Kik Lodge
@kiklodge.bsky.social
Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, 2026) SCREAM IF YOU WANT TO (Alien Buddha Press) Words in Milk Candy Review | Ghost Parachute | Smokelong | Bending Genres |
Hosts literary open-mics | Vomits at AI @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
Hosts literary open-mics | Vomits at AI @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
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The Failing Writers Podcast - S5 Ep20: 2025 Flash Fiction Contest FINAL!
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Only gone and bagged 3rd in this brilliant comp 🙌🫡😚. 2nd and 1st were obvious wowers, naturellement. And I think it’s something akin to squishy having your story read by pros. Classy people, you @failingwriters.bsky.social
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Best Friends on a Night Out, painting by Lucy Manfredi (b. 1974).
November 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Best Friends on a Night Out, painting by Lucy Manfredi (b. 1974).
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Fuck Black Friday! Support indie publishers and bookstores! A collection or chapbook makes an excellent Christmas present...
These guys create beautiful books and are such a big part of the literary ecosystem — if we want small publishing to exist we have to keep it alive!
These guys create beautiful books and are such a big part of the literary ecosystem — if we want small publishing to exist we have to keep it alive!
To everyone who’s bought a book from us recently: thank you.
We’re reaching for just 10% of our subscribers and followers to buy a book from us, which would sustain our work in a big way.
If you haven’t yet, and you can, we’d love your support.
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We’re reaching for just 10% of our subscribers and followers to buy a book from us, which would sustain our work in a big way.
If you haven’t yet, and you can, we’d love your support.
brokensleepbooks.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Fuck Black Friday! Support indie publishers and bookstores! A collection or chapbook makes an excellent Christmas present...
These guys create beautiful books and are such a big part of the literary ecosystem — if we want small publishing to exist we have to keep it alive!
These guys create beautiful books and are such a big part of the literary ecosystem — if we want small publishing to exist we have to keep it alive!
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We are pleased to announce that Peatsmoke is now paying contributors! Contributors will receive $10 per piece (though we wish it was one million because that's how much we love you)!
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We are pleased to announce that Peatsmoke is now paying contributors! Contributors will receive $10 per piece (though we wish it was one million because that's how much we love you)!
Kicking bottoms, this Mairead
Very proud that my story about deep cleaners is out in Gooseberry Pie today 😁 gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/
Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories
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November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Kicking bottoms, this Mairead
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In two weeks! Come join us! Get your work out there in 2026!!
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 1:27 PM
In two weeks! Come join us! Get your work out there in 2026!!
Only gone and bagged 3rd in this brilliant comp 🙌🫡😚. 2nd and 1st were obvious wowers, naturellement. And I think it’s something akin to squishy having your story read by pros. Classy people, you @failingwriters.bsky.social
The Failing Writers Podcast - S5 Ep20: 2025 Flash Fiction Contest FINAL!
YouTube video by Failing Writers
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November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Only gone and bagged 3rd in this brilliant comp 🙌🫡😚. 2nd and 1st were obvious wowers, naturellement. And I think it’s something akin to squishy having your story read by pros. Classy people, you @failingwriters.bsky.social
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Cowboy Jamboree's Fall issue is live y'all.
We're kicking off our 11th (!) year with "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." The theme was inspired by a Slim Hand lyric & these writers took it in all kinds of cool directions.
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/hidden-behin...
We're kicking off our 11th (!) year with "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." The theme was inspired by a Slim Hand lyric & these writers took it in all kinds of cool directions.
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/hidden-behin...
Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked.
fall 2025 issue 11.1 "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." Where'd this fall's theme come from? It's a James "Slim" Hand lyric from a song about sitting in a bar in the corner at a table by a.....
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November 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Cowboy Jamboree's Fall issue is live y'all.
We're kicking off our 11th (!) year with "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." The theme was inspired by a Slim Hand lyric & these writers took it in all kinds of cool directions.
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/hidden-behin...
We're kicking off our 11th (!) year with "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." The theme was inspired by a Slim Hand lyric & these writers took it in all kinds of cool directions.
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/hidden-behin...
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JMWW Journal is open for poetry, CNF, fiction, and hybrid/beyond genre submissions. Closes 11/15
jmww.submittable.com/submit
jmww.submittable.com/submit
JMWW Submission Manager
jmww is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry, hybrid work, essays, interviews, and other miscellany weekly. We are happy you found us!We want to see your work, but don't be all stalke...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
JMWW Journal is open for poetry, CNF, fiction, and hybrid/beyond genre submissions. Closes 11/15
jmww.submittable.com/submit
jmww.submittable.com/submit
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1.) Write a poem on the back of a receipt
2.) Fold the poem as many times as you can
3.) Stick the poem in the middle of a snowball
4.) Roll the snowball poem down your nearest hill
5.) Repeat this process until Spring arrives
2.) Fold the poem as many times as you can
3.) Stick the poem in the middle of a snowball
4.) Roll the snowball poem down your nearest hill
5.) Repeat this process until Spring arrives
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
1.) Write a poem on the back of a receipt
2.) Fold the poem as many times as you can
3.) Stick the poem in the middle of a snowball
4.) Roll the snowball poem down your nearest hill
5.) Repeat this process until Spring arrives
2.) Fold the poem as many times as you can
3.) Stick the poem in the middle of a snowball
4.) Roll the snowball poem down your nearest hill
5.) Repeat this process until Spring arrives
Loving this warm and gooey sense of community @smokelong.bsky.social ❤️
Starting Nov 8! That's this coming Saturday! Promptember is free. Yep. A huge number of write-in and open mic events Nov 8-Dec 14, and this one is on us. Come write with us. Events are planned for various timezones. Do one a week, three, or all if you never sleep. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...
Ready for Promptember 2025? - SmokeLong Quarterly
Join the SmokeLong community for Promptember, a mysterious intermonth happening between November and December of live write-in events designed to light a fire under your writing life. Participate in o...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Loving this warm and gooey sense of community @smokelong.bsky.social ❤️
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If you’re baking and using brown sugar, and some of it shakes out in small clumps, here’s my go-to kitchen pro tip…
You eat them.
They’re little treats.
You deserve it.
You eat them.
They’re little treats.
You deserve it.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
If you’re baking and using brown sugar, and some of it shakes out in small clumps, here’s my go-to kitchen pro tip…
You eat them.
They’re little treats.
You deserve it.
You eat them.
They’re little treats.
You deserve it.
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Everyone cheer I sold 75 books at the Virginia Cat Festival this weekend! Meow!!
November 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Everyone cheer I sold 75 books at the Virginia Cat Festival this weekend! Meow!!
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Paragraph Planet, the #writing website, has been publishing one story on its home page every day since 2008. That's [*quick calculation*]......LOTS of stories. Submit today! paragraphplanet.com/submission.php
November 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Paragraph Planet, the #writing website, has been publishing one story on its home page every day since 2008. That's [*quick calculation*]......LOTS of stories. Submit today! paragraphplanet.com/submission.php
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Still open for ~10 more applications!
I say this with excitement: our short story/flash fiction editor, @egreenberg.bsky.social, will be looking for a few new readers to join the 2026 SS/FF reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED!
SS/FF reader apps open on Sun Nov 2 and will close by Sat Nov 8, or after we've received 100 applications.
SS/FF reader apps open on Sun Nov 2 and will close by Sat Nov 8, or after we've received 100 applications.
November 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Still open for ~10 more applications!
“And now she was thrusting the cone at me, less gently, the swirl tilting already in the heavy August midnight, requiring me to go right into licking before drips reached my hand”
Stupendously moving piece of flash by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social 🙌
Stupendously moving piece of flash by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social 🙌
Drive-Thru Cone — Ghost Parachute
At the McDonald’s window for a soft-serve an hour after you died, I thought of telling the woman who took my three ones that I was motherless now, that I wasn’t hungry, not really, but the germicidals...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“And now she was thrusting the cone at me, less gently, the swirl tilting already in the heavy August midnight, requiring me to go right into licking before drips reached my hand”
Stupendously moving piece of flash by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social 🙌
Stupendously moving piece of flash by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social 🙌
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"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, and trapped animals, hiding their young"
A stunner from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social So much story unspooling from the anaphora repetition
A stunner from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social So much story unspooling from the anaphora repetition
Thanks #MilkCandyReview for getting 'The Suitcase of Lost Belongings' out there! And thanks @corrineleith.bsky.social for the prompt and @fionamckay.bsky.social for the feedback to get there!
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The Suitcase of Lost Belongings ~ by Rosaleen Lynch
She can’t take her children in the suitcase. They would fit if she emptied it. They could top and tail in the folds of the quilt she made of their clothes, but there’s not even enough room for thei…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, and trapped animals, hiding their young"
A stunner from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social So much story unspooling from the anaphora repetition
A stunner from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social So much story unspooling from the anaphora repetition
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You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.
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It's November 1, which means OKD is open once more for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions
November 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It's November 1, which means OKD is open once more for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions
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ICYMI
Read Amanda Krupman's review of Kathryn Aldridge-Morris's collection Cold Toast at SmokeLong now. Available from Dahlia Books. @kazbarwrites.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/book-review-...
Book Review: Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris - SmokeLong Quarterly
Reviewed by Amanda Krupman Kathryn Aldridge-Morris’s flash collection Cold Toast [Dahlia Books, October 2025] opens with an ekphrastic story referencing its cover art by Irish printmaker Lee Mara. It’...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
ICYMI
Oozing impatience so I circled it in blue. Out with @stanchion.bsky.social in August 2026.
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Oozing impatience so I circled it in blue. Out with @stanchion.bsky.social in August 2026.
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Portland, US, annyal event known as the "Standup Paddleboard Witch Paddle" #womensart
(Image S.Bugarsky)
(Image S.Bugarsky)
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Portland, US, annyal event known as the "Standup Paddleboard Witch Paddle" #womensart
(Image S.Bugarsky)
(Image S.Bugarsky)
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Many congratulations to our winners! 5 brilliant stories selected by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social
1st Adam Brannigan, 2nd @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
3rd @debdanthewriter.bsky.social
Highly commended @dawnsteffler.bsky.social All stories published bathflashfictionaward.com
1st Adam Brannigan, 2nd @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
3rd @debdanthewriter.bsky.social
Highly commended @dawnsteffler.bsky.social All stories published bathflashfictionaward.com
Bath Flash Fiction Award
International Rolling Flash Fiction Competition
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October 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Many congratulations to our winners! 5 brilliant stories selected by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social
1st Adam Brannigan, 2nd @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
3rd @debdanthewriter.bsky.social
Highly commended @dawnsteffler.bsky.social All stories published bathflashfictionaward.com
1st Adam Brannigan, 2nd @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
3rd @debdanthewriter.bsky.social
Highly commended @dawnsteffler.bsky.social All stories published bathflashfictionaward.com
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Starting Tuesday – a fantastic 4-week online course with our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social ✨
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irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Starting Tuesday – a fantastic 4-week online course with our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social ✨
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...
What Otto says.
This is the Royal equivalent of the amputation of a gangrenous limb to stop the rest of The Firm getting infected.
An act of self-preservation.
If it was integrity, then they'd have booted Andrew out years ago.
They didn't.
www.ft.com/content/a7d6...
An act of self-preservation.
If it was integrity, then they'd have booted Andrew out years ago.
They didn't.
www.ft.com/content/a7d6...
King Charles strips Andrew of prince title and ejects him from mansion
Royal subject to ‘censures deemed necessary’ in sharp change of tone by Buckingham Palace
www.ft.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
What Otto says.