Noémi Scheiring-Oláh

And if you haven't yet or you don't understand why we are against generative AI, check out www.pbs.org/independentl...

This month's #FromTheCoursesMouth features courses & workshops from @jmgatford.bsky.social @taniahershman.bsky.social @sagetyrtle.bsky.social @sfreligh.bsky.social @bendinggenres.bsky.social @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @stillsquirrel.bsky.social.. fromthecoursesmouth.substack.com/p/october-no...

This!! 100% this! Writing is hard, and it’s infuriating to read stuff that feels like AI, then Pangram it and have that suspicion confirmed. The point of writing is bringing yourself to the page, not a poor simulacrum of what it is to be human! 😱🤯😡

It's Lit Mag Week! We hope that you'll visit participating journals' sites, read the work they publish, show them some love—and maybe take advantage of some of the sweet deals they offer. litmagweek.com

A plea to Lit mags - please check the stories you select for AI. I've been putting some with some 'tells' through Pangram and some highly prestigious lit mags have recently published stories with percentages of suspected AI, including one that is 100% AI!!! #AIslop

I've got 4 free spots to give away for this for low income writers. If this is you, please DM me and I'll get you signed up! Everyeone else, I'd be grateful if you could share so this gets to the right people. I'll even throw in a free spot for someone (picked out the hat) who does just that!

We are beside ourselves with glee to bring you Issue 93 of SmokeLong Quarterly. 12 amazing flash narratives by 12 amazing writers and cover art by Victoria Ojo. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety...

A gorgeous story, as usual, from the brilliant @itssonoemi.bsky.social

A new @itssonoemi.bsky.social story in @fracturedlit.bsky.social is always a perfect reason to stop and read!!

Holy moly!! Such a powerful, fiery piece from @fionamckay.bsky.social 🔥 "...smile like a children’s TV presenter, and keep dodging, dodging, dodging awkward questions about their absent parent..." LOVE IT!! bendinggenres.com/rx/

We continue to partner with Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) in East Tennessee to provide The SmokeLong Quarterly Fellowship for Trans Writers. Deadline to apply for 2027 residency is Feb 1st.

Plenty of time to sign up! New Generative Writing Class! Building Fictional Relationships through Dialogue, Ritual, and Objects September 22, 2026 Time: 1:00-2:30 pm ET online/Live Zoom Cost: Pay what you want/can tommydeanwriter.com/writing-work...

Super-excited to join @smokelong.bsky.social's Submissions Editors team for six months! Keep writing and submitting, folks, no matter what! 😊💚

So pleased to be published in Ghost Parachute at long last. Thank you to my flash Amigas @fionamckay.bsky.social @sagreene1.bsky.social @sgscarso.bsky.social and @itssonoemi.bsky.social ghostparachute.com/issue/june-2...

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waaahh couldn't resist 🫠🙃 @bathflashaward.bsky.social

It was a delight and an honor to interview AJ O'Reilly about their wonderful story published in @smokelong.bsky.social. Thank you for the opportunity! 😊🌻

Later today, I'll be talking specificity in this online workshop for the fine folk at Smokelong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social. It's not too late to join me 👇 www.smokelong.com/product/the-...

Really looking forward to my "Story Shapes" workshop in October where I'm going to get writers writing Cinderella narratives against the clock and crafting stories across different sized bits of paper. 7th Oct 7pm BST or 11th Oct 9am BST. www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

Last day to enter this today. Drawing names tomorrow at midday BST.

TONIGHT TONIGHT!!! I close out the 2025 Philly Book Crawl with pictures of cats and travel stories about the places in which they live around the world. Come say hi!!

So a couple of years ago I feverishly wrote this thing about mothers and kids, pretending it had nothing whatsoever to do with my own mothering or childhood (hahahahahaha) and @publishedbyjake.bsky.social want to publish it (WHAT?). Coming towards the end of the year!!!

I never want cost to keep anyone from joining my zoom writing workshops so there are always free, concessionary and pay-what-you-can options. Find out more about my Sept Writing Muscle & Art of the Swerve workshops here - join us, whatever word-shapes you write! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

The peer I’m sharing this week is Noemi Schering-Olah, @itssonoemi.bsky.social a Hungarian writer who is a Best Small Fictions Winner and a SmokeLong Quarterly contributor. A selection of her pieces is here, and I think my favorite is “The Possessive Form” – very disturbing. noemiwrites.com

Fancy something strange? New collaborative flash with @stillsquirrel.bsky.social, @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social up at @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Thanks, @jhhwriter.bsky.social, for letting us lay out the third best dinner set 🍽️ gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...

Look at this gorgeous cover art for my upcoming tiny chapbook! 😍

If you've got a spare 300-word story that's looking for a home, why not send it my way? I'd love to read it!

Is there a flash story that you consider, not just good, but truly beautiful? #flashfiction

😬😬😬😬 Just realised this is (VERY SCARILY) happening next week. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Hope I have better health days than I'm having today 🤪😂. If I do, I'm starting to think I might make it all the way to the top, spurred on by all the generous people who've sponsored me so far 🙏🙏❤️

"We were pleased with our shock, she and I, and I was pleased to please her, always. I bathed in her moral correctness, her grudging approval." Oh my, as always, a fantastic @fionamckay.bsky.social story! The writing! The ending! In the lovely @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Congratulations to our nominees for the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology: Fatema Haque, Jesse Wallis, Marianne Kunkel, Noemi Scheiring-Olah, and Sebastien Luc Butler!

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.