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Rebecca Field
@rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
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Flash writer living in Derbyshire U.K.

Words in Milk Candy Review, Ghost Parachute, Sunlight Press, Bull Magazine, Phare Magazine, Visual Verse, Gone Lawn and others. Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominee. Works for NHS
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Apr 20
Amazing to be part of this issue (p171) with a flash piece that I’ve been working on for a while, thrilled it has found such a fantastic home. Check it out here! ⬇️⬇️
thehooghlyreview.bsky.social The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · Apr 20
Issue 4 is live! 🥁
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/issue-4/

And it's beautiful and free. 💯

Thank you all for being lovely. Please do spread the word. 🙏
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
It was amazing to win an editor’s choice award last year, don’t forget to send in your entry soon!! ⏰ ⬇️⬇️
natflashfictionday.bsky.social National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 5d
Every year, two people accepted for our anthology, are awarded prizes by our editors & receive £50 prizes. Last year the winners were Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social & Gill O’Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social — if you enter by 15 Feb it could be you! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
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February 11, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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New flash in Milk Candy Review today! Check it out if you have a minute: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/02/05/t...
Things That Don’t Matter ~ by Emily Rinkema
It’s our neighbor Manny’s 50th birthday and we are hosting his party even though he has a wife, who is sitting on our couch in her linen overalls laughing at something my husband Leif just said. Sh…
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February 5, 2026 at 5:17 PM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
Thanks so much to @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social for nominating this flash fiction of mine for Best Small Fictions 2026. It’s in issue 4 but I’ve screenshotted it below for ease of location 🥰
February 7, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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sagreene1.bsky.social
Delighted to have my shortlisted piece up today! A lovely way to start my weekend…
January 17, 2026 at 9:20 AM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
‘Around the time wombs became controlled by AI the ninth testicle sprouted..’

So many brilliant lines I could have picked from this piece by @sagreene1.bsky.social - you have to read this one ⬇️⬇️🤩
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
Some fantastic book post today!
@jankaneen1.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social @andrewporter01.bsky.social

Can’t wait to get started on these ❤️
Two books: The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter and Hostile Environments by Jan Kaneen
August 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Happy publication day for Hostile Environments by the phenomenal @JanKaneen1 - a gut punch of a short story collection, with character and heart. Pick up your copy today!

www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...
August 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
‘I remember cancer is a constellation, so I squint at the stars some more, but all I see is a mess of white dots, blinking and unblinking…’

I love all the recurring elements and motifs in this story and how they all work together so perfectly. Sara Hills does it again!! 🤩
July 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
‘..tomorrow might bring dolphins playing alongside the ship, beckoning him like messengers from a better place..’

Love this beautifully crafted tale of a boy and a whale by @sagreene1.bsky.social 🐋 🌊 Congratulations Suzanne!
May 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
Love this gorgeous cover and the anthology title! 😍
As always, it’s amazing to have a small story inside and I hope to get to Bath next month to read it at the launch event. 👀
natflashfictionday.bsky.social National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · May 10
We’re very excited to reveal the cover and title for this year’s anthology. It’s available to pre-order on Kindle & from our bookshop. Many thanks to @jeanettesheppard.bsky.social for the image & @sudhab.bsky.social for the title: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...
May 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
Amazing to be part of this issue (p171) with a flash piece that I’ve been working on for a while, thrilled it has found such a fantastic home. Check it out here! ⬇️⬇️
thehooghlyreview.bsky.social The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · Apr 20
Issue 4 is live! 🥁
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/issue-4/

And it's beautiful and free. 💯

Thank you all for being lovely. Please do spread the word. 🙏
April 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
Thanks so much to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for publishing a micro of mine today. Check out the issue here ⬇️⬇️
gooseberry-pie.com/issue-31/
Issue 31 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Stories Updates The shortlist for Gooseberry’s annual writing contest has been sent to our terrific guest judge, Melissa Llanes Brownlee. She’ll be reading the submi...
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April 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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As chosen by Judge Joanna Miller...

Competition Twenty-Six Highly Commended...

Lunch Date
by
S.A. Greene
@sagreene1.bsky.social

#writingcompetitions
#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction

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Competition Twenty-Six Highly Commended: Lunch Date – Free Flash Fiction
It’s drizzling outside but I’m wrapped up warm in the café’s meaty breath and Dad’s hey-there! hug and I’m thankful he still looks the same and his stubble still feels like a dry wide tickle against m...
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March 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
Has anyone else read this amazing novella by @henryhoke.bsky.social? Absolutely loved it 🥰
March 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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trashcatlit.bsky.social
As we continue to share daily highlights from our amazing Spring reprints issue - a reminder that NEW SUBS open on 1st April.
Flash Fictions up to 1000 words. Any genre.
Theme: Collectors and Special Collections.
All details and some prompts here:
trashcatlit.com/flash-pop-up...

#SubmissionCalls
Flash Pop-Up Spring 2025
SUBMISSION CALL OPENS 1st APRIL 2025 For this special issue of Trash Cat Lit, we want stories about characters with special collections.We want weird and creepy, strange and magical, kitsch and ret…
trashcatlit.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
Great to be part of this lineup, thank you so much for accepting my piece @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
⬇️⬇️ 😊
thehooghlyreview.bsky.social The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · Mar 8
Issue 4 Flash Fiction line-up reveal!

See ya'll in a flash!⚡️
March 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
So thrilled to be in this anthology once again, 8th year running!! Thanks so much to @karjon.bsky.social and to @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social for selecting me for the editors choice award and to @hombrehompson.bsky.social for edit suggestions! Amazing news!! 🤩
natflashfictionday.bsky.social National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · Mar 4
We’re excited to announce the line up for this year’s anthology on the theme of SEASONS, along with the winners of our two Editors’ Choice Awards. Congratulations to everyone on the list & many thanks to everyone who submitted: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
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March 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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"Each morning, they sat in the fire bowls and weighed each other, using pea gravel from the patio." Weighing It All Up by Jude Higgins @judehwriter2.bsky.social #microfiction #flashfiction #flashfictionfebruary. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/02/26/w...
February 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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trampset.bsky.social
"the living-room carpet is a fever of wrapping paper scrunched into balls / it is Christmas day / Peter has bought a bicycle for his angelfish / Charlotte is staring at me as if I’m the last remaining Brussels sprout"

@mattkendrick.bsky.social's "Strange fish"

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Strange fish
by Matt Kendrick
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February 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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kazbarwrites.bsky.social
Brilliant to see @mslexia.bsky.social spotlighting Dahlia Books, publisher of my debut collection 'Cold Toast' out in May!!
February 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
Don’t forget to send something!! ⬇️⬇️ 🏃 🏃‍♂️
natflashfictionday.bsky.social National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · Feb 14
It’s Friday! Subs to our anthology & micro comp close tomorrow, Saturday 15 Feb at 23:59 GMT. Thank you so much to everyone who has already entered! If you haven’t done it yet, here are the details you need: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
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February 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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My second skull. 💀
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Girls on the Beach by Kathryn Kulpa
1. Once there was a girl who died because she cut school and went to the beach. It was June, the first warm day of summer, and she was getting dressed that morning, pulling on her navy blue kn...
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February 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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welkinprize.bsky.social
Your daily reminder to vote, vote, vote!!!

There have so far been 77 votes and the voting is TIGHT! The top 3 are very, very close. And there are 6 other stories that aren't far behind. 😬

So, every vote counts!
welkinprize.bsky.social The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · Jan 26
🔔🔔 HEAR YE!! HEAR YE!!! 🔔🔔

Now that all 15 of this year's shortlistees have been published, the "People's Prize" is officially open for voting.

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You get 3 votes. Each vote must be for a DIFFERENT piece. One vote per person.

Deadline for voting is 15.00 GMT on 31st Jan.
The Welkin Mini 2025 - PEOPLE'S PRIZE Voting Form
Vote for your favourite THREE stories from the Welkin Mini shortlist. You can vote for THREE stories. Each vote must be for a different story otherwise your entire vote won't be counted. Each vote is ...
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January 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
Really wish I had something for this… maybe you do? Must see if I can find something 👀 #submissioncall
matgost.bsky.social MatGost @matgost.bsky.social · Jan 25
The Whispering Gallery submission call is now listed on @duotrope.com
There's still five weeks to send us your quiet horror stories.
Link in my pinned post.
January 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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jamesmontgomery.bsky.social
UNDER A MONTH TO GO! 🤩

You have until 15 Feb to enter @natflashfictionday.bsky.social’s Micro Fiction Comp 🌟

No theme, up to 100 words, judged by @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social @uksherka.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social and me.

Every day, I’ll be posting a dazzler to get you inspired ✨

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January 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM