Pride member Marie-Louise McGuinness has a story being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 3.45pm today, make sure to tune in! It will be available on the BBC Sounds App afterwards! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"And underneath all the trappings of wealth and privilege, the one-time prince was revealed as nothing more than a dirty old man." Read "And The People Said..." By @hilary55.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/11/and-...

"And here I am, on a road I had long since abandoned, humming an old nursery rhyme for comfort; three blind mice, three blind mice — see how they run?" Today on The Pride Roars "Mother" by Marie-Louise McGuinness @mlmcguinness.bsky.social theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/10/moth...

We are over the moon to be able to nominate the following pieces from theprideroars.blogspot.com for a Pushcart Prize, congratulations everyone! @fionamckay.bsky.social @ninamiller.bsky.social @tomljanovic.bsky.social @joycebingham.bsky.social @sugarpigblog.bsky.social @delgeo14.bsky.social

Our co-founder @mlmcguinness has a stunning story coming up on BBC Radio 4 and you don't want to miss it

I've been so excited about this! My short story "Homing" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on 7th November, Read by Charlotte McCurry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"Why was Mr. Eliot allowing these two horrifically behaved felines onto his bed?" Read "A Cat's Breakfast" by @tomljanovic.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-ca...

"Today's must-haves are nothing more than tomorrow's junk." Read "Dear Society; A Collective Roar" An exquisite corpse up now at The Pride Roars! theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/09/dear...

An exquisite corpse - where each contributor sent their last line to the next writer as a prompt - that turned into an exquisite rant. Coming tomorrow!

New on The Pride Roars 'Liberty, TX, Travelodge' by Megan Hanlon @sugarpigblog 'we stayed there six weeks one small room four of us two beds zero jobs' theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/09/libe...

"you’ve had a bad hair day all your life. Not straight, not curly, not sure what to be, pathetically insecure" Read "The Collateral Haircut" by @delgeo14.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Congratulations to our lionesses @hilary55.bsky.social @mlmcguinness.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @amymarques.bsky.social on their Best of the Net nominations! Read these pieces and more at theprideroars.blogspot.com

Get reading, you know it's beautiful 😍😍

Call to artists - submission call closing on the 15th of June for guidelines & submission form: rawlit.weebly.com/submissions....

"Contains: hydrogenated and/or liquid canola oil farmed for generations in Saskatchewan, may contain palm oil not the black gold that built skyscrapers in Alberta" Read "The Family Margarine Tub" by @tomljanovic.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

"It places its limbs upon my bough and lays across my bark. Lies, always lies, wielding machines to cut us down" Read "Hunger Three Ways" by @joycebingham.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/june-2...

"She would never get frightened by the storm, an earthquake, or the dog’s bark, would never enjoy the birds’ song as they welcomed dawn, or fall asleep to a lullaby" Read "Still Life Pain-ting by @delgeo14.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/june-2...

"The chances are high that, unless you have it, you've probably never heard of aphantasia" Read "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" by @hilary55.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/05/out-...

“We want Lennon here, but—” The words safe spaces and inclusivity buzz like bees into ear wax" Read 3 micros from @tomljanovic.bsky.social in @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social thewoolfx.com/other-moms-b...

"I met my father for the first time when I was fifty-seven and he, forty-one" Read "How I Met My Father" by @delgeo14.bsky.social in @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social thehooghlyreview.com/how-i-met-my...

Congratulations to Raw Lit's contributor Katrina Moinet, whose poetry book 'Portrait of a Young Girl Falling' made the shortlist of Wales Book Of The Year! Vote for the Wales Book of the Year 2025 People’s Choice Award nation.cymru/culture/vote...

"Sounds are not always my friend; I find myself prone to my brain hooking onto repetitive irritant noises" Read "How do you like your Muzak" by @joycebingham.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/05/how-...

Check out the Q&A up at @trashcatlit.bsky.social from our very own @delgeo14.bsky.social!

"And as you smile your apple-chomping teeth same as you did the morning after like it’s me that’s done something weird" Huge congratulations to @pleomorphic2.bsky.social for winning the @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social competition, judged by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-undulati...

"I'm sorry we thought people shouldn't go bankrupt paying for healthcare; obviously cancer is a choice." Read "My Sincere Apologies" by Megan Hanlon @sugarpigblog.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/05/my-s...

Check out the latest Ghost Parachute issue packed with beautiful work, including 'We Only Have Eyes For You' by @fionamckay.bsky.social, 'Popcorn for Hale-Bopp' by @mlmcguinness.bsky.social & 'Sour' @amymarques.bsky.social ♥️ ghostparachute.com/issue/may-20...

"I think of words like “Primitivism” and how he (Gauguin) wanted to live it, he didn’t want to experience it second hand" Read "My Brother Lectures Me About Gauguin" by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @epistemiclit.bsky.social epistemiclit.com/current-issu...

"Remember her before; her laughter, her smile, but not her pain, not her shouts, not her insults" Read "The Woman You Knew Nothing About" by @delgeo14.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social trashcatlit.com/the-woman-yo...

"I’m procrastinating. Of course I am. I mean, I’m a writer" @fionamckay.bsky.social is back with her series of posts 'Also Counts as Writing' Read part 3 at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/04/also...

"She screams like a banshee and swears like a sailor. Sailors are soft, actually. #SayNoAndFuckThisShit" Read "When the Inner Bitch Awakens" by @delgeo14.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/04/when...

"What was I meant to do with such flimsy origins, organza and chiffon, wispy dreams and cryptic words, nothing to anchor my stick thin body?" Check out this Exquisite Corpse born from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social's Yeah-Nah group in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/04/yeah...

"They would say things like, Hate was never going to fix anything, and We’re all just people, trying our best" Read "Intensive Care Unit for These Painful Times" by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/intensive-ca...

"Something like sadness had blocked the flue and stained us with the marks of poverty." Read "Burning and Drowning" CNF by @sugarpigblog.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/burning-and-...

Read our friend Sean McNicholl's essay on emotional writing in @intrepidusink.bsky.social @seanmcnicholl.bsky.social intrepidusink.com/emotional-wr...

"We held each other, cried for Maeve and the younger ones, cried for ourselves though nothing had happened to us." Read "Pushed" by @fionamckay.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/pushed/

A stunning issue @CowboyJamboree. Read 'Fourteen" by @sugarpigblog.bsky.social & 'Sun Down' @amymarques.bsky.social Read it all, really. Beautiful work by phenomenal writers. www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/issue-102-to...

"The whiplash from the White House tariff trade war we're living in is geopolitical gaslighting" Read "Elbows Up" by @tomljanovic.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/elbo...

Check out this talk by @delgeo14.bsky.social for the Creative Community Sessions!

"Her warm skin was earth-colored, her black dreadlocks plaited with jasmine and coiled like a resting viper, powerful yet achingly beautiful" Read 'Sita's Children's by @ninamiller.bsky.social in Silly Goose Press sillygoosepress.com/issue-four/s...

I'm one of the authors in this anthology, which benefits an incredibly talented Canadian poet Murgatroyd Monaghan. Launch is this Saturday! #writingcommunity

"Ajna, the third eye, is your intuition. Can you feel how this opens now, a fearless Cyclops, how it sees the world so clearly, how everyone is just trying their best" Read "Chakra Meditation" by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/chak...

"She swallowed her sweet and sour craving for motherhood and scooped up the sleeping infant" Read "The Lingering Murmur of Loss" by @delgeo14.bsky.social up at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

"Kate knows she is there too, in the ether, when the babies cry in the night and the mothers stumble to their cots" Read two stories, "Zombies" and "Spinning Out" by @fionamckay.bsky.social in Frazzled Lit www.frazzledlit.com/p/zombies www.frazzledlit.com/p/spinning-out

"I glance briefly at my tall, hulking frame surrounded by my petite sisters and wiry parents in the portrait that dominates the room. The middle finger of my family's fist" Read "Life Within a Dormant Bough" by @Ninamiller.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/life...

"Julia’s dress been reimagined, the seams and dreams adjusted. Jilted Julia. The cutting of the gown, wounding the satin, it won’t heal without a scar" Read "Powdered Scrambled Egg and Prosecco" by @joycebingham.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/powd...

I have a tiny essay about writing and funding over at @theprideroars.bsky.social - words matter, art matters, pay the artist!

"The thing about deciding to write full-time, is that there’s no ‘job’, no ‘career’ as a writer of literary fiction" Read "Also Counts as Writing (2)" by @fionamckay.bsky.social up at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/also...

"Squash and Tennis were arguing about who had crossed a line" Read "Project Home Run" by @ninamiller.bsky.social in SciFi Shorts www.scifishorts.co/premium/proj...