Oh my goodness this piece by @orli-bee.bsky.social in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social “Shaky breathing. Craving to feel real and then choking on it.” So exquisitely done, Orli. Stunning writing 🧡🧡🧡
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‘Friends I believe actually like me. Music vibrating through the house’s skeleton and into my own. The realisation that I’m able to feel things again. How it’s too much and not enough.’ 🥹💗 Such a vulnerable, heartbreaking CNF flash from @orli-bee.bsky.social

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Wonderful list piece from @orli-bee.bsky.social

Always brilliant to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world

so thrilled to share this cnf piece that’s just been published in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social 🥹 i wrote it in @mattkendrick.bsky.social’s Glorious Words course. with Matt’s feedback, it was by far the least daunting editing process i’ve ever experienced! 😎
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so so excited to have a creative nonfiction piece in this issue!! 🤩🥰

WE ARE LIVE ON KICKSTARTER. This is not a drill! Oh hek, please share!!! This has been a years worth of work with more than 50 people involved in bringing this project to the world! Let's make it everything we can!

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I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.

—David Lynch

me with this @welkinprize.bsky.social draft 🥲

I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Check out our latest flash fiction, For the Young Fans Who Weren’t There in ‘82, by Sumitra Singam. 👀 📖 📆

#queerlit #indielit #80s #lgbtqia #flashfiction #fiction #literaryjournal #read #write #1980s #shortfiction

Reminder for Asia-Pacific / early-morning UK writers, NEW DATES / TIMES for my upcoming workshops to hopefully suit.

5th July+6th Sep
9:00 BST / 18:00 AEST / 13:30 IST

Also, details on FUTURE workshops & WORKSHOP RECORDINGS for those who can't attend live 😁:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-workshops

love it when a collection’s title poem lives up to the hype—like, yes you are the Titular One, the One Who Ties All the Themes Together, the One Who Is Long But Worth It, or the One Who Is Suddenly Short Hehe, the One Who Shows How Good This Title Is for the Book, the One Ring to

If there are any of you who might be interested in me putting on a second session for my summer workshops at a more Australasia / Asia / East of UK-friendly time, please let me know. I currently have 5 or 6 people interested but need about 20 to make this viable.

Day 4: "Do a challenge for charity"

😬😬😬

In 4 weeks, I'm attempting to "scale Ben Nevis" by climbing the stairs 517 times.

Pretty sure I'll get nowhere near that number. But hopefully I'll at least get part of the way.

If you'd like to sponsor me, you can do so here: forms.gle/UfJtT7aEdWS4...

the intimacy of a word doc containing a bad draft of the poem you know you must write

So glad this tiny micro found a home in In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction. And grateful for how it gave me a second chance to find the words I wasn’t brave enough to say in the moment 💗
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not to brag but i’ve been a @cake-girl.bsky.social stan since the day i was born ✨ my mum is the coolest 🪼 also go read her exquisite micro !!