'You and Kate are you-and-Kate with no interruption and that is how you love me.' You-and-Kate in a Field, Loving Me by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

In November's Art & Flash there will be puppets & costumes & love. We’ll think about the bodies we inhabit and the bodies we create. Bring along a beloved character you can’t stop writing about for an hour or writing and art appreciation. 🔗 buytickets.at/anikacarpenter #ekphrastic #writingworkshop

Booking for our next online salon, 28 Jan is open! Amazing line-up of readers Host @kiklodge.bsky.social Quiz and community www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...

In November's Art & Flash there will be puppets & costumes & love. We’ll think about the bodies we inhabit and the bodies we create. Bring along a beloved character you can’t stop writing about for an hour or writing and art appreciation. 🔗 buytickets.at/anikacarpenter #ekphrastic #writingworkshop

UK friends who, like me, might have some relatives thinking of voting Reform, you might want to tell them about this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bulb Culture Collective will be reopening for submissions of previously published work on November 24th

Blessèd Samhain, everyone! We're still looking for submissions for our micro-excerpt, #63. ≤200 words. If you can fit it in that little room, send it along! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

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Poets @kiklodge.bsky.social wants you! Kik’s bloomin’ lovely and does great stuff with @saloneurope.bsky.social who run brilliant online and in-person events for writers.

Love this gentle, funny podcast. This week there’s a weasel in pjs and...tax returns. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️

I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚 www.tickettailor.com/events/westw...

Love this gentle, funny podcast. This week there’s a weasel in pjs and...tax returns. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Struggling Irish creatives have been given good news. Ireland’s Basic Income for Artists pilot scheme has been made a permanent fixture.

Mara Livermore is conducting research into how people in the British Isles engage with their ancestors. Any kind of engagement with 'ancestors' - literary, personal, familial, natural, qualifies. If this applies to you, she’d love to hear about it - forms.office.com/e/z35tjxcxRW

October’s Art & Flash digestive is here. #ekphrastic #writingworkshops 🔗 tinyurl.com/3andkxhw

October’s Art & Flash digestive is here. #ekphrastic #writingworkshops 🔗 tinyurl.com/3andkxhw

‘...not even enough room for their hands holding tight to the hem of her skirt, not even for their overtired tears...' The Suitcase of Lost Belongings by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/10/09/t...

At the heart of this month's Art & Flash - dreams, sex and rebellion! Join me for an hour of writing and art appreciation in the company of one of surrealism’s lesser-known artists. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

At the heart of this month's Art & Flash - dreams, sex and rebellion! Join me for an hour of writing and art appreciation in the company of one of surrealism’s lesser-known artists. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924 'Several years after hearing of its existence, I have at last got my hands on a copy of Zamyatin's We, which is one of the literary curiosities of this book-burning age.’ - George Orwell, 1946 #BannedBooksWeek

The @failingwriters.bsky.social #flashfiction competition is open. Word count: 300 Prize: £500 Full details via the podcast👇

These are great! The readings are always so good and so varied. And @kiklodge.bsky.social is a wonderful host.

Thank you for having me @paragraphplanet.bsky.social 🙏

Thank you for having me @paragraphplanet.bsky.social 🙏

'But first, will you take the peach out of the small gold box I will send it to you in, and gently rub the fuzzy skin against your lips as you inhale its scent?' Application To Eat The Sweetest Peach In the World by Anna Mantzaris Love this ode to careful thought & pleasure. tinyurl.com/55kat8wj

This was wonderful! Thank you @taniahershman.bsky.social for giving my brain the space to run riot with random words and unexpected ideas for 90 mins. An absolute tonic!

Thin skin is looking for readers 👇

Thank you for posting this @fotoslasirena.bsky.social. I wasn’t familiar with Graciela Iturbide’s work. It’s stunning! #photography

I went to the launch of Inside the Lines last night. It’s delightfully daft, funny and smart. Have a listen if you want a giggle. open.spotify.com/show/7i5DiwY...

Excited to be running Irreal, Surreal and Just Plain Weird #FlashFiction at this year’s WordFest, & to be on the open mic panel with the BRILLIANT @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social & Sue Walker! Loads of workshops, talks & performances to choose from. #Sussex #literaryfestival shorehamwordfest.com

September’s Art & Flash digestif is here. Grab yourself a slice of art, a spot of poetry and a writing prompt. Plus, a hint of what’s to come in October. shorturl.at/6noNR

Art & Flash TONIGHT 8pm UK time #ekphrastic #writingworkshop #inspiration On tonight’s menu: hot tailors, a strange bouquet, birds emerging from an unexpected place, a collection of men. All from an artist who viewed painting as ‘an act of love’. 🔗 www.anikacarpenter.com/ekphrastic-w...

Hey @neitherfishnorfoul.com I’ve found the happiest, cheekiest cake at Brighton’s Jubilee Library.

Closing September 30! But the chapbook reading period is still open at Harbor Editions! Submit your poetry (20–40 pages) or prose (20–50 pages) now through September 30. We especially welcome work from marginalized voices. 🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbook-open-reading-period

Art & Flash - September 15th #ekphrastic #writingworkshop This month’s featured artist was an accountant by day & an artist by night & viewed painting as an act of love. Join me on Monday to find out more, & write some beautiful new words in the process. www.anikacarpenter.com/ekphrastic-w...

Art & Flash - September 15th #ekphrastic #writingworkshop This month’s featured artist was an accountant by day & an artist by night & viewed painting as an act of love. Join me on Monday to find out more, & write some beautiful new words in the process. www.anikacarpenter.com/ekphrastic-w...

Did you come to the in-person #flashfiction festival in July. Subs for the red issue, 1st of the new rainbow series of festival anthologies close 14th Sept! Stories selected by @judehwriter2.bsky.social & @scooterwriter.bsky.social

Call for collaborative stories👇

“How can I continue when I can no longer imagine you?” I said’ Problems with Zero by @mitchellgauvin.bsky.social #flashfiction newflashfiction.com/problems-wit...

Just when I thought I couldn’t love @sagreene1.bsky.social more. 'When a third testicle dropped, he asked her to enlarge his trousers so he could house everything more comfortably and she said…’ The Tenth Testicle in @nffr.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/the-tenth-te...

Meta’s Threads have mysteriously banned @writershq.bsky.social on the first day of its Writing As Resistance Festival 🤔 From today ft. Leone Ross, LS Nguyen, Beth Daley, Tunji Offeyi, Sage Tyrtle, Sarah Lewis, Jude Potts, Marcella Rick, Mara Livermore, Lydia Wilkins, Mathew Gostelow & Kathy Hoyle👇

Submissions are open, but say you're in detention. Forget why you're there, we know what you've done. The point is you're breaking out. You've a gem to submit to Gone Lawn and the time is now. Do it! We're waiting just for you. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

'A hefty weight in hand, snug in the palm like a baseball, an orb of wounds, the moon.' Caregiver as onion by @nancyhuggett.bsky.social in @funfunfunicular.bsky.social #poetry www.funicularmagazine.com/read/caregiv...

I find it incredibly generous when writers share publicly their anxieties and their rejection stories. Here, as always, @sagetyrtle.bsky.social is not just generous she’s joyful and playful and hopeful too. LOVE your writing, Sage. X

I’ve read many pieces in the threat AI poses to creatives. This is the only one that *shows* exactly what we’re losing. The amazing @dani-netherclift.bsky.social in @islandmag.bsky.social “This knowledge sits without place or significance in the world, without currency, yet here it is…”

Q: What is the average age for perimenopause? A: The average age for perimenopause is whatever age you happen to be when you google any of the following: - What age perimenopause? - Skipped period start of menopause? - Why do I have free-floating rage?

Has someone already made a list of publishers publishing #flashfiction collections? If not, who should I add? bsky.app/profile/did:...

Has someone already made a list of publishers publishing #flashfiction collections? If not, who should I add? bsky.app/profile/did:...

We're still accepting submissions for the St. Lawrence Book Award! You've got until August 31 to submit your unpublished first collection of poetry or prose. Take a look at some previous winners of the St. Lawrence Book Award—both on this year's judging panel! buff.ly/ZxEfoA4