Sharon Telfer
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Sharon Telfer
@sharontelfer.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Keeps things short.

Here (mostly) to share #FlashFiction, #ShortStories, writing community.

My flash fiction collection, The Map Waits, is published by Reflex Press: https://www.reflex.press/product/the-map-waits/
Aw - hope the theme inspires you!
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Following in some brilliant footsteps, D!
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Hope you've got your thinking cap on, James!
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
excited to be here, Diane!
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Thanks for asking me!
November 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Congratulations, that’s magnificent, Jupiter. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I remember your Fanny Imlay flash from Bath, so look forward to reading more. (Ali Smith, tho)
October 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Jan Kaneen has written a lot of brilliant clifi flash, including this heartbreaking micro, Snowblind (first listed) (@jankaneen1.bsky.social)

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2022 Microfiction Results
The 2022 National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition was judged by: Christopher Allen Joanna Campbell Tracy Fells Damhnait Monaghan The winning and highly commended stories can be read belo…
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September 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Bookmarking this thread, Claudia. Would love to see more climate change flash. Good luck to your students.
I wrote this one, Eight Spare Bullets, about Svalbard and the global seed vault.

www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2020/02/shar...
Sharon Telfer February 2020 First Prize
Eight spare bullets by Sharon Telfer 1 The front windows refuse to shut. The house droops, as after a stroke. They drink in the kitchen. Under the slanting floor, they catch the trickle of thaw. 2 …
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September 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Another beautiful, evocative photo, Frances. I can hear that call and the shush of the sea x
August 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I *do* remember Num-Num (and his cousin, Copycat) very fondly, from my Playhour and Robin comic. My Dad used to read it to me every week, along with Bunny Cuddles (He Loves His Jam) Don't remember them all being on the telly tho'.
August 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
the pit ponies need you, Matt ...
August 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Thanks, Malina :)
August 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thanks, Myna - loved doing this with you and learnt a lot from all your insights. Rethinking my aversion to dates in titles :)
August 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM