Swetha Amit

A flash fiction piece titled Falling Leaves up in the fall issue of @tinymolecules Wrote this story a while ago and grateful to have it edited by Nina Schuyler. 🙏 Big thanks to editors for giving this a home. www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

Join us tomorrow for Lit Crawl SF, where me and four fabulous writers from @thewritersgrotto will share their work exploring the theme of Body Language! Date: Saturday, October 24, 2026 Time: 5–6 Pm Location: Teeth Bar SF, 2323 Mission Street, San Francisco (food and drinks available)

The newsletter has been written buttondown.com/tkrex/archiv... with: @shirakipress.com @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social @elijahkinchspector.com @lpkindred.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @swethaamit.bsky.social @jmwwjournal.bsky.social @laurencjohnson.bsky.social @olivasthewriter.bsky.social

Come and celebrate the Gothic spirit of Halloween at Grotto Literary salon tonight!

Felt honored to be part of the Litquake panel “Sports, Body, and Identity” last night at Sports Basement on Bryant Street! Ilovely conversation with Mike Copperman and Yi Shun Lai about our backgrounds in sports, the spirit of competition, and how our athletic experiences shape what we write.

Tonight at Bryant Street

"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...

"Riding" by @swethaamit.bsky.social who secured an MFA from University of San Francisco. The author of a memoir and three chapbooks, she has appeared in Bending Genres, Ghost Parachute.

Bay Area folks- Join Yi Shun Lai Mike Copperman and myself for a wonderful Litquake panel discussion .about sports and identity on October 14th Wednesday, 6:30 pm Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant St, San Francisco. Link litquake2026.sched.com/event/2WDms/...

New extra unhinged interview up at JMWW this morning. Thanks @swethaamit.bsky.social :) jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/c...

Glad to have a piece titled Whake watching in @silvercanyonreview.bsky.social thank you @pamavoledo.bsky.social

Wonderful surprise! Thank you editors! 🙏

"Not quite a song. More like a thought she can’t quite let go of." @swethaamit.bsky.social in WestWord westword.substack.com/p/finding-th...

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...

Appeared in a podcast with UK based Oratoria Magaxine! Thank you Amrita for the fabulous questions! Link oratoriamag.substack.com/p/it-is-okay...

A new flash up in September efition of Westword journal! westword.substack.com/p/finding-th...

The B'K Magazine Volume 17, Issue 4 launches on October 1st! It features artwork by Aicha Benali, Ayinde Fatai Abiodun, Mai Keo, and Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel; fiction by: Belle Habs, @swethaamit.bsky.social, and Yi-Jung Chen...

Thank you @joshdale.co @thirtywestph.com for this nomination! Gratitude 🙏 link ti my story thirtywest.substack.com/p/riders-in-...

TW-Afterimages Best of the Net 2027 Nominations @sundresspub.bsky.social Congrats and good luck to all 10 writers! @ascoomer.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social @shomedasgupta.bsky.social @swethaamit.bsky.social

Update. More dropped through the door today. @barbarabyar.bsky.social @tcboudreau.bsky.social

My interview with Beth Winegarner up in @bendinggenres.bsky.social thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🙏 x.com/rgvaughan/st...

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.

A new story titled Karma Coffee up in Revolution John. Thank you editors 🙏 link 👉 revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/s...

“I you are, the tree said, talk-singing through the wire’s whine. I’m here for you, too” beautiful and heartbreaking piece by @patforan.bsky.social

The Shortlist for Sept 11: See what you missed over the summer at Turn & Work: Featuring: Terena Elizabeth Bell @terenabell.bsky.social Huina Zheng Patrick Geraghty Michael Flavin @michaelflavin.bsky.social Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Read 'em here:

Glad to have a flash inspired by my biking earlier this year in @turnandwork.com thank you Hugh 🙏

Just came in the mail. Happy to have my poem included. Thank you editors!

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

My interview with Beth Sherman up in @bendinggenres.bsky.social thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🙏 bendinggenres.com/swetha-amit-...

“The air is warm and dry, carrying the faint sweetness of grapes and dust from the winding roads” from “In a Grapevine ” by @swethaamit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/in-a-grapevi...

I have a new story “Tomatoes and Oil Paintings” in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. grateful to any of you who read this one + @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for giving it a home 🍅 🎨 fracturedlit.com/tomatoes-and...

“Look at her, flying so effortlessly,” he’d tell his friends proudly, noticing me for the first time in months. This #FlashInTheFeed by @swethaamit.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social asks, What would happen if you jumped into a cloud? #archivechallenge mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Thank you, @swethaamit.bsky.social, for these fabulous questions! You helped me articulate (I hope) the vision for this book and the experience of writing it! Q: How did you manage to break the rules? jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/a...

Got interviewed by BBC for 3 mins regarding a flash story about one of my fav songs and what the song meant to me. Listen to this clip from the 6th minute and see my written excerpt. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Gooseberry Pie latest issue is live with work by @ckrich.bsky.social Barry Yedvobnick Lindsay Peliicia @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social @swethaamit.bsky.social Andrea Cavedo @abbywilliams.bsky.social Noreia Rain Tina Barry @iamchrisscott.bsky.social @sandraarnold.bsky.social photo by Guy Biederman

A micro up in issue 45 of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social 🙏 gooseberry-pie.com/in-a-grapevi...

A new flash The croaking season up in @urbanpigspress.bsky.social thank you @markburrow.bsky.social 🙏 urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/08/09/t...

A metamorphosis of the amphibian kind. Swetha Amit kicks off our ‘Transformation’ series of short stories with ‘The Croaking Season.’ @swethaamit.bsky.social urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/08/09/t... #shortstories #writingcommunity

Do check out this short story by Swetha Amit here -- 'The Croaking Season.' urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/08/09/t... It opens @urbanpigspress.bsky.social call out on the theme of 'Transformation.' @swethaamit.bsky.social

Urban Pigs is open for short story subs for its website -- the theme is 'Transformation'. Please check the details / guidelines here urbanpigspress.co.uk/contact/ #writingcommunity Get 'em in!

Three flashes up in A thin slick of anxiety! Thank you Cody 🙏 www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2026/08/fict...

Happy to have my flash story titled Mancala up is Issue 42 of @soflopojo.bsky.social along with so many amazing writers. Thank you @francinewitte.bsky.social 🙏 www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-42-aug...

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...

A new flash up in Whitewall review thank you editors 🙏 whitewallreview.com/firefly-glow/

“We told her she was banished but she still followed!” Terrific story that elicits goosebumps and shivers by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.com/kathrynkulpa

I am one of the panelists for the The Writers Grotto nights where we talk about Flash Fiction: How to Create More With Less if you are in the Bay Area. Do come by. It’s free and open to all. 📅 Tuesday, July 28, 2026 🕕 6:00-7:30 pm 📍 San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, The Page — 1st Floor

www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-7-amit... 'Dear Moon, Please come down for one day, and play with me' @swethaamit.bsky.social's story of childhood hope and magic

Lovely, dreamy flash from @swethaamit.bsky.social . 🌖

"Whenever my mother asked what I wanted for my birthday, I told her, ‘I want the moon.’ I wanted it the way other children wanted bicycles or dolls." by @swethaamit.bsky.social in @neitherfishnorfoul.com - beautiful, delicate, and dreamy www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-7-amit...