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Two more fabulous workshops to whet your festival appetite. Go deep in different ways with
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flashfictionfestival.com
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We are excited to announce the results of our 2026 microfiction competition. Thank you to everyone who entered. You can read the winning & highly commended stories here:
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tomate đ
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When someone says âScientists do not want you to knowâ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They canât shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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Bookings now open for the 2026 Flash Fiction Festival taking place at Trinity College Bristol, U.K. 17-19 July. Masses of workshops to choose from, readings, book launches, bookshop, bar, socialising and Fun! Meet flash friends and make new ones! More details
Flashfictionfestival.com
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Flash Fiction Festival
celebrating the short-short story world-wide
https://Flashfictionfestival.com
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National Flash Fiction Day
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We are pleased to announce the shortlist for our Microfiction Competition. If you are on the list, please feel free to celebrate on social media, but donât reveal your title! Thank you to everyone who entered!
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
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If you need feedback and advice Helen is a fantastic mentor!
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Big congratulations to all our Five winners selected by Ingrid Jenzrejewski
@lunchontuesday.bsky.social
The are:
@shelleyr-j.bsky.social
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
Fiona Lynch
@lettybutler.bsky.social
@rcurzon.bsky.social
Read the brilliant stories at
bathflashfictionaward.com
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Stay Tuned! Coming in about an hour, the results of our 32nd Award judged by Ingrid Jendzrejewski
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National Flash Fiction Day
about 2 months ago
Still need inspiration for our micro comp or anthology? Why not read Dianeâs interviews with our editors & judges? If you scroll down in the link, you can read all five interviews. Subs are open till 23:59 GMT on Sunday 15th Feb.
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
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National Flash Fiction Day
about 2 months ago
Subs to NFFDâs anthology (up to 500 words) on the theme of BRIDGES & entries to our micro comp (up to 100 words, no theme) close a week today (15 Feb). Cash prizes for micro comp & 2 authors from our anthology will receive prizes too! You can read more here:
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
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Sharon Telfer
about 2 months ago
Still a week to send something for
@natflashfictionday.bsky.social
anthology. Yes, youâve got time to make your story sing. Yes, youâve got time to work up that idea tickling your writing mind. Yes, me &
@karjon.bsky.social
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Kit de Waal
about 2 months ago
Iâm an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia. Link below. Please share far and wide :)
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https://www.bookbanks.co.uk/getinvolved
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National Flash Fiction Day
3 months ago
Ooh, subs to our anthology & micro fiction comp close a month today! Check out the details below:
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
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Patrick Barkham
3 months ago
If anyone needs a writers' retreat (or just a lovely holiday), my 1-bed cottage in Wells-next-the-Sea has good availability in Jan/Feb/March. It's my favourite place in the world.
www.glavenvalley.co.uk/holiday-cott...
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1 Boatman's Row in Wells-next-the-Sea is a 1 bed property for up to 2 guests. Book direct through Glaven Valley today for the best price!
https://www.glavenvalley.co.uk/holiday-cottages-in-wells-next-the-sea/1-boatmans-row
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National Flash Fiction Day
4 months ago
Submissions to our anthology (up to 500 words on the theme of BRIDGES) & our Microfiction comp (up to 100 words, no theme) are now OPEN until 15 Feb. Our anthology editors & judges are poised ready! You can read more here:
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
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Sharon Telfer
4 months ago
Subs for the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day anthology & micro comp are now open, closing 15 Feb. Please repost for
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Emma Mitchell
4 months ago
I make each of my flower necklaces by casting real flowers in silver incl snowdrop & bluebells. I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds 20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20 Cut off day forđČorders is Tue 25 Nov:
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Katie Mack
5 months ago
Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday
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Nick Black
5 months ago
If you want to keep it REALLY short and fun, do a search for "flash fiction" (stories under 1000 words, or thereabouts). Plenty free to read online, as well as anthologies and single author collections.
#flashfiction
#amreading
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Sharon Telfer
5 months ago
Love reading the
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anthology, & each writer's unique take on that year's theme. So I'm thrilled to be the 2026 guest editor, working with
@karjon.bsky.social
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National Flash Fiction Day
5 months ago
We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week!
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Ink Sweat & Tears
6 months ago
Welcome to National Poetry Day! Today we have four poets - Elena Brake, Eleanor Holmes, John Mole, Karen Downs-Barton - with different takes on this year's theme: Play.
inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat...
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Julia Webb
6 months ago
Just a reminder that the Cafe Writers International poetry competition is open. Our wonderful (sole) judge this year is Jessica Mookherjee. Top prize is ÂŁ1000
www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...
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https://www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-competition/
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Emma Mitchell
7 months ago
My Etsy shop's now open for my 5 sets of greetings cards:spring,summer,autumn,nature/botanical collections & tiny posies.I post to the US now too I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight:
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Bath Novella In flash 2026 Award open for entries till Oct 31st. All 2025 Nifs up for sale on Amazon as well as ad hoc fiction
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Novella-in-flash news!
Our 2026 Novella in Flash Award, judged by me, Jude Higgins, is now open for entries until 31st October 2025. Results out in January 2026. For novellas-in-flash in between 6000 and 18000 words. FirâŠ
https://www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/08/novella-in-flash-news/
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Amy Barnes
8 months ago
In May, I made a phone note: swarm of lavender bees. I carried the bees until Kathy Fish's summer immersive when "Lavender Bees, Dilly Dilly" was born đThank you to the
@themerseyreview.bsky.social
editors for seeing something in my purple micro fiction haze.
www.themerseyreview.com/issues/7/lav...
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Nuala O'Connor
8 months ago
đ New poem đ I have a new poem in the
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anthology. A prose poem about autism and awkwardness, two things that are forever to the forefront for me. Thanks to editor Dr Lauren Cassidy for selecting my piece.
@laurencassidy.bsky.social
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Matt Kendrick
8 months ago
**OPEN FOR BOOKINGS** My Autumn series of workshops includes: Story Shapes (7th Oct 7pm BST OR 11th Oct 9am BST) Emotional Depths (3rd Nov 7pm GMT) Funny Bones (2nd Dec 7pm GMT OR 6th Dec 9am GMT) Pay-what-you-can pricing. Details in thread below:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-workshops
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WBTL Live Workshops
https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-workshops
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Tom Freeman
8 months ago
Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
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Kit de Waal
8 months ago
Amazing opportunity to win ÂŁ75,000 for your idea for a book. You get help to write it with a writing course and you only need 1500 words of your idea. Details in link. Please share :)
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Enter The Next Big Story prize at The Novelry for a chance to win $100,000 (ÂŁ75,000 U.K.). Eight shortlisted entrants will receive The Finished Novel Course. Opens May 1, 2025. Closes July 31, 2025. T...
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Dr Jay Watts
9 months ago
As someone actually trained in behavioural psychologyâunlike most MPsâI can tell you: financial precarity doesnât âincentiviseâ sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesnât create productivity. It creates collapse.
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Matt Kendrick
9 months ago
This is such a wonderful, creative piece with an unexpected shift in the middle. If you've not previously read this, definitely worth a minute of your time đ
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National Flash Fiction Day
10 months ago
The Write-In: The Write-In 2025: The Complete List
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The Write-In 2025: The Complete List
2025 Prompts *  NFFD 2025 Prompt #1: Two Seasons *  NFFD 2025 Prompt #2: Hunting Season *  NFFD 2025 Prompt #3: Seasons of Love *  NFFD 2025 Prompt #4: Off Season *  NFFD 2025 Prompt #5: Open Season   2025 Responses * 'A Misunderstanding' by Liz Barclay * 'The Season of Balsam Flower Dyeing' by Heain Joung * 'Riches' by Emily Macdonald * 'If it Ain't Right, it Must Be Left' by Lisa H. Owens * 'Diary Entries from 2025' by Mina Otsuka * 'Seven-Foot Bicentenarian Yearns for his Ticker' by David Lewis * 'The Price of Bread' by Jane Claire Jackson * 'Mr September through December. Mr January to March' by Karen Walker * 'Finding Fire' by Alice Monro * 'Old Spice' by Rachel Burrows * 'Cocktails at the end of the world hotel' by Jack Morris * 'All The Warm Things' by Chloe Paige * 'From way back in 1970' by Karen Walker * 'One Resort, Two Seasons' by Jane Claire Jackson * 'Maze' by Abida Akram * 'Lonely No More' by Jean Feingold * 'A nimble light' by Mizuki Yamagen * 'Bright, Stubborn Things' by Cate McGowan * 'Big Game Hunter' by Scott MacLeod * 'Skin Flicks, Voted Best Tattoo Parlor in Town' by Debra A. Daniel * 'A pocketful of quiet' by Alice Monro * 'Scar Tissue' by Melissa Flores Anderson * 'Yes Yes Yes' by Sarah Freligh * 'Time flies' by Scott MacLeod * 'Dressed for the weather' by Melissa Flores Anderson * 'Two seasons' by Maria Sanger * 'The day of the cats' by Jules Goodlet-Rowley * 'All the way' by Jeremy Boyce * 'Isaac Newton saw an apple fall' by Jack Morris * 'Gower Street Bookshop closes at 9pm' by Judy Darley * 'Wisdom in a Teacup' by Faye Brinsmead * 'Papas and Beers' by Melissa Flores Anderson * 'A Hucksterâs How-To of Hustling Gulls' by Jude Potts * 'Skipped' by Bailey Scroggins * 'To The Person Who Kept My Amazon Package' by Suzanne Hicks * 'Sealed Envelopes' by Allison Renner * 'Not Based on a True Story' by Lucienne Cummings * 'Down and Up' by Michael Pettit * 'A Nimby Fails to Console Himself with Fake Flowers from Ikea' by D. X. Lewis * 'Scuppered' by Emily Macdonald * 'Purchase Partners with One Year Warranty' by Marzia Rahman * 'She Was No Wellspring of Ideas' by Sravanthi Challapalli * 'Cake Walk' by Scott MacLeod * 'Home' by Jackie Hales * 'Calida and Frigida' by Lucienne Cummings * 'Tis the season of not asking him his name' by Roopa Raveendra * 'Claude' by Cate McGowan * 'Fiat Lux' by Willow Woo * 'A Hunt Reaches a Climax' by Sravanthi Challapalli * 'The Last Poppy' by Jackie Hales * 'Rainbow Road' by Alice Monro * 'You, Change, Me' by Madeleine Armstrong * 'Protection' by Patricia Bender * 'The Fifth Son' by Birgit K. Gaiser * 'My Wife Saw Santa' by Mileva Anastasiadou * 'Unlevel Playing Field' by Jim Parisi * 'Bertâs Bus' by Joyce Bingham * 'One Day, I will Climb a Mountain' by Marzia Rahman * 'Offerings' by Karin Hedetniemi * 'The Mystery of the Missing Last Nerve' by Athena Law * 'Summer of T.V. Dinners for One' by Lisa H. Owens * 'Pressing Clouds' by Cate McGowan * 'Thirty seconds after you get on the train' by Philippa Bowe * 'Dust to Dust' by Emily MacDonald * 'Crystal Healing' by Julie Cunningham * 'Fred Number Three' by Bronwen Griffiths * 'Scattering' by Cate McGowan * 'Holding Harry' by Jane Claire Jackson * 'A Trace Of Her' by Abida Akram * 'Halloweâen Ball' by Birgit K. Gaiser * 'Itâs My Destiny' by Allison Renner * 'The Waterpark in Winter' by Jane Claire Jackson * âLaughter Between the Linesâ by Alice Monro * 'Perditus' by Lynda McMahon * 'Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)' by Chloe Paige * 'Captain Molasses' by Athena Law * 'Playing the Boy Scout Outside Aldi in 1975' by D. X. Lewis * 'Angel wings, boxed. As new.' by Jack Morris * 'The Empty Slot' by Ida Keogh * âMinus One and Beautifulâ by Alice Monro * 'Sheilaâs Mysterious Gap' by Jane Claire Jackson * 'What would you do?' by Madeleine Armstrong * 'When Agatha rediscovered her own love story' by D. X. Lewis * 'The Perfect Season' by Abida Akram * 'Fall and Spring Semesters' by Jean Feingold * 'Sudden Season Change' by Meshv Patel * 'Mrs Murdoch' by Madeleine Armstrong * 'Homing instinct' by Jeremy Boyce * 'Street art of a fox catching a bus at sunrise' by Ida Keogh * 'When They Walked Out One Winterâs Morning' by Lynda McMahon * 'Lost, Maybe Forever' by Jean Feingold * 'The Vixen' by Abida Akram * 'The Moon in June' by Madeleine Armstrong * 'The Deepest Part' by Cate McGowan * 'Joeyâs looking for a table' by Katie Willow * 'When Life Gives You Bitter Hellas Planitia Fruit...' by Lisa H. Owens * 'A Visit to St Nick' by Lucienne Cummings * 'Monsoon Season' by Abida Akram * 'Unknown Overdressed Man Discovered' by Jean Feingold * 'Letâs Pretend We Didnât See Each Other' by Gargi Mehra * 'Drive' by Michele Catalano * 'An intervention' by Birgit K. Gaiser * 'Resignation' by Chloe Cook * 'Four Years' by Allison Renner * 'Bianca is Happy All the Time' by Jean Feingold * 'Unclear Cache' by Scaramanga Silk * 'Never ignore a flashing light' by Alison Wassell * 'No one sings carols any more' by Chloe Cook * 'Seasons of sound and silence' by Sarah Oakes * 'Lost and Found' by Jack Morris * 'Amusement Parked' by John F King * 'Meditating about a Carp' by Anne Howkins * 'Lost' by Michele Catalano * 'Amanita Sapientia' by Birgit K. Gaiser * 'Got Lucky' by Michael Pettit * 'A Day In The Life' by Suzanne Hicks * 'Whatâs For Dinner?' by Lucienne Cummings * 'Time Killer' by Dimitra Fimi * 'On the Bench Nearest the Disabled Parking' by Rachel Burrows * 'Persephone in the Forest' by Birgit K. Gaiser * 'Fresh Canvas' by Lenny Eusebi * 'The Last Hunt Before Winter' by Noah McWilliam * 'Seasonal Defiance Reorder' by Adele Gallogly * 'Home for Christmas' by Allison Renner * 'Bitter and Sweet' by Suzanne Hicks * 'Teddy Bear Picnic' by Melissa Flores Anderson * 'The Gift of Gab' by Lisa H. Owens * 'Ria, Ria, Ria' by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar * 'Would You RatherâŠ?' by Scaramanga Silk * 'Manâs Best Friend' by Allison Renner * 'Long Gone, Living On' by Scaramanga Silk * 'Elapse' by Willow Woo * 'They Need to Clack' by Philippa Bowe * 'The News Anchor Read the News, but No One Watched it' by Marzia Rahman * 'Behind you!' by Jeremy Boyce * 'Shantay, You Stay' by Elisa Dominique Rivera * 'Missing Note: Wanted' by Kate Axeford * 'August' by Angela James * 'Check Mate' by Scott MacLeod * 'Suds for Duds' by Lenny Eusebi * 'P.E.' by Melissa Flores Anderson * 'Cleopatra' by Madeleine Armstrong  Â
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National Flash Fiction Day
10 months ago
I hope everyone enjoyed FlashFlood. The flashes will stay up there indefinitely & we will endeavour to produce a list of all this yearâs accepted stories to make finding things easier! Please read stories & share your favs!
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FlashFlood starts at just after midnight BST. Watch this space!
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