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waaahh couldn't resist 🫠🙃 @bathflashaward.bsky.social

It was a delight and an honor to interview AJ O'Reilly about their wonderful story published in @smokelong.bsky.social. Thank you for the opportunity! 😊🌻

Later today, I'll be talking specificity in this online workshop for the fine folk at Smokelong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social. It's not too late to join me 👇 www.smokelong.com/product/the-...

Really looking forward to my "Story Shapes" workshop in October where I'm going to get writers writing Cinderella narratives against the clock and crafting stories across different sized bits of paper. 7th Oct 7pm BST or 11th Oct 9am BST. www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

With everything turning from terrible to horrific, I write. I write. I finish the damned novel and hope someone will read it. I have no leads, no contacts, I will have to act like a nobody-hero. Here I go!

Last day to enter this today. Drawing names tomorrow at midday BST.

TONIGHT TONIGHT!!! I close out the 2025 Philly Book Crawl with pictures of cats and travel stories about the places in which they live around the world. Come say hi!!

So a couple of years ago I feverishly wrote this thing about mothers and kids, pretending it had nothing whatsoever to do with my own mothering or childhood (hahahahahaha) and @publishedbyjake.bsky.social want to publish it (WHAT?). Coming towards the end of the year!!!

I never want cost to keep anyone from joining my zoom writing workshops so there are always free, concessionary and pay-what-you-can options. Find out more about my Sept Writing Muscle & Art of the Swerve workshops here - join us, whatever word-shapes you write! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

It's hard to overstate how much I have learned from @smokelong.bsky.social workshops. The first course I ever took in CNF a few years ago was an absolute epiphany and many of the stories in my collection emerged from Fitness prompts. Sign up!!

1/5 How do you get back to 'real life' after such a magical @flashficfestuk.bsky.social weekend in lovely Bristol? How? How? Brain's on strike but my heart's filled to the brim and heck yeah I'm being sentimental and not making sense and immense gratitude to everyone who made this event possible...

The peer I’m sharing this week is Noemi Schering-Olah, @itssonoemi.bsky.social a Hungarian writer who is a Best Small Fictions Winner and a SmokeLong Quarterly contributor. A selection of her pieces is here, and I think my favorite is “The Possessive Form” – very disturbing. noemiwrites.com

Fancy something strange? New collaborative flash with @stillsquirrel.bsky.social, @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social up at @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Thanks, @jhhwriter.bsky.social, for letting us lay out the third best dinner set 🍽️ gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...

Look at this gorgeous cover art for my upcoming tiny chapbook! 😍

If you've got a spare 300-word story that's looking for a home, why not send it my way? I'd love to read it!

Grateful and blown away 🌬️ My very first time in Best Small Fictions! Thank you so much, @haydensferryreview.bsky.social for accepting, publishing, and nominating my story, "Concrete Worm". Honoured to be included! Congratulations, everyone!

Is there a flash story that you consider, not just good, but truly beautiful? #flashfiction

😬😬😬😬 Just realised this is (VERY SCARILY) happening next week. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Hope I have better health days than I'm having today 🤪😂. If I do, I'm starting to think I might make it all the way to the top, spurred on by all the generous people who've sponsored me so far 🙏🙏❤️

"We were pleased with our shock, she and I, and I was pleased to please her, always. I bathed in her moral correctness, her grudging approval." Oh my, as always, a fantastic @fionamckay.bsky.social story! The writing! The ending! In the lovely @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Congratulations to our nominees for the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology: Fatema Haque, Jesse Wallis, Marianne Kunkel, Noemi Scheiring-Olah, and Sebastien Luc Butler!

WHEEEEEE @passagesnorth.bsky.social's new issue is out! And I still can't believe my piece "If I Were My Sister" got an Honorable Mention on their Neutrino Short-Short Prize! 🤩 It's here: www.passagesnorth.com/if-i-were-my... Many thanks to the lovely editors and Stephen Fishbach!

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

UNDER A MONTH TO GO! 🤩 You have until 15 Feb to enter @natflashfictionday.bsky.social’s Micro Fiction Comp 🌟 No theme, up to 100 words, judged by @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social @uksherka.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social and me. Every day, I’ll be posting a dazzler to get you inspired ✨ Thread 🧵

Struggling with social media (and words) these days, but I just rewatched @erinvachon.bsky.social's workshop at @smokelong.bsky.social, and it's a golden treasure! Love their witchy approach toward revision and also love the one-eyed, wide-armed creature at the beginning! 💛

The featured author from our latest issue this week is Priya Ele. In this interview she talks to @itssonoemi.bsky.social about her story, "As a 90s Supermodel": www.smokelong.com/interviews/s... @priyaele.bsky.social

Honored to have my story "Concrete Worm" in @haydensferryreview.bsky.social's new issue! And it's also available online as a preview (with gorgeous artwork) among such awe-inspiring authors! (This also alliterates!): haydensferryreview.com/noemi-scheir... Grateful. ❤️

What's that, Fitzwilliam? An award-winning short story collection? Written by your mother? Which needs more readers? I quite agree.

Join me on Zoom next Mon Jan 13 (7-8.30-pm UK) to spot your writing habits/taboos & how you might be getting in your own way! Booking here - free & half price places for those who need - and if you can't make it live, all ticket-holders get the recording after: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Every time I get asked "how are you?", I write my "real" answer on a piece of paper & stick it in a jar. Now I've brought these together in a fractured essay. Hope it informs / comforts / reflects. Would love it if you'd give it a read. #ChronicIllness www.mattkendrick.co.uk/fifty-five-r...

Brilliant and deserving piece, @itssonoemi.bsky.social Congratulations! 🌟

Incredibly happy @natflashfictionday.bsky.social's team has nominated 'We Live In Yellow' for a BotN award! My first BotN nomination!! 😊 Big congratulations to all the nominees and huge thanks to the NFFD team for all they do. 💚 My piece: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2024/06/we-l...

It's time for our Issue 86 cover reveal! It's a beauty. We can't wait for you to read it. Featuring the winners and finalists of the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2024, plus four stories chosen from the 3,000 general submissions we received this quarter. Thank you all so much. Out Monday December 16

What a delight - at the end of a difficult year - to publish Issue 2 of our journal, a selection of 9 shortlisted stories. These are our EIC, Audrey's, pick. We hope you enjoy them. thepropellingpencil.com/issue-two/

Don't miss this story from Issue 85: "What Would The Aliens Think?" by Ekpenyong Kosisochukwu Collins. "If the aliens could interact, and were really allies, they would have given me a sign. They would have said, Run, Ifeanyi, run, when you stood to open the door" www.smokelong.com/stories/what...

Hey Bluesky friends, I'm finding lots of examples from poetry and songs, but does anyone have examples of flash fiction that takes on social issues / speaks truth to power / addresses injustice, etc.? Thanks. 💙

I have a new story up @wigleaf.bsky.social! I hope you check it out (and check out the postcard too!!)! #flashfiction #flashlit

Still can't believe it, but my story, "Hair Power", has won @flashficfestuk.bsky.social's October Contest! Waaaah! Many thanks, @judehwriter2.bsky.social and @scooterwriter.bsky.social and big congratulations to the Runner Ups and everyone, who entered! 💚 #FlashFiction #writingcommunity

Hello - trying to wean myself off the other place. Please send writerly friends my way so I'm not lonely here. Also artists - I like artists. And people into cooking. And making of all sorts. Academics too, I suppose?

A lovely surprise to see ‘Ordinary Miracles for a Good Christian Boy’, published by @natflashfictionday.bsky.social, chosen by @noranadj.bsky.social for this month’s #Mondettes 😇 A great resource from @mattkendrick.bsky.social - do sign up if you’ve not already.

Looking for #FlashFiction people to follow? You should definitely follow all our brilliant Welkin Winners! @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @lindybiller.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @bdiggswrites.bsky.social

Want to come to the next online day 30th Nov but short of cash? We still have some free spots. Workshops with Kathy Fish, Stephanie Carty, Audrey Niven. Mini contest, readings flashfictionfestival.com Follow & reply Thanks!

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I'm so excited to be teaching one more class this year: a food-themed, generative workshop at @chestnutreview.bsky.social! Come experiment with writing about food as an exploration of memory, myth-making, identity, and inheritance. I'd love to see you there! www.chestnut-review.com/product/food...

Hello, Blue Sky! We're "welkin on sunshine" to be in this new place. Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting... #FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting

Prompted by a couple of posts I saw yesterday, a thread about how it's really tough being a creative writing freelancer right now. Please read and share if you can. (1/13)

**WIN** a free spot on my #WBTL Glorious Words course in Feb 24. www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-gloriou... To get your name in the hat, quote post with your FAVOURITE WORD. I'll draw a name at midday GMT Wednesday 8th Nov. (You can enter 3 times to increase your chances - Bluesky, Facebook, X)

I'm excited to open up my new flash fiction writing mentorships for 2024! Includes weekly lecture notes and handouts, analysis of key story examples, and prompts to inspire new drafts, deep line comments on 30 pages of Flash as well as Zoom conferences!

Matt's courses are amazing. Inspiration, encouragement, attention to detail, love of words, great exercises, lovely people. Highly recommend!

Matt's doing amazing things. I'm tagging @nikkirivera.bsky.social for her beautiful and vulnerable reading during Matt's feedback workshop. <3