Alternating Current Press

Welcome, Mark Jednaszewski @ninjaneerski! We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition of Mark’s SCALES OF THE OUROBOROS, a linked flash-fiction chapbook that has joined our Little Pigeon series! altcurrentpress.com #fiction #books #authorsoftwitter #shortstories #amreading

We're mighty proud to nominate these wee, powerful pieces by Nathan DeBar, James Norcliffe, @shivpreetsingh & Joely Williams to #BestSmallFictions from @altcurrent. They can all be found in the current issue ICYMI thewoolfx.com #flashfiction #prosepoetry

A small but mighty AWP book book haul from #awp26! So much flash! And I can’t wait to read @shastagrant new novel from @RegalHouse1 @altcurrent @eastoverpress @tcboudreau @StanchionZine @TerryTierney14 @UnsolicitedP

Massive congrats to our Best Small Fictions (shoutout @altcurrent) nominees for 2026 | Spencer Nitkey, Cole Beauchamp, Matt Leibel, Joanna Theiss, & Kathy Hoyle <3

Best Small Fictions nominations are open and available here: altcurrentpress.com/best-small-fic…. If you have any problems or questions, please email us at altcurrentpress @ gmail.

...and to conclude the 2026 award season, our @altcurrent Best Small Fictions nominations! Yes, #BSF has a 1000 word max, & Doric Literary has a 1000 word min, but neither is a stickler. Cheers to Diamond @SunshineDees #PatriciaQBidar & #MegPokrass! doric-literary.com/nominations/

@offbeatlit Hi. Sorry for the slow response. We're never on this app anymore. 😬 Not sure why you're getting any kind of under-construction page. Shouldn't be any problem; nothing wrong on this end. BSF is always in the same place and linked in our website menu. altcurrentpress.com/best-small-fic…

@altcurrent ~ Never mind. I found the form (with some difficulty). 🫤

@altcurrent What's up with the Best Small Fictions nominations details? I keep getting "page under construction" which doesn't feel right at this late date. 🤔

BSF @altcurrent Congrats & good luck! * Cutie With... by @VeryBadLlama * I Ran Into Your... by Nora Wagner * On the bright side… by @foreverasheley * Rotting by @jvincentwriter * The Air by @thebluepitcher The Marionette by Ivan Niccolai @ivan_niccolai made 𝐁𝐒𝐅 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓!

My Sweeney Todd-inspired poem "Don't I Know You?" will be appearing in the "How to Hang the Hat" anthology from @altcurrent! Can't wait to share my Sondheim tribute in this cool anthology.

Lots of news, but the biggest may be I won the Luminaire Prose award organised by @altcurrent (same crew behind Best Small Fictions). Hundreds of entries, including published… and Things To Talk To Jim About came out top. I am SO HONOURED and thrilled thecoilmag.com/announcement-o…

Shameless plug to buy a writer’s book on their birthday! Find it @altcurrent

@Gabino_Iglesias It's my birthday, so help me celebrate by purchasing my collection of flash fiction! @altcurrent amazon.com/Hollows-Tommy-…

Very excited to be in conversation about SQUIMBOP with the great Matthew Specktor in LA this coming Tues -- we started the conversation several years ago, w/r/t DODGE CITY 2: @LAReviewofBooks @northfigbooks @SouthwestReview @altcurrent @1111Press lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-my…

Thirty West is happy to welcome Ben Tanzer to the TW family. HUMAN NOISE, a literary short story collection, will see publication in the winter of 2027. @BenTanzer

David Leo Rice on his new novel in conversation with Raphael Helfand: "Another thing that interests me a lot are characters who are in a position of needing to accept as real something that they don’t fully believe is real, because it’s that or nothing." lareviewofbooks.org/article/im-gon…

Thrilled to chat with Alexis Barton about editing Pamela Painter’s “The Lesson of Flash Floods” for @ChestnutReview—later selected for Best Small Fictions 2025 @altcurrent. As an editor, this recognition means a lot. Read the interview here (free): patreon.com/posts/intervie…

Thanks so much to my wonderful publisher @SouthernmostQu1 and @altcurrent and recent work in @McNeeseReview @13BridgesReview @MuleskinnerJou1 @fishbarrelrev @BendingGenres @GIGANTICsequins

Today's Friday Five: some selections from @altcurrent's 2025 Best Small Fictions, featuring work originally published in @FracturedLit @GhostParachute @dishsoapquart @StanchionZine & @WitcraftDoug andrewcareaga.com/2025/05/30/fri… #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #MicroFiction

Among the 110 pieces in the annual @altcurrent Best Small Fictions series is "She is There" by @ucirvine criminology, law & society Assistant Professor @_waldo_was_here. It narrates one of his mother's dreams of freedom from enslavement as a child. altcurrentpress.com/best-small-fic…

Congratulation to Wangui wa Kamonji @_fromtheroots ! Her flash fiction "Memory/I send myself" was selected by Alternating Current Press @altcurrent for publication in "Best Small Fictions 2025." thedecolonialpassage.net/2024/05/18/mem…