Had a lovely 37th Wedding Anniversary meal at Ox and Finch.

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Happy New Year!

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

Playing tennis in -2C (28F) is... interesting. 😂😂

Got these for Christmas. 🙂

Submissions to our anthology on the theme of BRIDGES are open until 15 Feb. Two accepted authors will each receive a prize from our editors of £50! Editors are @karjon.bsky.social & @sharontelfer.bsky.social www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...

Tree plus wee dug.

We are very excited to announce that Joanna Campbell @joannacampbell.bsky.social is our new artist-in-residence! She has been a huge supporter of NFFD for many years & we’re thrilled to have her as part of the team! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

Yay! Excited to read your stories.

🎶Papal reign, papal reign…🎶

Submissions to our anthology open on 1 Dec. The theme is BRIDGES. You can read more about our editors @sharontelfer.bsky.social & @karjon.bsky.social here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/20...

Superb. youtu.be/y2AnWgotxx0?...

Looking forward to working with @sharontelfer.bsky.social and reading your fabulous stories.

Playing tennis in Scotland in November: t-shirt, joggers, sweatshirt, hat, gloves, rain jacket. Hysterical laughter at the wind and icy rain. Excellent fun for 80 minutes. 😂😂

We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...

We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.

NFFD will open our MicroFiction Comp ((up to 100 words) & subs to our new anthology (theme to be announced) on 1 Dec. More details coming soon!

Things are happening in NFFD land! We’ve got our anthology guest editor & our 4 microfiction comp judges lined up & we’ve decided on a theme for our next anthology!Watch this space!

Dog sitting this gorgeous wee mad thing overnight. Beautiful Winnie.

Many thanks to @bathflashaward.bsky.social for longlisting my wee story, and thanks to @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for shortlisting it. Huge congratulations to all the winners - looking forward to reading your stories.

You haven't lived until you've heard satnav trying to say Auchengeich.😂😂

Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include: -Amazon -Apple -Coinbase -Lockheed Martin -Google -Meta -Microsoft -Palantir -Tobacco companies -The Adelson family Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.

Thrilled to share the beautiful cover of my debut novel, IN THE DESERT, on sale 3-3-2026 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Many thanks to the brilliant photographer, Keith Bernstein for use of the stunning cover image and to Ashling Dennehy for the design. I'm so excited!

A kids' book in time for Halloween from the ever brilliant @theburninghearth.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Farmer-Pumpk...

Just found an email in spam inviting me to read at a book launch that I would definitely have said yes to. TUT! Stupid spam.

We are thrilled to announce our long-list for the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025! Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and for all those who entered this round! oxfordflashfictionprize.com/news/

If anyone knows folk who went to school with Nigel Farage I’d love to speak to them for an article and I’d protect their anonymity if they wished. Do help pass this on please in the hope it reaches the right people. Thank you

I haven't watched South Park for years, but it's hilarious this season with their Trump/Vance stuff. How long until the big orange baby has them cancelled - or, ye know, imprisoned? Catch it before he does.

Two guys playing tennis on the court beside ours took a break in their game for a cigarette. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Stop it, Tesco - behave!

“In poems, short stories, novel extracts, scripts & memoir, the writers in these pages have found their own distinctive ways of giving voice to what matters to them, & thereby spill some of the familiar, surprising, awkward, thrilling truths that make up who we are.” 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...

Chuffed to be in the New Writing Scotland anthology - and even happier to be there with friends @nivenaudrey.bsky.social and Elisabeth Ingram-Wallace.

It's that time of year again - off to Glasgow Clyde College to read some of my short stories and flash fiction to the illustration students. Can't wait to see what they come up with this year.

This story is REALLY Scottish. I also need to know now how to get that T shirt.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Is he trying to get people who look like 'foreigners' and deliver food attacked, assaulted, & racially abused? Because that's what that tweet does. I cannot believe it. Completely tone deaf. And entirely irresponsible.

Goodnight 😴

Big thanks to everyone who joined me for my Lost & Found session at this year's #flashficfest. Pictured: some of your creepy friends... I loved hearing your own lost & found stories. Do keep sharing them with me. Many thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social for inviting me 🙏.

Huge 🙏🏽 @christopherallen.bsky @helenrye.bsky.social for @flashficfestuk.bsky.social karaoke 🎶 Legendary rendition of OASIS Champagne Superova by @timcraig.bsky.social Getting @itssonoemi.bsky.social to sing her 1st karaoke @stillsquirrel.bsky.social literally on her knees for Like a prayer

So lovely to see old friends and new at this year's @flashficfestuk.bsky.social! Thank you so much again to Jude, Diane and co. (won't tag you all in case that's a bit overwhelming!). So happy to be invited back as a presenter, loved all the workshops I attended and all the chats/fun in between 💙

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...

1. Another #FlashFictionFestival over and done. What a fabulous weekend with the most brilliant people. Enormous thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and @sarahillswrites.bsky.social who do so much work for months before the festival even happens, then even more when we're actually there.

After 24 hours back in the real world, I’m taking stock of my third @flashficfestuk.bsky.social. What a blast this festival is 💥 So good for the soul. I always come back bone-tired, but in the best possible way, worn out from so much joy, replenished and recharged. 🧵 A thread of highlights…

Well that's a wrap for @flashficfestuk.bsky.social ! Amazing workshops w @kathyfish.bsky.social on The sound of #flashfiction & @hanakhalique.bsky.social on #Hybrids Forgot to bring my phone today, so many peeps I didn't get pics with, but here's @tiptreejen.bsky.social belting it out last night 🎶

“Trump didn't deploy 2,000 National Guard troops on January 6 when the U.S. Capitol was under siege... But he deployed 2,000 today in Los Angeles.”

Seen on the other place:

Did Putin just say, 'You okay, hun?' to Trump?

PRESI-DEMENTIA/CON-MANDER-IN-CHIEF/FATTY SHACK/AYATOLLAH COMPLAINI/TANNIBAL LECTER/SCAMMY DAVIS JR./RICH LITTLE HANDS/HIPPOPOTUS/OUR FONDLING FARTER/TRUMPELSTILTSKIN/HUNGRY HUNGRY HYPOCRITE/DICTATOR TOT/UNCLE SCAM/QUID PRO COMBOVER/MANGO MUSSOLINI/FRANCIS FORD GROPE-ALA/ALEXANDER SCAMILTON <the end>