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Karen Jones

@karjon.bsky.social

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Writer. Editor NFFD Anthology. BSSA Team Member. First prize Reflex Fiction, TSS Publishing, Flash 500. 2nd prize Fractured Lit micro. Shortlist Bath Flash/Short Story, To Hull and Back and many others. Scottish Indy supporter.

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Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · 2d

Dog sitting this gorgeous wee mad thing overnight. Beautiful Winnie.

Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · 4d

Many thanks to @bathflashaward.bsky.social for longlisting my wee story, and thanks to @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for shortlisting it. Huge congratulations to all the winners - looking forward to reading your stories.

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Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · 4d

You haven't lived until you've heard satnav trying to say Auchengeich.😂😂

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11d

Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include:

-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Google
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family

Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.

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Barbara Byar @barbarabyar.bsky.social · 13d

Thrilled to share the beautiful cover of my debut novel, IN THE DESERT, on sale 3-3-2026 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Many thanks to the brilliant photographer, Keith Bernstein for use of the stunning cover image and to Ashling Dennehy for the design.
I'm so excited!

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Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · 13d

A kids' book in time for Halloween from the ever brilliant @theburninghearth.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Farmer-Pumpk...

Farmer Ted's Pumpkin Patch

Farmer Ted's Pumpkin Patch [Malloy, Constance, Malloy, Hannah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Farmer Ted's Pumpkin Patch

www.amazon.com

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Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · Oct 2

Just found an email in spam inviting me to read at a book launch that I would definitely have said yes to. TUT! Stupid spam.

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Oxford Flash Fiction Prize @oxfordflashfiction.bsky.social · Oct 2

We are thrilled to announce our long-list for the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025!

Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and for all those who entered this round!

oxfordflashfictionprize.com/news/

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · Oct 1

If anyone knows folk who went to school with Nigel Farage I’d love to speak to them for an article and I’d protect their anonymity if they wished.

Do help pass this on please in the hope it reaches the right people. Thank you

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Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · Sep 27

I haven't watched South Park for years, but it's hilarious this season with their Trump/Vance stuff. How long until the big orange baby has them cancelled - or, ye know, imprisoned? Catch it before he does.

Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · Sep 9

Two guys playing tennis on the court beside ours took a break in their game for a cigarette. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · Aug 29

Stop it, Tesco - behave!

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Aug 27

“In poems, short stories, novel extracts, scripts & memoir, the writers in these pages have found their own distinctive ways of giving voice to what matters to them, & thereby spill some of the familiar, surprising, awkward, thrilling truths that make up who we are.”
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asls.org.uk/publications...

NWS 43: Introduction

Kirstin Innes and Chris Powici introduce New Writing Scotland 43. New Writing Scotland has a wide-open editorial policy, and we read each submission anonymously. It can create a lot of reading for our...

asls.org.uk

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Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · Aug 26

Chuffed to be in the New Writing Scotland anthology - and even happier to be there with friends @nivenaudrey.bsky.social and Elisabeth Ingram-Wallace.

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Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · Aug 25

It's that time of year again - off to Glasgow Clyde College to read some of my short stories and flash fiction to the illustration students. Can't wait to see what they come up with this year.

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · Aug 18

This story is REALLY Scottish. I also need to know now how to get that T shirt.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Aug 18

EXCLUSIVE: Police Scotland have responded after a viral social media video showed officers detaining a man for wearing a t-shirt in support of the stop-motion animated character Morph

Police Scotland respond as officers detain 'pro-plasticine' activist in viral video

www.thenational.scot

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Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · Aug 13

6. Or 1 when I've lost 6.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Aug 3

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · Jul 23

Ah, thank you. x

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · Jul 23

Is he trying to get people who look like 'foreigners' and deliver food attacked, assaulted, & racially abused? Because that's what that tweet does. I cannot believe it. Completely tone deaf. And entirely irresponsible.

Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer tweets:

We're cracking down on migrants working illegally as food delivery riders.

We'll share asylum accommodation locations with Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats so they can take action if riders are staying there.

We will do what it takes to ensure fairness for British people.

9:18 AM. Jul 23, 2025.

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Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thank you, Kathy - high praise indeed. x

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Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · Jul 22

Goodnight 😴

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Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social · Jul 22

Great to see you too, Eleanor.

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Emily Devane @devaneemily.bsky.social · Jul 22

Big thanks to everyone who joined me for my Lost & Found session at this year's #flashficfest. Pictured: some of your creepy friends... I loved hearing your own lost & found stories. Do keep sharing them with me. Many thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social for inviting me 🙏.

Collection of objects including a velvet toy cat, a tin featuring a hedgehog and hare sitting down to tea, a button, a plastic dinosaur, tiny plastic people, and more...

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