There are two more days in our Prompted Stories submission window - get cracking! 🦝
Here's what the fabulous Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social did in 2024 with the prompts: a Storage Facility, a Demon, and a Found Camera
Go get inspired!
trashcatlit.com/get-thee-bes...
Thank you Ian, we love having you in the community (occasionally your bants need work) 💜
You are a goddamn queen, Linda! Thank you for the lovely comments and for being part of the T-Fam 💜
Much appreciated 💜
Always treats in the bin, thank you Lori 💜
Oh we love when people go all trashy for us, thank you Emily 💜
Thank you kind Sir 💜
Thank you Bill 💜
Thank you Lucienne 💜
Thank you June, and for being part of the T-Fam 💜
We on the other paw, climbed some big lambs and saw some cute rocks 😀
We almost forgot April is Trash Cat Lit's 2nd birthday! Two years since we were birthed from a bin desperate for treasures. It's been a cracking ride so far, thank you to everyone who submits and supports this wee mag.
We will be mostly eating snacksies today 🦝
Stay Trashy 💜
If you missed our Spring Pop-Up call, here's what's coming next 🦝
Our Summer General submissions open 1st-14th June for Flash (100-750) and Shorts (up to 2000).
There's a theme of GREEN BIN STORIES and a mood board to offer inspo:
trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/
THE BIN IS OPEN!
You can submit your prompted stories between now and 8pm on the 23rd April (BST).
Scroll down this page for the link:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop...
We're excited to read what the prompts delivered 🦝
We're opening Prompted Stories subs a little earlier - for the fast flashers chomping at the bin bit!
You can now lob your work in from NOON on the 19th until 8pm on the 23rd April (BST).
The link will be at the bottom of this page:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop...
See you then 🦝
As we tick tick down to our submission window for your prompted stories, here's what Adele Evershed
@adlibby.bsky.social did in 2024 with the prompts: In the Year You Were Ten, a Botanist, and Strange Photos.
trashcatlit.com/the-diary-of...
Glorious, vivid writing as always from T-Fam @quickasaflash.bsky.social. Two very different flashes here for your reading pleasure. Grab snacks and get stuck in 🦝
ONE WEEK until our submission window for prompted stories - we hope yours is shaping up 🦝
Here's what Glen Creed did last year with the prompts: in a Laboratory, a Nightshift Worker, and Dancing!
trashcatlit.com/phantom-rout...
Be inspired. Keep working your prompts.
We had a couple days off SM to give the Trashies some much needed RnR 🦝
We generated 144 sets of prompts - thank you to everyone who took part!
We hope story ideas are popping and fizzing for you.
Subs open 21st April for a short window. Be there 🪟
trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop...
My copy of @bulletpoints.bsky.social Vol. 13 arrived today, featuring my flash scifi, "The Lost," about a stranded soldier inconceivably far from home. Lots of other incredible fiction too. QqAvailable to order soon, or online. I'll share the links when they're up.
Lovely, lovely business being in Viridine for their magic issue with a poem about my eldest boy, written on his tenth birthday...
We have used almost all of the prompts available - but these sneaky Trashies still haven't been put to work.
Do you want one, or three? 🦝
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IT'S THE LAST DAY FOR PROMPTS! 🦝
If you want a story to submit, you'll need to grab prompts before 8pm (BST)
Also, go to this page if you want to take advantage of a Swapsie - between 12pm and 6pm
trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop...
It's the penultimate day of prompt generation for our spring pop-up - we've sent 123 sets of prompts so far! 🦝
We're reopening Swapsies tomorrow between 12pm and 6pm (BST) for anyone with a niggling prompt that needs excising ✂️.
Get in on the action:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop...
Fancy taking part in our Prompted Stories challenge and want something none of the other kids have??
Here's our mid-challenge report on which Trashies have not yet been selected.
Stop them eating sweets and chitchatting about Zootopia 2 - pick them here:
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It's SWAPSIES day until 6pm (BST) if you'd like to trade one of your prompts for a new one. Maybe it's stopping the story blooming, maybe you think we're mad for offering it!
Get swapped via a link here:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop...
Day 3 of prompt generation - here's observations from Clerk of Works squirrel:
🩷The majority of settings are from Pink Bin
❤️ Characters from Red Bin are the least requested
🦝Raccoon and Opossum are the most requested Object/ Occurrence
Get on it
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Got your prompts and one of them just isn't working for you?
You can get a swapsie - Saturday 4th April only, between 10am and 6pm (BST) - for one undesired prompt.
Link to swapsie form at bottom of page:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop...
Issue 7 Explore the second year of Underbelly Press Submissions open April 17 to May 22 Theme to be determined Underbelly Press logo in the bottom right corner. Text on a black background. Behind the text is an image of a skull.
Subs open April 17-May 22
The editing period will take place in June. I'll be away from mid June to early July, so timelines may shift slightly (as it's just me).
Issue 7 is scheduled for release in mid to late July.
Theme to be confirmed - would love to hear your thoughts.
If you've got your prompts for our Prompted Stories pop-up and fancy some inspiration...
Here's what @davidkmitchell.bsky.social did with the prompts:
Sleeper Train
Corpse
Seeds
A dark, immersive flash in Mulch
trashcatlit.com/mulch/