JP Relph - TWO NEW COLLECTIONS OUT
@therelphian.bsky.social
Cumbrian writer. Loves cats, tea, apocalypses and dark botany. Noms for Pushcart, BOTN, Best Small Fics and Best Microfics, Wigleaf longlisted All print publications on Amazon Website, socials and stuff: https://linktr.ee/JPRelph
My copy arrived today but sadly a chunk of my story is missing, the last 100 words. I'm still looking forward to reading the other flash in here, but proper gutted about mine 😢
@flashficfestuk.bsky.social · last mo.The Flash Fiction Anthology Vol eight and the BFFA anthology Vol 10, How to Fold a World Map back from the printers and ready to go to the festival where they’ll be launched with readings & given to contributors attending. We’re posting off the others
Was lucky enough to do some guest reading for this call, and sweet baby Jesus up a tree, what a selection. Silvery lichen and scarlet waxcaps; taproots and daisy chains; ferns, herbs and heathland marsh. All rolled up into folklore, domestic drama and dystopia. And a wee bit of murder.
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · last mo.It's HEEEEEERE - our sixth seasonal issue for Summer 🦝 Twelve marvellous short fictions bringing plantife to the bin 🌳 Grab a cuppa tea or a frothy whatchamacallit and get stuck into these treasures. trashcatlit.com/general-issu...
Last call for our 'Still Hungry' short story anthology -- 500 to 2000 words on the theme of 'hunger'. Subs close midnight tonight (BST). Guidelines here: urbanpigspress.co.uk/contact/
Submissions
Submissions are now open for… Still Hungry A charity Anthology Please make sure you read the guidelines on the link below before submitting! Thank you. Urban Pigs Press has EXTENDED its submi…
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Now this here is a damn STORY. Cinematic, tense, funny, tragic. Go read. Its dust is on fire 🔥 “I socked him in the mouth at eighty percent, remembering the time he saved me in the creek, when I got tangled in the reeds.”
Ian Johnson@youcanandyouwill.bsky.social · 2mo agoSome dusty Americana from me, back in the brilliant @mrbullbull.bsky.social (thanks to equally brilliant @thedrevlow.bsky.social). Early Springsteen meets Making a Murderer. Home is where the hurt is🐔
The Green Bin is looking to be fed trees and plants and fungi and landscape and flowers and all things green! Send your leafy, soily treasures 💚
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Green Bin is now OPEN for subs of flash and short fiction until 14th June 🦝 Make sure to check out our mood board to see what we'd love to read. trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/ Sub guidelines and form: trashcatlit.com/general-subm... We can't wait to wallow in all your green 💚
We talked to Jp Relph about all things Trash Cat Lit, including, a story that blew her mind. More here: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/101429...
This is blumming fabulous, full of rebellion and little regret. Sample a bit of French oral and enjoy Gill’s masterful wordage 🌟
Gill O'Halloran@quickasaflash.bsky.social · 2mo agoThanks @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social for publishing this one. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/fla...
I have a strange, sexy, soulful story up with the amazing Hawkeye mag today. Love gone dark and a little feral. Maybe avoid if you’re bothered in any way by rats 🖤🐀 hawkeyemag.com/stories/relp...
Once Bitten
The first time I was bitten, it was my fault. Bad workday, bad life day. I watched true crime in bed, devoured a packet of cherry chocolate cookies. Fell asleep side-slumped, arm dangling, fingers sti...
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Much of this darkly funny cracker will be so relatable, some of it joyfully less so… “The hellbound colleagues exchanged a cordial nod. Nchulu wondered if he enjoyed racket sports outside of work.” Go read, it’s Helluva entertaining 🖤👹
Ian Johnson@youcanandyouwill.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy first Villain Era outing (thanks @charlesjensen.bsky.social) - demons, ennui, and workplace grievances. See you in hell?
Lovely to see my flash popping up for Women’s Fiction Wednesday over at Micromance Magazine💕 Give my version of a love story for the ages a read of you have a few minutes. Don’t worry, it’s not zombies… micromancemagazine.substack.com/p/a-love-that-…
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They are all SO good, what else you going to do today? Stay in your PJs, grab the snack of your choice, and just read 😌
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnd just like that, the Spring Prompted Stories Pop-Up is available for your reading pleasure 🦝 Nineteen imaginative and creative flash created from prompts. We love it, you'll love, go get it 💜 trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto... 1/3
Stunning as always, I’m thrilled to be back in Divinations 💕Check out my story ‘Teeth’ - it’s sexy and bitey and all kinds of dangerous. Then read the rest of this stellar issue 🌟 divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-6-crav...
Teeth by JP Relph
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Divinations Magazine ✨️@divinationsmag.bsky.social · 3mo ago❤️ Issue 6: Craving is finally here to pull you into a world of hunger, obsession, and desire gone rotten. It's full of haunting fiction and poetry, available in web format and PDF! 🔗 divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-6-craving
A smashing collection of writer folks. Looking forward to sharing this issue 💜
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 3mo agoTHEY'RE HEEEEERE! 🦝 Our 18 contributors to the upcoming Prompted Stories issue for Spring. A delicious mix of existing and new Trash Family. We can't wait to share their stories... @madeleinewrite.bsky.social rj cannon, Clara Cooke @meanerharker.bsky.social @adlibby.bsky.social 1/3
This is the new baby in the house. Her name is Ginger and she’s making friends with Joanie (Mary will be a slower process 😬) 🩶
Submissions are now open (a couple of hours early), until May 22! Issue 7: DECEPTION and DIRTY REALISM We’re looking for work that is gritty, unflinching, raw. Think gritty noir and kitchen sink realism. The underbelly of contemporary life. 🔗 forms.gle/rfX3nyUnRMwD...
If you like your fiction cinematic and with unfolding tension and layers of emotion - get your chops round this one from @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social. It will discombobulate you and mess with your sense of right and wrong. Brutal and unnerving and very British 🖤
MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 4mo ago"The day six version of him was an ugly puddle of a man—his shattered knees spreading, his severed nubs flexing, The sting to him had returned, his scheming soul looking to grab, his sawdust compassion dried to a sneering paste." @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
The Genny is spitting out wonderful groups of prompts already. Get on it before Monday eve so you can write and submit 😀
Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt has begun! The Prompt Generator is now on until 6th April. Get your prompts and start percolating story ideas. Subs open on the 21st April. That's Trash Cat's prompted stories challenge - have a go! 🦝 Get prompted here: trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop... #submissioncalls #litsubmissions
I'm chuffed to bits to have a wee one in @paragraphplanet.bsky.social😊 The @trashcatlit.bsky.social micro issue inspired me so much to try and write smol. I like it! paragraphplanet.com
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A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map
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A nostalgia tinged carnal whodunnit from me with funky outlet HAWKEYE (not of this parish but great stuff in their virtual pages - check em out!) hawkeyemag.com/stories/john...
After the orgy, the Inquest
So, it was me, Bella, Frieda, Alice, Tom, and Jay in the bedroom where they kept the coats at my cousin’s twenty-first birthday party. That’s a lot of potential horny masterminds to plow through, but ...
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This is such a cool issue full of brevity and skill. Go on, have a wee one 😍
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...
Thrifted this beautiful hand painted tile today - which originated in Minnesota - and I think it was meant to be 🤍🖤
Wow, so blown away by this fantastic news. Congrats also to Jenny and @noranadj.bsky.social 🌟🌟 Thank you to everyone at The Prize Roars for this 💜
Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos@delgeo14.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe are delighted to announce our Highly Commended stories Congratulations to Jenny Kingsley Emem, JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social & Nora Nadjarian @noranadj.bsky.social Thank you @saloneurope.bsky.social for gifting the writers with a 1-month membership🥰 theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/03/flas...
Forgot to celebrate the one-year anniversary of my cheery train-in-a-geological-hellscape story appearing in @unchartedmag.bsky.social but let's do it now instead, what's a couple of weeks between hellscape enjoyers: www.unchartedmag.com/stories/by-t...
By Train Through the Actinic Mountains - Uncharted
A carriage, exposed and burning at the foot of a sheer silver peak. Sunlight, intense sunlight. Smoke. Stillness. Blood. No movement. Then: a solitary figure moving away, stumbling from shadow into li...
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Bought for Trash Cat fave, @mrallanmiller.bsky.social , looking forward to finding lots more to laugh with - it’s sorely needed these days 😌 @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
Chuffed to bits to be hanging in there 😀
The Pride Roars@theprideroars.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe're delighted to announce the Shortlist for our inaugural Flash Competition. Thank you again to all who sent their beautiful work our way. Find the shortlisted titles on our blog: theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/03/flas...
