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Julia Ruth Smith
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#flashfiction Flash Frog | Full House Lit | Vestal Review | New Flash Fiction Review | Bath Flash Fiction Award | Popshot | Chaotic Merge | Miniskirt Mag | Seaside Gothic | NFFD - Puschcart/Best of the Net
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Great news - our Spring Charity Flash Fiction competition is now OPEN!
@judehwriter2.bsky.social is our Guest Judge and our charity for this round is @cftrustuk.bsky.social
500 words, £170 in prizes, deadline 27 April
Details are here thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-...
Send your best!
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March 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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fullhouselitmag.bsky.social Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · Mar 2
Happy Sunday! A new issue of FH just dropped! It's fantastic, even if I do say so myself. The gorgeous piece on the cover is by Shee, and you can read the thread to check out the featured contributors. Access the PDF, listen to recordings, and enjoy ❤️

www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue1-2025
Image of the cover of the issue with the words 'Full House Literary 2025 issue 1. Poetry, prose, hybrid, art'. The list of contributor names are then featured. There is a sticker saying now live! The cover image features deep red areas with fine crack-like patterns, framing bright blue sections. Organic, vein-like red lines flow through the blue, resembling tendrils or roots.
March 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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There's villainy afoot! #FlashVillain 2025 contest now open to submissions.

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a man in a top hat says " you don t really think you 'll win do you ? "
ALT: a man in a top hat says " you don t really think you 'll win do you ? "
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February 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I’ve been followed by 65 people in 2 days and really it’s just so tiring when they’re not writing folk or even real people. Also have no ideas in overwhelmed tiny brain. Going to catch up on Severance. Full moon, watch out. Ciao.
February 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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The #WelkinPrize is over for another year 😥 but hopefully the glow of these amazing stories will linger for a good while yet. If you've not read them all yet, or you'd like to read them again, or read the dazzlers from 23 or 24, you can catch them all here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
Welkin Stories | MattKendrick.co.uk
Prize-winning stories from The Welkin Writing Prize.
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February 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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‘He leaps onto the seat beside me, licking me and licking me, my wet dog, Hank’

Yikes! Love it!

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Amongst Stars — Ghost Parachute
Hank’s my dog; I chose him, named him, raised him. Bill’s working fly-in-fly-out when I pack a box of records, then scoop up jeans, a jacket, bathers, goggles, my red dress – the one he loathes – book...
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February 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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‘Finn is big-eyed and his mouth is packed with words.’

A Kik-story for a grey morning @kiklodge.bsky.social

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We need to talk about home scars — Ghost Parachute
Yesterday I found a summer photo of Finn in his pineapple sun hat when the three of us went crabbing down Ness Cove, probably one of the last we have of him without tubes shooting up his nose, and it ...
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February 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Disappointed not to have made the final cut but I throw my hearty congratulations towards all of the winners! 🥳✨
January 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The Welkin Writing Prize | They won’t let you in
"They won’t let you in" by Nora Nadjarian
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January 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Don't worry if you're a bit 2 or 5 like our Ed - we open for subs on the 1st February for reprints and 1st March for themed stories for a charity print anthology 🦝

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#SubmissionCalls
#FlashFiction
January 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Wait until the sauce starts to #congeal, volcanic over the bland cauliflower. That’s it. The rich cheese and a hint of mustard is all it takes to evoke potential. I’m so hopeful I could spoon it all up, buttery lips leaving their mark on a wineglass for tomorrow to worry about.
#vss365 #prompt
January 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Unlikely animal poets 👀😍
welkinprize.bsky.social The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · Jan 26
Today's shortlisted story is "Plaint of a Slug in a Field of August" by @philippabowe.bsky.social. Congratulations, Philippa. A brilliant extended metaphor that works on so many levels:

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The Welkin Writing Prize | Shortlist 25
Shortlisted pieces for the 2025 Welkin Mini
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January 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Micros are weird little things. You read them quickly then some days later they can pop into your head out of nowhere! This one by @jameygallagher.bsky.social just keeps tapping away at my mind.
January 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Latest #ekphrastic writing challenge from the brilliant @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social

Deadline: January 31
Wordcount: 1,000 max
Prompt: Pavonia, by Francis Picabia
#FlashFiction
ekphrasticreview.bsky.social The Ekphrastic Review @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social · Jan 22
Jumping in to Bluesky with our first post. Follow The Ekphrastic Review! Our current call is for poems and stories inspired by this Francis Picabia painting. We love poetry, flash fiction, microfiction, CNF www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
January 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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We're getting a LOT of poetry submissions. Send in your Micro Prose, Fiction & CNF too!

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Issue 4 Submissions
January 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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She’s brill! ⭐️
January 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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‘I’m sorry for the Bluey test. It’s just that the babies are so insidious—we had to make sure. You don’t know how to play bass, do you?’ 😅

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Catching Babies — Split Lip Magazine
Ted and Katie sit as far away from you and Amir as they can on the sectional. Ted looks uneasily at the baby on your lap. He’s like, is it gonna…? You smile and hold the baby out. Of course not, you r...
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January 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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…and we are open for submissions! ONE WEEK ONLY!
Submissions are Open | Seaside Gothic
Submissions are open from 13th January to 19th January 2025 for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to Seaside Gothic, a quarterly print magazine.
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January 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Good egg 🥚
Highly recommend!
stillsquirrel.bsky.social Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social · Jan 13
My next ekphrastic #writingworkshop is on Jan. 20th.
This month we'll look at the work of an artist who paints large-scale urban landscapes, which he calls "hybrid theatrical spaces."
Book here - www.anikacarpenter.com/ekphrastic-w...
An old-fashioned typewriter on a table covered with a blue cloth. A woman's hand, with fingernails painted blue, is holding a paintbrush. Smoke is coming out of the paintbrush.
January 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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They asked us to #measure ourselves against the trees and we fell short, how could we not? Birds circled, mocking us for having dreams but never the will to fly. We surrendered to the grass in our laziness and let the ants carry us away.
#vss365 #prompt
January 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Tonight some Italian men of the 21st Century will laughingly call women ‘Befane’ and ask where they hide their broom, and I will eat them all.
January 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I’ve only gone and blinking made it to the shortlist!! Thank you so much for this boost and good luck to everyone else who made it, and big love indeed to everyone who entered. (Can you tell I’m excited?!) 💫🥰
bathflashaward.bsky.social bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · Jan 5
Congratulation to all the authors shortlisted for our 2025 NIF Award. 12 this time. There were excellent novellas to choose from on the longlist and we hope everyone finds publication. Thanks also to everyone who entered. Final results end of
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Novella in Flash Award 2025 Short List
Congratulations to all the authors who have made the 2025 Novella-in-Flash Award Short List.(Final results in late January, 2025).Author names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share …
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January 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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I left the restaurant hungry, imagining all the things I could have done with those letters.

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Answer Key
by Sarah Mills
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January 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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I’m still waiting for your definition of the word ‘#turning,’ that’s why I put my hat on back-to-front, to see if you’ll stop me at the door and ask me to stay, but you don’t and the world keeps on.

#vss365 #prompt
January 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Did a flutter of submissions and I’m reading this. Might be feeling positive, might not last.

#flashfic
Cover of ‘Butter’ by Asako Yuzuki. Shows a yellow background with a cow and blood. There’s a banner claiming it as ‘The International Bestseller’ and some Japanese characters.
January 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM