Sarah Turner
@scturnerfiction.bsky.social
Short-story writer. Work in: Sonora Review,
J Journal, Shooter Lit Mag, London Magazine, Fictive Dream, LEON, Litro & others | SL Bridport SS 2023 www.scturnerfiction.com
J Journal, Shooter Lit Mag, London Magazine, Fictive Dream, LEON, Litro & others | SL Bridport SS 2023 www.scturnerfiction.com
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Sarah Turner
@scturnerfiction.bsky.social
· Dec 31
Thanks so much:
Shooter Lit Mag
@TheLondonMag.bsky.social
@EpoquePress.bsky.social
Loft
@LeonLiteraryMagazine.bsky.social @willesdenherald.bsky.social @SonoraReview.bsky.social
for publishing my short stories in 2024. I really appreciate your care with my work
#WritingCommunity #amwriting
Shooter Lit Mag
@TheLondonMag.bsky.social
@EpoquePress.bsky.social
Loft
@LeonLiteraryMagazine.bsky.social @willesdenherald.bsky.social @SonoraReview.bsky.social
for publishing my short stories in 2024. I really appreciate your care with my work
#WritingCommunity #amwriting
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
Today’s walk - bright sun and falling leaves. My favourite kind of autumn day!
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Today’s walk - bright sun and falling leaves. My favourite kind of autumn day!
‘We don’t talk about my mother (controlling) or the house (sold) or our baby ( ). Or how he wanted to try again.’
Such a moving story by @laurabesley.bsky.social
#WritingCommunity
Such a moving story by @laurabesley.bsky.social
#WritingCommunity
"After we sign the divorce papers, my soon-to-be ex-husband and I decide to go for lunch." Love (a journey) by Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
fictivedream.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
‘We don’t talk about my mother (controlling) or the house (sold) or our baby ( ). Or how he wanted to try again.’
Such a moving story by @laurabesley.bsky.social
#WritingCommunity
Such a moving story by @laurabesley.bsky.social
#WritingCommunity
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Submissions are open at One Story until we reach our cap of 2000. Send us your stories at: bit.ly/4oOPpGO
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Submissions are open at One Story until we reach our cap of 2000. Send us your stories at: bit.ly/4oOPpGO
New bookcase! It’s going to be such a relief to get all the piles of books off my floor!
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New bookcase! It’s going to be such a relief to get all the piles of books off my floor!
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I still can’t believe I have a story in the latest issue of the Missouri Review. I worked on this story for 2+ years and thought I'd bitten off more than I could chew. Then I thought it was unpublishable: who would read a story about an elephant hunt? Which just goes to show: NEVER self-reject!
October 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I still can’t believe I have a story in the latest issue of the Missouri Review. I worked on this story for 2+ years and thought I'd bitten off more than I could chew. Then I thought it was unpublishable: who would read a story about an elephant hunt? Which just goes to show: NEVER self-reject!
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I've been so excited about this! My short story "Homing" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on 7th November, Read by Charlotte McCurry
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Homing by Marie-Louise McGuinness
A seemingly ordinary day inspires a woman to reflect on what led her to this life.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I've been so excited about this! My short story "Homing" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on 7th November, Read by Charlotte McCurry
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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A joy to return to Fragmented Voices with a new story Amongst Others, Unnoticed. The membrane between private and public grows ever thinner, with attendant confusions…
fragmentedvoices.com/2025/10/17/a...
fragmentedvoices.com/2025/10/17/a...
Among Others, Unnoticed by Mike Fox
I wished I could unremember the newspapers. They all said the same thing.
fragmentedvoices.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A joy to return to Fragmented Voices with a new story Amongst Others, Unnoticed. The membrane between private and public grows ever thinner, with attendant confusions…
fragmentedvoices.com/2025/10/17/a...
fragmentedvoices.com/2025/10/17/a...
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www.jjournal.org/post/maybe
Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.
Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.
Maybe by Wolfgang Wright
I was at my girlfriend’s when she got a call from a friend whose car had run out of gas, and this friend wanted Katie—that’s my girlfriend—to—and because her friend was pretty much shouting through th...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
www.jjournal.org/post/maybe
Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.
Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.
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As we move into autumn it feels right to curl up with a collection of #shortstories
Why not check out The Wooden Hill, by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social
‘Evocative, lyrical and touching’
‘Illuminated and elevated’
www.epoquepress.com/online-store...
#epoquepresstitles #books #bookcommunity
Why not check out The Wooden Hill, by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social
‘Evocative, lyrical and touching’
‘Illuminated and elevated’
www.epoquepress.com/online-store...
#epoquepresstitles #books #bookcommunity
October 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
As we move into autumn it feels right to curl up with a collection of #shortstories
Why not check out The Wooden Hill, by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social
‘Evocative, lyrical and touching’
‘Illuminated and elevated’
www.epoquepress.com/online-store...
#epoquepresstitles #books #bookcommunity
Why not check out The Wooden Hill, by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social
‘Evocative, lyrical and touching’
‘Illuminated and elevated’
www.epoquepress.com/online-store...
#epoquepresstitles #books #bookcommunity
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If you’ve picked up a copy of our ‘Briar Rose’ Little Uncertainty (or even if you’ve not found one yet), you might be interested in our new Q&A with the story’s author:
Q & A with Alex Clark.
Alex Clark answers some questions for us about writing, reading, and her short story 'Briar Rose'.
www.uncertainstories.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
If you’ve picked up a copy of our ‘Briar Rose’ Little Uncertainty (or even if you’ve not found one yet), you might be interested in our new Q&A with the story’s author:
I went to a really interesting exhibition about John le Carré at the Bodleian (Weston) Library in Oxford today. I really recommend it if you’re in the area before April
#BookSky #WritingCommunity
#BookSky #WritingCommunity
October 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I went to a really interesting exhibition about John le Carré at the Bodleian (Weston) Library in Oxford today. I really recommend it if you’re in the area before April
#BookSky #WritingCommunity
#BookSky #WritingCommunity
October 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Delighted to have been awarded a 2025 Mentorship in Fiction Bursary with Frank O’Connor fellow @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Delighted to have been awarded a 2025 Mentorship in Fiction Bursary with Frank O’Connor fellow @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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We’re sorry to hear that Tony Harrison has died aged 88.
Tony won The National Poetry Competition in 1980 with the moving poem Timer, about the loss of his mother. poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/timer/
Tony won The National Poetry Competition in 1980 with the moving poem Timer, about the loss of his mother. poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/timer/
September 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We’re sorry to hear that Tony Harrison has died aged 88.
Tony won The National Poetry Competition in 1980 with the moving poem Timer, about the loss of his mother. poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/timer/
Tony won The National Poetry Competition in 1980 with the moving poem Timer, about the loss of his mother. poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/timer/
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www.jjournal.org/post/severe-...
A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.
A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.
www.jjournal.org
September 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
www.jjournal.org/post/severe-...
A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.
A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.
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Don't read the news. Read short stories instead. We got links to eight incredible pieces of writing.
Featuring nonfiction from:
Meg Doyle in @electricliterature.com
Casey Jo Graham Welmers in @mrbullbull.bsky.social
Jeannie Vanasco in @literaryhub.bsky.social
(...cont'd)
#cnf #nonfiction
Featuring nonfiction from:
Meg Doyle in @electricliterature.com
Casey Jo Graham Welmers in @mrbullbull.bsky.social
Jeannie Vanasco in @literaryhub.bsky.social
(...cont'd)
#cnf #nonfiction
The Shortlist for September 12, 2025 - Turn & Work
Nonfiction by Meg Doyle, Casey Jo Graham Welmers, and Jeannie Vanasco, and fiction from Emily Rinkema, Lauren Kardos, Chris Farrington and David Partington.
www.turnandwork.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Don't read the news. Read short stories instead. We got links to eight incredible pieces of writing.
Featuring nonfiction from:
Meg Doyle in @electricliterature.com
Casey Jo Graham Welmers in @mrbullbull.bsky.social
Jeannie Vanasco in @literaryhub.bsky.social
(...cont'd)
#cnf #nonfiction
Featuring nonfiction from:
Meg Doyle in @electricliterature.com
Casey Jo Graham Welmers in @mrbullbull.bsky.social
Jeannie Vanasco in @literaryhub.bsky.social
(...cont'd)
#cnf #nonfiction
‘I feel that if the form strays too far from the sort of story we might have enjoyed as a child it atrophies’: such an interesting interview with @polyscribe70.bsky.social by @amantineb.bsky.social . Really looking forward to the rest of the series
#writing-community
#writing-community
Huge thanks to the wonderful @amantineb.bsky.social for the chance to talk stories in her From the Heart series. Thanks too for her quiet, sensitive reading of an extract from my collection Things Grown Distant, published by @confingopublishing.bsky.social www.amantinebrodeur.com/post/taking-...
Talking Stories with Mike Fox
Mike Fox is the first guest interviewed for the 'From the Heart' Interview Series.
www.amantinebrodeur.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
‘I feel that if the form strays too far from the sort of story we might have enjoyed as a child it atrophies’: such an interesting interview with @polyscribe70.bsky.social by @amantineb.bsky.social . Really looking forward to the rest of the series
#writing-community
#writing-community
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Absolutely thrilled to have a story out in The Forge Literary Magazine today!
Our story of the week is The Source of Love by Brecht De Poortere.
The Source of Love - The Forge Literary Magazine
The Source of Love, a short fiction by Brecht De Poortere
forgelitmag.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Absolutely thrilled to have a story out in The Forge Literary Magazine today!
Wisdom from the National Trust bookshop in Avebury 💙📚
September 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Wisdom from the National Trust bookshop in Avebury 💙📚
‘You could glimpse the child in there, and the teenager, and the young man’: I love the intuitive understanding and incremental build-up of intimacy and trust between the characters in this story by @polyscribe70.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
Honoured to return to @fictivedream.bsky.social today with The Shape of Moments, a twin of an earlier story, Backgrounds. Very grateful to Laura, also to @kerryhp.bskyb.social and @barbaraccino@bskyb.social for encouragement to explore these characters further.
"Davy wouldn’t intrude, but he’d be around. And in his way I think he liked it that I was." The Shape of Moments by Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/05/t...
September 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
‘You could glimpse the child in there, and the teenager, and the young man’: I love the intuitive understanding and incremental build-up of intimacy and trust between the characters in this story by @polyscribe70.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
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ICYMI
Oh this @junegemmell.bsky.social story! Do you have tear ducts? Prepare to use them. Tell everyone at work or wherever you are that it’s just allergies. Prepare yourself for a lovely, relatable, well-drawn visit to a house maybe you know too.
templeinacity.com/fiction-june...
templeinacity.com/fiction-june...
Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal, June Gemmell
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September 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
ICYMI
Really enjoyed hearing Mick Herron on the Today programme earlier, talking about his writing routine (lots of solitaire and ‘creative naps’, writing a sentence, staring out of the window, writing another). Excited that there’ll be a new series of Slow Horses soon, too
💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity
💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity
September 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Really enjoyed hearing Mick Herron on the Today programme earlier, talking about his writing routine (lots of solitaire and ‘creative naps’, writing a sentence, staring out of the window, writing another). Excited that there’ll be a new series of Slow Horses soon, too
💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity
💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity
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It's a pleasure to welcome back Mike Fox with his #shortstory The Shape of Moments, out tomorrow @polyscribe70.bsky.social #fiction #writingcommunity
September 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It's a pleasure to welcome back Mike Fox with his #shortstory The Shape of Moments, out tomorrow @polyscribe70.bsky.social #fiction #writingcommunity
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We are once again OPEN for submissions to both our print journal and miCRo! We strongly encourage you to submit to the print journal within the next day or so, as we tend to reach our cap just days after opening up.
September 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We are once again OPEN for submissions to both our print journal and miCRo! We strongly encourage you to submit to the print journal within the next day or so, as we tend to reach our cap just days after opening up.