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Dreamers Reading Room

Challenge yourself! Here are five literary magazines in Canada that accept flash fiction. Two of them run annual flash fiction/postcard story contests!

Results of the 2022 Dreamers Flash Contest

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Dreamers Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Contest. There were so many incredible stories this year!

Chi and Me

Why ‘play’ Tai-Chi? It is simply joyous to be able to move around and control the body and cycle the energies.

Blame the Bricks

Running along the new brick road. The grout is still young and lovely. My shoes grinding dirt into the grout.

Daring to Dance

Old and young came together, embracing in their triumph, entangled in the throng’s euphoria.

First Home

Guilt-ridden Joshua wanted his father to understand. “I want to be a physicist. Politics are of no interest to me”.

these are not poems

I look back over these “poem a day” entries, I see my life reflected in four to sixteen-line purges.

On Saturday

I briefly had a crush on the doctor who administered my vaccine. It was the elixir of biceps and hope.

The Knowing

I was every fig on every fig tree. Those reckless writers warned the man and the woman not to eat me

Never Forget

Never forget the terrible speed of birds skirting on top of green water. The earth’s rotation unseen through sunglasses.