JP Relph - Novella OUT NOW!
@therelphian.bsky.social
Cumbrian writer. Loves cats, tea, apocalypses and dark botany.
Noms for Pushcart, BOTN, Best Small Fics and Best Microfics, Wigleaf longlisted
Short fic collection, Know That We Held on Amazon
Website, socials and stuff: https://linktr.ee/JPRelph
Noms for Pushcart, BOTN, Best Small Fics and Best Microfics, Wigleaf longlisted
Short fic collection, Know That We Held on Amazon
Website, socials and stuff: https://linktr.ee/JPRelph
Pinned
Here are universal links to my two new collections, the novella I wrote with @matgost.bsky.social which is currently only £6.50!, and the cracking anthology from @trashcatlit.bsky.social 🦝
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
mybook.to/OneForSorrow...
mybook.to/WatcherNovella mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
mybook.to/OneForSorrow...
mybook.to/WatcherNovella mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
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Issue 5 of Underbelly Press will be released on the 8th of November! This issue marks another special milestone for us following one year of Underbelly Press, with it being our very first themed edition. A huge thanks to everyone who has submitted, contributed & supported us.
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Issue 5 of Underbelly Press will be released on the 8th of November! This issue marks another special milestone for us following one year of Underbelly Press, with it being our very first themed edition. A huge thanks to everyone who has submitted, contributed & supported us.
Can’t wait to dive in 🤩
Issue one was amazing and this has, among its fab contributors, my horror-writing pal @matgost.bsky.social. Like they say - check it out 🖤
Issue one was amazing and this has, among its fab contributors, my horror-writing pal @matgost.bsky.social. Like they say - check it out 🖤
New issue available! Check it out.
rawheadjournal.org/rawhead-pres...
#rawheadjournal #halloweenissue #horrorwriting #scifi #fantasywriting #litmag #newissue #poetry #cnf #flashfiction #shortstories #visualart
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#rawheadjournal #halloweenissue #horrorwriting #scifi #fantasywriting #litmag #newissue #poetry #cnf #flashfiction #shortstories #visualart
October 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Can’t wait to dive in 🤩
Issue one was amazing and this has, among its fab contributors, my horror-writing pal @matgost.bsky.social. Like they say - check it out 🖤
Issue one was amazing and this has, among its fab contributors, my horror-writing pal @matgost.bsky.social. Like they say - check it out 🖤
I’m so completely chuffed to be part of Bull 🖤
"They promised to call us, their first loves, but we’d already packed away our broken hearts with our childhood bears. We’d already packed away our Big Dreams for ourselves, our futures—shattered as metal and bone in a box marked Goodwill." @therelphian.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
October 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I’m so completely chuffed to be part of Bull 🖤
A week ago the Void Distribution System sent this smol void my way.
Born at a riding school, Joanie settled in about twelve seconds and is loving life. Her BFF is my dementia-haunted 17yr old orange cat.
Thank you VDS - we all kinda love her 🖤
Born at a riding school, Joanie settled in about twelve seconds and is loving life. Her BFF is my dementia-haunted 17yr old orange cat.
Thank you VDS - we all kinda love her 🖤
October 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A week ago the Void Distribution System sent this smol void my way.
Born at a riding school, Joanie settled in about twelve seconds and is loving life. Her BFF is my dementia-haunted 17yr old orange cat.
Thank you VDS - we all kinda love her 🖤
Born at a riding school, Joanie settled in about twelve seconds and is loving life. Her BFF is my dementia-haunted 17yr old orange cat.
Thank you VDS - we all kinda love her 🖤
The time of Spook and Ghoul is ever closer - a good time therefore to creep yourself out with a bumper read of short fictions full of darkliness.
Available for less than ten English poundlets, it opens with Wigleaf longlisted piece - A Whisper of Before.
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
Available for less than ten English poundlets, it opens with Wigleaf longlisted piece - A Whisper of Before.
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
October 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The time of Spook and Ghoul is ever closer - a good time therefore to creep yourself out with a bumper read of short fictions full of darkliness.
Available for less than ten English poundlets, it opens with Wigleaf longlisted piece - A Whisper of Before.
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
Available for less than ten English poundlets, it opens with Wigleaf longlisted piece - A Whisper of Before.
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
Honoured to be part of anyone’s spooky reading list 😊🖤
October 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Honoured to be part of anyone’s spooky reading list 😊🖤
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Three amazing charity anthology projects just landed...
My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from @sasharavitch.bsky.social & @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social
Read all about them here:
matgost.substack.com/p/silent-scr...
My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from @sasharavitch.bsky.social & @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social
Read all about them here:
matgost.substack.com/p/silent-scr...
October 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Three amazing charity anthology projects just landed...
My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from @sasharavitch.bsky.social & @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social
Read all about them here:
matgost.substack.com/p/silent-scr...
My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from @sasharavitch.bsky.social & @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social
Read all about them here:
matgost.substack.com/p/silent-scr...
Funerary Racoons?? Could this be what breaks my writing slump? 🙀🦝
Submissions open untill we reach our cap.
Micros up to 300 words: no theme.
Drabbles: theme "funerary raccoons" (do with that what you will!).
🐀
#ratbaglit #ratbag #fiction #microfiction #flashfiction #drabble #writingcommunity #writers #writer #writer #submissioncall #opensubmissions #litmag
Micros up to 300 words: no theme.
Drabbles: theme "funerary raccoons" (do with that what you will!).
🐀
#ratbaglit #ratbag #fiction #microfiction #flashfiction #drabble #writingcommunity #writers #writer #writer #submissioncall #opensubmissions #litmag
October 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Funerary Racoons?? Could this be what breaks my writing slump? 🙀🦝
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Silent Screams is out now.
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
October 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Silent Screams is out now.
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
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The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS
October 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS
Here are universal links to my two new collections, the novella I wrote with @matgost.bsky.social which is currently only £6.50!, and the cracking anthology from @trashcatlit.bsky.social 🦝
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
mybook.to/OneForSorrow...
mybook.to/WatcherNovella mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
mybook.to/OneForSorrow...
mybook.to/WatcherNovella mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
October 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Here are universal links to my two new collections, the novella I wrote with @matgost.bsky.social which is currently only £6.50!, and the cracking anthology from @trashcatlit.bsky.social 🦝
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
mybook.to/OneForSorrow...
mybook.to/WatcherNovella mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
mybook.to/OneForSorrow...
mybook.to/WatcherNovella mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Very proud of this beautiful baby! 🦝
If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌
If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌
We're so excited to share our first print anthology, available to purchase for only £9/ $11.50 🦝
Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for
@WildlifeTrusts
and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for
@WildlifeTrusts
and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
September 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Very proud of this beautiful baby! 🦝
If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌
If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌
If you read anything today, read this. Gorgeous soil and fungi prose, masterful worldbuilding 💚
In the shadow of the Reserve of Persisting Complexity, a rag-tag community finds that webs are stronger than walls...
I'm thrilled to introduce my Grubbers to the world, with such beautiful illustrations by Manon Cezaro!
I'm thrilled to introduce my Grubbers to the world, with such beautiful illustrations by Manon Cezaro!
Read the new short story written by Sarah Royston (@sarahkat.bsky.social) and illustrated by Manon Cezaro, live today on Tractor Beam! 💫
And subscribe to our newsletter (link in bio) get the last half of Issue 3's stories in your inbox as they drop on site 💌
#soilpunk #TractorBeamSomethingsRotting
And subscribe to our newsletter (link in bio) get the last half of Issue 3's stories in your inbox as they drop on site 💌
#soilpunk #TractorBeamSomethingsRotting
September 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
If you read anything today, read this. Gorgeous soil and fungi prose, masterful worldbuilding 💚
Thrilled to be part of this absolute stunner with my dialogue-driven dystopia, The Book of Anna.
Congrats on your first issue guys 🌟
Congrats on your first issue guys 🌟
Issue One of Rawhead is live!
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#litmag #artandlit #rawheadjournal #newwriting #issueone #writingcommunity #artcommunity
rawheadjournal.org
#litmag #artandlit #rawheadjournal #newwriting #issueone #writingcommunity #artcommunity
September 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Thrilled to be part of this absolute stunner with my dialogue-driven dystopia, The Book of Anna.
Congrats on your first issue guys 🌟
Congrats on your first issue guys 🌟
@matgost.bsky.social has curated an incredible collection of quiet horror - I'm still blown away to be part of it with my short, Rockabye.
Stunning cover by Eric W. Brenner, don't miss out on this one - preorder for spooky season 🖤
mybook.to/SilentScream...
Stunning cover by Eric W. Brenner, don't miss out on this one - preorder for spooky season 🖤
mybook.to/SilentScream...
September 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
@matgost.bsky.social has curated an incredible collection of quiet horror - I'm still blown away to be part of it with my short, Rockabye.
Stunning cover by Eric W. Brenner, don't miss out on this one - preorder for spooky season 🖤
mybook.to/SilentScream...
Stunning cover by Eric W. Brenner, don't miss out on this one - preorder for spooky season 🖤
mybook.to/SilentScream...
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Can't wait to see what will emerge in our #FlashMonster contest. Deadline is October 15th.
We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen.
themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...
We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen.
themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...
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September 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Can't wait to see what will emerge in our #FlashMonster contest. Deadline is October 15th.
We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen.
themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...
We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen.
themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...
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Prompts to get you thinking:
Shorter days, longer nights, what memories come to mind when the dark creeps in?
What rotten thing lurks beneath the surface?
As trees lose their leaves, what do people lose, willingly, or not?
What does it mean to have autumn without abundance?
Shorter days, longer nights, what memories come to mind when the dark creeps in?
What rotten thing lurks beneath the surface?
As trees lose their leaves, what do people lose, willingly, or not?
What does it mean to have autumn without abundance?
September 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Prompts to get you thinking:
Shorter days, longer nights, what memories come to mind when the dark creeps in?
What rotten thing lurks beneath the surface?
As trees lose their leaves, what do people lose, willingly, or not?
What does it mean to have autumn without abundance?
Shorter days, longer nights, what memories come to mind when the dark creeps in?
What rotten thing lurks beneath the surface?
As trees lose their leaves, what do people lose, willingly, or not?
What does it mean to have autumn without abundance?
This was a LOT of work, but I think you'll agree, worth it. I will be lying down now for several days while you get stuck in and read these 25 imaginative, amazing prompted stories 😀💜
We pushed and we pushed and we have delivered a pair of delightful flashy collections 🦝🦝
Thirteen flash from all new Trash Family:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto...
Twelve flash from repeat bin offenders:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto...
A bumper read of amazing prompted stories - ENJOY!
Thirteen flash from all new Trash Family:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto...
Twelve flash from repeat bin offenders:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto...
A bumper read of amazing prompted stories - ENJOY!
September 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This was a LOT of work, but I think you'll agree, worth it. I will be lying down now for several days while you get stuck in and read these 25 imaginative, amazing prompted stories 😀💜
My collection of 38 flash & short fiction, One for Sorrow is available to buy on the 'Zon.
Includes published works from: @underbellypress.bsky.social @nffr.bsky.social @retreatwest.bsky.social @crankedanvil.bsky.social @loftbooks.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk and more!
Includes published works from: @underbellypress.bsky.social @nffr.bsky.social @retreatwest.bsky.social @crankedanvil.bsky.social @loftbooks.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk and more!
August 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My collection of 38 flash & short fiction, One for Sorrow is available to buy on the 'Zon.
Includes published works from: @underbellypress.bsky.social @nffr.bsky.social @retreatwest.bsky.social @crankedanvil.bsky.social @loftbooks.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk and more!
Includes published works from: @underbellypress.bsky.social @nffr.bsky.social @retreatwest.bsky.social @crankedanvil.bsky.social @loftbooks.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk and more!
My collection of 27 dark flash and short fiction, Sick Ink is now available to buy on the 'Zon. Includes published works from:
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social @quillandcrow.com @frazzledlit.bsky.social @urbanpigspress.bsky.social @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social and more...
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social @quillandcrow.com @frazzledlit.bsky.social @urbanpigspress.bsky.social @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social and more...
August 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My collection of 27 dark flash and short fiction, Sick Ink is now available to buy on the 'Zon. Includes published works from:
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social @quillandcrow.com @frazzledlit.bsky.social @urbanpigspress.bsky.social @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social and more...
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social @quillandcrow.com @frazzledlit.bsky.social @urbanpigspress.bsky.social @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social and more...
THEY ARE LIVE! 💛🖤
My two new collections of flash and short fiction are now available to buy on the 'Zon.
One for Sorrow: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FNC9GRZZ
Sick Ink:
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FNKZZVH8
It's my birthday in a week so, you know, shameless...
My two new collections of flash and short fiction are now available to buy on the 'Zon.
One for Sorrow: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FNC9GRZZ
Sick Ink:
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FNKZZVH8
It's my birthday in a week so, you know, shameless...
August 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
THEY ARE LIVE! 💛🖤
My two new collections of flash and short fiction are now available to buy on the 'Zon.
One for Sorrow: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FNC9GRZZ
Sick Ink:
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FNKZZVH8
It's my birthday in a week so, you know, shameless...
My two new collections of flash and short fiction are now available to buy on the 'Zon.
One for Sorrow: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FNC9GRZZ
Sick Ink:
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FNKZZVH8
It's my birthday in a week so, you know, shameless...
It's my birthday very soon so I'm shamelessly releasing my two collections in time 😀Four years of short fic writing is crammed into these two books of my published work. I'll have links to them soon, on the 'Zon, and hope you'll give one - or both - a looksee 🖤
August 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It's my birthday very soon so I'm shamelessly releasing my two collections in time 😀Four years of short fic writing is crammed into these two books of my published work. I'll have links to them soon, on the 'Zon, and hope you'll give one - or both - a looksee 🖤
Ooh some fantastic prompt combos being generated already! Fancy having a go? You'll have until 26th August to write up to 500 words to your prompts. It's fast, fun and free to sub up to 2 flash 😀
Aaaaaannd we're off! First stage of the Prompted Pop-Up Challenge is a go. The prompt generator is ready to churn out your prompts.
Pick your Trashies by 8pm on 8th August to take part 🦝
Get the details and link to form here:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto...
Pick your Trashies by 8pm on 8th August to take part 🦝
Get the details and link to form here:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto...
August 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Ooh some fantastic prompt combos being generated already! Fancy having a go? You'll have until 26th August to write up to 500 words to your prompts. It's fast, fun and free to sub up to 2 flash 😀
Apparently she’s perfectly comfortable 😝🤍
July 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Apparently she’s perfectly comfortable 😝🤍
This anthology is going to be 🔥
We're back in the bin after a superb weekend @flashficfestuk.bsky.social where we met Trash Family in the flesh! 🦝
With Trash Family in mind, as promised here are the contributors for the upcoming charity print anthology.
Twenty-seven stunning stories we can't wait to share 🤩
With Trash Family in mind, as promised here are the contributors for the upcoming charity print anthology.
Twenty-seven stunning stories we can't wait to share 🤩
July 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This anthology is going to be 🔥