Kerry Byrne

Kate Durrant The joy of the journey

In our second video from the March 22nd event, KATE DURRANT @katedurrant.bsky.social discusses the role that ambition, goal-setting and vision have played in her journey to becoming an established voice and a working writer.

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We're open to #microfiction so why not check us out? We're looking forward to reading your work #callforsubmissions. Please follow the link for guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

My five books on the kitchen table.

I posted this yesterday. My five books on the kitchen table. I’ve had big publishers, small publishers, an agent, then not. I’ve been on radio 4, in a pile of collections, won prizes.

But for years and years I was never proud of myself. Now I look back, pat myself on back. 😊👍

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Everything Will Be Just Fine Flash fiction by Alison Wassell

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Brilliant. Go read!

Issue 2 is live!

Featuring work by:

@danieldugganwriter.bsky.social
@hool415.bsky.social
@devonwebbnz.bsky.social
@theiredal.bluesky.social
@shiramusicant.bsky.social
@julietpersimmon.bsky.social
and more 👇🏼 this issue is 🔥. Thanks to you all!

#springwarmer #frazzissue2 #frazzledlit

If it's half as good as issue 1 this'll be a wonderful read. So pleased to be in this second issue. Thanks to the editors @lozzawriting.bsky.social and @jmcm.bsky.social
for their hard work and also to the reading team @kerrybyrne.bsky.social @seanmcnicholl.bsky.social and Mike Murray.

Delighted to have a new story in the wonderful @trampset.bsky.social This one is about fishes riding bicycles and being the last remaining Brussels sprout at Christmas. It was written on Christmas day.

"Inside my heart was an opening, and inside that a soft thing of feathers and twine."

I love this perfect piece of writing by @ladiwoods.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social 💙💙💙

We’re back! @badlilies.bsky.social returns. We’ve delights for you.

📌

‘Tonight I lingered over your name’

-Naomi Shihab Nye

"and my husband’s NO has a bite that reminds me of Penelope when she’s serious and even though he’s the best kind of guy, I’m starting to dislike him." Amazing collaboration b/w @kelliborges2.bsky.social and @amymarques.bsky.social
in @bendinggenres.bsky.social

a man in a suit and tie is saying `` we ain 't written no poetry '' . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying `` we ain 't written no poetry '' .

🖊 Calling all poets!
Sound the poetry alarm! 🚨

Our online salon in April is nearly booked up, but we have no poets signed up to read yet and we need you.

Get in touch soon if you want to read.
Book here if you want to come and listen
🎤

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Thank you @writerscentre.bsky.social for the wonderful East Anglian poetry category Book Award!

"Tuesday, a change: One of those decorative metal birdcages in mint green sits where the fake Tiffany lamp and the black and white photos once sat."

Breath-taking writing from @lmariharris.bsky.social - love the way this one frames itself through a countdown of days

"But perhaps this young woman, whoever she is, Salma or Saarah or Sadie, doesn’t have a lover and weathers the storms and springs of her life alone. Perhaps she prefers it that way."

Big love for this award-winning piece of writing by @laurabesley.bsky.social in @crankedanvil.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Bad Lilies returns, with much joy, to a screen near you next month. We’ve some beautiful poems in store for you. Follow us on @badlilies.bsky.social if you don’t already. 🌸

Brace yourselves, folks, for some northern realism of the grittiest kind ✊️

Vote for your favourite 3 mini flashes for the People’s Prize 🏆

Shams, Meike Ziervogel Shams lives in one of the world’s oldest refugee camps, Shatila. She dreams of escape. But first she needs an education. Yet, there are no schools for Syrian re

This is coming on 10th March.

Yay!!!

The Welkin Writing Prize | Shortlist 25 Shortlisted pieces for the 2025 Welkin Mini

Today's shortlisted story is "Like a memory, or maybe only a dream" by @laurabesley.bsky.social. Congratulations, Laura. A micro with such a brilliant twisting together of hope and sadness at its heart.

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Another little stunner from @welkinprize.bsky.social

Illustration of a series of skulls at the top, with the title "Dr. Guiseppe Culpa-Organista Discovers the Guilt Organ" by Joseph Giglio prominently displayed. Below the title, there is a narrative describing a doctor's feelings of guilt after spilling milk in his mother's kitchen, reflecting on his relationships and emotions. The text conveys themes of remorse and self-examination.

a very possibly perfect micro today from Joseph Giglio

I love it all, but then it makes that turn with "He worries that the milkman might be his father and that if so he has let down his real father by spilling the milk." and my brain lit up

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A blatant theft of title and humble homage to a hugely influential writer and collaborator @regcrawford.bsky.social

'Road to Chatcull'
-Marks on Maps-
Charcoal

A blatant theft of title and humble homage to a hugely influential writer and collaborator @regcrawford.bsky.social whose writing forms the backbone of these landscape drawings, and a great many back over the years. Have a read: ko-fi.com/post/THE-ROA...

Last 24 hours to book for this workshop. I'm proud of this one! Lots of fun prompts to encourage the use of illness in your stories
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Who fancies writing a 75-word #story? Paragraph Planet publishes one on its home page every day www.paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity #flashfiction #writing

I could not be more excited about this book, you guys - there are so many really incredible writers in here, so many stories I absolutely lost my shit over - and now it’s print! And look at this cover! altcurrentpress.com/2025/01/22/b...

Best Small Fictions 2024 102 Flash Stories by 101 Authors

Very cool! So grateful to appear in Best Small Fictions 2024 alongside many brilliant writers! Big thanks to all the editors at @altcurrent.bsky.social 😊💙
altcurrentpress.com/2025/01/22/b...

Creative Practice with Beth Gilstrap How to Keep Making Art When All You Want to Do is Cry on the Shower Floor

I started a substack about my creative process & it includes prompts like I use in my classes, if anyone’s interested. open.substack.com/pub/bethgils...