Our charity anthology authors share the love! "What Come to Light is a brutally tender vignette on uncoupling and finding new meaning, told with lyrical panache." Paperback £7.50: mybook.to/WhatComesToL... @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social @quickasaflash.bsky.social

What a flipping thrill to be a lookout on the bins - thanks to the mighty @therelphian.bsky.social ! There's cats. There's bangers. There's cat bangers. Looking forward to you all reading them!

@therelphian.bsky.social - the greatest! Hey, you are great too, but are you as good as JP? Do better, is all I'm saying.

We're just over halfway through our winter pop-up submission call and getting some intriguing titles in the binbox 🦝 We want your cat flash for this one - 100 to 1000 words, any genre - all details at this link 😺 trashcatlit.com/call-for-cat...

Stoked to be featuring in @frazzledlit.bsky.social issue 4 - a solid editorial crew, stellar contributors I know and will get to know, and something a bit different from me! 🥳

🚨 Woop woop 🚨. Pleased this is out in the world - thanks to fine folk at @literarygarage.bsky.social !!!

Trash Cat are the absolute best - send them your tabby gear, you won't regret it!

It's coming... The feline takeover is almost upon us. We want your cat flash - between 100 and 1000 words - for our call. Any genre. Deadline is 14th December. All the info and image prompts here: trashcatlit.com/call-for-cat...

Part 1 of a short story about teacher stress and the horrors of the English education system. It's very close to my heart. I'd love it if you gave it a gander (or badger) and let me know your thoughts! open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...

If you've had a great experience with our wee magazine - as a subber, reader or anything else - we'd love you to consider nominating us for @chillsubs.bsky.social Community Favourites awards. Takes just a mo and deadline is 5th December 🦝💜 www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

We're so excited to share our first print anthology, available to purchase for only £9/ $11.50 🦝 Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for @WildlifeTrusts and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜 mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

Like buses, my second bit of gear published today. Prompts are fun pistoljimpress.substack.com/p/twofer-joy...

Thrilled to be an Underbelly barnacle on this lush thing. Autumnal melancholia lies within both from super talented folk I know, and will for sure get to know. Plus, a niche comfort/small victory from me!

Tremendous story by @laurabesley.bsky.social

There are 27 short fictions in our print anthology - two of them deal beautifully with stories of escape 🦝 If these teases tempt you, you can grab a copy for less than £10! mybook.to/WhatComesToL... What Comes to Light by @quickasaflash.bsky.social 💜 Thin Place by @justine1902.bsky.social 💜

@earlgreysnail.bsky.social Hi Ashley, fellow word slugger here (Ian - legit, not a bot). Can I contact you about something?

I'm thrilled to reveal the cover of Underbelly Press Issue 5 ahead of its release this Saturday (8 November)! Less than a week to go... A huge thank you to the wonderfully talented D.C. Nobes whose stunning shot is the cover for this issue. Teasers for Issue 5 coming soon!

Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for wallaby.

Like your story-reads with a smidge, or even a pantwetting load, of laughs? Our print anthology has 3 corking tales to whet your giggle-box. With 24 other amazing reads inside - grab one. mybook.to/WhatComesToL... Teases from @mrallanmiller.bsky.social @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social & Shayla Felix

As the youth would say, I believe, yas queen. Some familiar brilliant writers and new ones (to me) to explore. Cannae wait man, pet.

We’re excited to announce the incredible contributors for Issue 5: AUTUMN! Huge thanks to everyone who submitted & supported Underbelly Press in shaping our first themed issue. It's bursting with stunning pieces, each offering a unique take on autumn. Release date coming soon!

Want your reading chops round something uncanny and yet agonisingly relatable? Yeah, so we have that in our print anthology - and another 24 stories to boot. Raising money for charity, go grab a copy... mybook.to/WhatComesToL... 1/2

A-reading and a-editing (and a-posing) in local book fortress @litandphil.bsky.social

I'm taking a break from my latest "impossible" jigsaw to read the stories again in print. Thanks again to @therelphian.bsky.social for working so hard to get this fantastic anthology out! Get yours at: mybook.to/WhatComesToL... #shortfiction

Year. Made. Yah boy in print. Thank you @therelphian.bsky.social @trashcatlit.bsky.social for this fine artefact. Impress your friends and save a badger mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

If you have the means, I just want to speak up for the feedback option on this comp. The thoughtful notes I received on a short kickstarted a purple patch where my redrafted piece was accepted by 6 publications, and made me more mindful in my writing generally.

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My story in this anthology (Happy Birthday, You Geriatric POS) will change your life, and the other 26 are somehow MORE vital. Even if you hate yourself, it's for charity... do you hate animals? Why? Get it at mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

Check out the webpage for our upcoming print anthology. We have added story teases from our twenty-seven amazing contributors to tantalise your readerly appetites🦝💜 trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...

The paperback proof of our upcoming anthology is getting some last-minute editorial attention from Mary. She's ruthless! but also chonky so one could say, the proof is with the pudding 🦝😼 Not long now until the book can be in your cat's paws too!

Absolutely thrilled to have this out in the world - a longer version of my @trashcatlit.bsky.social short, from my WIP novel. Now with added Kilburn White Horse (and comeuppance)! Thank you to @apricotpress.bsky.social and @lizziealblas.bsky.social for her thoughtful editing.

Thank you to my favourites @trashcatlit.bsky.social and @therelphian.bsky.social for a fun assignment, and hark at me talking about writing and processes and that! World's gone mad!

This one a feat and a treat in short shortness @jupiterjonz.bsky.social

It's witty, it's clever, AND it features Scarborough. What more do you want?

This collection is 🔥 (and I'm in there too)

Having read every wonderful word, I can heartily recommend diving headfirst into both bins. Laughs, poignant moments, sci-fi, horror, love, revenge - there's treasure here for everyone! #FlashFiction #ShortFiction #writingcommunity

We pushed and we pushed and we have delivered a pair of delightful flashy collections 🦝🦝 Thirteen flash from all new Trash Family: trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto... Twelve flash from repeat bin offenders: trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto... A bumper read of amazing prompted stories - ENJOY!

This was loads of fun. A happy evening of bin rummaging awaits... here is my depraved, tongue-in-cheek (!) offering - trashcatlit.com/frisson-inte... .

COMING THURSDAY 🦝 Dinnerware malfunction aboard a sleeper train 🥖 Two women defy the darkness for as long as they can 💡 Seems everyone has a camera these days 📸 Beware the sap and the goddamn squirrels 🌳

Back with the Trash Cat massive - top fun playing with prompts!

Looking forward to featuring in @apricotpress.bsky.social and reading other contributor's work!

Delighted to be highly commended creme. It's been a canny few months. Congratulations to all!

24 prompt sets delivered already! You guys are so keen 😀 Observations so far: We're going to have several forest-set stories🌲 Two people got the exact same set of prompts🦝🦝 We love that we've sent cats, dogs and insects out as characters 🐈‍⬛🐕🪰 trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto...

My bit of stuff wriggled through! First EVER longlisting! Thanks @frazzledlit.bsky.social 😬😰😭

Hot. Damn. Thank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social !

Looking forward to being back in Trash Cat - made so many discoveries last time - a home for great, diverse writing.

A new story from me (the first I ever wrote, finally out in the world) from the good folk at Product. What do we owe our past selves? What constitutes a life well lived? www.productmagazine.co.uk/new-fiction/...

Thrilled to have this out, and even more thrilled to work with @trashcatlit.bsky.social #writers - these are good people, fantastic to work with - add them to your list! #readers check out the many bangers in this issue and beyond #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity

Absolutely over the moon to have this short (my first!) published, and by the exceptional Trash Cat Lit. Features characters from my WIP novel, so I'm very attached to it! Love, lust, betrayal, regret, what's not to like (don't answer that, I'm too fragile) trashcatlit.com/in-the-fulln...