Multitudes contained: ✅Wild West Fan Fic ✅Grief Porn ... ❓ What's next for this talented author?

I just made my second @notquitewrite.com shortlist! I’m absolutely drinking in The Joy 🥳🎉 I can’t wait to see what’s in store for next year. Hopefully I unearth more of those multitudes I apparently contain! Thank you, 5x over @notquitewrite.com ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I made some new personal bests in @twistinthetale.bsky.social I placed 3rd in Round 1 and managed to stay on the leaderboard by placing 5th overall! 🏆🎉 Congrats to all the familiar names on the leaderboard 🥳

I am happy to share that I received an Honourable Mention in the latest issue of Elegant Literature, “Charmed and Chained.” If you’d like to check out the full issue, you can read it here: www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/

The Cold Burns by Anne Wilkins clarkesworldmagazine.com/wilkins_12_25/ Big, big news!!! It's here! My sci-fi story, "The Cold Burns" is out in Clarkesworld. This is a dream come true for me. I hope you enjoy reading it!☺️ @clarkesworldmagazine.com

Sometimes it's: "I will write about you" (promise) But more often it's: "I will write about you" (threat)

Always an honour to make that sweet, sweet longlist! Thanks to @notquitewrite.com for the shoutouts for my take on the prompt and my reference to that big ol' shoe in Tully — The Golden Gumboot. What a way to end the anti-prompt era! 🥰

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

Gobsmacked that I’ve placed first in BOTH rounds, and now I’m off to the finals! 🏆 Francois Gilot was a glorious woman who pioneered her art career despite years of abuse. She died only recently in 2023, aged 101. 🎨

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria

I have a micro published today! I wrote this almost a year ago and forgot about it. It felt fitting to dust it off and find it a home 💛 #101words 101words.org/hand-me-down...

An incredible article👇 “Easier to flag "telling" than ask if the prose actually works. Some of the best fiction ever written is mostly telling. Voice-driven, consciousness-centered, interiority-obsessed. ”Show don't tell" avoids the real difficulty- writing mind, writing precision.”

Love a good critical thought on punctuation.

Although I’m gleefully rubbing my hands together like a fly at getting historical fiction as my assigned genre, I see a lot of scarily talented names also in my group. Might be the end of the road for me 🫡

First place, baby! 🏆 I’m stoked to get another group win with my bittersweet ghost story “Living, Baby!”

Senior book editor @KateWhitfield.bsky.social on the rise of romantasy. Read more: buff.ly/j4ygSMk

Managed to crack the top 10 for the first time in @twistinthetale.bsky.social for my third round story “Are You a Parking Ticket?”, which got a clean sweep of ’most heartfelt‘ trophies, amongst others. ❤️ Also clawed my way onto the final leaderboard—20th overall! 🥳 #twistedtournament

A story I wrote a while back for @twistinthetale.bsky.social is now published over a gorgeous three page spread in Juniper Zine! “A Well-Travelled Gardener’s Guide to Native Australian Flowers” is a subtexty 300 word story that got me lost in 1800s floriography archives to pull it all off. 🌸🌼

My story "Bodega Cats" made that sweet, sweet longlist! Thank you @twistinthetale.bsky.social for liking my little story about Muffin the pickpocketing cat 😸

Today another person called my writing "delicious". I might have to trademark the phrase.

Can confirm. #librarians #booksky

Film criticism is an environment where straight, white, cisgender, and male voices have dominated for over a century. Now we FINALLY have an influx of diverse voices who offer more context, expertise and analysis! And now, of course, people say critics are worthless now. What a fucking coincidence.

So, so good! When we started FFTRP during the 21/22 SY, we were hoping our research efforts would lead us to ruling (or law) that would affirm students’ First Amendment rights. While we expect an appeal, the judge’s 50-page order offers freedom strong footing. www.wuwf.org/florida-news...

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Hello again strangers on the internet, I have a story published in The Page Gallery today. It's a dense little story that was longlisted way back in December's #FuriousFiction and now it has found a home. 🍵 Here's 'Green Tea for the Heart Valleys': pagegalleryjournal.com/july/green-tea

How has 2025 treated you so far?

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My story “Bravo Whisky Papa” has made the #FuriousFiction longlist! 🌟 It was a ‘never meet your heroes’ comedy featuring an Aussie icon— the sentient puppet Healthy Harold 🦒

ICYMI: The Write-In: 'Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)' by Chloe Paige #nffd2025

ICYMI: The Write-In: The Write-In 2025: The Complete List #nffd2025

The Write-In: 'All The Warm Things' by Chloe Paige #nffd2025 thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2025/06/all-...

My micro ‘Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)’ is now published! Thank you @natflashfictionday.bsky.social 💖✈️ thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2025/06/gree...

‘Maybe that’s where we should keep them, all the warm things, the good things. Out there, free.’ ☀️ Thank you to @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for publishing my little two seasons story 🥰 thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2025/06/all-...

Thrilled to make the final leaderboard for @twistinthetale.bsky.social! 🤩 I also managed to take home 20 trophies for my stories: 💫 8x Most Original Take 😂 3x Funniest 📖 3x Best Title 🎨 2x Best Prose 🏆 1x Best Opening Line 🎭 1x Best Last Line 💔 1x Most Heartfelt 😲 1x Most Surprising

This was meant to be my first published story, but in a lovely turn of fate, it’s now my second. 🥹 ‘Godmothers, Godgirls’ is an ode to women working in crisis. Originally written for @twistinthetale.bsky.social, you can now read it here flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/06... #FlashFictionMagazine

I’m on the PODIUM!🥉 Thank you @notquitewrite.com @deankoorey.bsky.social Your deep dive of my story was perfect! The editing and Ed’s dazzling accent took it to another level. I’ll be grovelling and riding this high into the sunset forever. Congrats to the other shortlisters! 🤠🔥 #notquitewriteprize

Laundry day calls for a @holly-realski.bsky.social marathon 🤌

I survived the @notquitewrite.com April bloodbath to make the longlist! I’m honoured to be the first mention of the ‘crazy and impressive ideas’ segment even though I put some very darling darlings on my petrol-fueled chopping block 🔥 #longliveshadowsharon #notquitewriteprize

Channeled all my child of divorce energy into this month’s #FuriousFiction — so I’m happy to say my bittersweet story ‘A Hermit Crab with Two Shells’ has made the longlist! 🌊🦀

Get in loser we’re creating honest sentimental art without a trace of irony and putting a piece of ourselves out into the world

I saw @amiekaufman.bsky.social and Meagan Spooner yesterday about their new book Lady's Knight. Thee were great conversations about queernormative settings and the writing process. A delightful bunch of people 💖🏰

A great article here. Romance in SFF is always an enhancement and the move invites new readers into speculative spaces. It’s also important to note who typically writes and consumes romance—women. Shunning romance readers is a wild disservice to future girls, esp as education funding is being cut.

@akscotland.bsky.social @quitewriteed.bsky.social If I send my apologies to Andy and Sharon now, that means there’s plenty of time to sneak my name on that longlist before you record it… right? 🤠

As of June 10th, I will be a ✨published✨ author! I wrote my 300-word short story ‘Godmothers, Godgirls’ late last year when I started writing flash fiction and now it’s found its forever home in Flash Fiction Magazine. I am so many emotions.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.