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National Flash Fiction Day
about 11 hours ago
Still need inspiration for our micro comp or anthology? Why not read Diane’s 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.
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National Flash Fiction Day
5 days ago
Subs to NFFD’s 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
5 days ago
Still a week to send something for
@natflashfictionday.bsky.social
anthology. Yes, you’ve got time to make your story sing. Yes, you’ve got time to work up that idea tickling your writing mind. Yes, me &
@karjon.bsky.social
can’t wait to read your
#FlashFiction
. All details here - please share👇🏼
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Kit de Waal
6 days ago
I’m 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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Get Involved — Bookbanks
https://www.bookbanks.co.uk/getinvolved
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National Flash Fiction Day
28 days 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
about 1 month 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 - Book Now | Glaven Valley
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
2 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
2 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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friends.
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Emma Mitchell
3 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 for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov:
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Katie Mack
3 months ago
Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday
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Nick Black
3 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
#booksky
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Sharon Telfer
3 months ago
Love reading the
@natflashfictionday.bsky.social
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
. Click thru ⬇️ to discover the new theme. Can't wait to read all those wonderful subs. Open 1 Dec
#FlashFiction
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National Flash Fiction Day
3 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!
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...
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Ink Sweat & Tears
4 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...
#InkSweatandTears
#NationaPoetryDay
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Julia Webb
5 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 £1000
www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...
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Poetry Competition | Cafe Writers
https://www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-competition/
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Emma Mitchell
5 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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6 months ago
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
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/08/nove...
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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. Fir…
https://www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/08/novella-in-flash-news/
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Amy Barnes
6 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 🐝Thank 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
6 months ago
🌙 New poem 🌙 I have a new poem in the
#quare_eire
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
6 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
7 months ago
Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
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Kit de Waal
7 months ago
Amazing opportunity to win £75,000 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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Prize | The Novelry
Enter The Next Big Story prize at The Novelry for a chance to win $100,000 (£75,000 U.K.). Eight shortlisted entrants will receive The Finished Novel Course. Opens May 1, 2025. Closes July 31, 2025. T...
https://www.thenovelry.com/prize
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Dr Jay Watts
7 months ago
As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse.
#TakingThePIP
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Matt Kendrick
8 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 👇
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National Flash Fiction Day
8 months ago
The Write-In: The Write-In 2025: The Complete List
#nffd2025
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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 Huckster’s 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 * 'Bert’s 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 * 'Hallowe’en Ball' by Birgit K. Gaiser * 'It’s My Destiny' by Allison Renner * 'The Waterpark in Winter' by Jane Claire Jackson * ‘Laughter Between the Lines’ 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 * ‘Minus One and Beautiful’ by Alice Monro * 'Sheila’s 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 Winter’s 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 * 'Joey’s 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 * 'Let’s Pretend We Didn’t 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 * 'What’s 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 Rather…?' by Scaramanga Silk * 'Man’s 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
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National Flash Fiction Day
8 months ago
I hope everyone enjoyed FlashFlood. The flashes will stay up there indefinitely & we will endeavour to produce a list of all this year’s accepted stories to make finding things easier! Please read stories & share your favs!
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National Flash Fiction Day
8 months ago
FlashFlood starts at just after midnight BST. Watch this space!
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National Flash Fiction Day
8 months ago
National Flash Fiction Day is a week today! Watch this space!
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Jeanette Sheppard
9 months ago
Come and join in an inspiring and fun day. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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National Flash Fiction Day
9 months ago
We’re very excited to reveal the cover and title for this year’s anthology. It’s available to pre-order on Kindle & from our bookshop. Many thanks to
@jeanettesheppard.bsky.social
for the image &
@sudhab.bsky.social
for the title:
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...
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littleramstudio
about 1 year ago
Now if all the 20 million BlueSky users will re post this post it would be utterly marvellous. The counter is ready to start, so off you all go! Handmade prints available here>
littleramstudio.etsy.com
*sits with expectations of lots of noughts next to post*
#art
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Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
10 months ago
🎉SHE'S HERE!!🎉 Hugely excited to reveal the beauticious cover of my debut collection COLD TOAST feat. the artwork of renowned 70s artist Tim Mara 🔥 Out on 15th May! Preorders now available at
www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/cold...
#flashfiction
#shortstories
#popart
#printmaking
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SmokeLong Quarterly
10 months ago
Ingrid Jendrzejewski
@lunchontuesday.bsky.social
is back in the house on May 17th! And we can't wait. These sessions are always exhilarating. Bring your drafty drafts.
www.smokelong.com/product/high...
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High Intensity Interval Training for Flash Writers: All New Editing Edition, 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
Have you just written some new flash and don’t know what to do next? Is there a story that won’t let you go but that never quite feels ‘there’? Do you keep submitting a piece you love that never quite...
https://www.smokelong.com/product/high-intensity-interval-training-for-flash-writers-all-new-editing-edition-2025/
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Audrey Niven
10 months ago
Chop chop people! Send us your <500 word stories and do some good with your writing at the same time! (Obvs do your
@natflashfictionday.bsky.social
Flash Flood subs first because they're our besties and they close tonight, but after you've done that, send your stories to us!)
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Send us your words… we can’t wait to read them! 🌊🌊🌊
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Sara Hills
10 months ago
And the floodgates are OPEN!! 🌊🌊🌊 We're so excited to read your stories!! 😍@natflashfictionday.bsky.social
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Stephanie Carty
10 months ago
Down the Red Rabbit Hole talking about sleep disorders, the brain and fiction…
shows.acast.com/the-red-rabb...
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10 months ago
There’s also a reading event Hosted by
@scooterwriter.bsky.social
&
@lunchontuesday.bsky.social
for flash fiction writers featured in this year’s
@natflashfictionday.bsky.social
anthology & a creative visualisation session to inspire you with
@karjon.bsky.social
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10 months ago
We have panels too at the festival. Here’s one on Novellas in Flash chaired by Michael Loveday with
@davidswann1.bsky.social
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@tomkinsdeb.bsky.social
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@laurabesley.bsky.social
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10 months ago
We’ve over 30 workshops to select from during the weekend. Here’s a couple of early morning ones led by
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
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@farhana-shahid.bsky.social
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10 months ago
Our festival package allows you to attend 7 workshops/panels during the weekend out of a choice of over 30. Here’s a panel chaired by
@sharontelfer.bsky.social
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@sarahillswrites.bsky.social
@mariegethins.bsky.social
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@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social
on writing the 100 word micro
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10 months ago
Festival Director
@judehwriter2.bsky.social
&
@natflashfictionday.bsky.social
co-director
@lunchontuesday.bsky.social
are each running workshops to inspire new stories at the festival 18-20 July in Bristol
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10 months ago
In each time slot at the
#flashfiction
festival there are 4 or 5 workshops or panels to choose from. This year,we’re welcoming back award winning writers & excellent teachers
@noranadj.bsky.social
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@devaneemily.bsky.social
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Wild Hunt Books
10 months ago
Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮 So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
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National Flash Fiction Day
10 months ago
Excited to announce that FlashFlood will open its doors on Sunday 20 April until Saturday 26 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Previously published accepted. Get writing, folks! More details here:
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/fl...
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Stephanie Carty
11 months ago
99p on kindle for 5 days! My slightly creepy suspense novel about a girl who nobody knows exists
amzn.eu/d/81PMan9
A SAFE PLACE
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Frances Ryan
11 months ago
One more time for ministers at the back: it’s entirely possible to be a taxpayer and to receive benefits. As someone currently in the mid-tax band and on PIP, I’m more than happy for my earnings to help people who can’t work - and to pick up the state support I’m entitled to.
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National Flash Fiction Day
11 months ago
We’re thrilled to announce the results of our 2025 Microfiction Competition. Congratulations to all our winners and thank you to everyone who entered.
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/news/
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Marie Gethins
12 months ago
Excited and honoured to be judging the next round of
@bathflashaward.bsky.social
Here’s what I’ll be looking for
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/category/jud...
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12 months ago
Huge congratulations to the 20 authors shortlisted for our 29th Award! Winners announced by the end of this month.
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/02/short-list-february-2025-award/#more-34440
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Short List, February 2025 Award
Huge congratulations to the twenty authors who have made our 29th Award short listAuthor names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share you are on the short list, please do not identif…
https://www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/02/short-list-february-2025-award/#more-34440
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