coffeeandpaneer
Writer, reader, editor, cat convert, spoonie links to stories at https://coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/ Flash collection at Reflex Press https://www.reflex.press/product/families-and-other-natural-disasters/
Submissions for issue 22 (autumn/winter 2026) are now open until 31 March! We’re looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays ✨
bansheepress.org/submit
If your work lives between genres, we want to see it.
Submit now: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit
Tonight - come write with me, it's going to be slightly mad & definitely fun! Still some free places left, please use them, I'd rather have you there than have you think you can't afford it. Details here, if you can't make it live, you'll get the recording after: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
There's still time for you to join our reading team. We'd particularly welcome applications from male and ethnic minority/global majority people. Get in touch to find out more at info@thin-skin.com
2 days until our 2nd birthday! 🎂
Join us on 11th Feb if you are in ✨️ Amsterdam ✨️ Berlin ✨️ Brussels ✨️ London ✨️ Madrid ✨️ Paris ✨️ Valencia✨️ Venice or want to join online
We're writing and meeting and reading and 🍾
Still a week to send something for @natflashfictionday.bsky.social anthology. Yes, you’ve got time to make your story sing. Yes, you’ve got time to work up that idea tickling your writing mind. Yes, me & @karjon.bsky.social can’t wait to read your #FlashFiction. All details here - please share👇🏼
We are open for free submissions in poetry, nonfiction, and fiction: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
You can also send us reviews, as well as pitches for interviews for our blog.
Our general submission window is now open!
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
For our full guidelines and schedule, visit:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
The current submission window for 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲, and 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 will close February 12th.
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Submissions Open
We are reading all genres through February 15th. Send us your best!
CALL FOR READERS in yellow, on an abstract multicolored background. The question: Want to help Split/Lip Press choose our next multigenre and/or chapbook? The details: Readers are compensated. 25% of our submission fee is divided among readers. They also receive a free copy of your team's chosen book. Reading period runs April 1 through June 1. Applications are due February 6. Apply at splitlippress.submittable.com
YES WE ARE DOING THIS AGAIN, but this time, it's for our brand new Multigenre + Chapbook team: our MG/C editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social, is looking for readers to join their 2026 MG/C reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED!
More details forthcoming on the app, which will be available on Fri Jan 30!
Free micro submissions are open at X-R-A-Y, they close fast so submit your #writing today:
xray.submittable.com/submit
#WritingCommunity
Deadline 15 Feb, so still almost 2 weeks to get your entries in for National #FlashFiction Day. I'm guest-editing the anthology, w regular @karjon.bsky.social, & a *very* starry panel is judging the micro comp. Details, judge's interviews & tips on the website: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
>The Pride Roars - Flash Competition 2026<--
@theprideroars.bsky.social
-Free to enter
-Open to all women writers
-1000 words max
-Submissions via google form 14/2-28/2 or until we reach our cap.
theprideroars.blogspot.com/p/flash-comp...
Are you a flash writer? Flash-adjacent? We've started a free community space for All of the Flash Writers. It's run by SmokeLong, but it's for the world of flash. The Village. Follow The Village here @heyflashvillage.bsky.social and use the link pinned to the account to request citizenship.
Those of you who've been enjoying the Welkin shortlist, the vote for the People's Prize is now OPEN! 👇
And if you've not been reading these incredible micros, you can do so here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stories
There's only ONE (1) WEEK LEFT to apply to be a reader for OKD! Now's your chance to be part of a kind and committed indie lit mag team. Don't let Sad Jack 🫏 continue being sad! Learn more and apply by next Saturday, Jan. 31st at forms.gle/kAQyzPW3oR8Y....
Reminder: one week left to hop in our inbox for the April Issue!
Submissions always free!
Microfiction & CNF
*Quick Response Submissions*
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
PRE-ORDERS OPEN
In the Desert is available for e-book pre-order now from
@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social.
Any boosts are much appreciated!
US: www.amazon.com/Desert-Barba...
UK/Ireland: www.amazon.co.uk/Desert-Barba...
Submissions to our annual summer flash fiction series are now open!
And just like that and without any fanfare … Neither Fish Nor Foul is open for submissions. Closes 1 March 2026 or when 150 subs reached. 100-500 words, no theme.
Likely will take a while to respond this time - up to 90 days. Agonising, sorry.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
Submissions are open.
Send us a 6-sentence with no more than 400 words.
Our response time is usually less than a week.
gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/
New blog post! (It's actually about a blog post I did for Creative Future, but it's a start)
coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/r...
We are open to FREE submissions in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and critical book reviews or interviews.
HarperCollins Author Academy opens 8th January, a virtual, six-week, free programme for writers from underrepresented to have their manuscript considered across HarperCollins UK publishing divisions.
Please share with anyone that might be interested.
Find out more at harpercollinsacademy.co.uk
A poster with a black background and a headshot of Kit de Waal wearing thick glasses, red lipstick and a black jumper. She is looking off to the left. Text reads 'The Six-Month Writing Course with Kit de Waal and Gladstone's Library. Full Bursary place now available!'
📣Calling writers: Gladstone’s Library is offering one funded place on The Six-Month Writing Course with @kitdewaal.com. For writers who would benefit from the course but may otherwise be unable to access it. We especially welcome those who feel marginalised within the industry.
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jmww is looking for Associate Flash Fiction and Fiction Editors! Applications open through January 31, 2026.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/a...
