June Gemmell
@junegemmell.bsky.social
Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, Northern Gravy and National Flash Flood.
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The link to submit, until Nov 15. Whee! templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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November 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The link to submit, until Nov 15. Whee! templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
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New Substack about how writers can use repetition in prose to create structure on the page, using The God of the Woods' opening page as a great example! I hope this inspires you to try something different with your story's opening page!
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Repetition Inspires Structure
God of The Wood's Opening Page
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November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New Substack about how writers can use repetition in prose to create structure on the page, using The God of the Woods' opening page as a great example! I hope this inspires you to try something different with your story's opening page!
tommydean.substack.com/p/repetition...
tommydean.substack.com/p/repetition...
Til you swap it back again. 😏
Swapped a colon for a semicolon, it's ON
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Til you swap it back again. 😏
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And finally, the FICTION ranking includes 270 magazines - and this is the top 20:
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
And finally, the FICTION ranking includes 270 magazines - and this is the top 20:
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“When I spoke to him about the loneliness I didn’t mean out in the wheat fields. There is a loneliness that opens up between two people sitting in a bar, not in love with one another, not even certain they like the way they are entangled with one another.”
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“When I spoke to him about the loneliness I didn’t mean out in the wheat fields. There is a loneliness that opens up between two people sitting in a bar, not in love with one another, not even certain they like the way they are entangled with one another.”
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
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Don’t be left out in the cold! BCC is reopening for previously published work in under two weeks!!
💡 November 24! 💡
💡 November 24! 💡
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Don’t be left out in the cold! BCC is reopening for previously published work in under two weeks!!
💡 November 24! 💡
💡 November 24! 💡
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THIS WEEK! Welsh author Ian Forth joins me to talk about the stories in his debut collection HAZLITT AND THE MOBILITY SCOOTER (Hard Travelling Books). "Wicked stories full of fascinations. Brilliantly written" - Geoff Baker, The London Weekly News www.shortstorytoday.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
THIS WEEK! Welsh author Ian Forth joins me to talk about the stories in his debut collection HAZLITT AND THE MOBILITY SCOOTER (Hard Travelling Books). "Wicked stories full of fascinations. Brilliantly written" - Geoff Baker, The London Weekly News www.shortstorytoday.com
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The FLASH FICTION ranking includes 280 magazines - here is the top 20:
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Ooh hello @fracturedlit.bsky.social
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We're reading now. Right this second. Submitttttt.
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
We're reading now. Right this second. Submitttttt.
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any day I end up writing immediately turns into the best day
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
any day I end up writing immediately turns into the best day
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THIS WEEK! We celebrate Welsh author Ian Forth! His debut short story collection HAZLITT AND THE MOBILITY SCOOTER (Hard Travelling Books) was released in July. "Hugely enjoyable, unconventional and great fun." - Victoria Corby, author of UP TO NO GOOD. shortstorytoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
THIS WEEK! We celebrate Welsh author Ian Forth! His debut short story collection HAZLITT AND THE MOBILITY SCOOTER (Hard Travelling Books) was released in July. "Hugely enjoyable, unconventional and great fun." - Victoria Corby, author of UP TO NO GOOD. shortstorytoday.com
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I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.
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BBC Scotland - The Big Scottish Book Club - Available now
Available episodes of The Big Scottish Book Club
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November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Open for artwork submissions
No submission fee
#LitMag #VisualArt #Photography #Painting #DigitalArt #Drawing #Sculpture #TextileArt #PrintMaking #FolkArt #Collage #MixedMedia
#Illustrations #Pottery #CallForSubmissions
No submission fee
#LitMag #VisualArt #Photography #Painting #DigitalArt #Drawing #Sculpture #TextileArt #PrintMaking #FolkArt #Collage #MixedMedia
#Illustrations #Pottery #CallForSubmissions
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Open for artwork submissions
No submission fee
#LitMag #VisualArt #Photography #Painting #DigitalArt #Drawing #Sculpture #TextileArt #PrintMaking #FolkArt #Collage #MixedMedia
#Illustrations #Pottery #CallForSubmissions
No submission fee
#LitMag #VisualArt #Photography #Painting #DigitalArt #Drawing #Sculpture #TextileArt #PrintMaking #FolkArt #Collage #MixedMedia
#Illustrations #Pottery #CallForSubmissions
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Here's a deal: if we get a few more art subs by tomorrow, we just might get some art responses out within a few days.
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Here's a deal: if we get a few more art subs by tomorrow, we just might get some art responses out within a few days.
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The Scottish Christmas Book Fair is coming! Come one come all to the New Town Church on 21 and 22 November!
#bookweekscotland
#bookweekscotland
Scottish Christmas Book Fair
George Street, Edinburgh
Fri 21 & Sat 22 Nov
* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping
* All your favourite genres for adults & children
* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors
www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
George Street, Edinburgh
Fri 21 & Sat 22 Nov
* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping
* All your favourite genres for adults & children
* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors
www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Scottish Christmas Book Fair is coming! Come one come all to the New Town Church on 21 and 22 November!
#bookweekscotland
#bookweekscotland
ITS IN THE DIARY!!! 🎉🎉
(sorry for shouting, got excited)
(sorry for shouting, got excited)
We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.
a dog is standing on its hind legs in a room with the words cant wait written on the floor .
ALT: a dog is standing on its hind legs in a room with the words cant wait written on the floor .
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November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
ITS IN THE DIARY!!! 🎉🎉
(sorry for shouting, got excited)
(sorry for shouting, got excited)
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“To try to express one’s position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out…while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.”
Nabokov
Nabokov
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“To try to express one’s position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out…while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.”
Nabokov
Nabokov
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Writers, if you don't already know about this, do check out @brechtdp.bsky.social super helpful listings and get submitting! 🖋
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Writers, if you don't already know about this, do check out @brechtdp.bsky.social super helpful listings and get submitting! 🖋
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"Craft is too grand and foreign a word to describe what gets done most days in your pajamas." —Zadie Smith
#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity
#AmWriting #WriterSky
#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity
#AmWriting #WriterSky
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"Craft is too grand and foreign a word to describe what gets done most days in your pajamas." —Zadie Smith
#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity
#AmWriting #WriterSky
#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity
#AmWriting #WriterSky
Just as I write a dark, broody piece. 🙄 But wait a minute, there might be a little piece of something vaguely amusing at the bottom of this pile of stuff….
Would love to see more humorous entries into the Welkin Prize this year. This might give a bit of inspiration 👇
My last workshop of the year is a silly safari through humorous techniques. Feels like we all need a bit of levity after the year we've had. We'll look at daffynitions, spoonerisms, comic triples and much more.
Tues 2nd Dec 7pm GMT
OR Sat 6th Dec 9am GMT
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Tues 2nd Dec 7pm GMT
OR Sat 6th Dec 9am GMT
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just as I write a dark, broody piece. 🙄 But wait a minute, there might be a little piece of something vaguely amusing at the bottom of this pile of stuff….
Feeling my age. Got a new car but can’t work all the jiggery pokery on the dashboard. Feel like an airline pilot! 🧑✈️ Not in a good way.
a blurred image of a car dashboard with a speedometer that reads 20
ALT: a blurred image of a car dashboard with a speedometer that reads 20
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November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Feeling my age. Got a new car but can’t work all the jiggery pokery on the dashboard. Feel like an airline pilot! 🧑✈️ Not in a good way.
One (nice) rejection has just come in, but I have two short stories out there, so still in the game! 🎉🎉
a woman in a leopard print dress says this game ain t over yet
ALT: a woman in a leopard print dress says this game ain t over yet
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November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
One (nice) rejection has just come in, but I have two short stories out there, so still in the game! 🎉🎉