Enjoy a night in and listen to this week's newest episode of the NoSleep Podcast S24E21 brings you five tales of scary solitudes. Brace yourselves and listen at thenosleeppodcast.com 🎨 @miggea.bsky.social 🎹 @brandonboone.bsky.social

Delighted to have a story on this week’s @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social - exciting! Had a few shortlistings recently - but yay! A breakthrough! It’s Father’s Day here in the UK too, so doubly nice. Maybe the kids will give me 14 minutes later to try and write something else!

Hi! Genuine question I try to make my prose as transparent as possible so as to not ‘get in the way of the story’ I’m not sure that’s right (#amwriting short stories) Any strong arguments one way or the other? I usually only reach about 30 accounts - all help appreciated!

A short while back, I was shortlisted for Cosmic Horror Monthly. Thought to myself, I probably don’t have a proper cosmic piece in the old arsenal. So started writing one but DAMN IT IF MY RATIONAL BRAIN HASN’T MADE IT ABOUT A LONELY OLD MAN AGAIN #AmWriting

I tell people I had a poem published. A proper poem, in a real book. It was about 15 years ago in a Welsh Haiku collection, collated by my late, great poetry tutor Nigel Jenkins. I tell them the poem too: Half-remembered face ahead - a sudden shared interest in cloud formation

Tell you what’s tricky - it’s absolutely right that you read the journals & magazines to which you’re submitting, but, also, you KNOW you’re going to have to submit to a fair few to get picked up. Writing stories is EXPENSIVE dude #writingcommunity

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

This is so, so good

I’ll admit it - I don’t really buy too much physical media anymore - it’s a space thing, but crikey - Just got my first actual Remains journal - what an absolute beaut! #amreading #horrorwriting

Struggling with some edits The in-the-know folk seem to favour a really sparse, almost clinical style. “It’s what editors want” When I read though, I like a bit of decoration here or there. Some fluffy stuff that makes it feel like I know the writer. Normal, right?! Or naive? #amwriting

Came back to horror writing in May - had last dabbled about 15 years ago. Just picked up my second podcast acceptance in two weeks. Absolutely chuffing delighted! #AmWriting

Digging up some old stories with the intention of cutting Nightmare though - bit like when I have a ‘little bit’ of the cake I’ve told everyone I won’t eat A little bit here, a little bit there and BOOM - cake’s all gone and I’m just sitting here, belly wobbling as I laugh at those good intentions

Whacking a bit of a placeholder post here - I’ve a few short horror stories picked up & I’m trying to weasel my way into the horror writing community. I’m not a bot - but a bot would say that - I’m someone who squeezes an hour of writing in a day & need to know others do the same 🙂