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Sarah Freligh
@sfreligh.bsky.social
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Writer and swimmer and teacher. Books: OTHER EMERGENCIES; HEREAFTER; A BRIEF NATURAL HISTORY OF WOMEN; DEAR YOU; WE & SAD MATH. Best Microfiction 2018-21, 2025; Wigleaf 50; NEA poetry fellow; http://sarahfreligh.com. Mom to Wayne and Oscar.
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!

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Sign up to volunteer via the link in our BIO!
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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In which @sfreligh.bsky.social issues a CHALLENGE to all those who might be thinking of entering the @welkinprize.bsky.social this year! If you want to take up the challenge (I sure do!) the rules are here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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So much goodness in this anthology, not least the fact that the proceeds go to help people in need. Well done, @taniahershman.bsky.social and thank you!
taniahershman.bsky.social Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 4d
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 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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welkinprize.bsky.social
So @sfreligh.bsky.social asked for a crown and who am I to deny our reigning champion?

PS - I recommend reading the alt text even though I do say so myself (and apologies, I know this isn't really what alt text is for, and I wouldn't usually, but I hope you'll forgive my misuse just this once)
A picture of the amazing author, teacher and all-around brilliant human being, Sarah Freligh, who is smiling and wearing a fish earing. Perhaps she is smiling because she has just won the Welkin Prize 2025 or perhaps she is smiling because she has just come up with a wonderful idea for what to enter in 2026? Her photo is against a grey backdrop but there is nothing grey about Sarah. Balanced on her head is a golden cartoon crown. Here is a limerick in her honour: There once was a woman called Sarah who had quite a wonderful flair for writing prize-winning tales that would fit on a nail and now she's golden crown wearer
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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taniahershman.bsky.social
Ebook includes brilliant flash fictions by @maureenmcely.bsky.social, @sfreligh.bsky.social, @lunchontuesday.bsky.social, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, @jaimegill.bsky.social, @sarahhilary.bsky.social, @kitdewaal.com, @jmgatford.bsky.social, @daraelerath.bsky.social and @zephyrax.bsky.social!
taniahershman.bsky.social Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 4d
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 8:05 AM
sfreligh.bsky.social
Who will wear the 👑?
welkinprize.bsky.social The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · 7d
There are now just eight maids-a-milking until the #WelkinWritingPrize is open for entries once again. Hope you're busy scribbling your stories.

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
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 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
sfreligh.bsky.social
Happy to be included with these good folks.
welkinprize.bsky.social The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · 14d
The #WelkinWritingPrize is thrilled to announce nominations for Best Small Fictions 2026...

@cake-girl.bsky.social
Brian Bruso
@sfreligh.bsky.social
@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social
@noranadj.bsky.social

Congratulations all! Five sparkling micros:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stories
Against a background of fourleaf clovers, the text reads "Best Small Fictions Nominations - Karen Baumgart, Brian Bruso, Sarah Freligh, James Montgomery, Nora Nadjarian
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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The #WelkinWritingPrize is thrilled to announce nominations for Best Small Fictions 2026...

@cake-girl.bsky.social
Brian Bruso
@sfreligh.bsky.social
@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social
@noranadj.bsky.social

Congratulations all! Five sparkling micros:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stories
Against a background of fourleaf clovers, the text reads "Best Small Fictions Nominations - Karen Baumgart, Brian Bruso, Sarah Freligh, James Montgomery, Nora Nadjarian
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Breathless, again SO MANY! Another list: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/_files/ugd/c...

My favourite is probably www.smokelong.com/stories/boy/

This from @sudhab.bsky.social is fab: monkeybicycle.net/bitter-hot-c...

Also this stunner from @sfreligh.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Philly, I am coming to you! Saturday, November 15, 12 - 2 p.m. at A Novel Idea on Passyunk.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Philly, I am coming to you! Saturday, November 15, 12 - 2 p.m. at A Novel Idea on Passyunk.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Thank you, @awpwriter.org! 💞
awpwriter.org AWP @awpwriter.org · 25d
The 2026 Perugia Press Prize from @perugiapress.bsky.social is an annual contest for first or second books of poetry by women. The winner receives $2,000, publication, and more! Submit by 11/15. AWP members can learn more on the Contests & Calls directory.
2026 Perugia Press Prize
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November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Another win! Voters in California approved Proposition 50!
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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“... like having a funeral for clothes.”

“And it’s okay, it is, but sometimes Rita misses the way the light shone through the window at school, how it made gold squares on the floor …”

this by @sfreligh.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
The Way the Cookie Crumbles — Ghost Parachute
Sometimes Rita pretends to be sick so she can stay home from school. She and her mom watch television in the morning, talk shows where the hosts interview celebrities about their workout routines or t...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Best Microfiction reopens! Please spread the word!
November 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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And of course I have to thank the amazing, wonderful @sfreligh.bsky.social who challenged my brain to write poetry last month. And I'm sorry to say this one didn't stay in sonnet form, but, my chicken one has so far... ??
October 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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That was fun!!!!
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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still riding the high from last week’s flash retreat in WV with the amazing @kathyfish.bsky.social, @sfreligh.bsky.social, and @andrewbertaina.bsky.social hosted by the lovely @ellenweeren.bsky.social and A Reason to Write. my creative cup is overflowing and my heart is full to bursting.
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.
Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already. It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.
October 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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"The plan is not to run and hide, but to fight, fight, fight."
October 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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"Rita soaks the sweaters in the bathtub with a squeeze of dishwashing liquid and each time she presses the water out, there’s a little less of the person who wore it, like having a funeral for clothes."

Big love for this perfect gem by @sfreligh.bsky.social 💙💙💙
ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
The Way the Cookie Crumbles — Ghost Parachute
Sometimes Rita pretends to be sick so she can stay home from school. She and her mom watch television in the morning, talk shows where the hosts interview celebrities about their workout routines or t...
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October 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Fab new story by @sfreligh.bsky.social from that new Ghost Parachute!
The Way the Cookie Crumbles — Ghost Parachute
Sometimes Rita pretends to be sick so she can stay home from school. She and her mom watch television in the morning, talk shows where the hosts interview celebrities about their workout routines or t...
ghostparachute.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
sfreligh.bsky.social
Unfit.
October 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM