Tag: flash fiction

Submissions to Whispers and Echoes are now closed

November 22, 2025

The 2025 submission window for both general submissions and submissions written in response to our latest photo prompt are now closed. We have responded to all the emails in our inbox, but if you have yet to receive a response, please do get in touch.

Thank you to everyone who submitted work to us since we re-opened to submissions in June. We will reopen to submissions again in 2026.

Whispers and Echoes Poetry and Flash Fiction Index | October 2025

October 31, 2025

Thank you to everyone who has supported Whispers and Echoes throughout October. Whether you are sharing the words or reading them, it is is deeply appreciated.

Also thank you for the sudden influx of submissions towards the end of the month, both for responses to the photo prompt and general submissions. We now only have a couple of scheduling slots left in November, before we begin scheduling for December. As the photo response closes on the 15th November 2025, I’m thinking that we might close to all submissions for the rest of the year on this date too. The reason is that during the journal’s winter break, I am planning on giving the site a new look…So, if you want to see your work shared on the Whispers and Echoes website this year, please bear that in mind. You can find the Submit page here.

To see what we shared – or what you missed – in October, check out the links below. Enjoy!

Poetry

Flash Fiction

Hello | Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

October 29, 2025

The color is gone, sucked away by despair. The bridge once festooned with bouquets of bougainvillea, hibiscus and sweet smelling gardenia, now lay barren and alone.   

Step, one step onto the previously sturdy bridge, is followed by sounds of snapping and cracking and decay beneath tentative feet. 

This world is gray, desolate, parched by neglect and careless, carefree use. Not use, abuse. The heavy logs lay in ruin beside the swaying walkway. Once they were the sturdy foundation of all that was healthy and beautiful. 

Midway along the trestle, connecting what is with what was I stop, calling out, “Hello?”

Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris lives in Southport, NC. Published in Whisper’s & Echoes, 50 Give or Take, Visual Verse, Spillwords and in Wounds I Healed. Honorable Mentioned in Tales from the Moonlit Path 2021 Halloween Challenge. Gypsie-Ami has recently completed a chapbook merging her poetry and photography titled, Reflection’s of a Woman’s Life.  

https://gypsieswritingmusingsquotesgripes.wordpress.com/

Call for submissions…Photo Prompt – Bridge

October 25, 2025

Whispers and Echoes is currently open to submissions of short poetry and flash fiction inspired by the following photo:

Submission Guidelines:

  • Only poetry and flash fiction inspired by the photo prompt above will be accepted for this call.
  • Our usual submission guidelines apply: flash fiction in 100 words or under and poetry in 10 lines or less.  The full guidelines can be found here. Please read them before submitting.
  • For this call, please submit a maximum of two poems, pieces of flash fiction, or a combination of the two.
  • Please state the following in the subject line: Photo Prompt Bridge– Your Name
  • Submissions open: 25 October 2025
  • Submissions close: 15 November 2025
  • Accepted submissions will be posted on the site from the end of October and into November.
  • Please send your submissions to: deardreamingspirit@gmail.com

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Whispers and Echoes Poetry and Flash Fiction Index | September 2025

September 30, 2025

Thank you to everyone who has supported Whispers and Echoes throughout the month of September. Whether you wrote the words that we read, or read the words that we shared, every submission, view, like and comment is deeply appreciated.

To see what we shared – or what you missed – in September, check out the links below. Enjoy!

Poetry