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Nicholas Petty

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Writer-ish. Stories in New England Review, The London Magazine, The Moth Magazine, Galley Beggar Prize, Desperate Literature, The Forge and elsewhere. nicholaspetty.co.uk

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ONE WEEK LEFT TO ENTER!

Prizes: €2000 & 1000€, residencies
Civitella Ranieri and (NEW) at DL in Madrid, manuscript assessment w/ @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social, publication, salons, and more...

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I should shop here more often.

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Had a story rejected for its 'insistent grimness' today 😎

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⚡️EXTENDED DEADLINE⚡️for the 2025 Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction

You now have until April 30 to send us your stories!

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08.04.2025 11:03 — 👍 14    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 2
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LAST DAYS TO APPLY FOR A
SPONSORED ENTRY!

Calling writers of innovative fiction under 2k words!

Prizes: €2000 & 1000€, residencies

Civitella Ranieri and (NEW) at DL in Madrid, manuscript assessment w/ @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social, publication, salons, & more...

desperateliterature.com/prize

29.03.2025 15:11 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks @desperatelit.bsky.social!

18.02.2025 10:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a treat. Look forward to reading these 👀

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These Violent Hands - Shortlisted Bristol Short Story Prize 2019
Down in the Mud on Limehouse Beach - Commended Bath Short Story Prize 2018

16.12.2024 11:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stories in print:
Notes from a Precipice - Desperate Literature Prize 2023
The Longhouse - 2nd Place Fish Prize Anthology 2023
The Floating Yoda on the Right - 3rd Place The London Magazine SS Competition and Oct/Nov 2020 issue
The Gold in the Giblets - The Moth Magazine Summer 2020

16.12.2024 11:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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2021 3rd place prize winner: MALDONADO - Nicholas Petty Short Fiction/University of Essex International Short Story Prize 2021, 3rd placeWe always sit in the East Stand, three rows from the front, close enough to smell the churned up divots and the left-ba...

Maldonado ⚽️

Awarded 3rd Place in the Short Fiction Journal Short Story Prize

16.12.2024 11:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Mr Tanaka Needs Some Rest - The Forge Literary Magazine The terminal feels bigger on the night shift, the shops dark and shuttered, the jumbo jets stood down and nosing at the windows. My shoes squeak on the vinyl as…

Mr Tanaka needs some rest💺

Published by The Forge and Finalist for Best of the Net

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SSP Story 7 (Petty) — Galley Beggar Press

Lino has sat on his glasses 👓

Longlisted in the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize

16.12.2024 11:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Close Your Eyes 🪟

Winner of the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and Shortlisted in the Manchester Fiction Prize

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SSP Story 7 (Petty) — Galley Beggar Press

It is Summer at Camp Pomodoro ⛺️

Longlisted in the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize and Sunday Times Audible Short Story Prize

16.12.2024 11:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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John “The Hammer” Johnson’s Last Disaster Movie An opening shot of an infinite, lightless void, in which a single point of pure energy and matter explodes into brilliance then expands outwards with great speed. 13.8 billion years later . . . Joh…

Hello Blue Sky. Here's a thread of some of my stories.

John "The Hammer" Johnson's Last Disaster Movie 🚀

Published in the New England Review

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