Marijean Oldham

Don't know how I missed this? But #readingcommunity you need to check out all these pieces! #FlashInTheFeed

Continuing our "watch all the Academy Award Best Picture Winners from the beginning of time" project, we watched On the Waterfront which was OK; a treat to watch early Marlon Brando. Interesting integrated cast for 1954 with Black longshoremen. The treatment and portrayal of women: horrible.

Just when I was feeling all was lost (on the writing front), an acceptance! Hooray!

I’m working on a story about the impact of upcoming changes to Medicaid in Charlottesville. I'm looking for people who'd be open to talking with me about how new work requirements will impact them. Feel free to DM me or shoot me an email at hdreid@vpm.org!

RuH roo, hearing UVA siren system announcing a tornado warning—some serious weather around here with loud thunder, too

Read this breathtaking short story A Gentleman by Frank Reilly www.cleavermagazine.com/a-gentleman-...

excited to be in @havehashad.com again with a tiny micro about a bar for ghosts. grateful to @aaronburch.bsky.social + any of you who read it 💀 🍻 👻 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/whe...

So grateful to @neitherfishnorfoul.com for publishing this story that was coursing through my veins. #flashfiction

A must read! Here are many great takeways on publishing and how to be a good literary citizen from our Senior CNF Editor @librarygoblin.bsky.social

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My flash, "My Mother is the Last Cigarette in the Pack," is out in Cleaver Magazine! Thank you to @writesofkathryn.bsky.social for accepting my work. I love this publication! www.cleavermagazine.com/my-mother-is... #flashfiction

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Lovely as always flas from @swethaamit.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social — love the ending www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-7-amit...

Fab! I laughed and laughed. Good to see a funny flash in the mix

I’m excited to have a saucy new flash out in @nffr.bsky.social www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-7-oldh...

I let my novella-in-flash sit, more or less since April and now in July, it is revealing itself to me and dudes, I am into it.

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Goldfinch” by @douglawson.bsky.social is now up! Art by Rajvi Mittal flash-frog.com/2026/07/06/g...

An update on my quest for the elusive. open.substack.com/pub/marijean...

I have a thing for weird martyrs -- and I love this flash!

Excellent firefly watching tonight.

Making strawberry rhubarb bars. Is a bar a pie? #piedown #instigator #cville

Everyone all right out there? In Springfield, IL. Post-tornado sky.

@claudiamonpere.bsky.social took me a minute to dig it up, but this is my Guinness Book World Record bouquet

Register for tomorrow night's reading! #flashfiction

Delighted to have my flash, Breeding Season in the May Flash issue of @soflopojo.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/marijean...

the case for strategic gerrymandering youtu.be/YgMSs_aMP84?si…

I'm delighted to guest host a literary open mic night at a local winery, this Thursday 4/16 at Eastwood. Come read! Or listen. And drink wine. They also have a nice food menu available if you want to come be entertained while you eat dinner.

She drinks the fiber drink. She drinks the protein drink. She drinks the vitamin drink. She drinks the weed drink. She seems to remember the good times. She knows we are living in the bad times.

Loved this!

What are you doing this summer? We're celebrating community. When you book A SmokeLong Summer 26, you can bring a friend. You don't need to write alone. www.smokelong.com/a-smokelong-...

Welkin me up!

Tomorrow night! Please register for zoom link.

Super excited to get an acceptance today from one of my short list dream publications! I once had to withdraw a piece that was accepted elsewhere, and the editor of this pub said that they were going to accept that piece (argh!) but now, I'm IN! Wooo! #flashfiction

I love Claudine and I’m so thrilled to have this little one-sentence micro in the new issue. Give it a read.

Please don't miss my story in the amazing @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social - if you like a) bees b) the UK c) crying you will love this one:

It's that weird week when everyone with kids is out of town on spring break.

Icymi

This whole issue is fantastic!

We're open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We look fwd to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

A new competition for microfiction up to 100 words that aims to celebrate writing around different genres and themes. For 2026, the categories are: ​🌍The "Earth" Prize 🌻The "Joy" Prize 🫀The "Body" Prize 🏛️The "History" Prize 🧚The "Firefly" Prize

"people are never who I decided they were they are like piles of snow brief, mutable yes, I thought I felt sorrow it was not sorrow" piece of 🔥 and wonder today from Sophia Tone https://www.havehashad.com/yp3dt

Tomorrow night I'll read at the literary open mic at Eastwood Farm and Winery -- there's still room on the list to sign up -- check the socials for more info. This is unlike the other open mics I do since there is wine. Yay! Come listen if you're in the Charlottesville area.

The story I'm sharing for @smokelong.bsky.social's Flash in the Feed is Megan Pillow's "We All Know about Margo," which I read years ago but packs such a wallop that whenever someone asks about favorite flashes, it's the first one I mention. www.smokelong.com/stories/we-a...

So good -- "Lies I Tell My Children" by @ruthjoffre.bsky.social

Me, trying not to cover my gray hair.