Welcome to Hot Flash Literary
Hot Flash Literary is an online journal of flash whose mission is to give women-identifying writers a voice; specifically, it’s a place for women’s voices to ignite. Like an ember.
Issues are loosely themed, with the themes meant to inspire but not constrain.
Meet the Editors
Tina Carlson (she/her) is a New Mexico poet. She grew up in the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains and spent her childhood playing in dirt and climbing trees. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Ground, Wind, This Body (UNM Press, 2017); We Are Meant to Carry Water (3: A Taos Press, 2019), a collaboration with two other NM poets; and A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery (UNM Press, 2023), which won first place in the NM/AZ book award for poetry. Her chapbook, Obsidian, was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2024. Her essay “Mothers and Manta Rays” won second place in the 2025 Tucson Literary Book Festival’s prize for nonfiction, and her flash piece, “Jackie Is Off Her Meds Again,” was nominated for Best of the Net 2024 by the Ilanot Review. She is also an editor of the online journal Unbroken.
Jessica Klimesh (she/her) is a writer and writing coach currently living in the Midwest. Her flash fiction has been published in dozens of journals, including Fractured Lit, Milk Candy Review, Ghost Parachute, Gone Lawn, Gooseberry Pie, and Cleaver, among others, and she recently won second place in Flash Frog‘s 2026 Blue Frog flash fiction contest. Additionally, her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, and was selected for Best Microfiction 2025 and Best of the Net 2025. Find a full list of her publications here, and learn more about her coaching services here. Jessica periodically pens her ponderings of the writing life on her Substack, JEK Writes.
