Great news - our Spring Charity Flash Fiction competition is now OPEN! @judehwriter2.bsky.social is our Guest Judge and our charity for this round is @cftrustuk.bsky.social 500 words, £170 in prizes, deadline 27 April Details are here thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-... Send your best!

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There's villainy afoot! #FlashVillain 2025 contest now open to submissions. themolotovcocktail.com/flash-villai...

I’ve been followed by 65 people in 2 days and really it’s just so tiring when they’re not writing folk or even real people. Also have no ideas in overwhelmed tiny brain. Going to catch up on Severance. Full moon, watch out. Ciao.

The #WelkinPrize is over for another year 😥 but hopefully the glow of these amazing stories will linger for a good while yet. If you've not read them all yet, or you'd like to read them again, or read the dazzlers from 23 or 24, you can catch them all here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

‘He leaps onto the seat beside me, licking me and licking me, my wet dog, Hank’ Yikes! Love it! ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

‘Finn is big-eyed and his mouth is packed with words.’ A Kik-story for a grey morning @kiklodge.bsky.social ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

Disappointed not to have made the final cut but I throw my hearty congratulations towards all of the winners! 🥳✨

Don't worry if you're a bit 2 or 5 like our Ed - we open for subs on the 1st February for reprints and 1st March for themed stories for a charity print anthology 🦝 trashcatlit.com/submissions/ #SubmissionCalls #FlashFiction

Wait until the sauce starts to #congeal, volcanic over the bland cauliflower. That’s it. The rich cheese and a hint of mustard is all it takes to evoke potential. I’m so hopeful I could spoon it all up, buttery lips leaving their mark on a wineglass for tomorrow to worry about. #vss365 #prompt

Unlikely animal poets 👀😍

Micros are weird little things. You read them quickly then some days later they can pop into your head out of nowhere! This one by @jameygallagher.bsky.social just keeps tapping away at my mind.

Latest #ekphrastic writing challenge from the brilliant @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social Deadline: January 31 Wordcount: 1,000 max Prompt: Pavonia, by Francis Picabia #FlashFiction

We're getting a LOT of poetry submissions. Send in your Micro Prose, Fiction & CNF too! thehooghlyreview.com/issue-4-subm...

She’s brill! ⭐️

‘I’m sorry for the Bluey test. It’s just that the babies are so insidious—we had to make sure. You don’t know how to play bass, do you?’ 😅 splitlipthemag.com/flash/0125/s...

…and we are open for submissions! ONE WEEK ONLY!

Good egg 🥚 Highly recommend!

They asked us to #measure ourselves against the trees and we fell short, how could we not? Birds circled, mocking us for having dreams but never the will to fly. We surrendered to the grass in our laziness and let the ants carry us away. #vss365 #prompt

Tonight some Italian men of the 21st Century will laughingly call women ‘Befane’ and ask where they hide their broom, and I will eat them all.

I’ve only gone and blinking made it to the shortlist!! Thank you so much for this boost and good luck to everyone else who made it, and big love indeed to everyone who entered. (Can you tell I’m excited?!) 💫🥰

I left the restaurant hungry, imagining all the things I could have done with those letters. trampset.org/answer-key-5...

I’m still waiting for your definition of the word ‘#turning,’ that’s why I put my hat on back-to-front, to see if you’ll stop me at the door and ask me to stay, but you don’t and the world keeps on. #vss365 #prompt

Did a flutter of submissions and I’m reading this. Might be feeling positive, might not last. #flashfic

‘The sighting of a hare signifies a #fresh start, though in some cultures it’s seen as a bad omen.’ ‘Typical of you to see the negative side to everything,’ he replies. She looks over the fields, sees a streak in the distance. ‘Hmm, yes.’ And blows her fringe out of her eyes. #vss365 #prompt

‘Today I am a saltiness of anchovies.’ Just read this beautiful reflection, on a day which serves for just that.

New year, new opportunities!

Happy New Year !!!

2 more days until we reopen for subs. Poetry, short stories, flash, micro, CNF. We love it all. Get ready... trampset.org/submissions-...

Subs will open January second! More details to come ✨

All the guests have gone.

‘The water jostles our inner murk’ Lovely writing!

Holy moly! Booking is now open. Can't wait (Actually I can. I could really do with the Christmas break but you get what I mean. Hope to see you online or in actual person in Jan!)

My first story held on for quite a long time before being handed back with positive notes which I really appreciate. I’ll give it another bash, I mean, why not? Thank you @mattkendrick.bsky.social for always being so supportive!

I am incredibly on the longlist! Hurrah and wow! Thank you for selecting my novella-in-flash and good luck everyone! #flashfiction #writing #novella

‘You understand the appeal of food. Warm, salty French fires. Tangy barbecue sauce. Gooey brownies. Custard dissolving on your lips as you anticipate that first bite of crust.’ Nailed it! 🔨 flash-frog.com/2024/12/16/t...

This book. I’m savouring the words. Just beautiful.

New Flash Fiction Review @nffr.bsky.social is open for free submissions, 500 words maximum: newflashfiction.submittable.com/submit/ #flashfiction #litmags #writingcommunity

Didn't have a lot of writing published in 2024, but I did edit this amazing MOTEL anthology published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and featuring 28 talented writers. Would make a great present! www.amazon.com/MOTEL-anthol...

Flash fiction #writers are you looking for a #writingcompetition with good prize money? flash500.com/flash-fiction/ £300/£200/£100 to win #vss #flashfiction

Submission call: Theme: 'Resistance Isn't Futile' Deadline: 17th January 2025 Word count: 50 - 1,000 words

CUT UP! Use Language is a Virus's Cut Up Machine to remix your words (or someone else's) Inspired by :15 Corinthians 1 55 by Sean G Meggeson voidspacezine.com/15-corinthia... Full instructions below:

Finnian was kind enough to add me to a list of writers she likes; well she’s not bad herself! 🧡 Advent Day 6: doll thepropellingpencil.com/plastic-melt...

Read my brilliant friend @juliaruthsmith.bsky.social‘s Pushcart-nominated piece in @proppencil.bsky.social „Time falls like a Slinky, picking up rocket speed on the smooth part of the staircase you promised you’d fix before someone got hurt.“ thepropellingpencil.com/the-unwindin...

Here’s today’s small advent offering 🐇 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/we-...

👀 @flash500.bsky.social is here too!

Landed my first publication for January which is nice 💫 #flashfiction

Our early issues have gems, too! Don't forget about them. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

I love it - intelligent and rich. Advent day 3: cake