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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 14h

Ooh, so pleased to have my story on air, read by a proper actor. Thank you to @uksherka.bsky.social and to @northerngravy.bsky.social for first publishing it: northerngravy.com/the-book-of-...

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The Book of Best Days by Chris Cottom – Northern Gravy

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So pleased to be back in the wonderful @epistemiclit.bsky.social, thank you Melissa and Kristin.

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations @words-outwest.bsky.social and no need to be coy. My back-of-a-fag-calculations, @eleanor-luke.bsky.social, indicate that Emma has won this great comp no fewer than FIVE times (but don't trust me on maths). Repeat: that's FIVE times. PS: Did I mention that Emma's won it FIVE times?

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Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very honoured to be nominated, thank you so much @newwritersuk.bsky.social. And alongside the awesome @jaimegill.bsky.social, no less.

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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.

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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 · 27/08/2026

Aww, thanks Caroline. Yeah, Polesden Lacey, quite a place.

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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 · 26/07/2026

Thank you very much for finding this one, Laura, published last year and which I started all the way back in 2021.

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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 · 07/07/2026

So pleased to see this one out there, thank you Ian at @eunoiareview.bsky.social

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

So pleased to be this wonderful journal.

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

I'm pretty gobsmacked actually Delphine, thank you.

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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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