It's never too late! 🎊

To celebrate my birthday, I wanted to do something nice that would hopefully spread a bit of joy in the next few months. So, today is the official launch of... 🥁🥁🥁

THE WELKIN GENRE PRIZE!!!

Details in the thread below!

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

It's not Roosevelt we're dealing with. Hell, it's not even Nixon.

Brilliant Ros! ... Love it! 😍 @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social

WOW! I've just done the maths and that's a whole lot of words!!! 😮

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.

There are now just eight maids-a-milking until the #WelkinWritingPrize is open for entries once again. Hope you're busy scribbling your stories.

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Huge congratulations Selina! A great achievement and incredibly well deserved! 👏👏👏

Fabulous #WriteCBC task set by @jessicabull.bsky.social for this month's competition... 😀✒️

Huge congratulations Ros, 🎉I love both! Fingers crossed for the shortlist. 🍀

SUB CALL—Winter Solstice | Dead of Winter: We want your dead of winter—your isolation, your frozen-in-time, your icy touch. We want the clocks to stop, to feel the danger of the cold. Give us frostbite. Give us whiteouts. Give us . . . yetis.

Stale sweat and woodsmoke linger in the room where the same old George, in his old green jumper, leans towards the hearth from his old Windsor chair.
‘Back for the funeral?’ he mutters, tossing a log into the fire.
It hisses and spits as the flames lick, and Amy shivers to her bones.
#WriteCBC

"Open Coop" - A fabulous opportunity for writers of middle-grade fiction in the UK and Ireland. 🖋️😀👍

Thank you! LWC ♥️

❤️ Chuffed to bits!

Thank you so much @freeflashfiction.bsky.social for publishing my CNF flash today! And to Lin Beresford for her wonderfully atmospheric illustration. 🎨❤️ #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction @leicwritersclub.bsky.social

Thanks so much Katie! I'm so chuffed it's been published and I really love the illustration created especially for by Lin Beresford ❤️x

Fabulous Flash!⚡️

Always a box of delights, The Big Scottish Book Club 💝. (Note to self...I'm going to need another bookshelf!) 📚📖

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Oooo! Spooky! 👻

I don't think I've ever posted on Instagram 🤔. Maybe I'll use this opportunity as motivation to use the platform more often 👍😁

Time to get Flashy! 😝 #CBCSummerStory25

What a glorious surprise to find sunflowers on weekend 'Walkies' with the dogs. 🐾🌻🌞

Vote cast for #Uncanny in the #BritishPodcastAward -

I'm forever wobbling between Team Sceptic and Team Believer! 👻

Gorgeous weather for this morning's 'Walkies!' Feels so good for the soul ❤️

Open for submissions, prose, poetry, hybrid, art, photos. 1st-20th Aug

Submissions are OPEN!!! I'll be reading from 1st-20th August. Cannot wait to read and enjoy all your lovely work x

Submission details here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/submissions

Unsolicited writing advice, no: 1.
Love what you do. Nurture it; give it the time it needs to grow. Don't force it to be something it doesn't want to be. Don't compare it with its siblings. Feed it what it most needs. Don't lose the joy in your writing. Because if you don't love it, who else will?

FFF Competition Twenty-Nine...

It was very still & the sky was the dull silver of a mermaid's mirror. The swifts who nested in the thatch were leaving that night, flying to Madrid, then south, south, south across the Sahara, carrying tales of Old Fox’s cottage, tales of love, of sickness, of fear, of hope.

🐸 General subs are open!🐸

flash-frog.com/submit/

Prize — Galley Beggar Press

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories:

www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Closing date 8 November!