Gill O'Halloran

Congratulations to the winners. Can't wait to read these stories.

Didn't get further than longlist but congrats to the highly commended and the shortlisters. Thanks to Frazzled Lit editors for their professionalism and warmth in their timely announcements and commiseration emails.

Lori, yay. Congratulations!

Excited to be on the longlist. Congrats to other longlisters + all eyes on the 3rd.

Thank you so much for reading and posting Christine! I appreciate it.

Andrea Was Waiting To Give You This Poem “When Death Came to Visit”

Gill, I wanted to make sure you saw this one, too: open.substack.com/pub/andreagi...

Thank you, it's beautiful.

Gill O'Halloran reading Another Time, an emotional yet surreal sea-inspired story, published in the 2024 Bath Flash Fiction Anthology. @flashficfestuk.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social

Thrilled to be alongside @sarahkat.bsky.social and @iridescentwords.bsky.social both of whom I've just met @flashficfestuk.bsky.social. V pleased it'll raise funds for wildlifetrusts.org thanks to editor @therelphian.bsky.social Still something special about the printed word.

A List of Things I Love The poetry of everyday

Thanks to @kathyfish.bsky.social for reading in @flashficfestuk.bsky.social workshop and introducing me to Andrea Gibson, who sadly died on 14th July 2025. I love this!
andreagibson.substack.com/p/a-list-of-...

Thank you, again. It was so good to spend time with you this weekend.

Love In The Time of Bird Flu A Flash Fiction by Gill O’Halloran

Amazing story, Gill - so happy to be able to tell you in person this weekend 🙌🏼 🙌🏼

Link: open.substack.com/pub/westword...

Thank you so much Cole for reading and reposting.

@seabirdcentre.bsky.social Bass Rock was where my story 'Love in the Time of Bird Flu' began. Now the gannets face a new threat. Berwick Bank has been estimated to kill 329 Gannets and 986 Kittiwakes a year through collision alone. Add your voice to the protest. www.seabird.org/conservation...

Great to be @flashficfestuk.bsky.social when my WestWord2025 1st prize ' Love In The Time of Bird Flu' appears. Thanks to Amanda Saint @retreatwest.bsky.social to judge @sarahillswrites.bsky.social for her lovely words, + to @smokelong.bsky.social for the workshop that started it.

@jennystalter.bsky.social I loved this.

Just raced through this story. Compelling, weird, beautiful!

Metafictional brilliance!

Me yours too!

This seems to be the day I read stories that touch me deeply. Melissa's CNF is beautiful, how we hold the pain for our kids. Do go n read it.

An amazing piece. I honestly got goosebumps reading it. I'm still learning re 100 micros n this was my first albeit modest success. Yours is inspiring.

Thrilled to win the WestWord 25 prize with 'Love in the Time of Bird Flu'. Look forward to sharing when it's online on 18th July. Congrats to @joycebingham.bsky.social + Charlie Swailes + shortlisters. Thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for encouragement and @sarahillswrites.bsky.social for judging.

epistemiclit.com/past-issues/... As usual reposted the wrong post! Never mind, two-for-one. @pleomorphic2.bsky.social congratulations!

Just read @pleomorphic2.bsky.social The Schizophrenogenic Mother. It's stunning, as a lyrical piece, but also for addressing the stigma of the condition and the prejudice faced by family. An important must-read.

Shortlisted! newwriters.org.uk/competitions... Congrats to the winners + @smokelong.bsky.social pal @alisonwassell.bsky.social for a top 10 place! Her story's so powerful. Submit to @newwritersuk.bsky.social, and support 2 charities, for disadvantaged UK students and combatting poverty in Kenya.

@kateog.bsky.social ' s Falling Off the Wagon in Oklahoma' is another reason to buy this jewel of an anthology: wonderful mix of the dark - falling headlong back into alcohol abuse, and the glittering - a room of Debbie Harry look-alikes. And an emotional punch of an ending.

Thank you!!! I'm loving all these stories. Wonderful. 'Another Time' is heartbreakingly beautiful. The slowly crumbling stoicism is sublime.

Honestly , its worth buying for the titles alone! eg @heatherbooknook.bsky.social 'Smelly Dog You Need A Clean, Filthy Bitch Your Teeth Are Green.' Stunner of a story too btw.

Only reading my copy of the Bath Flash Fiction Anthology 2024 now. Beautiful cover, amazing variety of flashes. Look forward to reading mine, 'Another Time,' at the @bathflashaward.bsky.social flash fiction festival next month. The workshops all sound so good, hard choices to make.

Rightly so, congrats Diane!