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Rosaleen Lynch
@rosaleenlynch.bsky.social
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☘️ Irish community worker, writer & teacher living in London with work selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 2023, Best of the Net 2024 & Best Small Fictions 2024, now researching the impact of story on social change & can be found @ http://52quotes.blogspot.com
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Love this story fron the oh-so-talented @quickasaflash.bsky.social

'The Grass Is Always Greener' is such a worthy winner of the @flash500.bsky.social

Read it here: ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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November 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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A date for your writing competition diary
FFF Competition Thirty-One
 
Submit a flash fiction piece of between 100 and 300 words, any theme
 
The closing date is Tuesday, 23rd December 2025 at 10:00 pm UK Time

All the details...

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November 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Long list of our #Walking #InTheDark competition announced - terrific poems and stories beautifully penned - read them here wlc.zone/ark
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Check out this heartbreaker 💔 from the lovely @sagreene1.bsky.social
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November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Wow! Check this out from @smokelong.bsky.social ⬇️
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It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Delighted to be longlisted in the @walklistencreate.org 'Write About Walking' competition with the theme this year of 'Walking In The Dark' in support of the global action 'Women walking, the City, at Night.' 🏙

Thanks to the judges and congrats to everyone on the longlist 👏
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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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
November 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I witnessed the birth of this flash at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social in @fionamckay.bsky.social 's excellent workshop and look at it now - beautiful! Congrats Rosaleen!
October 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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When you clear the leaves, you'll see our Fall 2025 Issue is here!
Featured Contest Winners
🍁"The Odds" by Emily Portillo (Poetry)
🍁"Teeth in All the Wrong Places" by Emely Taveras (Fiction)
🍁"Orange Juice" by @dfcohen.bsky.social (Flash)
Fiction
🍁"Terminal Break" by Emily Drew
October 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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‘...not even enough room for their hands holding tight to the hem of her skirt, not even for their overtired tears...'

The Suitcase of Lost Belongings by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social

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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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October 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Sunday's must-read is this gem from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social in the fabulous Milk Candy Review! #WritingCommunity
October 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Such a good story. It deserves to be read.
October 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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‘…there’s not even enough room for their hands holding tight to the hem of her skirt, not even for their overtired tears, not even for the sound of the word ‘Mama.’’

Amazing flash from the equally amazing @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review 🧳

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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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October 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Look what I found had come in the post when I got home ... this beauty from #DahliaBooks! 🦚

Congrats to the winners of the #LeicesterWrites Short Story Prize! Fantastic stories all round!👏

Thanks also @farhanashaikh.bsky.social for including one of mine in this fab anthology 🥰
October 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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'She can’t take her children in the suitcase. They fill the suitcase full of fire. All the sunshine and starlight.' Read this knockout piece by the supremely talented @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social in dream journal Milk Candy Review⬇️⬇️⬇️
October 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Stunning piece by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social
"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, & trapped animals, hiding their young. Not the day the suitcase is full of an exploding mine..."
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October 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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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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October 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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#StandUpToRacism
ANTI-facist assembly Oct 16 Rich Mix E1 6LA Tower Hamlets Unity Demo Saturday 25th October, 12 noon opposite Whitechapel Station
October 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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FFF Competition Thirty
flash fiction 100/300 Words
1 W £165.00
2 HC £77.00
3 SL £66.00
Judge: Nish X. Hegde
@nishxhegde.bsky.social

£4.40 fee per entry/story via PayPal or Stripe
£2.95 fee per entry via BACS -
ends 23/10/25

#writingcompetitions #flashfiction

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October 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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🖋️ Enter our Walking “In the Dark” competition! Stories or poems ≤250 words. Winners: writers-in-residence, € cash prize, artwork, limited chapbook. Shortlisted: published & showcase reading.
Deadline📅 20 Oct | 💻
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August 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Love this! 🥰

'The Secret to Aging Well' from @stillsquirrel.bsky.social in @paragraphplanet.bsky.social

Check it out here ⬇️
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Story from link
October 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Delighted to announce our nominations for Best of the Net - @jackmmorris.bsky.social for "Ernst is coming home" and @kateaxeford.bsky.social for "The truths behind a pumpkin dare, Northern Alberta, 3rd July, 1991"

Best of the Net 2025 #BOTN #flashfiction
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And the Best of the Net Nominees are... | New Flash Fiction Review
Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees!
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October 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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FFF16072021
As Chosen by Judge Abi Hennig

FFF Competition Four Winning Flash Fiction:

Goldilocks and My Imaginary Family
by Rosaleen Lynch

@rosaleenlynch.bsky.social

#flashfiction #writingcompetitions

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Competition Four Winning Story: Goldilocks and My Imaginary Family – Free Flash Fiction
I buried my imaginary family and Goldilocks under the porch, like in the movies, but easier using an imaginary shovel to dig an imaginary hole that their imaginary bodies would fit in. I couldn't brin...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM