Great to meet up with writers I met at @saloneurope.bsky.social in London today - @tammyehuf.bsky.social & @aldbera.bsky.social Did some editing, subbing, chatting, all revved up to meet my writing targets this month ❤️💙💜

The #WritersReading 2nd half readers for tomorrow are:- Lindy Newns, Gillian Morton, @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and featured reader Andy Larter - a fabulous line up for the evening. Join us on Zoom. Tickets free (with optional donation) at the link: buytickets.at/dublinwriter...

Thanks so much for this nomination @trashcatlit.bsky.social - I love being part of your family ❤️💙💜 All the best to all the nominated writers. This new award from @monarch.gay is like a lighthouse beacon in dark times.

Here's everything you need to know about the six remarkable books on the shortlist and the stories behind them. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Oooh always fun to see what makes the Booker shortlist. Did you have a favourite that made it? Or didn't make it? Next on my TBR pile, THE LAND IN WINTER by Andrew Miller and FLASHLIGHT by Susan Choi. Big misses for me were Alan Hollinghurst's OUR EVENINGS and Sara Hall's HELM.

#WritersReading is 25th at 7pm. We have ft. reader Andy Larter, & Gillian Morton, Lindy Newns @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @malhavardwriter.bsky.social & Steph Percival. Get your free ticket at the link - there are a couple of reading slots still available. #writing #reading buytickets.at/dublinwriter...

Fab new literary awards from @monarch.gay and we are thrilled to send our two nominations. Good luck @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and @mikepiero.org 💜💜

Join me & @malhavardwriter.bsky.social online this Thursday night for some #flashfiction & other readings, tickets are free. Put your feet up & have a listen - featured writer is Andy Larter. Also contact @dublinwriter.bsky.social if you'd like to read to a friendly crowd 😍 Slots still available.

Thin skin is looking for readers 👇

"I have fallen in love with the flash community. These writers are some of the most talented, funniest, kindest, supportive people I know. We all raise each other up and commiserate over rejections and push each other to keep getting better." 💯 agree @emilyrinkema.bsky.social !!! #FlashWriters ❤️💙💜

"They’ve been together long enough that they can fight without raising their voices, without showing pain, without speaking." Such tight writing from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @neitherfishnorfoul.com - loved it! Great last line too. #flash #writing

Nominations for the Genrepunk Editors' Choice Award will be accepted from lit mag editors. Up to 3 pieces, any genre, up to 25 pages each. forms.gle/FwTiWaYHANhF...

This story has a girl with fighting spirit, a cake and a swan. It’s a heady combo, leading to a delicious finale … @nomad-sw18.bsky.social gorgeously riffing off The Soldier’s Daughter by Paula Rego here … www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-beau...

"She didn't make mud pies. She made mud cakes. Rich mixtures of swirled dirt and a thermos's worth of tomato soup, whipped together thick as her mom's best brownie recipe." Great textures in this story by Kendra Cardin in @neitherfishnorfoul.com

Another clever genre subversion here with @jaimegill.bsky.social www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-gill... (The India Times swear this is a lemon cake recipe but put more or less every other citrus fruit on it!)

"Tip it into a bowl and no one’ll know. If they ask pull dementia-face, say, Isn’t curry a new kind of cake?" Inventive structure from @quickasaflash.bsky.social in the CAKE issue of @neitherfishnorfoul.com

In London, hate will never win.

Sadiq is right, "for our leaders silence is no longer enough. The time has come to stand up and say: this is not who we are"... But we're not holding our breath! And meanwhile we will say it ourselves - LOUD & CLEAR TODAY!

This seems just. Nearly all of the world’s largest oil ports are at risk of being submerged within the next 50 years due to rising seas. #climate #climatecrisis #climatescience www.eco-business.com/news/oil-tra...

Here's how to support my work: I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social. The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

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

"You took an anti-nausea pill and bowed to the cake and then sawed into it with your penknife, the miniature blade gouging its way through soft sponge and whipped cream." Love the deft way @joycebingham.bsky.social explores so many issues in this story for @neitherfishnorfoul.com #flash #witing

Battle doomscrolling! Here's 5 small pleasures: 1. Reliving the moment you made someone burst out laughing 2. My dog's confused expression when she startles awake 3. That first mouthful of tea in the morning 4. Sliding into freshly ironed sheets at night 5. Seedlings breaking through the soil

1. Scalding hot soup dumplings 2. Clear sky days where I can see Mount Hood from my living room couch 3. Showering and then immediately climbing into clean sheets 4. That feeling when you make a baby laugh 5. Singing

Battle doomscrolling! Here's 5 small pleasures: 1. warm kitty, purring in your lap 2. laying with your head on your lover's chest, listening to their heartbeat 3. ice cream 4. getting the pool all to yourself 5. pile of warm blankets straight from the dryer

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Hearing rain on a windowpane 2. A medium rare cheeseburger and rosemary fries 3. A cheery toddler on the bus 4. Laughing at your own dumb jokes 5. When the person who sells you a lottery ticket wishes you luck

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Cold side of a pillow 2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature 3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile) 4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it 5. Cats

My daily #peace offering. #vermont #photography #photographer #photographers #nature #protectyourpeace #reflections #nature #mothernature #naturephotography #northeastkingdom

"The rest of the blue jays will follow her in, all fletched in the brightness, they’ll be whistling and jeering, they’ll perch on the back of my couch and my bookshelves..." Oh @aniking.bsky.social brings the magic! Such a great sweep of family, bird life, colour... so hard to do 👏🏼 #flash #writing

Still buzzing over the weekend with @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels. Old friends, new friends, genuinely blown away by the talent in the room. Here's Belgian poet and hip hopper Giovanni Baudonck's performance, inspired by Turner's painting "The Slave Ship." He brought the typhoon alright.

Gorgeously spirited story from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in the latest edition of @neitherfishnorfoul.com - an Issue devoted to stories about cake which are not actually ‘about’ cake at all

"Mama told me to kill and pluck the swan. I won’t. We creatures of muscle and bone, of wing and sinew, must stick together." ❤️ Editor @jackmmorris.bsky.social @neitherfishnorfoul.com and to @stillsquirrel.bsky.social for your inspiring Art & Flash sessions www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-beau...

'her pulse a beating song as we rise, dip, rise, gathering strength. ' A deep slice of cake from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social a feather light delight.

Hello Anna 👋🏼 @annapolonyi.bsky.social

More happy thrifters @nomad-sw18.bsky.social

What an amazing night! Great panel w @kitdewaal.com Balsam Karam & Philippe Marczewski - so many profound and diverse answers to great questions about writing, identity, process, what unroots you and being European writers. Thanks to @deborahzafer.bsky.social @norami.bsky.social & crew ❤️

Another @nomad-sw18.bsky.social masterpiece in @neitherfishnorfoul.com “We creatures of muscle and bone, of wing and sinew, must stick together.” Gorgeous 🧡🧡🧡

Excited to be in the "Cake" issue of @neitherfishnorfoul.com w some great writers @quickasaflash.bsky.social @joycebingham.bsky.social @jaimegill.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-beau...

Amazing to be here at @saloneurope.bsky.social w @norami.bsky.social introducing the keynote @kitdewaal.com

Unexpected in Brussels - the weirdest ambulance siren ever 🤣 @saloneurope.bsky.social

"I don’t remember unsettlement – is that even a word? – being one of the stages of grief." Wonderful story about a father and son, life and death, art and grief by @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/acc...

Woohoo! Kickoff for @saloneurope.bsky.social tonight in Brussels. Thanks to the founders of EWS for pulling this together, heroes!!! I'll be reading my story in @mrbullbull.bsky.social Bullets are not circles but they leave circles behind | MrBullBull share.google/LDpoC0TLJO16...

Oof. This micro about playing Two Truths & a Lie by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social hits where it hurts. "Oscar faces Julia, clasps her hands & says, “I love you. I have always been faithful to you. I fooled around with your cousin Eve.” www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

"The Wi-Fi didn’t work. Not even the fake kind that shows up just to disappoint you." OMG love the vibe of this story by @mallorysmart.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social Reminds me of a series of photographs I took of a terrible motel. Review pending. www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

Love reading litmag's nominations for awards. Congrats to @mdaltoneloy.bsky.social @crankypacifist.bsky.social @bringonthelucie.bsky.social @matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social @sansromeo.bsky.social 🎊🎉 www.stanchionzine.com/post/stanchi...

Thrilled to get an acceptance today from @mississippireview.bsky.social for a story I really love. Look out for their Winter issue 👀

Our next FREE Online Open Mic Salon date is announced! 🗓️ 28 October Hosted by the lovely @kiklodge.bsky.social, this salon is always a good time, with wonderful readings and a highly serious quiz Details below, including how to sign up to read. We hope you’ll join us!

Just spotted a new #litmag for women to sub to. Theme for Issue 2: Hot off the press. "The theme is meant to inspire, not constrain, so feel free to interpret it in creative ways!" #Submissions open til 31 Oct. Edited by Tina Carlson & @jekwriter.bsky.social hotflashliterary.com?utm_source=s...

Wonderful morning with @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and her "Yeah, Nah" online get together w so many great flash writers. Shout out to @sagetyrtle.bsky.social for her chilling piece "Tongue," part of a larger project. What a stunner. www.thespotlongreview.org/issueix-tyrt...

"In the US there have been attempts to censor everything, including the weather, and I was looking at the website for NOAA, one of the federal agencies under attack, and came across a list of meteorological terms, and that gave me the shape for the final story." @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #NFFR