You can now check out our Food Poetry subcategory on our page! Find writers like Sreelekha Chatterjee @sreelekha2024.bsky.social under this section 🥘🥮

I’m proud of how political @thebrokenspine.co.uk is. We don’t just “represent” — we think about it. Everyone publishes women. But how do they platform them? @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social made #NotJustPretty her own. This won’t be mainstream. Who fucking cares? It matters too much to sanitise.

#NotJustPretty — we don’t platform women to show them. We publish them to hear them. Poetry. Art. Defiance. Read it: thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/09/14/notjustpretty-womens-voices-womens-power/ @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social @petitecreature1.bsky.social

'And in this dream, the same stone could tour through all the oceans of the world, never stopping once to sink...' Touching blend of imagination & reality by Matt Leibel @lit-namjooning.bsky.social #fiction #flashfiction literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

'As the bottom of the hills came into view ... Maya savored the final twists and turns ... a tight holding on before letting go. Just like her marriage.' Excellent weaving of the physical & emotional by Divya Durgadas @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

'And even then, the sea will still be there. Of course, the sea doesn’t just go away. Place your hand here and listen.' Wonderful reminder to stop & listen to nature & your heart in this piece by Mizuki Yamagen @lit-namjooning.bsky.social #fiction literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

'I think I prefer the sunshine, the way I think I prefer chocolate to vanilla and parties to rest but then the mist rolls in and I am reminded.' Lovely piece by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Submit your work here! jmww.submittable.com/Submit

jmww is looking for a Senior Fiction Editor!  jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/w...

As Chosen by Judge Amy Photiou www.linkedin.com/in/amy-photiou FFF Competition Twenty-Nine Shortlisted: On The Wind by Karen Arnold #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...

I'm absolutely delighted that my piece, 'These days you're kinda okay', has found such a loving home with @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💜 Many thanks to editors, Hema, Lakshmi & Melissa. #amwriting #writingcommunity #fiction #flashfiction literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

I'm very much looking forward to being on this panel and discussing Developing Short Story Craft. There are still tickets available, some with discounts, so follow the link below for details! @farhanashaikh.bsky.social #shortstorysept #shortstories #festival #amwriting #writingcommunity

✨ 25% discount on Weekend Ticket ✨ Book by 15th Sept. ✨ Code: DAHLIA25 Join us for a fun-filled weekend of workshops, panels & interviews - all focused on the glorious form of the #shortstory #festival #amwriting #writingcommunity @farhanashaikh.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/short-stor...

Not far to go! Just over 3 weeks till our 31st Award ends on Sun Oct 5th. For #flashfictions of up to 300 words. £1460 in prizes. judge @kazbarwrites.bsky.social All 50 longlisted offered publication in our 10th anniversary anthology. Results out by end Oct. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

I’ll be here! Hanging out as a participant in the October one and teaching a class on Emotional resonance in flash fiction in November.

3 workshops a day on the online Fest days. By @carrieetter.bsky.social @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social @lunchontuesday.bsky.social David Swann, Emily Devane, Heidi Clark, ShelleyRoches Jacques, Christopher Allen, Farhana Kalique + contest, readings. £35 a day.£90 for 3 days flashfictionfestival.com

Great deal! $64 CAD for online Flash Fiction Festival #WritingWorkshops, because attending would involve plane tickets and cost... *counting on fingers* 8 billion CAD

Tomorrow! Who’s excited?

New Blue Peter host Hacker T Dog joins Abby Cook to talk about helping the iconic kids' show keep sailing in the age of TikTok and YouTube

This week for #WelkinWindbackWednesday, "Like a memory, or maybe only a dream " by @laurabesley.bsky.social :

Just a month to the Winchester Poetry Festival get booking! www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

My favourite expression to describe a lazy person, from Spain, is trabajas menos que el sastre de Tarzán. It means “you work less than Tarzan’s tailor.”

Open all the doors. Wisdom from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social via Vancouver Flash Fiction! #writinglife #flashfiction #writingcommunity

Come and read lovely NiFs with us! 📚 (I'm in the Sunday group)

Just over a week until the start of the new block of The NIFTY Book Club, so there's still time to sign up & read September's novella-in-flash! All sign up details below ⏬ #book #bookclub #novellainflash #flash #flashfiction #writingcommunity

I have a book out in two weeks. So....one repost of this and I'll drop one fact/spoiler/detail about the book. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social www.walker.co.uk/978152951581...

@jonmcgregor.bsky.social Hoe gaat het Nederlands leren? Goed, hoop ik!

Just the titles of novellas-in-flash are so exceptional!

The first one I read was #HowToMakeAWindowSnake by Charmaine Wilkerson. Brilliant!

So excited about this book club from @laurabesley.bsky.social, specialising in the novella-in-flash form. I know nothing about this, and look forward to devouring the examples. Have you read any novellas-in-flash? #BookSky #WritingCommunity www.laurabesley.com/nifty-book-c...

Interested in novellas-in-flash? This is such a great book club run by the lovely @laurabesley.bsky.social - fun, informative and friendly

There's still time to sign up for the next block of The NIFTY Book Club! All details in post/link below ⏬⏬ #book #books #bookclub #fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity #novellainflash #nif

"I even wake from sleep to find my back sore, right where the wings would be, as though I secretly fly around all night, only to land back in my bed." A gorgeous, seeking essay by @carolinehagood.bsky.social!

HERE THEY ARE! 25 contributors to the upcoming Prompted Stories issue. Split into new and existing Trash Family for your consumption. The issue will launch on Thursday 🦝 @leighaplin.bsky.social @madeleinewrite.bsky.social @lucimcummings.bsky.social @sclly21.bsky.social @adlibby.bsky.social 1/3

Thanks @trashcatlit.bsky.social ! Dead-chuffed to be a repeat bin offender, and in such great company too 🗑️🗑️ Can't wait to truffle through everyone else's stories! #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity

Delighted to be joining @laurabesley.bsky.social and the NIFTY book club for a Q&A on The Lives of the Dead 😍❤️😍

This month's round-up of freelance / indy workshops, courses and events, featuring brilliant-sounding stuff from @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @taniahershman.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @retreatwest.bsky.social @laurabesley.bsky.social... fromthecoursesmouth.substack.com/p/sept-oct-2...

Very excited that ‘William Prichard & Co’ is featured in the NIFTY book club in November!

Copies of ‘William Prichard & Co’ are also available from my website: dianesimmons.co.uk

I reviewed COLD TOAST by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social, a book I very much admire! bendinggenres.com/review-of-co...

"...themes that are as urgent today as they were thirty-fifty years ago. Which may be the point of it all, highlighting that ever-running treadmill that women negotiate." @sfreligh.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social @bendinggenres.bsky.social

The new block of The NIFTY Book Club is open for sign ups! 📚 Sept '25 - Jan '26 📚 Sundays 10-11.30am OR Mondays 19.30-21.00 BST/GMT 📚 Live author Q&As 📚 Worksheets in advance, meetings on zoom 📚 Full details in link below #fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity www.laurabesley.com/nifty-book-c...

If you're a low-income writer and these aren't affordable to you, I have free spots available for each workshop through a lottery system: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... There is also pay-what-you can pricing, so if you're keen to take part, please choose the option that's right for you

I've got lots of exciting workshops coming up before the end of the year. "I Hear Voices" next week. Then, my autumn workshop series which is "Story Shapes", "Emotional Depths" & "Funny Bones." Really enjoying teaching/facilitating these live sessions. www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-workshops

I'm absolutely thrilled to have placed 3rd in the #LeicesterWrites #shortstory prize! Congratulations the other winners 🎉 Huge thanks to the readers, judges & @farhanashaikh.bsky.social for all their hard work. #amwriting #writingcommunity leicesterwrites.co.uk/2025/08/26/2...

Our October Madrid Pop Up Salon @desperatelit.bsky.social is now sold out! Join the waitlist if you are still interested in coming. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/madrid-lit...

🚨SALE🚨 THIS WEEK: ANY ORDER OF ANY TITLE (INCLUDING PREORDERS) IS 25% OFF. Just add the code SUMMER25 at checkout in our store. share.google/kC4fK1OahoV3...

Sale alert!! 25% off pre-orders of The Blue of You included!!