Coleman Bigelow

I have a new #flashfiction collection out now with #bottlecappress. These stories are all #game themed and were a blast to write and workshop with many of you. Hope you’ll get the chance to check it out. share.google/sYMMXnBaNfhv... #cards #tennis #hideandseek #pickle #microfiction

Excited to dive into this one. @aniking.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social

"For a moment, I picture him getting ready for the workday, putting on a suit, and gelling his unruly hair. I imagine Paul getting back to the gym, even suggesting we meet up for a run instead of a drink." So moving. Blazing last line. @cbigs.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.com/colemanbigelow

Excited about a Best Small Fictions nomination. Thanks to Keith and TDDR! Congratulations to @karenc.bsky.social and all the other nominees. #microfiction #drabble

ICYMI. New story in the wonderful @moonparkreview.bsky.social TY to @marylynnreed.bsky.social and Lesley for giving this story such a good home and for the wonderful accompanying artwork. And thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for the workshop. #flashfiction moonparkreview.com/issue-37-fal...

An epic in flash! Great read: moonparkreview.com/issue-37-fal... By @cbigs.bsky.social Something of Gatsby in this one - Fitzgeraldian... in @moonparkreview.bsky.social A privilege to see you read last week too

What are you doing SATURDAY (19th) at 6pm est? Join @travisflatt.bsky.social for his book launch Such Late Night Radio!!! DM Travis for link. Lots of cool readers @lmbayley.bsky.social @cbigs.bsky.social @elissafield.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social and more!!!!!

Great second person story about the misery of it's sober narrator. Congrats @lmbayley.bsky.social ! "Now here you are, surrounded by your drunken neighbours, the only one who can see clearly in a room full of smoke." And another great issue from @turnandwork.com www.turnandwork.com/guest-post/w...

New Microfiction by @cbigs.bsky.social ! 🐈‍⬛ www.claudineliterary.com/colemanbigelow

Oh wow. This from @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social is just so good. “Some part of her understands that the lens through which she regards him has been maimed, that from now on there is no action he will take that won’t be fun-house twisted by this astigmatism..”

On this #laborday, happy to have my story of someone prepping for an interview out at @claudineliterary.bsky.social. Big thanks to @dehardy.bsky.social and to everyone who read early drafts @smokelong.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.com/colemanbigelow #microfiction #flashfiction

So excited for this one…

Awesome #micro #flash here by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social. Love this line: … “what it feels like to have a dad that is not around. I shrug and say it’s like having a skinned knee, fine at first and sore after you notice all the damage.” www.claudineliterary.com/sarpsozdinle...

"There were only two things louder in our house than my father’s laugh." For today's #archivechallenge I bring you #FlashInTheFeed by @cbigs.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social ! The way Coleman sets it up and knocks it down is masterful. mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

If you haven’t read this one yet from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social , it’s a masterclass in layers. Amazing how much can be accomplished in 100 words.

It’s no easy feat to write joy. Especially these days. Huge kudos to Amy Luxton for pulling it off so beautifully.

This one by @karenc.bsky.social is so moving and sad makes me think of the wildfires in the west www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Love this and “the storm inside” from @tomljanovic.bsky.social Brilliant!

This one is so tight and hits hard. A powerhouse by @travisflatt.bsky.social

Beautiful writing and story by @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

A great one by the great @marioaliberto3.bsky.social

The Shortlist is up! Fiction from: Bixby the Martian in Martian Witch Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social in StoryBottle J.R. Chapple in @fracturedlit.bsky.social New Coleman Bigelow @cbigs.bsky.social & the first 3 we ever ran at T&W by Kevin Light-Roth, James Vella and Kate Arnold Here:

I’m a big fan of what Hugh is doing over @turnandwork.com and love having this story there. This one was inspired by some game prompts from @erinvachon.bsky.social. Thanks to her and @smokelong.bsky.social where this was born. #cornhole #marriage #flashfiction

You’ve got to read @travisflatt.bsky.social latest chapbook. Here’s me reading it on the lovely NJ Transit, and like NJ transit, this collection is full of constant surprises. The writing is always clever, unexpected and magic. The story “She’s a miracle” is incredible. #blurbchallenge #smokelong

So glad to have this story up with @rfpress.bsky.social #flashfiction #accident.

Hello! Has been a busy but exciting week and wanted to share two new stories out now at @rfpress.bsky.social. Huge thanks to the whole team there for giving them such a great home and thanks to all who read drafts of these. share.google/Xq3e86izlvyI... #flashfiction #accidents #uncles

Excited to have some stories in next year’s @emergejournal.bsky.social calendar. Love this idea. Big thanks to @dianegotauthor.bsky.social and team and hope to see your stories in there too! #microfiction #calendar

Excited for this issue and to have stories in the always awesome @rfpress.bsky.social

My list story “It’s Only Right to Invite the Whole Class” is live in TDDR along w/ friends @karenc.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @karenschauber.bsky.social @damicandrea.bsky.social and many others! This was written in @smokelong.bsky.social MMM. www.thedribbledrabblereview.com/about-7

The next Welkin Press workshop is "Stand-Out Oddities" where we'll be considering micros by @cbigs.bsky.social and @robinzlotnick.bsky.social and writing slices of surreal. Thursday 4th June 7pm BST www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

So excited to write with you in a couple of weeks. We're going to be looking at brilliant micros from @cbigs.bsky.social and @robinzlotnick.bsky.social; and contemplating the surrealness of desire - should be a fun 60 minutes!

Bring back a focus on the Humanities! What A.I. Kant Do www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

Wow. Love seeing two fiction wizards combining forces for such a fun, funny, fantastic story. Check it out! Thanks for the great read, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social. This story made my morning commute so much more entertaining!

Check out this stunner from the talented @travisflatt.bsky.social !

Wow.

I so admire this brilliant judicial piece of writing (flash-length). In Under 500 Words, a Judge Weaponized Wit to Free the Child Detained by ICE www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’m so happy to have my story “Gotta Run” selected for the forthcoming Ghost Parachute” anthology. Big thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social and team for including and honored to be among so many of my favorites! ghostparachute.com/issue/januar...

A beauty of a story here… captures so well that inflection point before college.

Excited and honored to have a story on this #longlist! And congratulations to all who published something out of these great workshops.

I have published one story using anadiplosis and can say it’s incredibly challenging to make it feel both fluid and meaningful. This micro does it so well!

“Your smooth teeth sinking into my flesh”. Now this one is visceral and so good by @robinzlotnick.bsky.social

“Trees have to rehearse being quiet…”. Wow. What a gorgeous prose poetry micro. @jmckane.bsky.social

😂 what’s that rule of comedy where you keep upping the ante?? This one does so brilliantly.

Love this by @melissafitz.bsky.social So much beauty in the desolation here.

@mattkendrick always curates such helpful content. Glad to have contributed to this one but also happy to take inspiration from all the other great contributors!

What a list of awesome writers. Impressive how many great stories came out of these workshops. Happy to have one on here.

Check out my story “May I have this…” in the latest issue of #FlashFrontier. Big thanks to Michelle and the whole team there. #flashfiction #microfiction #dance #celebrity #amwriting flashfrontier.com/december-202...