‘I point to one dominated by reddish hues. “Is this anger?” “No, that’s unsettlement,” Dad says, as if the answer is obvious.’ Just gorgeous from @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com - love how that title looms large 🎨 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/acc...

I've only got around to reading this now. Well done! Now if you'll excuse me I have something in my eye.

I'm a big fan of @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's writing and am always excited to see she has a new story published. This is another banger, great title too!

The programme for this year's Bookmark Blairgowrie book festival. A really excellent, high quality book festival in the heart of Perthshire. This year feat. @seanluskauthor.bsky.social @linanderson.bsky.social @billykayscot.bsky.social @florajowriter.bsky.social and many others. Well worth a visit.

The wonderful Frankie McMillan knocks it out of the park today in the new issue of Flash Boulevard: flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/09/20/f...

Awesome piece by the Berlin-based writer Jane Yager in the fabulous new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social: "I sit in the car while everyone else goes into the museum, because as we pulled into the parking lot, Dad let slip that the pits are still active." gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...

"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...

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

“Alle freuen sich”, vor allem ich! What a treat to be talking next week to A.L. Kennedy for the book premiere of her latest short story collection! Come and join us— the stories are wry, devastating, full of twists and maverick characters. Tickets: Literaturhaus Berlin, Venue: Ballhaus Prinzenallee

How amazing is this story? Gentle and gut-wrenching all at once. Beautiful writing by @ruralunease.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

"The Kübler-Ross model has denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and another emotion that I can’t recall" Wonderfully observed storytelling from @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com; love how the title hangs over the story like a shadow

Love @ruralunease.bsky.social's gentle, observational writing and this is no exception. In @havehashad.com "“Grief is one of the five stages of grief?”" 💔

It's a huge thrill to see my story Acceptance up on @havehashad.com today! Massive thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for believing in this piece! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/acc...

I've been thinking about Daniel Addercouth's story since accepting “So each of these paintings represents one of the stages of grief?” “Exactly,” says my father. “After I complete the stage, I’ll burn the painting. It’ll be—what do they call it? Cataclysmic?” https://www.havehashad.com/kcjxe

This week for #WelkinWindbackWednesday, "Later, looking back, I was embarrassed I hadn’t realised I was dead " by @ruralunease.bsky.social :

Just spent some time with the new issue from @thin-skin.bsky.social Wow! The quality is breathtaking! @ruralunease.bsky.social and @sudhab.bsky.social have outstanding pieces of work included. Both took my breath away with the perfection of their words.🌟

Such a thrill to be in the new issue of @thin-skin.bsky.social, the magazine for writers over 50. Massive thanks to @eleanor-luke.bsky.social for her help with revising this piece and to Thin Skin EIC @abigailseltzer.bsky.social for believing in it! thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...

It was such a pleasure to meet up with fellow writer @bdiggswrites.bsky.social during her recent trip to Berlin! Love the Czech Embassy in the background!

Really looking forward to the online launch of Natalie Shapero's new book with @outspokenpress.bsky.social tomorrow!

Massive gratitude to @abigailseltzer.bsky.social and the @thin-skin.bsky.social team for breaking my run of 39 consecutive rejections by accepting my story We've Seen a Lot of People Come and Go. Thank you also to @eleanor-luke.bsky.social for helping me get it over the line!

Yay, the incredible Natalie Shapero has poem of the day today on poets.org: poets.org/poem/hansel-...

The August episode of Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social is here! Featuring @fionajanemack.bsky.social's fabulous Tahitian princess tale, @lindybiller.bsky.social's 'Good Baby' & 1 little story from me. Have a listen to these 5🌟 'Outsider' tales: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

PhD expertise in your pocket? So, presumably if you now ask it a question, you’ll get an answer like, ‘Actually that’s tricky. Academia isn’t united on the issue. Look. Set aside a few years. Do a significant amount of study - I can provide reading lists - then I’ll be able to show you the basics.’

Tracy Fuad is teaching Poetry I beginning in early September! Open to poets of all experience levels. More info and registration here: buff.ly/u6YyhFg

Totally excited about taking this course! Berlin poets, will you join me?

Can’t make it to Brussels? Meet us in Madrid! On 16 October we’re teaming up with Desperate Literature @desperatelit.bsky.social for an open mic reading in their lovely new premises 📚 We’ll have wine, soft drinks and plenty of time to get to know other writers 🍷

So thrilled to have won this! The cherry on top of the cake of a perfect weekend at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social A thousand thanks to @megpokrass.bsky.social for choosing Beatrice! Congratulations to the runners up, @rachaeldunlop.com and Tim Collyer 🎪🤡🤸

Reading from Ethan Hawke & me this afternoon with @FoxCityLit . Thrilled to be a part of this lineup :)

American candy embraces the 2nd person POV.

Shades of David Lynch in suburban Maryland.

I'm not going to forget this excellent and disturbing story by @odinmeadows.bsky.social any time soon!

Alumni and students—come hang out at our picnic in August! Exact location and more info here: buff.ly/SIbiALX

This was a brilliant interview by @rattlepoetry.bsky.social with the poet Chad Frame @probablysomeone.bsky.social. Totally want to buy both his books now (hoping I can get hold of them in Germany!). www.youtube.com/live/Zh0-YwE...

📣 Last call to make it into our listings email! Got a course, retreat, workshop, submission call, event you want people to know about? Want to start a writing group in your city? Tell us and we'll tell our readers. 📣

They say achieving your writing goals is hard, but I've just set a new personal best of 36 literary magazine rejections in a row. Can anyone beat that? 😀

Really looking forward to this. If you’re about, come along! Pay what you can.

My ears always prick up whenever I spot a new story by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, and this one in the current issue of @gonelawn.bsky.social is a banger: "Two weeks after my mother-in-law’s funeral, I come home from work to limes. Everywhere." gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

✨️ We've collated a list of European literary journals and magazines here bsky.app/profile/did:... Latest addition = @theberlinreview.bsky.social ✨️

"You recall laughing so hard that your stomach hurt, and how your father put you down, ignoring your pleas of again again " Weightless by Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social‬ #microfiction #MicroMonday #writingcommunity. Please follow the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/06/23/m...

Today from #MicroMonday please enjoy two superb stories: Weightless by Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social and A Small Victory by Marc Frazier #microfiction #writingcommunity. Just follow the link to access fictivedream.com/2025/06/23/m...

Delighted to have a micro in the fantastic @fictivedream.bsky.social today! (CWs: alcoholism, cancer, bereavement) Massive thanks to EIC Laura Black for believing in this story!

Am 5 Juli bin ich im Gespräch mit Zoë Beck bei FeeLit in Heidelberg! Kommt vorbei!

Check out our Art Writing Workshop happening this August! This workshop will explore the art of writing about art. No prior experience necessary. More info and sign up here: buff.ly/uVIJm35

God’s plus one - what an original idea! 💡

Still trying to catch up with my reading from Saturday's incredible FlashFlood by @natflashfictionday.bsky.social... Love this awesome piece by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social: "as long as they didn’t look toward your chair or see you fighting to breathe at the edge of space, dinner would not be ruined".

'Sometimes I feel like God’s plus one.’ Reading and rereading and chewing over this little gem by @ruralunease.bsky.social #FlashFiction #MicroFiction

"I try to catch God’s eye so he’ll rescue me, but he’s deep in conversation with a group of men in matching football shirts" Wonderful capturing of a scenario that feels both completely recognisable and completely original from @ruralunease.bsky.social

I'd be delighted if you gave this strange little piece of mine a read! (CW: religion, alcohol) Massive thanks to @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social team for including it in #FlashFlood!

A brilliant one to start the day with from @ruralunease.bsky.social #nffd2025

Delighted to have a piece in #FlashFlood tomorrow, going live at 6.25am BST! Massive thanks to @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social team for all their hard work!