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Excited to announce this year’s Flash Fiction Festival weekend at Trinity College, Bristol U.K. 18-20th July is open for booking! All details of the workshops, presenters etc on flashfictionfestival.com Hope you can come! Bar, bookshop, readings, friends, fun!

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Put the word out that we're back. Think of us. We open 4/20 for a short window for a print issue in the fall. We want poems, prose, art, comics & beyond. Free to submit, free to read online always, we now pay $150 + comp copies + eternal literary infamy. More prestigious than the Paris Review.

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First day of Writer in Residence role @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social It's so lovely to be able to hang out in such a lovely creative place!

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Our Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for Underrepresented Writers is officially open! ✍️⁠ It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟⁠ The theme this year is 'Wild'. ⁠ Find out more, including how to enter: shorturl.at/70n8V ⁠ #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writing #diversevoices

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Books in the Park is back! We’re so excited to be announcing our spectacular line-up of authors for the festival this year! Join us at Beckenham Place Park on Saturday 26th April for a day of author talks, writing workshops and stories for all. Book your tickets here: www.booksinthepark.org

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Calling all aspiring writers and poets, our programme also includes poetry, flash fiction and writing workshops for adults, led by Annie Lyons, Helen Bowell and Anita Goveas. Book your spot now: buff.ly/QyDDvdw #booksinthepark

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Happy #WorldBookDay! We have a whole host of brilliant children’s authors appearing at Books in the Park on Saturday 26th April. Spaces are limited so book your tickets now! #booksinthepark

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We're are open! #microfiction #flashfiction #shortstories #translations #callforsubmisssions. Please follow the link for guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

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"You tattoo all your Barbies with indelible ink and sing all the swear words your babysitter teaches you in a chant that all the slaps in the world won’t knock out." Fierce, joyful, defiant, unexpected. @coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social gives us a brilliant character moving through life here. #Mondettes

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Please share and share again - the demise of twitter definitely stops us getting the word out more. The second #curae literary prize - a special literary award for unpaid carers - has just opened for a second time. thecuraeprize.uk You’ve got until 1/03 to enter!

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Today feels like a good day to write a 100-word story. There are now only 6 daisies, 3 petunias & 35 bluebells until the deadline for the #WelkinMini (or 6 days, 3 hours & 35 minutes if you like a more conventional approach to timekeeping): www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

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Bluesky, your best recs on flash showing addictions/addictive or compulsive behaviours please? Many thanks

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We are now at 950 followers! Thank you everyone who has followed us. We are again going to offer 3 free micro entries to our micro comp from someone randomly picked out of our next 50 followers.

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Submissions to our anthology on the theme of SEASONS (up to 500 words) and entries to our Micro Fiction Competition (no theme, up to 100 words) are now open. For more details pls click on the link: nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

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Okay. Okay! I'm going to go for it, folks. The kickoff of the 100 Notable Small Press Books, 2025: CLICK HERE if you want to review some small press books! Or if you're an interested small press! www.miriamgershow.com/100smallpress RT please to get the word out!

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On the 1st of January, the #Curae prize for writer-carers opens for a second time. The demise of twitter is making it harder to get the word out, so do share! thecuraeprize.uk There are around 7 million unpaid carers in the UK alone & Curae shines a light on the role & much more. #carers #writing

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I've had some requests to run my titles workshop online, so here it is! It's designed for anyone who struggles to come up with good titles for their creative writing. All people/genres welcome! Sat 18 Jan 2025, 6:30pm GMT (recorded if you can't make it) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-and-...

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Our member networks allow writers from under-represented writing groups to meet + share experiences relating to writing and the creative industries in a safe space Our Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Member Network meets on 11 Dec Find out more + register writersguild.org.uk/wggb-member-...

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There's less than a month left to submit to #flashfictionfebruary. WC 200-850w. Deadline 15th December #microfiction #flashfiction #callforsubmissions. Please follow the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/

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The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis

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Who's had a #FlashFiction published in the last month or so? Please share links to your stories! I'd love to have some things to read. 🤓

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Want to come to the next online day 30th Nov but short of cash? We still have some free spots. Workshops with Kathy Fish, Stephanie Carty, Audrey Niven. Mini contest, readings flashfictionfestival.com Follow & reply Thanks!

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Strike a power pose, it's Monday. #MondayMotivation

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On Short Story Sunday I'm reading stories by Shivani Manghnani, Sam Pink, @ramccafferty.bsky.social , Carrie Grinstead in Craft Literary, @xraylitmag.bsky.social, @maudlinhouse.bsky.social , JMWW coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/s...

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Ok, I think the best way to get back into this place would be to read and share a bunch of flash, so: send me your favorite piece that you’ve published?

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And as a warm welcome to all you new folk, take a moment to enjoy a classic and then … you know what to do. The rule is the rule. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

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We're open for submissions of contemporary fiction, including translations, so why not check us out? Please follow the link for guidelines #shortstories #flashfiction #translations #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...

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On #ShortStorySunday #AmReading stories by Kit Gadgitar, Rachael Smart, Nels Challinor, Tara Isabel Zambrano, Ashley Pennock in 100 Foot Crow, Milk Candy Review, JMWW, Tahoma Review, Maudlin House coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/2024/07/28/s...

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🚨 2 days to go! 🚨 For those who couldn't make the in-person launch for FLASH FUSION, we're having an online launch this Sunday 😊 Join Susmita Bhattacharya, @coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social, me, & more on Zoom at 5pm. Free to attend and all welcome! But please register, here: forms.gle/v5pZ5xgST6JE...

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On #ShortStorySunday #AmReading stories Wendy Newbury, @collinson26.bsky.social Mackenzie McGee, Anj Banerjee, Wendy E Wallace in @reckonreview.bsky.social Sunlight Press, @ceasecows.bsky.social , @lostballoon.bsky.social , @okaydonkey.bsky.social coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/2024/07/22/s...

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On #ShortStorySunday #AmReading stories Wendy Newbury, @collinson26.bsky.social Mackenzie McGee, Anj Banerjee, Wendy E Wallace in @reckonreview.bsky.social Sunlight Press, @ceasecows.bsky.social , @lostballoon.bsky.social , @okaydonkey.bsky.social coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/2024/07/22/s...

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🚨 Online Launch alert! 🚨 For those who couldn't make the launch for FLASH FUSION in Bristol, there's an online launch on Sunday 😊 Join us on 28 July, 5pm UK time. Free to attend, & all welcome - register, here: forms.gle/v5pZ5xgST6JE... Cc: Susmita Bhattacharya & @coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social

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📣 🥳 It's here! FLASH FUSION, edited by Susmita Bhattacharya, Anita Goveas, & me 💛🙏🏽 An honour, privilege and joy to present this anthology and resource/craft book of stories, interviews and writing prompts. Published by Farhana Shaikh at Dahlia Books, funded by the Royal Society of Literature's >

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I have my contributors copy of the #FlashFusion anthology and it's so pretty! This was a dream publication to be involved in, and thanks to my co-editors Susmita Bhattacharya and @hanakhalique.bsky.social , and Dahlia Publishing and RSL Matters for making it happen

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On #ShortStorySunday #AmReading stories by @chloechun.bsky.social Yasmine Yu, Amy DeBellis, Susan L Lin in Milk Candy Review, @lostballoon.bsky.social Maudlin House, Trampset coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/s...

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On #ShortStorySunday #AmReading stories by @chloechun.bsky.social Yasmine Yu, Amy DeBellis, Susan L Lin in Milk Candy Review, @lostballoon.bsky.social Maudlin House, Trampset coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/s...

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On #ShortStorySunday #AmReading stories by Callie G. Mauldin, Brigid Swanick, Andrew Gray Siegrist, @laurabesley.bsky.social , Emma Burnett and David Henson in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social , Northern Gravy, @lostballoon.bsky.social , and Maudlin House coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/2024/05/26/s...

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On #ShortStorySunday #AmReading stories by Callie G. Mauldin, Brigid Swanick, Andrew Gray Siegrist, @laurabesley.bsky.social , Emma Burnett and David Henson in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social , Northern Gravy, @lostballoon.bsky.social , and Maudlin House coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/2024/05/26/s...

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ICYMI we're open for submissions and we'd love to read your short stories and flash fiction so why not check us out? Please follow link for guidelines #writingcommunity fictivedream.com/submission-g...

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TWO WEEKS LEFT TO SUBMIT Subs for short novellas (17k - 25k words) that explore what it is to be "othered" end on 15th May 2024! acoupofowls.com/othered/ #Submissionopen #submissions #opensubmissions #novellasubmissions

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On #ShortStorySunday #AmReading stories in Big Whoopie Deal, The Good Life Review, @lostballoon.bsky.social and @pitheadchapel.bsky.social by Michelle Chuqi Huang, Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar, I Echo, Claudia Wair and Vincent J Perrone coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/s...

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