Writers of Bluesky!
This weekend, you could be just one 500-word story away from a share in AU$4,000.
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📕 Top 6 stories published
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What's the collective noun for a group of erotic authors? An orgy? A debauchery?
The cover of Flesh Fiction Volume 1 appears beside a quote from Blanche d'Alpuget, author of the Bunny Club, "I laughed a lot, and fell in love with a giant cockroach. Yes! Really." Available for pre-order now from not quite write press dot com. Write is spelled w r i t e.
Flesh Fiction Volume 1 is now available for pre-order! Containing 304 pages of the most "unsafe for work" content our authors could dream up. Trust us when we say, reading this book will blow your... mind!
Ships worldwide from 1 June.
Head to notquitewritepress.com to pre-order your copy now.
Cover of volume 1 of the Not Quite Write Prize for FLESH Fiction anthology
My spicy, print-exclusive story, "Venus of Urbino", will be in your hand on June 1st. 🎨🖌️
I can't tell you where to put your other hand. But at least, in my story, I know exactly where somebody's hand is. 🔥👀
Pre-order your copy now! 👉 notquitewritepress.com
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I have a new 1000-word story in Locative Magazine today! 🎉
“The Largest Herbivore of the Holocene“ is equal parts history lesson and ode to working mums.
Thank you Harvey Liu for not only accepting my work amongst the many submissions, but also for gushing about it in your editorial. 💕
Read here👇
A generous benefactor from the Not Quite Write community has donated an entry to the April Write-Off to help a writer on low income struggling with “cozzie lives” 🥹
To accept, email us at contact@notquitewrite.com
Please like and repost to spread the word to someone who could use a leg up ❤️
In anticipation of the Flash Fiction Challenge kicking off on May 1st, we're happy to publish the story that placed 2nd overall in last year's competition. Check out "They Still Bring Your Flowers" by Natalie Minaker at nycmidnight.co/486oe4J. Original Illustration by
Yevgenia Nayberg. Enjoy!
Congrats to longtime illustrator for NYCM, Yevgenia Nayberg, on the publication of her new graphic novel, Chernobyl, Life, and Other Disasters. It arrives just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl explosion and is available wherever books are sold. Learn more at her Instagram @znayberg.
Coffee, wine, and unrestrained stubbornness 😂
FlashFlood opens for submissions on 19 April till 25 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Stories will be published on NFFD. Pre 2023 previously published considered. Reserved slots for unpublished writers. For more details see our submission guidelines: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...
4th place overall in @twistinthetale.bsky.social! 🥳
A personal best for me.
I made the leaderboard in all 3 rounds, each story in the 9’s 🎉🥰
9.05 | 9.39 | 9.08
And yet I still don’t have a pointy trophy on my desk 👀
duotrope.com/interview/ed...
A great interview with Not Quite Write's @akscotland.bsky.social where I even get a cheeky shoutout!
I’m flabbergasted seeing my name amongst you scarily talented people!
I was not expecting that shout out! You've just made my entire week! 🥰
Entering the April Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction?
Read Amanda’s interview with Duotrope to find out what she’ll be looking for!
duotrope.com/interview/ed...
My Booby Prize winning story is posted! 🦭🌟
I'm incredibly proud of this one. You can read "Over Down Under" here 👇
theboobyprize.co.uk/over-down-un...
Two blue footed boobies celebrating with champagne. Text says “The Booby Prize Winner, Over Down Under by Chloe Paige”
What an honour to win The Booby Prize! 🏆 🥳
“Over Down Under” took inspiration from the meme that Aussies live upside-down, and ended up exploring where grief takes you.
A big thank you to Steve from the Prize, Emma Oldham, and all the prelim judges.
Congrats to Jaime Gill for placing 2nd, too! 🎉
I made the Booby Prize shortlist! “Over Down Under” is a fever dream story—an Aussie portal fantasy with a talking sea lion. Congrats to the other shortlisters and everyone else who nabbed an Honourable Mention! 🎉🦭🐧
A rabbit in a dress. Yes, really.
At a recent checkup, the vet said Jasper is still in great health despite him being nearly 10 years old 🎉🐰
I'll be gracefully handing over the crown to whoever wins this year. I hope my stories will put up a good fight in the meantime.
I'm just excited to see my winning story published (soon!!!) 👀🥰🦘
It’s never too late to start supporting independent bookstores instead of, you know, other places. 😌
Thank you @penstricken.bsky.social for publishing another of my tales.
I’m looking forward to reading all the other contributions in this issue.
penstricken.com/the-sublime-...
An opossum playing dead on a pink background in a golden frame with a ribbon with the words: "days without embarassing myself: 0" #possumcore #sciart
Days without embarassing myself:
I never considered myself a comedy writer, but I’ve managed to crack the shortlist for a local comedy competition 🎉🎉🎉
It features the Aussie icon, sentient giraffe puppet Healthy Harold, who is jaded and ready for retirement after years of teaching kids about drugs 🦒
You got this! 💪
Cavalry’s prompts were a wild ride so I was rolling out of most of them! Hope the Horde had easier prompts 😅
Made it out alive with three new stories 🎉
I had my tantrum in the first 20 minutes trying to figure out “cosy” then I was surprisingly zen after that 🧘♀️
