YAYYYYY !! ikr i love it 😆

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social omg sumitra!! this is wild! we’re doing the 8-14th dates, is that when you are too?? 🤞🏼

The Editorial Funnel Pt 1 | MattKendrick.co.uk

If you're interested in my new editing course, a place has come up for April (13th April-3rd May - send me a message if interested). Otherwise, bookings are open for June (1st - 21st) & places are going like hot cakes...

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This is online, asynchronous & PWYC 😀

ahh so cool to be included here!! 🥰

my piece is a mondette! 😳🤩😫 so cool to be included among such beautiful pieces 🥰 thank you @kathrynreese.bsky.social!

i love how poetry is (all at once) overthinking and overfeeling and overlanguaging

i want time to watch more films but i also want time to read more books but i also want time to look at more nothing

@lornamcfindy - anyone else do that thing where you just decide you're not going to be sick anymore and decree that you're just going to just Do The Things, but then you'll do something innocuous like put a wash on and nearly die in the process and remember you are actually quite sick?

a patchwork blanket sounds great! i really like making blankets in pieces. doing it in one gets really heavy after a while 😅🫠

ahh it looks amazing matt!! was this your very first project? i’m genuinely stunned by how even your tension is! 🤩 what are you planning to make next?

that means so much 😭😭 thank you to you both x

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 🧡🧡🧡
turningleafjournal.com/2025/12/15/o...

thank you so much Sumitra! 😭🥹

thank you 🥹😭 x

“Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday Party,” Orli Baumgart Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday PartyBy Orli Baumgart A jumble of jackets and bags strewn about my friend’s bedroom near the entryway. A staircase that stretches up to the main floor wit…

‘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

turningleafjournal.com/2025/12/15/o...

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

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

but editing’s a beast of its own and the fact i got this piece to completion is a miracle ✨ (well part miracle and part Matt’s editing guidance 🙂‍↕️)

& side note, this is my first piece published in over two years!! chronic fatigue really be chronic fatigue-ing the last three years 🥲 i’ve found i can manage writing drafts for a course because a focused theme/prompt reduces the mental load of ‘wtf do i write’

“Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday Party,” Orli Baumgart Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday PartyBy Orli Baumgart A jumble of jackets and bags strewn about my friend’s bedroom near the entryway. A staircase that stretches up to the main floor wit…

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!! 🤩🥰

so excited and grateful to have a piece in this!! 🥹🥰

haha no that does make sense! i know it as hokey-pokey though - seems like Australia took after the US rather than the Brits on that one 😅

YES sooo true 😆🙂‍↕️

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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 🥲

THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.

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:

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‘We will be eating the silt of generations smothered in masala. My mother will smell it on us a mile off.’ oh i love this 😭😭 @pleomorphic2.bsky.social it’s such a beautiful piece 🥹

For the Young Fans Who Weren't There in '82 by Sumitra Singam — AC | DC A Journal for the Bent Flash Fiction

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

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omg mum and i were just having a conversation the other day about how you found people at things pre-phones! i wouldn’t have survived lol i’m late to everything. also i love everything about this flash!! 😭🖤