Thanks for putting my story up. I recommend the prompted stories, made me write something I'd never have written otherwise.

Congratulations Jack, you should not be at all cool about this. A triumph!

I can't repost with the photo. Am I stupid ? I love puffins Heather. Was gutted I didn't get to see them on the Isle of May last summer due to a storm.

Once more with photo hopefully

Beautiful photo! Puffins are now classified as endangered. I think we should have collaborated, Heather. www.newfeathersanthology.com/the-puffin.h...

The physical beauty was part of the attraction. Plus the poetry of course. Plus the theme. Plus Valencia.

#MOTH by Eleanor Holmes — Ethel pre-order, will ship by the end of March 2026//limited edition 60 copies//5.5×8, 33pgs Attend Eleanor’s online book launch reading (with special guests) on April 19 @ 2:30PM EST: https://www.event...

I was drawn to this small bright flame of a book by @eleanorholmes.bsky.social which grew from workshops by @taniahershman.bsky.social Have ordered my copy. www.ethelzine.com/shop/moth-by...

Thank you JP!

Thank you Ros!

Thank you so much Beth for reading them and glad you liked.

GILL O’HALLORAN: In Search of an Easy Life Flash Fiction by Gill O’Halloran In Search of an Easy Life I watch the tawer’s eyes scrape away Gohar’s top layer. Deep below me, I feel volcanoes seethe and shift. I leap up, unsheathe my knife. S…

Happy to have 2 stories in Flash Boulevard. Thanks to @francinewitte.bsky.social for publishing @christopherallen.bsky.social 's Scrabble game for giving me the word 'tawer'! flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/g...

Very sad to hear this news. I was in John's workshop @bathflashaward.bsky.social flash fiction festival in 2024 and his deep connection with nature moved me. There's an online event to remember him on 18/4. thepoetrysalonstack.substack.com/p/finding-ra...

Gill O’Halloran — Does It Have Pockets Loving the Alien

You know when you open the fridge door and there are aliens on the shelf?
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/gill...
Thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social fitness group for helpful f/b.
Some great stories and poetry in April's DIHP issue. Do go read mine and Nora Esme Wagner's, similar themes.

"One day, you and the angel lie in bed together while your husband is at work, lazily filling out one of those stupid magazine love quizzes, a crane fly buzzing on the wall, one wing mired in the flypaper's jammy glue" Stunning @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
wigleaf.com/202603loneli...

Born in @mattkendrick.bsky.social 's Go With the Flow course and inspired by @shortpoemz.bsky.social Roberta Beary's beautiful anadiplosis haibun. contemporaryhaibunonline.com/cho-18-3tabl...

Thank you!

Thank you Claudia.

Thank you Matt.

The Puffin The Puffin Gill O’Halloran ​When you died, a puffin landed on my head.   The heart attack unzipped my universe, a forked lightning flash of clarity before it all went black. You were there. And...

"First the puffin came and went, leaving the beak-bite of her claws on my scalp. But as your absence grew more present, she became my familiar, and I missed her when she left, my head wounds, a proud tattoo" Gorgeous heartbreak @quickasaflash.bsky.social
www.newfeathersanthology.com/the-puffin.h...

Sorry this is such a belated belated birthday wish. Trevor is the birthday guest you didn't invite who turns up anyway...when will he get the message? I'm v pleased to hear of your move + wish you happy hours in your garden. Thanks for being such a generous member of the writing community.

Happy my story, 'The Puffin,' is in this beautiful journal. Thanks to @erinvachon.bsky.social whose Smokelong prompt inspired it and to @smokelong.bsky.social for initial f/b. V pleased to be alongside @bsherm36.bsky.social whose work I admire. Do read her story, a reimagining of the Minotaur myth.

Best of the Net 2026

Thrilled to share the news that Michael Agunbiade’s poem “the new testament” is a Best of the Net finalist! ✨️

Read the poem, from issue 20:
variantlit.com/the-new-test...

' the ribboned flowers pinned by mother to my head; white for pure, white for clean, white for the confirmation I do not want...' Do go n read Rosaleen's intensely tactile winning tale.

Yay! 🎉 Absolutely thrilled to win this competition! Huge thanks to judge Kerri McCourt for choosing 'Penance Plaid' & to Ian Rushton for running the fab @freeflashfiction.bsky.social & congrats to everyone on the shortlist & highly commended! 🥰

Just read them all! Linda Bayley’s mother worries about her daughter’s hymen, Stuart Cavet‘s Parasite is a medical cannibal, Travis Flatt offers us a darkly funny hotline, Ian Johnson’s live gig triggers survivor guilt, Laura Nagle offers a subversive, meta-fictional story. And there's more!

Congrats to everyone shortlisted/commended.

Look forward to reading Finnian's flash, they're one of my favourite workshop leaders.

I remember this one Christina. Congratulations!

Only 3 months late reposting this one! I'm excited to read my small story at the book launch on Thursday 24th April at Putney library. Public event!
www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk/event-detail...

Look forward to reading it, Beth.