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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social
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Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social

SL Bridport, Bath, Oxford & WestWord Prizes. Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms

Read my stories:
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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 8d
Absolutely chuffed to have my story, If only, nominated for the #Pushcart, alongside so many writers whose work I adore & my writing bestie @pleomorphic2.bsky.social. Congrats to all 👋🏼

Thank you thank you Eirene and the editors of @templeinacity.bsky.social ❤️
templeinacity.bsky.social Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 8d
Nominations nominations nominations with a corrected typo because we are having a very mercury retrograde day just like cloudflare
With apologies. templeinacity.com/temple-in-a-...
Best of the net 2025 Sumitra Singam, Bird swallowers Rachel Rodman, He Always Lied, I Always Told the Truth. And Then We Fell in Hate Kathryn Reese, Post-vespers Pushcart Prize 2025 Cole Beauchamp, If Only Emily Rinkema, Lou June Gemmell, The Homecoming Kendra Cardin, A change in the recipe S.A. Greene, Brian Wilson is dead and why can't I stop crying? Dominic Walsh, Slice of life, in Absentia
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deborahzafer.bsky.social
What would life be without collaborators? Grateful for mine, especially @norami.bsky.social ❤️
Me and eleonora Brian from Insurgent press
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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aldbera.bsky.social
Every time I do an @saloneurope.bsky.social event, my heart feels so full ❤️
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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saloneurope.bsky.social
Our next reader is @nomad-sw18.bsky.social
We always love hearing her read ❤️
Cole!
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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🌟 WINNER 🌟

Congrats to @markabowles.bsky.social @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social & reader Paul Hinton for winning the best #audiobook of the year!

Great to have an independent in this space.

Soooo excited for Mark's class on Wed & our reading @saloneurope.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social
⚡️Fast Flash Review: Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. A stunning read. Plus, Melissa writes in Hawaiian Pidgin Creole & English, this book is a masterclass on authentic own voice writing. Unmissable.
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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In the wet and cold that is London right now, looking forward to Wed evening's pop up salon with @saloneurope.bsky.social !

@deborahzafer.bsky.social @judepickledplum.bsky.social @markabowles.bsky.social @aldbera.bsky.social @rachelmalik.bsky.social - who else is going to be there???
saloneurope.bsky.social European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 8d
Couldn’t make it to Paris?

Meet us in London for another night of chat, drinks and readings with writers from all over Europe, hosted alongside our pals at Insurgent Press

Only a few spots left--get em while they're hot! 🔥

Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-lit...
White text on a teal background repeated the event details listed here, with a picture from a previous salon in London. Against an exposed brick wall, a woman with blond hair looks down at another woman, holding a notebook. Mark Bowles is in the background and tables of writers watch her read.
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
nomad-sw18.bsky.social
I have had the privilege of reading some of this and it is 🔥

Do yourself a favour and pre-order MOTHER KARMA by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social
pleomorphic2.bsky.social Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 7d
Preorder link for physical and ebook for Mother Karma by Sumitra Singam (who is she?) @publishedbyjake.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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4aamari.bsky.social
egret extravaganza
an intimate gathering of egrets in all their poses and postures in a stained glass world of mirrored loblolly pines aglow
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
nomad-sw18.bsky.social
Absolutely chuffed to have my story, If only, nominated for the #Pushcart, alongside so many writers whose work I adore & my writing bestie @pleomorphic2.bsky.social. Congrats to all 👋🏼

Thank you thank you Eirene and the editors of @templeinacity.bsky.social ❤️
templeinacity.bsky.social Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 8d
Nominations nominations nominations with a corrected typo because we are having a very mercury retrograde day just like cloudflare
With apologies. templeinacity.com/temple-in-a-...
Best of the net 2025 Sumitra Singam, Bird swallowers Rachel Rodman, He Always Lied, I Always Told the Truth. And Then We Fell in Hate Kathryn Reese, Post-vespers Pushcart Prize 2025 Cole Beauchamp, If Only Emily Rinkema, Lou June Gemmell, The Homecoming Kendra Cardin, A change in the recipe S.A. Greene, Brian Wilson is dead and why can't I stop crying? Dominic Walsh, Slice of life, in Absentia
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
nomad-sw18.bsky.social
Ok. Calling all creatives. Let's get to work on something more positive than glorifying fossil fuels. TV series, movies, stories. The planet needs us.

Cause...The American Petroleum Institute is backing a 7-figure ad campaign featuring real landmen during Paramount+ & CBS broadcasts of "Landman."
bird coated in oil after oil spill
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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pleomorphic2.bsky.social
ICYMI I have a wee piece, featuring Vegemite, in this wonderful Joy issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social inspired by @jackmmorris.bsky.social @kateaxeford.bsky.social @juliaruthsmith.bsky.social @kiklodge.bsky.social @stillsquirrel.bsky.social.
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November 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
nomad-sw18.bsky.social
Such fantastic readings! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and her kick ass recipe story, rollicking recitation of movie endings by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, menopausal sisters from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social, not to mention the witches in Costco from @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social 😆 What a night!
 Francinewitte @francinewitte.bsky.social · 16d
Please join Meg Pokrass and me for the PROSE GARDEN, Sat. November 15, 2 PM EST.

Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Please register here for zoom link:

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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templeinacity.bsky.social
Lil sneak preview of who’s coming to you soon in our Joy micro issue. Expect it out soon. templeinacity.com/joy/ templeinacity.com/joy/
Temple in a City literary journal
Contributors to JOY, a special pop-up edition of Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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bathflashaward.bsky.social
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
bathflashfictionaward.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
nomad-sw18.bsky.social
Thank you Editor @melissacuisine.bsky.social and reading team at @rfpress.bsky.social for publishing my tale. I first started subbing it 3 years ago, when it was more explicitly about teen girls and eating disorders. It's gone through many permutations since!
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/the-gir...
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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artheals.bsky.social
Fall colors are hanging in there. 🧡

#FallColors #fall #Trees #nature #photography
View looking upward to a maple tree with orange, yellow and red fall colored leaves. A blue sky peaks in between the branches.. The tree trunk is center.
October 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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pathwaymoments.bsky.social
The glow from nature’s daybreak offering 📷🕊️ ….
A crimson daybreak had the silhouetted trees casting their reflections along the river.
October 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
nomad-sw18.bsky.social
Hurrah! Made the shortlist, among some very intriguing titles. Thank you readers at Bath FF awards 😊

Congrats to all who made it and commiserations to those who didn't. Next time 💪🏼
October 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
nomad-sw18.bsky.social
Oh 1982... glad I don't have to go back. Sharp writing by the ever sharp @pleomorphic2.bsky.social 💫

"Shrugging like it was no big deal, but also twirling her hair anti-clockwise in the secret signal you’d devised earlier that year for just such a boy-incident."
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Woop woop! It's been a tough October on some fronts but making the LL cheers me up no end 🙌🏼 🙌🏼
October 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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bigissue.com
Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy centres around her grief and the enduring legacy of her remarkable mother.
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy review – words of wisdom
www.bigissue.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
nomad-sw18.bsky.social
ICYMI ready for some time travel? Check out my 80s story set in East Berlin. It originated in a workshop with WestWord - delighted to have it out in the world.

(This time with a working link!) www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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templeinacity.bsky.social
Subs open until Nov 15. Check out our new mix and match category. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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This you?
templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
Mix and match: Creatives, we see you. Why stick to one form when you have three? Send up to 3 pieces of any mix of micro, flash, poetry or art. One poem and two flash? Sure. Two poems and one micro? Why not. Fly free. Same word counts apply (up to 1,000, no minimum). Submit in one .doc or doc file, art as 1000-1500 pixels wide jpeg files
October 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
nomad-sw18.bsky.social
Just back from 2 weeks in the US with my mom (81), who's frailer and beginning to lose dates and time - thankfully not people yet. She said, you're like me with Gramma 💔

I really felt this piece by Jamie Holland in WestWord @retreatwest.bsky.social

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Everything Seemed Innocent
A Flash Fiction by Jamie Holland
westword.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM