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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We’re loving all the love Issue 3 is getting! Have you read it yet? literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue3

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ISSUE 3 | Litnamjooning

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"...and honey oozed through cracks in our walls and we placed bowls underneath to catch the drips and it was the best honey, plastery and delicious in spoonfuls or with a piece of Battenburg cake." I love this remarkable story by @francesgapper.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"At last we died and were ourselves consumed by worms, but felt only tickles like bees crawling over our skin" Love pieces like this that foreground real history; brilliant writing from @francesgapper.bsky.social

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Jessica Klimesh @jekwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@francesgapper.bsky.social in Issue 4 of Hot Flash Literary!! Read "Three Sisters, One Grave, Many Bees" here: hotflashliterary.com/three-sister... #flashfiction #instantkarma

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Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A micro about baby Ethan and his very strange mother, written by me and Meg Pokrass, published in The Odd Magazine. Thank you to Editor Sreemanti Sengupta (link to mag in comments)

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Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Out now! Happy to have stories in these two great anthologies - THANK YOU to Best Microfiction editors Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke and Diane Seuss, and the Bath Flash Fiction team.

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Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"They listened to Bob Dylan tunes, the soft ones she preferred with lulling harmonicas from after his motorcycle accident when maybe he just wanted to heal instead of pointing out everyone else’s faults."

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This sequence is so delightful. I was in when I saw Leonora Carrington and boy did this story deliver!

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LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

simply thrilled to share this lil’ backwards story of longing & redemption 🥹 🙏 @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving it such a beautiful home @christopherallen.bsky.social for the slantwise prompt & @markabowles.bsky.social for timely words of support bulbregion.com/Truth-and-Co...

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Truth and Consequences, by LM Fontanes — The Bulb Region

Truth and Consequences — LM Fontanes 10. She kissed him anyway. 9. Nate...

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Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Happy to have a tiny story in Best Microfiction 2026. Thank you to series editors Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, and guest editor Diane Seuss.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

"news I’ve been demoted from Manager of the Queen’s Government to our divine ruler’s personal body slave, main duties snake handling (venomous asp) and floral arrangemen" Love the mix of historical setting & modern voice in this from @francesgapper.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/neck-the-neck/

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Neck the Neck - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Longlist – 2026 Gooseberry Pie Annual Writing Competition by Frances Gapper Day 9, month 2 of Low Water: as the great god Ra lifts his solar crown above the eastern horizon and I shiveringly prostrate...

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Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

"Afterwards it rained, hard as stones."

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is such a fun story! Bravo @francesgapper.bsky.social

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Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This wonderful competition issue of Gooseberry Pie includes my tiny tale about Cleopatra's asp 🐍

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“Martin is nowhere to be found in my beautiful new desert. And then I am thinking, was Martin a mirage? Was he a puddle of love in the almost distance, something I thought I could reach?” 🚨 An amazing new @francinewitte.bsky.social story in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/I-wake-up-an...

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I wake up and I’m in the desert, by Francine Witte — The Bulb Region

I wake up and I’m in the desert — Francine Witte AND SURPRISE, IT’S...

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"woman with a depleted bank account who can’t stop ordering seed and suet balls and pink slabs of seed-studded suet and mealworms and new types of feeder tube or dish or guard." Love this @francesgapper.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/shes

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she’s — Blood+Honey

by Frances Gapper “watching baby starling that great fluffy lump of entitlement plumped on the feeder’s crossbar waiting to have seedy mush inserted in its beak shoved down its throat hurry up mum...

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Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"It used to be that every night, we had a friend who was just the sun reflected through a floating rock..."

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Today's spotlight from our latest cat-centric issue is from @francesgapper.bsky.social 🦝 We loved the brilliant brevity of this piece, which added to the mystery and quiet spookiness. We get but glimpse of Murgatroyd - but he lingers... trashcatlit.com/murgatroyd/

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Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

So delighted to be on this list! Many thanks to series editors @megpokrass.bsky.social and Gary Fincke, guest editor @dseuss.bsky.social and of course to the fabulous Switch.

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LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

#flash #writer folks, check out this wonderful bin/journal—two paws up!!! 😻

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Our LAST tease! Issue launches 2nd Jan. Get your paws on 20 cat flash then 🦝 @heatherbooknook.bsky.social shows us a future where the cats get all the tech @jennyhart2001.bsky.social layers her relationship story with martial arts @francesgapper.bsky.social gives us a glimpse of something uncanny

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Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Back in Trash Cat Lit - meow meow!!

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"‘What sort of books do you like?’ I ask. He replies: ‘We’re not readers, we’re characters in someone else’s plot.’" I love this brilliant story by @francesgapper.bsky.social in @expositionreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙 expositionreview.com/flash-405/wh...

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Whoosh! - Exposition Review

by Frances Gapper Honorable Mention – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Fiction Arthur says: ‘You use too many exclamation marks.’ He has a scholar’s melancholy and often groans aloud. Putting my...

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Ian Johnson @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

It's witty, it's clever, AND it features Scarborough. What more do you want?

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Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"People say we live in an unequal society; some are born well-lit, others are living like moles." Fabulous work from @jupiterjonz.bsky.social

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MaireadWrites @maireadwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

"Act 1. Anton Chekhov beak-raps the glass roof of Dad’s passion project / our house and shits on it. “We should never have adopted that seagull,” says Helena, my stepmother. Was there ever a more intriguing opening?? Fizzing with wonderful, is this. Congratulations @francesgapper.bsky.social

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

HERE THEY ARE! 25 contributors to the upcoming Prompted Stories issue. Split into new and existing Trash Family for your consumption. The issue will launch on Thursday 🦝 @leighaplin.bsky.social @madeleinewrite.bsky.social @lucimcummings.bsky.social @sclly21.bsky.social @adlibby.bsky.social 1/3

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Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Delighted to have a micro included in Fictive Dream's MicroMonday #21! Written in a recent @smokelong.bsky.social Summer workshop.

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Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Thank you so much ‪@lit-namjooning.bsky.social‬ for nominating my CNF piece "Is That All There Is?" for a 2026 Best of the Net award. What a wonderful surprise!

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

“How my body keeps trying to eject me the way birds don’t trust humans no doubt for good reason” A gorgeous piece with a last line that resonates with its startling perfection by @francesgapper.bsky.social in #nffd2025

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Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Wonderfully chaotic piece by @francesgapper.bsky.social #nffd2025

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