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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love, love, love @thehooletsnook.bsky.social. So pleased to be here again, thank you Gisele.

Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ooh, lovely to see this out there again, thank you @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social, and also to @delgeo14.bsky.social for publishing it in Raw Lit in the first place.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Delighted to feature in this great competition again. Big thanks to judge @kateaxeford.bsky.social for choosing my story.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm delighted and honoured, thank you lovely Woolf people.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Big shout to @bulbculture.bsky.social for republishing our preloved pieces. I wrote this back in 2021 on a course with @kmelkes.bsky.social where lots of others also helped me with it including @norami.bsky.social and @mynachang.bsky.social (see, it might be five years but I haven't forgotten).

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very kind of you to say so, Liz.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wow! Totally gobsmacked, thank you lovely Barrelhouse people, and particularly for the wise suggested edit which I am quite sure made all the difference to this story.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thank you Suzanne. Surely these albums are everyone's favourites, yes?

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Aww, thank you very much, Denise.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So pleased to see my button story in the wonderful @tinymolecules.bsky.social.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is a gorgeous mag and I was delighted to feature on the menu under spring starters.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

'This knife is not a knife: it is a gateway to a new life.' Terrific piece in @mrbullbull.bsky.social by @serrey.bsky.social.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ooh! So pleased to be here. Welcome back @ellipsiszine.bsky.social. We've really missed you.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Big thanks to the lovely peeps at @goodlifelitmag.bsky.social for publishing this piece, and to @raecowie.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social for their help with it and for explaining how it contains enough truths to qualify as CNF.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm learning loads as a reader for @broadripplereview.bsky.social. EIC @kellyschoenegge.bsky.social is brilliant at providing clear, thoughtful, and detailed guidelines; at articulating her vision for BRR; and at encouraging us. It's so useful reading each other’s comments (after posting our own).

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

'We were the only runners in Regency sun-bonnets'. Ha, love this Austen/Adidas mash-up by @sagreene1.bsky.social in @freeflashfiction.bsky.social.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Delighted to see this one out there. Big thanks to @words-outwest.bsky.social for shortlisting my story and to @freeflashfiction.bsky.social for running this brilliant competition.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm so thrilled to be in matchbook literary magazine @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Delighted to have my 500-word summer holiday story read so beautifully here on Sherry's Shorts (at 18:40 mins in).

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Crikey, that's a lovely surprise.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Bring it on, Matt. I'm up for the challenge. Expect a late surge of entries, make it even harder for me, please.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

So thrilled to be in this dream journal. Thank you so much to the awesome MFA students at Temple University for that all-important editorial suggestion (reader, I made the change).

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

So thrilled to appear in this dream journal, thank you wonderful editor-people @nffr.bsky.social. Thank you also to the Group 10 word wizards in March Micro Madness @smokelong.bsky.social for their help with this piece.‬

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A-wooooooo! @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social is such a cool mag and I’m stoked to be here. Big thanks for their help to the wordsmiths of Group 18 on this year's March Micro Madness at @smokelong.bsky.social

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Delighted to see this one out there, thanks to @everydayfiction.bsky.social. Also thanks to @raecowie.bsky.social for her help with it.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Thank you very much, Jaime, and for your input on this one. While discretion prevents me from revealing which single word you helped with, I can assure you it was significant, and probably the one that swung it with the judges. I shall buy you a cup of tea next time I’m in Cambodia (date TBA).

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

‘and every sin with you will feel like resistance’. Absolutely stunning one-sentence story by the peerless @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social in @freeflashfiction.bsky.social.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Delighted to be in the gorgeous juicy pages of @littlefruitsmagazine.com. Thank you to @raecowie.bsky.social, @norami.bsky.social and Barbara Marsh for their help with A Bigger Splash.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Thank you so much to @fictivedream.bsky.social for giving Dad Club a home, and to @raecowie.bsky.social and the word soldiers of Smokelong Fitness February Cardio Group 2 at ‪@smokelong.bsky.social for their help with it.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Thank you to ‪@freeflashfiction.bsky.social for running this great comp, to ‬judge Kerri McCourt for choosing my story, and to @raecowie.bsky.social, @norami.bsky.social, @yalanchang.bsky.social, and @serrey.bsky.social for their help with it.‬‬

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Thank you, Lori, and I absolutely love your story. I wrote mine on last year’s March Micro Madness at ‪@smokelong.bsky.social‬‬. Big thanks to Group 28 for their help with it, and particularly @francesorrok.bsky.social for the surrogacy line, and to @underbellypress.bsky.social for publishing it.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Thank you Sharon but I couldn't possibly comment.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Delighted to make the Trash Cat line up.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I always thought Smokelong Fitness was for the grown-ups. Reader, I was wrong. It’s the best thing to have happened to my writing for yonks.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

So pleased to see this one out there. Big thanks to ‪@bulbculture.bsky.social for publishing it and to @norami.bsky.social and @raecowie.bsky.social for their help with it.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Thank you very much, Matt, and for introducing me to 'lanky' metaphors on your inspiring course Glorious Words. Thank you to @bendinggenres.bsky.social for publishing this piece, and to @norami.bsky.social and Smokelong Fitness's Jan Cardio Group 4 at @smokelong.bsky.social for their help with it.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Big thanks to ‪@freeflashfiction.bsky.social for running this great comp, to ‬judge Caroline McKenzie for choosing my story, and to @raecowie.bsky.social, @norami.bsky.social, and September Cardio Group 2 at Smokelong Fitness for their help with it.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

'Junwei will be caned later today.' What an opening line in this bad boy story by @yalanchang.bsky.social in Issue 4 of Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social. www.frazzledlit.com/p/they-say-j...

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They Say Junwei's a Bad Boy

Flash fiction by Ya Lan Chang

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

So pleased to see this one out there. Thank you to @penmenreviewsnhu.bsky.social for picking it, to @raecowie.bsky.social, @norami.bsky.social & @finnegag.bsky.social for their help with it, and to the redoubtable @mattkendrick.bsky.social for prompting it on his famous Colourful Characters course.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Delighted to feature in the lovely @templeinacity.bsky.social. Big thanks to EIC @eireneeleni.bsky.social for selecting my story and to @raecowie.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social for their help with it.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

So pleased to be here. Big thanks to EIC @jhhwriter.bsky.social for being a real editor and suggesting amends to enable him to reconsider. Reader, I listened to him.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Stoked about this honour. Thank you so much ‪@epistemiclit.bsky.social

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Big thanks to ‪@freeflashfiction.bsky.social for running this comp, to ‬judge @nishxhegde.bsky.social for choosing my story, and to @raecowie.bsky.social, @norami.bsky.social, and the wordsmiths of Smokelong Fitness ‬October Cardio Group 3 for their help with it.

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