Our LAST tease! Issue launches 2nd Jan. Get your paws on 20 cat flash then 🦝 @heatherbooknook.bsky.social shows us a future where the cats get all the tech @jennyhart2001.bsky.social layers her relationship story with martial arts @francesgapper.bsky.social gives us a glimpse of something uncanny

We're back with some teases for our January '26 issue. These titles with tell you the theme 🐈‍⬛ Unfolding with supernatural charm, Clara shows us the extraordinary life of one feline In @drfionamoore.bsky.social's quiet sci-fi, we get a microbial battle and one very unique saviour

The bastard Borrowers turning up to ruin Boxing Day AGAIN

Fancy a post-Christmas Regency and sapphic chill reading sesh in your pjs? Like and repost this skeet (is that really what we call them?) for a chance to win one of 3 signed copies of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET! Open worldwide until midnight 23rd Dec, winners drawn on Christmas Eve.

We're excited to share the amazing lineup for our cat-themed Pop-Up Issue. This 20-story issue will go live on January 2nd 🦝 It's a fabulous mix of feline flash and we can't wait to shove it through your digital catflaps💜 1/3

I'm just a girl, standing in front of my thirty-five TV subscriptions asking for one of them to pick up that bloody gay hockey show. I want to yearn to t.A.T.u with my people FFS

ok lets all start our own pro trans anti genocidal regime - girl activities club - nans and aunties activities club - song contest OK BUT WHAT IF ALL THREE that would actually rule

got a vampire poem out in Bowery Gothic if you would like to have a read of it www.bowerygothic.com/poetry-2025-...

Guess which horrible little book is 99p for the whole of September? 👁️🫦👁️ bit.ly/428p9OK

FFF20012024 Cliff Richard is being auctioned by Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social kiklodge.com #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/clif...

It’s time for light not heat on this one, I think - queer people tearing strips off other queer people is only useful for the people who hate us

It’s not “the trans lobby’s” reaction to “the inclusion of a book by a gay man”, it’s the LGBTQ community’s reaction to the inclusion of a transphobic hack who compared cis women supporting trans rights to holding down people to be raped, and got in a fight with the Auschwitz memorial!

Open letter on the Polari Prize longlist and the inclusion of John Boyne, who openly expresses his transphobic and misogynistic views. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Found out via TikTok (💀) that The Darkest Night is on a Kindle* monthly deal! Just 99p in August. The runner-up for the ADCI Prize and described as a 'man-hating repugnant read' by one reviewer 💅 amzn.to/4oihw1E *(also sold elsewhere if you don't f with Amazon)

I swear every time I go to Southside for my homosexual errands (usually haircuts) there's a new queer micro trend that hasn't reached the dizzy heights of Paisley. I feel like that kid going to PE after the summer holidays in the two-stripe trackies.

Well this has made my week! 🦝💜

BOOK NOW - 25 spaces for PGR researchers for a FREE WORKSHOP with @rodgeglass.bsky.social & @sorchadallas.bsky.social supported by @sgsah.bsky.social 🗓️ 16.08.25 10am-2pm 📍AGA - Support for travel and access costs - Lunch included 🎫 booking essential via [email protected]

We're back in the bin after a superb weekend @flashficfestuk.bsky.social where we met Trash Family in the flesh! 🦝 With Trash Family in mind, as promised here are the contributors for the upcoming charity print anthology. Twenty-seven stunning stories we can't wait to share 🤩

Listen to me swear a lot (as per usual) in this. Many thanks to JP at @trashcatlit.bsky.social for publishing my wee story 🦝💜

My new Glasgow-based courses with @writelikeagrrrl.bsky.social are online and bookable! First up is Level 2, featuring peer-feedback workshops and a Q&A with writer and editor Heather Parry of @extrateethmag.bsky.social www.writelikeagrrrl.org/product/insp...

What is the charge? Walking a path? A succulent salt path?

This spotlight comes with a side order of Q&A. We loved @judepickledplum.bsky.social's dark, atmospheric trip to the magic show. Packed with vivid imagery & visceral language. trashcatlit.com/things-my-ma... Read Jude's answers to Trash Cat's probing questions here: trashcatlit.com/2025/07/06/q...

We are delighted to announce that Elouise Blackburn has been selected as the commissioned writer for 'The City' curated by Holly Rennie Brown, a project made possible through Open Fund support from @creativescots.bsky.social

What to read this Disability Pride Month, featuring @pennyauthor.bsky.social, @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social, @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social, @newlands.bsky.social, @chrisbridgeswriter.bsky.social and more. Drop your recommendations below! vikkipatisauthor.com/2025/07/03/w...

My wee flash about smoking a cheeky Benson & Hedges outside an All Bar One with one's Nana is featured in this *fabulous* anniversary issue of Trash Cat 🦝💜 trashcatlit.com/smoking-a-ci...

So excited to be in this belter of an issue! 💜💜💜

As we get ready to close the sub bin, we get even more ready to throw open the bin full of treasure! So much readiness! Our Summer General Issue - which is also our 1st Anniversary Issue - goes live tomorrow morning. We can't wait to share these amazing twenty-one short fictions 🦝💜

Keep meaning to do a Pride Month punt for Fierce Salvage, which starts with a night train full of dykes and ends with teenagers listening to Avril Lavigne and takes in killer mould, toxic rivers, a hallucinogenic trip to Barca and a poem dedicated to Hilary Cass uk.bookshop.org/p/books/fier...

Very excited that my piece about smoking a cheeky Benson & Hedges Gold outside an All Bar One with ones Nana is gonna be published in such stellar company 🙏💜

COMING 1st JULY 🦝 Joe prepares us for a heart-wrenching train journey in his powerful micro Linda @lmbayley.bsky.social shows us the torment of a girl who's just not good enough for Mother Beth @bsherm36.bsky.social blends facts, prose and philosophy as her MC hangs out with a striped acquaintance

Very excited to have a flash piece in Trash Cat's anniversary issue coming out next month 💜💜💜

We are delighted to announce the shortlisted authors for The Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (ADCI) Prize, sponsored by Arts Council England, ALCS, Professional Writing Academy and Drusilla Harvey Memorial Fund 🧵

This EHRC update says it is not compulsory for services to provide 'single sex' facilities. Trans people are not excluded from the facilities that align with their gender. And note the wording — 'should not', not 'shall not'. Guidance is not law. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

I did this course with Michael last year and I had such an amazing time on it. I learned so much!

I was just told that my launch event in Glasgow was going to be cancelled because I don't have *enough* tickets sold. Humiliating—not least because I worked my butt off for this book & went to other people's launches. If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.

Want to contact your MP about the Supreme Court ruling? @transsolidarity.bsky.social has created an MP letter template to help get you started docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🙂💪

Section 28 didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% thought homosexuality was wrong. From a society that feared the sight of a man in drag would corrupt. From a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of gay lives. 🧵 1/16

Again, a reminder to my Aberdeen based pals that this is on tonight 😊

Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮 So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇

I'm redrafting my novel and getting irrationally angry at past me who wrote things like, "something like this but good." Aye okay dickhead, hud on while I magic some genius from the ether you lazy past-me shit.

Keep the heid on this one, gals - they're already claiming victory, they're already determining the narrative, don't let them tell your story for you

Good morning to everyone except For Women Scotland, who, contrary to their name, are trying to drag us back to the 1930s in terms of women's rights. They can all fuck off right into the nearest bin forever.

So… a little bit of news! I am THRILLED and ecstatic to announce that I’m in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe Class of 2025. I’m absolutely PINCHING myself this morning. Thank you so much to the amazing judges at Forbes 30 Under 30 ❤️‍🔥 I feel so lucky, humbled and grateful! #ForbesUnder30

This is on Wednesday if you're in Aberdeen 😊

It would really mean the world to me if people would share details of my event for THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET, Tuesday 29th April in Glasgow! If you have queer friends, tell them! Or if you think you'd enjoy a book which kills Mr Collins off, come along! www.waterstones.com/events/lindz...

EQUINOX. A sparse poetic novella untangling themes of sibling loss and inter-generational trauma through seasonal shifts and excavations of deep time. A love letter to moss, myth, mother-daughter complexities and the power of place. Lucas Rijneveld meets Megan Hunter. #scotwriterpitch2025

So Weird Teenage girl. Tumblr. Bones. Confused mum. Scottish small town. Media frenzy. Police investigation. Grave robbing. And in the midst of chaos, a sad novel about grief and loneliness. #scotwriterpitch2025

SPOOKY BITCH is a queer Magic Realism novel set in working-class Aberdeen about a girl who has wings and can see the dead, and how she avoids becoming her mother who has wings and can see the dead. Mega Mum issues, kissing girls in bars, and going to the Big Tesco vibes. #scotwriterpitch2025

Hi, I'm Steph! I'm a queer working-class writer from Aberdeen but now I live near Glasgow with my partner and two overfamiliar cats. I'm currently writing my first novel Spooky Bitch which won the Book Edit Writer's Prize and the Jericho First 500. I have strong feelings for 80s music videos.