Karen Jones

Yay! Excited to read your stories.

🎶Papal reign, papal reign…🎶

2026 Anthology Editors The 2026 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology Editors are NFFD’s Karen Jones and Guest Editor Sharon Telfer. Submissions are open from 1 December 2025 to 15 February 2026. Sharon Telfer, Gues…

Submissions to our anthology open on 1 Dec. The theme is BRIDGES. You can read more about our editors @sharontelfer.bsky.social & @karjon.bsky.social here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/20...

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Superb.

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Looking forward to working with @sharontelfer.bsky.social and reading your fabulous stories.

That'll be January. 😂

Playing tennis in Scotland in November: t-shirt, joggers, sweatshirt, hat, gloves, rain jacket. Hysterical laughter at the wind and icy rain. Excellent fun for 80 minutes. 😂😂

We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...

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We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.

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NFFD will open our MicroFiction Comp ((up to 100 words) & subs to our new anthology (theme to be announced) on 1 Dec. More details coming soon!

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Things are happening in NFFD land! We’ve got our anthology guest editor & our 4 microfiction comp judges lined up & we’ve decided on a theme for our next anthology!Watch this space!

Dog sitting this gorgeous wee mad thing overnight. Beautiful Winnie.

Many thanks to @bathflashaward.bsky.social for longlisting my wee story, and thanks to @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for shortlisting it. Huge congratulations to all the winners - looking forward to reading your stories.

You haven't lived until you've heard satnav trying to say Auchengeich.😂😂

Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include:

-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Google
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family

Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.

Thrilled to share the beautiful cover of my debut novel, IN THE DESERT, on sale 3-3-2026 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Many thanks to the brilliant photographer, Keith Bernstein for use of the stunning cover image and to Ashling Dennehy for the design.
I'm so excited!

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A kids' book in time for Halloween from the ever brilliant @theburninghearth.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Farmer-Pumpk...

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Just found an email in spam inviting me to read at a book launch that I would definitely have said yes to. TUT! Stupid spam.

We are thrilled to announce our long-list for the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025!

Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and for all those who entered this round!

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If anyone knows folk who went to school with Nigel Farage I’d love to speak to them for an article and I’d protect their anonymity if they wished.

Do help pass this on please in the hope it reaches the right people. Thank you

I haven't watched South Park for years, but it's hilarious this season with their Trump/Vance stuff. How long until the big orange baby has them cancelled - or, ye know, imprisoned? Catch it before he does.

Two guys playing tennis on the court beside ours took a break in their game for a cigarette. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Stop it, Tesco - behave!

NWS 43: Introduction Kirstin Innes and Chris Powici introduce New Writing Scotland 43. New Writing Scotland has a wide-open editorial policy, and we read each submission anonymously. It can create a lot of reading for our...

“In poems, short stories, novel extracts, scripts & memoir, the writers in these pages have found their own distinctive ways of giving voice to what matters to them, & thereby spill some of the familiar, surprising, awkward, thrilling truths that make up who we are.”
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Chuffed to be in the New Writing Scotland anthology - and even happier to be there with friends @nivenaudrey.bsky.social and Elisabeth Ingram-Wallace.

It's that time of year again - off to Glasgow Clyde College to read some of my short stories and flash fiction to the illustration students. Can't wait to see what they come up with this year.

This story is REALLY Scottish. I also need to know now how to get that T shirt.

6. Or 1 when I've lost 6.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.