Sumitra Singam, your friendly local Dragon-Scorpion
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
MOTHER KARMA NOVELLA! https://forms.gle/SN3EFQrGSg7CvUxs6
BSF 2025
Trauma writing workshops
Will probably rearrange your dishwasher.
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
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BSF 2025
Trauma writing workshops
Will probably rearrange your dishwasher.
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
🇦🇺🇲🇾🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Yeah Nah 1st Thursday monthly 7pm Melb time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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YEAH NAH FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 7PM MELBOURNE TIME
Meet, chat, read online w me and other flashy people!
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Meet, chat, read online w me and other flashy people!
Zoom registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
To understand colonialism you have to know that for an embarrassing number of years I thought the Julian calendar was made by The Famous Five
February 16, 2026 at 7:37 AM
To understand colonialism you have to know that for an embarrassing number of years I thought the Julian calendar was made by The Famous Five
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Yorkshire Writing Retreat - 8-14 Sept 26 with @mattkendrick.bsky.social and me.
Held in two farm style cottages near the Peak District and Holme Valley, one a former weaver's cottage, with a terrace and landscaped gardens. There's a games room, hot tubs, comfortable bedrooms, fresh air and peace.
Held in two farm style cottages near the Peak District and Holme Valley, one a former weaver's cottage, with a terrace and landscaped gardens. There's a games room, hot tubs, comfortable bedrooms, fresh air and peace.
The Yorkshire Writing Retreat
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Yorkshire Writing Retreat - 8-14 Sept 26 with @mattkendrick.bsky.social and me.
Held in two farm style cottages near the Peak District and Holme Valley, one a former weaver's cottage, with a terrace and landscaped gardens. There's a games room, hot tubs, comfortable bedrooms, fresh air and peace.
Held in two farm style cottages near the Peak District and Holme Valley, one a former weaver's cottage, with a terrace and landscaped gardens. There's a games room, hot tubs, comfortable bedrooms, fresh air and peace.
@pdforan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social doing the soft gallop into our hearts again ““Thanks for taking us there,” we said, the ink from our signatures slow-fading like a situationship into the folds of night’s road-not-taken light.” 🧡🧡🧡🐎🐎🐎
gooseberry-pie.com/on-a-ghostli...
gooseberry-pie.com/on-a-ghostli...
On a Ghostlight Night - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Avi Theret on Unsplash by Pat Foran Fresh off a ghostlighting incident that left him clear-eyed and cold, the horse we rode in on didn’t seem to mind that we didn’t seem to know what we signe...
gooseberry-pie.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:15 PM
@pdforan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social doing the soft gallop into our hearts again ““Thanks for taking us there,” we said, the ink from our signatures slow-fading like a situationship into the folds of night’s road-not-taken light.” 🧡🧡🧡🐎🐎🐎
gooseberry-pie.com/on-a-ghostli...
gooseberry-pie.com/on-a-ghostli...
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Writers! I subbed to the
"Collage" issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social and the EIC @dehm000.bsky.social was a joy. Sent me this card & stickers even though I was rejected 😇 They're opening soon so give them a follow & get ready for the 15th.
the engine(idling share.google/X12TuMYyDIaA...
"Collage" issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social and the EIC @dehm000.bsky.social was a joy. Sent me this card & stickers even though I was rejected 😇 They're opening soon so give them a follow & get ready for the 15th.
the engine(idling share.google/X12TuMYyDIaA...
February 12, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Writers! I subbed to the
"Collage" issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social and the EIC @dehm000.bsky.social was a joy. Sent me this card & stickers even though I was rejected 😇 They're opening soon so give them a follow & get ready for the 15th.
the engine(idling share.google/X12TuMYyDIaA...
"Collage" issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social and the EIC @dehm000.bsky.social was a joy. Sent me this card & stickers even though I was rejected 😇 They're opening soon so give them a follow & get ready for the 15th.
the engine(idling share.google/X12TuMYyDIaA...
I have signed up for @claudineliterary.bsky.social's werd nerdz series! I can't go to the first one, but will hopefully be at the others. @dehardy.bsky.social is awesome, and Claudine is a wee editorial empress, so it's sure to be fun!!
Let’s gooooooooo! 🤓🐈⬛
Join us, humans!
Join us, humans!
February 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I have signed up for @claudineliterary.bsky.social's werd nerdz series! I can't go to the first one, but will hopefully be at the others. @dehardy.bsky.social is awesome, and Claudine is a wee editorial empress, so it's sure to be fun!!
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I’ve applied! It’s @mattkendrick.bsky.social! He’s promised cake! It’s Yorkshire! They’ll all call you “duck” and feed you sausage rolls. I suppose there’ll be writing too!! Please apply! Would love to write with you (if this skeet doesn’t disqualify me for placing cake above writing)
One of the things I'm really looking forward to as part of this is teaching in-person - already planning fun stuff with post-it notes, running dictations & pictionary-PLUS... focusing on the big stuff to help with the little stuff; @ruthabrandt.bsky.social is cooking up some brilliant workshops too
Want something wonderful to look forward to this September? Join me and the brilliant @ruthabrandt.bsky.social for a Yorkshire writing retreat where we'll write, laugh, think, learn, play, question, daydream, and write some more.
8th – 14th September 2026
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/writing-retr...
8th – 14th September 2026
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/writing-retr...
February 9, 2026 at 10:20 AM
I’ve applied! It’s @mattkendrick.bsky.social! He’s promised cake! It’s Yorkshire! They’ll all call you “duck” and feed you sausage rolls. I suppose there’ll be writing too!! Please apply! Would love to write with you (if this skeet doesn’t disqualify me for placing cake above writing)
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Reminder: Hot Flash Literary is open for subs for just two more weeks (!) for Issue 3: Fire and Ice. Subs open to women-identifying writers. #flashfiction #flashCNF #prosepoetry hotflashliterary.com/submissions/
Submissions - Hot Flash Literary
Submissions Guidelines From January 5 through February 20, 2026, we will be open for submissions for Issue 3. The theme: Fire and ice. Creative interpretations of the theme are encouraged. To get a fe...
hotflashliterary.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Reminder: Hot Flash Literary is open for subs for just two more weeks (!) for Issue 3: Fire and Ice. Subs open to women-identifying writers. #flashfiction #flashCNF #prosepoetry hotflashliterary.com/submissions/
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✨LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA - Cover Reveal!✨
After years of writing tiny stories about small moments, I’m so excited to announce that my flash fiction chapbook LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA is forthcoming November 10, 2026 with @bullcitypress.com
Preorders are now available:
bullcitypress.com/product/ligh...
After years of writing tiny stories about small moments, I’m so excited to announce that my flash fiction chapbook LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA is forthcoming November 10, 2026 with @bullcitypress.com
Preorders are now available:
bullcitypress.com/product/ligh...
February 5, 2026 at 3:36 PM
✨LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA - Cover Reveal!✨
After years of writing tiny stories about small moments, I’m so excited to announce that my flash fiction chapbook LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA is forthcoming November 10, 2026 with @bullcitypress.com
Preorders are now available:
bullcitypress.com/product/ligh...
After years of writing tiny stories about small moments, I’m so excited to announce that my flash fiction chapbook LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA is forthcoming November 10, 2026 with @bullcitypress.com
Preorders are now available:
bullcitypress.com/product/ligh...
An amazing writer @sightlined.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social with a very deserved shortlisting in @smokelong.bsky.social’s workshop prize. Congratulations, Jane! “By the times she gets up to the house, she’s wet to the knees, and there’s a dark line through the silver-dewed grass.”
Well I didn't win but it doesn't feel that way because my story Gretel has snuck onto the finalists list with a really stellar group of writers
Huge thanks to @hexliterary.bsky.social for giving this piece a home, and to @smokelong.bsky.social and the SLQ workshop community
hexliterary.com?p=2499
Huge thanks to @hexliterary.bsky.social for giving this piece a home, and to @smokelong.bsky.social and the SLQ workshop community
hexliterary.com?p=2499
The results of this year's SmokeLong Workshop Prize are finally here! We have 11 wonderful finalists. And (drumroll):
Third Prize winner: @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social
Second Prize: @travisflatt.bsky.social
First Prize: @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social ⭐
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
Third Prize winner: @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social
Second Prize: @travisflatt.bsky.social
First Prize: @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social ⭐
www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
February 6, 2026 at 11:52 AM
An amazing writer @sightlined.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social with a very deserved shortlisting in @smokelong.bsky.social’s workshop prize. Congratulations, Jane! “By the times she gets up to the house, she’s wet to the knees, and there’s a dark line through the silver-dewed grass.”
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Ooooh, this is great
"Tonight Sarah is shaving and scrubbing and Ubering to nightclubs. She’s on the prowl with stilettos that make her feet ache, powering down cocktails bought by strangers."
Oh the things Sarah is getting up to! Read my latest in @eunoiareview.bsky.social
eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/s...
Oh the things Sarah is getting up to! Read my latest in @eunoiareview.bsky.social
eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/s...
a woman wearing a pair of white high heels on a carpet
ALT: a woman wearing a pair of white high heels on a carpet
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Ooooh, this is great
"She’s pouncing on men who will not sweep her off her feet with their crinkly twinkly eyes, take her wild swimming in Lulworth Cove or woo her with tomatoes grown from seed." oh the turn in this. More fabulosity from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @eunoiareview.bsky.social 🏊🏾💃🏾
"Tonight Sarah is shaving and scrubbing and Ubering to nightclubs. She’s on the prowl with stilettos that make her feet ache, powering down cocktails bought by strangers."
Oh the things Sarah is getting up to! Read my latest in @eunoiareview.bsky.social
eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/s...
Oh the things Sarah is getting up to! Read my latest in @eunoiareview.bsky.social
eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/s...
a woman wearing a pair of white high heels on a carpet
ALT: a woman wearing a pair of white high heels on a carpet
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:36 AM
"She’s pouncing on men who will not sweep her off her feet with their crinkly twinkly eyes, take her wild swimming in Lulworth Cove or woo her with tomatoes grown from seed." oh the turn in this. More fabulosity from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @eunoiareview.bsky.social 🏊🏾💃🏾
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Another acceptance today. Such a privilege to read all the stories - including those I eventually decline. I enjoy them all and the quality of the writing is 🔥
Still room for one or two more ..
www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/submissions
Still room for one or two more ..
www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/submissions
Submissions — Neither Fish Nor Foul
www.neitherfishnorfoul.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Another acceptance today. Such a privilege to read all the stories - including those I eventually decline. I enjoy them all and the quality of the writing is 🔥
Still room for one or two more ..
www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/submissions
Still room for one or two more ..
www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/submissions
@lit-namjooning.bsky.social is the mushroom sprouting from the shit 🍄🍄🟫💩. Hope you’re all reading and namjooning away
Hi! The world is still shit but how's everybody doing?
February 4, 2026 at 8:59 AM
@lit-namjooning.bsky.social is the mushroom sprouting from the shit 🍄🍄🟫💩. Hope you’re all reading and namjooning away
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Submission Window Open!
The Manchester Review is looking for prose, poetry and art in response to these themes for our upcoming special issue Displacement.
We will welcome submissions between 1st-28th February.
The Manchester Review is looking for prose, poetry and art in response to these themes for our upcoming special issue Displacement.
We will welcome submissions between 1st-28th February.
February 4, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Submission Window Open!
The Manchester Review is looking for prose, poetry and art in response to these themes for our upcoming special issue Displacement.
We will welcome submissions between 1st-28th February.
The Manchester Review is looking for prose, poetry and art in response to these themes for our upcoming special issue Displacement.
We will welcome submissions between 1st-28th February.
February 4, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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The wound feels like orange rind – thick, succulent. She pushes a finger into the pink, fresh cut margin. It stings, sour acid. She does it again.
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute (@brettpribble.bsky.social)
ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute (@brettpribble.bsky.social)
ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
Subdermal — Ghost Parachute
“The British knew how to run a country,” the girl’s father says to the doctor. “Our railways are because of them, you know?” The doctor has put in two neat stitches, black nylon bunny ears sticking ou...
ghostparachute.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:26 AM
The wound feels like orange rind – thick, succulent. She pushes a finger into the pink, fresh cut margin. It stings, sour acid. She does it again.
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute (@brettpribble.bsky.social)
ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute (@brettpribble.bsky.social)
ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
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‘The edges of the cut on her forearm pucker in disapproval.’
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social always knows how to slice into the tenderest part of our hearts 💔
‘The edges of the cut on her forearm pucker in disapproval.’
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social always knows how to slice into the tenderest part of our hearts 💔
Subdermal — Ghost Parachute
“The British knew how to run a country,” the girl’s father says to the doctor. “Our railways are because of them, you know?” The doctor has put in two neat stitches, black nylon bunny ears sticking ou...
ghostparachute.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
‘The edges of the cut on her forearm pucker in disapproval.’
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social always knows how to slice into the tenderest part of our hearts 💔
‘The edges of the cut on her forearm pucker in disapproval.’
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social always knows how to slice into the tenderest part of our hearts 💔
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I know lots of people don't use Goodreads but I'm still on there. I added Sumitra's book @pleomorphic2.bsky.social but couldn't get the cover to load up. Anyway enough of that - I Ioved this novella-in-flash
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Bronwen Griffiths's review of Mother Karma
5/5: This novella-in-flash is the story of a family navigating cancer. The family story is woven in with telling of the Ramayana, an ancient Indian epic, and notes from the hospital. Singham negotiate...
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February 3, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I know lots of people don't use Goodreads but I'm still on there. I added Sumitra's book @pleomorphic2.bsky.social but couldn't get the cover to load up. Anyway enough of that - I Ioved this novella-in-flash
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Six nights to write, talk writing, be with other writers in beautiful Yorkshire! I am so looking forward to facilitating this retreat with @mattkendrick.bsky.social 8-14 September. We'd love to have you along. To apply or for more info, check the link below.
Want something wonderful to look forward to this September? Join me and the brilliant @ruthabrandt.bsky.social for a Yorkshire writing retreat where we'll write, laugh, think, learn, play, question, daydream, and write some more.
8th – 14th September 2026
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/writing-retr...
8th – 14th September 2026
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/writing-retr...
The Yorkshire Writing Retreat
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Six nights to write, talk writing, be with other writers in beautiful Yorkshire! I am so looking forward to facilitating this retreat with @mattkendrick.bsky.social 8-14 September. We'd love to have you along. To apply or for more info, check the link below.
My bedtime was halfway through Little House on the Prairie. I’m with mum. This is a stonker @christopherallen.bsky.social in GP “From the kitchen window, she saw me emerging from a wall of flames as if I’d just harrowed Hell.”
It's been a minute since I published something of my own! SmokeLong and SmokeLong Fitness are like having two full-time jobs (which I LOVE), so I'm thrilled to have found time to write something. Sending a huge hug to this kid. ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
Chrysalis — Ghost Parachute
Mama can’t see me, but I’m watching over her. From the kitchen. She’s on the couch in the den, recumbent, because she’s depressed, which she never says, but I know. I can read her mind. She lays my ni...
ghostparachute.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:21 AM
My bedtime was halfway through Little House on the Prairie. I’m with mum. This is a stonker @christopherallen.bsky.social in GP “From the kitchen window, she saw me emerging from a wall of flames as if I’d just harrowed Hell.”
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“The girl looks at the silvery line of scars travelling up her forearm. She is making her own railway.”
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
Sumitra Singam, your friendly local Dragon-Scorpion (@pleomorphic2.bsky.social)
MOTHER KARMA NOVELLA! https://forms.gle/SN3EFQrGSg7CvUxs6
BSF 2025
Trauma writing workshops
Will probably rearrange your dishwasher.
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
🇦🇺🇲🇾🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
sumitrasingam.squaresp...
pleomorphic2.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 3:55 AM
“The girl looks at the silvery line of scars travelling up her forearm. She is making her own railway.”
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
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This issue’s Brewer’s Choice is the first collaborative work we’ve featured in Flight, from @kathrynreese.bsky.social and @pleomorphic2.bsky.social
“ I ask for your birthdate as a way to name the time of you, though I hope it will become the time of us.”
flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...
“ I ask for your birthdate as a way to name the time of you, though I hope it will become the time of us.”
flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...
Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam- Brewer's Choice
Editor's Note: as part of the Brewer's Choice feature for Flight 3, we asked authors Kathryn Reese and Sumitra Singam to respond to interview questions about their collaborative process. This intervie...
flight-literary.ghost.io
February 3, 2026 at 3:59 AM
This issue’s Brewer’s Choice is the first collaborative work we’ve featured in Flight, from @kathrynreese.bsky.social and @pleomorphic2.bsky.social
“ I ask for your birthdate as a way to name the time of you, though I hope it will become the time of us.”
flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...
“ I ask for your birthdate as a way to name the time of you, though I hope it will become the time of us.”
flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...
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“I am not the heart of anything but lists, chores, errands. You, you are the heart of a storm. The only still point in turbulence.”
We Rename Mondays and Rainstorms by @kathrynreese.bsky.social & @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...
We Rename Mondays and Rainstorms by @kathrynreese.bsky.social & @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...
Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam- Brewer's Choice
Editor's Note: as part of the Brewer's Choice feature for Flight 3, we asked authors Kathryn Reese and Sumitra Singam to respond to interview questions about their collaborative process. This intervie...
flight-literary.ghost.io
February 3, 2026 at 3:30 AM
“I am not the heart of anything but lists, chores, errands. You, you are the heart of a storm. The only still point in turbulence.”
We Rename Mondays and Rainstorms by @kathrynreese.bsky.social & @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...
We Rename Mondays and Rainstorms by @kathrynreese.bsky.social & @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...
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MY BOOK! MY BOOK! MY BOOK!!
February 3, 2026 at 1:43 AM
MY BOOK! MY BOOK! MY BOOK!!