MaireadWrites

MaireadWrites

@maireadwrites.bsky.social

Writes things, teaches things, learns things, parents a person, and some other things (BFFA winner; Bridport SL; Pushcart Nominated; LL Wigleaf Top 50) South West, UK, but Northern.

405 Followers 297 Following 359 Posts Joined Aug 2023
2 weeks ago

Wonderful story! Congratulations 🥳

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1 month ago

All those layers but with such a light touch - masterly, as always x

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2 months ago
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2 months ago

S’okay. I got four emails so maybe it was only 4,250 people.

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2 months ago

This takes an unexpected turn and sparks a whole heap of joy!

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2 months ago

Nothing wrong with that 💪

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2 months ago

Bloody marvellous!!! Well done, you wonder you!!! 👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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3 months ago

Stories by @kiklodge.bsky.social always make my day, this one no exception, and it’s only quarter to eight.

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3 months ago

Brill - loved this!

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3 months ago
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Agree completely!

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3 months ago
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"“Careful you don’t get a reputation for being a b-i-t-c-h,” spells out Maggie."

This new #fiction from DIHP alum @nomad-sw18.bsky.social is so perfect it's painful in the very best way | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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3 months ago

Brilliant! - You’ve nailed that cheerleader vibe!

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3 months ago
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When My mother Is Admitted to Hospital, We Organise a Team of Cleaners to Perform a Deep Clean of Her House - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Aleksi Partanen on Unsplash by Mairead Robinson They start in the attic with buckets and bleach, their efficient brooms sweeping spiders into tiny binbags as sunlight spills through gaps in t...

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“It’ll take them the rest of the day, so we leave them to it and head to the hospital, to sit at my mother’s bedside and watch her sleep.”

gooseberry-pie.com/when-my-moth...

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3 months ago
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Whole nut - yes.

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3 months ago

‘His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opened with a swift beheading’ - the unsettling atmosphere, the almost imperceptible build to an understanding of quiet devastation - magnificent.

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3 months ago

Thank you Matt! Glad you enjoyed it x

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4 months ago

Ahhhh lovely Sumitra - beautiful artwork x

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4 months ago

Yippee! Congratulations and yes please x

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4 months ago

Thank you so much x

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4 months ago

Thank you x

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4 months ago

Thanks for reading xx

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4 months ago

Thank you Emily x

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4 months ago

Hello to you too! Writing in the hairline cracks between life at the moment xx

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4 months ago
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4 months ago

Thank you lovely Sumitra x

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4 months ago
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Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories

Very proud that my story about deep cleaners is out in Gooseberry Pie today 😁 gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/

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4 months ago

Oh wow! I listened and didn’t even cotton on it was your story - what a banger though - congrats!

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4 months ago

Wonderful stories - what a treat to read them - congratulations all.

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4 months ago
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Bath Flash Fiction Award International Rolling Flash Fiction Competition

Many congratulations to our winners! 5 brilliant stories selected by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social
1st Adam Brannigan, 2nd @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
3rd @debdanthewriter.bsky.social
Highly commended @dawnsteffler.bsky.social All stories published bathflashfictionaward.com

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4 months ago
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Highly Commended October 2025 Award: Dawn Tasaka Steffler The Menopausal Woman and the Tsunami by Dawn Tasaka Steffler The Menopausal Woman is finally visiting her sister in Hawaii when an 8.7 earthquake rattles Russia, and now a goddamned tsunami is head…

www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/high...
Congratulations @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!

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