Over 6,000 people have joined our call for a halt to new hyperscale data centres in Scotland. Have you? The 24 applications in so far would require 1.5 times as much energy as all of Scotland uses at peak demand. We can't let this free-for-all continue.

Late night walk on the longest day of the year #HappySolstice

So pleased my little story has found its way onto the @bathflashaward.bsky.social longlist! 🥰 Big congrats to everyone on the list and commiserations if you didn't make it this time around (been there!)

'At first, Second Sight, aptly named, posted generic messages. Person. Cat. Motion. Then more detailed descriptions followed.' This is brilliant and wildly impressive (no repeat words! not a single one!!), brava @debdanthewriter.bsky.social! 👏👏

Scotland is facing a wave of applications for hyperscale data centres. If the 24 announced so far were approved they'd take up more than 1.5 times Scotland's peak demand in electricity. We need an immediate pause until a clear national strategy is set out. 👉 greens.scot/datacentres

Submissions are open at trampset! Read our guidelines and send us your best work. We pay $30 via PayPal. Anybody can use our free submission category. Tips and quick response revenues pay our writers, editors and site costs ✍️ We've missed you all! www.trampset.org/submissions

The Mini Moon Contest at Tadpole Press is open through June 29! Submit works of 10 words or less including the title. The winner receives $50: www.clmp.org/members/open...

This #nffd1026 Write-In prompt was my absolute fav – borrow 5 words from a FlashFlood piece and incorporate them into a flash on a different theme. I chose @devaneemily.bsky.social's 'Magnolia' because a) it's gorgeous and b) miss a chance to reference the Grateful Dead? I could never⚡️🧸

'my skin sloughs off, my own name silt in the riverbed' Absolute stunner from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @kathrynreese.bsky.social 🙌💜

I had so much fun with the Write-In prompts on #nffd2026! This is a story that hits close to home and had been stubbornly brewing in the back of my brain for a while. So glad it finally got coaxed out 🙏💜

👀Novella-in-Flash Writers! I've been invited by London Writers Salon to deliver this w/shop. If you want to add your/a NiF to my Recommended Reading list drop title & publisher in the comments. A great way to promote your work to a new audience. community.londonwriterssalon.com/c/interviews...

Keep an eye on this space... Submissions open in ONE WEEK! (Bonus points if you now have that song stuck in your head.) Check out the guidelines at forget.cool/submissions and share with your writer friends!

Wow! Brilliant. That's the only word for it.⬇️

Last flash in the flood! I have been doing more writing than reading today, so many gems on my list to catch up on tomorrow 😊💜

This, by @erinbondo.com, reminded me of classic Ray Bradbury. (I don't have a higher compliment.) #amwriting #nffd2026

me, this morning: ooh, what if I wrote something for *all 25* write-in prompts #nffd2026 😍 me, 8 hours later: ....well, that's one done 🫠 (slow writers/editors unite!)

'After he dies, his daughter places his taxidermied body in the bay window.' Wow, @emhall47.bsky.social delivering from the first line to the last 👏👏💜

👋 <-- my drabble waving as it bobs by on the flood, contentedly surrounded by the brilliant words of so many other flash writers Thanks again to @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social for inspiring this one with a fab workshop prompt! 🫶

'this big lost country which is all dust and unknown plants with strange habits like his own' Soo good, @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social! 🙌💜

"our hands thigmotropic on the couch" Oof, this is stunning @pleomorphic2.bsky.social!!

The @natflashfictionday.bsky.social 2026 anthology officially launches tomorrow! So pleased to receive my contributor's copy featuring my piece 'Doggerland (or, 10,000 years ago there were no migrant boats crossing the English Channel)' 🥰 Order 👉 www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...

Two days to go till National Flash Fiction Day! Read with us! Write with us! Publish with us! Celebrate with us! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

how does this keep happening

Scottish friends! Please sign @living-rent.bsky.social's petition - we need the Scottish Government to enact a rent freeze and eviction ban to tackle the housing crisis and give tenants a safety net until rent controls come into force. www.livingrent.org/we_need_a_re...

My June #CraftArticle is all about points of view, packed with pieces to read and prompts to have a go at as well as the usual prattlefog and gravelrap 😀 There are also some offers on my workshops you might like to check out 😎 prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/points-of-...

Yoni eggs are so 2017

Enter today Sun 7th June ! Deadline midnight. Last chance to submit a story of up to 300 words. £1000 top prize. Double and triple entries reduced Plus a chance for 3 writers to win 3 free entries for next time! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/last...

Not long to go till National Flash Fiction Day (Saturday 13 June). We will be publishing a flash every five or ten minutes for 24 hrs. Our write-in project will also be posting a prompt every hour on the hour! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

Yesterday I subbed something on the very last day of a submission window, so today I thought I'd shake things up and get in on the very first day...only to find out that @mattkendrick.bsky.social is a maverick and opened it a day early! Close anough 😅 #TheWelkinGenrePrize @welkinpress.bsky.social

Gutter Magazine is seeking a new Managing Editor! If you've ever dreamed of b̷o̷s̷s̷i̷n̷g̷ ̷m̷e̷ ̷a̷b̷o̷u̷t̷ collaborating on a biannual magazine publishing new fiction, non-fiction and poetry from Scotland and beyond, well, what are you waiting for? Details on the site! www.guttermag.co.uk/managing-edi...

Both of these workshops look so interesting (!!) but I'm throwing my hat in the ring for A Snow Globe on an Iceberg 🙌💜

For lovers of historic pipe organs, our colleagues at Sowne of Organe have an upcoming event in Edinburgh you won't want to miss! 🎹 "A Giant Reawakens" will see this 1880 "Father" Willis organ brought back to life once again by five amazing organists at this free concert. 🎵 More info below 👇

It's that time of year again in this neck of the woods. As a former lifeguard: please read!! It could save a life 💜

£1460 In prizes Closes Sunday 7th June. Up to300 words. Results out end of June. Judge writer and teacher Alison Woodhouse. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/05/your...

The next Welkin workshop is "The Backwards Gaze" on Thursday 28th May at 7pm BST. A reminder that if you're a low income writer and would like to join any of these workshops, you can apply for a free place: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

So excited to announce our next free workshop! Write Weirder Fiction: On Leaning into Your Own Strangeness, led by Brandon Ahmad Haffner @thebrandonhaff.bsky.social

We are now open for New Writers Awards 2027 applications. In the comments, tag the talented writer, poet, or spoken word artist in your life to encourage them to apply for a year of tailored development and support. Deadline: 29 July 2026 ✍️

So pleased this little story is finally out in the world! 'The End of Spring' started in @jeanettesheppard.bsky.social's ekphrastic workshop for @natflashfictionday.bsky.social in 2025 and found a home in WestWord's charity anthology Dislocation: Stories about Home in aid of St. Mungo's. Link below!

Now that I've done my tax return and seen how much tax I have to pay 😬, I'm having a slight panic attack 😬😬😬 Need to get on with earning some money 😶 (because apparently money 💰 doesn't grow on trees 🌳) Very grateful to anyone who wants to work with me and help me feel a little less stressed 😃

Hi, friends. Some news! My debut chapbook, “Ghost in the Rain,” is out now from Bottlecap Press! It’s got 12 micro & flash stories: lost ghosts, immortal siblings & haunted lovers. I poured years of my heart into this book. So proud & thrilled to see it in the world! bottlecap.press/products/gho...

Here’s another couple of fab workshops happening at the festival 17-19 July in Bristol U.K. with @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social from Canada & Alison Powell from the U.K. A few weekend and day passes still available + 1 bnb room at the venue. Book at Flashfictionfestival.com

Me, who ✨️lives✨️ for the camp, boycotting Eurovision for the 3rd year in a row #maybenextyear

I've read more books on this list than I'd care to remember (English Lit major) and OH LOOK, HEART OF DARKNESS IS #41. If you can have a book for a nemesis, this is mine.

We’re thrilled to introduce the title & cover of our 2026 anthology which is now available to pre-order from our bookshop. The cover is by our artist-in-residence @joannacampbell.bsky.social & the title is taken from a flash from @rachaeldunlop.com www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

Come join me & a slew of fab flash writers at the launch party for WestWords's debut charity anthology 'Dislocation' – May 20th, 7-8pm BST (2-3pm EST)!! All sales proceeds of the anthology go to St. Mungo's, who are working across the UK to end homelessness 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/westw...

This is your chance to win a free copy of ‘Tales of Cosmic Horror’ which features my story, ‘Mooncalf.’ Heavily inspired by a certain large entity… Share this post and I’ll choose a sharer at random to be the lucky recipient. #cosmichorror #horror #moon #shortstories @redcapepublishing.bsky.social