Eleanor Luke

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Plus Rosalias new album which I’m listening to on loop.

That would do it! Mine is excessive Led Zeppelin (due to the documentary that came out this year) plus a lot of Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac. My most modern group is pretty cool though: Fontaines DC. A discovery for me this year!

Spotify has calculated my listening age as a full 20 years older than my actual age. I’m the laughing stock of my house but I’m secretly pretty chuffed! 🤣🤣🤣

This is great!

Congratulations! Well deserved!

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Submissions to our anthology (up to 500 words on the theme of BRIDGES) & our Microfiction comp (up to 100 words, no theme) are now OPEN until 15 Feb. Our anthology editors & judges are poised ready! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

I hope I manage to write something this year as this contest is now a December tradition! I’m in full novel writing phase though, so let’s see if I can still do micro 🤣🤣

THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.

I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Welcome, Jane!

I’ve barely started it and I can already feel it will stay with me for a long time!

Ooh! I like that title!

A chilly morning here. Thank goodness for this amazing cappuccino and new book to accompany! 🌸 #WritingCommunity

No way! That’s even worse than not being able to get tickets in the first place. 😡

How amazing!

I’ve never seen them live and feel like I never will 😡

I mean gutted to be excluded

I tried to get tickets but no luck. I understand why they are fighting against touts, but it’s gutting not to be excluded from trying. 😟

Yay! Congratulations Cole!

Thought it was Hampstead Heath. Amazing place. Few years since I’ve been though.

Gorgeous!

That’s horrendous. How awful for you, Sarah. Sending lots of positive vibes your way 💕😘

Happy Birthday!

Aw! Thanks for actually reading it! Much appreciated! And I reckon I could patent the snow globe thing 🤣🤣🤣

2021 Weird Xmas Flash Fiction Contest Results It’s out later than I would have preferred, but like the inevitability of New Year’s following Christmas, it is here. The full text of each story is below the embedded audio player. You…

I can’t link directly to the story but it was the 2021 contest:

weirdchristmas.com/2021/12/31/2...

This is so much fun! Everyone should enter. EVERYONE.

I second you Jack! It’s such a weird contest. Impossible not to love (and I once had a story chosen. Once a long long time ago when I knew how to write flash).

Break a leg!

Is that the one you read in Madrid? If so, the audience is in for a treat!

Congratulations Cole! 🎉🎉

So super relatable for you! 🤣🤣