Karen Jones

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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!

oxfordflashfictionprize.com/news/

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.

Ah, thank you. x

Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer tweets: We're cracking down on migrants working illegally as food delivery riders. We'll share asylum accommodation locations with Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats so they can take action if riders are staying there. We will do what it takes to ensure fairness for British people. 9:18 AM. Jul 23, 2025.

Is he trying to get people who look like 'foreigners' and deliver food attacked, assaulted, & racially abused? Because that's what that tweet does. I cannot believe it. Completely tone deaf. And entirely irresponsible.

Thank you, Kathy - high praise indeed. x

Goodnight 😴

Great to see you too, Eleanor.

Collection of objects including a velvet toy cat, a tin featuring a hedgehog and hare sitting down to tea, a button, a plastic dinosaur, tiny plastic people, and more...

Big thanks to everyone who joined me for my Lost & Found session at this year's #flashficfest. Pictured: some of your creepy friends... I loved hearing your own lost & found stories. Do keep sharing them with me. Many thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social for inviting me 🙏.

Huge 🙏🏽 @christopherallen.bsky @helenrye.bsky.social for @flashficfestuk.bsky.social
karaoke 🎶

Legendary rendition of OASIS Champagne Superova by @timcraig.bsky.social

Getting @itssonoemi.bsky.social to sing her 1st karaoke

@stillsquirrel.bsky.social literally on her knees for Like a prayer

So lovely to see old friends and new at this year's @flashficfestuk.bsky.social! Thank you so much again to Jude, Diane and co. (won't tag you all in case that's a bit overwhelming!). So happy to be invited back as a presenter, loved all the workshops I attended and all the chats/fun in between 💙

1/5 How do you get back to 'real life' after such a magical @flashficfestuk.bsky.social weekend in lovely Bristol? How? How? Brain's on strike but my heart's filled to the brim and heck yeah I'm being sentimental and not making sense and immense gratitude to everyone who made this event possible...

6. Apart from Bristol airport and Easyjet, can't wait to do it all again next year!

5. And finally, a giant fuck you to Easyjet for yet another delay and to the guy at security who opened the bottle of Gaviscon that was in my case, didn't put the lid back on properly and ruined my brand new shirt that I've never even worn. TUT!

4. but I still didn't have enough time to chat to everyone I wanted to - next time, hopefully. If you're coming to the festival next year and I forget your name at registration, forgive me - I do that every year, so it's nothing personal.

3. I wish I could clone myself and get to every single workshop - they all sounded amazing and everyone was talking about how brilliant all the sessions were. It was so good to catch up with old friends and meet others for the first time

2. Thanks to @kathyfish.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman, @devaneemily.bsky.social for the fabulous workshops, and apologies to Michael Loveday, whose workshop I had to miss because my brain had decided it couldn't take in any more information by that point.

1. Another #FlashFictionFestival over and done. What a fabulous weekend with the most brilliant people.
Enormous thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and @sarahillswrites.bsky.social who do so much work for months before the festival even happens, then even more when we're actually there.

After 24 hours back in the real world, I’m taking stock of my third @flashficfestuk.bsky.social. What a blast this festival is 💥 So good for the soul. I always come back bone-tired, but in the best possible way, worn out from so much joy, replenished and recharged.

🧵 A thread of highlights…

Well that's a wrap for @flashficfestuk.bsky.social ! Amazing workshops w @kathyfish.bsky.social on The sound of #flashfiction & @hanakhalique.bsky.social on #Hybrids

Forgot to bring my phone today, so many peeps I didn't get pics with, but here's @tiptreejen.bsky.social belting it out last night 🎶