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Kate Horsley

@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
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Queer writer & Uni Lecturer | fiction in Smokelong, Wigleaf, Cincinnati Review, Citron Review, Vestal Review, Bridport, Bath, Oxford Flash | Novels - William Morrow & Harper Collins | Editor @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social www.katehorsley.co.uk

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yay!!! Congratulations!! That’s amazing news! 🎉🥳😍🤩🤩❤️🎉
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thank you!!
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
😍😍😍
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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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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Brilliant interview, Stan!! 😍🎉
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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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Stan J Wild @stanjwild.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
And @andrewkenrick.bsky.social, @hinterlandnf.bsky.social, @wallstrait.bsky.social, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, @travisflatt.bsky.social, @christopherallen.bsky.social, @smokelong.bsky.social who got name-checked for everything they do
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Awww thank you so much Stan!!! I love your writing too!! ❤️
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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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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Congratulations Sara!!! 🥳🎉🎉❤️🤩🥳🎉
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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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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Thank you Laura!!! ❤️ looking forward to the next run of nifty book club, the last one was so lovely 😻 x
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
❤️ Sending flocks of soft imaginary butterfly-winged kittens and tiny soothing bluebirds your way 🐦🐈🦋
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
So brilliant Anne!! What a stunning piece 😍😍😍🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
LOVE this one of Sara’s! 😍❤️🎉
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Awww thank you so much Matt!!! ❤️ Love your writing too, so much! 😍 Hope you’re feeling a little bit better today x
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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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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🎉🎉🎉
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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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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Thank you!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
‘…an eighty pound package of spraytan and Instant Freeze Hairspray, guitar-string-tight when she stands on our hands.’ Just love that final image. @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social in @bathflashaward.bsky.social 📣 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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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Thank you so much!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Comgratulations Kate Horsley highly commended in our 33rd Award 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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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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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Yay congratulations Sara ❤️🎉🥳🎉🥳🥳 LOVE your story so much!!! 😍
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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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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Congratulations Kathryn!!! That’s amazing news! 🎉🎉🥳
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thank you so much!! ❤️🤩
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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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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Congratulations Adele!!! 🎉😍🥳
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thank you!!! ❤️
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thank you so much for all your help with it Sage!! ❤️
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thank you so much Kathryn!! ❤️❤️
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
thank you Ani!! ❤️
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Congratulations Emily, that’s such brilliant news!!! 😍🎉🥳
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Thank you Sharon!! ❤️❤️❤️
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Thank you so much Sumitra!! ❤️
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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
Thank you so much!!!!! ❤️
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Thank you, Sudha!!! 💕
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Thank you so much!! I absolutely loved your micro too!! ❤️❤️
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Thank you so much Sara!!!!! ❤️
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Aww that’s so lovely of you to say, thank you!! ❤️
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
LOVE March Micro Marathon ❤️
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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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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I love the festival and NFFD!!! ❤️ Thank you so much!!! 🎉⭐️
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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…
Cat lying in sink
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