Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖

Awww thanks so much Lisa! Appreciate you reading it and your kind words 🙏🏽

Thanks so much Jaime, for your vote of confidence! Great being issue buddies with you 🧡

This perfect, evocative piece by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social “We sing like we’ve written every word, belting out the chorus of “I don’t wants,” shaking our heads like wet dogs and slamming into each other.” ⚒️🇩🇪🧡🧡🧡

Oh thanks for reading it Emmi, will check the link.

Cole Beauchamp — Does It Have Pockets 1989: Every day is the same in East Berlin, until it’s not

In the mood for nostalgia? Thrilled to have my East Berlin story published by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

"Jan has no time for their cotton-candy happiness. His father disappeared 5 years ago. No Stasi shadows, no neighbours with a grudge. Just gone.
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Congrats Chris, great to be issue buddies with you!

This is one of the best stories I've read this year - and so of our time. So visceral. All the feels - had me laughing and left me haunted.

Kudos to @jaimegill.bsky.social to @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Just. So. Good.

We defo would have been Chumbawumba-ing our halter tops off. Love and hate this story, cause I want her to never need that damn boy. But so good cause at that age, we just do.

Oh @littlerebsprize.bsky.social & @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social I can't tell you what good it did my heart today to see the title of your book. These are hard times. So thanks Sarah for writing it & thanks to all involved in publishing and celebrating it!

The IOF must release the hostages it took on international waters today and release the thousands of Palestinian hostages it’s been abducting for decades. Free Palestine.

Congrats Jack! What a year, what a story. So chuffed for you ❤️

Still open for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize - deadline 15 Oct so 2 weeks to polish and shine! Loving the entries so far 😍

500 words
Winner $250
Two runners-up $100 each
Entry fee $10
We read anonymously

Check out the interview with judge @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social and good luck!

And the Best of the Net Nominees are... | New Flash Fiction Review Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees!

Delighted to announce our nominations for Best of the Net - @jackmmorris.bsky.social for "Ernst is coming home" and @kateaxeford.bsky.social for "The truths behind a pumpkin dare, Northern Alberta, 3rd July, 1991"

Best of the Net 2025 #BOTN #flashfiction
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Great morning on the Batheaston Art Trail. Love my weekends in Bath, talking to fellow writers and artists. Rejuvenating!

Yes, great to meet you and your sister Abi!

Haha no, will have to have a strum next time

Wonderful evening of readings organised by @judehwriter2.bsky.social

Great to see familiar faces @scooterwriter.bsky.social @jupiterjonz.bsky.social @flemwrites.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social

And meet new ones Marie Day, Abi Williams, Caner Akin & Letty Butler

Readers at salon

Thrift Store Tour

Amazing panel

Flemish poets

Can't believe all this loveliness was 2 weeks ago already.

Thank you again to everyone who came to the first proper big @saloneurope.bsky.social and made it better than I ever could have imagined.

Can't wait for Madrid!

Wow, @megpokrass.bsky.social - was that intentional, your tip-of-the-iceberg prompt just after China announces a new Arctic shipping route???

And @kitdewaal.com @saloneurope.bsky.social - it involves SHOES!

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Yes it is a wonderful rush. Hope you are lapping it up and celebrating!

The morning after my reading at @dublinwriter.bsky.social's event, a job ad appears in my Instagram feed. Voice over artist.

I'm about to laugh when I read further and stop in my tracks.

Voice over artist to train AI.

No thanks mate.

Creepy or what? Is there no way to turn off this spying???

COLE BEAUCHAMP: In April, Hartley wakes to find two bumps Flash Fiction By Cole Beauchamp In April, Hartley wakes to find two bumps   hot and squishy to the touch, on top of her skull. But there’s nothing to see in the mirror, no matter how carefully…

Thanks @dublinwriter.bsky.social for your friendly Writers
Reading events!

Tonight I read my story about Shark Boy - really about all the ways neurodiverse kids struggle in schools not designed for them & how friendship helps.

Scroll past the 1st story
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It's always a pleasure to join - you're such a champion of writing and writers!

Thanks my lovely! So good to see new awards and new litmags appearing!

Fantastic reading tonight by Andy Larter as part of @dublinwriter.bsky.social's Writers Reading. Loved the characterisation in this story he read literallystories2014.com/2024/03/06/s...

Thank you so so much Jeff Harvey and @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social ❤️ Appreciate this so much! And congrats @kyleisamu.bsky.social

International media must be allowed into Gaza. Palestinian reporters are paying a terrible price as the only ones bearing witness to what's happening.

Pls share the BBC's call for access widely.

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Oh Mileva that's such a poignant story! Loved it ❤️