Looking forward to reading exciting #flashfiction submissions! Do polish & send in your best for Issue 22.
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Looking forward to reading exciting #flashfiction submissions! Do polish & send in your best for Issue 22.
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Hey there! Do you see how things are in this Sky of skies? Were you expecting the worm moon to get mean with its eclipse? Absurd! What the worm moon likes best is pathways, tunnels, puzzles made into other puzzles. #65 features new works by 21 high authors, just look-see!
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‘(I’m one of those literal people with no imagination)…’
As always, super writing from @sagreene1.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social - especially love that honest, vulnerable note it ends on… 🚐
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Agreed! Great use of voice and detail. Love the recommendation is DENIED
Front cover of book is an abstract painting of ocean blue paint over white canvas. The title is in blocky font with pale navy blue letters. JENNY WONG LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA STORIES & SMALL FICTIONS
Back cover of book with the following blurbs: "Quiet, contemplative, transformative, Light Chemical Sea, will send you on a meditative journey through wavelengths of sound, of light, of love, of loss, on pathways of auroras, of highways, of elements, of life. Jenny Wong's singular voice will whisper, will call, will summon you to be present in the warp and weft of her words." -MELISSA LLANES BROWNLEE, AUTHOR OF BITTER OVER SWEET "Jenny Wong is an alchemist turning moments of being into illumination of character. Wong is drawn to those on the periphery, people who don't quite fit in. In small flashes of brilliance she highlights the elements of their lives as they find solace in nature or catch glimpses of their true selves." -DEBBIE ROBSON, AUTHOR OF A GLIMPSE AND THE HERMITAGE "The obscure and almost-absurd become visible and believable under the skillful care of writer Jenny Wong in the compelling Light Chemical Sea, a collection of stories and small fictions. In three parts, she delivers us into the essence of light, dips us full-bodied into the effervescent chemicals we are made of, and then returns us to the sea where life as we know it really begins. The words, beyond language-rich, flawlessly represent images we want to hold under a microscope to try to assess the ways she gives them voice. It's a magic only a few can master. Make no mistake, this is the work of a sterling storyteller who weaves mystery with mundane to concoct a world view that draws us not only into her personal reflections of such basic natural forces (light, chemical, and sea), but leads us, sometimes unknowingly, into a labyrinth of cues and clues towards to the majesty of life we all belong to." —KAREN PIERCE GONZALEZ, AUTHOR OF DOWN RIVER WITH LI PO
Description: Jenny Wong peeks into the lives of characters caught in lighthouses, subways, shorelines, Walmart aisles, and airports. With a talent for lingering and looking, with the elemental precision of a poet, her small mosaics imbue the quotidian with quiet wonder. The international traveler, the preteen chemistry student, and the perimenopausal millennial who spends her days in the sun are trail guides for landscapes saturated with solitude and vastness, the whispers of ancestors and the ironies of aging. Light Chemical Sea reports back from the transpacific diaspora, glimpsing into the liminal pause between what happened and what happens next.
✨LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA - Cover Reveal!✨
After years of writing tiny stories about small moments, I’m so excited to announce that my flash fiction chapbook LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA is forthcoming November 10, 2026 with @bullcitypress.com
Preorders are now available:
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‘She reported she had explicit instructions to 'not let anyone in the house.’’
The dark humour in this excellent new hermit crab flash from @kazbarwrites.bsky.social in @offbeatlit.bsky.social, which also breaks your heart in equal measure… 🗂️
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I've been out of work since October so this could not have come at a worse financial time for my ability to help my family. So, I really really appreciate everyone who has donated or shared this!
Cari!!! 😍🥰
Chris Arning recommends High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett and says: I just thought - what an audacious conceit to pattern a whole volume on the concept of the high jump. There is a lot of daring work in it.
🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of Poetry Review contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025.
Next is Chris Arning's pick: High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett (Banshee Press). Thank you, Chris!
Celebrating 20 issues and 10 years of @bansheepress.bsky.social yesterday at @booksupstairs.bsky.social
Thank you so much to the @bansheepress.bsky.social & @booksupstairs.bsky.social teams, and to all our writers and readers. It was a magical night ✨️
Now available for pre-order: FOUND IN A CONTEXT OF DESTRUCTION, the debut poetry collection by acclaimed writer Tim MacGabhann, out in February 2026. Cover design by @jackflag.bsky.social 🪨
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Finally, a subscription to Banshee was recommended as a great Christmas present for literature lovers in @irishtimes.com 🎁
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@jackflag.bsky.social's cover for Claire-Lise Kieffer's Tenterhooks was also cited by Jack's fellow designers as one of the best covers of the year in @literaryhub.bsky.social 🫴
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Some lovely press this week – first up, @jackflag.bsky.social's cover for @bebeashley.bsky.social's Harbour Doubts was listed as a best book cover of 2025 by @nytimes.com 🧡
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Thank YOU, Laura. I am very grateful and honoured! 🙏
It's gives us great pleasure to nominate Miss Sunkissed 1962 by @mariegethins.bsky.social for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social #microfiction #nomination. If you missed it the first, here's another chance...please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/25/m...
Our #microfiction #nominations for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2026 are: Quantum by @kelliborges2.bsky.social
Peor es Nada by @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social
Snails Are People Too by @tracieadams.bsky.social
Mama, I’m Home by @sudhab.bsky.social
Miss Sunkissed 1962 by @mariegethins.bsky.social
So happy to have a wee story in this issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social Thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social @mariegethins.bsky.social and the team, and congrats to all the other contributors 🥳
Thank you for all your hard work, Laura! It's an honor to be published by @fictivedream.bsky.social again.
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Subs for the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day anthology & micro comp are now open, closing 15 Feb. Please repost for #FlashFiction friends.
One f my favourite places to appear and find new inspiring work. Always a temptation to spend an extensive time span there!
ICYMI we're open for submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations. Please click on the link for our guidlesines #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...
Screenshot of the Meet the Judges page from the Bridport Prize with a black and white photograph of a woman with very short hair grinning, and the following text: "Tania Hershman Flash Fiction Judge Line Break Tania Hershman is a queer writer of odd things, the author of three collections of short stories and flash fiction, four books of poetry and two hybrid books. Tania’s creative-non-fiction hybrid book on Time is forthcoming from Guillemot Press. Tania is editor of Fuel: An Anthology of First-Prize-Winning Flash Fictions Raising Funds to Fight Fuel Poverty, offers monthly writing prompts/provocations/exercises through Unbox Your Words – Give Yourself Permission to Play on Substack, and has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle physics. www.taniahershman.com Instagram: @tania_hershman_writes “What I am always looking for is a voice that grabs me right from the first words so that I have no choice but to carry on reading. This might be a character, or a narrator, but what I want is freshness of language. No need for long fancy words or complicated plots, just write what only you can write in the way you want to write it. And send me the pieces you think only you might love, that might be “too strange” or “not quite enough…” There are no rules!” Tania Hershman, Flash Fiction Judge What I wish someone had told me when I was starting out: That everyone does it differently, this writing thing. That there definitely isn’t “one way” to write, and that each writer probably has more than one way. You find what works for you, and no-one else can tell you what you “should” or “shouldn’t” do. There are no rules! When I’m stuck, this is what helps me move forward: I don’t ever think of myself as “stuck”, I call it a “creative pause”, and for me that really is how it feels. I don’t write every day, sometimes a few weeks will go by. I let it be, I don’t feel bad about it. I feed myself – by reading, watching TV, films, going for a walk. "
Honoured to be this year's @bridportprize.bsky.social flash fiction judge! Send me your word-shapes of 250 words & under, the pieces you think only you might love, that might be “too strange” or “not quite enough…” There are no rules! bridportprize.org.uk/the-competit... #flashfiction
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I wish I could find such a person. Sitting on 200+ publications plus the unpubbed pieces & have tried and failed at this multiple times 😱😭
This is out in January and still would be grateful if anyone wants to pitch a review or interview for it!
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