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Marie Gethins
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Flashy Writer, Workshop Leader, Critiques, Flash Editor Banshee, Co-editor Splonk; Best Microfictions, Best Small Fictions, Hawthornden Fellow
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So happy to have a wee story in this issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social Thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social @mariegethins.bsky.social and the team, and congrats to all the other contributors 🥳
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Thank you for all your hard work, Laura! It's an honor to be published by @fictivedream.bsky.social again.
#fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Subs for the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day anthology & micro comp are now open, closing 15 Feb. Please repost for #FlashFiction friends.
natflashfictionday.bsky.social National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 7d
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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December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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ICYMI we're open for submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations. Please click on the link for our guidlesines #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Honoured to be this year's @bridportprize.bsky.social flash fiction judge! Send me your word-shapes of 250 words & under, the pieces you think only you might love, that might be “too strange” or “not quite enough…” There are no rules! bridportprize.org.uk/the-competit... #flashfiction
Screenshot of the Meet the Judges page from the Bridport Prize with a black and white photograph of a woman with very short hair grinning, and the following text: "Tania Hershman Flash Fiction Judge Line Break Tania Hershman is a queer writer of odd things, the author of three collections of short stories and flash fiction, four books of poetry and two hybrid books. Tania’s creative-non-fiction hybrid book on Time is forthcoming from Guillemot Press. Tania is editor of Fuel: An Anthology of First-Prize-Winning Flash Fictions Raising Funds to Fight Fuel Poverty, offers monthly writing prompts/provocations/exercises through Unbox Your Words – Give Yourself Permission to Play on Substack, and has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle physics.  www.taniahershman.com Instagram: @tania_hershman_writes “What I am always looking for is a voice that grabs me right from the first words so that I have no choice but to carry on reading. This might be a character, or a narrator, but what I want is freshness of language. No need for long fancy words or complicated plots, just write what only you can write in the way you want to write it. And send me the pieces you think only you might love, that might be “too strange” or “not quite enough…” There are no rules!” Tania Hershman, Flash Fiction Judge What I wish someone had told me when I was starting out: That everyone does it differently, this writing thing. That there definitely isn’t “one way” to write, and that each writer probably has more than one way. You find what works for you, and no-one else can tell you what you “should” or “shouldn’t” do. There are no rules! When I’m stuck, this is what helps me move forward: I don’t ever think of myself as “stuck”, I call it a “creative pause”, and for me that really is how it feels. I don’t write every day, sometimes a few weeks will go by. I let it be, I don’t feel bad about it. I feed myself – by reading, watching TV, films, going for a walk. "
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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This is out in January and still would be grateful if anyone wants to pitch a review or interview for it!
pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · Sep 22
I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
The cover of Every Galaxy a Circle by Chloe N. Clark.
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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New Ghost Parachute! Kudos, @brettpribble.bsky.social!

Author tags in the comments!
November 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute
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November 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Join us tomorrow night in your living room for the 3nd launch of The Storms, Issue V ⚡️

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The Storms, Issue V. The Zoom launch
Get ready for the fifth installment of The Storms series as we launch Issue V on Zoom - it's gonna be a wild ride!
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November 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Brighten up your November with a prose poetry workshop! Please share....

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carrieetter.bsky.social Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social · Oct 28
I'll be running my most generative workshop, on prose poetry series and sequences, online 7-9:30 p.m. GMT, on November 16 and 24th. Interested? Email me at carrie.etter at gmail dot com for more information.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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One of my favorite (and FREE!) contests is opening soon…

Get those 100 words ready!!!
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welkinprize.bsky.social The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · Nov 1
**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.
THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.
November 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Thrilled to have a new #flashfiction up on #SoFloPoJo Gratitude to Ed @francinewitte.bsky.social and thanks to @kathyfish.bsky.social for original prompt from @flashficfestuk.bsky.social this year Yeehaw! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-39-nov...
Flash #39 Nov '25
​ SoFloPoJo  Contents:    ​ Essays    *   Interviews    *  Reviews   *  ​​​ Special    *    Video   *   Visual Arts   *     Archives    *    Calendar ...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Many congratulations to our winners! 5 brilliant stories selected by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social
1st Adam Brannigan, 2nd @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
3rd @debdanthewriter.bsky.social
Highly commended @dawnsteffler.bsky.social All stories published bathflashfictionaward.com
Bath Flash Fiction Award
International Rolling Flash Fiction Competition
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October 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Starting Tuesday – a fantastic 4-week online course with our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social ✨

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October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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A few places left on my online POV course starting 4 Nov (NEXT WEEK) for four sessions. Move beyond the ordinary & really use this superb tool in the writer toolbox to enhance emotional resonance.
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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unioflimerick.bsky.social University of Limerick @unioflimerick.bsky.social · Oct 23
In UL’s latest article for The Conversation, Professor Christina Morin, School of English, Irish, and Communication, discusses the beloved childhood book that still sends ‘a shiver of twinned fear and delight’ down her spine.

Read on: theconversation.com/scary-storie...

#StudyatUL #StayCurious
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October 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Delighted to have a piece in this handsome tome! Meridian celebration 20 years of the Uni of Oxford Creative Writing Masters with 25 alumni featured. Int shipping, purchase here: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
October 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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This weekend & one more till our 31st Award ends on Sun 5th Oct. Up to 300 word #flashfiction Results by end Oct. £1460 in prizes + publication offer in our 10th anniversary anthology for all 50 longlisted
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
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September 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Open the Door to Flash! Just in case you are in or near Bath, U.K, I’m hosting a Free evening of #flashfiction readings on Sat, 27th Sept. 18 writers reading flash + snacks, raffle + book sales. Fun! St James Wine Vaults 7.30 pm till 10.00 www.judehiggins.com/blog/
September 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Congratulations to this year's winners and to all the writers featured in the Volume 17 anthology.

Read all their stories: bit.ly/4l0zhk8

@zoemeager.bsky.social @morrislau78.bsky.social
#writing #shortstories #writingcompetitions
June 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
mariegethins.bsky.social
Want to up your POV game? Uncover the mysteries of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and use of multiple POVs to deepen your reader experience. Come join my 4-week online course in November through @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...
Flash Fiction Point-of-View Deep Dive with Marie Gethins - Irish Writers Centre
The most distilled prose form, flash fiction relies on suggestion—layered meaning that is off the page.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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“Sometimes I think I’ll just float up into the sky and disappear.” Brilliant story @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Fantastic amphora use & deft shifting of timelines, character arcs. 💙✨
September 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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2 weeks till the deadline of the 31st Award on Oct 5th. £1460 in prizes. Want to give an up to 300 word story a go? Try out Jude’s prompt in the post www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/09/two-...
Two Weeks to go!
Our 31st Award, judged this time by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris from the UK,closes on Sunday 5th October at midnight GMT. For stories up to 300 words. Prze fund of £1460. 1 entry £9.00, two entries £15…
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September 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Irish poet @jesstraynor.bsky.social will be reading from her brand new fourth collection New Arcana @outspokenldn.bsky.social at London's Southbank Centre on Thursday 18 September, 7.45pm, alongside Leo Boix, Sara Mansour and fellow Bloodaxe poet @imtiazdharker.bsky.social.
outspokenldn.bsky.social Out-Spoken @outspokenldn.bsky.social · Sep 10
Join us on 18th September for the next edition of Out-Spoken Live!

Hosted by Joelle Taylor, with performances from Leo Boix, Imtiaz Dharker, Sara Mansour and Jessica Traynor. With music from Simeon Hammond Dallas and Camden Stewart.

Grab your ticket: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/out... 🎟️
September 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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September news: New books from @poetclare.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social & @emiliejelinek.bsky.social; prize news for Matthew Caley, Kris Johnson & Niall Campbell; radio & podcasts for @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Greta Stoddart; Ruth Fainlight film premiere.
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September 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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“Food is alive. Food is us.” The upcoming issue will be our last. Submissions are now open until October 15. Thank you to all who’ve written, read, & edited. RUBY’s spirit continues in a hybrid cookbook antholgy.
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SUBMISSIONS
RUBY is a bi-annual literary magazine and press that publishes short-form food narratives that strive for voice, artistry, and character. We want work that grabs us and doesn’t let us go—fier…
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September 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM