Dawn Tasaka Steffler
@DawnSteffler
@BathFlashAward winner • @SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellow • @Storyknife1 • @PitheadChapel @mooncityreview @forge_litmag • Wigleaf Top 50 LL • OT7 • cat mom
This morning I woke up to an act of generosity. It's a dream come true to hear that their stories resonate with readers, and I'm honored that @turnandwork has published a feature on some of my recent flash stories. Thank you, Hugh. ❤️ turnandwork.com/.../short-stor…
The water carved its own path, and I moved around it, listening to the songs you sent me, the lyrics heavier now, sharper than when you were still breathing, laughing, hoping. gorgeous prose @melissacuisine @ReckonReview
I lost someone in February. Thanks to @ReckonReview for publishing this piece I wrote in the thick of grief.
In bed that night, I thought about the soft collision. The car and the snow. I thought about my mother's car. All that crushed metal. I thought about the new couches. They were large and pink and you could sink into them with your whole body. Congrats @AFB16 @EL_DIAGRAM
Sharing my @Wigleaf Top 50 longlisted flash #3: “Situation Like This” published by @EL_DIAGRAM 💙 thediagram.com/24_3/bell.html
ICYMI... wildfires, the ninth step of twelve, ghosts of murdered daughters... it's all in here, and more.
Take a look at the newest story collection by @dawnsteffler and then check out all the other great stories in the MPTSP V11 thread ⬇️
😱 I am floored to announce that I won the Baltimore Review flash fiction contest! 💚 baltimorereview.org/summer_2025/co…
It was such a pleasure putting this collection together! Thank you, Mark, for inviting me to the picnic!
Your Mom is Wearing Mermaid Underwear at Dave and Buster’s A collection of stories by Dawn Tasaka Steffler / @dawnsteffler #MythicPicnicTweetStory _______ Crossing the Limen - Limen, noun. A border between one thing and another. See also Threshold. My dad calls and, in…
A little sneak peek at my guest post that drops tomorrow on @MandiraPattnaik’s blog!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
.@jenwithwords 's "Wintering" drops July 05! #craft #essay #writing #writerlife
Miss Jasper next door doesn’t have kids since she never hooked a husband and has to work for AT&T all day saying Number Please with nobody to talk to when she gets home Oh I loved this gossipy one so much! @jeff__harvey in @trampset
"Momma lights a Winston and says Miss Jasper next door doesn’t have kids since she never hooked a husband" @jeff__harvey's "Miss Jasper" trampset.org/miss-jasper-e2…
Gratitude becomes complicated. Your sister is dying. Your sister has been dying. Your sister will die. Some stories you instantly know in your heart why they win all the good things in all the good places. Congrats @maxiejanef.bsky.social in Booth.
I'm beyond thrilled for this flash to find its home with Booth. If you know me, you know the auto fictional quality behind the piece and how much it means to me that Amy Torrens-Harry can read it in its published form. ♥️ booth.butler.edu/2024/01/05/sto…
She held up the new communication board. The sad image was much better than the simple frowny face on the hospital’s board. On this image, the head was tilted, the eyes dark, lamenting planets Patience & empathy, reminding us of our better selves @claudiamonpere @GhostParachute
Read "Stroked" written by @ClaudiaMonpere and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1. tinyurl.com/4wr34tr3
Now I’m actually screaming in the most sacred place: around the baby. Under the baby. Inside the baby’s head for ten, twenty, eighty years until he is an old man and closes his eyes for the last time because that kind of trauma stains Terrific micro @JennyStalter @GhostParachute
Read "Cathedral" written by @JennyStalter and illustrated by @KaylanStedman. tinyurl.com/5n8deywp
you fight me with deep breaths and meditation but I am insidious and claw my way back up through the tendrils of calm that gossamer and melt like cotton candy in water not being eaten by a raccoon Whoa, that's some wild shit! @lumchanmfa in @GhostParachute
Read "When Anxiety Turns You into a Pacman Pellet" written by @lumchanmfa and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/4rmzt6ez
The July 2025 issue is here! Cover illustrated by @GirlGoneQuiet. tinyurl.com/3ve3ey6e
Fun story up in @GhostParachute. I conjured memories of watching Korean zombie movies with my niece for this one! Thanks to @brettpribble and to my awesome friend @amybookwhisper1 for creating perfect, quirky collage art even when she was on vacation. tr.ee/you-were-suppo…
some news, as they say:
Please join us in welcoming @saralippmann as Epiphany’s new Editor-in-Chief! A longtime teacher, editor, writer, and literary co-conspirator, Sara shares our love for collective work and championing original voices. As she says: “We are better in conversation, in collaboration.”
It had borrowed the eyes of my father. The animal didn’t leave until I recognized him. Hiya dad, I said, and he trotted away. Satisfied. It was the only time I recognized someone who wasn’t fully in his form. This is just gorgeous Sabrina Hicks in @FracturedLit
New Micro Series by Sabrina Hicks! "The house slept while I stayed up stretching, trying to fit my body into this world, knowing something ancient lives inside me and needs to ease into sleep. It worms its way through my bloodstream." fracturedlit.com/coyote-bones-h…
“Often, she looks out the window while buttering her toast, “The wisteria vines are starting to bloom again, David.” @DawnSteffler in JMWW. Thanks for sharing this one, Hema.
Do read this brilliant piece today! @DawnSteffler in JMWW. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/fla…
Subs open 6/30!!
Introducing Claudine: A Literary Magazine! Claudine is a sleek cat, curious, clever, quick. . . just like our prose. 🐈⬛ Monthly mag for micro prose. Free subs. Paying market. Subs open June 30. First issue Sept 1!!
Do read this brilliant piece today! @DawnSteffler in JMWW. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/fla…
Excited to have a new story out in a journal I've been admiring for years. 💜 Thank you so much, JMWW Journal! This is from my linked flash project about a trans teen who is misunderstood by her community. I hope you check it out. tinyurl.com/david-as-toast…
I cannot wait to read this issue!!! Congrats to all the winners and finalists!
The results are in! Please help us congratulate the winners of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025! smokelong.com/the-smokelong-…