Karen Jones
@karjon.bsky.social
Writer. Editor NFFD Anthology. BSSA Team Member. First prize Reflex Fiction, TSS Publishing, Flash 500. 2nd prize Fractured Lit micro. Shortlist Bath Flash/Short Story, To Hull and Back and many others. Scottish Indy supporter.
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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 5:05 PM
We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.
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NFFD will open our MicroFiction Comp ((up to 100 words) & subs to our new anthology (theme to be announced) on 1 Dec. More details coming soon!
a cartoon drawing of snoopy sitting at a desk writing on a piece of paper
ALT: a cartoon drawing of snoopy sitting at a desk writing on a piece of paper
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November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
NFFD will open our MicroFiction Comp ((up to 100 words) & subs to our new anthology (theme to be announced) on 1 Dec. More details coming soon!
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Things are happening in NFFD land! We’ve got our anthology guest editor & our 4 microfiction comp judges lined up & we’ve decided on a theme for our next anthology!Watch this space!
a man in a vest is dancing in a living room with a couch and chairs
ALT: a man in a vest is dancing in a living room with a couch and chairs
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Things are happening in NFFD land! We’ve got our anthology guest editor & our 4 microfiction comp judges lined up & we’ve decided on a theme for our next anthology!Watch this space!
Dog sitting this gorgeous wee mad thing overnight. Beautiful Winnie.
November 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Dog sitting this gorgeous wee mad thing overnight. Beautiful Winnie.
Many thanks to @bathflashaward.bsky.social for longlisting my wee story, and thanks to @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for shortlisting it. Huge congratulations to all the winners - looking forward to reading your stories.
October 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Many thanks to @bathflashaward.bsky.social for longlisting my wee story, and thanks to @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for shortlisting it. Huge congratulations to all the winners - looking forward to reading your stories.
You haven't lived until you've heard satnav trying to say Auchengeich.😂😂
October 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
You haven't lived until you've heard satnav trying to say Auchengeich.😂😂
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Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include:
-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Google
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family
Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family
Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include:
-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Google
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family
Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family
Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
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Thrilled to share the beautiful cover of my debut novel, IN THE DESERT, on sale 3-3-2026 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Many thanks to the brilliant photographer, Keith Bernstein for use of the stunning cover image and to Ashling Dennehy for the design.
I'm so excited!
Many thanks to the brilliant photographer, Keith Bernstein for use of the stunning cover image and to Ashling Dennehy for the design.
I'm so excited!
October 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thrilled to share the beautiful cover of my debut novel, IN THE DESERT, on sale 3-3-2026 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Many thanks to the brilliant photographer, Keith Bernstein for use of the stunning cover image and to Ashling Dennehy for the design.
I'm so excited!
Many thanks to the brilliant photographer, Keith Bernstein for use of the stunning cover image and to Ashling Dennehy for the design.
I'm so excited!
A kids' book in time for Halloween from the ever brilliant @theburninghearth.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Farmer-Pumpk...
Farmer Ted's Pumpkin Patch
Farmer Ted's Pumpkin Patch [Malloy, Constance, Malloy, Hannah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Farmer Ted's Pumpkin Patch
www.amazon.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A kids' book in time for Halloween from the ever brilliant @theburninghearth.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Farmer-Pumpk...
Just found an email in spam inviting me to read at a book launch that I would definitely have said yes to. TUT! Stupid spam.
October 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Just found an email in spam inviting me to read at a book launch that I would definitely have said yes to. TUT! Stupid spam.
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We are thrilled to announce our long-list for the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025!
Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and for all those who entered this round!
oxfordflashfictionprize.com/news/
Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and for all those who entered this round!
oxfordflashfictionprize.com/news/
October 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We are thrilled to announce our long-list for the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025!
Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and for all those who entered this round!
oxfordflashfictionprize.com/news/
Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and for all those who entered this round!
oxfordflashfictionprize.com/news/
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If anyone knows folk who went to school with Nigel Farage I’d love to speak to them for an article and I’d protect their anonymity if they wished.
Do help pass this on please in the hope it reaches the right people. Thank you
Do help pass this on please in the hope it reaches the right people. Thank you
October 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
If anyone knows folk who went to school with Nigel Farage I’d love to speak to them for an article and I’d protect their anonymity if they wished.
Do help pass this on please in the hope it reaches the right people. Thank you
Do help pass this on please in the hope it reaches the right people. Thank you
I haven't watched South Park for years, but it's hilarious this season with their Trump/Vance stuff. How long until the big orange baby has them cancelled - or, ye know, imprisoned? Catch it before he does.
September 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I haven't watched South Park for years, but it's hilarious this season with their Trump/Vance stuff. How long until the big orange baby has them cancelled - or, ye know, imprisoned? Catch it before he does.
Two guys playing tennis on the court beside ours took a break in their game for a cigarette. 🤦♀️🤷♀️
September 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Two guys playing tennis on the court beside ours took a break in their game for a cigarette. 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Stop it, Tesco - behave!
August 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Stop it, Tesco - behave!
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“In poems, short stories, novel extracts, scripts & memoir, the writers in these pages have found their own distinctive ways of giving voice to what matters to them, & thereby spill some of the familiar, surprising, awkward, thrilling truths that make up who we are.”
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NWS 43: Introduction
Kirstin Innes and Chris Powici introduce New Writing Scotland 43. New Writing Scotland has a wide-open editorial policy, and we read each submission anonymously. It can create a lot of reading for our...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“In poems, short stories, novel extracts, scripts & memoir, the writers in these pages have found their own distinctive ways of giving voice to what matters to them, & thereby spill some of the familiar, surprising, awkward, thrilling truths that make up who we are.”
💙📚
asls.org.uk/publications...
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asls.org.uk/publications...
Chuffed to be in the New Writing Scotland anthology - and even happier to be there with friends @nivenaudrey.bsky.social and Elisabeth Ingram-Wallace.
August 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Chuffed to be in the New Writing Scotland anthology - and even happier to be there with friends @nivenaudrey.bsky.social and Elisabeth Ingram-Wallace.
It's that time of year again - off to Glasgow Clyde College to read some of my short stories and flash fiction to the illustration students. Can't wait to see what they come up with this year.
August 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It's that time of year again - off to Glasgow Clyde College to read some of my short stories and flash fiction to the illustration students. Can't wait to see what they come up with this year.
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This story is REALLY Scottish. I also need to know now how to get that T shirt.
EXCLUSIVE: Police Scotland have responded after a viral social media video showed officers detaining a man for wearing a t-shirt in support of the stop-motion animated character Morph
Police Scotland respond as officers detain 'pro-plasticine' activist in viral video
www.thenational.scot
August 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This story is REALLY Scottish. I also need to know now how to get that T shirt.
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
August 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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Is he trying to get people who look like 'foreigners' and deliver food attacked, assaulted, & racially abused? Because that's what that tweet does. I cannot believe it. Completely tone deaf. And entirely irresponsible.
July 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Is he trying to get people who look like 'foreigners' and deliver food attacked, assaulted, & racially abused? Because that's what that tweet does. I cannot believe it. Completely tone deaf. And entirely irresponsible.
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Big thanks to everyone who joined me for my Lost & Found session at this year's #flashficfest. Pictured: some of your creepy friends... I loved hearing your own lost & found stories. Do keep sharing them with me. Many thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social for inviting me 🙏.
July 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Big thanks to everyone who joined me for my Lost & Found session at this year's #flashficfest. Pictured: some of your creepy friends... I loved hearing your own lost & found stories. Do keep sharing them with me. Many thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social for inviting me 🙏.
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Huge 🙏🏽 @christopherallen.bsky @helenrye.bsky.social for @flashficfestuk.bsky.social
karaoke 🎶
Legendary rendition of OASIS Champagne Superova by @timcraig.bsky.social
Getting @itssonoemi.bsky.social to sing her 1st karaoke
@stillsquirrel.bsky.social literally on her knees for Like a prayer
karaoke 🎶
Legendary rendition of OASIS Champagne Superova by @timcraig.bsky.social
Getting @itssonoemi.bsky.social to sing her 1st karaoke
@stillsquirrel.bsky.social literally on her knees for Like a prayer
July 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Huge 🙏🏽 @christopherallen.bsky @helenrye.bsky.social for @flashficfestuk.bsky.social
karaoke 🎶
Legendary rendition of OASIS Champagne Superova by @timcraig.bsky.social
Getting @itssonoemi.bsky.social to sing her 1st karaoke
@stillsquirrel.bsky.social literally on her knees for Like a prayer
karaoke 🎶
Legendary rendition of OASIS Champagne Superova by @timcraig.bsky.social
Getting @itssonoemi.bsky.social to sing her 1st karaoke
@stillsquirrel.bsky.social literally on her knees for Like a prayer
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So lovely to see old friends and new at this year's @flashficfestuk.bsky.social! Thank you so much again to Jude, Diane and co. (won't tag you all in case that's a bit overwhelming!). So happy to be invited back as a presenter, loved all the workshops I attended and all the chats/fun in between 💙
July 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
So lovely to see old friends and new at this year's @flashficfestuk.bsky.social! Thank you so much again to Jude, Diane and co. (won't tag you all in case that's a bit overwhelming!). So happy to be invited back as a presenter, loved all the workshops I attended and all the chats/fun in between 💙