First pub TrashCat Lit. NFFD Anthology Editors Award 25. Shortlisted for Fish. Stories in SmokeLong, BULL, DIHP, New Feathers, Bath+Oxford anthologies. LISP finalist + winner of Westword + Flash500. Poetry collection in Top 20 Small-Press Poetry awards
Gill O'Halloran
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I love Ian's quietly beautiful poem 'Lastly.'
Thank you Claudia! Everyone, Claudia Monpere's debut collection 'The Periodic Family' is due out in October. She's one of the best flash writers I know. #FlashFiction
Thank you so much for reading Zoe!
Thank you!
Thank you for reading Suzanne!
Thanks Emma!
'real boys are rough and tumble, they thump and dump, you want her, you take her,' Do go read this wonderfully inventive flash by Cole.
Thanks @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social for publishing this one.
www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/fla...
Thrilled to win this competition. Blown away by the stunning performance of Danielle Farrow in reading my story at @cymerafestival.co.uk Huge thanks to Noel and Pippa and of course the judges.
It really is a privilege to log in each morning and see the submissions that have been sent in overnight. I'm constantly amazed by the quality and creativity of every single one. As always, whittling these down to longlists is going to be HARD!
Strasbourg 5 am. A heron’s heavy row across a blue July sky, over green gravel lakes beside the motorway. We’re sixteen. Hungover French drizzles from our English tongues as we waste away with the was...
What an amazing piece today from @quickasaflash.bsky.social up on Bottle Rocket - seriously go check this one out, it's incredible. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/fla...
The Welkin Press
Joyce Bingham
I may have jumped the gun a little bit, but what are guns for if not for jumping...
Anyway, entries are now OPEN for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!!
Micros up to 100 words
Free to enter
Send UP TO TWO micros across FIVE categories
Deadline 30th June
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
Strasbourg 5 am. A heron’s heavy row across a blue July sky, over green gravel lakes beside the motorway. We’re sixteen. Hungover French drizzles from our English tongues as we waste away with the was...
What happens when Pinoccio meets toxic masculinity?
New flash out with WestWord - great to be in this issue with Stephanie Percival, Richard Garcka & Bonnie Meekums. Special thanks to Amanda Saint for believing in this story @retreatwest.bsky.social
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Here are the winning writers and the longlist for the Cymera Festival/ Shoreline of Infinity Scottish SFF&H short story competition.
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Brilliance and brevity from @quickasaflash.bsky.social - do not regret rien not reading...
Read this if you remember travelling pre internet, when the world was your oyster, there was no social media and your folks had no clue about your antics. Actually, just read it.
...'Liv has the dark one; I got the blonde, the one with dead nits’ eggs in his hair. '
Love, love the attitude in this trippy, fabulously-titled story from @quickasaflash.bsky.social 🦩
Really honoured to feature in Moonflake Press' treasured anthology with a wee poem I'm quite chuffed with. Lots of heartfelt, sparkly stuff within.
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"Under stones, sunk in silt, the locket she lost after she lost him." Stunning , heartbreaking haibun by @quickasaflash.bsky.social
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Thanks @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social for publishing this one.
www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/fla...
Thanks @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social for publishing this one.
www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/fla...
Gill O’Halloran Listen to Gill read her story After lessons, they play leapfrog on the lawn. On the lawn, at the far end, the river where he paddled, where frogs gaze frozen under stones. Und…
Thanks @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social for publishing this one.
www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/fla...
Shoreline of Infinity
Emma Phillips
Strasbourg 5 am. A heron’s heavy row across a blue July sky, over green gravel lakes beside the motorway. We’re sixteen. Hungover French drizzles from our English tongues as we waste away with the was...
Strasbourg 5 am. A heron’s heavy row across a blue July sky, over green gravel lakes beside the motorway. We’re sixteen. Hungover French drizzles from our English tongues as we waste away with the was...www.bottlerocketlitmag.com
Strasbourg 5 am. A heron’s heavy row across a blue July sky, over green gravel lakes beside the motorway. We’re sixteen. Hungover French drizzles from our English tongues as we waste away with the was...
