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Gillian O’Shaughnessy

@gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social

▪️Journalist. Writer. Reader. Optimist. ▪️Debut story collection out in 2026, funded by WA Dept. Of Creative Industries, Tourism & Sport, published by Night Parrot Press. ▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly ▪️BSF 23, 24, 25. Gillianoshaughnessy.com

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This is a truly brilliant word

06.08.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lovely! 🙏

06.08.2025 12:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So good! 🙏

06.08.2025 01:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice! 🙏

06.08.2025 01:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love! 🙏

06.08.2025 01:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent! 🙏

06.08.2025 01:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Wordsmiths! Please drop me a word in the comments, any word that takes your fancy. I’m playing word cricket tomorrow & I need some words!

The YEAH NAH meet & read get together Thursday Aug. 7th 5pm AWST, 7pm AEST, 10am UK etc. Zoom link here if you want to come

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

06.08.2025 01:23 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 6    📌 0
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say yes to distress — Ghost Parachute hey everybody’s doing it just let us shove this camera thingy down your throat don’t let your hands reach up to stop it to grab it to pull it back out don’t move your head don’t vomit and most of all ...

"hey everybody’s doing it just let us shove this camera thingy down your throat don’t let your hands reach up to stop it"

Feel like this from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social will be read differently by those who've experienced a gastroscopy and those who haven't:

ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

01.08.2025 14:37 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

"We Don’t Meet in Buda like we planned, on the right side of the river where the lift took us up to the top of Gellért Hill"

Brilliant sense of place in this fantastic piece from @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @centaurlit.bsky.social, a breathless paragraph that builds and builds

03.08.2025 07:56 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

"The thing about trauma is that it repeats. In a world of lines, it’s a whorl"

Powerful, resonant writing from @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @centaurlit.bsky.social - a micro that packs a punch

03.08.2025 08:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Color Permanence by Meg Pokrass | Centaur

"The widow’s eyes changed color like a chameleon, depending on her moods and what she wore"

Such a multi-layered piece from @megpokrass.bsky.social in @centaurlit.bsky.social; great sense of narrative and character focus:

centaurlit.com/color-perman...

03.08.2025 08:03 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I am honoured 🩷

03.08.2025 13:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

REMINDER: Flash fiction afficiandos! I’m hosting the next YEAH NAH meet & read session THIS Thursday, August 7!! Come read, meet, write, play. Newbies welcome.
Perth: 5pm
Melb: 7pm
UK: 10am
India: 2.30pm
Japan: 6pm
USA: VERY EARLY 😬
Link to register.

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

03.08.2025 01:57 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

So fun for me! So really very selfish 😂🩷

03.08.2025 00:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You’re so lovely Shelley! Thanks so much. I’m having a great time with reviews. Short but fun 🩷

03.08.2025 00:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh same!

02.08.2025 13:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s a great collection. I’m so in love with Silver Boots Astrid

02.08.2025 13:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Dahlia Books – UK independent publisher of regional and diverse fiction

*Dahlia not Dalia. Apologies. 🔽

www.dahliapublishing.co.uk

02.08.2025 13:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@devaneemily.bsky.social I’ve only done two videos so far so still working on it, but Cold Toast was the first

02.08.2025 13:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Haha! Funny you should ask… stand by

02.08.2025 13:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you Suzanne! That’s so kind 🩷

02.08.2025 12:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

SO much. I hear you 🩷

02.08.2025 12:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This makes me so happy! 🙏🩷

02.08.2025 12:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Emily, I feel lucky to have books like Sara’s as a guide.

02.08.2025 12:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh that is so lovely to hear! I’m so glad. 🩷🩷🩷

02.08.2025 12:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You’re so welcome. Your book is a joy 🩷

02.08.2025 12:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love this beautiful book so much 🩷🩷

02.08.2025 12:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Masterclass in intensity. Visceral brilliance

02.08.2025 12:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
Pardon Me for Moonwalking Check out Pardon Me for Moonwalking - Slide into the bittersweet, beautifully peculiar world of Patricia Q. Bidar's Pardon Me for Moonwalking</em>, a collection of short stories that illuminate the of...

PRE-ORDERS OPEN NOW! Excited as all hell my debut collection is finally coming out! I hope you get it!

01.08.2025 21:28 — 👍 40    🔁 15    💬 8    📌 7

Thank you kindly 🩷

02.08.2025 00:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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