The Art of Flash Fiction

Inspiring book recommendations, essays, and author interviews from the author of Eve’s Garden and Weaver’s Knot. With a little frisson of Southern cooking on the side.

A Life in Words (and other stuff)

I write about a smorgasbord of subjects, always with a dash of hope. if you love reading about humanity, literature, writing, cinema, video games, and other related and unrelated stuff, let's connect.

I love making up quirky prompts. I have written all of my flash collections from prompts just like them. Paid subscribers have access to my huge prompt archive. Free subscribrs have access to prompts as posted, and they will remain visible for 24 hours.

Thrifting and Writing

How we write is how we live. And how we live is how we write. A dose of creative writing for the soul.

Curating fee-free (AND paying) calls and competitions—plus other resources—for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

On life in an Italian hill town, travel, writing, and books

Follow me on my journey to have more fun in my writing life, searching for those water-coming-out-of-my-nose moments.

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

A newsletter for writers who love (or want to love!) movies.

All-things writing, storytelling, language, sentence-level craft obsession, and general literary goodness.

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

Sustained by grace, Healing with humor

Stories, poems, thoughts & more stories: the Alphabet Soup in my mind just keeps simmering.

Harvesting what really matters in great books. Self-development, psychology, morals and success stories

Free-thinker. Writer. Book editor. I strive to tell the truth to the best of my ability in my writing; I try to be as authentic as I possibly can be. Find more of my published work at: https://www.michaelmohrwriter.com/

My personal Substack

semi cohesive thoughts and essays, writing about writing

Little worlds. Worlds on a postage stamp. A whole universe inside a thimble. One piece of flash fiction I've enjoyed for every day during 2023.

Exploring the process of expanding consciousness and human evolution while living a modern western life

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares thoughts about sports, politics, and popular culture and how they define America.

Writing Flash Fiction

Books & books-adjacent topics, the writing life & taking the long view, leaving the Midwest for L.A. in midlife

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

A monthly newsletter on all things writing by Kathryn Mockler & guests.

Short-story analysis and recommendations

A sociologist writes about stuff.

Posting the occasional poem and the occasional meditation on that poem.

releasing the hoard of stories I have written to spread the story love to readers everywhere.

Admiring, mooning over, loving, and learning to write stunning sentences

you are not an unspectacular thing. arspoeticamail@gmail.com

Your occasional Cari Luna

A monthly article series about the elements of short fiction: ideas for rocket-boosting your writing craft, reading recommendations, and other writing-related ramblings.