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jamesmontgomery.bsky.social
Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Welkin Writing Prize, The Failing Writers Podcast, Emerge Literary Journal |🌟 HC Bath Flash Award ‘23 & NFFD Micro Competition ‘24 |🥇 Pokrass Prize ‘23 | 🥈 Micro Madness ‘24 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
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We're now open to #microfiction of up to 400 words. Do please check out our guidelines by following the link fictivedream.com/submission-g....

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Prompt for those flapping and trying to get a last-minute entry together for the Micro Fiction Competition! ✍️ Take a longer piece that keeps getting rejected, and cut it down to 100 words or under. Stories can often live more freely with less, I think - give it a whirl! And good luck 🤞

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Are you finding writing a 100 word micro for our competition a bit tricky? The first of this season's interviews is with our micro fiction competition judge @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social and he has some excellent advice: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Feeling quite smug that I sent my sub for the seasons-themed anthology in a few days before the deadline, which is very unlike me ☺️ Good luck to everyone entering!

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

It’s Friday! Subs to our anthology & micro comp close tomorrow, Saturday 15 Feb at 23:59 GMT. Thank you so much to everyone who has already entered! If you haven’t done it yet, here are the details you need: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

‘We fuck loudly in your mother’s orange vintage campervan in the car park at the Royal Pines Golf Course. We dream of puréeing organic sweet potatoes one day in a big-happy-family kitchen.’ A must-read from @sagreene1.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social. The ending absolutely killed me 📖

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Goodness, it’s Thursday already! Subs to our anthology & Micro Fiction Competition close this Saturday the 15th Feb at 23:59 GMT. Hurry, Hurry! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

‘I was thinking it’s hot enough to fry an egg… What’s the crime rate in ___ (d/e/f/g) in July, when my ___ (a/b/c) called.’ Such amazing use of structure in this piece from @kelliborges2.bsky.social and @amymarques.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social 🥵 bendinggenres.com/template-of-...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

More magical micros of up to 100 words have been added to this thread over the last week, including stories from @jaredpovanda.bsky.social, @uksherka.bsky.social, @francesgapper.bsky.social, K. S. Dyal, @chriscottom.bsky.social, @kellathornton.bsky.social and @kazbarwrites.bsky.social ✨

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

One of my favorite micros I've written thus far 😍 thank you for sharing, James While this piece is fiction, I wrote this micro while making toast for my little girl several years ago 🍞

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

‘But squeezing through a hole in the fence I gathered next-door’s windfall apples, to store in a cardboard box under my bed. Heavenly smell even when they started to rot.’ Magic here from @francesgapper.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 🧁

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Submissions to our anthology and Micro Comp close a week today (Saturday 15 Feb). Anthology subs up to 500 words on theme of SEASONS, Micro Fiction Competition no theme, up to 100 words. For more details pls click on the link: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

One of my favourite flashes ever!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

‘The man born with a Rubik’s Cube for a head has a headache.’ A beautifully odd and melancholic piece from @danielmiller.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹 pitheadchapel.com/a-series-of-...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

‘The moon is going door to door and asking for a cup of sugar.’ What a piece from Melanie Maggard in Milk Candy Review. So beautifully written, with that impending darkness… 🌒 milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/01/23/m...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

‘“Did you see the tracks?” “I saw the wings.” “I heard the screams.”’ So good to see more dialogue-only flash in Craft Literary, used to breathtaking effect by @catherinebuck.bsky.social. All those communal voices, and the making of monsters… 🗣️ www.craftliterary.com/2025/01/31/d...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment