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Jack Morris

@jackmmorris.bsky.social

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All round jolly good, queer, egg. Writes a bit, reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) Editor: https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/ @neitherfishnorfoul.com my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · Oct 19

Can I tell you a secret? My least favourite part of NFNF is the publicity. I’ve told everyone how great it is, so it feels like nagging to tell you again.

If you all just subscribed we could stop this right now.

It is PROPERLY amazing, mind you 😉

www.neitherfishnorfoul.com

Neither Fish Nor Foul | Online Fiction Magazine

Neither Fish Nor Foul, short stories, flash fiction, online literary magazine for the almost and the in-between, weird and wonderful, for playful, polished prose.

www.neitherfishnorfoul.com

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 10h

😂😂 I have to write everything in my calendar these days so I don’t miss something … and even then it’s tricky.

Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 11h

Obsessed with this

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 11h

The Fox Brides of Hookland folklore are more than a placing the witch as a transforming thing, as shapeshifting seductress. They are a powerful linking of her power to woods and wild places; they are a fear-telling of ferality, her place outside society’s rigid structures. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 11h

Keith Johnstone’s Impro was my bible at Uni - for life and for acting.

Just discovered this other text exists and already getting that same trembly, OMG! feeling on opening it.

Close up of Impro for Storytellers by Keith Johnstone. Grey cover, writing at bottom, image above of a tribe of (African?) people watching someone who looks as if they are telling a great story

Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 11h

No. Well, yes. Hang on. I got the first audition for this and am waiting to hear for the one I went to last Sunday 😂😂

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 12h

This is the most technical show I’ve ever been in - the back stage crew are ASTOUNDING. And now I know what fake blood tastes like 🫣 (sweet, as it happens).

Anyhow, 7th - 15 November, Brighton. If you’re passing

newventure.org.uk/index.php/wh...

Kill Local - Nov 2025

newventure.org.uk

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Makes sense! I definitely do add description but only if I think it’s vital - which I think is maybe the positive spin on the above. I don’t want anyone to think it’s okay to skim it!

Ironically, structure and form is the bit it’s taken me the longest to master

Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so interesting, isn’t it? How that might impact our writing too

Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Words. Even if I get descriptions given me I don’t ‘see’ a character or setting (often skim descriptions unless they offer clues to meaning). I do have a visual imagination but not via the written word. More into plot (figuring out what it all means). Or the sound of the words.

And you?

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 1d

I always find this fascinating -- I know @louiestowell.bsky.social and @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social have hosted conversations here/back in Twitter about how we experience reading differently, and maybe it's time for another one 🤗

What happens when you read? Is it pictures, words? Is there colour?

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 1d

(it's not entirely frivolous, I find it really hard to create mental images, so most literary characters exist for me as a sort of floating word cloud)

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

Babe, come over, we’re wrestling the greasy pigs of our own unreason

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

This lid is a five alarm fire, for example, and Labour is still pushing ahead with new runways. Folly.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 3d

🤞🤞🤞 audition was fun, anyhow. Most critical audience you’ll ever have, other auditionees 😂 but everyone was lovely

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 3d

Just got out of another audition. Course the trouble is I go in all blase and come out wanting it. It’s another corker of a play. Buggerit.

My fate is in the lap of the delightful directors and their vision now … dum dum duuuuumm 🎶

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 3d

Wooo hooo!

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Jupiter Jones @jupiterjonz.bsky.social · 11d

How fabulous is this?!

Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social · 13d

My story projected onto the Fremantle Port Authority building at Fremantle Harbour as part of the inaugural Totally Lit Festival. So proud! Loved seeing all the micros projected into beautiful Walyalup for this gorgeous celebration of storytelling

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 3d

And very well deserved 😘

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Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social · 17d

Congratulations to @jupiterjonz.bsky.social !
Looking forward to reading this piece from this brilliant writer.

Toby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social · 17d

We have our winning entry and runners up for the @unisouthampton.bsky.social Philip Hoare Prize for Non-Fiction -

Congratulations to Jupiter Jones.

philiphoarecompetition.co.uk/results/

Results

We are delighted to announce the winner and runners up for the first Philip Hoare Prize for Non-Fiction. Winner: ‘Hopeful Glimmer’ by Jupiter Jones. Jupiter Jones lives in Wales and wri…

philiphoarecompetition.co.uk

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 3d

Well that’s rather lovely 👏👏👏👏

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 5d

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

www.smokelong.com

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 6d

The tangled dead, root-pulled from above and below, feel scratches upon long vanished, phantom flesh. Their fancy houses have become cells where they wait on visitors who never come. Necropolis bounded and more than half-forgotten, many of them ache for hell. – #CLNolan

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 9d

Aw this is fabulously written but … ouch … xx

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 10d

Feel like I have been too much in the world lately. Lovely, of course, but now it’s time to draw my horns in, read more, stare pensively into where the fire would be if I could ever be arsed to get the chimney swept.

Maybe, maybe, time to pick up a pen …

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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 19d

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 11d

Right back at you! Bubble’s all round!

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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 12d

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 3, 2025: #TANGLE

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Drawing in white ink against a dark grayish-blue background of an octopus with unrealistically long arms curling round and tangling up with each other.

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Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you! Am a bit stunned right now …

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