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Our fifth anniversary issue is now live!
5 great flash
5 gorge micros
3 scéal iontach
And an interview with Lydia Davis 💚
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We are open!! Our 5th anniversary issue! Send your flash & micros. Fáilte roimh obair as #Gaeilge
💚 #flashfiction #microfiction
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Splonk opens for Issue 11 - our fifth anniversary issue! - on February 5th for 2 weeks. We can't wait to read your gorgeous flash and micros! Guidelines here: splonk.ie/submit/

Congrats to our 2023-24 @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees!

'Flash is somewhere to capture those stories that are barely stories, fleeting moments that could almost be ignored...' @sadhbhdevlin from Issue Ten. splonk.ie/2023/11/24/t...

'...the bigger, looming thing, condensed. Like a shot. Sudden, loud. It felt very powerful... What frustrates me about flash is getting that emotional snag right, the essence of what makes a reader pause and let it in. It’s so hard to capture.'
#Adam Trodd, Issue Ten. splonk.ie/2023/11/24/t...

Splonk Ten is here! An editors showcase featuring
#adamtrodd &
#sadhbhdevlin
Two fab new stories. Two fab interviews. splonk.ie/splonk-all-i...

It is!!

The first ever Irish language book of #flashfiction is out now from Splonk regular @gearoidinc.bsky.social with Comhar. Comhghairdeas ó chroí uainne!
Read more here: splonk.ie/2023/11/23/l...

Splonk 10: We have two beautiful stories to share with you on Friday, in our new issue, an editors showcase.
Check in on the 24th for gorgeous flashes & The Splonk 5 interviews from #adamtrodd & #sadhbhdevlin 💚
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Our next issue - 10 - is a showcase of two of our fabulous Splonk editors AdamTrodd & Sadhbh Devlin.
Watch out for Issue 10 on 24th November 💚
#splonk #splonkflash #AdamTrodd #SadhbhDevlin #flashfiction #Splonk10

Flash deadline extended for Allingham comp. 6th Oct. €300 first prize. www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...

For Best of the Net 2024, Splonk is happy to nominate stories by Rick White & Cathy Ulrich, and artwork by Janice Leagra, from Issues 8 and 9. Congrats all! www.splonk.ie @ricketywhite.bsky.social @janiceleagra.bsky.social

The 20 Sept word prompt for #mpotd (micro prompt of the day): FRAME.

I'll post a prompt word/image. Write a micro using the word/inspired by the image. Use the hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.

*It helps if you quote post the prompt post instead of replying.*

#writingprompt

Writing about Family in Creative Nonfiction with Shasta Grant - SmokeLong Quarterly How can you balance the considerations and privacy of the actual people you’re writing about while also fully developing characters on the page? What is more important: fact or emotional truth? What...

Writing about Family in Creative Nonfiction with Shasta Grant, a SmokeLong webinar/peer-review/feedback event. Book now. Live webinar 9/30, with peer-review workshop following. https://www.smokelong.com/product/writing-about-family-in-creative-nonfiction-with-shasta-grant/

Former Booker prize-winner Anne Enright on missing out on a nomination this year | BreakingNews.ie The award-winning writer reveals how she views the competition. By Hannah Stephenson.

Anne Enright cutting through the nonsense, as usual www.breakingnews.ie/lifestyle/fo...

Afterglow 2023 - The Summer is not Enough - SmokeLong Quarterly This fall SmokeLong is offering a series of events combining webinars, peer-review workshopping, and feedback from the webinar presenters for those of you who want to extend the summer into the autumn...

Afterglow is just a week away! The first of eight webinar/workshop/feedback events from SmokeLong starts September 9. Workshop with SmokeLong this fall. The summer was never enough. www.smokelong.com/afterglow-20...

On writing: 114. “But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.” – AS Byatt #writing

Irish writers - Fictive Dream wants your work 💚 fictivedream.com?fbclid=PAAaY...

A micro comp spotted on insta #flashfiction

Open to submissions: New England Review, Southern Review, Crab Creek Review, Bayou Magazine, Foglifter, A Public Space, Harupur Palate, Apricity Magazine, Juniper, Cincinnati Review, American Short Fiction, Kweli Journal, Passages North, Hunger Mountain, Aboreal Literary Magazine, Brevity, Gettysburg Review, Cortland Review, Waxwing, Rougarou, Willow Springs, The Journal, LIT, River Teeth, Glassworks Magazine, Rust & Moth, Booth, Grain Magazine, Wigleaf, Kenyon Review, The MacGuffin, Southhampton Review, Roanoke Review, AGNI

Huge thanks to Shome Dasgupta for posting this on the other site: "Here are some literary journals opening up for submissions at some point in September! Genres vary—please note that some of these journals have fees & that these are all tentative dates."

Resources | MattKendrick.co.uk Free resources from Matt Kendrick.

Want some free writing resources for your Monday morning? I have lots of free stuff on my website, both my own and treasure troves you can dig in to from elsewhere: Resources | MattKendrick.co.uk

#writers #flashfiction

Here's the 18 August image prompt for micro prompt of the day.

I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word or inspired by the image. Use the hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.

*It helps if you repost the prompt post.* #writingprompt

Photo Credit: Jean Gaumy

Our own @mariegethins.bsky.social is teaching a #flashfiction course at the Irish Writers Centre in November. Online, so everyone can join :) https://irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/playing-the-pauses-in-flash-fiction-employing-the-unsaid-with-marie-gethins-2/

Cúrsa nua do lucht na Gaeile ag an Irish Writers Centre i mBÁC.
https://irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/meridian-cursa-gairid-ar-leirmheastoireacht-leabhar-sa-ghaeilge-le-alan-titley/

Read our latest issue - Issue 9 - at the link, it includes a fantastic interview with NZ-based writer Michelle Elvy.
https://splonk.ie/splonk-9/

Fulfilling by Fiona McKay | Issue #30 Kate is not ‘imagining it’. There are small tufts of pale fluff on her neck, and no, it’s not ‘just a tissue in the washing machine’ as John suggests. There’s nothing drifting off his shir...

Don't miss this "Fulfilling" flash story by @fionamckay.bsky.social appearing in issue 30! #flash #author

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