📢 You can now apply to be part of our online talent development programme, Word Space, for 2026-27. literatureworks.org.uk/applications... Submissions are open throughout December and January, closing at midday on Saturday 31st January 2026.

Could you be the next writer-in-residence for our Quay Words live literature programme in Exeter? We're looking for a writer for the month of March, to produce a commission that audiences can interact with in-situ in @exetercustomhouse.bsky.social in early May.

Thanks so much to @j-lbrbsblogs.bsky.social for including Botanical Short Stories in her reads for #NovNov2025 💙🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿💙 And happy reading to all those taking part in #Novella #November📖 #BookSky #reading #plants #shortstories

At the end of a lovely summer, Botanical Short Stories has been growing new shoots 🌿🌿🌿 I look forward to sharing some lovely news about our anthology of #shortstories about #plants and #flowers soon 💙 lnk.to/BotanicalSho... #BookSky #booknews #reading #nature

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NEWS! I've been hard at work with a fantastic group of fellow writers making a new online magazine about thrutopias. BENDING THE ARC launches 22nd April! Our aim is to write thriving, desirable futures into being. Pls subscribe & share! bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com

I am teaching on this online short story course for Arvon in October - be great to see some of you there A few places are concession spots, available at a 30% discount for low-waged writers or those receiving certain benefits. Here's the link to the week: www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Last few days to enter The Short Story's #Cambridge #Prizes 2025 for #shortstories and #flashfiction Entry by optional donation The Short Story celebrates contemporary short form #fiction and publishes reviews, interviews & essays #booksky #writingcompetitions theshortstory.co.uk/competitions...

@petermcallister.bsky.social will be leading a discussion with Jackie Taylor, Rob Magnuson Smith, @amarkle.bsky.social & @emmatimpany.bsky.social at Penzance Litfest, & they’ll be reading from our Holyer an Gof Publishers' Awards-shortlisted anthology, Cornwall In Short! Book here: buff.ly/H8AWToG

The #anthology of short stories I co-published with @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof awards this year!! #booksky #award #shortlist #shortlisted #literaryfiction

I’m leading a discussion with four fantastic authors about their work and what #Cornwall means to them at the Penzance Litfest this year. They’ll each be reading a section of a story @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social published in the anthology ‘Cornwall In Short’. More details below:

Upcoming event at Penzance Litfest - details below Please come along for readings from the wonderful Cornwall In Short #shortstory #anthology & a discussion about what #Cornwall means to us @petermcallister.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social theacornpenzance.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Welcome to the world Short | Poto - The big book of small stories | Iti te kupu, nui te kōrero 100 short, short stories in English and te reo Māori, inc my story 'Remains | Ngā toenga' Congratulations to eds Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong & all involved www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/short-...

Exciting addition to Cornwall's literary landscape: the beautiful first edition of @aspier-mag.bsky.social, full of good stuff. It was about time someone created a new literary journal for Cornwall, reviving the previous tradition of Scryfa, the Parabola Project and the legendary Cornish Review.

The first issue of Aspier, a new #literary and #arts magazine for #Cornwall, is full of wonderful #shortstories, #poetry, #essays and #features Many congratulations to editor Sravya Raju & all the contributors @aspier-mag.bsky.social @shelleytrower.bsky.social More here: www.aspiermagazine.co.uk

Call for Submissions | Nature & Eco-writing | Deadline: May 15 2025 We would love to read your short fiction, flash, non-fiction, and poetry themed around nature, environment and ecology for our Nature & Eco-writing Edition: inkfishmag.com

Happy book birthday to my first publication, Over the Dam, a pamphlet of five short stories published 10 years ago today - Over the Dam is no longer in print but four of its stories are included in Three Roads, my second short story collection from Postbox Press, an imprint of Red Squirrel Press

Happy book birthday to Botanical Short Stories One year old today! Huge thanks to our wonderful contributors and readers

How absolutely magical to receive this beautiful artwork of a golden oriole in a fig tree It was inspired by my story 'A Bird So Rare' in Three Roads (Red Squirrel Press, 2022) which features the surprise appearance of this very bird Huge thanks to wonderful friends for sending this gorgeous gift

I seem to have started a Starter Pack to my surprise - please join if you wish - let me know:

Delighted to say that my #shortstory 'Perran in the Sands' is now available on #BBCSounds This work, from the #TwelveStoriesfromTwelveSections anthology, is about Cornwall's patron saint, #StPiran & his ancient oratory in sand dunes near #Perranporth #Cornwall www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Lovely to use #winter greenery from my #garden to make a seasonal #wreath with my daughters Berried ivy, pittosporum, conifer, rosemary & Viburnum tinus with cinnamon sticks and pine #cones on a #natural #vine base Happy #midwinter 🌿💚 #WinterSolstice2024

Almost year's end, so a big thank you to all involved in Botanical Short Stories-our wonderful #writers, #illustrator & #publisher A beautifully illustrated #anthology of 14 #shortstories about #plants and #flowers for #readers who love the #botanical world Happy midwinter lnk.to/BotanicalSho...

Had the loveliest of times at the launch of the short #story #anthology #CornwallinShort in the wonderful Morrab Library, a heaven for book lovers set in beautiful gardens Many thanks @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social editors Kate Horsley, @petermcallister.bsky.social & all involved #fiction #Cornwall

Nice to see my #novella Travelling in the Dark in this photo alongside many other lovely titles from #FairlightBooks They have a wonderful list, so do check them out 🌿

Our anthology, Cornwall in Short, in the window of the gorgeous Terrace Gallery, Penryn, in lovely company between @emmatimpany.bsky.social Botanical Short Stories, and Wyl Menmuir’s The Heart of the Woods 🎄😻

Our beautiful anthology Cornwall in Short is on sale shorturl.at/eFigw featuring brilliant work by @timhannigan.bsky.social @emmatimpany.bsky.social @amarkle.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social @shelleytrower.bsky.social @stasiawrites.bsky.social @tomvowler.bsky.social @kstansfield.bsky.social

This month, as days shorten and nights draw in, some readers take part in #NovNov24, a reading challenge which focuses on the #novella form It's a form I love to read - my own novella #TravellingintheDark was published by #FairlightBooks in their #FairlightModerns series back in 2018 #writing

Beautiful artworks spotted at the #SouthbankCentre in #London recently These digital hybrid #tulips by #MatCollishaw are created by combining genetic algorithms with technology Part of Winter Light, an #exhibition illuminating dark nights with outdoor artworks which play with colour and light

So many people are involved in creating an anthology like #BotanicalShortStories. As well as 14 wonderful #writers, I was lucky enough to work with award-winning #illustrator Sarah Jane Humphrey The cover design (left) was created from Sarah's beautiful, original #botanical #illustration (right) 🌿

Last week, I had the lovely experience of recording my short story 'Perran in the Sands' for broadcast on #BBCRadioCornwall this December. The story is about Cornwall's patron saint #StPiran and his ancient oratory. You can find out more in the post below emmatimpany.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/a...

Thank you very much to the lovely Sunlight Press for publishing my #shortstory 'Stone Cove' recently. #TheSunlightPress is a digital non profit #literary #journal for new and established voices. www.thesunlightpress.com/2024/10/29/s...

It’s never too late – I was 44 when my debut poetry collection was published – I’d been writing poems forever. I’ve published 8, 9th on the way. And my debut novel, linked with my poems. Earth is rejuvenated by spring, creativity keeps you young. Don’t give up, just keep renewing yourself & your art

Botanical Short Stories is available to pre-order Publication 4 April 2024 The History Press Local 14 short stories about #plants and #flowers from a wide range of #writers and illustrated by Sarah Jane Humphrey Available from all #bookshops and online #fiction #creativewriting #gardening