Rosaleen Lynch

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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

Yay Finn! Congrats! 🎉

Well that's cheered me up in the middle of my marking! Congrats everyone & good luck! 🍀

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...

The cover of the FUEL anthology of prize-winning flash fictions raising funds to fight fuel poverty, with a brightly-coloured petrol pump, and a banner on the right hand side saying "Ebook with 12 bonus prize-winning stories". Edited by Tania Hershman

Today is #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay so why not pick up a copy of the FUEL anthology of prizewinning flash fictions - it's a great read and profits go to four #fuelpoverty charities, including @nea.org.uk. The brand new ebook has 75+12 bonus stories = 87 flash stories! Buy here: www.fuelflash.net

Fiona McKay — Does It Have Pockets Civil Twilight

Check out this beauty from @fionamckay.bsky.social

'Civil Twilight' in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/fion...

Check out the longlist & shortlist of fabulous poems and stories here:

write.walklistencreate.org/wr_writing/?...

Congrats and good luck to my fellow shortlistees:

Krista Carson, Isabella Mead Hussain, Emily Wilkinson, @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @erinbondo.com @elizafevwrites.bsky.social @eleanorholmes.bsky.social @sarahleavesley.bsky.social @lauratheis.bsky.social @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social

Yay! 🎉 So delighted to be shortlisted in the @walklistencreate.org 'Write About Walking' competition with the theme this year of 'Walking In The Dark' in support of the global action 'Women walking, the City, at Night.' 🏙

Thanks to the judges and congrats to everyone on the shortlist 👏

Kleopatra Olympiou | Here I Am

Check out this lovely uplifting piece in @claudineliterary.bsky.social 🙏

Here I Am by @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social

www.claudineliterary.net/kleopatraoly...

Love this story fron the oh-so-talented @quickasaflash.bsky.social

'The Grass Is Always Greener' is such a worthy winner of the @flash500.bsky.social

Read it here: ⬇️⬇️⬇️
flash500.com/flash-fictio...

Wow Gill! Delighted for you... Big congrats! 🎉

A date for your writing competition diary
FFF Competition Thirty-One
 
Submit a flash fiction piece of between 100 and 300 words, any theme
 
The closing date is Tuesday, 23rd December 2025 at 10:00 pm UK Time

All the details...

freeflashfiction.com/current-comp...

Long list of our #Walking #InTheDark competition announced - terrific poems and stories beautifully penned - read them here wlc.zone/ark

Check out this heartbreaker 💔 from the lovely @sagreene1.bsky.social
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Congrats Suzanne! What a heartbreaker!

Wow! Check this out from @smokelong.bsky.social ⬇️

That made me laugh! Congrats! 🎉

Woo hoo! 🎉 Big congrats Gill! Love that it's the one you least expected!

Congrats Jen! 👏 Beautiful piece!

Thanks Bev... So glad you like them! 🥰

Read all the longlisted poems and stories here:

write.walklistencreate.org/wr_writing/?...

Delighted to be longlisted in the @walklistencreate.org 'Write About Walking' competition with the theme this year of 'Walking In The Dark' in support of the global action 'Women walking, the City, at Night.' 🏙

Thanks to the judges and congrats to everyone on the longlist 👏

Thanks so much Kathryn! 🥰

"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, and trapped animals, hiding their young"

A stunner from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social So much story unspooling from the anaphora repetition

Thanks so much Matt! Lovely of you to share!, 🥰

Yay!!! Congrats Cole! 🎉

I witnessed the birth of this flash at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social in @fionamckay.bsky.social 's excellent workshop and look at it now - beautiful! Congrats Rosaleen!

Thanks so much Gill ..and for your feedback too! 🥰 Such a great session!