Handwriting on a postcard
Image of a book cover on a postcard
Today I received a postcard to me from me! Thank you to the wonderful @judehwriter2.bsky.social who posted it having saved it for sixth months since her fabulous workshop at The Flash Fiction Festival.
Thank you @natflashfictionday.bsky.social and judges @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and @karjon.bsky.social for selecting my water themed story, ‘Tally’ in the upcoming 2024 anthology. It’s an absolute joy to be included.
Thanks for sharing Matt. Enjoy the days ahead.
Thank you for including one of my stories in your round up Anika❤️ @stillsquirrel.bsky.social
My friends at Wasafiri Magazine are looking for a new editor and publishing director. You'd have to work with me, as I've recently taken over as chair of trustees, but don't let that put you off. More details here: www.wasafiri.org/hiring-edito...
(fiction subs @atticusreview.bsky.social close in 1 week, pass it on)
Still from GIF of Quvenzhané Wallis singing “Tomorrow, tomorrow!” in Annie
#TheMikey deadline. It’s a day away but it won’t always be. Don’t miss it. 400 words/$3000 prize fund including finalists, who receive $100 and publication in SLQ. $1500 1st/$500/$300 2nd/3rd. Previously published & translations accepted—see guidelines.☀️🌞 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
Fancy a free writer's retreat in Dorset with a fee plus travel? The Bridport Prize have got 2 on offer for working class and/
or LGBTQIA+ writers, unpublished & self published authors or published writers of individual stories. Please share - closing date is 13th!! More details on their website.
George Saunders newsletter this week “the story’s “defects” and “assets” are inexorably linked; they’re both manifestations of the same essential energy.”
Blue graphic abstract background with photograph of Ingrid, with shoulder length strawberry blonde hair and glasses. Text overlays read: The Physics of Flash Where Science and Mathematics Meet the Art of Fiction WITH INGRID JENDRZEJEWSKI • LIVE WEBINAR: NOVEMBER 12, 1PM NYC/6PM UK PEER REVIEW WORKSHOP: NOVEMBER 16-20 ONE IN-DEPTH CRITIQUE FROM INGRID AFTERGLOW $88 FLASHGIVING OFFER
Time to sign up for this wild, unusual ride of a workshop bundle: The Physics of Flash with Cambridge University physicist and multiple award-winning flash writer Ingrid Jendrzejewski, co-director of UK National Flash Fiction Day. What in the space-time continuum are you waiting for?
Prepare to be transported in time and place! I knew nothing about this area or its history, and Louise brings it alive in this novel.
Oh enjoy! I will be imagining you enjoying breathing space in Shakespeare and Co
Or accounts that are "aghast at bad behaviour" but giving it airtime!
Okay, to help everyone make their BlueSky what they want it to be, here's a thread about feeds. What they are, how to find them, how to add them, how to pin them, what feeds to follow if you're a #writer, and how you can make your own
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New Prize for non fiction by black wimen. Please share
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Have now also made a Submission Calls feed using the hashtags #SubmissionCall and #WritingComp:
To follow the feed, click the link, then see where it says "Add to my feeds" / "add" at the top. Click the heart & the pin icons. Should then appear in your list of feeds.
If anyone is working in feminist mapping, do connect #geosky
YAY! Super news!
Doing a happy dance for you my friend
Woohoo, my first proper post at this blue place is lovely news! I'm very, very happy to say that I have signed with literary agent Kate Barker, judge of the Bath Novel Award. Very excited to embark on the next stage of my novel Silverfern with her, and the world of Victorian Liverpool 🌿🌺🤍💚🤍.
Morning!
Submissions are coming in thick and fast - and we're delighted! - but the recent problems and glitches with *X* have also left us a little worried that we might not be reaching some wonderful writers.
... All of which is to say: if you could share far and wide, we'd be very grateful..
😀it's a fibre in my feed.
Likewise, it's nice and airy over here.
Still loving the George Saunders Story Club. George selects masterful stories and offers directed reading, and all the wonderful folk over there get into brilliant discussions. I can't recommend it highly enough as a learning opportunity for short story writers. open.substack.com/pub/georgesa...
Hi friends. This online workshop on writing from/on liminal spaces has now sold out #amwriting #workshops. Wondering if I should run it again at some point? Let me know in the comments if you'd be interested 👇.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mind-the-g...
A few places left on my upcoming Playing the Pauses in Flash Fiction online course Nov/Dec (scroll to the very end of the Irish Writers' Centre course page) Would love to see you there! #flashfiction
