The work of contemporary ceramics artist Pollyanna Johnson #WomensArt

📣Workshop with pro tips for getting your flash collection together and into the world/Q&A - Replay recordings will be sent to ticket holders/those who can't make it 📽️

In two weeks! Come join us! Get your work out there in 2026!!

Natasha Newton, contemporary UK artist and illustrator #WomensArt

Once in a blue moon I write a poem.

‘Both the Green Party’s activists and its sceptics would do well to avoid reading its fortunes off a script written abroad or in the past.’ @michaelchessum.bsky.social on what is next for the Greens: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

I have a little ghost story in SFPJ today - "Jimmy. Fucking. Bang." Thanks to Francine!

This month's From the Bookshelf writing prompt features an entry in the 1,149+-page New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary. Enjoy! cherylpappas.substack.com/p/from-the-b...

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Congratulations to all! 🔥🔥🔥

First off, I just have to say, I love the Bath Flash Fiction Award! Thank you so much to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for seeing and appreciating my cranky, zero-fucks-given Menopausal Woman character. She's a real hoot!

How thrilling! Congratulations to the other winners and many thanks to @bathflashaward.bsky.social and @kazbarwrites.bsky.social I am so so so happy.

Congratulations Adam Brannigan! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/1st-...

Congratulations Emily Rinkema! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/2nd-...

Congratulations Debra A Daniel! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/octo...

www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/high... Congratulations @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!

I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚 www.tickettailor.com/events/westw...

Today is my books one-year birthday and I nearly missed it. If you haven't read it, it's a darkly funny hybrid book about grief, loss, suicide, friendship, and the shit that happens to us. Get a signed copy on my site or buy one directly from @diodeeditions. www.diodeeditions.com/product-page...

www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/31st... Hot on the heels of the Longlist here’s the shortlist of 20 as selected by judge @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for our 31st Award. Congratulations to all!

Get in!

I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚 www.tickettailor.com/events/westw...

Launched this absolute stunner last night. A mighty read. @saloneurope.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social 🍞

Also tonight we hosted Kristjan Haljak, an Estonian poet who I first heard read @europeanpoetryfest.bsky.social this year estlit.ee/person/1365 Definitely do go next year if you can. It's always a treat.

The Longlist is out, as chosen by the readers... Congratulations everyone!! An incredible selection! 🔥🔥🔥

Looking forward to hangin with the cool kids ce soir

We're down to just nine - yes, nine - days until the release of BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social! There's still time to preorder a copy of you haven't already done so! bit.ly/3PuHbEn @susanschulman.bsky.social

Thrilled beyond words with this review of Cold Toast at @smokelong.bsky.social! Massive thanks to Amanda Krupman and the SLQ team! 🤩🙏🥂

Get ready, humans. Our November issue drops Nov 3rd! We’ll be featuring reviews of Being Seen by @suzyeynon.bsky.social and For Every Tower, A Princess by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social. We’ll also be unveiling Claudine’s Bookshelf! 📚🐈‍⬛📚

Nothing to see here. Just my brilliant friend Michele Kirsch being brilliant again, dammit. open.substack.com/pub/advantag...

Throwback to Bristol, 2023!

Delighted with this feedback from judge Tim MacGabhann @the4facedliar.bsky.social

Thinking about 2026 writing goals already? How awesome would it be to have a piece published the first Monday of the year? Microfiction and Micro CNF. Free subs, paying market. Now reading for January 2026! 🎉🐈‍⬛🎉

Delighted with this feedback from judge Tim MacGabhann @the4facedliar.bsky.social

Congratulations @jupiterjonz.bsky.social who is also currently shortlisted for the Weatherglass Novella prize! 🔥🔥🔥

Thank you, @bendinggenres.bsky.social and @swethaamit.bsky.social! It was fun being interviewed. Click the link to see a funny photo of my face--which was called "impish." bendinggenres.com/interview-wi...

"you were a Rock / dropped in my lake when I was water waking up to being fluid." Wow. Don't miss @erinvachon.bsky.social 🔥

Squeeee!! My book trailer is so cool❤️❤️❤️ @sfwp.bsky.social

New Rita story up at the fabulous Ghost Parachute! Amazing art by @damicandrea.bsky.social.

I have a story in the amazing new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social alongside so many of my flash heroes! gooseberry-pie.com/or-was-it-a-...

Fighting back starts at the local level- donations this week will be doubled. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Squeeeeee!! Here it is!! THE FIRST ONE OUT THERE!!! Thank you @aniking.bsky.social ♥️♥️♥️ @sfwp.bsky.social

Thank you @dehardy.bsky.social and @claudineliterary.bsky.social for your generous review of my flash chapbook THE MISSING GIRL (@blacklawrence.bsky.social)! Take a look at the stellar microprose and glowing review of @kazbarwrites.bsky.social's chapbook as well!

“Enough cannot be said about Aldridge-Morris’s ability to pin an era. She is simply a wizard of time-and-place vibe.”

Check out our review of Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris! ❄️🍞🐈‍⬛ @kazbarwrites.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/coldtoast

Happy reading, humans! 💚🐈‍⬛💚

Blown away by this incredible review of COLD TOAST in the latest issue of Claudine Literary...massive thanks to @dehardy.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/coldtoast%F0...

Delighted to announce our nominations for Best of the Net - @jackmmorris.bsky.social for "Ernst is coming home" and @kateaxeford.bsky.social for "The truths behind a pumpkin dare, Northern Alberta, 3rd July, 1991" Best of the Net 2025 #BOTN #flashfiction newflashfiction.com/and-the-best...

Fallen massive dahlia flower makes a fancy hat to help our founder @judehwriter2.bsky.social celebrate the final few exciting hours of our 31st award judged by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social Deadline midnight gmt today 5th Oct £1460 prize fund. Anthology Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Whooo! I've read Cold Toast by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social and it truly is phenomenal! Can't wait to read the review, and also the review of The Missing Girl.