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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 20

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 19

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 18

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You've got to read "Wingdings" by Nini Berndt - funny, surprising, emotional, about the sometimes dark and very separate worlds of kids and their mothers and how they sometimes crash together for a moment: splitlipthemag.com/flash/1224/n...

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 17

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Just been updating my wall of #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb stories - now 115 brilliant pieces that started life on one of my courses. If I've missed anything, please let me know. Amazed at all the superstar writers I get to write with on a regular basis 🤩 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-stories

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and don't forget, we are open for submissions of essays and fiction throughout December ... details here: oleada.io/publication/...

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 16

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 15

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 14

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 13

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 12

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 11

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I remember the first time I read this, and the form snuck up on me in the most stunning way. From Natasha Trethewey's book, Monument: bookshop.org/a/862/978035... #poem #poetry #natashatrethewey #books #writing

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ICYMI My last Substack of the year is an emoji-ed index of all of my resources. All free. All hopefully useful. Please use. Please share. And if you can afford it, I'd be so grateful if you'd give a small tip via my Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/mkenwrites Thank you to everyone who has already done so! 🙏

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Words without Borders has several small collections of short Syrian literature. wordswithoutborders.org/search/?sear...

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 10

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books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 9

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 8

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 7

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Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to [email protected] JOIN US - there's cake!

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 6

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As ever, Stella Duffy says it right. Her words. @stellduffy.bsky.social

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 5

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My December #WritingCraft article is a round-up of everything I've published over the last 5 years. If I've counted correctly, there are about 50 resources in total; feeling quite proud to see it all in one place. Hope it's useful! prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/everything...

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With news of winter fuel payment cuts, UK #FuelPoverty charities need our help more than ever. £10 from every copy of the Fuel Flash anthology of prizewinning #flashfiction is donated to 4 fuel poverty charities - and it's a fantastic read! Details here, will post worldwide: www.fuelflash.net

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 4

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Day 1—a partridge in a pear tree—of our #12DaysofKindness Christmas giveaway had to be 4 copies of my award-winning bird-related short story collection, TURDUCKEN! Like and repost this skeet to enter the giveaway; winners will be chosen tomorrow at 5pm by random generator!

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 3 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

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Just one week to go until submissions open for the #WelkinMini 100 words Free to enter Deadline = 2nd January www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize... If you're pondering an entry, these are some of the things I'd love to see in the inbox when submissions open up...

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Starter pack of some of my favourite #flashfiction writers. If I missed you, it's because it's 5:45 AM and my eyes are crossing scrolling through my list. go.bsky.app/9ZFnPpg

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Ahh, it's here! What an honor to be in this episode! I'm so honored and delighted my story has been paired with two fantastic poems and poets! 😍 Huge thanks to @podcastmicro.bsky.social and @bathflashaward.bsky.social, where my story was first published. ❤️ #FlashFiction #Podcast

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"If there's a heaven I hope it's me walking in our front door like normal. I hope it's my kids barely looking up from their phones to say hello." Two new pieces of microfiction today by @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social! 📝

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Want a weekend #writing challenge? Try writing a 75-word #story and submitting to Paragraph Planet, the #flashfiction website publishing one piece every day since 2007 www.paragraphplanet.com/submission.php

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 2 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

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I'm absolutely delighted to be on this list amongst actual luminaries! My story, 'The Immortal Game', came out in January last year with @apexmag.bsky.social and is one of the best short stories I've EVER written. Check it out.

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"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project." Read that again: 116 times. Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding?? www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge Day 1 We are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

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Submissions to our anthology open on Sunday 1 Dec!

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I have a new #crimefiction flash story out today with Punk Noir! Just a 3-minute read, so you can read it as you slip into a Thanksgiving food coma. Grateful to @meproctor.bsky.social for accepting the story for her fantastic “Break-Up” series! punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/s...

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Hi poetry folks, We’re new on here! Do give this a like and share so we can reach as many of you poetry lovers as possible. Much love 🤠

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