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...

Delighted to be in the latest issue of WestWord (and alongside some other wonderful pieces from brilliant writers) with this little story from earlier this year: open.substack.com/pub/westword...

Very proud that my story about deep cleaners is out in Gooseberry Pie today 😁 gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/

"Never Wear Heels on a Date" by Emily J. Edwards ... today at Punk Noir Magazine. Have a read.

Can we please end this culture where all companies you interact with are like needy teenagers in the throes of their first crush...do you like me? Do you really like me? Why don't you love me? Even my email account has started asking for feedback. It's exhausting.

Exciting!

And now 🥁 launching her book Cold Toast it is @kazbarwrites.bsky.social Buy it here www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/cold...

Looked at myself in the mirror before leaving for work. Realised I'm channeling 'substitute art teacher, circa 1987' - coloured jeans, DMs with ribbon laces, v neck sweater with roll neck under, multicoloured bead necklace. That's my vibe, apparently.

Farage: epic grifter

Telling you, people of the ether, so I don't forget: my shopping is coming between 7-8am tomorrow, not after work. Hopefully I'll remember now I've told you.

Tragedy has befallen me...I have had to throw away teabags because they WENT MOULDY. The box was damp when it was delivered, so I was suspicious of them at first. But they lured me into a false sense of security by tasting ok for the first week. Then I had two manky cups of tea, & found mouldy bags

I’m so completely chuffed to be part of Bull 🖤

New issue available! Check it out. rawheadjournal.org/rawhead-pres... #rawheadjournal #halloweenissue #horrorwriting #scifi #fantasywriting #litmag #newissue #poetry #cnf #flashfiction #shortstories #visualart

Today is the most Mondayish sort of Monday. Oozing with it.

The time of Spook and Ghoul is ever closer - a good time therefore to creep yourself out with a bumper read of short fictions full of darkliness. Available for less than ten English poundlets, it opens with Wigleaf longlisted piece - A Whisper of Before. mybook.to/SickInkColle...

Here it is! The last part of Hypochondria is available to read, completely for free, now on sarahrnew.wordpress.com/hypochondria. For everyone who has read along and taken part in Emma's journey, thank you for reading.

Well here's something I didn't know I needed until it arrived.

What if there was a Halloween version of the elf on the shelf...I can't think of a rhyming name but a troll or a demon that peeks out from unexpected places and threatens you with hauntings and poltergeists and possible eternal damnation. I'd find that much more fun.

My Facebook memory from 3 years ago (TBH still not sure): 'Very chaotic call with O2. May have upgraded my phone & cancelled the contract for the tablet I never use. May have just agreed on a contract to end the universe, in which case upgrading that phone was a waste of time'

Ada Lovelace Day has begun! As midnight arrives on Kiritimati Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, our global celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths begins! Join us in celebrating by posting about your fave women in STEM #ALD25!

Oblivious To Everything But The Beat by @judepickledplum.bsky.social Resonant and deeply affecting, Jude captures assault and dissociation with powerful authenticity. It's a raw, visceral piece, told with unflinching realism. CW: sexual assault 🔗 underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...

Today I've booked tickets to 3 exhibitions for the end of next month, and my inner nerd (fairly outer tbh) is in heaven...Secret Maps, Mudlarking and PIRATES. Plus a Writing From Rage workshop and an Open Mic (for details [email protected] ). I'll be intolerably excited by mid-November.

Three amazing charity anthology projects just landed... My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from @sasharavitch.bsky.social & @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social Read all about them here: matgost.substack.com/p/silent-scr...

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

Why would the supermarket think dog food is a reasonable alternative product to cat food? I have a cat. I don't have a dog. Neither I nor the cat is going to eat dog food (the cat is increasingly picky about which cat food he'll eat - he's forgotten his life on the mean streets already).

I was described at work today as kooky, and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it.

Keir Starmer and Labour's return, after a bare day of anti-racist sloganeering, to dangerous dog-whistle xenophobic policies not only harm the vulnerable, destroys lives and mental health, it is also entrenching the racism that benefits only racists and the far right. Society and people suffer.

Issue One of Rawhead is live! rawheadjournal.org #litmag #artandlit #rawheadjournal #newwriting #issueone #writingcommunity #artcommunity

In the shadow of the Reserve of Persisting Complexity, a rag-tag community finds that webs are stronger than walls... I'm thrilled to introduce my Grubbers to the world, with such beautiful illustrations by Manon Cezaro!

Here are universal links to my two new collections, the novella I wrote with @matgost.bsky.social which is currently only £6.50!, and the cracking anthology from @trashcatlit.bsky.social 🦝 mybook.to/SickInkColle... mybook.to/OneForSorrow... mybook.to/WatcherNovella mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

We are growing because we are unapologetic about demanding real change: taxing the super-rich, funding our NHS, and tackling the climate crisis head-on." And this week we are holding our biggest and boldest conference ever." www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cele...

Jude attempts to use online chatbot to solve a problem. It offers an answer to a problem that is not even close to the one I asked. Nothing makes me swear with such conviction as tech failures.

The plumber actually turned up today. Fourth(or is it fifth) time's a charm. He is no longer Schrödinger's plumber. My boiler is being serviced, all is well with the world.

HAPPY HONKIN MONDAY TWO DAYS LEFT TO SUB TO SGP6 WHAT THE FLOCK sillygoosepress.submittable.com/submit

My cat has taken to lying behind the sofa, trying to convince me he is a mouse.

Mornin' kids! Looks like it's about that time again. Our 89th issue is live right now. Tell your favorite trophy collector. www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity

We have our winning entry and runners up for the @unisouthampton.bsky.social Philip Hoare Prize for Non-Fiction - Congratulations to Jupiter Jones. philiphoarecompetition.co.uk/results/

2/2 @clareobrien.bsky.social @quickasaflash.bsky.social @words-outwest.bsky.social @mikepiero.org @maireadwrites.bsky.social @sarahkat.bsky.social @justine1902.bsky.social @myquirkywriting.swifties.social

@joycebingham.bsky.social @thejokelark.bsky.social @lozzawriting.bsky.social @lucimcummings.bsky.social @matgost.bsky.social @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social @terryholland.bsky.social @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social @leighloveday.bsky.social @mrallanmiller.bsky.social 1/2

We're so excited to share our first print anthology, available to purchase for only £9/ $11.50 🦝 Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for @WildlifeTrusts and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜 mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

When bones creak, limbs grumble, and eyelids are heavy as chains.....

"The Secret to Aging Well" by Anika Carpenter @StillSquirrel.bsky.social is today's 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity

Jude regrets she has, in fact, written another silly story about the all-female pirate crew of the Spunkwater Nancy.

“Is this another symptom of perimenopause? Like vaginal dryness and invisibility?” My contribution to the exquisite corpse is my current go-to rant. #fuckthepatriarchy #writingcommunity

"Today's must-haves are nothing more than tomorrow's junk." Read "Dear Society; A Collective Roar" An exquisite corpse up now at The Pride Roars! theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/09/dear...

A racially motivated violent attack in my home town this week -the police are looking for 'men with flags'. I wonder how many similar attacks have taken place up and down the country in the name of 'patriotism and national pride' since the roundabout painting began?

An exquisite corpse - where each contributor sent their last line to the next writer as a prompt - that turned into an exquisite rant. Coming tomorrow!

Wow, this is a surprise nomination

September's newsletter is live 🦝 We've got subs, Trash Family stuffs from @cbigs.bsky.social @matgost.bsky.social @meproctor.bsky.social & @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, three quick reads from Genrepunk Award nominees and some autumnal ekphrastic writing prompts 🧡 trashcatlit.com/2025/09/22/h...