Noémi Scheiring-Oláh
@itssonoemi.bsky.social
Hungarian alien writing in English(ian). Fan of cats and underdogs. ő/she/they/we 💚 Autistic. | noemiwrites.com | 🇵🇸🍉
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I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚
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Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom, Sat 22 Nov 2025 - Curious about how to move from publishing standalone flash to a body of work? This 2-hour workshop breaks down everyth...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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waaahh couldn't resist 🫠🙃 @bathflashaward.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
waaahh couldn't resist 🫠🙃 @bathflashaward.bsky.social
It was a delight and an honor to interview AJ O'Reilly about their wonderful story published in @smokelong.bsky.social. Thank you for the opportunity! 😊🌻
"We all need extremes to feel like ourselves." AJ O'Reilly, on their story "Code of the Mosh Pit". AJ is our featured author this week. Read their interview in SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
October 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
It was a delight and an honor to interview AJ O'Reilly about their wonderful story published in @smokelong.bsky.social. Thank you for the opportunity! 😊🌻
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Later today, I'll be talking specificity in this online workshop for the fine folk at Smokelong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social. It's not too late to join me 👇
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The Art in the Detail: Specificity in Flash, September 27th! - SmokeLong Quarterly
In this webinar, Emily Devane will explore how to fine-tune your micros with the perfect words and details that stick in the reader’s mind long after the last sentence. Using examples and prompts, she...
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September 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Later today, I'll be talking specificity in this online workshop for the fine folk at Smokelong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social. It's not too late to join me 👇
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Really looking forward to my "Story Shapes" workshop in October where I'm going to get writers writing Cinderella narratives against the clock and crafting stories across different sized bits of paper.
7th Oct 7pm BST or 11th Oct 9am BST.
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7th Oct 7pm BST or 11th Oct 9am BST.
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September 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Really looking forward to my "Story Shapes" workshop in October where I'm going to get writers writing Cinderella narratives against the clock and crafting stories across different sized bits of paper.
7th Oct 7pm BST or 11th Oct 9am BST.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
7th Oct 7pm BST or 11th Oct 9am BST.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
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With everything turning from terrible to horrific, I write. I write. I finish the damned novel and hope someone will read it. I have no leads, no contacts, I will have to act like a nobody-hero. Here I go!
September 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
With everything turning from terrible to horrific, I write. I write. I finish the damned novel and hope someone will read it. I have no leads, no contacts, I will have to act like a nobody-hero. Here I go!
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Last day to enter this today. Drawing names tomorrow at midday BST.
**WIN** a free spot on 1 of my courses
To win, quote this post + tag a friend + say why they're fab
Post for a new friend every day + get your name in the hat multiple times
Friend wins a micro edit, you win a course place or vice-versa, you decide
Names drawn next Monday
DETAILS IN THREAD:
To win, quote this post + tag a friend + say why they're fab
Post for a new friend every day + get your name in the hat multiple times
Friend wins a micro edit, you win a course place or vice-versa, you decide
Names drawn next Monday
DETAILS IN THREAD:
August 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Last day to enter this today. Drawing names tomorrow at midday BST.
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TONIGHT TONIGHT!!! I close out the 2025 Philly Book Crawl with pictures of cats and travel stories about the places in which they live around the world. Come say hi!!
August 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
TONIGHT TONIGHT!!! I close out the 2025 Philly Book Crawl with pictures of cats and travel stories about the places in which they live around the world. Come say hi!!
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So a couple of years ago I feverishly wrote this thing about mothers and kids, pretending it had nothing whatsoever to do with my own mothering or childhood (hahahahahaha) and @publishedbyjake.bsky.social want to publish it (WHAT?). Coming towards the end of the year!!!
ICYMI, yes, Sumitra's book Mother Karma, is coming soon!
Re-reading @pleomorphic2.bsky.social's upcoming JAKE chapbook for edits, and damn, this is really a good one.
August 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
So a couple of years ago I feverishly wrote this thing about mothers and kids, pretending it had nothing whatsoever to do with my own mothering or childhood (hahahahahaha) and @publishedbyjake.bsky.social want to publish it (WHAT?). Coming towards the end of the year!!!
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I never want cost to keep anyone from joining my zoom writing workshops so there are always free, concessionary and pay-what-you-can options. Find out more about my Sept Writing Muscle & Art of the Swerve workshops here - join us, whatever word-shapes you write! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
August 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I never want cost to keep anyone from joining my zoom writing workshops so there are always free, concessionary and pay-what-you-can options. Find out more about my Sept Writing Muscle & Art of the Swerve workshops here - join us, whatever word-shapes you write! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
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It's hard to overstate how much I have learned from @smokelong.bsky.social workshops. The first course I ever took in CNF a few years ago was an absolute epiphany and many of the stories in my collection emerged from Fitness prompts. Sign up!!
It's sign-up time to begin Fitness on August 1st! If you're a flash or flash-adjacent writer passionate about workshopping, come write with us! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...
SmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong Quarterly
Please note that due to A SmokeLong Summer 25, we are accepting new participants starting August 1st. If you book now, you’ll be able to start August 1st. In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a works...
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July 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
It's hard to overstate how much I have learned from @smokelong.bsky.social workshops. The first course I ever took in CNF a few years ago was an absolute epiphany and many of the stories in my collection emerged from Fitness prompts. Sign up!!
1/5 How do you get back to 'real life' after such a magical @flashficfestuk.bsky.social weekend in lovely Bristol? How? How? Brain's on strike but my heart's filled to the brim and heck yeah I'm being sentimental and not making sense and immense gratitude to everyone who made this event possible...
July 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
1/5 How do you get back to 'real life' after such a magical @flashficfestuk.bsky.social weekend in lovely Bristol? How? How? Brain's on strike but my heart's filled to the brim and heck yeah I'm being sentimental and not making sense and immense gratitude to everyone who made this event possible...
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The peer I’m sharing this week is Noemi Schering-Olah, @itssonoemi.bsky.social a Hungarian writer who is a Best Small Fictions Winner and a SmokeLong Quarterly contributor. A selection of her pieces is here, and I think my favorite is “The Possessive Form” – very disturbing. noemiwrites.com
Noémi Writes
Just write it.
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July 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The peer I’m sharing this week is Noemi Schering-Olah, @itssonoemi.bsky.social a Hungarian writer who is a Best Small Fictions Winner and a SmokeLong Quarterly contributor. A selection of her pieces is here, and I think my favorite is “The Possessive Form” – very disturbing. noemiwrites.com
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Fancy something strange? New collaborative flash with @stillsquirrel.bsky.social, @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social up at @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Thanks, @jhhwriter.bsky.social, for letting us lay out the third best dinner set 🍽️
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The Third Best Dinner Set - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash by Anika Carpenter, Sara Hills, Rosaleen Lynch, and James Montgomery David’s favourite fish is bream, which he will only eat off of our antique dinner set. His old mo...
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July 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Fancy something strange? New collaborative flash with @stillsquirrel.bsky.social, @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social up at @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Thanks, @jhhwriter.bsky.social, for letting us lay out the third best dinner set 🍽️
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Look at this gorgeous cover art for my upcoming tiny chapbook! 😍
Cover reveal for Elena Zhang's tiny chapbook "The Moon, My Heart" with cover art by Aleah Dye. Coming soon to the tiny wren shop.
July 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Look at this gorgeous cover art for my upcoming tiny chapbook! 😍
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If you've got a spare 300-word story that's looking for a home, why not send it my way? I'd love to read it!
FFF Comp 28
FFF Competition Twenty-Eight Judge S.A. Greene
@sagreene1.bsky.social
Flash Fiction 100 - 300 words £3.95 / £2.55 per entry
1 Winner £150.00
2 Highly Commended £70.00
3 Shortlisted £60.00
DL 23rd June
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
All the info
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Flash Fiction 100 - 300 words £3.95 / £2.55 per entry
1 Winner £150.00
2 Highly Commended £70.00
3 Shortlisted £60.00
DL 23rd June
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
All the info
freeflashfiction.com/current-comp...
June 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
If you've got a spare 300-word story that's looking for a home, why not send it my way? I'd love to read it!
Grateful and blown away 🌬️ My very first time in Best Small Fictions! Thank you so much, @haydensferryreview.bsky.social for accepting, publishing, and nominating my story, "Concrete Worm". Honoured to be included! Congratulations, everyone!
The Best Small Fictions
Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.
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May 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Grateful and blown away 🌬️ My very first time in Best Small Fictions! Thank you so much, @haydensferryreview.bsky.social for accepting, publishing, and nominating my story, "Concrete Worm". Honoured to be included! Congratulations, everyone!
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Is there a flash story that you consider, not just good, but truly beautiful? #flashfiction
May 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Is there a flash story that you consider, not just good, but truly beautiful? #flashfiction
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Just realised this is (VERY SCARILY) happening next week. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Hope I have better health days than I'm having today 🤪😂. If I do, I'm starting to think I might make it all the way to the top, spurred on by all the generous people who've sponsored me so far 🙏🙏❤️
Just realised this is (VERY SCARILY) happening next week. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Hope I have better health days than I'm having today 🤪😂. If I do, I'm starting to think I might make it all the way to the top, spurred on by all the generous people who've sponsored me so far 🙏🙏❤️
April 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Just realised this is (VERY SCARILY) happening next week. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Hope I have better health days than I'm having today 🤪😂. If I do, I'm starting to think I might make it all the way to the top, spurred on by all the generous people who've sponsored me so far 🙏🙏❤️
Just realised this is (VERY SCARILY) happening next week. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Hope I have better health days than I'm having today 🤪😂. If I do, I'm starting to think I might make it all the way to the top, spurred on by all the generous people who've sponsored me so far 🙏🙏❤️
"We were pleased with our shock, she and I, and I was pleased to please her, always. I bathed in her moral correctness, her grudging approval."
Oh my, as always, a fantastic @fionamckay.bsky.social story! The writing! The ending! In the lovely @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Oh my, as always, a fantastic @fionamckay.bsky.social story! The writing! The ending! In the lovely @fracturedlit.bsky.social
New Flash by @fionamckay.bsky.social
“When I was a girl, a woman in my town died in suspicious circumstances. I still think about the day of the funeral; the spice of the incense as the priest swung the smoking thurible over the closed coffin;”
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“When I was a girl, a woman in my town died in suspicious circumstances. I still think about the day of the funeral; the spice of the incense as the priest swung the smoking thurible over the closed coffin;”
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Pushed – Fractured
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April 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"We were pleased with our shock, she and I, and I was pleased to please her, always. I bathed in her moral correctness, her grudging approval."
Oh my, as always, a fantastic @fionamckay.bsky.social story! The writing! The ending! In the lovely @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Oh my, as always, a fantastic @fionamckay.bsky.social story! The writing! The ending! In the lovely @fracturedlit.bsky.social
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Congratulations to our nominees for the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology: Fatema Haque, Jesse Wallis, Marianne Kunkel, Noemi Scheiring-Olah, and Sebastien Luc Butler!
February 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Congratulations to our nominees for the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology: Fatema Haque, Jesse Wallis, Marianne Kunkel, Noemi Scheiring-Olah, and Sebastien Luc Butler!
WHEEEEEE @passagesnorth.bsky.social's new issue is out! And I still can't believe my piece "If I Were My Sister" got an Honorable Mention on their Neutrino Short-Short Prize! 🤩 It's here: www.passagesnorth.com/if-i-were-my... Many thanks to the lovely editors and Stephen Fishbach!
February 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
WHEEEEEE @passagesnorth.bsky.social's new issue is out! And I still can't believe my piece "If I Were My Sister" got an Honorable Mention on their Neutrino Short-Short Prize! 🤩 It's here: www.passagesnorth.com/if-i-were-my... Many thanks to the lovely editors and Stephen Fishbach!
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It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
Trump, with Netanyahu sitting next to him, says "Gaza maybe is a demolition site right now ... you can't live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location."
February 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
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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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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
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 ✨
Thread 🧵
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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Struggling with social media (and words) these days, but I just rewatched @erinvachon.bsky.social's workshop at @smokelong.bsky.social, and it's a golden treasure! Love their witchy approach toward revision and also love the one-eyed, wide-armed creature at the beginning! 💛
Hi. If you want to spend time writing in community this weekend, we’re going to have fun. 💛🖤
Are you ready for some alchemy? Join SmokeLong and Erin Vachon on January 26, 6pm ET to transmute four flash into gold.
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February 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Struggling with social media (and words) these days, but I just rewatched @erinvachon.bsky.social's workshop at @smokelong.bsky.social, and it's a golden treasure! Love their witchy approach toward revision and also love the one-eyed, wide-armed creature at the beginning! 💛