'As babes, you toddling with the cleaver, your Ma yelling.' What a stunner by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social #fiction #microfiction #nffd2026 flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/all-...

I'm thrilled to have a set of prose poems in the wonderful The Mackinaw! Massive thanks to EIC @lorettec.bsky.social for supporting my work and to @janewords.bsky.social and Sasha Kurlyka for giving me feedback on some of these pieces! www.themackinaw.net/the-mackinaw...

Just booked a ticket to this. Cannot wait to hear readings from @jupiterjonz.bsky.social herself, and @dublinwriter.bsky.social too asking questions, what an absolute treat. Deets of how to come along for free are below.

'As working-class writers we sometimes don't have that mentality of "I can do it".' Emerging writer Victoria Ferguson joins me on Northern Voices this week to talk about writing folk horror in Northern dialect, working-class mentality and the accessibility. on.soundcloud.com/JWEfsoOnjemA...

And here are the 3 winning novellas in flash from the 2026 Bath NIF awards back from the printers, looking gorgeous and ready to go the the flash fiction festival, two weeks today! You can buy from Amazon. Check out AdHocFiction.com for links worldwide

The Flash Fiction Anthology Vol eight and the BFFA anthology Vol 10, How to Fold a World Map back from the printers and ready to go to the festival where they’ll be launched with readings & given to contributors attending. We’re posting off the others

'The Hyena’s Daughter', @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social Novella Prize winner by @jupiterjonz.bsky.social is having a Zoom launch! Sat Aug 1st 8pm. Tickets at link, where you can also buy, & read what judge Ali Smith had to say #nif #historical #novella #sensuous www.tickettailor.com/events/dubli...

Lovely to see you there, Cole xx

Pssst! Do you want to book a place at the Edinburgh Flash Fiction workshop with Meg Pokrass? scotportrait.wufoo.com/forms/m174ws... 24 July 7pm (BST) on zoom

The Rubery shortlist is out! Wooo Hoooo 🎉🎉🎉Congratulations @kazbarwrites.bsky.social

Flash fiction 250 words, judged by Meg Pokrass, first prize £2,000 (yes! two grand!) Deadline 31 August www.scottishartstrust.org/flash

Flash fiction 250 words, judged by Meg Pokrass, first prize £2,000 (yes! two grand!) Deadline 31 August www.scottishartstrust.org/flash

Anyone in London on July 1st? www.foyles.co.uk/events/ali-s...

gooseberry-pie.com/every-five-s... Written in a Meg Pokgrass workshop called ‘Messy Love’ - not sure there’s another kind?

So thrilled to be in this dream journal. Thank you so much to the awesome MFA students at Temple University for that all-important editorial suggestion (reader, I made the change).

My review of The Hyena's Daughter by @jupiterjonz.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Snapped out in the wild... The Hyena's Daughter rubbing shoulders with some other Jones's: Cynan Jones, David Jones, Ruth Jones - and in proximity to James Joyce!!!

Trains home delayed but I have this Tour de Force and so far have barely noticed the inconvenience (stuck in Derby currently, waiting for onward train) The Hyena’s Daughter by @jupiterjonz.bsky.social

On the blog today is my book review of The Hyena's Daughter by #author @jupiterjonz.bsky.social @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social 💙📚

Thank you @mirandasbookscape.bsky.social 🧡

Lovely review! Thank you Buzz Magazine 🧡 www.buzzmag.co.uk/hyenas-daugh...

‘Bereft of Reason’ is out on 1 june. You can pre-order signed copies from my website. Thank you Michael Loveday for these wonderful words.

I’m going 😊 Looking forward to being on a panel with the fabulous @fionajanemack.bsky.social & @jupiterjonz.bsky.social

punk-post-punk www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

new flash is up at @fictivedream.bsky.social 💕

Last night I was in Newtown with @mayajordanwrites.bsky.social on the publication of her magnificent full-throttle memoir CHOPSY. We talked about 'emergency chickens' posh writers, libraries, Tracey Emin, the invisibility of working-class women and much, much more. Get your hands on a copy asap!

It's back! Join @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and I for Submission (Im)possible online on Saturday, 18 April to focus on everything to do with getting your writing in the world, in a supportive community. It's free! Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/submission...

Absolutely delighted to be a finalist for Small Press of the year 2026! @thebookseller.com #nibbies Our 2025 in a snapshot... 1. Strengthened frontlist performance, working with authors we have developed over the years on their second novels, and developed new relationships with agents. 8 books

ICYMI: If you want to know what we will all be reading in a decade’s time, you only need to look at what the indies are publishing right now, says Southbank Centre's Ted Hodgkinson 👇 #BookSky

No rhyming couplets about “the moon” here. We want the kebab on the curb, the protest bruise, the overdraft confession. Make it hurt. Make it howl. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow

Just today & tomorrow to get your subs into our micro comp (up to 100 words, no theme) & our anthology (theme of BRIDGES, up to 500 words). Subs open till 23:59 on 15 Feb! Cash prizes & publication! More details here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

To mark LGBTQ+ History Month, our @mklitfest.bsky.social friends welcome 3 superb poets - Len Lukowski, Julia Bell and Simon Maddrell - whose work draws on their own histories to reflect diversity and commonality of experience. 24 Feb, 7pm, Zoom. Info: bit.ly/mklflgbtq #lgbtqhistory #poetry

Aww, cheers, TrashCat! 😊

Paper Sisters - Paperback (Pre-Order) | Northodox Press share.google/Eh0GFlEH3KYQ...

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

That green sludge looks bloody disgusting!

8 days to go! Paper Sisters preorders will be arriving from today! Get your copy of one of the most anticipated historical fiction books in the UK this year now! share.google/hVhcthIR8E2V...

“For a city known for its anything-goes ethos, for its embrace of letting your freak flag fly, the list of activities one could not legally do in San Francisco was remarkable.” Had fun learning about strange city rules for this. No parking in your own driveway? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

Mary and the Rabbit Dream was mentioned in a personal essay on medical misogyny on Substack. It spurred, not fiction, but some thoughts and remembered historical facts. Link below (and link to the essay as well in my text). open.substack.com/pub/noemikis...

Tired of journals that ask for poems about your garden and then ghost you? This one wants the bin, the syringe, the protest chant. This one’s built with spit. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow

So, this! I am, of course, delighted but also slightly speechless 😊 open.substack.com/pub/weatherg...

Today and tomorrow to enter our first £1460 prize fund award of 2026. Today’s the day you can guess the colour of The Last Minute Club badge which entrants tomorrow receive. Reply here with guesses & read all about it in Jude’s post www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/01/everybody-loves-a-badge/

A wonderful day! the workshops were amazing - thank you 😍😍😍

Just 3 weeks till our 32nd Award closes on Feb 1st. £1460 in prizes. 300 words max & shorter pieces welcome. Results out end of Feb. Anthology. bathflashfictionaward.com

Are you ready for a shortlist? Here we are then... 🤩 My TOP TWENTY picks for the Welkin Writing Prize 2026. Each of these is a marvel and a gem, and they'll be coming your way one by one over the next three weeks: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

This is the brilliant winning flash of @newwritersuk.bsky.social Historical Flash Fiction comp 🧡🧡🧡 Congratulations! newwriters.org.uk/wp-content/u...

'Pa's madder than a boiled owl ...' Bloody gorgeous!