Orange typewriter on a blue background with blue paint dripping down the typing paper.
April’s Art & Flash digestif, which includes an ekphrastic writing prompt and an art-related recommendation, is here:
🔗 mailchi.mp/06f6eeb2433d...
#ekphrastic #writingprompt #contemporaryart
Pink typewriter on a paint-splattered background
This month’s featured artist employs wrapping, winding, & threading. Perhaps their work will inspire characters who do the same, or paragraphs & sentences that intertwine in unexpected ways?
April 20th 11am or 8pm
£15 for 1 session or £30 for 3
🔗 tinyurl.com/yt87xxs5
#exphrastic #writingworkshop
Pink typewriter on a paint-splattered background
This month’s featured artist employs wrapping, winding, & threading. Perhaps their work will inspire characters who do the same, or paragraphs & sentences that intertwine in unexpected ways?
April 20th 11am or 8pm
£15 for 1 session or £30 for 3
🔗 tinyurl.com/yt87xxs5
#exphrastic #writingworkshop
Thinking of submitting to NFFD’s FlashFlood (opens on Sunday for a week. Up to 300 words), why not have a read of last year’s stories? You can see the full list here: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com?m=1
Pink typewriter on a paint-splattered background. The paper in the typewriter has the text - Art & Flash Exphrastic writing workshop Monday, April 20th 11 am or 8pm GMT
The month’s featured artist employs wrapping, winding, & threading. Perhaps their work will inspire characters who do the same, or paragraphs & sentences that intertwine in unexpected ways?
April 20th 11am or 8pm
£15 for 1 session or £30 for 3
🔗 tinyurl.com/yt87xxs5
#exphrastic #writingworkshop
Sarvin is just brilliant, as is her work. If you can afford to donate please do. Scroll down or see Sarvin’s original post for project details. sarvinparviz.com
Pink typewriter on a paint-splattered background. The paper in the typewriter has the text - Art & Flash Exphrastic writing workshop Monday, April 20th 11 am or 8pm GMT
The month’s featured artist employs wrapping, winding, & threading. Perhaps their work will inspire characters who do the same, or paragraphs & sentences that intertwine in unexpected ways?
April 20th 11am or 8pm
£15 for 1 session or £30 for 3
🔗 tinyurl.com/yt87xxs5
#exphrastic #writingworkshop
On the off chance that hashtags work here...
I’m running ‘An Introduction to Flash Fiction’ workshop in #Brighton on Sunday 29th March.
#creativewriting #shortfiction #flashfiction
🔗 shorturl.at/Vz6yS
I made a really cool friend who loves improv. as much as I do and she ended up moving to Brighton! X
‘’The fruiting body of effort’ is my new favourite BlindBoy quote.
So much of the language used around the abuse of women trivialises serious crimes. If it were implemented this change would be long overdue.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
'9:17AM: Back in bed, I watch a video on my cellphone of a horse in the Catskills that’s been struck by lightning, rendering him blind, and now the horse’s best friend is the farmer’s dog...’
When I Met God by Sam Berman
rejection-letters.com/2025/12/12/w...
❤️Submissions open until April 15: INCH --our little journal with a big heart-- is accepting manuscript submissions; read all about it: buff.ly/jGeTkNA
A hand with orange nail varnish holding a pen. Text reads Art & Flash.
In this month’s Art & Flash digestif there’s a writing prompt to get snippy about.
#ekphrastic #writingworkshop
Read it here - mailchi.mp/62f00ca76746...
Fabulous!!! Congrats misses! 🥰 🦔
A hand with orange nail varnish holding a pen. Text reads Art & Flash.
In this month’s Art & Flash digestif there’s a writing prompt to get snippy about.
#ekphrastic #writingworkshop
Read it here - mailchi.mp/62f00ca76746...
Oooh, @smokelong.bsky.social is building a flash village and everyone is invited! 🥰
Send something to Paragraph Planet. Diminutive stories have a lovely time there. 🪐
Pink typewriter covered in paint on a painty background.
Today at 11am or 8pm GMT
Join me for an hour of writing and art appreciation.
There will be flies and truffles and A LOT of paint. Oh, and an Australian celebrity.
#ekphrastic #writingworkshop
www.anikacarpenter.com/ekphrastic-w...
Yay! Congrats 🥳 Can’t wait to read it.
A pink typewriter on a surface covered with paint. Green paint drips down thw paper on which is written - Art & Flash Ekphrastic writing workshop Monday, March 16th 11am or 8pm GMT
In Art & Flash this month we’ll be writing in response to work by an artist described as a rebel, a playful genius, a pioneer, a cultural icon.
Come and write characters as huge as her canvases, as wild as her brushstrokes. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop
🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...
Join me this time next week for an hour of writing and art appreciation. Find our more here - www.anikacarpenter.com/ekphrastic-w...
"She tells him, real silk shimmers, warms in the hand. A shadow of cloud darkens the room’s margins, where earlier they’d cast-off their clothes."
Bamboo Silk by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social deftly weaves in place, uses white space so well, doesn't waste a word.
newflashfiction.com/bamboo-silk-...
A pink typewriter on a surface covered with paint. Green paint drips down thw paper on which is written - Art & Flash Ekphrastic writing workshop Monday, March 16th 11am or 8pm GMT
In Art & Flash this month we’ll be writing in response to work by an artist described as a rebel, a playful genius, a pioneer, a cultural icon.
Come and write characters as huge as her canvases, as wild as her brushstrokes. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop
🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...
Lovely to hang out 🥰
The UK Government is reviewing the purposes and funding of the BBC. Curtesy of @campaignforthearts.org here is a link to the BBC Charter Review - Public Consultation form where you can share your views.
www.campaignforthearts.org/reports/a-st...
Yes!!! 🎉
We've recruited three lovely new readers but we'd like three or four more, particularly if you consider yourself underrepresented in the literary world. Not essential though. We just want good readers. Get in touch at info@thin-skin.com
Congratulations, Beth! Brilliant news. 🎉