Protesting Trump's first state visit to the UK in 2017 and protesting the second one today #stillnotwelcome

Wow! Another stunner from @sagreene1.bsky.social in the 10th Anniversary @nffr.bsky.social 🍇

Another #JaneAusten inspired story is up! @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social's DICTIONARY OF DAYS, read by @margaretashleyvo.bsky.social www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... ALSO subs for our next theme, #HAUNTEDandHUNTED, close next Sunday 7th September - submit here: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Congrats to the winners of the @psmokejournal.bsky.social Summer Editor's Prize! 👏 Delighted to be a finalist & be included in the next issue, in such fine company! 🥰

Great @liarsleague.bsky.social performances last night & lovely to enjoy them with @tomwrote.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @sagreene1.bsky.social & Bridget, @fionamckay.bsky.social & Co, @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social & @fabwrites.bsky.social & Co! 🥰

Meet the #WomenAndGirls Talent 9! #LiarsLeague’s #JaneAusten special on Tue 12 Aug at The Phoenix stars Margaret Ashley reading Rosaleen Lynch’s moving #flashfiction DICTIONARY OF DAYS, charting a life (& death) through an #Austen lens 🎟️£5 ticket link, bio below. www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Meet the #WomenAndGirls Talent #4! #LiarsLeague’s #JaneAusten special on Tue 12 Aug at The Phoenix, W1 premieres @hannahahahah.bsky.social's TO KEEP YOU AS MY OWN, a story of Regency ladies in love – but not with a suitor. 🎟️£5 tickets here, author bio in reply: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Time to meet the talent for #LiarsLeague’s #WomenAndGirls x #JaneAusten show on Tue 12 Aug at @ThePhoenix_W1 - it’s Sarah Courtauld, whose short story WHICH #PRIDEandPREJUDICE CHARACTER ARE YOU? faces the awful possibility that some of us are Mrs Bennet 😱 Tix £5: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Wow! I just held my breath reading: 'Bullets are not circles but they leave circles behind' Check out this powerful piece by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

Meet the #WomenAndGirls Talent #3! #LiarsLeague’s #JaneAusten special on Tue 12 Aug at @ThePhoenix_W1 features @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social's #flashfiction DICTIONARY OF DAYS, viewing a life (& death) through an #Austen lens 🎟️£5 tickets here, author bio in reply: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

“…‘sometimes you’ve just got to take it on the chin.’” @stillsquirrel.bsky.social & @sarahillswrites.bsky.social & @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social & @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...

Meet the #WomenAndGirls Talent #2! #LiarsLeague’s #JaneAusten special on Tue 12 Aug at @ThePhoenix_W1 features @donnatracywriter.bsky.social whose story SHOTS & SHAMELESSNESS reimagines Austen for GenZ, including Mr Bingley's smoothie empire 🎟️£5 TICKET LINK: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Conversations w writers - What are your dreams like? How does your memory work? What happened when you left school? Why is it easier to stand up for other people than yourself? Other people - um, how are you? All the good stuff today w @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social August

Congratulations to the Pokrass Prize winners-/ 1st prize @eleanor-luke.bsky.social & runners up @rachaeldunlop.com & Tim Collyer & thanks to @megpokrass.bsky.social for setting the prompt & judging l. Read here! www.flashfictionfestival.com/pokrass-priz...

Loving this @sarahillswrites.bsky.social story in @flashfrog.bsky.social 🌌 Check out 'The Bright Jars of our Bodies' and listen to that oh so wonderfully particular voice of Sara Hills! flash-frog.com/2025/07/28/t...

Thanks @flashficfestuk.bsky.social 🙏 Another wonderful #flashfictionfestival with wonderful workshops, readings, panels, chats & karaoke with a wonderful group of writers! 🎉 Lovely to see old friends & meet new friends, so many of whom I wish I'd managed to spend more time with! Thanks everyone! 🥰

Rosaleen! Huge congratulations to everyone, including the amazing @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social 🎉🍾🥳

"... I use our second-best dinner set instead and put my mother on his left with his mother’s urn on the right" Weird & wonderful collaboration @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...

What a gorgeously surreal yet believable collaborative story in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social, such weird and delicious details! 💫😍 @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social #flashfiction

Congrats everyone who shortlisted for the Bath Short Story Award! 🎉 I'm thrilled to have a story included! 🥰 Thanks @bathshortstory.bsky.social Check out all the great titles: www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/07/13/s...

This is gloriously weird! Rockstars of flash writing together in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social “If she is not present, he must go and find another one.” @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social

How did this happen? Amazing to have 'The Third Best Dinner Set', a collaborative flash, in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social with the lovelies @stillsquirrel.bsky.social (who tricked me into this) & @sarahillswrites.bsky.social & @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social 🥰

@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social, @sarahillswrites.bsky.social & @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social and I set a flashy table together. Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for publishing The Third Best Dinner Set 🙏 gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...

Thrilled to have a collaborative story out in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social with some of my most favorite people in the world: @stillsquirrel.bsky.social, @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social and @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social. Extra thanks to Anika for corralling us together on this one! ❤️🙏

Fancy something strange? New collaborative flash with @stillsquirrel.bsky.social, @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social up at @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Thanks, @jhhwriter.bsky.social, for letting us lay out the third best dinner set 🍽️ gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...

Today's @smokelong.bsky.social archive challenge piece is "When You’re Gone I Practice for When You’re Dead" by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social: newflashfiction.com/when-youre-g... I love the title/opening line and the repetition of the narrator laying in the grass to show the emotion in the piece.

Pre-Order Alert!! OMG 🤩 Here it is!! The cover of my new NiF, The Lives of the Dead 😍 Thanks to Jane Ryan for the cover art! And thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and all at @adhocfiction.bsky.social (Coming to Amazon soon for those outside UK)

Today for the archive challenge I'm visiting @smokelong.bsky.social because I'm sure that's not against the rules! First up is a revisit to a @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social piece. My favourite part is the gloriously long sentence at the beginning of the 2nd para. www.smokelong.com/stories/our-...

Congratulations everyone who made the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 this year! 🎉 Delighted to make the longlist with 'This Christmas Story' published by @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/contributor/...

Woo hoo!!! 🎉🎉🎉Congrats everyone on the @bathflashaward.bsky.social shortlist! Delighted to see my story there too!

Yay! 🎉 Congrats everyone on the @bathflashaward.bsky.social longlist! Delighted to be there with you! 🥰

The NFFD book launch - excellent! Inspiring workshops @jupiterjones.bsky.social @susmitab.bsky.social, + a chance to hear authors read their flash. Buy it if you want stories of cryogenics @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social, masturbation @sarahillswrites.bsky.social, alligators @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social

'If I had a daughter, this it how it would be...' Missy - a piece that just killed me, from @taniahershman.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social #flashflood #nffd2025

'As the back end of the 32 bus recedes down the Edgware Road, a breathless Prince Charming straightens his crown and curses....' Iced Lavender - Love this contemporary take on the fairytale prince story by @sagreene1.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social #flashflood #nffd2025

'Anything you could sing, Harry could play...' By Ear - So much packed into this tiny piece from @sharontelfer.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social #flashflood #nffd2025

'Father's tongue falls out of his mouth..' Tongue - A powerful piece from @sudhab.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social #flashflood #nffd2025

'Look I know it ain't much but...' Love this heart -breaker from @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social #flashflood #nffd2025

'Even Evan...' Love this chiropotetan piece from @stillsquirrel.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social #flashflood #nffd2025

Yayy!!! 🎉🎉🎉 It's National Flash Fiction Day!!! Looking forward to reading all the wonderful flash from so many of my favourite writers! Thanks to everyone behind the scenes at @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for such a great day! 🥰

Announcing the outrageously good shortlist for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025, aka The Smokey. Please feel free to celebrate but please do not identify your story as judging is still in progress. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Our Spring 25 competition Shortlist is live! Well done to all the stories that are here and good luck to those that were left out this time - we know they'll find great homes soon Please celebrate anonymously while @judehwriter2.bsky.social does her judging! thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-...

'Not on a velvet night like this under a sky hung with a million laughing stars.'🌌 Beautiful story by @sagreene1.bsky.social highly commended in the @freeflashfiction.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Wow! This is a good week! Longlisted on the @smokelong.bsky.social Smokey! Just the tonic when you're recovering from being ill! 🥰 Congrats and good luck to all my fellow long-listers! 🎉

Love this completion by @proppencil.bsky.social and delighted to be longlisted! Just entering feels like a win when it's for a good cause! 🥰 Congrats fellow longlisters! 🎉

Big congrats to @kazbarwrites.bsky.social on the publication and launch of her debut collection COLD TOAST published by Dahlia Books! 🎉🎉🎉

Look at this beauty! Cover art for the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social 2025 anthology by @jeanetteshephard.bsky.social Lovely to have my story, 'The Alligator Girls of Shangri-la' included in such fine company! 🐊

Love this! 🐐 "I whisper-think my prayers to the sun..." Check out: Baby Goat on the Roof by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

After work today, I had a lovely time at a cafe catching up on some beautiful @fionamckay.bsky.social stories: ‘Reaction Times’ in @psmokejournal.bsky.social ‘Pushed’ in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 'Spinning Out' in @frazzledlit.bsky.social Wow! Check them out for yourself below...

Wow, wow, wow! Brilliant @bathflashaward.bsky.social winning story from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social! Big congrats...such a worthy winner!!! What you got into 300 words! Wow!

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