Steph Liberatore

✍️ of all things CNF | EIC @InShortLit 📸 | @VCCA Fellow 📚 | Professor @GeorgeMasonU 🧑‍🏫| Mother of👩‍👦| 📝 in @RiverTeeth, @ShortReadsOrg, & elsewhere

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

Been sitting on this news for a while but excited to share that I'll be a #VCCAFellow in December!

I'm having all the mom guilt. But am excited to spend 20 full days focused on my writing, myself.

Thank you, @VCCA.

[Lauren D. Woods @Ladiwoods1]

New piece up with @InShortLit, my favorite new(ish) journal for CNF, doing beautiful work. https://t.co/vmZiCdTlOu

[In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction @InShortLit]

TODAY’S THE DAY! We close for subs at 11:59 pm PST. Get your
✔️Flash cnf (<1,000 words)
✔️Micros (<400)
✔️Short-shorts (<100)

in for free today! More info at https://t.co/G6yNXK7PMc

[In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction @InShortLit]

Congrats to our 2026 Pushcart Prize nominees! 🥳

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

@debfenwrites We’re elated for you, Deb! Thanks again for trusting us with your work and congrats on the nomination 🎉🎉

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

📢 WE’RE IN BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS

Congrats to contributor, @debfenwrites, whose “Escape Route,” from Issue 1 was listed as Notable in Best American Essays ‘25!

Congrats, Deb 🎉🎉 Read it here: https://t.co/8zvmNt3nT4

[In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction @InShortLit]

📢 ONE MONTH left to submit!

We close for submissions on Nov. 30 or whenever we reach our 300-sub cap in each category.

Send us your:
✔️flash cnf (< 1,000 words)
✔️micros (< 400)
✔️short-shorts (< 100)

We can’t wait to read your work 🖤 https://t.co/G6yNXK7hWE

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

@Ladiwoods1 Had such a blast today! Congrats, Lauren, and thanks to everyone who came out 💕

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

@BradyMichelleR That’s nuts! I’m so bummed I missed you but, yes, let’s chat at the next one!

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

@InShortLit Thanks to @andrewbertaina and @Ladiwoods1 for hosting!

[In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction @InShortLit]

Meet the In Short team, part 3!

I’m Steph, the founder & EIC. I started this mag in 2023 and am so grateful to the 56 writers & artists who’ve shared their work with us so far 🖤

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

@InShortLit ✨✨✨

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

@Ladiwoods1 💯

[In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction @InShortLit]

We are so thrilled to announce our 2025 Best of the Net nominations!

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

@Ladiwoods1 2024 was the year of the divorce memoir! ‘You Could Make This Place Beautiful’ by Maggie Smith. ‘This American Ex-Wife’ by @lyzl. And ‘Splinters’ by @lsjamison are terrific.

[In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction @InShortLit]

IT'S HERE! We're open! Send us your flash nonfiction through Nov 30. We can't wait to read your work 🖤

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

@DaveStroup I don’t know why, but I kind of assumed the lawyering/fact-checking went hand in hand. (Though obviously memoir is hard to fact-check.) Just having a lot of feelings about this and am eager to see what the response is…

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

Am spiraling after this NYT article about The Tell, but can someone confirm this about memoir not being fact-checked?

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

@LucasWMann Damn…. I get why, but I have so many thoughts on this article. Waiting to see if there’s a response. If not, maybe I’ll write one? 🤣

[Steph Liberatore @StephLiberatore]

Get your subs ready 🖤

[In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction @InShortLit]

ONE WEEK! Send us your:
✔️Flash cnf (1,000 words or fewer)
✔️Micros (400 or fewer)
✔️Short-shorts (100 or fewer)

Submissions open Sept. 30-Nov. 30.