Marie Gethins
@mariegethins.bsky.social
Flashy Writer, Workshop Leader, Critiques, Flash Editor Banshee, Co-editor Splonk; Best Microfictions, Best Small Fictions, Hawthornden Fellow
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This is out in January and still would be grateful if anyone wants to pitch a review or interview for it!
I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is out in January and still would be grateful if anyone wants to pitch a review or interview for it!
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Join us tomorrow night in your living room for the 3nd launch of The Storms, Issue V ⚡️
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The Storms, Issue V. The Zoom launch
Get ready for the fifth installment of The Storms series as we launch Issue V on Zoom - it's gonna be a wild ride!
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November 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Join us tomorrow night in your living room for the 3nd launch of The Storms, Issue V ⚡️
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I'll be running my most generative workshop, on prose poetry series and sequences, online 7-9:30 p.m. GMT, on November 16 and 24th. Interested? Email me at carrie.etter at gmail dot com for more information.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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One of my favorite (and FREE!) contests is opening soon…
Get those 100 words ready!!!
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Get those 100 words ready!!!
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**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.
November 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
One of my favorite (and FREE!) contests is opening soon…
Get those 100 words ready!!!
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Get those 100 words ready!!!
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Thrilled to have a new #flashfiction up on #SoFloPoJo Gratitude to Ed @francinewitte.bsky.social and thanks to @kathyfish.bsky.social for original prompt from @flashficfestuk.bsky.social this year Yeehaw! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-39-nov...
Flash #39 Nov '25
SoFloPoJo Contents: Essays * Interviews * Reviews * Special * Video * Visual Arts * Archives * Calendar ...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Thrilled to have a new #flashfiction up on #SoFloPoJo Gratitude to Ed @francinewitte.bsky.social and thanks to @kathyfish.bsky.social for original prompt from @flashficfestuk.bsky.social this year Yeehaw! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-39-nov...
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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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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...
A few places left on my online POV course starting 4 Nov (NEXT WEEK) for four sessions. Move beyond the ordinary & really use this superb tool in the writer toolbox to enhance emotional resonance.
Want to up your POV game? Uncover the mysteries of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and use of multiple POVs to deepen your reader experience. Come join my 4-week online course in November through @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...
Flash Fiction Point-of-View Deep Dive with Marie Gethins - Irish Writers Centre
The most distilled prose form, flash fiction relies on suggestion—layered meaning that is off the page.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A few places left on my online POV course starting 4 Nov (NEXT WEEK) for four sessions. Move beyond the ordinary & really use this superb tool in the writer toolbox to enhance emotional resonance.
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In UL’s latest article for The Conversation, Professor Christina Morin, School of English, Irish, and Communication, discusses the beloved childhood book that still sends ‘a shiver of twinned fear and delight’ down her spine.
Read on: theconversation.com/scary-storie...
#StudyatUL #StayCurious
Read on: theconversation.com/scary-storie...
#StudyatUL #StayCurious
October 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Delighted to have a piece in this handsome tome! Meridian celebration 20 years of the Uni of Oxford Creative Writing Masters with 25 alumni featured. Int shipping, purchase here: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
October 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Delighted to have a piece in this handsome tome! Meridian celebration 20 years of the Uni of Oxford Creative Writing Masters with 25 alumni featured. Int shipping, purchase here: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
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This weekend & one more till our 31st Award ends on Sun 5th Oct. Up to 300 word #flashfiction Results by end Oct. £1460 in prizes + publication offer in our 10th anniversary anthology for all 50 longlisted
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
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September 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This weekend & one more till our 31st Award ends on Sun 5th Oct. Up to 300 word #flashfiction Results by end Oct. £1460 in prizes + publication offer in our 10th anniversary anthology for all 50 longlisted
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
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Open the Door to Flash! Just in case you are in or near Bath, U.K, I’m hosting a Free evening of #flashfiction readings on Sat, 27th Sept. 18 writers reading flash + snacks, raffle + book sales. Fun! St James Wine Vaults 7.30 pm till 10.00 www.judehiggins.com/blog/
September 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Open the Door to Flash! Just in case you are in or near Bath, U.K, I’m hosting a Free evening of #flashfiction readings on Sat, 27th Sept. 18 writers reading flash + snacks, raffle + book sales. Fun! St James Wine Vaults 7.30 pm till 10.00 www.judehiggins.com/blog/
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Congratulations to this year's winners and to all the writers featured in the Volume 17 anthology.
Read all their stories: bit.ly/4l0zhk8
@zoemeager.bsky.social @morrislau78.bsky.social
#writing #shortstories #writingcompetitions
Read all their stories: bit.ly/4l0zhk8
@zoemeager.bsky.social @morrislau78.bsky.social
#writing #shortstories #writingcompetitions
June 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Congratulations to this year's winners and to all the writers featured in the Volume 17 anthology.
Read all their stories: bit.ly/4l0zhk8
@zoemeager.bsky.social @morrislau78.bsky.social
#writing #shortstories #writingcompetitions
Read all their stories: bit.ly/4l0zhk8
@zoemeager.bsky.social @morrislau78.bsky.social
#writing #shortstories #writingcompetitions
Want to up your POV game? Uncover the mysteries of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and use of multiple POVs to deepen your reader experience. Come join my 4-week online course in November through @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...
Flash Fiction Point-of-View Deep Dive with Marie Gethins - Irish Writers Centre
The most distilled prose form, flash fiction relies on suggestion—layered meaning that is off the page.
irishwriterscentre.ie
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Want to up your POV game? Uncover the mysteries of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and use of multiple POVs to deepen your reader experience. Come join my 4-week online course in November through @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...
“Sometimes I think I’ll just float up into the sky and disappear.” Brilliant story @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Fantastic amphora use & deft shifting of timelines, character arcs. 💙✨
So delighted to have this story (a piece of the novel I'm working on) be the winner of @expositionreview.bsky.social flash contest! 🥺🥺
Absolute Magnitude - Exposition Review
by Chloe N. Clark 1st Place Winner – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Fiction In another life, Cassie lives. She wakes up in the hospital, a slow blinking to consciousness, and the doctors say m...
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September 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“Sometimes I think I’ll just float up into the sky and disappear.” Brilliant story @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Fantastic amphora use & deft shifting of timelines, character arcs. 💙✨
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2 weeks till the deadline of the 31st Award on Oct 5th. £1460 in prizes. Want to give an up to 300 word story a go? Try out Jude’s prompt in the post www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/09/two-...
Two Weeks to go!
Our 31st Award, judged this time by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris from the UK,closes on Sunday 5th October at midnight GMT. For stories up to 300 words. Prze fund of £1460. 1 entry £9.00, two entries £15…
www.bathflashfictionaward.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
2 weeks till the deadline of the 31st Award on Oct 5th. £1460 in prizes. Want to give an up to 300 word story a go? Try out Jude’s prompt in the post www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/09/two-...
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Irish poet @jesstraynor.bsky.social will be reading from her brand new fourth collection New Arcana @outspokenldn.bsky.social at London's Southbank Centre on Thursday 18 September, 7.45pm, alongside Leo Boix, Sara Mansour and fellow Bloodaxe poet @imtiazdharker.bsky.social.
Join us on 18th September for the next edition of Out-Spoken Live!
Hosted by Joelle Taylor, with performances from Leo Boix, Imtiaz Dharker, Sara Mansour and Jessica Traynor. With music from Simeon Hammond Dallas and Camden Stewart.
Grab your ticket: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/out... 🎟️
Hosted by Joelle Taylor, with performances from Leo Boix, Imtiaz Dharker, Sara Mansour and Jessica Traynor. With music from Simeon Hammond Dallas and Camden Stewart.
Grab your ticket: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/out... 🎟️
September 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Irish poet @jesstraynor.bsky.social will be reading from her brand new fourth collection New Arcana @outspokenldn.bsky.social at London's Southbank Centre on Thursday 18 September, 7.45pm, alongside Leo Boix, Sara Mansour and fellow Bloodaxe poet @imtiazdharker.bsky.social.
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September news: New books from @poetclare.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social & @emiliejelinek.bsky.social; prize news for Matthew Caley, Kris Johnson & Niall Campbell; radio & podcasts for @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Greta Stoddart; Ruth Fainlight film premiere.
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September 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
September news: New books from @poetclare.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social & @emiliejelinek.bsky.social; prize news for Matthew Caley, Kris Johnson & Niall Campbell; radio & podcasts for @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Greta Stoddart; Ruth Fainlight film premiere.
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“Food is alive. Food is us.” The upcoming issue will be our last. Submissions are now open until October 15. Thank you to all who’ve written, read, & edited. RUBY’s spirit continues in a hybrid cookbook antholgy.
rubyliterarypress.com/submissions/
rubyliterarypress.com/submissions/
SUBMISSIONS
RUBY is a bi-annual literary magazine and press that publishes short-form food narratives that strive for voice, artistry, and character. We want work that grabs us and doesn’t let us go—fier…
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September 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“Food is alive. Food is us.” The upcoming issue will be our last. Submissions are now open until October 15. Thank you to all who’ve written, read, & edited. RUBY’s spirit continues in a hybrid cookbook antholgy.
rubyliterarypress.com/submissions/
rubyliterarypress.com/submissions/
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Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!
New Short Story, Long Day! New Amber Sparks Day!
It's @ambersparks.bsky.social on SSL day!
(w/ some new fave story art from @philmcandrew.bsky.social!)
It's @ambersparks.bsky.social on SSL day!
(w/ some new fave story art from @philmcandrew.bsky.social!)
"Your Life in Parties" by Amber Sparks
"...your retirement party, the one they threw for you at the atrocious Italian restaurant. Surprise!, they all yell, which is so awkward because this isn’t a surprise party...."
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September 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!
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Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection!
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection!
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
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Your three-week-to-go deadline reminder for our 31st Award. Closes 5th Oct. £1k top prize. Some tips in the post. The picture of the 4 leaf clover here, is for luck. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/09/the-...
The Power of Three
Just three weeks until our 31st Award closes on October 5thl .Thank you to everyone who has entered so far. We’re getting pretty busy. To remind you, the prize fund is £1460. All 50 longliste…
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September 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Your three-week-to-go deadline reminder for our 31st Award. Closes 5th Oct. £1k top prize. Some tips in the post. The picture of the 4 leaf clover here, is for luck. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/09/the-...
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Tomorrow in Cork, remembering Elizabeth Bowen 🌸
Reminder: Farahy - 14th Sep. 2025 - Commemoration of Elizabeth Bowen
Evensong 2025
The Annual Choral Evensong in Commemoration of Elizabeth Bowen will take place this year on Sunday, 14 September, at St Colman's Church, Farahy, at 3:30pm.
Evensong 2025
The Annual Choral Evensong in Commemoration of Elizabeth Bowen will take place this year on Sunday, 14 September, at St Colman's Church, Farahy, at 3:30pm.
September 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Tomorrow in Cork, remembering Elizabeth Bowen 🌸