Kathy Hoyle

Kathy Hoyle

@kathyhoyle.bsky.social

Writer, dreamer, PhD student exploring working-class voices. Northern lass. Words @Northerngravy.com @nffr.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social @fictiveDream.bsky.social @SoFloPoJo.bsky.social Winner @Bathflashaward.bsky.social https://kathyhoyle.com

2,696 Followers 2,509 Following 357 Posts Joined Jul 2023
2 weeks ago
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Flash Face Off - a free weekly writing challenge For people with a head and heart full of stories. The fastest, most fun way to develop your writing.

I'll be hosting Flash Face Off tonight at 8pm - lots of flashy fun, live readings and it's all free! Come and join us! All the details are here - writershq.co.uk/flash-face-o...

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1 month ago
Chasing the Dragon: Amazon.co.uk: Hoyle, Kathy, Buddha, Alien: 9798396944459: Books Buy Chasing the Dragon by Hoyle, Kathy, Buddha, Alien (ISBN: 9798396944459) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Monday, 18th May:
'Chasing the Dragon' by Kathy Hoyle, includes Live Author Q&A
@kathyhoyle.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social
#fiction #flashfiction #novellainflash #bookclub
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1 month ago
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The NIFTY Book Club (Monday group) An online book club for readers and writers of novellas-in-flash. Mondays 19:30-21:00 GMT / BST (23rd Feb / 23rd Mar / 27th Apr / 18th May / 22nd June) Price: £30 for a five-month block Book club h...

Click the following link to sign up:
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1 month ago

Truly honoured. 🩷🎉🎉

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2 months ago

It really is beautiful x

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2 months ago
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2 months ago

Tysm! ☺️☺️🩷

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2 months ago
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Absolutely delighted to be nominated for Best Small Fictions 2026. Huge thanks to the editors at Does It Have Pockets for choosing my work!! And congratulations to my fellow nominees. 🎉🎉🎉 You can read my story here - www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kath...

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3 months ago

Woohooo me and Frisky the Snowman cannot wait!!!

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3 months ago
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TONIGHT: Celebrate a whole year of incredible flash fiction AND join us for the last WHQ event of 2025 AND it's all freeeeeeee. Yes it is. Live readings, a Christmas quiz, and prizes for best costume. Obvs @kathyhoyle.bsky.social is behind these shenanigans ☃️

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3 months ago
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Flash Face Off Live: Festive End Of Year Wrap Up New Year Look Ahead Special Edition Kind Of Situation (with Kathy Hoyle) - Writers' HQ An evening of awesome stories, thoughtful feedback, slightly unhinged celebration and general merriment, WHQ-style.

This Friday at 8 pm I'll be hosting the annual Writers' HQ Festive Flash Face Off! It's all Free - live festive readings and a dash of absolute madness! Come and join us! All the Deets are here 👇👇👇🎄🎄🎄

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3 months ago

It's tonight folks!!!! come and join me for an hour of fabulous live readingsnand flashy fun - we start at 8pm and it's all FREE! 😀

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3 months ago
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Flash Face Off - a free weekly writing challenge For people with a head and heart full of stories. The fastest, most fun way to develop your writing.

I'll be hosting Flash Face Off for WHQ next Friday (28th Nov) - come and join us at 8 pm - Wonderful flashy readings, and it's not too late to join in. Write 300 from the prompts and I could pick you for the live readings! All FREE! 😃😊😃😊

writershq.co.uk/flash-face-o...

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3 months ago
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With the opening of our second round of Submissions, we thought we'd post a little blog about our experience of starting the magazine, launching our first mag, and the planning of our second issue!

Link is in our bio!

#blogpost #literarymagazine #BookSky #WritingCommunity

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4 months ago
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4 months ago

Tysm! 🩷😊😊

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5 months ago
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Little Uncertainties Little Uncertainties are very short books, each containing just a single story.

This is quite exciting. Over the next year, we’re going to be giving away 12,000 of these little books to help spread the love of short stories:

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4 months ago

🤣🤣🤣😆

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4 months ago
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vintagebooks on Instagram: "Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voi…" Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voices.Uncanny and unsettling, wild and wyrd, the ten stories in this collection showcase the best of folk horror. Set in and across England, they celebrate working-class culture and history, and, sharp as a guillotine blade, reveal the real monsters that stalk our green and pleasant land.Edited by @folkhorrormagpie, Bog People is out today!

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4 months ago
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How absolutely gorgeous is my book post! The new print anthology from @uncertainstories.com complete with little uncertainties booklets and postcards, not to mention some fantastic strange and surreal writing from a brilliant array of talented writers. Get your copy today!

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4 months ago
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Flash Face Off Live: Halloween Special with Kathy Hoyle - Writers' HQ You are cordially invited to an evening of spiritual communion at the Flash Face Off Live Halloween Special 👻

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October 31st at 8pm! On All Hallows Eve I'll be hosting the annual Flash Face Off open mic night over @writershq.bsky.social alongside renowned Victorian Spiritualist ,Madame Morte! Invitations in the link. join us! It's free and all who dare are welcome!💀

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5 months ago
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Online writing retreats Super-productive, super-friendly, super-free online writing retreats. Write thousands of words from the comfort of your own pyjamas.

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I’m hosting today’s retreat. It’s free and we start at 10am! Come and join me… you can wear yr jammies all day and get GOLD STARS for writing a bazillion words! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #perfectsaturday

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1 year ago
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The Braag Presents We were established in October 2020 in a moment of dazzling common sense and against government advice to retrain as something practical—such as an umbrella, or an exceptionally short lamp post.

Hello, friends! The Braag is a Newcastle based small press and journal. We sell amazing speculative fiction and poetry - our vibe is weird, wild and beautifully presented! You can shop our books at thebraag.co, we also run the micro-journal Carmen et Error and work with writers across the world.

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5 months ago

My writing is all powered by spite and rage so i'm into this idea; and if anyone can teach you how to channel it it's Mark. For the uninitiated, All My Precious Madness is one of the best novels of the last coupla years, packed with splenetic vituperation. Had me howling. Check it out 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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5 months ago

Lol it would probably be a whole lot better 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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5 months ago

Still thinkin! Maybe time to do the doin? #stopdithering

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Spooky season is upon us & I'll be hosting the Writers' HQ annual Halloween Flash Face Off open mic event. Bring your creepiest tale of up to 300 words and take part in Madame Morte's Victorian Séance! It's Free to attend! Follow the link for more details!

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6 months ago
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Adam Barrett - The First Thirty Years EP | Broken Sleep Books Adam Barrett’s The First Thirty Years EP is a taut, propulsive collection that fuses poetic memoir with political indictment, navigating masculinity, class, and grief through the lens of North East En...

My debut pamphlet, The First Thirty Years EP, is out now. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

'Barrett writes with formal agility and emotional charge, drawing lines between private collapse and public failure without sacrificing lyrical control.'

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5 months ago

@terryholland.bsky.social I feel like you would love this!

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5 months ago
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Phew! Survived my third year progress review!! Celebrating with cold beer and chocolate! 🎉🎉🎉 #PhDlife

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