You have until 10pm tonight (UK time) to get those 100-300 words together & polished for the @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Competition Thirty-Three!

So inventive! Great story.

I have a new story in Midway Journal this week. When Jesus gives highly specific life advice via scratch-off lottery tickets, it’s important to listen. midwayjournal.com/jesus-scratc...

Hope you didn't mind the low grade horror comment!

You have to read this. It's a mix of humour and longing and a kind of low-grade horror! Brill.

"Mermaids Tail needed by Thursday 30 April for a Drawing Life session" - this is one the most unusual e-mail titles I've seen!

thanks for posting, Chris. It is a fab piece @lkardos.bsky.social

What a fantastic piece by @lkardos.bsky.social. When you have a minute, read this one.

I loved it but felt the last episode slightly let the whole thing down. But generally it was a hit for me too.

I will also be part of the flood this year with a previously published story. Excited to join you all there.

new new: "Cast-Iron Airplane," by Michael Bazzett: wigleaf.com

Kent Tonight - Tuesday 21st April 2026 Catch up with all the latest news from across the county with Chloe Brewster.

If anyone is interested my short interview on my new novel, Longshore Drift, is at the end of this programme
www.kentonline.co.uk/kmtv/video/k...

I am exercising my agency: after a year of waiting for my green card, during which I wasn’t allowed to work, I’ve started a fundraiser to finish my microfic collection on war days in Iran. (See my pinned post for more info). #writingcommunity #authorsofbluesky #flashfiction

A #haiku of mine long-listed on The Haiku Foundation's Zoo themed Haiku Dialogue in March.

panda enclosure
— not everything is black and white

(Read more of the long-listed haiku here thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog... )

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Giulia Frascari.

I was late for my local TV interview (it's recorded to go out this evening) due to an unavoidable delay and so I ended up flustered and resembling a beetroot!

I've got an interview with KMTV tonight...not quite the big time as it's local radio/TV but lovely to be asked. For my novel, Longshore Drift, set in Dungeness, Kent

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 💜

My review of @tracieadams.bsky.social lovely book of essays/stories on life, "Not Finished Yet"
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

'Emigration for a refugee woman is like carrying the child of a rapist.'
Such a phenomenal piece.
Creative Nonfiction: Pregnant With War by Yuliia Verba (translated by Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko)
#cnf #readingcommunity #writingcommunity

“You can’t remember how or when it started—and perhaps it has always surrounded you, but until now, you’ve chosen to ignore it,”

—Jeff Friedman

gooseberry-pie.com/killing-the-...

Now at the top of my TBR pile!

I liked all three stories but this one is my absolute fave.

Thank you to everyone at @newworldwriting.bsky.social for kicking off their new issue with three microfiction stories by me. Here’s the first story. Click this link to check out the other two:
newworldwriting.net/kip-knott-th...

Thank you to everyone at @newworldwriting.bsky.social for kicking off their new issue with three microfiction stories by me. Here’s the third story. Click this link to check out the other two: newworldwriting.net/kip-knott-th...

Kip Knott ~ Three Stories - New World Writing Quarterly The Flower Monger The local news informs me this morning that they found his lifeless body curled beneath a multi-colored blanket of flowers lying atop a

New work from Kip Knott @kiptain.bsky.social! Up now in our Spring 2026 issue: newworldwriting.net/kip-knott-th...

This is such a good book. OK I do have a piece in here but that's not why I'm promoting it, I promise!

Photo of bath bubbles.

Good morning on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, fam 🌞 If you like short pieces with a lotta ❤️ then catch Memoir Editor @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social's "Top Surgery Triptych" in Issue 47 of @passagesnorth.bsky.social: buff.ly/8PSGCLj

"Nothing to suggest they had to pull him out backwards, by the ankles, the cord a tangled noose." Blue Baby by Kathleen Hellen #flashfiction #readingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy

Pickle Juice by Kelly Pedro When the water comes, it seeps through the windows. Dad says that’s because the windows are wood and rotten, just like Mom’s teeth, just like her breath that always smells like pickle juice and Mom…

I'm back in @flashfrog.bsky.social with this story that has had a journey! Written in @smokelong.bsky.social Summer after a liquid, solid, vapor prompt, shortlisted in 2 contests and now settled on its lily pad in Flash Frog. @tinamariecox.bsky.social art is perfect! flash-frog.com/2026/04/13/p...