There are now just eight maids-a-milking until the #WelkinWritingPrize is open for entries once again. Hope you're busy scribbling your stories. www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Fabulous #WriteCBC task set by @jessicabull.bsky.social for this month's competition... 😀✒️

SUB CALL—Winter Solstice | Dead of Winter: We want your dead of winter—your isolation, your frozen-in-time, your icy touch. We want the clocks to stop, to feel the danger of the cold. Give us frostbite. Give us whiteouts. Give us . . . yetis.

"Open Coop" - A fabulous opportunity for writers of middle-grade fiction in the UK and Ireland. 🖋️😀👍

❤️ Chuffed to bits! Thank you so much @freeflashfiction.bsky.social for publishing my CNF flash today! And to Lin Beresford for her wonderfully atmospheric illustration. 🎨❤️ #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction @leicwritersclub.bsky.social

Always a box of delights, The Big Scottish Book Club 💝. (Note to self...I'm going to need another bookshelf!) 📚📖

Time to get Flashy! 😝 #CBCSummerStory25

What a glorious surprise to find sunflowers on weekend 'Walkies' with the dogs. 🐾🌻🌞

Vote cast for #Uncanny in the #BritishPodcastAward - I'm forever wobbling between Team Sceptic and Team Believer! 👻

Gorgeous weather for this morning's 'Walkies!' Feels so good for the soul ❤️

Submissions are OPEN!!! I'll be reading from 1st-20th August. Cannot wait to read and enjoy all your lovely work x Submission details here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/submissions

Unsolicited writing advice, no: 1. Love what you do. Nurture it; give it the time it needs to grow. Don't force it to be something it doesn't want to be. Don't compare it with its siblings. Feed it what it most needs. Don't lose the joy in your writing. Because if you don't love it, who else will?

FFF Competition Twenty-Nine...

It was very still & the sky was the dull silver of a mermaid's mirror. The swifts who nested in the thatch were leaving that night, flying to Madrid, then south, south, south across the Sahara, carrying tales of Old Fox’s cottage, tales of love, of sickness, of fear, of hope.

🐸 General subs are open!🐸 flash-frog.com/submit/

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize Closing date 8 November!

Percolating away ...

Spread the word about Paragraph Planet, the #writing website that publishes one 75-word #story every day www.paragraphplanet.com/submission #writingcommunity #flashfiction

Who fancies a #writing challenge? Write a story in just 75 words - exactly 75 words - for the chance to be published on Paragraph Planet’s home page. One has been featured every day since 2008. Http://www.paragraphplanet.com/submission.php #writingcommunity Pls RT to other #writers

I recently had a lovely micro published by @paragraphplanet.bsky.social ... give it a go! 😁

Happy Days! I've added my favourite Bluesky people and places to notifications on @bluenotify.app and now I'm seeing so many, many more of their lovely posts

Chuffed to have a little piece, "(K1,P1)" published today🖋️😀. Thank you, @paragraphplanet.bsky.social www.paragraphplanet.com

Grab your paddles 🚣🚣‍♂️🚣‍♀️ the 'flash flood'-gates are open! ✒️

A possible creative project for this week if you fancy it: 🌿 gather a few leaves on a walk/in your garden 🥚 stick lightly to a blown egg using a gluestick 🦿 wrap egg & leaf tightly in part of an old pair of tights 🧅 make your own food dyes using red cabbage, turmeric, onion skins etc. Results:

Shhhh. Come're. You'll be the first to hear about this. Starting May 11, we'll open our themed call for submissions "Dark Fantasy and Psychological Thriller" for our September issue, paying $300 for accepted flash (under 1000 words). Watch our social media channels for more info.

Happy Anniversary Larry! Love you! ❤️xx

Thin Skin is a literary magazine showcasing the work of writers over 50 ❤️ bsky.app/profile/thin...

I don’t think I’ve ever loved my village more than I did yesterday. The hills sparkled with bright snow, the mists curled lazily below, and the church stood half-hidden in trees crafted from diamonds. I could have stayed all day in this spot, listening to the bell ringing out through the valley.

Didn't make it to the @welkinprize.bsky.social longlist but congratulations to everyone who did 👍🎉. And thanks @mattkendrick.bsky.social for taking the time to send such encouraging words 🥰

Already read BROKEN LIGHT? Great news! THE MOONLIGHT MARKET is also on sale for just 99p on Kindle UK! www.amazon.co.uk/Moonlight-Ma...

100 words finally wrangled into submission ... 🖋️😀 @mattkendrick.bsky.social @welkinprize.bsky.social

Beautiful Chistmas Morning walkies with Doogie...Mum, your legs are soooooo long! I 🎄xx

Yay! This is fun, and I'm chuffed to bits to get a shout-out! 🥳 Congratulations to @thoughtworms.bsky.social for winning Act 1 of #5ActFestiveStory ☃️Looking forward to seeing where this goes...

I've given it a go! 👍⤵️🖋️

What a privilege to witness the turn of the seasons before your very eyes, the brightness of autumn blazing against the white of winter. The snow fell in tiny wisps in the cold air and the leaves spiralled down beside them. As always, the click of the shutter was followed by a whispered 'thank you'.

5 days to go! Help us tell our annual #5ActFestiveStory. The story will begin with a prompt from @clotimms.bsky.social. Competition runs from Mon 9 Dec to Mon 16 Dec. #WriteCBC #WritingCommunity Discover what prizes are on offer and how to take part: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/blog/how-to-...

Here's a fabulous opportunity for #kidlit word wranglers! 😀🖋️ ⤵️ The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition is open for entries: www.chickenhousebooks.com/submissions/

Reminder that Short Story, Long submissions opened today, will be open all December. 3k-8k words, $100 for accepted stories + paired with original, commissioned art (I still have 13 pending subs from last call that I'm hoping to finish this week!) ashortstorylong.submittable.com/submit

Thanks everyone who came to our festival day last Sat & to the presenters— @stephaniecarty.bsky.social @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social @kathyfish.bsky.social @mariegethins.bsky.social @kathyfish.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social Video sent. Festival contest ends 7th Dec Flashfictionfestival.com

A further thanks to our readers at the festival day on Sat itssonoemi.bsky.social @stephaniecarty.bsky.social @judehwriter2.bsky.social @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @kathyfish.bsky.social @shortpoemz.bsky.social

Writing craft resources from the most generous @mattkendrick.bsky.social ❤️

The Failing Writers Podcast (Ep20) Festive #FlashFiction Comp, £1 to enter. Closing date 13th Dec. 350 words inc. special phrase revealed in Blog post interview with judge, Emily Devane @devaneemily.bsky.social www.failingwriterspodcast.com/post/win-500... 🎄☃️🖋️

Hi #WritingCommunity! Something very exciting is coming to Bluesky next month . . . We're excited to announce that our annual #5ActFestiveStory writing competition will be hosted here this year. Join us from Mon 9 Dec to Mon 16 Dec. www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/blog/how-to-...

And this morning the Shed is a tiny box, made from a fragment of mother-of-pearl; a whisper of starlight; a silver thread; and containing a spell so potent that none who have tried it have ever survived...

The Welkin Writing Prize. Only 100 words and free to enter! ❤️🖋️

Hello Bluesky!😀