Nadia Born

Thanks so much, Matt!! ✨✨

"your sister thinks it’s a lame prize, she’d prefer a hello kitty or a pokémon. but you spend your evenings under the neon kaleidoscope of the seaside arcade"

Such a rich and original piece from @nadiaborn.com in @nffr.bsky.social

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Thanks so much, James!! ✨

The claw machine by Nadia Born | Issue #40 now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home. no special instructions.

‘you jimmy the joystick and imagine testing the bath water with your elbow…’

Wonderfully off-kilter story from @nadiaborn.com in @nffr.bsky.social 👶

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The claw machine by Nadia Born | Issue #40 now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home. no special instructions.

"gotta get the angle right, says the arcade manager. it’s just a matter of time, says your mother. maybe try another machine, says your sister."

Big love for this gem by @nadiaborn.com in @nffr.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Ahh thanks so much, Dan!! ✨✨

The claw machine by Nadia Born | Issue #40 now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home. no special instructions.

"the claw machine now offers babies for prizes. limited-edition grow-in-water ones that you can take home."

Read The Claw Machine by @nadiaborn.com in Issue 40 of #NFFR. Wonderfully weird, beautifully written.

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Thrilled to have a story in the latest issue of @nffr.bsky.social! ✨ ⬇️

stunning cover, can’t wait!! ✨

These are just stunning!! ✨✨

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Loved this story - congrats!! ✨

Ahh thank you thank you! ✨

Incredible story 🌨️🌨️🌨️

Ahh thanks so much, Melissa! 💙

🚨‼️💙🐸 LAST DAY ‼️🚨💙🐸

The Blue Frog closes tonight @ 11:59pm PST

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The Memory Swap The request is short, to the point: “Wanted: memory of Mother. Trade for memory of First Kiss. #memoryswap #memoryexchange #mom.”I’m not sure why it catches my attention. I’ve been lurking on the M…

Is it better to remember or forget? How do you ever know? That’s the question posed by “The Memory Swap” by Cressida Roe, one of our final January stories
#writingcommunity #fantasy #amreading
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“&men” was my absolute favorite in @welkinprize.bsky.social’s star-studded shortlist ✨ Go vote your hearts out! ⬇️

Our winter 2026 issue is live! We hope that you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in these pages. A huge thanks to everyone who made this issue possible. baltimorereview.org

Nadia Born: the whiteout Nadia Born writes about girls who are birds, mothers who are ghosts, and other mysteries. She won LitMag’s Anton Chekhov Award, New Letters’ Editor’s Choice Award and Augur Magazine’s…

Yes, the world is on fire. If you need a small break from the madness, read my first story of 2026!

"the whiteout" was selected by @mandrigall.bsky.social as the winner of @baltimorereview.bsky.social's winter flash fiction contest. ❄️✨

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Smoke Signals with Nadia Born - SmokeLong Quarterly First, let me say congratulations. I love “the sentence tree.” I’m a huge linguistics nerd, and when I saw your title in our queue, I was intrigued. Did your micro start out with diagramming sentences...

"...voice, language, imagination." Nadia Born is our featured author this week. Read Melissa Llanes Brownlee's interview with the author at smokelong dot com and then "the sentence tree," a finalist for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Blue flier for the 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction prize. Theme: Family. Guest Judge: Camille U. Adams. Jan 1-31st. $5/story. $700 in prizes.

🚨The 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction contest is now open!!

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Submissions Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is OPEN Night Shades opens sporadically and for indeterminate periods of time. The detai...

night shades is OPEN!

🛸 500 words max, any speculative
🛸 sim subs ok (multiples not)
🛸 quick response and pro+ pay

please read the guidelines!

www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

Ahh thanks so much, Matt!! 🙏

"and she shakes her head what nonsense you young people you can’t tend to a sentence make it grow"

Oh, I love this one from @nadiaborn.com in @smokelong.bsky.social, the way the title (and artwork) works with the piece. A breathless stunner:

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Ahh thanks so much @flashfrog.bsky.social for the nomination!! 🎉🎉

Ahh thanks so much, Emily!! Means a lot coming from you. I was absolutely floored by your recent story “Vagina First” in Bath FF - what a stunner!!

the sentence tree - SmokeLong Quarterly what the devil is a sentence tree baba asks so i show her the diagram the words the branches give me a sentence i’ll show you and she says today’s the fortieth are you coming and i write it out noun v...

Just fell in love with this story by @nadiaborn.com in the new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social

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Ahh thanks for your kind words! I just finished reading your story - what an absolutely gorgeous piece, congratulations!!

This is a brilliant idea, can’t wait to finish reading them all!! 🎉🎉