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Dan Crawley
Dan Crawley
@danbillyc.bsky.social
Straight Down the Road (Ad Hoc Fiction) | The Wind, It Swirls (Cowboy Jamboree Press) | Blur (Cowboy Jamboree Press). Writing appears in very nice places like Pithead Chapel, Best Small Fictions, Gone Lawn, 100 Word Story, Flash Frog, Atticus Review.
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Registration for this class will close on October 31. Get your spot! This is the last one I will run until Fall 2027.
I've been hearing from writers that the 4-hour Hermit Crab Flash Fiction Workshop sessions are amazingly productive and intense, but they're a bit long. So I'm offering for the first time a short version: A 2-hour workshop! Sunday, November 8 1-3pm (ET) $50 Join us! substack.com/@cherylpappa...
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The Countdown starts soon ⏰️👍 This is your roughly 19-day notice to get your micros under 250 words in. Grand prize $1000. The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished work considered. Deadline Nov 15th! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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Terribly proud to nominate Sheldon Lee Compton's THE OLD INVISIBLE for the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writers and the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Fiction. Can imagine no better way to honor his memory and keep his writing alive. Got yours? www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/the-old-invi...
"It's 6 am, and the crows keep squawking." And: "She couldn't see the frog dodging the high heels and work boots scurrying by." I love these gems by @karenc.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social 💙💙💙 gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Here in the falling season, we revel. So do the spiritfolk. They're friendly, too, they just drift right up and chatter away! They say, "What's got your gander, my good wight?" "Gone Lawn 67!" we say. "Well, I'll be! Can we join you?" they ask. And of course we say, Yes. gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️ California Dreamin’ by The Mamas & The Papas youtu.be/o1e4SgR69XM
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I love this brilliance by @ezhang77.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Happy to be back in Scaffold Lit with a new micro! www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
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Very cool! Big congrats @christinaltudor.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
CALL MY BODY A CAUTIONARY TALE is out in the world today. It's been a long journey to get here since my very first publications in 2021 (shout out @havehashad.com, @flashfrog.bsky.social) Order a copy of my very first book from @thirtywestph.com: www.thirtywestph.com/shop/p/callm...
"She can see the outlines still, faint red rings wedding her to memory and resolution. She pins back her hair and sets up her easel." I love this powerful piece of writing by @sharontelfer.bsky.social in @ellipsiszine.bsky.social 💙💙💙
'Artemisia's Thumb' #HistoricalFiction from @sharontelfer.bsky.social In her father’s studio, the girl Artemisia learns that her thumbs are her measure and her guide across the canvas, her bridge between what she sees and what she paints. Read more: www.ellipsis-zine.com/writing/arte...
"The high school boys surround the Scrap Boys. The high school boys are a geometry lesson. Four independent points forming a changing whole,...." Wow! I love this piece! Extraordinary writing by @tomwellerstories.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social 💙💙💙 www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
"It’s an itch, I think. The need to know who to blame." This is a brilliant little story by @lathamwithapen.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social 💙💙💙 www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
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Our brand new issue is live. Autumn 2026 is available for your reading pleasure - enjoy these stories and share widely! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
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ICYMI we're open for #submissions of contemporary #shortstories and #flashfiction #callforsubmissions #submissionsopen. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We're looking forward to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...
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Please join us! Click here to register: forms.gle/uxEThTcakS59...
"There: the blue torch, proud as a monument, on the only mountain in this landfill state." I love the sensory details in this gem by @ediemeade.bsky.social 💙💙💙
I have a new poem today in the wonderful Vagabond City. vagabondcitylit.com/2026/10/19/m...
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New on The Pride Roars "Mothers" Chapter 2. A conversation with @joycebingham.bsky.social @delgeo14.bsky.social @sugarpigblog.bsky.social @amymarques.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @ninamiller.bsky.social and Maria Thomas theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/10/moth...
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Dangling, a story collection from @maurayzmore.bsky.social This is my copy, get your own via: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
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"Down by the bank, muddy boot prints lead nowhere and everywhere. Not a blessed word said." My lord, I love this extraordinary story so much! By @tracieadams.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Big thanks to @reckonreview.bsky.social for publishing “The Hush” and shout out to my mentor/editor @mattkendrick.bsky.social who must’ve had me rewrite this story dozens of times. Also, the fiction editor, Drew, at Reckon is awesome! 🙏🏼🫶🏼🙌🏽 reckonreview.com/the-hush-fic...
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"The little ghosts, oh the littles. We ferry those too young to understand, too young to choose." Wow, this brilliant story (perfect ending!) by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social 💙💙💙
FLASH FROGTOBER👻🐸 “Show and Tell” by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social is now up! Art by @jaredvarnado.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2026/10/19/s...
"But she didn't ask so I didn't tell her every poem was a promise, every recipe was one we wished to cook side by side, every song lyric an insinuation,...." Big love for this piece of writing by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social 💙💙💙 bulbregion.com/But-She-Didn...
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Bay Area friends! Come join @claudiamonpere.bsky.social and me Thursday, October 29th for an in-conversation book reading event with @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social at @booksinc.bsky.social in Alameda California! 🎉 💜 🥳
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"But from my bedroom window, I would watch the old women still on their balconies as they broke the last stray ends of their yarn. One by one, they offered the strands to the air, though for what, I never knew." Extraordinary writing by @erincalabria.bsky.social in @wigleaf.bsky.social 💙💙💙
new new: "Gossamer," by Erin Calabria: wigleaf.com
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It’s @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social day at my house! Can’t wait to dig in @sabrinahicks.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @barbarabyar.bsky.social 📚🤓
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"In September, the crickets deliver to me every lost dream of childhood. From the depths of my love and loneliness, the boy I once was emerges again to lie awake all night listening." I love this gem so much by @the-big-quiet.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to share small poems you wrote or ones you love by other poets :) here’s one by Poppy Cockburn @poppycockburn.bsky.social, from Every time I meet you feels like doom (SARKA Publishing, 2026)
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By the end of this year CJ will have published 79 books with 5 more coming in 2027. Needless to say, we had to revamp our books page to give it some organization and provide a page for each book. Enjoy: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/books.html