a cartoon duck is writing in a notebook with a pencil
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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
01.12.2025 08:01 — 👍 26 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 5
Yay Finn! Congrats! 🎉
02.12.2025 09:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Well that's cheered me up in the middle of my marking! Congrats everyone & good luck! 🍀
02.12.2025 09:28 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
29.11.2025 09:47 — 👍 53 🔁 31 💬 7 📌 7
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
26.11.2025 08:00 — 👍 21 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 5
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...
02.12.2025 08:21 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Writings
Archive : Writings
Check out the longlist & shortlist of fabulous poems and stories here:
write.walklistencreate.org/wr_writing/?...
20.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
20.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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 👏
20.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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...
16.11.2025 01:34 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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...
13.11.2025 23:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wow Gill! Delighted for you... Big congrats! 🎉
13.11.2025 11:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
13.11.2025 10:32 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Long list of our #Walking #InTheDark competition announced - terrific poems and stories beautifully penned - read them here wlc.zone/ark
06.11.2025 11:00 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 9 📌 6
Check out this heartbreaker 💔 from the lovely @sagreene1.bsky.social
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08.11.2025 14:44 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Congrats Suzanne! What a heartbreaker!
08.11.2025 14:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wow! Check this out from @smokelong.bsky.social ⬇️
08.11.2025 14:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That made me laugh! Congrats! 🎉
07.11.2025 00:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Woo hoo! 🎉 Big congrats Gill! Love that it's the one you least expected!
06.11.2025 13:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats Jen! 👏 Beautiful piece!
06.11.2025 12:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks Bev... So glad you like them! 🥰
06.11.2025 12:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Writings
Archive : Writings
Read all the longlisted poems and stories here:
write.walklistencreate.org/wr_writing/?...
06.11.2025 11:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 👏
06.11.2025 11:02 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0
Thanks so much Kathryn! 🥰
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"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
02.11.2025 14:11 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks so much Matt! Lovely of you to share!, 🥰
05.11.2025 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yay!!! Congrats Cole! 🎉
29.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
19.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
Thanks so much Gill ..and for your feedback too! 🥰 Such a great session!
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