What a laugh to be w Suzanne, @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social & friends to hear @sagreene1.bsky.social 's "The inconvenient woodcutter" performed by professional actress Margaret Ashley last night at @liarsleague.bsky.social. Great evening with with a Murder & Mischief theme. Have to enter next time!

Quoting, not only for the brilliant story by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social but also for the thread that follows.

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Shortlisted in the History Prize, "The things we did not see on Christmas Eve in Calumet, Michigan, 1913" by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

We dip, squeeze, wash, return. Calculate what we have shared and what we have kept to ourselves. In kissing scenes, never kiss. In food scenes, never eat. But the penetration was real, make no mistake about that. Direct and unflinching @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @thin-skin.bsky.social

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖@nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 5d ago

Excited to have a new story in @thin-skin.bsky.social "Where were your family then? Where were they when you needed rent, when he broke your heart, when he broke your ribs, when he took you back and kicked you out over and over, when we begged you to leave him?" thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...

Thrilled to have two stories in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social. Read about a six inch cheerleader-- and another story about what the stars want. Thank you Camille Griep and team for giving these stories a lovely home. www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/clau...

Claudia Monpere — Does It Have Pockets

Give Me a Push | What the Stars Want

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We need some new heartbreaks for the gallery. Doesn't have to be about someone who broke your heart. Maybe its a song or movie that always makes you tear up, a spot you used to love in your home town that's gone now, a lost family recipe. 50 words or less and one photo is all we need. Sub link ⏬️

"the push, the crush, the rip of fabric, baby’s white stockings, heads, hands, the hit, the silence." Oh, the devastation! The movement and emotion, the destructive power of a single word — what a wallop this piece packs! Phenomenal work from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @welkinpress.bsky.social ❤️🎉

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Shortlisted in the History Prize, "The things we did not see on Christmas Eve in Calumet, Michigan, 1913" by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

"What happened to Joulupukki after giving Toivo his present on stage." Wow. How this story is put together. Brilliance by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @welkinpress.bsky.social 💙💙💙

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Shortlisted in the History Prize, "The things we did not see on Christmas Eve in Calumet, Michigan, 1913" by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Huge thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for all the work and heart he puts into the @welkinpress.bsky.social - and to judge @susmitab.bsky.social for shortlisting my story. It's based on a tragedy known as the Italian Hall disaster; its shadow still looms over mining towns in the Upper Peninsula.

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Shortlisted in the History Prize, "The things we did not see on Christmas Eve in Calumet, Michigan, 1913" by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

‘But we can be here tonight, with the women you called sisters.’ This made me cry Cole X

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖@nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 5d ago

Excited to have a new story in @thin-skin.bsky.social "Where were your family then? Where were they when you needed rent, when he broke your heart, when he broke your ribs, when he took you back and kicked you out over and over, when we begged you to leave him?" thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...

Oh they rhythm and urgency of this @karenc.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼 "You remember the match. The cigarette. The smolder. The silent scream of moss and leaves." Stunning shortlisted micro for the @welkinpress.bsky.social Earth prize.

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Shortlisted in the Earth Prize, "The Boy Wraps His Arms Around You" by @karenc.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

'Your body, broken and empty now you’re not in it. ' Such a beautiful and poignant piece by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @thin-skin.bsky.social. 💐💐💔

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖@nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 5d ago

Excited to have a new story in @thin-skin.bsky.social "Where were your family then? Where were they when you needed rent, when he broke your heart, when he broke your ribs, when he took you back and kicked you out over and over, when we begged you to leave him?" thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...

Hereafter by @sfreligh.bsky.social is a novella-in-flash that feels like a guiding light for the genre. a tiny book I read slowly because I didn’t want it to end, even if I cried at every other flash. head to @adhocfiction.bsky.social and get your tissues ready #smokelong #blurbchallenge

All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social transports you in place and time, each flash has you feeling like the characters are people you know. wished it was longer than a chap! out from @chestnutreview.bsky.social #smokelong #blurbchallenge

Excited to have a new story in @thin-skin.bsky.social "Where were your family then? Where were they when you needed rent, when he broke your heart, when he broke your ribs, when he took you back and kicked you out over and over, when we begged you to leave him?" thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...

She was One of Us  - Thin Skin

We know naked. We've done naked for a living. But tonight we are washing you. Tonight we are saying goodbye.We can’t be there tomorrow, on those hard wooden pews, in the church your family chose.   Bu...

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Thin Skin magazine@thin-skin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Welcome to Issue 8 - Thin Skin % % share.google/HRasb4ieJnsx...

Had a surprise guest at the "Authoritarian Playbook - what Britain can learn from America" event with @mayaonstage.bsky.social @lincolnproject.us @quietriotpod.bsky.social @bylinetimespod.bsky.social - gooooo Count @countbinface.bsky.social !!! www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/the-aut...

Waiting for @mayaonstage.bsky.social @quietriotpod.bsky.social @lincolnproject.us @bylinetimes.bsky.social to hear "The Authoritarian Playbook: What Britain Can Learn From America"

Beautiful writing in this shortlisted piece from Vaishnavi Pusapati - oh I am really befinning to feel for the judges. All the SL micros have been just brilliant 👏🏼👏🏼

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

Shortlisted in the Earth Prize, "The Night of the Fireflies" by Vaishnavi Pusapati: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Wonderful shortlisted story for the @welkinpress.bsky.social Body prize. I was wondering what meaning was behind this one-word title and it's so satisfyingly multi-layered.

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 6d ago

Shortlisted in the Body Prize, "Issue" by Jeffrey-Michael Kane www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

As Trump tries to erase the history of Covid-19 we must keep writing the history of the pandemic. Two of my contributions to the cause: This Kind of Freedom @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/two-micro-fi... Sparrow’s Work Song @variantlit.bsky.social variantlit.com/sparrows-wor...

Temple in a City literary journal

Two micro fictions, This kind of freedom and Alight, Astray by author Matthew Jakubowski. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.

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Down to the last 2 titles & mine's still in there for the @welkinpress.bsky.social History Prize - eek! However it goes down, have loved reading all these magnificent stories! Huge thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social and judges @susmitab.bsky.social, @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, Myna & Chris 👏

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖@nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wildly celebrating 🐯 🐺 My little micro made the SL for the @welkinpress.bsky.social Historical Prize 🎊 Congrats to all the other fab writers on the LL and SL 🥳

Oh my goodness, how did I miss this???? Congrats @kateaxeford.bsky.social on winning the @freeflashfiction.bsky.social comp 34 🎉🎉🎉 This is a blaze of a story - masterclass in making every detail count. "With the soft hands his father hated—he carefully scrubs the sprocket guides."

Free Flash Fiction@freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 2w ago

As Chosen by Judge Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social The FFF Competition Thirty-Four Winning Flash Fiction: Reel Lives 1972 by Kate Axeford @kateaxeford.bsky.social #writingcompetitions #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...

Submissions are now open for our “Suffragette” issue. (We’re reading for a future unthemed issue too!) Flash Fiction, Microfiction, Prose Poetry No fee. Deadline: September 1 Full details here ettereview.com/submit/

Writers! Clevedon Litfest's Flash Fiction & Poetry Awards need your words. I'm #Flash judge with @kevlin.bsky.social. Here's a #writingprompt: Near Clevedon’s Poets’ Walk, all seems calm. What happens if you add a storm & high tide? More ideas & entry info: www.clevedonlitfest.org.uk/news-dev.php

Hey. Do something kind. For no reason but that it's cool when people do kind shit. Kindness is punk as fuck. That is all.

The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/

Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts

Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

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Friends - I hope you will send us a little something. Spend some time with Louella's photos and let inspiration strike⚡️

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Calling all writers! Try your hand at writing to images with our ekphrastic challenge for issue #42. Choose one of the photos below by NFFR fiction & photography editor Louella Lester and write a story (500 words max). We'll be open for subs 15-31 July. Our guidelines: newflashfiction.com/submit/

Lovely bit of whimsy from @cake-girl.bsky.social - living up to Karen's Cake Girl moniker - with this shortlisted micro 🎂 in @welkinpress.bsky.social "You’ll also need a toddler, the kind with dimpled elbows and hair that curls at the edges on a damp day."

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

Shortlisted in the Joy Prize, "Detailed instructions on how to attract a fairy visitor to your home" by @cake-girl.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Love the layers in this micro by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social - first we get Great-Uncle Merrick, who "ruled that beach once, a silver cocktail shaker his sceptre" Then we get how he made his money - the "careless assurance of one whose living depended on work not his own." And the title 👏🏼👏🏼

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

Shortlisted in the Body Prize, "Sundowning" by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Favourite word? Copasetic. Revived it recently in a jazz-inspired story. I love the rhythm of it, the way it feels in my mouth. Quote post Matt's post below w your fave word for a chance at winning a place on his fab GLORIOUS WORDS course.

Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm running GLORIOUS WORDS for possibly the last time EVER between the 3rd and 16th August. There are currently just THREE spots left so you might have to get your skates on for that: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-gloriou...

Lord knows what's coming next from @welkinpress.bsky.social Firefly prize, given this gorgeous shortlisted micro by @sfreligh.bsky.social. Wonderful title with a strong on and off ramp, the rose's "petaled velvet and their underside of thorns" and that dandelion 💔

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 2w ago

Shortlisted in the Firefly Prize, "After the End Was the Beginning" by @sfreligh.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...