In our second video from the March 22nd event, KATE DURRANT @katedurrant.bsky.social discusses the role that ambition, goal-setting and vision have played in her journey to becoming an established voice and a working writer. www.creativecommunitysessions.com/p/kate-durrant

We're open to #microfiction so why not check us out? We're looking forward to reading your work #callforsubmissions. Please follow the link for guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

I posted this yesterday. My five books on the kitchen table. I’ve had big publishers, small publishers, an agent, then not. I’ve been on radio 4, in a pile of collections, won prizes. But for years and years I was never proud of myself. Now I look back, pat myself on back. 😊👍 linktr.ee/drewgum

www.frazzledlit.com/p/everything... Brilliant. Go read!

Issue 2 is live! Featuring work by: @danieldugganwriter.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @devonwebbnz.bsky.social @theiredal.bluesky.social @shiramusicant.bsky.social @julietpersimmon.bsky.social and more 👇🏼 this issue is 🔥. Thanks to you all! #springwarmer #frazzissue2 #frazzledlit

If it's half as good as issue 1 this'll be a wonderful read. So pleased to be in this second issue. Thanks to the editors @lozzawriting.bsky.social and @jmcm.bsky.social for their hard work and also to the reading team @kerrybyrne.bsky.social @seanmcnicholl.bsky.social and Mike Murray.

Delighted to have a new story in the wonderful @trampset.bsky.social This one is about fishes riding bicycles and being the last remaining Brussels sprout at Christmas. It was written on Christmas day.

"Inside my heart was an opening, and inside that a soft thing of feathers and twine." I love this perfect piece of writing by @ladiwoods.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social 💙💙💙

We’re back! @badlilies.bsky.social returns. We’ve delights for you.

‘Tonight I lingered over your name’ -Naomi Shihab Nye

"and my husband’s NO has a bite that reminds me of Penelope when she’s serious and even though he’s the best kind of guy, I’m starting to dislike him." Amazing collaboration b/w @kelliborges2.bsky.social and @amymarques.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social

🖊 Calling all poets! Sound the poetry alarm! 🚨 Our online salon in April is nearly booked up, but we have no poets signed up to read yet and we need you. Get in touch soon if you want to read. Book here if you want to come and listen 🎤 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...

Thank you @writerscentre.bsky.social for the wonderful East Anglian poetry category Book Award!

"Tuesday, a change: One of those decorative metal birdcages in mint green sits where the fake Tiffany lamp and the black and white photos once sat." Breath-taking writing from @lmariharris.bsky.social - love the way this one frames itself through a countdown of days

"But perhaps this young woman, whoever she is, Salma or Saarah or Sadie, doesn’t have a lover and weathers the storms and springs of her life alone. Perhaps she prefers it that way." Big love for this award-winning piece of writing by @laurabesley.bsky.social in @crankedanvil.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Bad Lilies returns, with much joy, to a screen near you next month. We’ve some beautiful poems in store for you. Follow us on @badlilies.bsky.social if you don’t already. 🌸

Brace yourselves, folks, for some northern realism of the grittiest kind ✊️

Vote for your favourite 3 mini flashes for the People’s Prize 🏆

This is coming on 10th March.

Yay!!!

Today's shortlisted story is "Like a memory, or maybe only a dream" by @laurabesley.bsky.social. Congratulations, Laura. A micro with such a brilliant twisting together of hope and sadness at its heart. www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Another little stunner from @welkinprize.bsky.social

a very possibly perfect micro today from Joseph Giglio I love it all, but then it makes that turn with "He worries that the milkman might be his father and that if so he has let down his real father by spilling the milk." and my brain lit up https://www.havehashad.com/nzq1x

'Road to Chatcull' -Marks on Maps- Charcoal A blatant theft of title and humble homage to a hugely influential writer and collaborator @regcrawford.bsky.social whose writing forms the backbone of these landscape drawings, and a great many back over the years. Have a read: ko-fi.com/post/THE-ROA...

Last 24 hours to book for this workshop. I'm proud of this one! Lots of fun prompts to encourage the use of illness in your stories www.tickettailor.com/events/retre...?

Who fancies writing a 75-word #story? Paragraph Planet publishes one on its home page every day www.paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity #flashfiction #writing

I could not be more excited about this book, you guys - there are so many really incredible writers in here, so many stories I absolutely lost my shit over - and now it’s print! And look at this cover! altcurrentpress.com/2025/01/22/b...

Very cool! So grateful to appear in Best Small Fictions 2024 alongside many brilliant writers! Big thanks to all the editors at @altcurrent.bsky.social 😊💙 altcurrentpress.com/2025/01/22/b...

I started a substack about my creative process & it includes prompts like I use in my classes, if anyone’s interested. open.substack.com/pub/bethgils...

Today's shortlisted story is "We built a time machine in your ward" by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social. Congratulations, James. A poignant piece that swirls through time in such a clever way: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

No! When I craft and mould my writing into something beautiful and meaningful, the words and sentiments arise from within, informed by years of life experience. There is soul in my writing, joy, love and compassion. Even if AI could simulate these things, the resulting work wouldn't be mine anymore.

Sweet, I'm name's in there. And congratulations to all the other writers on the list. 😊 ✨️

revisiting this morning a couple of Lynch-inspired pieced we've published... Shawn Berman's "David Lynch's The Very Hungry Caterpillar"

So thrilled to have made the shortlist for this contest for one of my favourite publications, especially alongside my friend @michellerule.bsky.social

shoutout to @skyskkyy.bsky.social for making the list with her amazing story, "Two Girls"! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/two...

I threw a poem into the cut up machine and something popped out. I have some thoughts on it... later voidspacezine.com/2025/01/18/9...

Perfectly timed for the snowstorm we're apparently about to get, my 90s-snow-day choose-your-own-adventure story is up at @voidspacezine.bsky.social! I'm so happy they gave it a home, and I hope it brings you joy!! voidspacezine.com/snow-day/ (yes you must click a few times before things begin)

Find a bit of me here, all chopped up and put back together.

A seance. A baby shower. Judy Garland. This story from @kcmeadbrewer.com is brilliant.

I’ve come up with a new quarterly event series called @writeback.bsky.social at the British Library. The format is each writer presents for 20 min on a subject of their choice, then in the second half the writers interview each other. It’ll be hosted by @helenmort.bsky.social.

Voidspace 13 is now live! Including our CUT! IT! UP! popup Big love to @lynchpoet.bsky.social for editorial assistance and being much better at typesetting than me 🖤🖤🖤

"The bridesmaids are batting false compliments to each other: ‘I love your hair,’ ‘No, I love your hair..." Marriage Act by Kerry Hadley-Pryce @kerryhp.bsky.social #shortstory Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/01/19/m...

Everyone should read more short and flash fiction. There is such a wealth available FREE online and some absolute knock-the-breath-out-of-you pieces. You can just scroll through the stories that don't suit your tastes, but trust me, there are GEMS

Holy fuck my story is here! An enormous thank you to @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social and @identitytheory.bsky.social for seeing the potential in "Our First Night Together"! Thank you to the Best Micro editors and Dawn Raffel. I'm so thrilled I don't know what to do with myself.

What an honor to see my name on the list next to so many writers I admire. Congrats to all! Huge thanks to editor Laura Black @fictivedream.bsky.social for nominating “It Was a Year,” and to judge @dawnraffel.bsky.social and wonderful Best Microfiction editors @megpokrass.bsky.social and Gary! ❤️

Ah!!!! For the first time ever, my story is on the Best Microfiction 2025 list!!! ✨ Congrats to my fellow winners, an honor to be among so many familiar names. And THANK YOU to @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social and @identitytheory.bsky.social for nominating my little fish soup piece!! 🍜🩵🩵🩵

Issue 25 is live gooseberry-pie.com/issue-25/

Joy, Issue 13 is now live✨ You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...

Hello! We're back in action with a FREE online Writing Retreat on Saturday 15 Feb from 10am-4pm. Join us for a no-pressure, friendly-faced few hours of accountability and quiet companionship while you write your socks off. Details here thepropellingpencil.com/workshops-re...

Yay!! Best Microfiction 2025 is out!! I made it with a flash from The Ilanot Review!! Congratulations to all of my fellow writers!! And congratulations to Literary Namjooning's @amygcb.bsky.social and @andrewbertaina.bsky.social!! @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social