emma burnett
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
Doctor of food. Writer of stories.
Neurospicy. Kind of a lot.
Slush reader @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.
Science&fiction: https://emmaburnett.uk
Drabbleµ markets list: https://emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micro-markets
Neurospicy. Kind of a lot.
Slush reader @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.
Science&fiction: https://emmaburnett.uk
Drabbleµ markets list: https://emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micro-markets
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emma burnett
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
· Jan 28
Useful links for writers (details in the 🧵)
Drabble & micro markets database: emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micr...
Spec-fic novella markets database: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The Title Page: emmaburnett.uk/the-title-page
Drabble & micro markets database: emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micr...
Spec-fic novella markets database: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The Title Page: emmaburnett.uk/the-title-page
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Good morning from the kitten room! Here’re some Nebula & Sunshine photos to get your day going right.
Everyone is putting on weight, and they have increased in bravery and playfulness. Sunshine just made a brrp sound, and Nebula did an accidental forward roll whilst playing. Yaaay!
Everyone is putting on weight, and they have increased in bravery and playfulness. Sunshine just made a brrp sound, and Nebula did an accidental forward roll whilst playing. Yaaay!
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Good morning from the kitten room! Here’re some Nebula & Sunshine photos to get your day going right.
Everyone is putting on weight, and they have increased in bravery and playfulness. Sunshine just made a brrp sound, and Nebula did an accidental forward roll whilst playing. Yaaay!
Everyone is putting on weight, and they have increased in bravery and playfulness. Sunshine just made a brrp sound, and Nebula did an accidental forward roll whilst playing. Yaaay!
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Ok, before I check under the hood, shall we take some bets on whether Sunshine is M or F? Here's some deets before I check:
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Ok, before I check under the hood, shall we take some bets on whether Sunshine is M or F? Here's some deets before I check:
Can you even believe those Blocks 1-2 people? Share, whydontcha?
#scifi #dystopia #booksky #writingcommunity #comingsoon #expartumbites
#scifi #dystopia #booksky #writingcommunity #comingsoon #expartumbites
Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social 🔌 ... ARCs available soon ...
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Can you even believe those Blocks 1-2 people? Share, whydontcha?
#scifi #dystopia #booksky #writingcommunity #comingsoon #expartumbites
#scifi #dystopia #booksky #writingcommunity #comingsoon #expartumbites
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Ok, zero pressure, but I set up a Ko-fi to help cover costs for these two.
I’m not currently working with an animal organisation, though I have in the past, so all the food/litter/vet care will be out of pocket. Any support v welcome!
ko-fi.com/nebulasunshine
I’m not currently working with an animal organisation, though I have in the past, so all the food/litter/vet care will be out of pocket. Any support v welcome!
ko-fi.com/nebulasunshine
Support Nebula & Sunshine
Support Nebula & Sunshine
ko-fi.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Ok, zero pressure, but I set up a Ko-fi to help cover costs for these two.
I’m not currently working with an animal organisation, though I have in the past, so all the food/litter/vet care will be out of pocket. Any support v welcome!
ko-fi.com/nebulasunshine
I’m not currently working with an animal organisation, though I have in the past, so all the food/litter/vet care will be out of pocket. Any support v welcome!
ko-fi.com/nebulasunshine
New kitten journey begins
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
New kitten journey begins
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My story in Flash Fiction Online's FamPunk issue is now available online. Thanks again to @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and guest editor @slashnburnett.bsky.social for selecting it! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/unfi...
Unfinished Conversations Package
<DAD PERSONA> 05/11/29 15:1750% COMPLETE…75% COMPLETE…PERSONA GENERATED! COMMUNICATE FREELY WITH PARENTAL SIMULATION!Hey Dan! Thought you’d get a kick out of this Far Side cartoon. I lo…
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My story in Flash Fiction Online's FamPunk issue is now available online. Thanks again to @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and guest editor @slashnburnett.bsky.social for selecting it! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/unfi...
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Big shout out to Erin Cairns
@erincairns.bsky.social . If you love short stories (or don't yet know you love short stories) you should check out her Ink Foundry, a tagged search site for short fiction! It is really neat!
inkfoundry.net
@erincairns.bsky.social . If you love short stories (or don't yet know you love short stories) you should check out her Ink Foundry, a tagged search site for short fiction! It is really neat!
inkfoundry.net
inkfoundry.net
November 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Big shout out to Erin Cairns
@erincairns.bsky.social . If you love short stories (or don't yet know you love short stories) you should check out her Ink Foundry, a tagged search site for short fiction! It is really neat!
inkfoundry.net
@erincairns.bsky.social . If you love short stories (or don't yet know you love short stories) you should check out her Ink Foundry, a tagged search site for short fiction! It is really neat!
inkfoundry.net
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Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast presents:
"Candidate 1143172 cover letter: Junior pot scrubber" by Emma Burnett slashnburnett.bsky.social
Listen on any podcast app, or at www.patreon.com/posts/143497...
Supported by Patreon patrons!
#flashfiction #podcastfiction #sciencefiction
"Candidate 1143172 cover letter: Junior pot scrubber" by Emma Burnett slashnburnett.bsky.social
Listen on any podcast app, or at www.patreon.com/posts/143497...
Supported by Patreon patrons!
#flashfiction #podcastfiction #sciencefiction
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast presents:
"Candidate 1143172 cover letter: Junior pot scrubber" by Emma Burnett slashnburnett.bsky.social
Listen on any podcast app, or at www.patreon.com/posts/143497...
Supported by Patreon patrons!
#flashfiction #podcastfiction #sciencefiction
"Candidate 1143172 cover letter: Junior pot scrubber" by Emma Burnett slashnburnett.bsky.social
Listen on any podcast app, or at www.patreon.com/posts/143497...
Supported by Patreon patrons!
#flashfiction #podcastfiction #sciencefiction
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The story so far! #whalesong is out in the world and there’s a new novella in @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social that I’m writing with author and scientist @slashnburnett.bsky.social with yet more ‘secrets of empire.’ And week after next I’ll start writing ‘The Alien’s War’
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The story so far! #whalesong is out in the world and there’s a new novella in @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social that I’m writing with author and scientist @slashnburnett.bsky.social with yet more ‘secrets of empire.’ And week after next I’ll start writing ‘The Alien’s War’
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I have a story in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social’s FamPunk issue guest edited by the incomparable @slashnburnett.bsky.social! Buy the issue or subscribe to FFO, & go subscribe to Emma Burnett’s Patreon for a sneekpeek at her book that’s out next summer.
www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
Flash Fiction Online November 2025
Flash Fiction Online’s November 2025 “”FamPunk”” issue is a collection of family-centered speculative fiction, selected by our guest editor this month Emma Burnett. We…
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I have a story in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social’s FamPunk issue guest edited by the incomparable @slashnburnett.bsky.social! Buy the issue or subscribe to FFO, & go subscribe to Emma Burnett’s Patreon for a sneekpeek at her book that’s out next summer.
www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
Convincing you to read my short story with the first few sentences. Share yours, because sharing is caring!
Bone-eater Earth dismantles techbros in @unchartedmag.bsky.social
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...
Bone-eater Earth dismantles techbros in @unchartedmag.bsky.social
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Convincing you to read my short story with the first few sentences. Share yours, because sharing is caring!
Bone-eater Earth dismantles techbros in @unchartedmag.bsky.social
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...
Bone-eater Earth dismantles techbros in @unchartedmag.bsky.social
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...
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Tourist: Can you please help me get to 90bazillion Southbumblefuck Avenue?
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Tourist: Can you please help me get to 90bazillion Southbumblefuck Avenue?
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
Tourist: Can you please help me get to 90bazillion Southbumblefuck Avenue?
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Tourist: Can you please help me get to 90bazillion Southbumblefuck Avenue?
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Anyone else working on their ‘awards eligible’ list and feeling very proud of just how many voices live in their heads?
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Anyone else working on their ‘awards eligible’ list and feeling very proud of just how many voices live in their heads?
A thought: the BBC could just air Trump saying ‘just grab them by the pussy’ as an unedited reply.
Ben Jennings on the BBC resignations – cartoon
Ben Jennings on the BBC resignations – cartoon
The corporation is under attack after admitting an ‘error of judgment’ in the way Panorama edited a Donald Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A thought: the BBC could just air Trump saying ‘just grab them by the pussy’ as an unedited reply.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My partner just complained I never listen to him.
What an odd way to begin a conversation.
What an odd way to begin a conversation.
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
My partner just complained I never listen to him.
What an odd way to begin a conversation.
What an odd way to begin a conversation.
Take the piss all you like, at least the Greens have policies you can actually sink your teeth into.
Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Take the piss all you like, at least the Greens have policies you can actually sink your teeth into.
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'25 Peppercorns' is out now with @mythaxis.bsky.social.
This has been a particularly difficult story for me to publish, both personally and in finding a good home for it. It is deeply personal, but it's also political.
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...
1/...
This has been a particularly difficult story for me to publish, both personally and in finding a good home for it. It is deeply personal, but it's also political.
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...
1/...
September 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
'25 Peppercorns' is out now with @mythaxis.bsky.social.
This has been a particularly difficult story for me to publish, both personally and in finding a good home for it. It is deeply personal, but it's also political.
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...
1/...
This has been a particularly difficult story for me to publish, both personally and in finding a good home for it. It is deeply personal, but it's also political.
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...
1/...
Omg no wot.
Read this.
Read this.
Author Rachael K. Jones is known for writing stories that are so knife-sharp that you cut yourself when you pick them up. Her story "Five Functions of Your Binosaur," from Issue 4, is a gentler story, though still bittersweet.
Five Functions of Your Bionosaur - Small Wonders
The bionosaur was a baby shower gift from your mom's favorite aunt. They were nervous about its size, the stainless steel maw, the retractable razorclaws inside its stubby little arms, but the aunt had insisted.
smallwondersmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Omg no wot.
Read this.
Read this.
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Brace yourself for all the feelings with today's reprint, "With Nothing Left" by @slashnburnett.bsky.social :
With Nothing Left - Small Wonders
I buy us some printed burgers. One for you, two for me, because you like me soft, for comfort, and this body needs to eat to keep the padding fed, all wrapped around and through the metal subframe.
smallwondersmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Brace yourself for all the feelings with today's reprint, "With Nothing Left" by @slashnburnett.bsky.social :
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It’s just a drop of blood. It’ll be fine.
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Ex Partum, coming out in June 2026 from @atthisarts.com
#expartumbites #scifi #specfic #dystopia #writing
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Ex Partum, coming out in June 2026 from @atthisarts.com
#expartumbites #scifi #specfic #dystopia #writing
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It’s just a drop of blood. It’ll be fine.
——
Ex Partum, coming out in June 2026 from @atthisarts.com
#expartumbites #scifi #specfic #dystopia #writing
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Ex Partum, coming out in June 2026 from @atthisarts.com
#expartumbites #scifi #specfic #dystopia #writing
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Oxford! An unbelievably beautiful place, also full of books. I was given a great tour by the inimitable @slashnburnett.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Oxford! An unbelievably beautiful place, also full of books. I was given a great tour by the inimitable @slashnburnett.bsky.social
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Full Timelapse! Please enjoy it and read the wonderful story that inspired it!
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...
@fiveminutelit.bsky.social
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...
@fiveminutelit.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Full Timelapse! Please enjoy it and read the wonderful story that inspired it!
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...
@fiveminutelit.bsky.social
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...
@fiveminutelit.bsky.social