Joanna ✅ Theiss

Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Joanna Theiss. Enjoy. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/blog/

Thank you to @francinewitte.bsky.social at Flash Boulevard for publishing this not-so-spooky Halloween adjacent story. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2026/10/25/j...

I’m so jazzed to be part of the first year back from @ellipsiszine.bsky.social! www.ellipsis-zine.com/writing/the-...

Oh yeah this speaks right to my heart Amy Allen in @dishsoapquart.bsky.social dishsoap-quarterly.com/10-13-26

A #comic up at @muthamagazine.bsky.social -- a mother in conversation with her tween son about consent

Female ump behind home plate at the Nats game!! almost makes me forget the dude in the Trump 2028 hat directly behind her

Dear everyone Hi, hi. Did you hear? Our new issue is out filled with tiny treasures to fill and ache your beautiful heart. Reclaim your time. Spend it in places that aim to restore you. Sincerely, old auntie TiaC. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

I'm so excited to share my Oldster Questionnaire. I worked on it w/the same angst I imagine someone working on their dissertation! Went back & forth on what to say but decided all I could do was be as authentic as possible. Thanks @saribotton.bsky.social! :) oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-55...

Our September issue is now live! Thank you to all of our contributors for being a part of this very special issue. Till next time. Keep creating pockets of light against the darkness. It matters. heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/septemb...

I had the privilege of reviewing THOSE WHO VANISH by Patricia Grace King. Read my review (and get a copy of the book)! @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social thehooghlyreview.com/review-patri...

Like most flash I write, this little guy was started in a @francinewitte.bsky.social pop-up writing class. Thank you @dishsoapquart.bsky.social for publishing it! dishsoap-quarterly.com

From Our Archives, Story of the Week “Watermelon” by @joannatheiss.com @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/watermelon/

Piece up this week that's about dead fathers and transportation-- what more could you want? @joannatheiss.com's "Your Dead Father on the Train from Babylon" is best read while in-transit, but it's also just generally best read, so get on that Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/8-25-26

This makes my heart sing: the Arlington County library is hosting a pride senior prom 🏳️‍🌈 📚 No date required! arlingtonva.libcal.com/event/15777374

Writers, if you can spare the dough (and have a manuscript ready to go), do this. It's how I signed with my agent last summer! www.awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Memb...

Proud women's college graduate here, checking in to say this is bullshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Are you interested in a bird watching trip on Sunday?

I had a ploughmans 28p which was a bit steep.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

Pleased as punch to have a new short story up at Jet Fuel Review! Thank you to the editors for including this one. www.jetfuelreview.com/joanna-theis...

Hot Flash Literary is now open for submissions for Issue 4!! Theme: Instant Karma. We will be open through June 12. Subs are open to women-identifying writers; we welcome flash and flash-like prose poetry up to 500 words. Read full guidelines here: hotflashliterary.com/submissions/

Gray and Silver: A Nocturne https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.361

Issue 36 of Emerge Literary Journal, an all prose issue, is LIVE and it is phenomenal! Check it out! Shout out to @DianeGotAuthor for her tremendous work in curating and editing! emergeliteraryjournal.com/current-issu...

It is an honor to be featured in the latest California Native Plant Society magazine Flora! CNPS has been hugely important through various stages of my career development and I am grateful for their continued support. 💚

Thanks for the shoutout, Duotrope!

A Yellow Warbler bopping his way to the end of the branch while on the hunt for insects.

Good morning, book birthday is finally upon me!! Rabbit Test and Other Stories is out in the woooorld 🥳

So thrilled to be running a 6-Sentence Story Workshop collaboratively with Jeff Harvey of the wonderful @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social from May 1st- May 3rd. There are a few spaces left. pokrassprompts.substack.com/p/6-sentence...? #FlashFiction #ShortStory

This small blue perfume flask from Jericho, in ancient Canaan, dates back to 1650–1550 BCE. Cosmetics and toiletries were highly valued in many ancient societies, with both men and women wearing eye make-up and using perfume, and even using various forms of hair dye.

One week left before submissions close. Tell us about the fields set to fire, of the fires put out, of the smoldering in your chest. What time does. What life does.

Try to only panic about one thing at a time.

“Don't stand by while human life is destroyed.” #tdih 1965: largest anti-war protest in D.C. up till then. Number of marchers close to number of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. Organizers prepared an exam: “How much do you know about the war?” Check it out. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...

A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

Opening for submissions on Monday April 27th. www.stanchionzine.com/submissions

Jane Ormes, contemporary UK printmaker based in Bristol #WomensArt

The killdeer are everywhere, on the grass and in the desert. They follow me to show their broken wing routine. Glendale, AZ, US #birds, #nature, #wildlife, #photography

My chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN is now available from Bottlecap Press. The pieces explore marginal life and have magical or fantastical elements. They're sad but I hope you enjoy them. #booksky #fiction #bottlecappress bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd

If only I had time to write! [makes time to write] Ah now I have time to do the dishes

ICYMI-FBOMB Flash reading. youtu.be/eYoS7ypcybg?...

I'll be reading at this tonight!

Somewhere along the line, I decided I wrote either novels or micros, but then I wrote a 2,000 word story that was just accepted. So I guess, don't put yourself in a writing box

A Roman gladiator frozen in his final fight: this funerary relief shows Peneleos, a heavily armed murmillo, who won eleven fights in the arena - and seems to have died in his twelfth. Dating 3rd century AD and found in Türkiye. From the collection of Antikensammlung Basel. 📷 me 🏺 #reliefwednesday