E K Macdonald
@ekmacdonald.bsky.social
Writer, flash fiction, short stories. Wheel Spin and Traction, Flash collection out 13th Nov 2024. Words in Fictive Dream, Gooseberry Pie Lit, Punk Noir, Lucent Dreaming, Raw Lit. Shortlisted Bath Short Story Award. macdonaldek11.com
My shortlisted story in the Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition, At the Bay is published today: atthebay.org/emily-macdon...
Emily Macdonald: Waiting for a real da
Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose 2025 Short List The seagull cruises the breeze, high above the blue and green of Cardigan Bay. The sea is tipped with white ruffles, inked with shadow, edged by the...
atthebay.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
My shortlisted story in the Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition, At the Bay is published today: atthebay.org/emily-macdon...
Thank you so much Laura @fictivedream.bsky.social
"If only Roger had died sooner." Wilt or Bloom by @ekmacdonald.bsky.social from today's "Second Chances" themed #MicroMonday #microfiction. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/25/m...
August 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Thank you so much Laura @fictivedream.bsky.social
Thank you @freeflashfiction.bsky.social and judge @sagreene1.bsky.social a story prompted by these hot dry days
As chosen by Judge S.A. Greene -
@sagreene1.bsky.social
FFF Competition Twenty-Eight Shortlisted:
Between Dust and Desolation
by Emily Macdonald
www.macdonaldek11.com
@ekmacdonald.bsky.social
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
@sagreene1.bsky.social
FFF Competition Twenty-Eight Shortlisted:
Between Dust and Desolation
by Emily Macdonald
www.macdonaldek11.com
@ekmacdonald.bsky.social
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
Competition Twenty-Eight Shortlisted: Between Dust and Desolation – Free Flash Fiction
Joe kicks the earth. Dust puffs and powders his worn boots. A few spits in the wind and a muddied sky raised his hopes but the feeble intimations have amounted to nothing. He crouches low and scans fo...
freeflashfiction.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Thank you @freeflashfiction.bsky.social and judge @sagreene1.bsky.social a story prompted by these hot dry days
Yay! So happy to be part of Micro Madness.
Congrats 🎊 🎊 to our June 12 Micro Madness winner Emily Macdonald
#flashfiction #microfiction #micromadness
#flashfiction #microfiction #micromadness
June 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Yay! So happy to be part of Micro Madness.
My contributor copy arrived today. It's beautiful. Can't wait to dive in.
Just before the end of our 30th £1460 prize fund award, this Sunday 8th June, our beautiful 2024 anthology, The Constancy of Woodpigeons Is back from the printers and being mailed out to contributors today! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/06/back...
Back from the Printers! BFFA vol nine: The Constancy of Woodpigeons
The Constancy of Woodpigeons our ninth anthology since we began in 2015 is back from the printers, just in time for the deadline of our 30th Award, this Sunday June 8th. There are 137 flash fiction…
www.bathflashfictionaward.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My contributor copy arrived today. It's beautiful. Can't wait to dive in.
Yay! Story published today at the wonderful TSS. This one started on Matt Kendrick's brilliant Go with the Flow course. theshortstory.co.uk/short-story-...
Short Story: Elementary Dying but for Marylou, by Emily Macdonald - TSS Publishing
First time I die it’s Anzac Day and a chill has come into the air. Marylou is wearing one of those hair bands that puts fluff balls over her ears. This annoys me, not just because they look real stupi...
theshortstory.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Yay! Story published today at the wonderful TSS. This one started on Matt Kendrick's brilliant Go with the Flow course. theshortstory.co.uk/short-story-...
Story published today. Thanks @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for the expert beta reading and advice. gastropodalitmag.wixsite.com/main/post/co...
Collect by Emily Macdonald
Max collects bugs. Crickets, cicadas, stick insects, one golden Weta. Rae helps him to catch moths and butterflies, North Island Lichen, Monarchs, Common Coppers and Long-Tailed Blues. Max whispers ap...
gastropodalitmag.wixsite.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Story published today. Thanks @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for the expert beta reading and advice. gastropodalitmag.wixsite.com/main/post/co...
If you haven't yet done a course with Matt Kendrick, you're missing a great joy.
January 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If you haven't yet done a course with Matt Kendrick, you're missing a great joy.
Thanks FFF!
Added to the FFF Bookshop!
Wheel Spin & Traction
by
E K Macdonald
@ekmacdonald.bsky.social
macdonaldek11.com
freeflashfiction.com/product/whee...
Wheel Spin & Traction
by
E K Macdonald
@ekmacdonald.bsky.social
macdonaldek11.com
freeflashfiction.com/product/whee...
Wheel Spin & Traction by E K Macdonald
WHEEL SPIN & TRACTION: A collection of driving related stories exploring the direction and propulsion of human experience via journeys and roads
freeflashfiction.com
August 21, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Thanks FFF!
Reposted by E K Macdonald
As chosen by Judge Emma Phillips -
@emmapwrites.bsky.social
FFF Competition Twenty-Two Shortlisted:
FOUR OF THESE FIVE DREAMS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE
by
Emily Macdonald
@ekmacdonald.bsky.social
macdonaldek11.com
#flashfiction
#writingcompetitions
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
@emmapwrites.bsky.social
FFF Competition Twenty-Two Shortlisted:
FOUR OF THESE FIVE DREAMS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE
by
Emily Macdonald
@ekmacdonald.bsky.social
macdonaldek11.com
#flashfiction
#writingcompetitions
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
Competition Twenty-Two Shortlisted: FOUR OF THESE FIVE DREAMS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE – Free Flash Fiction
One I dream you bend your head towards me, and our lips briefly touch before we hear the key in the lock, the bellowed, ‘I’m home’ from below. Two I have the fleeing dream where I’m like a roadr...
freeflashfiction.com
July 11, 2024 at 8:28 AM
As chosen by Judge Emma Phillips -
@emmapwrites.bsky.social
FFF Competition Twenty-Two Shortlisted:
FOUR OF THESE FIVE DREAMS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE
by
Emily Macdonald
@ekmacdonald.bsky.social
macdonaldek11.com
#flashfiction
#writingcompetitions
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
@emmapwrites.bsky.social
FFF Competition Twenty-Two Shortlisted:
FOUR OF THESE FIVE DREAMS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE
by
Emily Macdonald
@ekmacdonald.bsky.social
macdonaldek11.com
#flashfiction
#writingcompetitions
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
Thanks Ian!
Added to the FFF Bookshop!
Wheel Spin & Traction
by
E K Macdonald
@ekmacdonald.bsky.social
macdonaldek11.com
freeflashfiction.com/product/whee...
Wheel Spin & Traction
by
E K Macdonald
@ekmacdonald.bsky.social
macdonaldek11.com
freeflashfiction.com/product/whee...
Wheel Spin & Traction by E K Macdonald
WHEEL SPIN & TRACTION: A collection of driving related stories exploring the direction and propulsion of human experience via journeys and roads
freeflashfiction.com
April 3, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Thanks Ian!
Check this out. Fab mag, fab issue including my story ‘Pink’
Raw Lit - Issue 4 is live! rawlit.weebly.com/issue4.html @sugarpigblog.bsky.social @ekmacdonald.bsky.social
ISSUE4
Dear reader, Please be advised that published work may contain triggering and difficult topics. Therefore, most written pieces have content warnings for reference. While Raw Lit aims to offer a safe.....
rawlit.weebly.com
February 4, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Check this out. Fab mag, fab issue including my story ‘Pink’
Thanks so much. It's already up on Amazon. Yay!
How exciting, I have my copy ordered, can't wait to read this collection.
Coming soon! Out 13th November, flash fiction collection of driving related stories with Alien Buddah Press.
October 23, 2023 at 2:10 PM
Thanks so much. It's already up on Amazon. Yay!
Coming soon! Out 13th November, flash fiction collection of driving related stories with Alien Buddah Press.
October 22, 2023 at 9:09 AM
Coming soon! Out 13th November, flash fiction collection of driving related stories with Alien Buddah Press.
Reposted by E K Macdonald
My October newsletter is full of freebies for the writing community - example story lists, a character creator template, a story planner, a geeky submissions tracker spreadsheet... Hopefully some useful stuff for you all.
PS - very grateful for re-posts to spread the word!
#Flashfiction #writers
PS - very grateful for re-posts to spread the word!
#Flashfiction #writers
Freebies
Over the last few weeks, my health has decided to explore a new dimension. Which is the most positive way I can find of saying it has tumbled over another cliff. It isn’t worse necessarily just diff...
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October 2, 2023 at 9:28 AM
My October newsletter is full of freebies for the writing community - example story lists, a character creator template, a story planner, a geeky submissions tracker spreadsheet... Hopefully some useful stuff for you all.
PS - very grateful for re-posts to spread the word!
#Flashfiction #writers
PS - very grateful for re-posts to spread the word!
#Flashfiction #writers
I'm delighted to be included in the 1st issue of @proppencil.bsky.social in great company. Thank you @nivenaudrey.bsky.social thepropellingpencil.com/laundry-by-e...
September 19, 2023 at 10:12 AM
I'm delighted to be included in the 1st issue of @proppencil.bsky.social in great company. Thank you @nivenaudrey.bsky.social thepropellingpencil.com/laundry-by-e...