Lori Cramer

Thrilled and honored to have my micro, "Yard Sale," selected for the 2025 @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 longlist! Grateful to @laughingyeti.bsky.social and his team and to Hannah Cole Orsag and @heimatreview.bsky.social for publishing my story!

SUBMISSIONS WILL OPEN SOON! Recommended Reading, Electric Literature's home for short fiction, and The Commuter, our home for flash, poetry, and graphic narratives, will both be open for submissions from Monday, November 2 to 11:59 PM Pacific Time on Sunday, November 8, or when we reach our cap.

"...it was more the way she seemed solid, not, well, pixelated like everyone else these days." Read @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @januaryhouselit.bsky.social januaryhouselit.com/2026/10/23/t...

This CNF flash is one of the most vulnerable pieces I’ve ever written. So grateful it’s found a gentle home in @turnandwork.com 🥹💗

Happy to have a tiny baseball-themed poem in the latest issue of @onlyhumansenryu.bsky.social.

found this writer online, got my library to order her book, now i get to read it. it really is that easy to support writers and costs nothing

I have a new micro fiction story in @havehashad.com! grateful to @aaronburch.bsky.social for my 8th 💀 & you for reading ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

When a certain word pops up so many times in the span of a few days--in song lyrics, in overheard conversations--that it's clear you must write a story about it.

"She pours his juice. She feels his eyes spy the empty couch. She sets the table with napkin and spoon. She hears his feet pad down the hall." Read @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in Flash the Court. flashthecourt.com/2026/10/09/a...

"I tried writing with my toes but at this I was unsuccessful except for two expletives I wrote on the wall which offended them greatly." Read @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/such-a-weigh...

Cut a flabby drabble down to 75 words. #microfiction

I'm not one for unboxing videos, so instead I give you this lovely book bouquet! 💐 Or is it more of a book fan? 🤔 DANGLING by Maura Yzmore out now from Anxiety Press Twenty-eight stories about people on the precipice. Absurdism, realism, horror. Buy: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... #booksky 📚💙

Grateful to have 2 stories in Flash Boulevard. Thank you @francinewitte.bsky.social 🙏 wrote this at the @bendinggenres.bsky.social retreat. Thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social and others for providing a magical week ! flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2026/10/03/s...

"... the careers they’ll pursue (choreography for one, cosmetology for the other), the guys they’ll date (rock stars and baseball players), and ..." @loricramerwriter.bsky.social in @thehooletsnook.bsky.social www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...

Wrote a title today. No story. Just a title.

"I feel ten, and thirty, and three hundred, anything but the forty-nine I actually am and like I don't know anything at all...." Read @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social trashcatlit.com/maybe-there-...

They say to write the novel you would want to read, but they forget to tell you how many times you'll be reading it.

The #vssdaily #prompt for 9.26.26 is #music

Sometimes you start writing a story and it turns into a poem.

Just sent out my first submission in over a month. #microfiction

When you finally figure out how to fix that line that just wasn't quite right. #flashfiction

Happy to have a 50-word micro in the latest issue of @thehooletsnook.bsky.social . Thank you to editor G.R. LeBlanc! thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...

"I think of my mother refusing help. Of the rent due next week. Of working double shifts." Read @swethaamit.bsky.social in Revolution John.

"I think of all the masks I have worn: daughter, tom-boy, Indian, American, woman, doctor, wife, mother. Here, I'm me, the fencer." Read @ninamiller.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Do you write dribbles, drabbles, other microfiction, or short poetry? Check out @thehooletsnook.bsky.social, a lovely place to submit your work!

Poem for Thursday 9.10.2026 (This poem & book are stunning) ✨ Clean —from: Dressing The Bear ~ Susan L. Leary —I often worried when I got the call, I'd be unprepared. But the morning my brother dies — 🤍

“Last week, completely by accident, I traveled three days into the future…” - Check out Jeffrey Hermann’s ( @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social ) story “What’s the Weather Where You Are” on mb www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/hermann/w...

Delighted to have a flash in the wonderful @necessaryfiction.com. A special thanks to fiction editor Lacey Dunham.❤️

@smokelong.bsky.social Do you know about The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest? It's an annual comp now, open to fiction, CNF, prose poetry, previously published and unpublished, and also translations. We want it all. Deadline Nov 15. 250 words or fewer. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Sleep when the novel sleeps.

Web submissions are open for historical fiction. 14th-20th September, 1,000 words or fewer. The usual guidelines apply and can be found here: ellipsis-zine.com/submit

Happy to have my drabble, "Rock Star, Jr.," in A Story in 100 Words. astoryin100words.com/stories/rock...

New month, new words.

Reading instead of writing today.

‼️ attention ‼️ passages north submission queue opens september 1st!! we want to see your fiction, flash, cnf, poems, and more; more info available at the link in bio!!

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

First new piece I've written all month: a 100-word story with a 10-word title. #microfiction

"It's much easier and more pleasant to look forward rather than back." Read @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/tomatoes-and...

5 years ago this collection was published by the amazing @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social. These stories took decades to write, and is my core of my heart. Always indebted (with great love) to the best editor around @vanwinkle.bsky.social 💙💙💙 www.amazon.com/Wind-Swirls-...

How can August be half over already?

"It's like metaphorical rain on your publication day. It's like a free contest submission when you've already paid. It's a good workshop that you just didn't take. And who would've thought? It figures" - Alanis Morissette singing about writing

So sad that the Welkin Genre Prize has come to an end. Missed any of these brilliant pieces? Or just want to read them again? So many gems to discover / re-discover here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stories

"...though for a little longer she'll believe they're talking about someone else." Read @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @100wordstory.bsky.social 100wordstory.org/therapy/

"She has lately begun to suspect that love is not a state of admiration exactly but more a heightened tolerance for somebody else's quirky habits." Read @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

i wish there was a google for memories, like "who was the kid in first grade who ate crayons?" "where was that one weird mcdonalds with stairs?" "why was i so into musicals again?"

Just reposted several submissions opportunities so may as well remind you that we are open too! As usual the poets and fiction writers are dominating the queue but we’re happy to see some early CNF and visual art subs in the mix. Keep them allllll coming!

OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.

"I was living life backwards. A rewinding tape. Today was yesterday, yesterday the day before that, and so on." The brilliant Will Musgrove (@willmusgrove.bsky.social) Musgrove is back in The Bulb Region today with a fun, mind-bending story. 🔗👇

"When the word comes, I grieve as if I've handed down a wound--my blood, my fault...." Read Jeffrey-Michael Kane in @welkinpress.bsky.social mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...