#WRITERS. Are you entering our #flashfiction competition? DEADLINE is TONIGHT, midnight UK time. See our website for all the submissions details and the fantastic collection of prizes on offer. #amwriting #writingcommunity #shortstory #wip #sundaystorm #writing

🔔Last chance to enter the Bath Novel Award 2026! 🕛 Entries close TONIGHT at 23:59 British Summer Time 📤Submit: <5k words opening & one-page synopsis 🏆Prize: £5,000 🌍Open to unagented emerging authors everywhere #writingsky #booksky #writingcommunity #writersky bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-nov...

3 weeks till the 33rd BFFA closes on Sunday 7th June. Stories up to 300 words. £1460 in prizes. Publication offer for longlisted stories. Results end of June. Read our interview with Shelley Roche-Jacques, Feb BFFA 1st prize winner for inspiration www.bathflashfictionaward.com/category/vie...

By my caclulations, entries open for the Welkin Genre Prize, two weeks on Monday!!!! Who's excited? Who's writing something this weekend? What categories are you hoping to enter?

I don’t think Northern Gravy are on here, but they’ve just announced that they’ll be back in July with new subs opportunities 😎

"Statia swayed against the wall as a tremor rippled through. 'Is there going to be an earthquake?' 'This is normal for this area, this shaking. It happens occasionally.'" This #MothersDay, read "The Gods Decide", an original #histfic #shortstory by Joyce Bingham sites.google.com/view/sundial...

Call for Submissions Sundial Magazine invites submissions for flash, poetry, and short stories (up to 9,000 words) for inclusion in an upcoming anthology and publication on our website. We are seeking works set in or before 1936 that explore the social and political tensions leading up to WW2.

We’re thrilled to introduce the title & cover of our 2026 anthology which is now available to pre-order from our bookshop. The cover is by our artist-in-residence @joannacampbell.bsky.social & the title is taken from a flash from @rachaeldunlop.com www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

We are a bit late announcing this but... THE JUNE COMPETITION IS NOW OPEN! See website for details and go forth and get creative and send us your stories, folks! @presshenshaw.bsky.social #writingcommunity www.henshawpress.co.uk

I’m also on the lookout for any new flash competitions / journals which emerged in ‘25 - so many of my old favs have gone! 👀

I’ve been off the scene for a while - is Bluesky currently the best place for the writing community? X seems like a ghost town and I rarely go there…

Well I’ve not joined the Flood since ‘22, but this year I’m back with ‘Queen Mary’s Marmalade’ 🌊🌊🌊 Thanks to the NFFD team 🤩 #FlashFlood

FlashFlood is open! We’d love to receive your subs 😊 Flashes up to 300 words, pre 2023 prev published considered, reserved spots for debut writers. You have until 23:59 on 25 April: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

Congratulations to the rwenty one authors listed on the February shortlist selected by our judge Ingrid Jendzrejewski, @lunchontuesday.bsky.social www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/02/febr...

1st Feb. It’s the final day to enter our 1st Award this year. £1460 in prizes. The Last Minute Club is officially open! And here is the badge you should receive if you are a last minute entrant to the 32nd Award

Congratulations to all 50 writers who have been selected for our 29th award longlist.https://www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/02/february-2025-long-list/

"Always a penny and it worked the same. Scorched your throat, filled your belly, lightened your head. An elixir for escape; who wouldn’t want it." Atmospheric #historicalfiction from @collinson26.bsky.social in @sundialmagazine.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/sundial...

Drum roll! 🥁🥁🥁 Announcing the longlist for the #WelkinMini 2025: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize... If you're on the list, please celebrate wildly (but don't reveal the title of your piece). If you didn't make it this year, commiserations. Many amazing pieces missed out.

Congratulation to all the authors shortlisted for our 2025 NIF Award. 12 this time. There were excellent novellas to choose from on the longlist and we hope everyone finds publication. Thanks also to everyone who entered. Final results end of Jan. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/01/nove...

I’m still here (just not often 😃) - link to my latest work ⬇️ “I touch his arm, sense latent ripples. The tension is not draining as easily as the blood." Read "Someone Else's Wound", the new #histfic #flash about scuttling gangs by @collinson26.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/sundial...

"I touch his arm, sense latent ripples. The tension is not draining as easily as the blood." Read "Someone Else's Wound", the new #histfic #flash about scuttling gangs by @collinson26.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/sundial...

Congratulations to all the writers longlisted for our 2025 NIF Award. & thanks to all who entered. Short list out early Jan. winners late Jan www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2024/12/nove...

Entries are officially... OPEN!!! All details and entry form here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize... Good luck!

Our Microfiction comp opens on 1 Dec and we're delighted to announce this year's judges: @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @uksherka.bsky.social @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social For more info on the comp & our judges pls click on the link: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/news/

We're excited to announce that the theme for our next anthology is SEASONS. We're thrilled to welcome Cheryl Markosky @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social as guest editor. Cheryl will be joining Karen Jones in reading the submissions. You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/news/

“Am I going to stay here with you until the baby comes?” "It’s not going to be born. Tomorrow, we’re going to the clinic in Harley Street and the doctor is going to scrape it out of you." Read "Terminus", #shortstory and #art by @hilary55.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/sundial...

We’ll be opening submissions to our anthology & micro comp on 1 December. All our anthologies (apart from last year’s) are on sale for £5 plus p&p. Why not have a peek at flashes we’ve published in previous years?

✒️Upcoming submissions opening and closing dates 🌟2024 Bath Children's Novel Award (📚MG, YA, CB, PBT) closes 30 Nov 🌟2025 Bath Novel Award (📚A, YA) opens 1 Dec (2024) thru 31 May (2025) 🗺️Open to emerging writers everywhere 👐Sponsored entries always available bathnovelaward.co.uk #writersky #booksky

It’s not long now till we announce our theme for this year’s anthology. Watch this space !!.

0ur 29th Award closes 2nd Feb. £1460 in prizes. Anthology. Up to 300 words. Earlybird discounts end 15th Dec. Buy now via PayPal,save receipts & enter by deadline. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Only one month left to submit to #flashfictionfebruary. WC 200-850w. Deadline 15th December. Please follow the link for our guidelines #microfiction #flashfiction #callforsubissions. Thank you to all who have submitted so far fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/

Absolutely delighted to be longlisted in this contest! 💃

Have you had a scroll through our first prize winners on the website? 28 of them now. @sharontelfer.bsky.social & William Davidson have won twice! And @kazbarwrites.bsky.social was our October 2024 winner. All stunning #flashfictions Bathflashfictionaward.com/winners

Sundial Magazine is here! Check out our online literary magazine. We exclusively publish historical fiction. I'm the editor, Ashley, and I am going to begin using Bluesky more. sites.google.com/view/sundial...

My latest flash piece was shortlisted in WestWord’s Past Times Prize 🤩 Hoping some folk here will check it out! 🧀🍍🦔🍍🧀 westword.substack.com/p/a-cheese-a...

My latest flash piece was shortlisted in WestWord’s Past Times Prize 🤩 Hoping some folk here will check it out! 🧀🍍🦔🍍🧀 westword.substack.com/p/a-cheese-a...

I’m here too, if anyone is looking to connect! I may be around more if the other place becomes even more of a ghost town 🫥

I’m here too, if anyone is looking to connect! I may be around more if the other place becomes even more of a ghost town 🫥

Tick-tock. The deadline for the inaugural Past Times Prize for historical flash fiction is this month! You have just a few more weeks to send us your stories set in this year’s era to win publication and cash prizes. Quick! This year’s era is the decade of my birth…1970s.

We are excited to have a revamped WestWord Prize for 2025 and to have signed up the brilliant @sarahillswrites.bsky.social as the judge! Cash prizes and online anthology edition publication for all winning and shortlisted writers. Send us your best stories up to 1000 words! 💙

Entries to our micro competition (up to 100 words, no theme) are open till 15 Feb. First prize is £150, second £100, third £50 plus 7 x £20 Highly Commended. More details here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...

Just 2 more days now of the extended deadline!

A new writing week ✨✍️✨ It’s safe to say that not much will get done 🥴 Still thinking about plans, though… 💭

A new writing week ✨✍️✨ Starting to get a bit sidetracked, as you do 🥴 But I’m still trying to finish my current short story… 😇

It's #PublicationDay for my #HistoricalMystery #TheSecretsOfMorgarten set in #medieval #Switzerland. A beautiful weaver, a fugitive Templar Knight & the discerning son of William Tell come together in a novel of murder, mystery & maybe a little magic. ➡️mybook.to/TSOMeb⬅️

I’m absolutely *stunned* and delighted to have won the @AspectsHistory Short Story Award!! 🌟🏆🌟 ‘The Taste of Temptation’ features alongside nine other stories in the latest anthology, just released for Kindle ⬇️📚⬇️

A new writing week ✨✍️✨ I may be able to reveal news I haven’t been able to yet! 👀 Also, a short story to keep working on… 😇

📣 2-for-1 offer on A Pillow of White Roses! If you buy a copy this weekend from Ellipsis Zine, you’ll get a free copy of In the Belly of the Whale (another collection of histfic)! ✨📚✨

I'm going to get a bit noisy about the new #novel on here... 😁 #PreOrder #TheSecretsOfMorgarten #Ebook #Kindle #HistoricalFiction #MedievalMystery #NewBook #NewGenre ➡️ mybook.to/TSOMeb ⬅️

So long, and thanks for all the flash www.ellipsiszine.com/so-long-and-...