Writer|Namesplainer|2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist|2022 Winner Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer|2020 Winner Saboteur Best Novella| Agent: Hilary McMahon @ Westwood Creative Artists
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Lovely to be on here with my pal @downith.bsky.social — if she’d not been silly & moved back to Canada, she would have been round my house for lunch today with lots of other lovely people celebrating 🥲
Lunch to celebrate publication of ‘Bereft of Reason’. Thanks to @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social @joannacampbell.bsky.social @judehwriter2.bsky.social , John Wheway, Penny Lorenc & Adrian Campbell for coming. Thanks to Phil for taking the pic!
Not long to go till National Flash Fiction Day (Saturday 13 June). We will be publishing a flash every five or ten minutes for 24 hrs. Our write-in project will also be posting a prompt every hour on the hour! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
Julia Elliott has won the 2026 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for her short story collection Hellions. Click here for the full report: https://bit.ly/4vmzfYE
Enter today Sun 7th June ! Deadline midnight. Last chance to submit a story of up to 300 words. £1000 top prize. Double and triple entries reduced Plus a chance for 3 writers to win 3 free entries for next time! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/last...
“Funny, clever, warm and sad, this is a beautiful book.”
Nuala O’Connor on The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social
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While I work on resurrecting the Ellipsis archive, let’s get the ball rolling…
Web submissions are open, 6th-16th June. 1,000 words or fewer.
The usual guidelines apply and can be found here: ellipsis-zine.com/submit
“The constable says it’s bad news. And you think, was there ever any other kind? Not in this family.”
from The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social
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“She tells Mammy Sister Angelique is pure of heart and Mammy says she’ll give Nuala pure of heart if she doesn’t eat her cabbage.”
from The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social
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It’s the final day for last minute writers! Thank you to everyone who’s entered already and for those who have plans to enter today, Sunday 7th June. At the time of posting this (12.01 …
