The Professional Development Opportunity Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council is open to Maryland residents on a rolling basis, awarding up to $2,000 to individual artists and arts organizations.
https://katherinepickettauthor.com/2025/12/03/ive-been-awarded-an-msac-grant/
Strangers in the Snow (Devon Ellington)
An eclectic group of diner patrons, stranded in a Christmas Eve blizzard, decides to create a found family holiday, to the backdrop of a local radio host’s broadcast
99 cent novelette on mutliple digital channels.
https://books2read.com/u/bMqpoG
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#ThursThreads Week 687 is now LIVE. Come tie on your tale for judge Jacob Summers. What will your 250 words say? #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #Writers #writersCoffeeClub https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-687/
🎄 If your Christmas story leans into the strange, now’s your moment.
Dark Descent is open for Christmas-themed microfiction — 500 words or less.
Moments of festive unease, uncanny traditions, and holiday cheer warped just slightly out of shape.
📖 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkdescentsubmissions
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Open your doors to a wandering soul and listen to their tales. #blog #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #sifaswriting
https://e8thespresso.blogspot.com/2025/12/poem-wanderers-are-always-welcome.html
https://sifasevenwriting.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/poem-wanderers-are-always-welcome/
"Literary Hub: The Publishing Industry is Capricious… Gamble on Yourself"
More rapacious imo
https://lithub.com/the-publishing-industry-is-capricious-gamble-on-yourself/
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 11 How do you keep track of plots and subplots?
Rough outlines, aka as SIfa's Spreadsheets. But those are really rough, as nine times out ten, those are thrown out the window as the story takes shape.
#WordWeavers Day 11: What does your MC think of love?
Jhana has a romanticized version of it before real life becomes a harsh teacher. She stubbornly clings to her idea of a soulmate until she meets Gareth.
Tini understands it intellectually, but she honestly doesn't get the hype around it.
#ScribesAndMakers Day 11: People are often frustrated by the lack of engagement on social media. Do you have any ideas for how to improve it?
Engage with other people yourself. Don't just like, comment. Tell other writers what you like about their writing. Ask questions. Engagement doesn't happen automatically.
At the same time, be discerning about WHO you interact with. Find people you enjoy talking to.
(Source: the hard specter of firsthand experience 😂 )
North: STAR
They're bright in the sky
every #star shines from Heaven
guides all the ships home
South: FRAGRANCE
#fragrance of salt air
strong as the night goes to dawn
pink glow on water
Love found/gone again
He lost his grip/she-her head
Fell for each other
#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Seasons #Autumn #Fall #Winter #December #Snow #Cold #Snowmen @Snowman #Snow #Frost #Love #Loss #Couple #USA #Photography
December 11, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/krishnap...
#steampunk #steampunkart #steampunkgirl #dieselpunk #cyborg #clockwork #brass #gearpunk #gaslampfantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #scifistories #speculativefiction #fantasyfiction #shortstory #writingcommunity #authorsofinstagram #bookstagram #digitalart #characterart
Boiler‑Heart Empress: A Steamp...
A storm is coming on March 17, 2026.
https://www.wakelessriverpress.com/silent-orchard
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Two directors. Two beers. Zero chill. A contentious rivalry between the world's top commercial film directors takes center stage in the humorous novel BEER POUR to determine who will be crowned the BEER KING of advertising. The ensuing villainy entertains. Brewed Rivalries. Tapped Ambitions. #thursday #mastodon #book #books #bookstodon #scribesAndMakers #reading #film #politics #advertising #commercials #writing #fiction #author #writingCommunity #wordweavers #amWriting #satire #humor #funny
Dec 10 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
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her approach found me
bemused befuddled bewitched
left in that order
Eventually
Obsess plus focus drew you
To my influence
It was cow country
Artificial football turf stops
Cheerleaders grazing
Young Prince Charles bewitched
By watching Camillia
Obsess while grazing
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Thursday Spelling Bee #nytspellingbee #spellingbee #nytbee #nytsb #hivemind #Writers #Words #WordGames #Puzzles #Authors #WritingCommunity #writersky #poetrysky #booksky #artsky #creativesky @nytgames.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
The Nameless Voyage.
https://satan-speaks.com/2022/11/the-nameless-voyage/?fsp_sid=36690
The darkness wrapped around them like a warm blanket as the salty water splashed over the boat’s edge; they had […]
Written by Satan & Lee Wilson.
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I just re-read this morning's poem after stepping away from it for a while. It is not as mediocre as I thought it was. It is actually not that bad.
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Poem #WritingCommunity #literature #art #writing
My health improved yesterday as I logged 5,489 words on Expired Reflection.
Those are numbers, milestones, measures of my progress that aid my motivation.
More important is the story. There are a handful of seemingly unrelated threads that are, in truth, all loose strings dangling from the same garment in the dark.
Today, the mystery around one of those threads will deepen.
Be everwell.
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