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Mehreen Ahmed

@ahmedmehreen.bsky.social
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MidwestBookReviews' HighlyPraisedNovelist of ThePacifist(CosmicTeapot2017)Waterloo short story contest co-winner, first place in AcademyoftheHeartandMind contest,5botN,BestSmallFictions,2Pushcart,JamesTait nominations,In Boudin,BendingGenres,CentaurLit

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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.” ― Steven Wright
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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
just six more chapter to writet o my wip: book 7 of the Schellberg Cycle
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.amazon.com/Incandescenc... A five star.
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.amazon.com/Incandescenc... A five star.
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.thebridgetowncafebooksshop.co.uk/2025/01/whit...
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White Moon by Mehreen Ahmed
White Moon is a collection of avant-garde short stories, micro and flash fiction. Together they bring a stronger message than they do i...
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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White Moon by Mehreen Ahmed
White Moon is a collection of avant-garde short stories, micro and flash fiction. Together they bring a stronger message than they do i...
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 08/09/2026
Anthropic settlement authors--I'd like to hear from any children's authors who are seeing 25% claims from the WFH illustrators who did interior illustrations for their books. beware@sfwa.org Probably another error to add to the cavalcade, but I'm trying to determine how widespread this is. Thanks!
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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Almost let the day pass without posting this one!
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caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A child who reads will be an adult who thinks.
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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
looking for cafes that support the arts.
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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
a fre collecion of short stories:http://eepurl.com/gbpdVz
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Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. -from William Blake, "A Memorable Fancy"
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Matt // elkz 🕹️ @notelkz.net · 17/08/2026
It's finally raining here, I've literally never been so happy to see rain before. Nearly 3 months with hardly a drop.
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Nature's Rainy Forest Morning
ALT: Nature's Rainy Forest Morning
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Zoomed a reading session with Athens for the inaugural issue of Literary Parthenon, honouring the Nobel Laureate Odysseas Elytis. It was wonderful!
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Zoomed a reading session with Athens for the inaugural issue of Literary Parthenon, honouring the Nobel Laureate Odysseas Elytis. It was wonderful!
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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
www.thebridgetowncafebooksshop.co.uk/2021/04/them... nother super flahd collection
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Theme and Variations by Vanessa Horn
Theme and Variations is a collection of sixteen flash fiction stories with music – some of it harmonious, some discordant – running throu...
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I have been awarded this certificate by the editors.
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I have been awarded this certificate by the editors.
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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
one of ou latet collections of flsh fiction:https://www.thebridgetowncafebooksshop.co.uk/2026/04/the-last-casuslrty-by-mark-connelly.html
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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
one of our flash collecions*https://www.thebridgetowncafebooksshop.co.uk/2026/04/the-last-casuslrty-by-mark-connelly.html
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Writing Quotes (15140 quotes)
15140 quotes have been tagged as writing: Shaun David Hutchinson: ‘We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.’, Paul Auster: ‘And t...
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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
on of our latt flash ollections:https://www.thebridgetowncafebooksshop.co.uk/2026/04/the-last-casuslrty-by-mark-connelly.html
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This has published a Greek translation of my Micro Fiction, The Stretch: Η Ανάβαση (The Ascent) by The Academy of Creative Writing, Greece, 2026. I am truly humbled.
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This has published a Greek translation of my Micro Fiction, The Stretch: Η Ανάβαση (The Ascent) by The Academy of Creative Writing, Greece, 2026. I am truly humbled.
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Andrea Damic @damicandrea.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Samples of Available Artwork on Etsy Photography / Visual Art / Paintings *feel free to contact me on WordPress as well. adwordsart.etsy.com
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Samples of Available Artwork on Etsy
Photography / Visual Art / Paintings *feel free to contact me on WordPress as well. adwordsart.etsy.com
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The perfect description of a library card .
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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
www.thebridgetowncafebooksshop.co.uk/2021/04/a-pl... super collection of literary short stories.
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A Place to Be
In this haunting collection, one of Jesse Falzoi’s characters imagines the word “Wuthering” means “From all directions and never the one ...
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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i35Q...
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The Best of CafeLit 8
YouTube video by Gill James
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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
canwe save h bees? WHO eil do ht/ how? tell the story.#writingprompt
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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
a fun wy of eriing pomshttps://talkingaboutmygeneration.co.uk/lockdown-adventures-creative-writing-making-names-and-words-into-poems/
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Prosetrics Lit Mag | SUBS OPEN @prosetrics.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The TOC of Ukiyo, June 2026. To purchase the print edition please visit: prosetricsthemagazine.wordpress.com
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Gatherings
A collection of character based stories with a strong element of stream-of-consciousness style in some of them.     This book contains...
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Gatherings
A collection of character based stories with a strong element of stream-of-consciousness style in some of them.     This book contains...
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Ultramarine Literary Review @ultramarinelitrev.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Check out a new poem about AI by Anna Elsa Karika! Read it here ⤵️ www.ultramarinereview.com/post/raw-yel...
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raw yellow
by Anna Elsa Karikapaper crown atop a trash binyou notice, as you step out of the train- gleam in the eyes, fever rising, it’s been a long daypassing yellow painted lines, fadedfields and fields of po...
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
nortechlabs.io Check this out!
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NorTech Labs
NorTech Labs embeds with Australian seed-stage founders at the moment the build gets serious.
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
nortechlabs.io Check this out!
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NorTech Labs
NorTech Labs embeds with Australian seed-stage founders at the moment the build gets serious.
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"That last morning I watched him make the guest bed, yank wool blankets smooth over sheets, a precise geometry of corners" @sfreligh.bsky.social Heartbreaking, beautifully written 100wordstory.org/the-suicides...
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The Suicide's Sister - 100Words
Sarah FrelighI used to catch him studying the map of his right hand, forefinger tracing a highway of veins coursing north from wrist to palm, peninsula of fingers jutting into the air.
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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
more than 100 Next250 events will take place across the country...In Los Angeles, an event titled Learn the History They Want You to Forget will include a walking tour recognizing sites significant to Black, Latino, Indigenous and LGBTQ+ communities www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘This isn’t about any one administration’: protests kick off in DC to reimagine the next 250 years in the US
Next250’s Declaration of Interdependence, a new art gallery that features Americans’ collective values and hopes for the future, will open in McPherson Square
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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
We are open for submissions for a new project exploring themes of: Dis/Enchantments / Anomie / Spectacle Click the link to view prompt in full. Send work to: icefloeprojects@gmail.com #poems #prose #visualart #vispo #experimental #hybrid #sound #video icefloepress.net/dis-enchantm...
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Dis/enchantments / Anomie / Spectacle – An Ice Floe Project
“a hypermarket can provide just as much meaning and human truth as a concert hall” – Annie Ernaux Crash (2026) (c) Robert Frede Kenter Ice Floe Press is now open for submissions o…
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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A short story of mine, “The Enormous Man”, came out with Quarter(ly) Journal last year. Now that their new issue is out, I feel it’s okay to share it (link to pdf in first comment).
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LindaFly @lindafly.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Gill James @gillj.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
mY gentl YA paranormal romacnce:https://www.thebridgetowncafebooksshop.co.uk/2021/07/spooking.html
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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"On The Way Home" - my oil painting
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A refreshingly wonderful book by Chitra Gopalkrishna. #ShortStoryCollection.
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A refreshingly wonderful book by Chitra Gopalkrishna. #ShortStoryCollection.
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Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I read old LRB/NYRB issues a year or two late. This 2023 Jerome Groopman piece is grim: cancer treatment as lucrative market, with investors drawn to drugs that “don’t work too well” or cure too quickly—so the patient/customer keeps paying. Photos attached; paywalled link in comments.
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Ylem by Mehreen Ahmed open.substack.com/pub/ginoskol...
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Ylem by Mehreen Ahmed
Issue 24 of Ginosko. Nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize.
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Issue 24 of Ginosko. Nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize.
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Editor's Choice. Ylem by Mehreen Ahmed highlighted on substack. open.substack.com/pub/ginoskol...
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Ylem by Mehreen Ahmed
Issue 24 of Ginosko. Nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize.
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Mehreen Ahmed @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Editor's Choice. Ylem by Mehreen Ahmed highlighted on substack. open.substack.com/pub/ginoskol...
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Ylem by Mehreen Ahmed
Issue 24 of Ginosko. Nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize.
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