A joy to have a new flash in the brightest new litmag around, @bulbregion.bsky.social. 🩻 I’ve been wanting to write a list story for ages, and @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social has been the kindest editor to deal with. Send them something good when it next opens for subs! 💡
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Written in a Meg Pokgrass workshop called ‘Messy Love’ - not sure there’s another kind?
I'll be in conversation with Annie Maconochie for the launch of her brilliant short story collection 'Diamond Life' at East Bristol Books next Wednesday 10 June, so why not join us for an evening of words and reading? Doors open at 6.30
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Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼
Delighted that my story, Gravel, was Highly Commended by judge @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social in this fab competition. Huge thanks to Rosaleen and to Ian Rushton at @freeflashfiction.bsky.social 😍
Just finished the final proofread of my new collection, which includes this essay originally published in @literaryhub.bsky.social. If you haven't read it, consider this is your invitation into my work and what it's all about.
‘One of the problems with AI use seeping out of business and science writing and into the “literary” world is that literary editors may be the worst equipped to identify AI writing.’
Malin Hay on the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and AI detection, from the blog.
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I'll be in conversation with Annie Maconochie for the launch of her brilliant short story collection 'Diamond Life' at East Bristol Books next Wednesday 10 June, so why not join us for an evening of words and reading? Doors open at 6.30
Tix from Headfirst
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...