Travis Flatt

Travis Flatt

@travisflatt.bsky.social

Writer. Recent Words in MonkeyBicycle, Fictive Dream, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, SmokeLong Quarterly, others…see—> https://travisflattblog.com/

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Travis Flatt
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This is going to be fun! Come hang out with us. I think there’s a good representation of the chapbook publishing experience for those curious, or who just want to talk about it.

The Village with All of the Flash Writers@heyflashvillage.bsky.social

We are excited to talk to writers who've recently published collections/chapbooks. Nov 8, 5pm NYC. Join us as we talk to Christina Tudor, Beth Sherman, @travisflatt.bsky.social, @aniking.bsky.social, and @marioaliberto3.bsky.social. Zoom link in The Village. smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/publis...

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Travis Flatt
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This is a huge honor! Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social and Ghost Parachute! 🙂🙂🙂👻

Brett Pribble@brettpribble.bsky.social

Congratulations to Ghost Parachute's 2026 Best Small Fictions nominees: @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, @chelseahannac.bsky.social, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, @travisflatt.bsky.social, and @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social.

Travis Flatt
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(pt.1) Online Release Reading for Such Late Night Radio by Travis Flatt (Bottlecap Press) September 19 at 6pm EST feat. Coleman Bigelow Linda M. Bayley Elissa Field Dawn Tasaka Steffler Mario Aliberto Liz Rosen Beth Sherman This will be live on ZOOM . bottlecap.press/products/suc...

bottlecap.pressSuch Late Night Radio, by Travis FlattProse, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Such Late Night Radio is a collection of flash fiction stories that delve into the odd. The weirdness that drifts somewhere beyond your bedtime. Tha...
Travis Flatt
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This Saturday 9/19, we got Dawn Tasaka Steffler , Coleman Bigelow, Elissa Field , Beth Sherman , Mario Aliberto III, James Smith, Linda M Bayley, Liz Rosen , & me reading at 6pm EST for my chapbook release ! DM for the Zoom link ! Such Late Night Radio (Bottlecap Press)

Travis Flatt
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I’ve been looking forward to this going online! Fictive Dream is a dream journal. Thanks for believing in me.

Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social

"Each time he ascends from the water he glistens, stands a moment on the concrete, sparkling." The Pool Boy by Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please follow the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/09/04/t...

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Travis Flatt
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(pt.2) Such Late Night Radio is my June 2026 chapbook. Events have kept me from properly release/launching until now. It's a slipstream chapbook about sensual sentient swimming pools and grocery store battlefields. Be excited for these readers! Zoom link coming soon. Keep an eye out.

Travis Flatt
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(pt.1) Online Release Reading for Such Late Night Radio by Travis Flatt (Bottlecap Press) September 19 at 6pm EST feat. Coleman Bigelow Linda M. Bayley Elissa Field Dawn Tasaka Steffler Mario Aliberto Liz Rosen Beth Sherman This will be live on ZOOM . bottlecap.press/products/suc...

bottlecap.pressSuch Late Night Radio, by Travis FlattProse, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Such Late Night Radio is a collection of flash fiction stories that delve into the odd. The weirdness that drifts somewhere beyond your bedtime. Tha...
Travis Flatt
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Savage & unforgettable imagery/mood in “Everything Is Fine and no one is drowning” by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social iss 27 “it never submerged us, never clatched at our ankle, never swallowed us” @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge newflashfiction.com/everything-i...

newflashfiction.comEverything is Fine and no one is Drowning by Tommy DeanThey came for us on a goddamn Tuesday. Our streets were underwater. An epic flood that led them to us on black boats, lights flashing sirens silent to respect the dead.
Travis Flatt
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My brother's new CNF flash is up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social check it out. I know these people. Funny and sad. Good stuff. "I see where I might have lost you. I see our ghosts; I’d like to say goodbye to them. I cannot kiss a ghost, but I can kiss you if you let me." "The Weather" by Lucas Flatt

MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social

"If there’s no ghosts, then I don’t have a mother or a father & probably I’m going next. But not tonight, tornado. Come what may, I’ll cover my family with my big body & I’ll shout, 'Everything will be all right' & they’ll hear in my voice I mean it." - Lucas Flatt mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Travis Flatt
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Gorgeous in message, imagery, rhythm. "Once, You Were Asked to Count the Hummingbirds" @joelhans.com @nffr.bsky.social #31 "Pick the poor thing up and roll it around in the tips of your silvery hands." @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge newflashfiction.com/once-you-wer...

newflashfiction.comOnce, You Were Asked to Count the Hummingbirds by Joel Hans | Issue #31And now you should say goodbye to the ones you love. Loop a pair of clouded binoculars around your neck. Pack a peanut butter sandwich and a rusty apple and a bottomless bottle of water.
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From @nffr.bsky.social iss #35 , a master class in writing an issue with grace and courage. “After” by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social “By day, the vines cheetah, the children and ghosts giggling, safe in tendrils.” @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge. newflashfiction.com/after-by-cla...

newflashfiction.comAfter by Claudia Monpere | Issue #35and after and after and nothing changes, just the names of the children. This one drew birds wearing hats. That one had an orange juice popsicle for an imaginary friend.
Travis Flatt
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Hey #flashfiction folks. Or writing friends in the UK. Particularly Scotland -- I'm going to Edinburgh for a few weeks this winter. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for writerly stuff to check out/do ? I'll ask this again closer to time. Just trying to plan my trip.

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him)
@mattjakubowski.bsky.social

So nice to see my chapbook, Ghost in the Rain, in this chapbook roundup with phenomenal writers @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social and @travisflatt.bsky.social too! ✨✨✨

Philly Chapbook Review@phillychapbook.bsky.social

Check out our round-up of #prose #chapbooks published in June 2026 by @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social, @ikeproject.bsky.social, @yesyesbooks.bsky.social & Bottlecap Press. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/prose-chapbo...

phillychapbookreview.orgProse Chapbooks (June 2026)Check out our round-up of poetry chapbooks published in June 2026 by Sand and Gravel Press, IKE: A Publishing Project, YesYes Books & Bottlecap Press.
Travis Flatt
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Wonderful. This one sat heavily on my chest, @rgvaughan.bsky.social

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social

FlashFlood: 'Wrestling with Genetics' by Robert Vaughan #nffd2026

dlvr.it'Wrestling with Genetics' by Robert VaughanThe sports gene I get from my dead father. He returns to me now as a scent. Water-logged leaves. He’s the tetherball attached to my pole, the flying trapeze of my soul. He runs a bar tab higher than a cloud then turns to me and says let’s hit the road, son. And when I argue with him about the keys, he says that’s a bunch of horseshit. But then I bluff: I can see his ailing pickled heart sitting in a laboratory glass jar on a top shelf too high to reach. I wrestle him to the ground, grab the keys, load Dad into the back seat. And for once, just this time, he won’t barrel down a back road at one hundred miles an hour, straight into the side of a quarrelsome train. --- Robert Vaughan is the author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. He is also the EIC of Bending Genres.  

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National Flash Fiction Day
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FlashFlood: 'Unerasable' by Tracie Adams #nffd2026

dlvr.it'Unerasable' by Tracie AdamsWe were toddlers in waist-high snow. She was inches taller—babbling, pointing, teaching me to trace the first letter of my name in white powder, collecting the extra in cups. We added cream and spoonfuls of white sugar, stirred in vanilla, then gobbled our names with spoons. Yum, she rubbed my tummy—aren’t our names delicious. We were baby bears, climbing trees in our backyard, sneaking Dad’s pocketknife to carve our names in the bark. We were dreamers under starry skies, their names—Arturus, Polaris, Vega—tumbled around our mouths with braces and sour candy and big plans to change the world.  We grew apart after Mom died, moved to opposite coasts. I wrote our names in the sand, tagged her in my post. Too busy changing the world, she didn’t even comment. By morning, the tide had carried it away. That night, I wrote in my journal how the days so easily forget about the years.  We were unprepared when the call came. Dad named her executor, put me in charge of burial. Lying on the thrifted oriental rug Dad had claimed was worth thousands, we scrolled through his phone, laughing at his ALL-CAPS messages to us and crying at our lack of replies. I don’t remember whose idea it was first. We were adventurers again, the dynamic duo armed with fat black sharpies from the kitchen junk drawer. We stopped at every gas station, any bathroom with a door we could lock behind us. Call Dad, we scribbled under his number.  For years, we traded that phone back and forth, taking turns answering when his name lit up. Teenagers, night-shift nurses, drunks, divorcés. We answered every call, every text. Sometimes it was just me calling her to say goodnight or her texting me good morning in ALL CAPS.  --- Tracie Adams, author of two memoirs, Our Lives in Pieces and Not Finished Yet, has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of Net, and Best Microfiction. Her work is published in Pithead Chapel, Stanchion, Fictive Dream, Cleaver Magazine, and more. Find her at tracieadamswrites.com and on X @1funnyfarmAdams.  
Travis Flatt
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"The effect of waiting on the passage of time should be studied." That's a really damn profound line. Nice. Excellent, expansive flash from @fionamckay.bsky.social

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social

FlashFlood: 'A Brief History of Atomic Time' by Fiona McKay #nffd2026

dlvr.it'A Brief History of Atomic Time' by Fiona McKayIn the staffroom, Kate plugs in a fan which swings from side to side, moving the stale air around. Beside her, a physics textbook is open, and she reads – An atomic second is defined as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a caesium-133 atom. There is an orange on her desk and she peels it, inhales the bright, sweet scent. She reads about the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of this atom. She is in transition between breaktime supervision and her final year French students. This atom must be at rest, at zero degrees Kelvin. Her foot taps as she refreshes her email; refreshes again. There are sixty seconds in one earth minute. Sixty of those in an hour. Twenty four hours in a full spin of the globe. One hundred and sixty eight (she imagines this in the voice of a darts commentator) hours in the space between one weekend and the next. Between an interview, and a possibility. The orange drips juice and her fingers are sticky on her phone as she calculates the number of seconds in a week. The app refuses to multiply the 604,800 seconds by the oscillations she’d read in the textbook. She agrees. Whatever it is, it’s too many to contemplate. She feels every single oscillation. Balances the needs of her students, and her desire for a promotion. Other factors: what her ex will have to say about it; are her children happy; does she need to worry about her pension or will the world have ended? She goes back and forth. The effect of waiting on the passage of time should be studied. Maybe it has been, she doesn’t know. Maybe it becomes quantum time. An oscillation of a caesium-133 atom, under observation, approaches infinity. She checks her email again. --- Fiona McKay is the author of the novellas-in-flash, The Lives of the Dead and The Top Road, and the collection Drawn and Quartered. Her flash fiction is in The Forge, Gone Lawn, Ghost Parachute, trampset, Peatsmoke, Fractured Lit and others. She lives in Dublin.  
Travis Flatt
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A knockout in so few words. Just what you'd expect from Sarah Freligh.

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social

FlashFlood: 'Lipstick' by Sarah Freligh #nffd2026

dlvr.it'Lipstick' by Sarah FrelighWe learned to paint our mouths kissable, but were taught not to. By the parish priest, by our mothers, by Seventeen magazine. Never on the first date, never more than one boy at a time, never below the neck. We practiced on the mirror and at slumber parties. When boys scratched on the window, we giggled and shivered. Only Lana slipped out, came back smeared and tight-lipped, full up with stories she wouldn’t tell us. At school on Monday, we lipsticked the mirror in the third-floor girl’s room: LANA SUCKS. Later we all learned. Later we all did it. --- Sarah Freligh is the author of eight books, including HEREAFTER, winner of the 2024 Bath Novella-in-Flash contest, and OTHER EMERGENCIES (Moon City Press, 2025). 'Lipstick' was first published in 100-Word Story in 2021.
Travis Flatt
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"When the black sun rises, burn down your childhood home." There's always something--or multiple somethings--that make me say "whoa" in an Elena Zhang flash. 😮

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social

FlashFlood: 'Swimming Lesson' by Elena Zhang #nffd2026

dlvr.it'Swimming Lesson' by Elena ZhangImagine you are a fern. Imagine you bloom a flower. Dip your eyes into the river during the white night. When the black sun rises, burn down your childhood home. The whole town will worship you as you dance laps around the bonfire. Kick your legs and forget the one who gave you eyes. Did you hold your breath? Please, tell me. Who are you? --- Elena Zhang is a Chinese American writer and mother living in Chicago. Her work can be found in HAD, Wigleaf, and X-R-A-Y, among other publications. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, and was selected for Best Microfiction 2024, 2025, and 2026.  
Travis Flatt
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Gorgeous flash. You are just *there* for a few paragraphs. Great, great, great.

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social

FlashFlood: 'Nothing Bad Happens' by Emily Rinkema #nffd2026

dlvr.it'Nothing Bad Happens' by Emily RinkemaThe girls dance in the road outside a party after midnight at a boy’s house, a boy whose parents are away, whose parents are visiting another child at college and have no idea there are kegs in their kitchen and bongs on their porch. There’s an ice storm, and the girls are a little bit high and a lot bit drunk on tequila, dancing here in a quiet road a few miles from the center of town, and they can see a long way in one direction and only a little way in the other, where the road turns into the woods.  But there are no cars coming, not yet, not now, not in this storm, so they hold hands, partly to keep themselves upright on the ice, but mostly because they are the kind of best friends who drape over each other in chairs, who sleep entwined in each other’s beds, who wear each other’s socks and admit to each other fears they haven’t even admitted to themselves.  They slide to the right on the ice and then to the left and start singing a song they learned when they were in camp together, back before boys and cars and storms and tequila and mothers who waited up on stormy nights worried about things that make headlines. The girls know all the lyrics to the song still and they feel each word in their chests, in their cheeks, in their bellies, on their scalps, and they keep singing, even when they fall, even as they lie on their backs in the center of the road, laughing, still holding hands, and they can’t hear the party anymore and they can’t hear the ice-on-ice of the falling sleet and they can’t hear anything over the sound of each other’s laughter. --- Emily Rinkema lives in Vermont. She recently has stories in Cleaver, Vestal Review, Milk Candy Review, and Wigleaf, and in Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. You can read more at https://www.emilyrinkema.com/ or follow her on X, BS, or IG (@emilyrinkema).  
Travis Flatt
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I am thrilled to say, Such Late Night Radio, is now available with the wonderful Bottlecap Press! These are some of my weirdest stories, and some dearest to me. 🙂🛸🧛‍♂️🤖 bottlecap.press/collections/...

bottlecap.pressSuch Late Night Radio, by Travis FlattProse, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Such Late Night Radio is a collection of flash fiction stories that delve into the odd. The weirdness that drifts somewhere beyond your bedtime. Tha...

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Turn and Work (Hugh)
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The Shortlist for Good Friday 2026: An extra helping of links to great short fiction from: Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social in Turn & Work Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social and Adam Straus in @theforge.bsky.social K. A. Polzin @k-a-polzin.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review

turnandwork.comThe Shortlist for April 2, 2026 - Turn and WorkFiction from from Travis Flatt, Chris Scott, K.A. Polzin, Aylyen, Adam Straus, Mariana Enriquez, George Singleton, and Caitlin Campbell.
Travis Flatt
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Proud and excited to have my new flash out in Bluestem with so many fantastic authors. 😊

Bluestem@bluestemmag.bsky.social

Poems by Sean Thomas Dougherty, Daniel Lurie, Fran Qi, Diane Glancy and many others. Fiction from John Milas, Thuận An, TJ Martinson and more.

Travis Flatt
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Excited to see my weird adventure up at The Bulb Region!!

The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social

“When the rebellion began, the sections fought together—us, Frozen Foods, Produce, etc. […]” Don’t miss Travis Flatt’s (@travisflatt.bsky.social) unique pressure cooker of a story, “Day Five of the Battle of Publix,” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Day-Five-of-...

bulbregion.comDay Five of the Battle of Publix, by Travis Flatt — The Bulb RegionDay Five of the Battle of Publix — Travis Flatt THE ONCE MIGHTY CAVALRY of Frozen...
Travis Flatt
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Thankful, overjoyed, stunned… I could go on… to be selected second place for this year’s Smokelong Workshop Prize among so many awesome finalists.

SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social

The results of this year's SmokeLong Workshop Prize are finally here! We have 11 wonderful finalists. And (drumroll): Third Prize winner: @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social Second Prize: @travisflatt.bsky.social First Prize: @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social ⭐ www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

smokelong.comThe SmokeLong Workshop Prize — Finalists and Winners! - SmokeLong QuarterlyWe’re behind. We know! The problem with The SmokeLong Workshop Prize competition is that the stories are all good. Choosing winners is like choosing a favorite child. This is famously bad parenting. B...
Travis Flatt
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Hooray!! This is a good, good day. Many hoorays for us! (The fellows, not a royal us.) I'm so happy and thankful to @smokelong.bsky.social for this honor, and to be amongst this company!

SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social

Help us welcome our 2026 Emerging Writer Fellows! We're so excited to work with these five talented writers for the next six months! www.smokelong.com/meet-the-202...

smokelong.comMeet the 2026 SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellows! - SmokeLong QuarterlyThis year from January to June we are thrilled to provide The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship to five talented writers. Each of these writers will receive feedback from three senior SmokeLong edi...
Travis Flatt
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“Do you have a [hot face]?” So many things about this story made me smile in a whoa kind of way. Well done, @mattkendrick.bsky.social !

Claudia Monpere@claudiamonpere.bsky.social

" When I have the [drop of blood] [haircut], I have to insert the medical [chopstick] also provided by the 3D [printer] then scan the [zebra] [rectangle] to upload the [bar chart] [bullseye] onto my [laptop]" Absolutely brilliant @mattkendrick.bsky.social citronreview.com/2025/12/22/e...

citronreview.comEfficiency measuresby Matt Kendrick   It’s [sunrise through mist] and I’m sitting with [old woman] in the [kitchen]. My [laptop] is open on the [table] in front of me. [Old woman] is scratching the yellowing [na…

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Claudia Monpere
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social

I'm thrilled my CNF "Potato Boy" is up @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Fun to take the accompanying photo in my granddaughter's doll house. Many thanks to EIC Olga Katsovskiy @theweightofaletter.bsky.social & the lovely @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/c... #flashfiction

jmwwblog.wordpress.comCreative Nonfiction: Potato Boy by Claudia MonpereMy first boyfriend poured huge piles of dirt on his living room floor. The house was a tiny rental— flaked, chipped paint.

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Mario Aliberto 3
@marioaliberto3.bsky.social

Come hang out and celebrate @travisflatt.bsky.social!

Sand and Gravel Chapbooks@sandandgravelpress.bsky.social

www.sandandgravelpress.com/interviews Interview with @travisflatt.bsky.social up! November 2nd release party over zoom (link on website) featuring @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @cbigs.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social and Lucas Flatt.

sandandgravelpress.comInterviews — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS