Gillian O’Shaughnessy
@gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social
▪️Journalist. Writer. Reader. Optimist.
▪️Debut story collection out in 2026, funded by WA Dept. Of Creative Industries, Tourism & Sport, published by Night Parrot Press.
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️BSF 23, 24, 25.
Gillianoshaughnessy.com
▪️Debut story collection out in 2026, funded by WA Dept. Of Creative Industries, Tourism & Sport, published by Night Parrot Press.
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️BSF 23, 24, 25.
Gillianoshaughnessy.com
“Let’s say you didn’t wade out to the island at low tide to sit among the nodding tussock grass watching Little Blue Penguins fresh from their hidey-holes diving for sardines and pilchards and krill.” Stunning @belindarowe.bsky.social 🩷🩷🩷
Super thrilled to have a micro up at @fracturedlit.bsky.social - thank you so much to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and editors! Big shout out to the editors at @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece was born and to everyone who gave feedback 🙏💚🙏
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Green to Gray | Fractured
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November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
“Let’s say you didn’t wade out to the island at low tide to sit among the nodding tussock grass watching Little Blue Penguins fresh from their hidey-holes diving for sardines and pilchards and krill.” Stunning @belindarowe.bsky.social 🩷🩷🩷
Huzzah!!
BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social made @msmagazine.com's list of November 2025 Reads! buff.ly/JmWs33l
Make sure to get BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/bBDbW53
@susanschulman.bsky.social
Make sure to get BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/bBDbW53
@susanschulman.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Huzzah!!
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Chuffed to be reading at the Prose Garden hosted by @francinewitte.bsky.social and @megpokrass.bsky.social with these brilliant names! Sat Nov 15 2pm EST. Rego link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Chuffed to be reading at the Prose Garden hosted by @francinewitte.bsky.social and @megpokrass.bsky.social with these brilliant names! Sat Nov 15 2pm EST. Rego link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📚Last chance! Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna TONIGHT, 10/10/25 at the National Hotel Fremantle. I’ll be talking to Sofie about her new book, The Underworld. Full of myths and misfits, it’ll be a great conversation. 6.30pm start.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
📚Last chance! Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna TONIGHT, 10/10/25 at the National Hotel Fremantle. I’ll be talking to Sofie about her new book, The Underworld. Full of myths and misfits, it’ll be a great conversation. 6.30pm start.
Register at New Edition books
Register at New Edition books
Kathryn is the BEST on this
I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚
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Buy tickets – Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom
Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom, Sat 22 Nov 2025 - Curious about how to move from publishing standalone flash to a body of work? This 2-hour workshop breaks down everyth...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Kathryn is the BEST on this
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And huge thanks to our volunteers who keep the readings running smooth!
Andrea Goyan @andreagoyan.bsky.social
Jason Bartles @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social
Raima Larter @raimalarter.bsky.social
Andrea Goyan @andreagoyan.bsky.social
Jason Bartles @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social
Raima Larter @raimalarter.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
And huge thanks to our volunteers who keep the readings running smooth!
Andrea Goyan @andreagoyan.bsky.social
Jason Bartles @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social
Raima Larter @raimalarter.bsky.social
Andrea Goyan @andreagoyan.bsky.social
Jason Bartles @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social
Raima Larter @raimalarter.bsky.social
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Electric Sheep Reading Series – SpecPo Hugo Edition!
November 12
8 pm (US Eastern)
Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath
Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem
Readers:
Brian U. Garrison
Ai Jiang
Oliver K. Langmead
Angela Liu
Mari Ness
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon
November 12
8 pm (US Eastern)
Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath
Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem
Readers:
Brian U. Garrison
Ai Jiang
Oliver K. Langmead
Angela Liu
Mari Ness
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Electric Sheep Reading Series – SpecPo Hugo Edition!
November 12
8 pm (US Eastern)
Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath
Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem
Readers:
Brian U. Garrison
Ai Jiang
Oliver K. Langmead
Angela Liu
Mari Ness
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon
November 12
8 pm (US Eastern)
Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath
Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem
Readers:
Brian U. Garrison
Ai Jiang
Oliver K. Langmead
Angela Liu
Mari Ness
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon
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What a fabulous review. Gotta get me the book now. 🙏
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
What a fabulous review. Gotta get me the book now. 🙏
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Thank you so much, Gillian! And what a great pleasure it was to spend time with the literary community in Perth!
⚡️Fast Flash Review: Other Household Toxins by Christopher Allen.
@christopherallen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
@christopherallen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Thank you so much, Gillian! And what a great pleasure it was to spend time with the literary community in Perth!
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Brilliant, Gill, can't wait to read!
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Brilliant, Gill, can't wait to read!
Thanks Ani!
Fabulous review of a really stellar collection!
⚡️Fast Flash Review: Other Household Toxins by Christopher Allen.
@christopherallen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
@christopherallen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Thanks Ani!
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⚡️Fast Flash Review: Other Household Toxins by Christopher Allen.
@christopherallen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
@christopherallen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
⚡️Fast Flash Review: Other Household Toxins by Christopher Allen.
@christopherallen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
@christopherallen.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
"Everything is Green" by David Foster Wallace
flash fiction from a "maximalist"
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October 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Brilliant weekend talking flash fiction at the Festival of Fiction in Perth. Plus hearing Tim Winton, one of the greatest living authors in the world today talk about the ‘useless beauty’ of art which doesn’t need an excuse to exist. Heart exploding. Thanks Tess Woods & team. 🙏📚
October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Brilliant weekend talking flash fiction at the Festival of Fiction in Perth. Plus hearing Tim Winton, one of the greatest living authors in the world today talk about the ‘useless beauty’ of art which doesn’t need an excuse to exist. Heart exploding. Thanks Tess Woods & team. 🙏📚
⚡️Fast Flash Review: Wild Life by @kathyfish.bsky.social published by Matter Press.
October 15, 2025 at 6:32 AM
⚡️Fast Flash Review: Wild Life by @kathyfish.bsky.social published by Matter Press.
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The countdown starts now: BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social will be releasing in 25 DAYS!
Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/l1yCQXL
@susanschulman.bsky.social
Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/l1yCQXL
@susanschulman.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
This looks SO cool
The countdown starts now: BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social will be releasing in 25 DAYS!
Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/l1yCQXL
@susanschulman.bsky.social
Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/l1yCQXL
@susanschulman.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This looks SO cool
Beautiful! Love to see your story here Emmi! Congratulations
My words are projected onto the side of Freo Ports building as part of a series with other amazing local writers for a literary festival! 🥹 Catch @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social and @belindarowe.bsky.social too!
(Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!)
#totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic
(Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!)
#totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic
October 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Beautiful! Love to see your story here Emmi! Congratulations
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"None of the snakes were awake, but the music made you think something violent was going to happen. I suppose the violence was in the man, not the snakes."
I love this story! All of Helen's stories are full of quirky happenings & gorgeous language.
@helenmcclory.bsky.social
I love this story! All of Helen's stories are full of quirky happenings & gorgeous language.
@helenmcclory.bsky.social
"I want to tell you about this other film I saw, one night when you were out sticking twigs in your hair and shoving your hand into the mouths of foxes, you dank, fleshy monster."
Every bit of this story is unexpected! And sharp as a snakebite.
@helenmcclory.bsky.social in Winter Tangerine!
Every bit of this story is unexpected! And sharp as a snakebite.
@helenmcclory.bsky.social in Winter Tangerine!
The Language of Heaven — Winter Tangerine
www.wintertangerine.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"None of the snakes were awake, but the music made you think something violent was going to happen. I suppose the violence was in the man, not the snakes."
I love this story! All of Helen's stories are full of quirky happenings & gorgeous language.
@helenmcclory.bsky.social
I love this story! All of Helen's stories are full of quirky happenings & gorgeous language.
@helenmcclory.bsky.social
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"The sound was high and wrenching. There was a strong, wild smell now. She and I stood watching the second wave of the storm as it broke, droplets spattering, dense as white oil."
Love the relationship amid the storm!
@helenmcclory.bsky.social @wigleaf.bsky.social
Love the relationship amid the storm!
@helenmcclory.bsky.social @wigleaf.bsky.social
McClory: 'White Rain'
Fiction by Helen McClory
wigleaf.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"The sound was high and wrenching. There was a strong, wild smell now. She and I stood watching the second wave of the storm as it broke, droplets spattering, dense as white oil."
Love the relationship amid the storm!
@helenmcclory.bsky.social @wigleaf.bsky.social
Love the relationship amid the storm!
@helenmcclory.bsky.social @wigleaf.bsky.social
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Chickasha
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Chickasha
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New interview with Marie Brennan today - hear about her Hugo-winning poem, novels, short stories, and some gorgeous art!
@swantower.bsky.social
@swantower.bsky.social
Author Interview * Marie Brennan
The first-ever Hugo award for a poem was awarded to Marie Brennan at Worldcon 2025. In addition to poetry, Marie is an accomplished author of novels and short stories. Thanks to Marie for talking w…
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October 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
New interview with Marie Brennan today - hear about her Hugo-winning poem, novels, short stories, and some gorgeous art!
@swantower.bsky.social
@swantower.bsky.social
Check out this awesome line up of #flashfiction authors reading at Freo Library for the Totally Lit Festival. Loved that so many writers came for the open mike too. 🩷
October 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Check out this awesome line up of #flashfiction authors reading at Freo Library for the Totally Lit Festival. Loved that so many writers came for the open mike too. 🩷