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Emma Timpany
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Writer of fiction about loss, belonging, nature and place | Botanical Short Stories (editor) | Three Roads | Travelling in the Dark | Cornish Short Stories (co-editor) | The Lost of Syros

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Oct 9
At the end of a lovely summer, Botanical Short Stories has been growing new shoots 🌿🌿🌿

I look forward to sharing some lovely news about our anthology of #shortstories about #plants and #flowers soon 💙

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#BookSky #booknews #reading #nature
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Thanks so much to @j-lbrbsblogs.bsky.social for including Botanical Short Stories in her reads for #NovNov2025

💙🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿💙

And happy reading to all those taking part in #Novella #November📖

#BookSky #reading #plants #shortstories
November 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
emmatimpany.bsky.social
At the end of a lovely summer, Botanical Short Stories has been growing new shoots 🌿🌿🌿

I look forward to sharing some lovely news about our anthology of #shortstories about #plants and #flowers soon 💙

lnk.to/BotanicalSho...

#BookSky #booknews #reading #nature
October 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️
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September 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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NEWS! I've been hard at work with a fantastic group of fellow writers making a new online magazine about thrutopias. BENDING THE ARC launches 22nd April! Our aim is to write thriving, desirable futures into being. Pls subscribe & share!

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Bending The Arc | Bending The Arc Magazine | Substack
publishing stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth. Click to read Bending The Arc, a Substack publication.
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April 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I am teaching on this online short story course for Arvon in October - be great to see some of you there

A few places are concession spots, available at a 30% discount for low-waged writers or those receiving certain benefits.

Here's the link to the week: www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Online Writing Week: Short Fiction | Stories that pack a punch | Arvon
The magic of short fiction lies in its ability to hold a whole universe within its tantalisingly small landscape. Bringing a sense of play and curiosity to the page, this course will give you the chan...
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August 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Last few days to enter The Short Story's #Cambridge #Prizes 2025 for #shortstories and #flashfiction

Entry by optional donation

The Short Story celebrates contemporary short form #fiction and publishes reviews, interviews & essays

#booksky #writingcompetitions

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The Cambridge Prizes 2025 - OPEN 1st July - TSS Publishing
The Cambridge Prize for Short Stories & Flash Fiction is open to submissions 1st – 31st July 2025. The Prize is open to all nationalities. This year, we are operating a ‘donate what you can’ policy, w...
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July 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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@petermcallister.bsky.social will be leading a discussion with Jackie Taylor, Rob Magnuson Smith, @amarkle.bsky.social & @emmatimpany.bsky.social at Penzance Litfest, & they’ll be reading from our Holyer an Gof Publishers' Awards-shortlisted anthology, Cornwall In Short! Book here: buff.ly/H8AWToG
June 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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The #anthology of short stories I co-published with @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof awards this year!!

#booksky #award #shortlist #shortlisted #literaryfiction
inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 28
We were incredibly excited to learn that Cornwall In Short has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Awards 2025!
Congratulations to all our amazing authors!
The award ceremony will be held on Saturday July 5th.
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June 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I’m leading a discussion with four fantastic authors about their work and what #Cornwall means to them at the Penzance Litfest this year. They’ll each be reading a section of a story @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social published in the anthology ‘Cornwall In Short’. More details below:
emmatimpany.bsky.social Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Jun 22
Upcoming event at Penzance Litfest - details below

Please come along for readings from the wonderful Cornwall In Short #shortstory #anthology & a discussion about what #Cornwall means to us @petermcallister.bsky.social
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June 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Upcoming event at Penzance Litfest - details below

Please come along for readings from the wonderful Cornwall In Short #shortstory #anthology & a discussion about what #Cornwall means to us @petermcallister.bsky.social
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social

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June 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Welcome to the world Short | Poto - The big book of small stories | Iti te kupu, nui te kōrero

100 short, short stories in English and te reo Māori, inc my story 'Remains | Ngā toenga'

Congratulations to eds Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong & all involved

www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/short-...
June 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Exciting addition to Cornwall's literary landscape: the beautiful first edition of @aspier-mag.bsky.social, full of good stuff. It was about time someone created a new literary journal for Cornwall, reviving the previous tradition of Scryfa, the Parabola Project and the legendary Cornish Review.
June 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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The first issue of Aspier, a new #literary and #arts magazine for #Cornwall, is full of wonderful #shortstories, #poetry, #essays and #features

Many congratulations to editor Sravya Raju & all the contributors

@aspier-mag.bsky.social @shelleytrower.bsky.social

More here: www.aspiermagazine.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Call for Submissions | Nature & Eco-writing | Deadline: May 15 2025

We would love to read your short fiction, flash, non-fiction, and poetry themed around nature, environment and ecology for our Nature & Eco-writing Edition: inkfishmag.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Happy book birthday to my first publication, Over the Dam, a pamphlet of five short stories published 10 years ago today -

Over the Dam is no longer in print but four of its stories are included in Three Roads, my second short story collection from Postbox Press, an imprint of Red Squirrel Press
April 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Happy book birthday to Botanical Short Stories

One year old today!

Huge thanks to our wonderful contributors and readers
April 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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How absolutely magical to receive this beautiful artwork of a golden oriole in a fig tree

It was inspired by my story 'A Bird So Rare' in Three Roads (Red Squirrel Press, 2022) which features the surprise appearance of this very bird

Huge thanks to wonderful friends for sending this gorgeous gift
A painting of a gold and black golden oriole in a fig tree
March 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I seem to have started a Starter Pack to my surprise - please join if you wish - let me know:
February 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Delighted to say that my #shortstory 'Perran in the Sands' is now available on #BBCSounds

This work, from the #TwelveStoriesfromTwelveSections anthology, is about Cornwall's patron saint, #StPiran & his ancient oratory in sand dunes near #Perranporth #Cornwall

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Radio Cornwall - BBC Radio Cornwall, Stories inspired by Cornwall's protected landscape
Perran in the Sands by Emma Timpany
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February 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Lovely to use #winter greenery from my #garden to make a seasonal #wreath with my daughters

Berried ivy, pittosporum, conifer, rosemary & Viburnum tinus with cinnamon sticks and pine #cones on a #natural #vine base

Happy #midwinter 🌿💚 #WinterSolstice2024
December 22, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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Almost year's end, so a big thank you to all involved in Botanical Short Stories-our wonderful #writers, #illustrator & #publisher

A beautifully illustrated #anthology of 14 #shortstories about #plants and #flowers for #readers who love the #botanical world

Happy midwinter

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December 19, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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Had the loveliest of times at the launch of the short #story #anthology #CornwallinShort in the wonderful Morrab Library, a heaven for book lovers set in beautiful gardens

Many thanks @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social editors Kate Horsley, @petermcallister.bsky.social & all involved

#fiction #Cornwall
December 16, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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Nice to see my #novella Travelling in the Dark in this photo alongside many other lovely titles from #FairlightBooks

They have a wonderful list, so do check them out 🌿
December 16, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Our anthology, Cornwall in Short, in the window of the gorgeous Terrace Gallery, Penryn, in lovely company between @emmatimpany.bsky.social Botanical Short Stories, and Wyl Menmuir’s The Heart of the Woods 🎄😻
Cornwall in Short book in Gallery Window Terrace Gallery, Penryn
December 11, 2024 at 7:51 PM