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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Issue 27 Contributors Spotlight. Issue 27 will be out this Thursday (10th)! 🧡

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Stan J Wild @stanjwild.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Very honoured to be included with @genesis-pearl.bsky.social in @neonandsmoke.bsky.social's first writer spotlights on their brand new website. T&J pay writers, provide copies, nominate, give helpful feedback to submitters. Thanks to them both for all they are doing

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The Bridport Prize @bridportprize.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Bridport Prize 2026 Shortlists are here! The Short Story, Poetry and Flash Fiction shortlists are now live. Congratulations to every writer whose work has been shortlisted – an incredible achievement. 📖 View the shortlisted titles: buff.ly/w2x0BDV

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 27/07/2026

Writers are people who have imposter syndrome and main character syndrome at the same time

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Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

'And we watch out for our own – unless anyone breaks a rule, like eating carbs, or wearing slacks, or messing up a cheer.' Congratulations to @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social whose story is Highly Commended @bathflashaward.bsky.social 🎉 #flashfiction www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/high...

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Highly Commended BFFA June 2026

The Siren Squad Tries a New Flyer by Kate Horsley This girl Mackenzie’s new to Echo Lake High, an eighty pound package of spraytan and Instant Freeze Hairspray, guitar-string-tight when she stands …

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"All nineteen of us are torso-tense, muscle-sprung, feeling-not-seeing Mackenzie tuck her back so we can launch her high in a basket toss" Love how this flash from @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social reflects both the specific and the universal; and great evocation of character and group

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bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Mega Congrats to our 5winners in the 33rd Award chosen by @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social 1st, @anneh23.bsky.social 2nd, David Swann 3rd,Cecilia Maddison Highly commended @sarahillswrites.bsky.social Highly commended @Katehorsleywriter.Bsky.social Read their fab stories on bathflashfictionaward.com

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Congratulations! Confetti Celebration

ALT: Congratulations! Confetti Celebration

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The Citron Review @thecitronreview.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Hooray! It's that @wigleaf.bsky.social Wigleaf 50 time of year. Congratulations to all writers of amazing small stories in the 50 and on the longlist. Our Citron writers are well represented and we're honored!

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Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Congratulations to all the writers and journals represented here, both the top 50 and the longlist. Such a fantastic variety of stunning work! 🎉🎉🎉

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Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Aww, this is such lovely news!! All the thanks to judge @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social for commending my story. Huge congrats to the winners (for their fabulous flashes—wow!), & congratulations to everyone on the SL & LL; I'm so proud to be in the next anthology with you. 🎉❤️ @bathflashaward.bsky.social

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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Love this suggestion from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social of exactly what can be done with the historical in the space of just 100 words. Brilliant writing @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Think hist fic can’t be done in a micro? Here’s @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social in @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social proving you wrong. Inspo for @welkinpress.bsky.social Genre Prize closing June 30!

Picture of winning entry from Nz Nat Flash Fiction Day 2026 Micro Madness by Kate Horsley “How the strasbourg dancing plague of 1518 begins”

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This micro sprang to life in @smokelong.bsky.social’s amazing March Micro Madness!!! Thank you so much to the wonderful people at @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social for giving it such a lovely home!! ❤️

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to the amazing Mor Poets! Their brilliant and beautiful poetry anthology Wild Women is out today! You can order this gorgeous anthology here: www.inkfishpress.co.uk/wild-women

Wild Women poetry anthology by Mor Poets.

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Just settling in for her nap in the place where I like to brush my teeth, giving me whatever the frontwards version of side-eye is…

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Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New @smokelong.bsky.social! Kate Horsley, @travisflatt.bsky.social, and @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, L.A. Strycker, Ellen Garard, Kate Catinella, Christopher Lee Chilton, Audrey Obuobisa-Darko, Joshua Geller Schwartz, Lane Michael Stanley, Murray Dunsmore, and @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social.

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Issue Ninety-Two - SmokeLong Quarterly

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Over the moon to have a piece in the very beautiful Issue 92 of SmokeLong Quarterly! So many amazing stories in here by writers I love: www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety... Thank you @smokelong.bsky.social ♥️

The cover of Smokelong Quarterly Issue 92

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Issue 92 of SmokeLong Quarterly is live! Featuring the winners and finalists of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026 and the winners of the SmokeLong Workshop Prize. All of it is gold. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety...

SmokeLong Quarterly Issue 92 cover, June 2026. Digital painting on a blue background of a Black man with a sailing ship on his head. Cover art by Martins Deep. Featuring the winners of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction and the SmokeLong Workshop Prize.

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

So excited for this line up!! Can’t wait for this!! 😍🔥

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

We have another tantalising triplet of stories from our now-online anthology, What Comes to Light 🦝 In What Ephesians Said @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social gives us passion and sex and betrayal with dark humour and a blistering reveal 💜 trashcatlit.com/read-what-co... 1/3

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We're so excited to be publishing Katie Peterson and Young Suh's beautiful chapbook of poems and photographs, ENTRIES FROM A GLACIER soon! www.inkfishpress.co.uk/entries-from... “Meditates on the precariousness of daily, lived experience in the face of sweeping change." — Erica McAlpine

Kate Peterson and Young Suh, Entries from a Glacier, a chapbook of poems and photographs published by Inkfish Press.

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idonthaveorgans @idonthaveorgans.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Like the adult I definitely am, I woke up today and had icecream for breakfast

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

On June 19, we will be publishing Wild Women, the thrilling new anthology by Mor Poets! Penelope Shuttle says: "These are poems drawn from the very slipstream of life, courageous and affirming." You can preorder this gorgeous anthology here: www.inkfishpress.co.uk/wild-women

Wild Women, a poetry anthology by Mor Poets published by Inkfish Press

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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

And I'm in! So excited to have "Nothing Bad Happens" in the Flood this year! Get your subs in now--it's such a fun and celebratory day! (lots of !!! in this post...)

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This is going to be a great night for a great cause! Please join us!

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

So grateful to have "Girl Locks" appear in Best Small Fictions 2025 from @altcurrent.bsky.social. Huge thanks to editors Robert Shapard, Nathan Leslie, & Michelle Elvy for choosing it & to @splitlipthemag.bsky.social @maureenlangloss.bsky.social for nominating it.

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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Thanks to my @smokelong.bsky.social MMM Group 4 for help on this one, particularly for the encouragement by @lmbayley.bsky.social! Here's a story about a chicken and the apocalypse and the Scrubs remake... "Eunice Bobs Her Head": gooseberry-pie.com/eunice-bobs-...

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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Check out Flight 4 at @flightlit.bsky.social (including my story “Tiny Little Babies”): flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-4/

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Wilma still keeps the smaller cage Daddy came in. The newer one she got him is fancier, and twice the size." *** "Her son is lost. Not lost, dead. He died with his best friend, his dog. The two were swept off a seaside patio together." 2 gems @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

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Gone Lawn 64 : Patricia Q Bidar

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"I watch the moon rise and the sun set. I watch my mother’s hair turn gray. She is bouncing my son on her lap. I am the child, standing next to them on the plate of time." Chilling Girl Scout advice & brilliant exploration of time in thesemicros @kathyfish.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Two-Stories-...

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Two Stories, by Kathy Fish — The Bulb Region

Two Stories — Kathy Fish A Good Soldier If you are sad or depressed, obey. A sulky...

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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I love everything about this story by the incredible @sagetyrtle.bsky.social !

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Please don't miss my story in the amazing @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social - if you like a) bees b) the UK c) crying you will love this one:

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"and you start running towards the deer, shouting Marcus, hey Marcus, at first the deer startles, freezes, but then he darts away, man he runs goofy as fuck" Dazzling story @aniking.bsky.social ghostparachute.com/issue/april-...

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Local Boy Missing — Ghost Parachute

You get home from your dad’s on Sunday, and as soon as you pull up in your shitty Cavalier you can tell that Marcus and his whole family are just… gone. No curtains hanging in the windows, no lawn cha...

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"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...

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Horsley: 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Salt Pillar'

Fiction by Julia Gilmour

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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Now that @smokelong.bsky.social March Micro Marathon is all wrapped up, let's get a list going of journals looking for micros! Anyone?

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Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"You always your whole life wondered what come-to-bed eyes are. Well... "

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Brand new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social is out here waiting to enrich your whole life! www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety...

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Issue Ninety-One - SmokeLong Quarterly

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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

“Behold this angel now: a crowd of bored tourists watching her chisel a crucifix, a heart, a dog with his leg cocked, a tiny woman who looks like you, each feature perfectly modelled in salt.” This @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social flash in @wigleaf.bsky.social is excellent.

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Incredibly thrilled to see my work up in brilliant Wigleaf magazine!! Thank you so much to the lovely editors there!! 😍❤️

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Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

new new: "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Salt Pillar," by Kate Horsley: wigleaf.com

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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction

An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

"My Cindy’s eighty-five, she giggles. No way, Jayne shrieks, she looks forty-nine. What’s her secret, retinol, Botox, baby stem cell cellulite...? All of it, says Marissa solemnly." @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social Brilliant story. Winner: SmokeLongWorkshopPrize www.vestalreview.net/the-altar-of...

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The Altar of Saint Cindy — Vestal Review

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Aaargh I had to reread this news a few times because I thought I was imagining it! Thanks so much to the wonderful people at @smokelong.bsky.social and congratulations to all the amazing writers on here!!!! 😍❤️🥳🎉

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