Mon Dickson
@mondickson.bsky.social
Writer. Dentist try-hard. Cornflakes uptight. She/her.
#FlashFiction & #ShortStories at Temple in a City | Anti Heroin Chic | Splonk | jmww | X-RAY + more. Best small fictions nominee 2026. NSSF Academy graduate. https://writingandthelike.wordpress.com/
#FlashFiction & #ShortStories at Temple in a City | Anti Heroin Chic | Splonk | jmww | X-RAY + more. Best small fictions nominee 2026. NSSF Academy graduate. https://writingandthelike.wordpress.com/
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Mon Dickson
@mondickson.bsky.social
· Sep 9
This @mondickson.bsky.social flash is a journey. Read it when you’re fed up or overwhelmed or just can’t. Read it now. Read it to friends. Read it to the world. Read it because it’s Friday or Saturday or any day and you are alive.
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Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal, Monica Dickson
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In case you missed it, here's my latest flash, 'How to make a living coffin' in the tremendous @templeinacity.bsky.social Issue 2, Light
My Best small fictions nominated story, 'How to make a living coffin' @templeinacity.bsky.social is available to read here, and in great company. Congratulations to all the nominees! ✨🎉
January 19, 2026 at 7:53 PM
My Best small fictions nominated story, 'How to make a living coffin' @templeinacity.bsky.social is available to read here, and in great company. Congratulations to all the nominees! ✨🎉
Big Feelings about this Best Small Fictions nomination. Huge thanks to the wonderfully supportive @eireneeleni.bsky.social 🙏
May we introduce with pleasure our Best Small Fiction 2026 nominees. templeinacity.com/temple-in-a-...
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social @mondickson.bsky.social
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social @mondickson.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Big Feelings about this Best Small Fictions nomination. Huge thanks to the wonderfully supportive @eireneeleni.bsky.social 🙏
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It’s here, it’s live, your little slice of joy. A micro issue bursting with heart-filling poetry, flash, micro and CNF, brief and brilliant as a sun glint on water. Sip at them whenever it hurts. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It’s here, it’s live, your little slice of joy. A micro issue bursting with heart-filling poetry, flash, micro and CNF, brief and brilliant as a sun glint on water. Sip at them whenever it hurts. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
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Issue 3 contributors.
December 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Issue 3 contributors.
Congratulations all! 🙌🙌
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Congratulations all! 🙌🙌
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Temple in a city nomination for Pushcart and Best of the Net (that one announced belatedly but submitted on time). Congratulations to all authors and look for more nomination announcements soon. templeinacity.com/temple-in-a-...
Temple in a City literary journal
Temple in a City literary journal award nominations, Best of the net, Pushcart prize
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November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Temple in a city nomination for Pushcart and Best of the Net (that one announced belatedly but submitted on time). Congratulations to all authors and look for more nomination announcements soon. templeinacity.com/temple-in-a-...
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Choose your metaphor but if you can write your heart and vision and send it into the world, here and other great lit mags. The counter to the dehumanization of our work and our lives is us. It’s you. It’s we. It’s putting one word after another because we can and we will.
a woman writes the word we on a whiteboard
Alt: Myley Cyrus writes the we will on a whiteboard
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November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Choose your metaphor but if you can write your heart and vision and send it into the world, here and other great lit mags. The counter to the dehumanization of our work and our lives is us. It’s you. It’s we. It’s putting one word after another because we can and we will.
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Send some joy our way for a special issue-let, a micro mag, an itty issue but happy, like sun flashing through cloud or whatever it is that makes you happy. Like your first solo bike ride. A final leaving. Or return. We don’t know, it’s your joy but we can share it. Open for just a couple of days.
Today it’s easy to be joyful so how about a little pop-up theme call. Joy is the theme. Whatever gives you joy counts unless it’s hate, that won’t count. Poems flash micro art, everyone welcome even if you’ve already submitted. 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 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Send some joy our way for a special issue-let, a micro mag, an itty issue but happy, like sun flashing through cloud or whatever it is that makes you happy. Like your first solo bike ride. A final leaving. Or return. We don’t know, it’s your joy but we can share it. Open for just a couple of days.
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Ephemeral joy and nonsense joy and ecstatic joy and contemplative joy, the joy of being and of doing and of not doing and of burning it down and of building it up and anyway there’s lots of variations don’t be afraid, a little joy won’t make you unserious, it patches you up so you can be serious
Today it’s easy to be joyful so how about a little pop-up theme call. Joy is the theme. Whatever gives you joy counts unless it’s hate, that won’t count. Poems flash micro art, everyone welcome even if you’ve already submitted. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Ephemeral joy and nonsense joy and ecstatic joy and contemplative joy, the joy of being and of doing and of not doing and of burning it down and of building it up and anyway there’s lots of variations don’t be afraid, a little joy won’t make you unserious, it patches you up so you can be serious
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Subs open for flash, micro, poetry art and letters until November 15. All welcome.
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Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Subs open for flash, micro, poetry art and letters until November 15. All welcome.
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With a brand new category. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
October 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
With a brand new category. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
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How many days left to submit? Not many days. Subs close Nov 15 and ANOTHER Mercury retrograde is coming even faster than that so templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
How many days left to submit? Not many days. Subs close Nov 15 and ANOTHER Mercury retrograde is coming even faster than that so templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
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Subs open to Nov 15, welcoming your work like templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
a man playing a guitar in a dark room with a brick wall in the background
Alt: a man opening his arms wide with a brick wall in the background
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October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Subs open to Nov 15, welcoming your work like templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
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Really looking forward to hosting this panel discussion on "Emotional Depths" with @claudiamonpere.bsky.social & @dawnsteffler.bsky.social. Should be such a great event. It's a week on Monday at 7pm GMT for anyone who'd like to sign up:
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October 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Really looking forward to hosting this panel discussion on "Emotional Depths" with @claudiamonpere.bsky.social & @dawnsteffler.bsky.social. Should be such a great event. It's a week on Monday at 7pm GMT for anyone who'd like to sign up:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
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Come write with us. It's free. Five events each week between Nov 8 and Dec 14. Promptember will be an energetic promptathon with breakout sessions to awkwardly chat (a tradition at SmokeLong). Do 1 event per week, 3, or all. Donations go to @sundresspub.bsky.social 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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October 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Come write with us. It's free. Five events each week between Nov 8 and Dec 14. Promptember will be an energetic promptathon with breakout sessions to awkwardly chat (a tradition at SmokeLong). Do 1 event per week, 3, or all. Donations go to @sundresspub.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...
Wander, wonder, send your work.. subs open for issue 4!
While we’re here, any day is a great day to wander through issue 2. So many wonders. You will see wonders. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
Temple in a city Issue 2, Light
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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October 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Wander, wonder, send your work.. subs open for issue 4!
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Link here for easy access. Subs open until November 15. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
October 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Link here for easy access. Subs open until November 15. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
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Every day is a good day to share a piece of writing or art you love. Or like. Or found uncomfortable. Or made you question or feel or think. That made you want to smile or cry or paint or draw or love. That reminded you of something you have or lost or could find. That carried your feet another step
October 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Every day is a good day to share a piece of writing or art you love. Or like. Or found uncomfortable. Or made you question or feel or think. That made you want to smile or cry or paint or draw or love. That reminded you of something you have or lost or could find. That carried your feet another step
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Feeling no no no, read this mossy gem by @mondickson.bsky.social yes yes yes.
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Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal, Monica Dickson
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September 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Feeling no no no, read this mossy gem by @mondickson.bsky.social yes yes yes.
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Temple in a City @templeinacity.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: Temple in a City
Temple in a City @templeinacity.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/temple-in-a-city-39172 #amwriting
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September 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Temple in a City @templeinacity.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
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Anyone feeling lost, thinking nothing can change for the better, a little reminder by
Kendra Cardin that it can. A change in the recipe, flash fiction.
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Kendra Cardin that it can. A change in the recipe, flash fiction.
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September 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Anyone feeling lost, thinking nothing can change for the better, a little reminder by
Kendra Cardin that it can. A change in the recipe, flash fiction.
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Kendra Cardin that it can. A change in the recipe, flash fiction.
templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...
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And a great competition from
Joffre books for writers of colour. 👇
Joffre books for writers of colour. 👇
September 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
And a great competition from
Joffre books for writers of colour. 👇
Joffre books for writers of colour. 👇
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Are your stories in full flower yet? One week to go till the deadline for our 31st Award on Sun Oct 5th.. £1000 first prize. Up to 300 word #flashfiction. Results out fast. Anthology publication offer for 50 longlisted. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
September 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Are your stories in full flower yet? One week to go till the deadline for our 31st Award on Sun Oct 5th.. £1000 first prize. Up to 300 word #flashfiction. Results out fast. Anthology publication offer for 50 longlisted. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
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A tiny story or poem a day has anti-bacterial properties we are sure of it templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
Temple in a city Issue 2, Light
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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September 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A tiny story or poem a day has anti-bacterial properties we are sure of it templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
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A tiny story or poem a day is good for the skin,we are sure of it
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Temple in a city Issue 2, Light
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A tiny story or poem a day is good for the skin,we are sure of it
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...