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Katie Coleman
@katiecoleman.bsky.social
Words in: Ghost Parachute, Milk Candy Review, Bending Genres, Ilanot Review, Sunlight Press and more... | Noms:Pushcart Prize &Best of Net &Best Microfiction. https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/katie-coleman
Love this amazing micro by Karen Crawford in Scaffold Lit. It's about brains. www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
brainchild by karen crawford — scaffold literary magazine
micro fiction
www.scaffoldlit.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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In the days of lovely Twitter I often put out a call for help with research in writing my books. So here goes, Bluskiers.

I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.

Please share :)
May 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Would be great to get a few more re-posts in order to spread the word.

Also, please feel free to share off of Bluesky with your writing groups or in other places where you know of low-income writers who might benefit.

🙏
Thanks to the generous sponsors for my stair climb challenge, I have free spots for low-income writers on all my upcoming #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses.

Details about the courses: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/courses-work...

Sign up to the "lottery": docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Want to write with me in August? My #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb "Colourful Characters" course is open for bookings.

Online. Work-at-your-own-pace. Pay-what-you-can pricing.

Body Language | Senses | Voices | Perspective

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...
May 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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“I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint… Carver gave me the face he makes on the back of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: an eyebrow-raised smirk that said, ‘give me your best shot.’”

@martinezfjulian.bsky.social is back on hex with a wild tale about the student surpassing the teachers! ✍️😤
Gordon Lish by Julián Martinez
I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint. I didn’t know he’d be sitting in the kitchen when I busted into the apartment of my old creative writing professor, Gordon Lish. Carver gave me the face he makes on ...
hexliterary.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Excited to have a new micro, "A Poet, Maybe," out today at Gooseberry Pie! It’s about sandstone libraries, Lynx deodorant, and impossible questions. Big thanks to @jhhwriter.bsky.social for giving it a home. gooseberry-pie.com/a-poet-maybe/ It was written in an @smokelong.bsky.social workshop.
A Poet, Maybe - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Antoine J. on Unsplash by Katie Coleman Nineteen-year-old Olivia steals knowledge from sandstone libraries and sneers at engineering students wearing starched jeans with trainers so new they ...
gooseberry-pie.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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New micro out today thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social!

Check out the amazing authors I am sharing this issue with 🤩 and read Paradise City here ⬇️

gooseberry-pie.com/paradise-city/
Paradise City - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Christian Lucas on Unsplash by Lisa Thornton Say you had gone to him, that boy across the street from the house you lived in before your parents split up, the one you could see from your bedr...
gooseberry-pie.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Curious about braided prose? Join me Feb. 1 - Braided prose creates a rich, layered narrative that captivates readers—that may seem complicated. But just like other craft techniques, it’s a trick that anyone can learn! secure.clarionwest.org/np/clients/c...

#WritingCommunity #WritingWorkshop
Braiding Narratives with Sage Tyrtle
Learn to weave seemingly unrelated threads together seamlessly
secure.clarionwest.org
January 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
So excited to have a story published in Your Impossible Voice. Thank you Keith J. Powell, managing editor, for choosing my story.
And we're back! Our first #flashfiction of 2025 comes courtesy of #author @katiecoleman.bsky.social.

"I thought of stopping the car, taking a ladder to chip off a fat chunk of cool moon. You’d pass me a chisel and I’d break off a specimen."

Don't miss "Cool Moon!"
Cool Moon • Your Impossible Voice
By Katie Coleman — "I thought of stopping the car, taking a ladder to chip off a fat chunk of cool moon. You’d pass me a chisel and I’d break off a specimen."
www.yourimpossiblevoice.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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WEATHERGLASS NOVELLA PRIZE 2025
Submissions close March 1st 2025
The winner will be chosen by Ali Smith.
Weatherglass Prize for a novella (rare in this day and age), with the wonderful Ali Smith as judge.

International.

Please share:

weatherglassbooks.com/novella-priz...
December 29, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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My December #WritingCraft article is a round-up of everything I've published over the last 5 years. If I've counted correctly, there are about 50 resources in total; feeling quite proud to see it all in one place. Hope it's useful!

prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/everything...
Everything Everywhere All In One Place
I’ve been writing these craft articles for quite a while now.
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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What can you write when you're too tired to write?

Some suggestions.

open.substack.com/pub/awriters...

#writingcommunity #amwriting #amnotwriting
On Writing While Exhausted
Haven't we been here before?
open.substack.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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Looking to generate writing for use at any length? Consider my 12-week Fiercely Flash class where you'll come up with beaucoup drafts and inspiration for longer work, too. Here's a helpful decision chart! #flashfiction #writingcommunity #amwriting

More at: maxiejanefrazier.com/fiercely-flash
December 14, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Good advice here!
December 5, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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Congratulations to all the winners of our ‘haircut’ stories from the Oct 26t Festival Day judged by @scooterwriter.bsky.social
Check out who they are & their stories here https:/www.flashfictionfestival.com/winners-great-flash-fiction-festival-day-october-2024/
Winners: Great Flash Fiction Festival Day, October 2024
We’re delighted to announce the winners of the Great Festival Flash Off Day which took place on October 26th. For the ‘Signature’ challenge, Jude set the prompt and asked people t…
www.flashfictionfestival.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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So, I got starter-pack FOMO and decided to make one for writing people who know stuff and pass it on through courses, workshops, newsletters etc.

It includes all the savants who teach me stuff. I've probably missed people but these were the ones who sprung to my head.

go.bsky.app/K7ftxtv
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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It’s not long now till we announce our theme for this year’s anthology. Watch this space !!.
a cartoon character wearing a hat and a white coat
ALT: a cartoon character wearing a hat and a white coat
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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Only one month left to submit to #flashfictionfebruary. WC 200-850w. Deadline 15th December. Please follow the link for our guidelines #microfiction #flashfiction #callforsubissions. Thank you to all who have submitted so far fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/
November 18, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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You want some more micro fiction? Well ok, since you asked so nicely & all.
I share with you "I Finished the Renovations on The Victorian Terraced House Right Before Kurt’s Funeral" by @katiecoleman.bsky.social So much grief and longing in so few words.
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/i-finis...
February 9, 2024 at 1:25 AM