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Catherine O'Brien

@catherineobrien.bsky.social

Writer/Scríbhneoir. Gaeilge - gar dod’ chroí 's beimid mar chairde. BOTN’23 nominee @JanusLiterary BSF ‘23 nominee @BendingGenres

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T.L. Tomljanovic@tomljanovic.bsky.social · last wk.

I think my heart stopped 😭. Thank you @mattkendrick.bsky.social for seeing something in my CNF. There is a Nosehill Park. There was a boy. The thing I love best about writing is the agency it gives to write new stories and rewrite old ones.

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · last wk.

🌎🌎🌎 WINNER of the Earth Prize, "Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issued for Nose Hill Park" by @tomljanovic.bsky.social A piece that's wonderfully vivid and wonderfully alive: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Catherine O'Brien@catherineobrien.bsky.social · 2w ago

My flash 'Clapping with Ghosts' appears in @soflopojo.bsky.social latest issue alongside some very talented writers. My thanks to @francinewitte.bsky.social editor for giving this piece a great home! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-42-aug...

Flash #42 Aug '26

​ SoFloPoJo Content:     HOME ● ESSAYS ● INTERVIEWS ● REVIEWS ● SPECIAL ● VIDEO ● VISUAL-ARTS ● ARCHIVES    ● CALENDAR ● MASTHEAD ● SUBMIT ● TIP JAR ● SOCIAL MEDIA

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Catherine O'Brien@catherineobrien.bsky.social · 2w ago

My flash 'Clapping with Ghosts' appears in @soflopojo.bsky.social latest issue alongside some very talented writers. My thanks to @francinewitte.bsky.social editor for giving this piece a great home! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-42-aug...

Flash #42 Aug '26

​ SoFloPoJo Content:     HOME ● ESSAYS ● INTERVIEWS ● REVIEWS ● SPECIAL ● VIDEO ● VISUAL-ARTS ● ARCHIVES    ● CALENDAR ● MASTHEAD ● SUBMIT ● TIP JAR ● SOCIAL MEDIA

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shome dasgupta@shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 4w ago

Happy The Odyssey Day, friends—here are some literary journals opening for submissions in August. Some are open now or will close *soon* in July or August. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well

List of Journals: Paris Review Usawa Literary Strange Pilgrims Lunch Ticket Unbroken Baltimore Review Redivider Zhagaram Boudin Louisiana Literature Yellow Arrow Tiger Moth Necessary Fiction The Meadow West Branch Tinge Magazine Little Patuxent Philly Chapbook Review Stereo Stories House of Arcanum Thimble Rhino Poetry Fairy Tale Magazine Stoneboat The Haikuist Nude Bruce Gooseberry Pie Abandoned Mine Tinywords Same Faces Collective Kennings Artistic And Literary Trampset Gutter Eleventh Hour Shoegaze Literary Rawhead Mockingheart Review Broken Hearts Gallery Literary Menagerie Headlight Review Flash Fiction Magazine Trace Fossils The Cincinnati Review (miCRo) Indian Gothic Tiny Molecules NonBinary Review Flash Boulevard Equatorial Pinyon Worcester Review Verse-Virtual Bookends Review PHIL Lit Journal Santa Clara Review Bear Paw
Catherine O'Brien@catherineobrien.bsky.social · last mo.

"I wonder if I am cannibalizing you." Check out the latest from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in The Sandy River Review. 🌹

Sumitra Singam@pleomorphic2.bsky.social · last mo.

Friends, WHAT a day. I have two CNF pieces out today in The Sandy River Review. They’re both about my dear friend Jessica who passed 18 months ago. I’d love it if you gave them a read 🧡🙏🏾💔 sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/h... sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/s...

Catherine O'Brien@catherineobrien.bsky.social · last mo.

Wonderfully taut and deft piece from @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 🌬️🍉

James Montgomery@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · last mo.

Let’s go fly a kite! 🪁 Thrilled to have a new flash in the fabulous @fictivedream.bsky.social, which is celebrating 10 years of championing short and short-short stories. Laura has created such a wonderfully-curated journal, and I’m so proud to be featured. Enjoy! 💛 fictivedream.com/2026/07/03/k...

James Montgomery@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yippee! My FlashFlood micro is live… and it’s 5 o’clock somewhere, right? Take a sip and enjoy ‘Making a Margarita After Filing for Divorce’, and have the most flash-tastic day everyone! And cheers to @natflashfictionday.bsky.social and the hard-working editors! 🍋‍🟩🍸

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 2mo ago

FlashFlood: 'Making a Margarita After Filing for Divorce' by James Montgomery #nffd2026

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 2mo ago

FlashFlood: 'Someone in the playground' by Catherine O’Brien #nffd2026

'Someone in the playground' by Catherine O’Brien

Someone in the playground told Billy he has a face like a marímbula so he grew up and bought a new face. Someone threw a clump of sand and a solitary grain has lodged in Sally’s left eye. She will fall in love with an ophthalmologist and it will endure until she notices what is written in his eyes. Someone in the playground is yelling and his uvula is violently shaking. He will become a man who curses on breakfast television. Someone in the playground has a paperchain of wishes that he hides under his bed because trampled wishes can’t come through. Someone in the playground is screaming ‘can I kill you?’ which is better manners than the playground is used to. Billy rules the playground that is adult life. He’s tropical without the temperate. He’s renowned for breaking and entering other’s games and howls when he starts each hunt. Sally presents as a tall stem of a woman but only a select few humans know she feels hollow. She hasn’t rekindled her love story and has reluctantly come to the conclusion that she may never again burst into flower. It’s easy to judge why Eddie swears with such abandon but life is hard when you feel like you’re a dense mass of tangles. Josh is one of life’s thinkers. He’s a grazer, he eavesdrops. He has a bald patch on the top of his head that he attributes to his father’s hand. He wonders about everything and that shouldn’t always but it does make him happy. Someone in the playground feels endangered and the narrative will be that they weren’t once but later became a danger to you. Someone in the playground or perhaps everyone will encourage you to chase the true dexterity of your life.  --- Catherine O’Brien is an Irish writer of poems, flash fiction and short stories. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in English Literature. Her work has most recently appeared in X-R-A-Y, Frazzled Lit Magazine and Bending Genres.You can find out more on X @abairrud2021 and Bluesky catherineobrien.bsky.social.

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