Jaime Gill
@jaimegill.bsky.social
Brit writer in Cambodia. I work, write, read, run, box, sometimes socialise. www.jaimegill.com
Published in Trampset, Fractured, Litro, Blue Earth, NFFR & more.
Bridport, Luminaire & New Millennium Writing winner, Bath, Fractured & Smokelong finalist.
Published in Trampset, Fractured, Litro, Blue Earth, NFFR & more.
Bridport, Luminaire & New Millennium Writing winner, Bath, Fractured & Smokelong finalist.
Writing news so thrilling I'm in shock 3 days later. The Missouri Review has accepted one of my stories. They are my dreamiest dream publication with an incredible history: I’ll share a byline with idols like Ursula K Le Guin & Annie Proulx. I'm especially thrilled because it’s a very personal story
November 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Writing news so thrilling I'm in shock 3 days later. The Missouri Review has accepted one of my stories. They are my dreamiest dream publication with an incredible history: I’ll share a byline with idols like Ursula K Le Guin & Annie Proulx. I'm especially thrilled because it’s a very personal story
So proud my story The Hate Baby is shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. There’s a slim chance of a prize but better yet it’ll appear in one of their gorgeous anthologies. Thank you
@aestheticamagazine.com.web.brid.gy - and @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for giving it its first home
@aestheticamagazine.com.web.brid.gy - and @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for giving it its first home
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
So proud my story The Hate Baby is shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. There’s a slim chance of a prize but better yet it’ll appear in one of their gorgeous anthologies. Thank you
@aestheticamagazine.com.web.brid.gy - and @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for giving it its first home
@aestheticamagazine.com.web.brid.gy - and @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for giving it its first home
See, I can keep secrets! I won the Sand Hills Prose Contest in Feb but waited until now to reveal it. Its for People You May Know, my hymn to friendship and lament for its loss, a personal favourite of mine. Sadly it’s not online but you could order the mag. Look at the cover! sandhillsmagazine.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
See, I can keep secrets! I won the Sand Hills Prose Contest in Feb but waited until now to reveal it. Its for People You May Know, my hymn to friendship and lament for its loss, a personal favourite of mine. Sadly it’s not online but you could order the mag. Look at the cover! sandhillsmagazine.com
Oyster River Pages really are wonderful champions for writers and are nominating one of my most beloved (and long) stories, Black Sky, Blue Earth for a 2026 Pushcart Prize - an incredible honour, given the calibre of writers they publish. So grateful www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Oyster River Pages really are wonderful champions for writers and are nominating one of my most beloved (and long) stories, Black Sky, Blue Earth for a 2026 Pushcart Prize - an incredible honour, given the calibre of writers they publish. So grateful www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...
EEEEK! Me and @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social wrote a story together and now it’s in the shortlist of 10 for the 10th anniversary of the Bournemouth Writing Prize. There were a 1000 entries so it’s a huge honour. Wish us luck! thebournemouthjournal.com/selection/
November 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
EEEEK! Me and @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social wrote a story together and now it’s in the shortlist of 10 for the 10th anniversary of the Bournemouth Writing Prize. There were a 1000 entries so it’s a huge honour. Wish us luck! thebournemouthjournal.com/selection/
BEEP BEEP! This new very short story is a voicenote from a man whose brain is slowly disintegrating amid a zombie apocalypse, but really it’s about loving people & trying to remember them. It’s in the debut issue of ace new genre-blurring magazine Neon and Smoke www.neonandsmoke.com/issue-1/befo...
October 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
BEEP BEEP! This new very short story is a voicenote from a man whose brain is slowly disintegrating amid a zombie apocalypse, but really it’s about loving people & trying to remember them. It’s in the debut issue of ace new genre-blurring magazine Neon and Smoke www.neonandsmoke.com/issue-1/befo...
This story’s a big deal to me for many reasons. It was my first collaboration with my friend @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social who wrote most, making it so intricate & gorgeous. Its in a dream title, @fracturedlit.bsky.social. And I love love love it. Maybe you will too?
fracturedlit.com/before-the-e...
fracturedlit.com/before-the-e...
October 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This story’s a big deal to me for many reasons. It was my first collaboration with my friend @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social who wrote most, making it so intricate & gorgeous. Its in a dream title, @fracturedlit.bsky.social. And I love love love it. Maybe you will too?
fracturedlit.com/before-the-e...
fracturedlit.com/before-the-e...
More writing news! So happy my 1950s gay romance - All These Things I’ve Never Done - has won 1st place for short story in the Yeovil Arts contest. Maybe my gentlest story & happiest, & I love the judges comments. I work hard at my understatement!
Read here: www.henshawpress.co.uk/september-20...
Read here: www.henshawpress.co.uk/september-20...
October 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
More writing news! So happy my 1950s gay romance - All These Things I’ve Never Done - has won 1st place for short story in the Yeovil Arts contest. Maybe my gentlest story & happiest, & I love the judges comments. I work hard at my understatement!
Read here: www.henshawpress.co.uk/september-20...
Read here: www.henshawpress.co.uk/september-20...
More new awards I hope editors consider. The Monarch Queer Literary Awards - with a range of options for editors to nominate writers for, including short fiction, non-fiction, poetry etc. Stories don't have to be directly queer as long as the writers are. Accepting noms until November. monarch.gay
September 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
More new awards I hope editors consider. The Monarch Queer Literary Awards - with a range of options for editors to nominate writers for, including short fiction, non-fiction, poetry etc. Stories don't have to be directly queer as long as the writers are. Accepting noms until November. monarch.gay
"I'd put our stories against the biggest publications out there. Case in point, Jaime Gill's "Black Sky, Blue Earth". A man lost in space, a planet past the point of peril, and a heart that can't let go." By the Oyster River fiction editor. I love them.
www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...
www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...
September 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
"I'd put our stories against the biggest publications out there. Case in point, Jaime Gill's "Black Sky, Blue Earth". A man lost in space, a planet past the point of peril, and a heart that can't let go." By the Oyster River fiction editor. I love them.
www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...
www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...
Honoured to have my story Two Taxi Rides picked out for reprinting in McQueens Quinterly, a wonderful journal. This story’s had an interesting journey. Many rejection, then published by Fiction Attic, picked up an award and has now been reprinted 3 times. www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ30/Gill-...
September 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Honoured to have my story Two Taxi Rides picked out for reprinting in McQueens Quinterly, a wonderful journal. This story’s had an interesting journey. Many rejection, then published by Fiction Attic, picked up an award and has now been reprinted 3 times. www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ30/Gill-...
The Smashing Pumpkins in their early incarnation were incredibly cool precisely because they were so aggressively uncool. And because even if you put them into identical silver suits they still looked like they were from 4 different bands who’d been flung together in a scheduling mishap
September 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The Smashing Pumpkins in their early incarnation were incredibly cool precisely because they were so aggressively uncool. And because even if you put them into identical silver suits they still looked like they were from 4 different bands who’d been flung together in a scheduling mishap
This makes me so happy I could cry. Black Sky, Blue Earth - my aching story about climate collapse & personal rebirth - is the lead story in this year’s @oysterriverpages.bsky.social. It has a lot of my soul in it. Please read it & all of Oyster River’s work
www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...
www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...
September 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This makes me so happy I could cry. Black Sky, Blue Earth - my aching story about climate collapse & personal rebirth - is the lead story in this year’s @oysterriverpages.bsky.social. It has a lot of my soul in it. Please read it & all of Oyster River’s work
www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...
www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...
An out-of-the-blue and thrilling contest win. My climate dystopia following refugees fleeing a boiling China for cooler Siberia has won the Grand Prize in the Read Book Hive contest.
www.readbookhive.com/contest
www.readbookhive.com/contest
September 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
An out-of-the-blue and thrilling contest win. My climate dystopia following refugees fleeing a boiling China for cooler Siberia has won the Grand Prize in the Read Book Hive contest.
www.readbookhive.com/contest
www.readbookhive.com/contest
Lots of news incoming, but the biggest may be I won the Luminaire Prose award - organised by @altcurrent.bsky.social -
(same crew behind Best Small Fictions). Hundreds of entries, including published… and Things To Talk To Jim About came out top. I am SO HONOURED.
thecoilmag.com/announcement...
(same crew behind Best Small Fictions). Hundreds of entries, including published… and Things To Talk To Jim About came out top. I am SO HONOURED.
thecoilmag.com/announcement...
September 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Lots of news incoming, but the biggest may be I won the Luminaire Prose award - organised by @altcurrent.bsky.social -
(same crew behind Best Small Fictions). Hundreds of entries, including published… and Things To Talk To Jim About came out top. I am SO HONOURED.
thecoilmag.com/announcement...
(same crew behind Best Small Fictions). Hundreds of entries, including published… and Things To Talk To Jim About came out top. I am SO HONOURED.
thecoilmag.com/announcement...
I don’t think I’ve announced an acceptance before… but then I’ve never been accepted by The Forge. This is a very big deal for me. I revere the stories they publish & have besieged them with mine for 18 months. They finally cracked. “Ghosted” will appear in Jan 2025. Thank you @theforge.bsky.social!
September 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I don’t think I’ve announced an acceptance before… but then I’ve never been accepted by The Forge. This is a very big deal for me. I revere the stories they publish & have besieged them with mine for 18 months. They finally cracked. “Ghosted” will appear in Jan 2025. Thank you @theforge.bsky.social!
I’m a cover girl! And my award-winning story the lead in this months Martial Arts Magazine! Surreal!
"Jaime’s story masterfully interweaves the harsh realities of Kun Khmer competition with intimate family dynamics, creating a powerful narrative about finding purpose through combat sport."
"Jaime’s story masterfully interweaves the harsh realities of Kun Khmer competition with intimate family dynamics, creating a powerful narrative about finding purpose through combat sport."
August 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I’m a cover girl! And my award-winning story the lead in this months Martial Arts Magazine! Surreal!
"Jaime’s story masterfully interweaves the harsh realities of Kun Khmer competition with intimate family dynamics, creating a powerful narrative about finding purpose through combat sport."
"Jaime’s story masterfully interweaves the harsh realities of Kun Khmer competition with intimate family dynamics, creating a powerful narrative about finding purpose through combat sport."
I’ve been writing for 2 years and while my stories have mostly appeared online (great as I can share them) some have also ended up in beautiful (planet destroying) print. I’ll have a whole book to myself one day. But for now this is still a long-held dream I can touch. I suppose that means it’s real
August 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I’ve been writing for 2 years and while my stories have mostly appeared online (great as I can share them) some have also ended up in beautiful (planet destroying) print. I’ll have a whole book to myself one day. But for now this is still a long-held dream I can touch. I suppose that means it’s real
So, two things are true about me and the NYC Midnight contest. I am doing very badly in 2025. And all of my horror stories so far have performed poorly. So... obviously I am entering this.
August 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
So, two things are true about me and the NYC Midnight contest. I am doing very badly in 2025. And all of my horror stories so far have performed poorly. So... obviously I am entering this.
With 2025 being, on multiple fronts, the worst year of my lifetime, it’s important to look for the little joys. Only T-Rex/Marc Bolan fans will understand why this pop-up warning from my Cambodian online bank warning against scams on the Telegram message app brought me SUCH JOY
August 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
With 2025 being, on multiple fronts, the worst year of my lifetime, it’s important to look for the little joys. Only T-Rex/Marc Bolan fans will understand why this pop-up warning from my Cambodian online bank warning against scams on the Telegram message app brought me SUCH JOY
An infrequent reminder that I do have a life outside of writing. Here I am in the mountains of Uzbekistan, making the most of my 16 hour gap between flights.
August 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
An infrequent reminder that I do have a life outside of writing. Here I am in the mountains of Uzbekistan, making the most of my 16 hour gap between flights.
Please read The Drinking Game. Not because my interactive, autofictional #alcoholism story won the Subnivean Fiction Award. Because it’s probably unlike anything you’ve read before (it’s half story, half game) and might madden & enlighten you. Go on. Just one drink
www.subnivean.org/post/copy-of...
www.subnivean.org/post/copy-of...
June 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Please read The Drinking Game. Not because my interactive, autofictional #alcoholism story won the Subnivean Fiction Award. Because it’s probably unlike anything you’ve read before (it’s half story, half game) and might madden & enlighten you. Go on. Just one drink
www.subnivean.org/post/copy-of...
www.subnivean.org/post/copy-of...
Horror writing news! For 18 months I have sent stories to Elegant - a great mag for emerging writers. I’ve been featured twice and won prizes 7 times - hence the cover collage below. My last submission (Im ineligible now, no longer “emerging”) is Peekaboo, right here: elegantliterature.com/magazine/
May 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Horror writing news! For 18 months I have sent stories to Elegant - a great mag for emerging writers. I’ve been featured twice and won prizes 7 times - hence the cover collage below. My last submission (Im ineligible now, no longer “emerging”) is Peekaboo, right here: elegantliterature.com/magazine/
Brand new flash! This won second in Flash Fiction Magazine's quarterly contest and is about how tattoos chronicle a life. The main character resembles me (Northerner, Prince fan, traveller, quarter Scottish) but is a parallel dimension version. Thankfully.
flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/05...
flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/05...
May 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Brand new flash! This won second in Flash Fiction Magazine's quarterly contest and is about how tattoos chronicle a life. The main character resembles me (Northerner, Prince fan, traveller, quarter Scottish) but is a parallel dimension version. Thankfully.
flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/05...
flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/05...
Honoured that this story - inspired by a news article on a tiny Greek island and the refugees who were risking their life to get to it - was the winner of the Friction Flash Prize. Half the winnings were donated to the UK’s Refugee Council, where I used to volunteer: frictionlit.org/waves-fall-o...
May 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Honoured that this story - inspired by a news article on a tiny Greek island and the refugees who were risking their life to get to it - was the winner of the Friction Flash Prize. Half the winnings were donated to the UK’s Refugee Council, where I used to volunteer: frictionlit.org/waves-fall-o...