I can tell you now - the news is out! I have received the Highly Commended award by the Federation of Writers (Scotland) in their 2026 competition. (For my short story ‘For Auld Lang Syne’.) Totally chuffed! 🥰
www.federationofwriters.scot
Delving back into our fab anthology, which is now online to read 🦝
A thread of three tantalising spotlights
In Words That Have Carried Across the Water, Sam Alex worldbuilds a dystopia with beautiful mastery. Gorgeous characters and full of hope.
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Three days left of our Summer subs window 🦝
Send your plant-celebrating flash fiction 100-750 words, and your shorts up to 2000 to the bin.
Any genre.
Deadline Sunday 8pm (UK time)
Mood Board: trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/
Guidelines and to sub: trashcatlit.com/general-subm...
#Submissioncalls
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Spotlight 3 from today's taste of What Comes to Light.
In Objects of Sentimental Value, @joycebingham.bsky.social explores a very relatable experience with powerful emotional resonance. Nostalgia, families, grief. She handles them all beautifully.
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The bin's sad to report that we've not had many submissions to our Kingdom of Plantae call so far. We hope it's because you're all still writing and editing and stuffs before the deadline🤞.
We know June's a busy lit subs month, but we hope to see your words🦝
#litsubmissions #submissioncalls
ONLY SIX DAYS UNTIL SUBS CLOSE 🦝
Here are some suggestions for how using words to describe a landscape could influence the mood of your piece, the genre, and your character themselves.
More plantae mood 💚:
trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/
Sub guidelines:
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Everyone rush out and get your advance orders in for Issue 2 of 13tracks magazine, featuring my hip-hop inspired tale of protest and confrontation in Hong Kong - with its own dope hip-hop playlist. Actually, you don't even need to rush out, you can order it right here!
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Can you knock out a story in four days? Our sub call closes at 8pm (UK time) on Sunday 🦝
We're celebrating the Kingdom of Plantae, here are some quick ideas to get you thinking 💚
Our Mood Board:
trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/
Guidelines and sub link:
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A second spotlight from our now-online anthology 🦝
In Mr Crabkowski, Shayla Felix brings snappy humour to her back and forth email-form short. A relatable story about a school pet, that takes such unexpected and joyful turns.
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Delighted to have this up at @bulbculture.bsky.social - thank you so much for rewilding this piece!
To celebrate the Kingdom of Plantae, we are wheeling out our green bin for this summer general submission call. Stories do not have to be set in summer – but they do have to be GREEN in some …
The light is on for Zoë Davis! @meanerharker.bsky.social 💡
“The Key of Green” is a stunning poem that captures both the raw majesty of nature and the harrowing undercurrents of humanity.
Read Zoë’s incredible poetry over at the site!
