Amazing human beings? @kelliborges2.bsky.social @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social @cariwriting.bsky.social 💖💖💖

"In Renaissance Venice, women bleached their hair with horse urine and lemon juice, lying on sun-soaked roofs. Blonde, they believed, was closer to the divine. The sting, the smell, the heat." Gripping piece here from @yallaalia.bsky.social

Congratulations @yallaalia.bsky.social, @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social, @sabinejaccaud.bsky.social, Sheree Shatsky & Mike Wilson, our nominees for the next @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestoftheNet anthology. Fingers crossed! #flashfiction #prosepoetry #creativenonfiction

So excited to publish my first prose poem, part of my WIP novella-in-flash. Many thanks to Flash the Court. Also Julie Irigaray & @saloneurope.bsky.social for helping me dive deeper into this form. Enjoy my obsession with blonds! flashthecourt.com

“You belong in a Picasso painting — there, one ear higher than the other, sawhorse for a cheekbone, hatchet marks for lips.” Wonderful prose poem, The Bad Doctor, from my lovely friend @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social www.theunjournals.com/unbroken47

So happy to be nominated for my piece “Feeding Time” which I recently had the pleasure of reading in Brussels at the @saloneurope.bsky.social

So happy to read at the @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels. “Feeding Time” pub. @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social thewoolfx.com/feeding-time...

Such a great experience, reading at the opening evening of the @saloneurope.bsky.social Big thank you for organizing such an inspiring event,

What truths will unfold as Katerina Zherebtsova reads from her debut poetry collection? I’m excited to interview Katerina on Tuesday, 23rd Sept, from 18.30 at B2 Hotel Zurich All proceeds go to @Action4WomenCH Tickets: Girls left in the woods become archeologists | bossladies

Wonderful, visceral, raw read from @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social

“No one plaits my hair anymore. It streams behind me, and I swim against the tide.” This beauty! 💙💙💙@yallaalia.bsky.social @librelit.bsky.social

“I will say my goodbyes to each room. Remember our newborn snuggling on a sheepskin rug, hear the creaking herringbone parquet floors, relive my postpartum vigil at the bedroom window, the slow-motion clouds.” Delighted to see my piece In Between in @librelit.bsky.social

Fictions today by @yallaalia.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/08/16/a...

Perfect companion for a holiday in Italia…bravo @fionamckay.bsky.social for your wonderful & deeply moving novella published by @adhocfiction.bsky.social Read The Lives of the Dead now!

"He tells her how he’s never seen any place as beautiful, the ice clear and aquamarine, how it glows as if lit within." So beautiful from @kelliborges2.bsky.social In @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Wow such great flash selected by @mariegethins.bsky.social Congratulations to all the winners! Well deserved. 👏👏👏

“Yes, this is how she wants to be. With her friends. Freed of the shellac smothering the rest of her life.” What a flash by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social 😍

OMG! 🎉I’m over the moon to be on the shortlist! @bathflashaward.bsky.social

I’m so excited to find myself on the long list of the 30th @bathflashaward.bsky.social ! 🎉

“We never walk to our cars without our keys in hand, nails flashing Kick Ass Red, metal splayed through our fingers like weapons.” Chilling and powerful flash from my treasured friend @kelliborges2.bsky.social

"She wonders if she made the monster from her wanting—her skin, her softness, her silence. Did she mistake the vibration in her body for desire, not warning? Did she hand him the keys?" Brilliant extended metaphor from @yallaalia.bsky.social

So excited to be in this flash flood! Amazing. Enjoy the ride!

My flash “ Daniel is a Monster Truck” will be joining the flood at 8:40 a.m. (BST) on 14 June 2025. Thanks to @natflashfictionday.bsky.social

ICYMI: Our new #Bully issue is packed with a fierce mix of #shortfiction from @yallaalia.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @marjorietesser.bsky.social @tomljanovic.bsky.social along with Chris Clemens, Alice Kinerk & Tracy Hope. Have a look.. thewoolfx.com

'Dad says he only wants to help.' Another day at the beach, another incident with Dad - here's a masterclass in sensory #flashfiction from @yallaalia.bsky.social in the #Bully issue, out now. thewoolfx.com/feeding-time...

“She also remembers the question that always nudged its way up her body like a helium balloon during the holidays. Mother’s Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas. Was Linda alone?” Powerful flash from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social thewoolfx.com/bully-by-daw...

"Tattooed forearms flexing, he ploughs through the pebbles and onto the tarmac before anyone can stop him" A piece full of brilliant details from @yallaalia.bsky.social. Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world!

“A figure staggers towards our blanket. Mum growls deep in her throat. I manage a whimper. Dad?” @yallaalia.bsky.social Ali’s stories are always gorgeous and full of exquisite detail! Read “Feeding Time,” @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social ❤️

Without further ado, Issue 8 is now live! The #Bully issue features thought-provoking words from 14 incredible writers. Stay tuned for highlights or have a look yourself - it's a corker #flashfiction #microfiction #creativenonfiction #prosepoetry #shortstories thewoolfx.com

“Tonight is fish and chips on the beach, serenaded by the whizz-bang ka-ching from the amusement arcade.” Read my piece “Feeding Time” in the latest @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social thewoolfx.com/feeding-time...

Love the style of the latest @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social issue. Read my piece “On Viewing” on p.54 or here! “Simon collects people like some collect stamps, cataloguing their bodies with his camera. The curve of a shoulder, a collarbone, parted lips.” thehooghlyreview.com/issues/issue...

Woohoo! So excited to float down the river. My piece, “Daniel is a Monster Truck”, will bob up and down in the Flood. Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social workshop where I wrote this flash.

Excited to see my piece in this beautiful new issue of @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social

“Though the road was empty, I switched on the blinker to hear a few rounds of the ticking.” Love this melodious piece by @dbmillerwriter.bsky.social Powerful, tense, wonderfully capturing the fear and desire of teenage girls.

"We drank Prosecco on the number 31, escaping the confetti blizzard, the plastic champagne flute cheap between my lips but the ring heavy on my finger" Ooft - great one-sentence story from @yallaalia.bsky.social -such a wonderful build of character and emotion

Ooof, squeezed between ceramic and lobster-pink skin indeed... a wee and wild flash by @yallaalia.bsky.social

“and still in my wedding dress with the matching red patent shoes, I whispered footsteps in snow strewn with autumn leaves” A STUNNER by the amazing yallaalia.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social Don’t miss this one, it’s 🔥🔥🔥

So happy to see a little piece of my WIP ( novella in flash) in the wonderful @xraylitmag.bsky.social 😍

Support @mattkendrick.bsky.social wow! I’m blown away by this guy - such a generous and thoughtful teacher and now, mountaineer! Go for it Matt.

Day 4: "Do a challenge for charity" 😬😬😬 In 4 weeks, I'm attempting to "scale Ben Nevis" by climbing the stairs 517 times. Pretty sure I'll get nowhere near that number. But hopefully I'll at least get part of the way. If you'd like to sponsor me, you can do so here: forms.gle/UfJtT7aEdWS4...

Had so much fun tonight!

So excited for tonight! Reading at the online salon. Who’s coming? 🎉

Looking forward to reading at the @saloneurope.bsky.social - online - a suitably liminal space for reading my liminal piece “Intertidal” originally published by @fracturedlit.bsky.social

So thrilled to receive an acceptance from the wonderful @xraylitmag.bsky.social 🎉

Excited to be in the next ( and very beautiful) issue of @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social

Delighted to be on this list! 🎉@natflashfictionday.bsky.social

Very happy that not one, but two of my CNF pieces have been accepted by the wonderful @librelit.bsky.social 🎉

Can’t wait! Who’s coming? 😍 bsky.app/profile/salo...

another warm, weird, wonderful @saloneurope.bsky.social virtual salon hosted by the incomparable @kiklodge.bsky.social. see you again online in April!

Grateful to @yourimpossiblevoice.com for publishing “In the Dark” & for the Best Microfiction Nomination - www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/in-the-dark/