MaireadWrites
@maireadwrites.bsky.social
Writes things, teaches things, learns things, parents a person, and some other things (BFFA winner; Bridport SL; Pushcart Nominated; LL Wigleaf Top 50) South West, UK, but Northern.
Acres of white space in this - perfection from @alisonwassell.bsky.social
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 2w agoShortlisted in the History Prize, "Having Received His Call-Up Papers, Arthur Jenkins Invites You To The Cinema" by @alisonwassell.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
With @kiklodge.bsky.social's absurd stories & surreal illustrations by @jeromefage.bsky.social, you're gonna want to own The Bully in My Pillow. On sale now, this funny collection arrives August 11. ☆ Plesse support small presses and indie authors ☆ www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
If you haven't read our charity anthology yet, here's three reasons why you should! 🦝 In Roadkill, Mairead Fagan @maireadwrites.bsky.social gives us gripping and gruesome with a haunting tale of desperation and survival 💜 trashcatlit.com/read-what-co... 1/3
“a softening in the earth like something exhaling from below…” This is too fucking good
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Property Line” by Elena Rotzokou is now up! Art by Ruri Kato flash-frog.com/2026/05/18/p...
In memory of John Brantingham, one of his stories in @fictivedream.bsky.social. Such a light that has gone out in the world. I'm so lucky I got to meet him, if only online, if only for a few hours. #FlashInTheFeed fictivedream.com/2025/04/04/t...
The Siege of Herons
by John Brantingham IT’S JUST DUSK SOMEWHERE outside Topeka, Kansas, and you’ve been driving all day with Ellen beside you, now silently in her own world when you see what you think are giant…
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Stories by @kiklodge.bsky.social always make my day, this one no exception, and it’s only quarter to eight.
Kik Lodge@kiklodge.bsky.social · 8mo agoGot a story up about a magnet eater in @bendinggenres.bsky.social if anyone is up for a weird one 😬
"“Careful you don’t get a reputation for being a b-i-t-c-h,” spells out Maggie." This new #fiction from DIHP alum @nomad-sw18.bsky.social is so perfect it's painful in the very best way | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
@maireadwrites.bsky.social “It’ll take them the rest of the day, so we leave them to it and head to the hospital, to sit at my mother’s bedside and watch her sleep.” gooseberry-pie.com/when-my-moth...
When My mother Is Admitted to Hospital, We Organise a Team of Cleaners to Perform a Deep Clean of Her House - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Aleksi Partanen on Unsplash by Mairead Robinson They start in the attic with buckets and bleach, their efficient brooms sweeping spiders into tiny binbags as sunlight spills through gaps in t...
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‘His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opened with a swift beheading’ - the unsettling atmosphere, the almost imperceptible build to an understanding of quiet devastation - magnificent.
Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social · 9mo agoThrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
Very proud that my story about deep cleaners is out in Gooseberry Pie today 😁 gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/
Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories
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Wonderful stories - what a treat to read them - congratulations all.
bathflashaward.bsky.social@bathflashaward.bsky.social · 9mo agoMany congratulations to our winners! 5 brilliant stories selected by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social 1st Adam Brannigan, 2nd @emilyrinkema.bsky.social 3rd @debdanthewriter.bsky.social Highly commended @dawnsteffler.bsky.social All stories published bathflashfictionaward.com
Many congratulations to our winners! 5 brilliant stories selected by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social 1st Adam Brannigan, 2nd @emilyrinkema.bsky.social 3rd @debdanthewriter.bsky.social Highly commended @dawnsteffler.bsky.social All stories published bathflashfictionaward.com
Bath Flash Fiction Award
International Rolling Flash Fiction Competition
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www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/high... Congratulations @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!
Highly Commended October 2025 Award: Dawn Tasaka Steffler
The Menopausal Woman and the Tsunami by Dawn Tasaka Steffler The Menopausal Woman is finally visiting her sister in Hawaii when an 8.7 earthquake rattles Russia, and now a goddamned tsunami is head…
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Congratulations Debra A Daniel! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/octo...
3rd Prize October 2025 Award: Debra A Daniel
My Husband Watches Henry the Donkey by Debra A Daniel When the news is overwhelming, my husband turns to Youtube. “Here comes Henry,” he says. Henry’s owner brings treats and the donkey prances to …
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Congratulations Adam Brannigan! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/1st-...
1st Prize, October 2025 Award: Adam Brannigan
Two Nude Night Owls by Adam Brannigan Its past midnight, and I’m sitting at my fire pit, burning old letters from old girlfriends. Old photos. Old birthday cards. Trinkets and whatever. It’s time t…
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I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚 www.tickettailor.com/events/westw...
Buy tickets – Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom
Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom, Sat 22 Nov 2025 - Curious about how to move from publishing standalone flash to a body of work? This 2-hour workshop breaks down everyth...
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The time of Spook and Ghoul is ever closer - a good time therefore to creep yourself out with a bumper read of short fictions full of darkliness. Available for less than ten English poundlets, it opens with Wigleaf longlisted piece - A Whisper of Before. mybook.to/SickInkColle...
"When my wife looks out the window of our house & sobs while the rain beats down, it’s because she says our baby doesn’t recognize her anymore, because she’s an alien now, a glowing oval-headed monstrosity tucked into a maternity dress." @timfrankquill.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
Chuffty Badge for me! Congratulations to all nominees and thank you so much @trashcatlit.bsky.social xxx
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe are thrilled to share our nominations for @pushcartprize.bsky.social @francesgapper.bsky.social @adlibby.bsky.social @quickasaflash.bsky.social @stephaniecarty.bsky.social @maireadwrites.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Good Luck you fabulous Trash Family 💜
So excited to be part of this stellar collection and WHAT A BARGAIN! Snap it up, dear readers.
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe're so excited to share our first print anthology, available to purchase for only £9/ $11.50 🦝 Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for @WildlifeTrusts and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜 mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
@kiklodge.bsky.social Another banger!
MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 11mo ago"Graham Moiselle waits in line like everybody else. He’s not an eejit. He doesn’t usually ask anything from anyone. He’s not looking for trouble. He just wants to be heard. That’s all he wants." @kiklodge.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
@jennystalter.bsky.social “and I don’t tell her I know why all I got for my birthday was pants from the church drive so small they pinched tight around the middle because her bottles and cigarettes cost us her whole paycheck.” gooseberry-pie.com/superpower/
Superpower - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Bradley Allweil on Unsplash by Jenny Stalter Mom says love is the most powerful thing on earth, and that’s how she’ll quit drinking, which is called self-love, and that’s how she found me a n...
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"Act 1. Anton Chekhov beak-raps the glass roof of Dad’s passion project / our house and shits on it. “We should never have adopted that seagull,” says Helena, my stepmother. Was there ever a more intriguing opening?? Fizzing with wonderful, is this. Congratulations @francesgapper.bsky.social
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 11mo agoSecond hero is from @francesgapper.bsky.social 🦝 We loved the pace of this cleverly structured piece, the superb characterisation and of course, a Trash Eagle - elevated. Very unexpected use of prompts: Building Remodel, Unlikely Hero, Firearm Read here: trashcatlit.com/into-stones-...
