Some fantastic book post today! @jankaneen1.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social @andrewporter01.bsky.social Can’t wait to get started on these ❤️

Happy publication day for Hostile Environments by the phenomenal @JanKaneen1 - a gut punch of a short story collection, with character and heart. Pick up your copy today! www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...

‘I remember cancer is a constellation, so I squint at the stars some more, but all I see is a mess of white dots, blinking and unblinking…’ I love all the recurring elements and motifs in this story and how they all work together so perfectly. Sara Hills does it again!! 🤩

‘..tomorrow might bring dolphins playing alongside the ship, beckoning him like messengers from a better place..’ Love this beautifully crafted tale of a boy and a whale by @sagreene1.bsky.social 🐋 🌊 Congratulations Suzanne!

Love this gorgeous cover and the anthology title! 😍 As always, it’s amazing to have a small story inside and I hope to get to Bath next month to read it at the launch event. 👀

Amazing to be part of this issue (p171) with a flash piece that I’ve been working on for a while, thrilled it has found such a fantastic home. Check it out here! ⬇️⬇️

Thanks so much to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for publishing a micro of mine today. Check out the issue here ⬇️⬇️ gooseberry-pie.com/issue-31/

As chosen by Judge Joanna Miller... Competition Twenty-Six Highly Commended... Lunch Date by S.A. Greene @sagreene1.bsky.social #writingcompetitions #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...

Has anyone else read this amazing novella by @henryhoke.bsky.social? Absolutely loved it 🥰

As we continue to share daily highlights from our amazing Spring reprints issue - a reminder that NEW SUBS open on 1st April. Flash Fictions up to 1000 words. Any genre. Theme: Collectors and Special Collections. All details and some prompts here: trashcatlit.com/flash-pop-up... #SubmissionCalls

Great to be part of this lineup, thank you so much for accepting my piece @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️ 😊

So thrilled to be in this anthology once again, 8th year running!! Thanks so much to @karjon.bsky.social and to @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social for selecting me for the editors choice award and to @hombrehompson.bsky.social for edit suggestions! Amazing news!! 🤩

"Each morning, they sat in the fire bowls and weighed each other, using pea gravel from the patio." Weighing It All Up by Jude Higgins @judehwriter2.bsky.social #microfiction #flashfiction #flashfictionfebruary. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/02/26/w...

"the living-room carpet is a fever of wrapping paper scrunched into balls / it is Christmas day / Peter has bought a bicycle for his angelfish / Charlotte is staring at me as if I’m the last remaining Brussels sprout" @mattkendrick.bsky.social's "Strange fish" trampset.org/strange-fish...

Brilliant to see @mslexia.bsky.social spotlighting Dahlia Books, publisher of my debut collection 'Cold Toast' out in May!!

Don’t forget to send something!! ⬇️⬇️ 🏃 🏃‍♂️

My second skull. 💀 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/gir...

Your daily reminder to vote, vote, vote!!! There have so far been 77 votes and the voting is TIGHT! The top 3 are very, very close. And there are 6 other stories that aren't far behind. 😬 So, every vote counts!

Really wish I had something for this… maybe you do? Must see if I can find something 👀 #submissioncall

UNDER A MONTH TO GO! 🤩 You have until 15 Feb to enter @natflashfictionday.bsky.social’s Micro Fiction Comp 🌟 No theme, up to 100 words, judged by @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social @uksherka.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social and me. Every day, I’ll be posting a dazzler to get you inspired ✨ Thread 🧵

Some boaty goaty antics that will make you smile here ⬇️⬇️🐐🚤💜

Looking forward to reading all your micro entries soon, don’t forget to send us something by 15th Feb!!

ICYMI, do check out my weird mole story and all the other fab stories in this issue ⬇️⬇️

I love the use of colour and repetition in this poignant piece by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️

Coming 1st Jan. Chris's MC discovers a companion at the end of the world in Spread Your Wings and Swim In Atypical Mole, @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social wraps fear and denial in a pretty dress In Oh Give Me a Home, Scott takes us on a journey with an animal that represents a great tragedy

Have a listen to this podcast while you finish all those last minute Christmas tasks, some fab festive flashes!! ⬇️⬇️🎄

Our Ed created personalised images for each of our Winter Pop-Up stories. Here they are as a little teaser for what's coming in January... 🦝

So pleased to be joining the Trash Cat Lit family with a weird mole piece coming soon… and what a great line-up, can’t wait to dive in! 🦝

Closing in just over 12 hours..👀 ⬇️⬇️ #submissioncall #flash-fiction

Why not spend your Sunday afternoon writing some micros? We can’t wait to read them! ⬇️⬇️ #flashfiction

Wowsers! I love this piece so much, congratulations Suzanne!! 🐸 😍 ⬇️⬇️

And we’re off! Send me, @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social, @sudhab.bsky.social and @uksherka.bsky.social your magical micros ✨

Get those micros ready! Competition opens December 1. Looking forward to reading your entries👇👇👇

It’s micro season! Looking forward to reading your entries… 🖊️ 📄

‘Jimmy’s been throwing What the fucks at your outfits, your cooking, your books, more than usual…’ On this icy November morning, check out this fabulous flash ⬇️⬇️ 🐧 ❄️

Here’s a thing! Every time we hit multiples of 100 followers, I will give away a copy of one of our #Flashfiction anthologies ! Posted world wide. Currently only got about 10 Who will be the hundredth? Bathflashfictionaward.com

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

Very excited to announce that National Flash Fiction Day will be launching our 2025 anthology in BATH, UK on 14 June, with a day of flash workshops, readings & other exciting things! Submissions to our anthology & micro comp will open on 1 Dec & the theme for our anthology will be announced soon!!!

Thank you so much for giving my story a home @hexliterary.bsky.social !🙏

Wild in a good way! ⬇️⬇️

Flash Fiction February 2025 is now open to subs so please start honing your beautiful stories. As always, each featured flash will be illustrated by artist Claudia McGill. Please check out our guidelines below #microfiction #flashfiction #flashfictionfebruary fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/

"If she hasn’t the strength to climb in the bath, perhaps you can sit her in the chair and let the shower cleanse her like a rainfall." Some of the Ways You Can Wash Your Mother by Jay McKenzie #flashfiction. Please enjoy fictivedream.com/2024/10/11/s...

Helpful list here ⬇️⬇️ #submissioncall

When the Trumpeter Carries On by Sherry Morris @uksherka.bsky.social #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/when...

It's my paperback launch day! And to celebrate, I'm donating to this beaver reintroduction. Buy the book if you're a book person. But if not, do consider donating. Cos weirdly, they are a big part of securing our water future... www.wildlifebcn.org/beaverappeal #TheLastDrop tinyurl.com/yrjbmw9a

We are open to submission so why not send us something dramatic? #callforsubmissions #flashfiction #shortstories. Photo by Eugene Golovesov. Please follow link for guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

ICYMI check out this fabulously weird story from @hombrehompson.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️ 🪺

My longer flash pieces didn’t make the cut this year so I’m thrilled to be part of this year’s NFFD anthology with a Highly Commended micro! You can read it below. Congratulations to all who made it too www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

Thanks so much @mrbullbull.bsky.social for publishing this piece of mine! 🐬

With the Iron Claw in cinemas and Wrestlemania on the horizon, I'm excited that my wrestling-themed story Jobber has gone live at such a timely moment. Thanks Mr Bull for publishing it!