Just pre-ordered my copy of @kiklodge.bsky.social's #flashfiction collection The Bully in My Pillow. Where… 'A man walks into a bar with an Erection Taser™ his girlfriend has made him wear. A Foley artist recreates the soundtrack of his splintered heart…’ Can’t wait, Kik! 🥰

Stanchion@stanchion.bsky.social · 4d ago

The doors to KikWorld™ open in 10 days. Get your ticket to enter this surreal, sublime, sexy & unsettling land today. @kiklodge.bsky.social @jeromefage.bsky.social www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

'He regretted how, as she lay on her back on the scaffolding, Heaven saw petticoats and pantaloons he did not.' Behold the Adam and Eve of Huntingfield by @karenwalker1204.bsky.social Love this smart, whimsical micro ❤️ www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

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Pie time!

Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 6d ago

@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social is open for submissions: Artwork for our cover and/or to accompany published pieces of fiction. Fiction with 6 sentences and no more than 400 words. gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/

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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This month's Art & Flash digestif, with art-inspired writing prompts and art-related recommendations, is here. 🔗 mailchi.mp/12b82164dce6...

Just got here. Hi! Please pop by over at The Disappointed Housewife, where you'll find wonderfully offbeat #fiction, #poetry, and #essays, along with a great community of #writers with a special take on things. thedisappointedhousewife.com

The Disappointed Housewife

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This month's Art & Flash digestif, with art-inspired writing prompts and art-related recommendations, is here. 🔗 mailchi.mp/12b82164dce6...

This Wed. I'm rerunning the workshop I took to the Flash Fiction Festival. Join me for 1 hr of art-inspired writing & come away with 3-4 new story ideas/poems/characters/scenes... £15 per individual session £10 per session for block bookings 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

The sky is cloudy from transatlantic wildfires. Outside the library a choir is singing Erasure’s Respect. #Brighton

This Wed. I'm rerunning the workshop I took to the Flash Fiction Festival. Join me for 1 hr of art-inspired writing & come away with 3-4 new story ideas/poems/characters/scenes... £15 per individual session £10 per session for block bookings 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

An extract of my contribution to the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social anthology no.8.

@sarahillswrites.bsky.social you hot, HOT chicken! Thank you for a @flashficfestuk.bsky.social workshop SO SEXY that it fed into pretty much every other workshop, including Heidi Clark's 'Make a Zine’. 🐓🫦 #flashfiction

Thank you for such a playful & inspiring @flashficfestuk.bsky.social workshop @susmitab.bsky.social. The collective river created feels real to me still & I’m looking forward to playing around with horde/hoard in the context of bees, flowers & otters that should've been beavers. 🙏 #flashfiction

Missing everyone and wishing I’d taken more than three photos at this year’s @flashficfestuk.bsky.social. Loved catching-up with @tiptreejen.bsky.social @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @fabwrites.bsky.social & meeting Ellen-Arwen Tristram. #flashfiction

My small, but perfectly formed, book hoard from this year’s @flashficfestuk.bsky.social #flashfiction #FFF2026 Excited to read Mother Karma @pleomorphic2.bsky.social 🥰

Join me next week for an Art & Flash session packed with confessions and illuminations. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop Mon. 11 am - 12 BST or Wed. 8 - 9 pm BST £15 per individual session £10 per session for block bookings 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

Evening Art & Flash sessions are moving from Monday to Wednesday nights. More details here - mailchi.mp/eb8fe3c2ea8a... #writingworkshop #ekphrastic #writingprompts #comtemporaryart

Both improv & @sagetyrtle.bsky.social are utterly brilliantly, creative and fun. Sign up if you want a writing boost. ✨

Sage Tyrtle@sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 3w ago

I've been improvising on stage for 16 years, and I'm enchanted by the ways improv borrows from the written page and vice versa. Join me for this #WritingWorkshop and learn tools from the stage to make your written scenes stronger: writingworkshops.com/products/imp...

‘He’s swept away suddenly. After a one-hour car journey became four. After two emergency toilet stops for their three- and six-year-olds, plus one more ...’ Gorgeous bittersweet #flashfiction Kyle as Kite by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/07/03/k...

Kyle as Kite

by James Montgomery HE’S SWEPT AWAY SUDDENLY. After a one-hour car journey became four. After two emergency toilet stops for their three- and six-year-olds, plus one more to refuel with bags of gia…

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Art & Flash - ekphrastic writing workshops 🌞SPECIAL SUMMER OFFER! 🌞 Book today and get £5 off July’s Art & Flash session. www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

An in-person workshop with Meg Pokrass!!! 😍 Wish I could make it it’ll be brilliant. #Edinburgh #flashfiction

Jupiter Jones@jupiterjonz.bsky.social · last mo.

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

I may have jumped the gun a little bit, but what are guns for if not for jumping... Anyway, entries are now OPEN for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!! Micros up to 100 words Free to enter Send UP TO TWO micros across FIVE categories Deadline 30th June www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

Block booking for Art & Flash is open! Book for July, Aug & Sep for £30 or July - December for £60. And/or see you in-person at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social July 17 -19 #Bristol UK 🤩 #ekphrastic #writingworkshop #flashfiction #poetry #creativewriting 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

Block booking for Art & Flash is open! Book for July, Aug & Sep for £30 or July - December for £60. And/or see you in-person at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social July 17 -19 #Bristol UK 🤩 #ekphrastic #writingworkshop #flashfiction #poetry #creativewriting 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

9 ladybirds 🐞 and 3 meadow browns in the garden yesterday.

👀Novella-in-Flash Writers! I've been invited by London Writers Salon to deliver this w/shop. If you want to add your/a NiF to my Recommended Reading list drop title & publisher in the comments. A great way to promote your work to a new audience. community.londonwriterssalon.com/c/interviews...

✍️ WORKSHOP: Get Started w/ Novella-in-Flash w/ Kathryn Alderidge-Morris | LWS Community

How can a series of very short pieces gather enough force to become a single, cohesive book? The novella-in-flash is one of the most exciting and flexible forms in contemporary fiction. Built from co...

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Some great courses on offer from @mattkendrick.bsky.social. Gather-up new pens like you’re heading back to school & grab a spot. They’re a wondrous workout 🧠

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

A Snow Globe on an Iceberg: World-building in short fiction We'll cover: anchoring and re-anchoring; foreground vs background details; distillation of details; sensory evocation; writing the weather www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

June’s Art & Flash Digestif is here. Click the link for clowns, cats, writing prompts & recommendations. #Ekphrastic #writingworkshop #writingprompts 🔗 tinyurl.com/v2na6pz6

Dancing Cat in a Suit with a Woman

Alt: Bjork dancing with a human-sized cat in the video for Triumph of the Heart.

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A brilliant piece of absurdist flash that taps into the feeling that we're all losing/have lost our heads. #flashfiction

hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Museum of Heads opened a long time ago. No one can say when. If they could, they would still have their heads..." Delightful new story on hex today! We offer you entrance to a dreamlike tour of "The Museum of Heads" by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece. 😙👇😛

Thank you to the @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social team and judges @taniahershman.bsky.social & Tim Saunders for giving my micro a place on the short list 🙏

National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand@natflashficdaynz.bsky.social · 2mo ago