It was such an honour to launch @jupiterjonz.bsky.social new novella 'The Hyena's Daughter' on Zoom last night. Thanks to all who came. It was a blast! You can buy the book at any of the below links #nif weatherglassbooks.com/shop/thehyen... www.waterstones.com/book/the-hye... amzn.eu/d/0hf7Kwh2
I just had a pre-launch Zoom with @jupiterjonz.bsky.social & we're both excited to share her Weatherglass Books Novella Award winner ‘The Hyena’s Daughter’ with you in just 3 DAYS!! Get your FREE ticket at the link, where you'll also find links to buy the book.😍 www.tickettailor.com/events/dubli...
Scottish Arts Trust and @megpokrass.bsky.social did a brilliant flash fiction workshop over the weekend - lots of tips and prompts, and some wonderful readings to inspire including this beauty citronreview.com/2023/06/30/m... by @kiklodge.bsky.social
Mother Tongue
by Kik Lodge On the train, a girl licks the window and her mother tells her to stop licking the window, but the girl carries on, and there’s me thinking let her lick the window, the cold mus…
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I'm re-posting this because although the photo is generic this story was written from experience of walking in the Rhinog Mountains in North Wales and there is currently a big fire there and that's heart-breaking for me literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
Mountain Path, North Wales by Bronwen Griffiths
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” HeraclitusIf the path is steep and stony on the way up the mountain and if, perhaps, it crosses severalstreams or rivulets and, if there are fields ...
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"Why did Fanny kill herself? What drove her to this extreme action? Was it a matter of her heart or her principles? This is the story that interests me..." - @jupiterjonz.bsky.social on why she wrote about Fanny Imlay in her new book, The Hyena's Daughter lithub.com/out-from-the...
Out From the Shadows: On Rediscovering Mary Shelley’s Half-Sister, Fanny Imlay
It is an interesting challenge to write about someone who has been overlooked, who is overshadowed by more vibrant characters. If they are at first glance unexceptional, is that to say dull or unin…
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In the run up to our August Prompted Stories Challenge, we're sharing previous bangers that showed creativity and imagination with prompts 🦝 First, @jupiterjonz.bsky.social with Kodak Moment, a breathless single sentence stunner 📸 Read and listen: trashcatlit.com/kodak-moment/
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social reminds me I didn't post any pictures of the recent launch of my novella The Hyena's Daughter - it was at Foyles - with Anju Gaston, Neil and Damian from Weatherglass Books and ALI SMITH and it was FABULOUS!!!
'The Hyena’s Daughter', @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social Prize winner by @jupiterjonz.bsky.social is having a Zoom launch! Sat Aug 1st 8pm UK. Free tix at link (already flying!😍), plus links to buy. Read what judge Ali Smith had to say #nif #historical #novella www.tickettailor.com/events/dubli...
I've thoroughly enjoyed working with @natflashfictionday.bsky.social but it's time to hand over the reins to a new editor of the NFFD Anthology. Many thanks to all who submitted stories during my time as editor and best of luck to the new editor, who I know is going to have an amazing time.
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 4w agoWe’re very sad to announce that after editing 5 NFFD anthologies, our anthology editor Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social has decided to step down. Thank you Karen for all your hard work — you’ve been brilliant. We’ll be announcing our new anthology editor very soon! Watch this space.
'As babes, you toddling with the cleaver, your Ma yelling.' What a stunner by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social #fiction #microfiction #nffd2026 flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/all-...
'All the Ways We Died' by Sumitra Singam
As babes, you toddling with the cleaver, your Ma yelling. As fresh pupils, you whispering the answer, us caned by Sister Adele. As fourth gr...
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I'm thrilled to have a set of prose poems in the wonderful The Mackinaw! Massive thanks to EIC @lorettec.bsky.social for supporting my work and to @janewords.bsky.social and Sasha Kurlyka for giving me feedback on some of these pieces! www.themackinaw.net/the-mackinaw...
Daniel Addercouth
In the Afterlife, My Father Is Finally Content I can just make him out, standing in one of his beloved fields, probably McIntosh’s Park. The sun is shining and clouds are drifting overhead,...
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Just booked a ticket to this. Cannot wait to hear readings from @jupiterjonz.bsky.social herself, and @dublinwriter.bsky.social too asking questions, what an absolute treat. Deets of how to come along for free are below.
Debbi Voisey@dublinwriter.bsky.social · last mo."Well... That Was a Month - Cancellations and Carrying On". Read my newsletter, subscribe, and book for @jupiterjonz book launch on Sat 1st August. #blog #booklaunch #writing #writingcommunity open.substack.com/pub/debbivoi...
'As working-class writers we sometimes don't have that mentality of "I can do it".' Emerging writer Victoria Ferguson joins me on Northern Voices this week to talk about writing folk horror in Northern dialect, working-class mentality and the accessibility. on.soundcloud.com/JWEfsoOnjemA...
And here are the 3 winning novellas in flash from the 2026 Bath NIF awards back from the printers, looking gorgeous and ready to go the the flash fiction festival, two weeks today! You can buy from Amazon. Check out AdHocFiction.com for links worldwide
The Flash Fiction Anthology Vol eight and the BFFA anthology Vol 10, How to Fold a World Map back from the printers and ready to go to the festival where they’ll be launched with readings & given to contributors attending. We’re posting off the others
'The Hyena’s Daughter', @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social Novella Prize winner by @jupiterjonz.bsky.social is having a Zoom launch! Sat Aug 1st 8pm. Tickets at link, where you can also buy, & read what judge Ali Smith had to say #nif #historical #novella #sensuous www.tickettailor.com/events/dubli...
Pssst! Do you want to book a place at the Edinburgh Flash Fiction workshop with Meg Pokrass? scotportrait.wufoo.com/forms/m174ws... 24 July 7pm (BST) on zoom
Kermit the Frog Typing on a Typewriter
ALT: Kermit the Frog Typing on a Typewriter
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Flash fiction 250 words, judged by Meg Pokrass, first prize £2,000 (yes! two grand!) Deadline 31 August www.scottishartstrust.org/flash
Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction — Scottish Arts Trust
Britain's biggest flash fiction prize - open to writers worldwide
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Flash fiction 250 words, judged by Meg Pokrass, first prize £2,000 (yes! two grand!) Deadline 31 August www.scottishartstrust.org/flash
Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction — Scottish Arts Trust
Britain's biggest flash fiction prize - open to writers worldwide
scottishartstrust.org
gooseberry-pie.com/every-five-s... Written in a Meg Pokgrass workshop called ‘Messy Love’ - not sure there’s another kind?
Every Five Seconds, Goldfish Memories Being Famously Short, I Briefly Become Your Entire World - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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So thrilled to be in this dream journal. Thank you so much to the awesome MFA students at Temple University for that all-important editorial suggestion (reader, I made the change).
Barrelhouse@barrelhouse.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew online issue is out today!
