Orli Baumgart

haha no that does make sense! i know it as hokey-pokey though - seems like Australia took after the US rather than the Brits on that one 😅

YES sooo true 😆🙂‍↕️

Embodied: Portraits and Stories of Queer Body and Self A book of watercolour portraits alongside personal experiences of moving a queer body through the world.

WE ARE LIVE ON KICKSTARTER. This is not a drill! Oh hek, please share!!! This has been a years worth of work with more than 50 people involved in bringing this project to the world! Let's make it everything we can!

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I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.

—David Lynch

me with this @welkinprize.bsky.social draft 🥲

THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.

I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

‘We will be eating the silt of generations smothered in masala. My mother will smell it on us a mile off.’ oh i love this 😭😭 @pleomorphic2.bsky.social it’s such a beautiful piece 🥹

For the Young Fans Who Weren't There in '82 by Sumitra Singam — AC | DC A Journal for the Bent Flash Fiction

Check out our latest flash fiction, For the Young Fans Who Weren’t There in ‘82, by Sumitra Singam. 👀 📖 📆

#queerlit #indielit #80s #lgbtqia #flashfiction #fiction #literaryjournal #read #write #1980s #shortfiction

omg mum and i were just having a conversation the other day about how you found people at things pre-phones! i wouldn’t have survived lol i’m late to everything. also i love everything about this flash!! 😭🖤

WBTL Live Workshops

Reminder for Asia-Pacific / early-morning UK writers, NEW DATES / TIMES for my upcoming workshops to hopefully suit.

5th July+6th Sep
9:00 BST / 18:00 AEST / 13:30 IST

Also, details on FUTURE workshops & WORKSHOP RECORDINGS for those who can't attend live 😁:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-workshops

love it when a collection’s title poem lives up to the hype—like, yes you are the Titular One, the One Who Ties All the Themes Together, the One Who Is Long But Worth It, or the One Who Is Suddenly Short Hehe, the One Who Shows How Good This Title Is for the Book, the One Ring to

If there are any of you who might be interested in me putting on a second session for my summer workshops at a more Australasia / Asia / East of UK-friendly time, please let me know. I currently have 5 or 6 people interested but need about 20 to make this viable.

ooh i’m definitely keen for the morning time if it ends up being possible! but otherwise that’s great the recordings will be an option too ☺️

Day 4: "Do a challenge for charity"

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In 4 weeks, I'm attempting to "scale Ben Nevis" by climbing the stairs 517 times.

Pretty sure I'll get nowhere near that number. But hopefully I'll at least get part of the way.

If you'd like to sponsor me, you can do so here: forms.gle/UfJtT7aEdWS4...

the intimacy of a word doc containing a bad draft of the poem you know you must write

Karen Baumgart

So glad this tiny micro found a home in In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction. And grateful for how it gave me a second chance to find the words I wasn’t brave enough to say in the moment 💗
inshortjournal.com/karen-baumga...

not to brag but i’ve been a @cake-girl.bsky.social stan since the day i was born ✨ my mum is the coolest 🪼 also go read her exquisite micro !!