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"As writers we're frequently told to 'write what you know', and just as frequently we ignore it" Read "Exit Stage Left" by @hilary55.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/exit...

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I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate

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Hermit Crabs are beautiful stories, hidden where you least expect, folded into recipes, instruction manuals, shopping lists... Do you have one ready to go? The deadline for this year's Hermit Crab prize is tomorrow! Entry fee: £6 Judge: @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Deadline: 23rd Feb

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"When she cradles Sheila’s hand, it stings her heart that it is no longer the crepe papery softness Claire expects" Read "It is 2am in the Palliative Care Ward" by @mlmcguinness.bsky.social up at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/it-i...

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📝Check out my post on @theprideroars.bsky.social today - in a week where events overtook actual writing, I look at what Also Counts As Writing… 🖋️ theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/also...

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Absolutely brilliant, sharply observed piece by @mattkendrick.bsky.social in Tiny Molecules “today he is Percy Jackson because Beth has been captured by the Furies and only Percy Jackson can save her.”🧡🧡🧡

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Friends, I have my first post up at @theprideroars.bsky.social about being in the body as a writer, written from the POV of a trauma therapist (that’s me, I’m the therapist). Farts and burps feature. I hope you’ll read it and tell me what you think 🧡🧡🧡 theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/do-y...

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Massive congratulations to our contributor @fionamckay.bsky.social whose Novella-in-Flash "The Lives of the Dead" was one of the winners @bathflashaward.bsky.social

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"Our mother also collected people. We don't know if she went looking for them, or if they were naturally drawn to her" Read "Bric-a-brac and Broken wings" by @hilary55.bsky.social up at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/bric...

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I have a new piece of CNF (creative non-fiction) up today at The Pride Roars. theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/bric...

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Please do keep sharing and telling people! Some beautiful work so far but numbers are much smaller than in 2022. #carers #writingcommunity 💙📚

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Finnian Burnett picked some stunning pieces for @MkenWrites 's Mondettes. Check out the story by Pride contributor @pleomorphic2.bsky.social if you haven't read it already. Poignant & beautifully told. mondettes.substack.com/p/january-2025

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Meet the Pride! theprideroars.blogspot.com/p/the-pride....

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If you haven't already read this masterpiece by @mlmcguinness.bsky.social, you are missing out. Best Microfiction 2025.

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I have a new CNF up in @theprideroars.bsky.social

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With gratitude to editors everywhere…

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@amymarques.bsky.social has an "Open Letter To All Editors & CopyEditors & Anyone Who Works With Names" up at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/on-e...

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please re-post! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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"When e-books arrived, I shunned them. How could I relinquish that book smell?" Read "Coming Full Circle" by @Joycebingham.bsky.social at The Pride Roars

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"A building can't comprehend what it's like to be razed." I've held on to this for years out of worry about how it would be received. I'm not afraid to share my truth now. 🦁 #cnf #writingcommunity

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On The Pride Roars, To Just Write, an essay by Marie-Louise McGuinness @mlmcguinness.bsky.social 'I was submitting so little, my inbox became deathly silent. I missed waiting for rejections, rejections mean you are hustling.' theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/to-j...

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“the words would go unwritten until the idea was only a fragmented tail of smoke lingering in the corner of my subconscious, a translucent wisp of thought without depth or substance.” So relatable @mlmcguinness.bsky.social in @theprideroars.bsky.social theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/to-j...

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"Compared with Lily, the others are kitchen chairs of moulded wipe-clean plastic. Lily is an icon of classical elegance, a Louis XIV fauteuil" Read "The House on Ottoman Street" by @hilary55.bsky.social up at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

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Congratulation to all the authors shortlisted for our 2025 NIF Award. 12 this time. There were excellent novellas to choose from on the longlist and we hope everyone finds publication. Thanks also to everyone who entered. Final results end of Jan. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/01/nove...

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My first contribution @theprideroars.bsky.social

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This is a lovely thing for unpaid carer-writers in the UK & ROI. It would have been inspiring to me when I was in that role, struggling unsuccessfully to combine caring & creative practice. Such a well-populated & largely invisible world...

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Read founder @delgeo14.bsky.social’s searing cnf in @theprideroars.bsky.social “the last time we spoke, your voice wasn’t smiling anymore” theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/here...

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Hear our roar!

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Due to the sheer volume of submissions already received, we will close our Prose & Poetry submissions on the 3rd of January 2025. Thank you for your understanding. rawlit.weebly.com/submissions....

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Delighted to be taking part in @theprideroars.bsky.social with so many great and wonderful writers 😍

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"Her brain never fully on one task, even when the task is pleasure"

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Our next contributor is Maria Thomas You can follow her on X: @AppleWriter and on BlueSky: @appleshapedwriter.bsky.social

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Look, it's me!

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Hear us roar! I’m in a new women’s writing collective with several dear friends. What a way to kick off 2025.

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Our first contributor today is Nina Miller You can follow her on X: @NinaMD1 BS: @ninamiller.bsky.social and visit her website ninamillerwrites.com

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Over the next week we will be introducing our amazing contributors. First up we have Amy Marques Follow her on X: @amybookwhisper1 BS: @amymarques.bsky.social and read her work on amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com

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This line up 🔥🔥

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It is happening! ❤️

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Coming Soon - The Pride Roars A collective of Women's Voices

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Something new coming 2025

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The audience is growing by the second for this. Should be a great vibe! Come join us. These are our first five readers! #writingcommunity #writing #flashfiction

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Come watch #WritersReading #novellainflash special Thur 12/12 at 7pm UK - 2nd half readers: @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social @fionajanemack.bsky.social @adlibby.bsky.social @hilary55.bsky.social & @jankaneen1.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/dubli... #writingcommunity #writing #flashfiction

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