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Rosaleen Lynch
@rosaleenlynch.bsky.social
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☘️ Irish community worker, writer & teacher living in London with work selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 2023, Best of the Net 2024 & Best Small Fictions 2024, now researching the impact of story on social change & can be found @ http://52quotes.blogspot.com
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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 8:01 AM
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Well that's cheered me up in the middle of my marking! Congrats everyone & good luck! 🍀
smokelong.bsky.social SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 6d
The long list for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 is here! Congratulations and thank you to all who entered. The judging has been and continues to be extremely tough. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
Red yellow and grey retro geometric pattern. White space at the bottom with black lettering: The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 Long list
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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welkinprize.bsky.social
I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:

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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 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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taniahershman.bsky.social
Today is #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay so why not pick up a copy of the FUEL anthology of prizewinning flash fictions - it's a great read and profits go to four #fuelpoverty charities, including @nea.org.uk. The brand new ebook has 75+12 bonus stories = 87 flash stories! Buy here: www.fuelflash.net
The cover of the FUEL anthology of prize-winning flash fictions raising funds to fight fuel poverty, with a brightly-coloured petrol pump, and a banner on the right hand side saying "Ebook with 12 bonus prize-winning stories". Edited by Tania Hershman
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Check out this beauty from @fionamckay.bsky.social

'Civil Twilight' in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

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Fiona McKay — Does It Have Pockets
Civil Twilight
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December 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Yay! 🎉 So delighted to be shortlisted in the @walklistencreate.org 'Write About Walking' competition with the theme this year of 'Walking In The Dark' in support of the global action 'Women walking, the City, at Night.' 🏙

Thanks to the judges and congrats to everyone on the shortlist 👏
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Check out this lovely uplifting piece in @claudineliterary.bsky.social 🙏

Here I Am by @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social

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Kleopatra Olympiou | Here I Am
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November 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Love this story fron the oh-so-talented @quickasaflash.bsky.social

'The Grass Is Always Greener' is such a worthy winner of the @flash500.bsky.social

Read it here: ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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November 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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A date for your writing competition diary
FFF Competition Thirty-One
 
Submit a flash fiction piece of between 100 and 300 words, any theme
 
The closing date is Tuesday, 23rd December 2025 at 10:00 pm UK Time

All the details...

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November 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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walklistencreate.org
Long list of our #Walking #InTheDark competition announced - terrific poems and stories beautifully penned - read them here wlc.zone/ark
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Check out this heartbreaker 💔 from the lovely @sagreene1.bsky.social
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November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Wow! Check this out from @smokelong.bsky.social ⬇️
smokelong.bsky.social SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · Nov 7
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Delighted to be longlisted in the @walklistencreate.org 'Write About Walking' competition with the theme this year of 'Walking In The Dark' in support of the global action 'Women walking, the City, at Night.' 🏙

Thanks to the judges and congrats to everyone on the longlist 👏
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, and trapped animals, hiding their young"

A stunner from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social So much story unspooling from the anaphora repetition
November 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I witnessed the birth of this flash at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social in @fionamckay.bsky.social 's excellent workshop and look at it now - beautiful! Congrats Rosaleen!
October 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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psmokejournal.bsky.social
When you clear the leaves, you'll see our Fall 2025 Issue is here!
Featured Contest Winners
🍁"The Odds" by Emily Portillo (Poetry)
🍁"Teeth in All the Wrong Places" by Emely Taveras (Fiction)
🍁"Orange Juice" by @dfcohen.bsky.social (Flash)
Fiction
🍁"Terminal Break" by Emily Drew
October 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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‘...not even enough room for their hands holding tight to the hem of her skirt, not even for their overtired tears...'

The Suitcase of Lost Belongings by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social

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The Suitcase of Lost Belongings ~ by Rosaleen Lynch
She can’t take her children in the suitcase. They would fit if she emptied it. They could top and tail in the folds of the quilt she made of their clothes, but there’s not even enough room for thei…
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October 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Sunday's must-read is this gem from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social in the fabulous Milk Candy Review! #WritingCommunity
October 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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bronwengriffiths.bsky.social
Such a good story. It deserves to be read.
October 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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‘…there’s not even enough room for their hands holding tight to the hem of her skirt, not even for their overtired tears, not even for the sound of the word ‘Mama.’’

Amazing flash from the equally amazing @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review 🧳

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The Suitcase of Lost Belongings ~ by Rosaleen Lynch
She can’t take her children in the suitcase. They would fit if she emptied it. They could top and tail in the folds of the quilt she made of their clothes, but there’s not even enough room for thei…
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October 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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"They fill the suitcase full of fire. All the sunshine and starlight. All the birthday, advent and power-cut candlelight. The campfire songs, the toasting fork fireplace,...."

A phenomenal piece of writing by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social 💙💙💙
October 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Look what I found had come in the post when I got home ... this beauty from #DahliaBooks! 🦚

Congrats to the winners of the #LeicesterWrites Short Story Prize! Fantastic stories all round!👏

Thanks also @farhanashaikh.bsky.social for including one of mine in this fab anthology 🥰
October 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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'She can’t take her children in the suitcase. They fill the suitcase full of fire. All the sunshine and starlight.' Read this knockout piece by the supremely talented @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social in dream journal Milk Candy Review⬇️⬇️⬇️
October 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Stunning piece by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social
"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, & trapped animals, hiding their young. Not the day the suitcase is full of an exploding mine..."
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October 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM