First acceptance of 2026 is from @bendinggenres.bsky.social my thanks to @rgvaughan.bsky.social and all the team! I wanted to write something quirky, fun and genre bending and BG was the first and only pub to which I sent it. So grateful it found the perfect home!

Was traveling blissfully free of internet and missed the pub date of this. Thanks @thecitronreview.bsky.social for including me in an issue with such fantastic other writers! citronreview.com/2025/12/22/t...

Grianstad an Gheimhridh: luí na gréine taobh thiar de Chruach na Caoile

A thread for 2025's publications with thanks to the editors who gave me the opportunity to share my words with the world. Forever grateful 🫶

✨A new episode has arrived!✨ Where does the Time Pirate go on a Friday night? Why, her favorite place, of course! Watch ‘Episode 3: Le Buffle of ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ to find out more. 🕰️ youtu.be/i8sXqjaTDJo #thetimepiratewhowaitsashore

Delighted to have a short story entitled 'Pretty is Pain' forthcoming in Issue 4 of @frazzledlit.bsky.social

Excited to receive an acceptance from BULL. My thanks to Ben and the editors.

I have a book coming out very soon - www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Delighted that my story 'Hullabaloo!' won Irish Country Magazine's short story competition. It's available in newsagents and supermarkets nationwide from today throughout December.

The November 2025 issue of Ghost Parachute is here! tinyurl.com/bdvtr9bx

new on our mainpage: THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 (selecting editor @samanito.bsky.social )

Our June newsletter is live. As well as sub opportunities and a quirky fontastic writing prompt, we celebrate new publications from Trash Family. @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @catherineobrien.bsky.social Get stuck in 🦝 trashcatlit.com/2025/06/18/j... 🧵1/2

Thrilled to be part of the Flood this year 🛶

Here's my latest in Ghost Parachute tinyurl.com/yx6c88w7

Ive joined the other hopefuls @bathflashaward.bsky.social

Here's my latest in Ghost Parachute tinyurl.com/yx6c88w7

This is still one of my favorite things I've written. It definitely has my Musgrovian vibe. 💙 malarkeybooks.com/fiction/woul...

"It’s hard to make shards of all the memories though, to sift through the rubble is to decide to keep some of it, some of him" Great piece of flash from @catherineobrien.bsky.social that plots such a clever journey from beginning to end

Read "Read "Not every man but her man" written by @catherineobrien.bsky.social and illustrated by @courtneyb77.bsky.social. "Monday leans into mercy. Tuesday is tender enough for tears." tinyurl.com/yx6c88w7

The June 2025 Issue of Ghost Parachute is here! Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/5efx8pwj

“Today I am a frenzy of misaligned energies. Today I am the foot traffic you wanted to trample all over your hidden sites.” @catherineobrien.bsky.social in @eunoiareview.bsky.social eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/t...

Bouncing and spinning around! Thrilled to receive an acceptance from the wonderful Ghost Parachute Thank you so much to the editors!

My flash 'A Firefly Teaches Me How to Dance' will enter the flood @natflashfictionday.bsky.social at 09.50am on June 14th 2025. Thank you to the editors! Thrilled to be swimming!

Thrilled to be a part of the Flood this year with a flash entitled 'A Firefly Teaches Me How to Dance'.

"His is an enlarged heart untrammelled by human concerns. Hers is a rose that fervently wishes it held less bloodied thorns." @abairrud2021 mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Delighted to receive a poetry acceptance from @eunoiareview.bsky.social

My latest publication in @frazzledlit.bsky.social Cannot wait to check out all of Issue 2. www.frazzledlit.com/p/poetry-by-...

Live on Sunday! A Sizzling Spring Warmer just in time for the sun! Cover reveal! Fiona Scarlett Geraldine Walsh Michelle Li @catherineobrien.bsky.social @clairemtaylor.com Tracie Adams @jamesgwriter.bsky.social @daraghfleming.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled to received a poetry acceptance from the wonderful team @frazzledlit.bsky.social

Ríméadach go mbeidh dán de mo chuid i nduanaire Washing Windows V @arlenhouse.bsky.social go luath. Delighted to have a poem forthcoming in Washing Windows V. Preorders are available from @booksupstairs.bsky.social

Hello all! Please check out my latest story published today in Flash Fiction Magazine flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2024/12...

Hello all! Please check out my latest story published today in Flash Fiction Magazine flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2024/12...

Delighted to have a micro in @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social today with many writing friends leonliteraryreview.com/issue-28-cat...

Delighted to have a micro in @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social today with many writing friends leonliteraryreview.com/issue-28-cat...

Hi all 👋 Here is one of my recent CNF pieces that luckily found a great home @xraylitmag.bsky.social t.co/X1rAz9q9ot

If you're part of the writing community, could you please holla and RT so we can find each other? I want to build up what we once had on Twitter (but better) #writers #writing

"Outside a note that isn’t musical egresses a calligraphy-inspired beak. Inside I am unspooling while standing barefoot on a hardwood floor." from "The Topography of New Territory," Catherine O'Brien @bendinggenres.bsky.social. @catherineobrien.bsky.social #writer bendinggenres.com/the-topograp...

Hello, everyone! Here's my latest @bendinggenres.bsky.social It would be a bright burst of sunshine if you could find the time to give it a read. t.co/QtfCAFKX9Q

“At the bottom of a starless alley, in the mellow light of a bar lounge perched atop a mahogany stool, there is a songstress sporting a room-temperature smile. Outwardly, there is little evidence of the dark clouds...” – Catherine O’Brien, Bending Genres #FlashFiction bendinggenres.com/songstress/

"His voice was the fullness and domineering weight of a double bass." So many brilliant details in this piece by @catherineobrien.bsky.social! Thanks so much for sharing @samrasnake.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Catherine O’Brien. Enjoy. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/blog/

"He is as lonely as an out-of-stock shelf tag." So many perfect lines in these pieces by @catherineobrien.bsky.social in Flash Boulevard @francinewitte.bsky.social 💙💙💙 flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/c...

My newest flash fiction "There Goes the Neighborhood" is now live! Includes a recording and a wonderful illustration. therazormag.com/articles/the...

"the water of the world’s womb belatedly absorbing one half back into the ether." This is sublime. Every drop, Avra!

"He felt a loathing unspool itself. Kindness has a fragile viscosity that is strengthened should one manage to be tender and lachrymose. Such niceties are rarely extended to ghosts."

Hi friends! I have a spooky story out in Firewords' latest issue. Check it out! t.co/pYnCZaTMXP

Hello there, fellow blue sky seekers! Walrussey, my debut pamphlet, is a collection of poems about the climate crisis and its effect on our marine ecosystems. You can purchase a copy from The Black Cat Poetry Press here: www.blackcatpress.co.uk/product-page...

I have been neglecting this platform but that is about to change. Many nice writing friends have migrated here and I can see why.

It's oh so quiet over here. I wish I had some exciting writing news but all I have is an embryonic idea for a flash.

A new poem from me - is that what you want? Dán nua uaim atá uait? Ceannaigh an t-eagrán is déanaí d’iris Comhar agus gheobhaidh do chroí a mhian.