With many thanks to the editors of @atriumpoetry.bsky.social

yay! congrats Rosaleen!

WHAT A STORY!!!! If you read nothing else today, read this 👌It had me smiling, laughing, crying all at the same time. Huge congrats, Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social

The Lick By Matt Kendrick It was the first painting we looked at on our visit to the gallery. I said it was kind of beautiful. The tongue had a sensual quality. But Hadley didn’t see it. She said the painti…

In honor of the great @mattkendrick.bsky.social's 40th birthday, read this ridiculously joyful and weird flash from 2024 in @moonparkreview.bsky.social. I have thought about this story so many times since I first read it. moonparkreview.com/issue-29-fal...

"and it was hoarse as if she’d been crying, and flat and toneless, as if she’d given up on herself"

Brilliant writing from @noranadj.bsky.social; the way this builds and build and builds

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Thanks Dan! Always so encouraging to other writers. You're a gem x

Thank you, Matt!

Yay, I did it! To be published is great but to be 'Highly Commended' against such tough competition brings me great writing joy! Thanks to the whole team behind 'The Pride Roars' - (PS I'm a Leo) 🦁 Congrats to JP relph, Jenny Kingsley Emem and all the winners! @theprideroars.bsky.social

Thanks so much! Congrats to you, too! x

Ha! Just this week, after a veryyyyy long dry spell :)))

Thanks @trashcatlit.bsky.social for giving both these stories a chance to be read again! ❤️

Thank you, James! I was reading your wonderful 'Shadow' micro from the NFFD competition just a few minutes ago! Just brilliant!

I spy with my little eye... ✍️ How exciting to spot my title on the shortlist! Congrats to all who made it.

During the pandemic, I had days when I felt I was by myself on a shore drained of the tide, dragging a stick across miles of wet sand. There were also days when I was a boy again, sliding down a snowy hill on a flattened cardboard box. And there were days when I remembered the teacher who made us memorize a poem each week, and when we asked why, she said we might one day find ourselves in a wreck at the side of the road and we would recite these poems to stay alive.

Rick Barot ♥️

A beautiful reminder of what poetry can do.

Oh, my goodness, I'm on the longlist! Congrats, all!

Happy IWD, Ros!

'One of each' -- yay for @trashcatlit.bsky.social, and thanks to lovely editor JP

thanks Matt!

So happy to be published in @okaydonkeymag.com with "Join the Dots". Huge thanks to fiction editor Steve Chang for believing in this story.

Thank you, Sarah❤️

The standard of @welkinprize.bsky.social is so incredibly high I never thought I stood a chance. What a joy it was to receive that e-mail from Matt Kendrick about a year ago!

"Time passed. Did you hear it huff and puff?"

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

✍️Totally over the moon with an acceptance today! It came about when the editor of the dream journal got back to me to say they liked it but it needed to be clearer in parts. He added this was not a promise of publication.

Reader, it turned into a much better story as a result. I DID IT!

It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!

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Thanks Matt! ❤️

Thank you @welkinprize.bsky.social and congratulations to all on this sparkling list ✍️✍️✍️

At 3AM, November 17, 1973, "The Colonels" sent a tank crashing through the gates of the Athens Polytechnic. It had been occupied by students protesting the fascist junta. Dozens died, mostly teens, 20s and one boy of 5. Over 2,000 were injured.

The protests it sparked brought down the dictatorship.

Wow, beyond thrilled! Thank you, @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social