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So many excellent stories - have a look! 👀

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Gorgeous… Handsome… Distinguished… Still a baby! 🧡

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Entries close in eight days! Our international flash fiction competition for up to 500 words is open until 30 June. flash500.com/flash-fiction/ Prizes: £300/£200/£100 Judged by @dublinwriter.bsky.social #Writer #WritingCommunity

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We Are Open For Submissions. The Short Story Award judged by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social needs you! Closing on 30th June. Keep those subs coming! @jmcm.bsky.social

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A happy goblin sketch from a happy artist/writer! Exciting things are afoot… #ArtSky

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A little poem, soaring out into the world, via the lovely Oatleaf Poetry Magazine… #Poetry #PoetrySky #ChronicIllness

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The 2025 National Poetry Competition is now open for entries! This year's judges are Denise Saul, Ian Duhig and Susannah Dickey - find out more about them on our website. The National Poetry Competition offers to winners a first prize of £5,000, a second prize of £3,000, a third prize of ...

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What a fantastic day of #FlashFlood and still going, I think! So many brilliant flashes, it really is a treat! #NFFD2025 #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity

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It’s the #FlashFlood where @natflashfictionday.bsky.social share a flood of flashes all day! I’ve read some amazing ones so far and look forward to a day filled with tiny stories. Here’s my flash: ‘Still, the Silence Comes’…

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A thread of thirteen wondrous witchy books especially for Friday 13th! These novels range from the fantastical to the historical and everything in between…. #Witch #BookSky

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Today I played about with soft pastels just for fun. I really enjoyed letting go, mark-making, without a worry or thought-process, using both hands to smudge and crayons to draw. The result: a dream-scape. The process: absolute joy! #ArtSky

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When you go down into the woods and hear this tiny giggling… #Orkney #Woods #Art #Faeries

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Who fancies a #writing challenge? Write a story in just 75 words - exactly 75 words - for the chance to be published on Paragraph Planet’s home page. One has been featured every day since 2008. Http://www.paragraphplanet.com/submission.php #writingcommunity Pls RT to other #writers

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Issue 14 of Dust Poetry is now live ✨ And you can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...

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Morning! Last day of our 30th Award today. Are you picking up a Last Minute Club badge? The club is open now till midnight ! £1460 in prizes.Results out end of June.Do share your badge here when you get one! Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

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How lucky am I to win this magical bundle of goodies? I’ve been excited for Dark Crescent for a long time and think it looks absolutely wonderful. Very excited to dive into a world of Scottish folklore… what a treat! Go follow @lyndseycroal.bsky.social ✨ #BookSky #Folklore #ShortStories

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Such a glorious sunny day in #Orkney - went to Olav’s Wood looking for faeries, goblins and bees!

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‘Oh Ellen, don’t tell any more ghost stories - I didn’t sleep a wink last night!’ #Goblin #DigitalArt #ArtSky #Faeries #ArtistsOnBluesky

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DVpit is officially coming back on October 8th, 2025 and we have over 50 agents and editors excited to participate. Follow this account for all announcements and check out dvpit.carrd.co for more details and information! #dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks

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We open for issue 3 subs, this FRIDAY, June 6th and close in a week this time, after Friday, June 13th! Get your flash fiction, CNF, poetry, hybrids, and art about #chronicillnesses, #disabilities, and #mentalhealth ready! See the site here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/submission-g...

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Huge congratulations to all the winners! Writing when caring is no easy task, I hope everyone is delighted, and I think we all need to eat celebratory cake! 🍰🧁 #Curae

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Good morning, poets! This morning we are excited to announce our monthly poetry competitions! Our themed competitions are free to enter and will run monthly from the 1st to the 20th. The winner will be announced on the 25th and their submission will be featured on Oatleaf's homepage for 30 days!

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I’m back on with another ghost story - I dreamed it up months ago, but I’ve been struggling to write it until I realised it just wasn’t working. So I’ve changed it up a bit, now we’ve got some spooky woods, a haunted road, and of course some crows! #Ghosts #WritingCommunity #WIP

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Pssst! Thought you might like to know... We shall be opening general poetry submissions for one week from 1st - 7th June. Guidelines will reappear on the site on 1st June. We're excited to read your brightest and best!

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Click the link to see my artwork in the wonderful FLARE 💛 The Always Nap-Time Goblin is still napping! Think he might wake up in 2026..?

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It’s #DementiaAwarenessWeek in Scotland and I’ve written a poem for my wonderful Dad. He amazes me how he uses humour to get through even the toughest of times, how he keeps on with his music, gardening, art, how caring and loving he is and always has been. Love you, Dad 💚 #Poem #PoetryCommunity

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✨️Dark Crescent Giveaway! ✨️ Two copies 1 here/ 1 on IG - just repost for a chance to win + bonus entry if you comment a favourite Scottish folklore thing! Signed book comes with a real hagstone, art card, kelpie sticker, bookmark & stickers ft. folklore lino designs by me! Ends 1st June! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚🌙

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When playing about with drawing ends up with a Flafoofofol very enamoured with its own pom pom tail! #Art #MagicalCreature #ArtSky

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Gorgeous gorse! A fragment of folklore collected by Plant-Lore.com recalled that children in Hampshire believed dragons lived in gorse flowers. Elsewhere, people picked gorse flowers to dye their eggs yellow at Easter.

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