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gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social
Journalist. Writer. Reader. Relentless optimist. Former ABC broadcaster | Moderator | Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly | BSF 23 & 24 | Words in Ghost Parachute, X-R-A-Y, Fractured, Splonk, Night Parrot, Jellyfish Review, Ruby…. Gillianoshaughnessy.com
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So RAPT! Congratulations @avitusbcarle.bsky.social and thank you @xraylitmag.bsky.social

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to @belindarowe.bsky.social on her first Best Small Fictions story, Brittle Bones! Originally published in @gonelawn.bsky.social SUCH a brilliant story 🎉🎉

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It’s arrived! So proud to have my story, Into the White in the 2024 Best Small Fictions anthology. Isn’t it PRETTY! 🙏🙏🙏 to the BSF editors, guest editor @ambersparks.bsky.social Available to buy from Alternating Current Press. Originally published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Such great story selections and writing prompts here! @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @mattkendrick.bsky.social

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This month's #Mondettes picked by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social ⚡️Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why James made these brilliant picks 🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/may-2025

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Brilliant!

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Flash fiction and nonfiction, under 500 words. Let's go! June 3 is soon! Very soon! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

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Magical @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social so moving. ‘Touchstones of love and marriage and life and death pinning them against the sky.’

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Thanks to the generous sponsors for my stair climb challenge, I have free spots for low-income writers on all my upcoming #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses. Details about the courses: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/courses-work... Sign up to the "lottery": docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Free spots for low income writers on @mattkendrick.bsky.social course!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Melissa’s writing and mini ukulele concerts are a dead set JOY. Thank you @lumchanmfa.bsky.social

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The last line of this new @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💔💔💔 fracturedlit.com/baby-goat-on...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

New Micro by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social “and I don’t say anything as you drop each strand on the ground and I wonder are you okay do you need help is that good for you as I see patches spread across your head and I know that it’s not good for you...” fracturedlit.com/you-are-pull...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Cooking for my elderly dad is a beautiful and a thankless task. Bless. gillianoshaughnessy.com/2025/05/07/t...

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So what's on offer in this *APPARENTLY INCREDIBLE* SmokeLong Summer workshop, then? Aside from all the flash craft development, generative writing tasks, community, contests, online open mic nights, feedback, playlists, encouragement and FUN? WELL, glad you asked, because we have a thread for that:

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Australia, Australia, you bloody beauty

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Genius! Love this @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Love this brilliant and devastating story by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Fantastic! Can’t wait to read this. Essential reading for short fiction aficionados!

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

I love to read your stories! Submit! 🩷

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