Thanks so much @natflashfictionday.bsky.social 🥰 So delighted to have a story nominated for the Pushcart Prize and another for Best Small Fictions! Such a boost and what great company to be in! Congrats to all my fellow nominees 👏

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

We are delighted to announce our National Flash Fiction Day Press nominations for the 2025 & 2026 NFFD seasons: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/20...

Wow! This packs such an emotional punch in so few words! 🌧️ Check out 'Their Time is not My Time' by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in #101Words

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖@nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 3w ago

"After writhing rain twists the motorway into a black eel. After prophetic rain heralds the doorbell. After the grandfather clock metronomes your absence." Thank you 101 Words for publishing my little tale. And to @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for shortlisting it. share.google/UG5gWq61eKuu...

'Unexpected Weather' - A stunner from @fionamckay.bsky.social in the 10th Anniversary edition of #GhostParachute Read it and never see your bins in the same way again!

Fiona McKay@fionamckay.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey, I have a story in the amazing 10th Anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute 😍 It’s about bins!! (And yes, it’s a metaphor!!) Thanks so much to @brettpribble.bsky.social and @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social for the amazing illustration ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

What brilliantly observed human/animal interactions in 'Primate Signalling' by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in the 10th Anniversary edition of #GhostParachute You want to look away but you can't! 🙈

Sara Hills@sarahillswrites.bsky.social · last wk.

Woohoo! It's a dream to be in Ghost Parachute w/ my weird little rhesus monkey story! Immense thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social for welcoming me into the 10th Anniversary issue w/ so many writers I admire, and thanks to Brett J Barr for the gorgeous artwork. ❤️❤️❤️ ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

The 10 Year Anniversary Issue of Ghost Parachute is here! Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

October 2026 Issue — Ghost Parachute

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Check out this classic @stillsquirrel.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social So worthy of joining the real-live Moxley 'eighty years’ worth of memorabilia kept behind the counter'! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 📰 💌 🖼️

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 3w ago

"I’d sashay in, like I used to when I was fifteen & ask in my huskiest voice for a waterbed repair kit. I’d make sure to look up at the security camera, give a sassy wave." @stillsquirrel.bsky.social deftly weaves in Moxley's Rentals, young love & a runaway bride newflashfiction.com/adam-stuart-...

Check out 'Springtime in Happyland' from @nffr.bsky.social This one will stick with you! I can't forget it. It's one of those! I shouldn't be surprised when it's the product of the mind of @sagreene1.bsky.social 🍫

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social · 3w ago

Don't be fooled by the optimism in that title, @sagreene1.bsky.social is about to take you on a dark and splendid journey... "To be fair Miss Kozlowski’s lovely smile had been skillfully preserved by whoever did the head." newflashfiction.com/springtime-i...

What? Is it this time already? The deadline for the latest £1400 prize fund BFFA is coming round again Closes Sun 4th Oct. Just under TWO weeks. For up to 300 word micros. All 50 longlisted writers are offered publication in our 2026 anthology. Results end Oct. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Colorful Neon Number 2

ALT: Colorful Neon Number 2

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SOOO excited to share Issue 42 - oh the places these writers will take you: Ali McLafferty, @stillsqquirrel.bsky.social @blakepierpoint.bsy.social @jekwriter.bsky.social @karenc.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @sagreene1.bsky.social & Sophie Purchase share.google/UHQWCirfupPP...

Issue 42: Stories Inspired by Photographs | New Flash Fiction Review

Featuring new flash fiction from Anika Carpenter, Karen Crawford, S.A. Greene, Jessica Klimesh, Kathryn Kulpa, Ali McLafferty, Blake Pierpoint, Sophie Purchase, and Brent Waggoner.

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Free flash fiction anthology. Download Ellipsis Zine twelve from our website here: ellipsis-zine.com/publications... 29 myths, legends and fairytales 1,000 words or fewer.

Web submissions are open for historical fiction. 14th-20th September, 1,000 words or fewer. The usual guidelines apply and can be found here: ellipsis-zine.com/submit

I'm excited for the next block of The NIFTY Book Club which will be starting soon! Great books, fantastic authors, and I can't wait 😄 📚 Mondays, 19:30-21:00 on zoom 📚 See link for details: www.laurabesley.com/nifty-book-c... #fiction #flashfiction #novellainflash #amwriting #writingcommunity

NIFTY Book Club | My Site

Book club for lovers of the novella-in-flash. Monthly meetings online.

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Wow, what tension! This piece is soooo alive! 🌈 Check out 'The Initiation' by @kateaxeford.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"They ricochet dares across the tracks. They roam in gangs; they hunt in packs. With their bleached jeans, shaved heads and Union Jacks, they sniff out prey. And tonight, it’s you." - Kate Axeford mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

FFF Competition Thirty-Five!

Free Flash Fiction@freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A date for your competition writing diary. FFF C35 closes at 10 pm on Tuesday 25th August. The judge for FFF Competition Thirty-Five will be Kate Axeford @kateaxeford.bsky.social #writingcompetitions #flashfiction Read the rules! All the info... freeflashfiction.com/current-comp...

Open for submissions of fiction with a word count of between 100-500 words. We want the odds socks that rock. Things that make you go hmmm. The shyly anarchic, the wisdom of fools, the absurd heartbreakers. www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/submissions

Join me once a month for an hour of art appreciation and writing time, and come away with 3 - 4 new drafts. Sign up here eepurl.com/i1v4GA for reminders, free writing prompts & art-related recommendations. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop #shortstories #flashfiction #poetry

Free micro fiction anthology. Download Ellipsis Zine Ten from our website here: ellipsis-zine.com/publications... 34 pieces of micro fiction 100 words or fewer.

Wow! What a worthy winner of the @welkinpress.bsky.social Body Prize by the inestimable @sarahillswrites.bsky.social 🎉 So much beautifully said, in 100 words! 👏

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

🫀🫁🦴 WINNER of the Body Prize, "Dear Walt Whitman" by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social A lyrical, emotionally taut gem of a micro in epistolary form: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Amazing to see this live! Huge congrats @sagreene1.bsky.social 👏 Check out 'An Inconvenient Woodcutter' performed by @margaretashleyvo.bsky.social at @liarsleague.bsky.social Unlike the woodcutter, you won't regret it! 🪓

Liars' League@liarsleague.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In this risque & revealing confession from #RedRidingHood's Grandma find out what happens when a #BigBadWolf meets an open-minded cougar. AN INCONVENIENT WOODCUTTER by @sagreene1.bsky.social read by @margaretashleyvo.bsky.social is Friday's frisky fairytale reboot ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7BW...

🐺Red Riding Hood's Grandma gets a raunch relaunch & a lupine lover in AN INCONVENIENT WOODCUTTER by @sagreene1.bsky.social read by Margaret Ashley #WomenAndGirls story 3 for #MURDERandMISCHIEF 🎟️THIS Tue 4 Aug 7.30 at The Phoenix W1 £5! #couplesgoals #RedRidingHood liarsleague.com/2026/07/21/w...

Wow! So much packed into this brilliant story by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @welkinpress.bsky.social The history & heartache, & the devastating details and rhythm of the breakdown of a tragedy. We get to see, hear and feel it all in just 100 words! Wow! 💔

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 2mo 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...

Shortlisted in the Firefly Prize, "The Oracle of All Wisdom" by @thisisguan.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

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An MA in Creative Writing is beyond many these days for many reasons but how to find out what to study to become a better writer? Join @andrewwille.bsky.social and me on 7th September and we will give you all the ingredients of a DIY MA. Link here. Please share.

Build Your Own Creative Writing MA - Andrew Wille Writing Studio - creative writing & book development

A practical guide to training yourself as a writerZoom seminar with Kit de Waal and Andrew WilleTuesday 8 September 2026, 7-8.15pm London, £25 Book The MA and the MFA are long-established pathways …

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That @naomialderman.bsky.social is so fucking brilliant. If you've found yourself falling out the reading habit, she has created a kind of Couch-to-5K of reading open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

let's do a 'couch to 5k' for reading

we're going to work ourselves back to good 'reading fitness' over the next eight weeks. come and join us.

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If Stanchion Magazine has ever meant anything to you, maybe you can help send it out on a high note? Issue 24, the penultimate edition of my lit zine, can be pre-ordered for just $10. Not bad considering I paid everyone in it & no one had to pay a fee to be read www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

FYAmusement, "Noise," if you're feeling in a weird mood: milkcandyreview.home.blog

Milk Candy Review

We're here for your beautifully weird flash fiction.

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

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Free micro fiction anthology. Download Ellipsis Zine Nine from our website here: ellipsis-zine.com/publications... 34 pieces of micro fiction, 350 words or fewer.

Website Update: Search functionality added, and author pages are linked from each piece. Click the author name to read their bio and any other work published. We have 150+ pieces uploaded from the archive so far, with new work published Mon, Wed & Fri. www.ellipsis-zine.com

Thrilled (& chilled) to reveal the winning stories for our Tue 4 Aug event at @ThePhoenix_W1: #WomenAndGirls - #MurderAndMischief! It's 50 years since the death of #AgathaChristie so steal a £5 Earlybird ticket for espionage, adultery, theft & heaps of homicide! liarsleague.com/2026/07/21/w...