Puffins swimming underwater, chasing after fish

Atlantic Puffins — Jessica Eggers, 2026
Pen & ink, watercolor and gouache on paper
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Our last day of micro spotlights and we have a triplet of treasures 🦝

We loved @stuartcavet.bsky.social 's take on parasitic behaviour, the surreal nature of this tight micro and how this unexpected parasite contemplates choice.

Read and listen:
trashcatlit.com/parasite/

Thanks for the kind words, Matt. I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙏

Thrilled to be included in this fabulous edition of @trashcatlit.bsky.social ☺️

March Mini Bin 2026 We have sixteen fantastic microfictions in this inaugural Mini Bin issue. Click on the images to read. Stories with a HEADSET ICON have audio versions on their pagesYou can now scroll through the i…

She is compact and gorgeously bijou - our March Mini Bin full of microfiction is now live 🦝
Dip in and out and enjoy sixteen tasty morsels. We'll be spotlighting each in the coming days.

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Teasing our upcoming March Mini Bin micro issue with these two crackers 🦝

@catherinebuck.bsky.social follows two boys into the woods and has us question who the monsters are

@stuartcavet.bsky.social shows us what happens when something that should help us, chooses to help itself

More teases later

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Our next submission call is for the popular Prompted Stories.
Get a set of prompts, chosen blind - write up to 500 words - all done within one month.
The Prompt Generator is fired up on 1st April.
Stay toooned 🦝

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#submissioncalls

A tight drum roll, please...

FFF and Free Flash Fiction are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty-Two Longlist...

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#writingcompetitions

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Lots of last minute entries this evening! Well done to all those still subbing! Just under 3 hours to go!

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Submissions to our anthology (up to 500 words on the theme of BRIDGES) & our Microfiction comp (up to 100 words, no theme) are now OPEN until 15 Feb. Our anthology editors & judges are poised ready! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

Are you 16–25 and love writing? Enter the Young Writer Award for a chance to win £500 and get published in the Bridport Prize anthology! Don’t forget to tick the age box when you submit. Enter now: bridportprize.org.uk/writers-room-categories/young-writer-award/ #YoungWriters

📝 Writers aged 60+, this is your moment! 📝

Win £500 as the highest-placed writer aged 60+ in our novel, short story, poetry, or flash fiction competitions—no separate entry needed. Just tick the box when you submit!

Find out more: https://ow.ly/BMII50Y5k3r

#NeverTooLate #WritingOpportunities

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest — The Winners! - SmokeLong Quarterly Well that was difficult—and so rewarding. This time of year is always an avalanche of great flash. From August to December we read for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey), the SmokeLong Work...

We have winners! The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest was a bear this year. So many excellent micros. These are our top 7 and will be published Monday in Issue 90! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

A small sketchbook watercolour drawing of Southampton docks with cranes reaching up into the sky and a few gulls having a break from stealing bags of chips from people.

Just a little sketch from a visit to Southampton in 1998. I wandered around looking for something to draw and settled for a quick seascape of the docks with gulls. A cold wind coming off the water.
#art #watercolour #drawing #seagulls

Red yellow and grey retro geometric pattern. White space at the bottom with black lettering: The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 Long list

The long list for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 is here! Congratulations and thank you to all who entered. The judging has been and continues to be extremely tough. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest – The Long List - SmokeLong Quarterly We were thrilled by the response to this year’s Grand Micro Contest, now an annual competition. Our judges—twelve of them from all over the world—read more than 1300 entries, and we are grateful for t...

Longlisted and it feels so good! ☺️www.smokelong.com/the-smokelong-grand-micr...

FFF Competition Thirty Judge’s Report by Nish X. Hegde | Free Flash Fiction FFF Competition Thirty Judge's Report by Nish X. Hegde   26th November 2025   Introduction:           Being invited to contribute to this competition is a true honour. I feel fortunate to have encount...

If you write or read flash fiction ( or entered Comp 30 ), FFF recommend you read the brilliant...

FFF Competition Thirty Judge's Report by Nish X. Hegde.

@nishxhegde.bsky.social

#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction
#writingcompetitions

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We are currently open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction. Please click on the link for our guidelines #MicroMonday #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...

Honoured that @nishxhegde.bsky.social saw something commendable in my submission, and my thanks to Ian at @freeflashfiction.bsky.social for hosting this terrific competition and sharing my piece with FFF’s readers 🙏

A group of yellow-brick houses behind a wall and a curve of hedge with red berries in it. The sky is dark blue cloud, and there is a strong light from the side highlighting parts of the houses' gable ends and television aerials.

Light after rain.
📷 #photography

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Thanks, Linda 🙏

Woohoo! Longlisted … ☺️

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Coffee finds her on the couch with the red wine, ‘SO, THIS IS WHO YOU'RE SEEING AT NIGHT?’

Happy Friday!🥳🙌

I'd better go and make sure that my coffee and wine stay away from each other.🤭☕️🍷

#GoodMorningBluesky #Booksky #Translators #TGIF #CoffeeTime #WeekendVibes

Books arranged into the shape of a heart.

‘I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.’
#RalphWaldoEmerson

#Booksky #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity #Bookworm

🎨 Not mine

Competitions Competitions Winter 2025 Flash Fiction Competition Subtext: the delicate art of saying one thing while meaning another. It’s also one of those things that separates good writing from exceptio…

Enter our flash #fiction competition to win a cash prize + your story published in our winter issue. We're open to entries from anyone and we're awfully friendly so don't be shy 😊. Deadline for entries is 26th October. See link for full competition rules and to enter: penstricken.com/competitions

It’s not the judges you didn’t vote for; it’s the politicians you did vote for.

9 April … 😊