My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. Includes: 🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums 🗝️30% off my Etsy shop: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

Hurry, hurry!

Managed to get my story in and accepted. Many thanks to Jude @judehwriter2.bsky.social and Diane @scooterwriter.bsky.social There’s still time to submit if you haven’t sent anything yet!

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: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

New pots available now! www.roseschmits.com

These👇🏼180-125 yo Victorian ink bottles are still available as posy-making kits in my Etsy shop. Each kit is designed to improve mental health & includes a booklet about the neuroscience with how-tos,a dried flowers posy (see photo),stationery extras & a hand-printed box: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

My Victorian ink bottle posy kits are now in my shop👇 Some have sold which is fantastic but maybe due to financial climate not as many as usual. I know it's cringey to ask for support but I'm trying to get back on my feet after being v unwell-a RT would help so much x🌿 www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

My Victorian ink bottle posy kits are now in in my Etsy shop. They include: ✒️an antique ink bottle - you can choose your design 💐a tiny posy of dried flowers 🧠a booklet on the neuroscience of how this kit can improve mental health & how to create tiny posies 📔 extras www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

ICYMI! PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! buff.ly/9AyStcb

Looking forward to this tonight!

Hoping to read more of this beauty from @jankaneen1.bsky.social today!

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Kit Fraser. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to get the Daily Cartoon right in your inbox: nyer.cm/E61jxkj

Congratulations to everyone on the longlist. Look forward to reading your stories in the next anthology 📖👏👏

Delighted to be part of this year’s FlashFlood while in Bath celebrating #nffd2025 in person.

Less than forty-eight hours to go to National Flash Fiction Day. FlashFlood will be posting a story every five or ten minutes. For more details of this, the write-in and our anthology launch, watch out for our road map of what’s happening. Booking closes tomorrow for our launch in Bath!

NFFD is on 14 June! We are run by volunteers and receive no external funding. Please consider supporting us by pre-ordering a copy of our latest anthology. On Kindle & from our bookshop: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...

⭐Calling cisgender women!⭐ I'm so proud of this open statement from #NotInMyName speaking up for our trans siblings. Far too often, the only women’s voices we hear seem intent on stoking the flames. Sign & share to build the inclusive world we actually want to live in. www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

Ooh, it’s just under 3 weeks till NFFD. Why not celebrate by joining us at our FREE event in Bath? We have workshops, a panel & readings. And then there’s the option of afterwards heading out for refreshment & chat. Free tickets & info here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ev...

Last few hrs to get 15% off my June w'shops with LEAFYFLASH15: Botanical illustration & mental health workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota... Bird illustration & mental health workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird... from a molecular cell biologist obsessed with science-based hacks to lift mood🌿

For the evening crowd:

If you enjoy flash, why not attend our FREE event on 14/6 in Bath? Workshops by Ingrid Jendrzejewski & Susmita Bhattacharya. Panel with Karen Jones, Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, Jude Higgins & Diane Simmons & anthology launch with loads of fab readers. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ev...

An update on countries FlashFlood has accepted flash from this year so far: UK, Netherlands, Italy, Canada, South Africa, UAE, France, Australia, India, New Zealand, Spain, Bangladesh, Greece, Germany, Ireland, US, Japan, The Channel Islands, Switzerland & Hong Kong. Can we add any more today?

Delighted that I’m in the flood this year after a dry spell. And if you haven’t sent anything in yet, there’s still time.

FlashFlood is now open for submissions until Saturday 26 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Previously published accepted (2022 & earlier). Debut writer spots. Free to enter. For more details see here: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

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 👇

Today, NFFD’s Diane Simmons will be chatting to BBC Radio Bristol’s @adamcrowther.bsky.social about our flash event in Bath on 14 June. From 7 pm Adam will be playing flash by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social & @judehwriter2.bsky.social

Book for 2025 Festival, Bristol UK, 18-20 July! 14 places with accommodation left, participants from UK US, Ireland, Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, Cyprus, India. 14 places with accommodation left. Also camping. Workshops, readings, contest, raffle, bar FUN flashfictionfestival.com

On 16 April NFFD’s @scooterwriter.bsky.social will be chatting to BBC Radio Bristol’s Adam Crowther about our celebration of flash in Bath on 14 June & he will be playing flashes from our anthology guest editor & 2 of our panellists. As a taster, tomorrow, he will be playing a flash by Diane.

We have loads of fabulous writers reading their stories from the 2025 anthology, as well as workshops by @susmitab.bsky.social & @lunchontuesday.bsky.social AND a writing panel with @kazbarwrites.bsky.social @judehwriter2.bsky.social @karjon.bsky.social & @scooterwriter.bsky.social AND it’s FREE!

Tickets to the launch of our anthology & day of workshops will be available next week on Wednesday 26 March. It’s a free event held in Bath, UK on NFFD (Saturday 14 June). Watch this space.

Two big events happening early tomorrow 28th Feb— the results of our 29th Award,judged by @sfreligh.bsky.social & the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social taking place in Bristol 18-20 July, is opening for bookings! Stay tuned…

#curae - It matters. It REALLY matters. Shining a light changes lives and makes community - no not me; the brilliant people who enter do all that - and it is the ONLY national initiative for unpaid carers in this area. It’s also unfunded by Arts organisations. Still. Two weeks left to enter! 💙📚

Can highly recommend this online retreat - it really works to get things done!

Who can resist entering when you can get one of these badges?

Hello, all. Because of the entry system screw up last night and we're a little low on entries, we'll reopen for 24 hours as soon as we can make it happen on Monday morning, so you have the weekend to get your entry ready, and we'll announce Monday when we're open! Share?! bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

Can we get to a 1000 followers before midnight? 3 free entries to our micro comp for someone!

The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize now for the "unputdownable" novel f RT on unpublished women. The winner will receive a £1,500 prize, and all shortlisted authors get a one-on-one consultation with a literary agent. Please share. www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/fictionprize

So very pleased to have a story chosen for this issue. I shall be coming back to read everyone else’s -lots of my favourite writers here

If you are interested in flash fiction you might want to follow @natflashfictionday.bsky.social

Thank you so so much for nominating ‘Time Takes’ - made my day/week/year! Congratulations and good luck to fellow nominees 🥂🤞

Please share - New Prize for non-fiction for black women writers, amplifying us as knowledge-makers and critical thinkers. Global scope with a $20,000 award for exceptional work by black cis, trans and genderqueer women. Details here. Judged by Bernadine Evaristo.

So chuffed and surprised that my story is on the list. Congratulations fellow shortlisters and commiserations to those who haven’t gone through this time.

So very pleased to have made the longlist. Thank you so much Propelling Pencil team.

🚨AUTHOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 We are enormously proud to have signed the incredible short story and flash fiction writer Jan Kaneen! Her collection of strange and dark stories, Hostile Environments, is coming as part of our 2024-2025 publishing schedule!

All our in stock NFFD anthologies up to 2022 are on now on sale for the reduced price of £5 plus p&p. We open again for submissions on 1/12 —why not catch up on your NFFD reading before then & buy an anthology or two? www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...

The faster we find our followers here, the faster we can leave the dying bird site (we still rely on it a lot for site traffic!) so do a smol business a favour and share the shit out of us so we can find our gang. Pretty pretty please 🙏 🙏 🙏

So today’s the day for one of these.