Stuart Cavet
@stuartcavet.bsky.social
✍️ writer & sometime lawyer ⚖️|🥈QuietManDave | HC FFF | SL Bridport Prize | LL SmokeLong 'Mikey', Bath, Farnham, Cranked Anvil | Debut novel, Something Kind Of Strange | 🚫No DMs https://www.amazon.com/author/stuartcavet
Thrilled to have my flash, A Near-Death Experience, in @shortbeasts.bsky.social ☺️ www.shortbeasts.com/flash-fictio...
A Near-Death Experience – Short Beasts
We are all deathly quiet but mum, at least, has an excuse. She’s got the machines to make noise on her behalf – the beeps and the breathing – and the doctors ar
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Some unexpected good news 😮
Free Flash Fiction@freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 3mo agoA round of applause, please... It is congratulations and commiserations time, as FFF and Free Flash Fiction are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty-Three Longlist... #writingcompetitions #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/competition-...
Atlantic Puffins — Jessica Eggers, 2026 Pen & ink, watercolor and gouache on paper www.instagram.com/p/DVh52RyiKs...
Our last day of micro spotlights and we have a triplet of treasures 🦝 We loved @stuartcavet.bsky.social 's take on parasitic behaviour, the surreal nature of this tight micro and how this unexpected parasite contemplates choice. Read and listen: trashcatlit.com/parasite/
Thrilled to be included in this fabulous edition of @trashcatlit.bsky.social ☺️
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 5mo agoShe is compact and gorgeously bijou - our March Mini Bin full of microfiction is now live 🦝 Dip in and out and enjoy sixteen tasty morsels. We'll be spotlighting each in the coming days. trashcatlit.com/march-mini-b...
She is compact and gorgeously bijou - our March Mini Bin full of microfiction is now live 🦝 Dip in and out and enjoy sixteen tasty morsels. We'll be spotlighting each in the coming days. trashcatlit.com/march-mini-b...
March Mini Bin 2026
We have sixteen fantastic microfictions in this inaugural Mini Bin issue. Click on the images to read. Stories with a HEADSET ICON have audio versions on their pagesYou can now scroll through the i…
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Teasing our upcoming March Mini Bin micro issue with these two crackers 🦝 @catherinebuck.bsky.social follows two boys into the woods and has us question who the monsters are @stuartcavet.bsky.social shows us what happens when something that should help us, chooses to help itself More teases later
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Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 5mo agoHere they are! Our sixteen Micro Binners! Their amazing smol works are coming on the 21st March. Be there! 🦝 @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social Ron Arbuckle @lmbayley.bsky.social Jesse Binger @catherinebuck.bsky.social @stuartcavet.bsky.social @travisflatt.bsky.social @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social 💜 1/2
Our next submission call is for the popular Prompted Stories. Get a set of prompts, chosen blind - write up to 500 words - all done within one month. The Prompt Generator is fired up on 1st April. Stay toooned 🦝 trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop... #submissioncalls
A tight drum roll, please... FFF and Free Flash Fiction are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty-Two Longlist... #flashfiction #writingcompetitions freeflashfiction.com/competition-...
Lots of last minute entries this evening! Well done to all those still subbing! Just under 3 hours to go!
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Submissions to our anthology (up to 500 words on the theme of BRIDGES) & our Microfiction comp (up to 100 words, no theme) are now OPEN until 15 Feb. Our anthology editors & judges are poised ready! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
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Are you 16–25 and love writing? Enter the Young Writer Award for a chance to win £500 and get published in the Bridport Prize anthology! Don’t forget to tick the age box when you submit. Enter now: bridportprize.org.uk/writers-room-categories/young-writer-award/ #YoungWriters
📝 Writers aged 60+, this is your moment! 📝 Win £500 as the highest-placed writer aged 60+ in our novel, short story, poetry, or flash fiction competitions—no separate entry needed. Just tick the box when you submit! Find out more: https://ow.ly/BMII50Y5k3r #NeverTooLate #WritingOpportunities
We have winners! The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest was a bear this year. So many excellent micros. These are our top 7 and will be published Monday in Issue 90! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest — The Winners! - SmokeLong Quarterly
Well that was difficult—and so rewarding. This time of year is always an avalanche of great flash. From August to December we read for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey), the SmokeLong Work...
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Just a little sketch from a visit to Southampton in 1998. I wandered around looking for something to draw and settled for a quick seascape of the docks with gulls. A cold wind coming off the water. #art #watercolour #drawing #seagulls
The long list for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 is here! Congratulations and thank you to all who entered. The judging has been and continues to be extremely tough. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
Longlisted and it feels so good! ☺️https://www.smokelong.com/the-smokelong-grand-micro-contest-the-long-list-2/
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest – The Long List - SmokeLong Quarterly
We were thrilled by the response to this year’s Grand Micro Contest, now an annual competition. Our judges—twelve of them from all over the world—read more than 1300 entries, and we are grateful for t...
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If you write or read flash fiction ( or entered Comp 30 ), FFF recommend you read the brilliant... FFF Competition Thirty Judge's Report by Nish X. Hegde. @nishxhegde.bsky.social #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #writingcompetitions freeflashfiction.com/fff-competit...
FFF Competition Thirty Judge’s Report by Nish X. Hegde | Free Flash Fiction
FFF Competition Thirty Judge's Report by Nish X. Hegde 26th November 2025 Introduction: Being invited to contribute to this competition is a true honour. I feel fortunate to have encount...
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We are currently open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction. Please click on the link for our guidelines #MicroMonday #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...
Honoured that @nishxhegde.bsky.social saw something commendable in my submission, and my thanks to Ian at @freeflashfiction.bsky.social for hosting this terrific competition and sharing my piece with FFF’s readers 🙏
Free Flash Fiction@freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 9mo agoAs chosen by Judge Nish X. Hegde @nishxhegde.bsky.social FFF Competition Thirty Highly Commended: Sap by Stuart Cavet @stuartcavet.bsky.social #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #shortfiction #fiction #writing #writingcompetitions freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
Woohoo! Longlisted … ☺️ bsky.app/profile/free...
Free Flash Fiction@freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 9mo agoA drum roll, please... FFF are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty Longlist... Thank you to all who entered C30. #writingcompetitions #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/competition-...
Enter our flash #fiction competition to win a cash prize + your story published in our winter issue. We're open to entries from anyone and we're awfully friendly so don't be shy 😊. Deadline for entries is 26th October. See link for full competition rules and to enter: penstricken.com/competitions
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Competitions Winter 2025 Flash Fiction Competition Subtext: the delicate art of saying one thing while meaning another. It’s also one of those things that separates good writing from exceptio…
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Thrilled to have my entry long listed by the Farnham Flash Fiction Competition! ☺️ www.flashfiction500.com/2025-flash-f...
Farnham Flash Fiction 500 International Competion Longlist - July 2024
Enter the Farnham Flash Fiction competition 2025 to win one of prizes or a special prize of £25 for stories featuring Farnham. Deadline Feb 1 2025
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Muted in an array of greys and browns, Edward Seago's picture (1952) was painted from the north bank of the River Thames in London, on the mud flats of Chelsea Reach looking towards Lots Road Power Station, Fulham Power station is on the left.
What should you do today? Why, submit to Thin Skin, of course!
