I'll be on @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social tomorrow 26the Oct reading my piece about the bog. Tune in if you can.
#bog #boglander #offaly #writing #sundaymiscellany #writingcommunity #rteculture

Tune into @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social tomorrow morning to hear me read my piece on fantastic fungi

#fungi #mushrooms #rte

I'll be reading my piece Deserts of the Midlands on RTE Sunday Miscellany's Writing the Bog programme on 7th September. Tune in if you can!

#writing #writingcommunity #bog #boglands #offaly #peat #peatlands #midlands #ireland

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Thank you🙂

Huge applause for the talented writers @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social & @atrodd.bsky.social We are really honoured and lucky to first publish these wonderful flashes.

Thanks Marie!

The Best Small Fictions Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

Fantastic to see flash fiction by Banshee contributors @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social and @atrodd.bsky.social included in Best Small Fictions 2025! @altcurrent.bsky.social Congrats to Chloe and Adam and to our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social 💫

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Delighted to be included in the 2025 Best Small Fictions Anthology with 'Jewel Bearing'. Thanks to the folks @bansheepress.bsky.social for putting it forward and to the @altcurrent.bsky.social team for selecting it 🙏 altcurrentpress.com/best-small-fic… #flashfiction #WritingCommunity #shortstories

Aaaaaah! #spring

Saw one recently that "assists" you in writing your novel. Jesus wept.

Bristol Short Story Prize now open for stories of up to 4000 words, judged by prize-winning novelists and a literary agent. Also winning stories published.

Link below

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a cartoon character with a very angry face and the words `` me right now '' . ALT: a cartoon character with a very angry face and the words `` me right now '' .

To all the parents and grandparents at the school Christmas concerts, THAT'S THE WRONG ASPECT RATIO!!!
#christmas

'Missle little mattle hattle cattle on the landing'. I *love* when a new Keith Ridgway #story lands [anywhere]. Always perfect pacing, characterisation, barmy-but-real language as world-building, and that special way of messing with the reader's head while telling a story, wildly & elegantly. 👏 👏

For the evening crowd:

Couldn't stomach the other place any longer.

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest - The Long List - SmokeLong Quarterly Each year, SmokeLong asks the flash community and beyond to send us your best micros, whether previously published or unpublished, fiction or CNF or anything in the gray zone between. Maybe you publis...

Super thrilled yo be on this longlist. Thank you Editors www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

I read a story on stage a few months back with Annie Lanzillotto. She's just phenomenal! Charisma by the skipload, an incredible life story, has overcome so much illness and is pure hilarious. If you're in Dublin next Tuesday, don't miss this #PridePoets evening at Street 66, Parliament St., D2

Booby Beanies ™️

Fond memories from 2011. My first "serious" publication. Maeve Binchy was at the launch and she was so kind and encouraging to us all.
#shortstories #powers #writingcommunity

Did you known that @splonk.bsky.social teamed up with Allingham Flash Fiction to publish the three winners of their comp at Splonk Issue 12? Edited by EIC @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Have a read! #writing #writingcommunity #flashfiction
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Competitions, Submissions & Opportunities - Irish Writers Centre Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Writing courses, literary events, professional development for writers, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, playwriting.

Useful comp and subs info
#writing #writingcommunity

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The Damage We Do by Adam Trodd This was when the country stood on the precipice of a construction boom and it became profitable to claw the guts out of the glacial eskers that criss-crossed the midlands like tribal scars. Ginormous...

The Damage We Do
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