Happy to report that I'll be in the FlashFlood again this year! Look out for 'Down From the Door' at around 8:15am BST on Saturday 13 June 😊

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-6-mcph... 'She avoided direct line of sight, always, preferring to make her approach over or around obstacles. Whenever we went out I had a constant sense she was peering over my head at something more interesting ...' @summermoth.bsky.social

I'm in @neitherfishnorfoul.com Issue 6 with 'My First Girlfriend Was a Periscope', a story that was born in @mattkendrick.bsky.social's Glorious Words course! (And thanks to Amy Marques for the accompanying illustration) www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-6-mcph...

"Ah shit, the fey" 😄

We are thrilled to share that our Human Authored scheme is now live. This scheme has been designed for the benefit of SoA members, to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books.

Plums xkcd.com/3209/

The new block of The NIFTY Book Club starts next week! On Monday, 23rd February, we'll be discussing 'Lessons at the Water's Edge' - the prize-winning novella-in-flash - by Caroline Greene. There's still time to sign up! See ⏬ for details ⏬ #fiction #flashfiction #novellainflash #writingcommunity

But they were all of them deceived, for Sauron, in his cunning, fashioned a crap-ton of rings in various sizes.

Amused by the fact that the #BitesizedBookClub session focusing on happy/positive stories is the one that has generated the most divisive opinions and (friendly) disagreement so far 😄 Thanks to everyone who came for the interesting discussions!

This is a great list!

The NIFTY Book Club is great - come join us! ☺️

Because, here's the thing. We're told: "it's the way of the world; it's human nature," as an excuse for every act of cruelty or selfishness we witness, in the hope that we'll just stand by and watch. But it's not human nature. It's human choice. And we don't have to stand by. We can stand up.

'Stella felt the universe hold its breath, wrap its extravagance around her (her! tiny, insignificant Stella!)' Speaking of happy stories, this one by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social is a moment of joy encapsulated!

Well, I settled on four that *I* think are happy. Will see what everyone else makes of them at the session next week! 😊

Maybe 'It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)' by REM Or 'I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)' by Meat Loaf

Today's debate, as I try to finalise my choices for this month's #BiteSizedBookClub... how much of a bittersweet edge can I allow myself before I decide something doesn't qualify as a happy flash fiction? 😄

This is a beautiful story

So many open tabs... so many...

Still time to sign up for the January session next week - come and read some brilliant stories by @devaneemily.bsky.social with us! #BitesizedBookClub #FlashFiction #Reading

Bite-sized Book Club bookings are open for the first block of 2026 (link in next post)! The sessions are as follows, 19:15-20:30 (UK time): Thurs 15 Jan - Stories by Emily Devane Thurs 12 Feb - Happy/Positive Stories Thurs 19 Mar - Collaborations #BitesizedBookClub #FlashFiction #Reading

December reads 💙📚: 1. Spin of the Triangle by Stephanie Carty (novella-in-flash) 2. The Lives of the Dead by Fiona McKay (novella-in-flash) 3. The Museum of Shadows and Reflections by Claire Dean (short stories) #books #amreading #novellainflash #shortstories #shortstorycollection #2025reads

'you just want that storm to break, need to feel that thunder in your bones even if lightning gotta strike you first, you just gotta know — can I beat that devil?' Lush, mesmerising writing - don't miss this one from @mynachang.bsky.social!

Happy New Year! Happy Year Seventeen!!! Come join us for our 17th year of championing women-identified authors!!! Use code: ED8FC for 20% off your first year or month of support on Patreon www.patreon.com/cw/l... #ShortStories #WomenWriters #Fantasy #SciFi #Reading

Last-minuter here, as always!

Help us celebrate the more than 60 publications reported to us by our workshop participants in December! Onward, trousers! www.smokelong.com/december-wor...

Wild that out of all things from medieval cosmology, the thing about the ocean being full of monsters turned out to be correct.

I'll take that! 💜

Thank you to everyone who has subbed so far to our anthology on the theme of BRIDGES! Our editors @sharontelfer.bsky.social & @karjon.bsky.social are busy reading away! You have till 15 Feb to submit your flash. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

'Secrets wisp into ears and out the windows into the fresh air where, weightless and powerless, they can finally dissipate.' Sharing this quiet, lovely piece from @chelseastickle.bsky.social to end the year ❤️

Homemade chocolate covered Brazil nuts (three ways), and Christmas pudding made and steaming!

As it is the season … have a wonderful Hookland Bone Horse by the wonderful @mariastrutz.bsky.social

Have loved this poem since the first time I saw it 🌅

Folklore walks. Not just across imagined lines on maps of nations, not just across time itself. Folklore instinctively walks towards landmarks. When stories see a ruin, a notable tomb or impressive tree, they travel towards them to tether themselves in the landscape. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore

"We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm." notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Haven't managed as much reading time as I'd like the past few months, so just two completed reads for Sept/Oct/Nov 💙📚: 1. In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit by Debra A Daniel (novella-in-flash) 2. The Coin by Yasmin Zaher (novel) #books #reading #amreading #booklover #novellainflash #novel #2025reads

Thank you so much to @bulbculture.bsky.social for putting this piece of mine back out in the world (originally published by Reflex Fiction) ❤️ #FlashFiction

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.

Big news from BFS members (and leaders) @shonak.bsky.social and @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social: A new independent non-profit organisation designed to help creatives thrive in publishing. Here's @divergent-paths.bsky.social britishfantasysociety.org/divergent-pa...

Still time to sign up for next Thursday's session if you want to read and discuss some fab flashes by @timcraig.bsky.social with us! #BtesizedBookClub #FlashFiction

The next block of the #BitesizedBookClub is open for bookings! We'll be meeting on the following Thursdays, 19:15-20:30 (UK time): 25 Sept - Stories by Tim Craig 23 Oct - Fairy Tale/Myth Retellings 27 Nov - Ekphrastic Stories Link to book: theleadedwindow.blogspot.com/p/bite-sized... #FlashFiction

August read (just the one!) 💙📚: 1. It Felt Like Everything by K.S. Dyal (novella-in-flash) #books #reading #amreading #booklover #novellainflash #2025reads

Come and read lovely NiFs with us! 📚 (I'm in the Sunday group)

Free online attendance at The Fantasy Summer School 2025, organised by the University of Oxford, and Bloomsbury Publishing, that brings together the expertise of scholars, publishers working with fantasy authors. Link here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-blo... Please share :)

"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge, "Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor" Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke Thei have all come to looke for America

My NIF ‘William Prichard & Co’ is a year old today! To celebrate I am giving away a free copy. To be in with a chance of winning, please retweet & DM me with your name. I will pick a name out of the hat on Wed 20th. Sorry, UK only.

I'm so glad WHQ retreats have restarted in a place I can easily attend (Leeds) - they are the MOST productive days! ⭐️

July reads 💙📚: 1. Aerth by Deborah Tomkins (novella-in-flash) 2. Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls (novella) #books #reading #amreading #booklover #novella #novellainflash #2025reads