Kate Horsley
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
Writer, tea drinker & Uni Lecturer | Latest Short Stories, Flash Fiction & Poetry - Bridport, Bath, Oxford Flash, Strix, Fictive Dream | Novels - William Morrow & Harper Collins | Editor @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
https://www.katehorsley.co.uk
https://www.katehorsley.co.uk
Wonderful list here!! Thanks so much @mynachang.bsky.social for including my speculative flash ‘The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter’ alongside all of these amazing pieces!!
Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!
Flash Roundup * October-November 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
mynachang.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Wonderful list here!! Thanks so much @mynachang.bsky.social for including my speculative flash ‘The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter’ alongside all of these amazing pieces!!
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Huge thank you to @petermcallister.bsky.social and @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social over at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social for this wonderful nomination. I so adore your gorgeous art-forward magazine!
And ICYMI here's the link to my story:
inkfishmag.com/what-moon-wo...
And ICYMI here's the link to my story:
inkfishmag.com/what-moon-wo...
Congratulations to our amazing authors - cheering you all on for this year's Pushcart Prize!
@juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
@bsherm36.bsky.social
inkfishmag.com/awards/
@juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
@bsherm36.bsky.social
inkfishmag.com/awards/
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Huge thank you to @petermcallister.bsky.social and @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social over at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social for this wonderful nomination. I so adore your gorgeous art-forward magazine!
And ICYMI here's the link to my story:
inkfishmag.com/what-moon-wo...
And ICYMI here's the link to my story:
inkfishmag.com/what-moon-wo...
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Really enjoying catching up with Eve Grubin's session @nawewriters.bsky.social conference on bringing silence into one's work. Fitted well w @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social 's session. It's a great idea to have all of the recordings available! 🙏 #NAWE
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Really enjoying catching up with Eve Grubin's session @nawewriters.bsky.social conference on bringing silence into one's work. Fitted well w @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social 's session. It's a great idea to have all of the recordings available! 🙏 #NAWE
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Congratulations to our amazing authors - cheering you all on for this year's Pushcart Prize!
@juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
@bsherm36.bsky.social
inkfishmag.com/awards/
@juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
@bsherm36.bsky.social
inkfishmag.com/awards/
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Congratulations to our amazing authors - cheering you all on for this year's Pushcart Prize!
@juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
@bsherm36.bsky.social
inkfishmag.com/awards/
@juliabiggs.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
@bsherm36.bsky.social
inkfishmag.com/awards/
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Thrilled to see this brilliant poetry chapbook by @ewenglass.bsky.social riding high in the poetry ranks on Amazon! If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea is full of beauty, magic, humour, and wisdom. You can buy it here: amzn.eu/d/2wSXZ3i
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Thrilled to see this brilliant poetry chapbook by @ewenglass.bsky.social riding high in the poetry ranks on Amazon! If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea is full of beauty, magic, humour, and wisdom. You can buy it here: amzn.eu/d/2wSXZ3i
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Thanks so much @trashcatlit.bsky.social for nominating this story for #bestsmallfictions 😀 Good luck to all the other nominees! 🥳
It was nigh on impossible to choose only 5! 🦝
3 of these are from August's prompted stories - which were all that good.
Good luck to all our nominated authors and their stunning stories (links to online pubs in thread) 💜
1/5
@jupiterjonz.bsky.social
@pj-mccarthy.bsky.social
3 of these are from August's prompted stories - which were all that good.
Good luck to all our nominated authors and their stunning stories (links to online pubs in thread) 💜
1/5
@jupiterjonz.bsky.social
@pj-mccarthy.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Thanks so much @trashcatlit.bsky.social for nominating this story for #bestsmallfictions 😀 Good luck to all the other nominees! 🥳
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Wishing @ewenglass.bsky.social a very happy launch day! We're so excited to be publishing this chapbook by Ewen Glass - If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea - beautiful poems by a wonderful writer!
amzn.eu/d/f6oChEA
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November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Wishing @ewenglass.bsky.social a very happy launch day! We're so excited to be publishing this chapbook by Ewen Glass - If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea - beautiful poems by a wonderful writer!
amzn.eu/d/f6oChEA
amzn.eu/d/f6oChEA
She says this isn’t a laundry basket. She says I must be mistaken.
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
She says this isn’t a laundry basket. She says I must be mistaken.
So excited to see my flash piece 'The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter' in this special fampunk edition of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
Thanks as always to the amazing people at
@smokelong.bsky.social where this piece began! 😍
Thanks as always to the amazing people at
@smokelong.bsky.social where this piece began! 😍
Our Nov 2025 FamPunk issue is now available on our website and via Weightless! Selected by our guest editor Emma Burnett, this issue features spec-fic families of all sorts. Go small and go home!
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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#writingcommunity #flashfiction
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
Flash Fiction Online November 2025
Flash Fiction Online’s November 2025 “”FamPunk”” issue is a collection of family-centered speculative fiction, selected by our guest editor this month Emma Burnett. We…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
So excited to see my flash piece 'The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter' in this special fampunk edition of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
Thanks as always to the amazing people at
@smokelong.bsky.social where this piece began! 😍
Thanks as always to the amazing people at
@smokelong.bsky.social where this piece began! 😍
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Curious about the workshop community of SmokeLong Fitness? You can give it a test drive in Nov/Dec. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
Try SmokeLong Fitness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Are you curious about the community workshop of SmokeLong Fitness but don’t know if you can commit to a year without a peek behind the curtain? You can try SmokeLong Fitness in November and December 2...
www.smokelong.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Curious about the workshop community of SmokeLong Fitness? You can give it a test drive in Nov/Dec. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
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Thrilled & honoured to learn @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social has nominated my piece ‘Habitat’ for a Pushcart Prize! 🤩 Huge thanks to supremely supportive editors @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social & congratulations to my (decidedly more talented) fellow nominees. 🥳
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Thrilled & honoured to learn @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social has nominated my piece ‘Habitat’ for a Pushcart Prize! 🤩 Huge thanks to supremely supportive editors @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social & congratulations to my (decidedly more talented) fellow nominees. 🥳
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September MicroVerse roundup is out!
Flash Roundup * September 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
mynachang.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
September MicroVerse roundup is out!
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“My blood has opened a conduit to an elsewhere, importing emissaries of shell, feather, fur, and hoof to remind me that boundaries leak, that absence is merely another geometry of presence.” Strange and beautiful story—so unexpectedly emotional. I love everything @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social writes!
"There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—"
The cool thing about helping run a lit mag is that you are madly in love with everything you publish, like this @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social grief story, which is weird and beautiful and perfect! Check it!
The cool thing about helping run a lit mag is that you are madly in love with everything you publish, like this @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social grief story, which is weird and beautiful and perfect! Check it!
The Hand's Aperture by Mizuki Yamagen
There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—like a channel grown curious and turning back on itself. Last week it was a mosquito bite: a temporary river...
hexliterary.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
“My blood has opened a conduit to an elsewhere, importing emissaries of shell, feather, fur, and hoof to remind me that boundaries leak, that absence is merely another geometry of presence.” Strange and beautiful story—so unexpectedly emotional. I love everything @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social writes!
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@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
“The manual described the Olivetti’s body parts – space bar, ribbon spool, paper table, platen knob, ribbon vibrator – and I read you out the last two, tangled naked with you in our hotel sheets, and you laughed at me,”
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“The manual described the Olivetti’s body parts – space bar, ribbon spool, paper table, platen knob, ribbon vibrator – and I read you out the last two, tangled naked with you in our hotel sheets, and you laughed at me,”
gooseberry-pie.com/red-olivetti/
Red Olivetti - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Dcps Chloé on Unsplash by Kate Horsley Every time I move, I take the typewriter with me – Olivetti Lettera 35, kitsch relic of the 1970s, the keys like raked auditorium seats climbing towards...
gooseberry-pie.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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“The manual described the Olivetti’s body parts – space bar, ribbon spool, paper table, platen knob, ribbon vibrator – and I read you out the last two, tangled naked with you in our hotel sheets, and you laughed at me,”
gooseberry-pie.com/red-olivetti/
“The manual described the Olivetti’s body parts – space bar, ribbon spool, paper table, platen knob, ribbon vibrator – and I read you out the last two, tangled naked with you in our hotel sheets, and you laughed at me,”
gooseberry-pie.com/red-olivetti/
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@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
“When Papa’s safely gone, I climb on Mama and wrap my arms tight around her and snuggle my face in her flower-smelling neck, whispering, you’re mine, all and always mine,”
gooseberry-pie.com/peanut/
“When Papa’s safely gone, I climb on Mama and wrap my arms tight around her and snuggle my face in her flower-smelling neck, whispering, you’re mine, all and always mine,”
gooseberry-pie.com/peanut/
Peanut - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Pexels.com Photo by Melike-baran by Kate Horsley On Sundays, when Papa’s out running, Mama and I look at photos of us, cuddling in bed with Kipper the dog and Mama’s photo box labelled ‘Peanut’ in Mam...
gooseberry-pie.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
“When Papa’s safely gone, I climb on Mama and wrap my arms tight around her and snuggle my face in her flower-smelling neck, whispering, you’re mine, all and always mine,”
gooseberry-pie.com/peanut/
“When Papa’s safely gone, I climb on Mama and wrap my arms tight around her and snuggle my face in her flower-smelling neck, whispering, you’re mine, all and always mine,”
gooseberry-pie.com/peanut/
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@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
“Four years of separation are duly mourned in sleeves of interlocking puzzle pieces inked in orange and green, while blackwork notes freckle tender inner thighs every time a lover tries to read their bodies,”
gooseberry-pie.com/needles/
“Four years of separation are duly mourned in sleeves of interlocking puzzle pieces inked in orange and green, while blackwork notes freckle tender inner thighs every time a lover tries to read their bodies,”
gooseberry-pie.com/needles/
Needles - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Dynamic Wang on Unsplash by Kate Horsley Every time something big happens, the sisters get tattoos, beginning with that constellation eulogising their virginity, twin Scorpios hich later blur...
gooseberry-pie.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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“Four years of separation are duly mourned in sleeves of interlocking puzzle pieces inked in orange and green, while blackwork notes freckle tender inner thighs every time a lover tries to read their bodies,”
gooseberry-pie.com/needles/
“Four years of separation are duly mourned in sleeves of interlocking puzzle pieces inked in orange and green, while blackwork notes freckle tender inner thighs every time a lover tries to read their bodies,”
gooseberry-pie.com/needles/
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Over 150 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in September 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
September 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Over 150 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in September 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
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Read new issue of Gooseberry Pie
Beth Konkoski Chad Foret @charhamrick.bsky.social Jane Yager @jennystalter.bsky.social
Elizabeth Meyer Gonzalez
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/
Beth Konkoski Chad Foret @charhamrick.bsky.social Jane Yager @jennystalter.bsky.social
Elizabeth Meyer Gonzalez
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/
Issue 35 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Jeff Harvey Stories Gooseberry Pie’s nominations for Best of the Net 2026: Check out Flash Fiction Institute a new flash fiction educational and community hub offering virtual classes, craft ...
gooseberry-pie.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Read new issue of Gooseberry Pie
Beth Konkoski Chad Foret @charhamrick.bsky.social Jane Yager @jennystalter.bsky.social
Elizabeth Meyer Gonzalez
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/
Beth Konkoski Chad Foret @charhamrick.bsky.social Jane Yager @jennystalter.bsky.social
Elizabeth Meyer Gonzalez
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/
Thrilled to have three micros up in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social ❤️ gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/ Shoutout to @smokelong.bsky.social where these pieces all began! x
Issue 35 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Jeff Harvey Stories Gooseberry Pie’s nominations for Best of the Net 2026: Check out Flash Fiction Institute a new flash fiction educational and community hub offering virtual classes, craft ...
gooseberry-pie.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Thrilled to have three micros up in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social ❤️ gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/ Shoutout to @smokelong.bsky.social where these pieces all began! x
Smeagol will swear on the Precious
September 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Smeagol will swear on the Precious
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Our first print anthology is coming at the end of the month! 🦝
27 amazing short fictions that celebrate the theme of treasure in unexpected places.
Proceeds of sale go to
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
Updates here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
We can't wait to share What Comes to Light 💜
27 amazing short fictions that celebrate the theme of treasure in unexpected places.
Proceeds of sale go to
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
Updates here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
We can't wait to share What Comes to Light 💜
September 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Our first print anthology is coming at the end of the month! 🦝
27 amazing short fictions that celebrate the theme of treasure in unexpected places.
Proceeds of sale go to
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
Updates here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
We can't wait to share What Comes to Light 💜
27 amazing short fictions that celebrate the theme of treasure in unexpected places.
Proceeds of sale go to
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
Updates here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
We can't wait to share What Comes to Light 💜
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The Joy of Flash Fiction - "I am out with lanterns, looking for myself." ~Emily Dickinson. Hope you'll enjoy my latest newsletter. 💙https://open.substack.com/pub/artofflashfiction/p/the-joy-of-flash-fiction?r=4e5y2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
The Joy of Flash Fiction
Photo by The Prototype on Unsplash
open.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Joy of Flash Fiction - "I am out with lanterns, looking for myself." ~Emily Dickinson. Hope you'll enjoy my latest newsletter. 💙https://open.substack.com/pub/artofflashfiction/p/the-joy-of-flash-fiction?r=4e5y2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Interested in novellas-in-flash? This is such a great book club run by the lovely @laurabesley.bsky.social - fun, informative and friendly
There's still time to sign up for the next block of The NIFTY Book Club! All details in post/link below ⏬⏬
#book #books #bookclub #fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity #novellainflash #nif
#book #books #bookclub #fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity #novellainflash #nif
The new block of The NIFTY Book Club is open for sign ups!
📚 Sept '25 - Jan '26
📚 Sundays 10-11.30am OR Mondays 19.30-21.00 BST/GMT
📚 Live author Q&As
📚 Worksheets in advance, meetings on zoom
📚 Full details in link below
#fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity
www.laurabesley.com/nifty-book-c...
📚 Sept '25 - Jan '26
📚 Sundays 10-11.30am OR Mondays 19.30-21.00 BST/GMT
📚 Live author Q&As
📚 Worksheets in advance, meetings on zoom
📚 Full details in link below
#fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity
www.laurabesley.com/nifty-book-c...
September 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Interested in novellas-in-flash? This is such a great book club run by the lovely @laurabesley.bsky.social - fun, informative and friendly
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This little jam by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social made my morning.
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mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
SIMS™ Christmas | MrBullBull
mrbullbull.com
August 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This little jam by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social made my morning.
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...