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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Incredibly thrilled to see my work up in brilliant Wigleaf magazine!! Thank you so much to the lovely editors there!! 😍❤️

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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Thank-you @thecitronreview.bsky.social I'm delighted to have a wee Belfast story in this issue 😀

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Our charity anthology authors share the love! "In Thin Place, a reluctant traveller comes to a place where times and memories bleed into one another. Lyrical and evocative." Paperback £7.50: mybook.to/WhatComesToL... @lucimcummings.bsky.social @justine1902.bsky.social

Christmas ’Lights, where one of our Trash Family tell you which anthology story they loved, and why. Lucienne Cummings, author of God Plays Marbles, highlights Thin Place by Justine Sweeney.

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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

what a great opportunity for the new year with 2 excellent tutors!

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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

So happy to have a wee story in this issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social Thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social @mariegethins.bsky.social and the team, and congrats to all the other contributors 🥳

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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Thanks so much @trashcatlit.bsky.social for nominating this story for #bestsmallfictions 😀 Good luck to all the other nominees! 🥳

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

There are 27 short fictions in our print anthology - two of them deal beautifully with stories of escape 🦝 If these teases tempt you, you can grab a copy for less than £10! mybook.to/WhatComesToL... What Comes to Light by @quickasaflash.bsky.social 💜 Thin Place by @justine1902.bsky.social 💜

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A treasure amongst treasures - where is your copy of What Comes to Light? Twenty-seven incredible short fictions available to buy now and raising funds for @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social mybook.to/WhatComesToL... Find out more and get story teases here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...

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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Happy to have a short story in here... thanks @trashcatlit.bsky.social Can't wait to read the other stories 😃

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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

brilliant Kate congrats ❤️❤️❤️

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Defenestration Magazine @defenestrationmag.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Time to unveil the August 2025 issue of Defenestration! We have ten short stories and seven poems for you this month. Read it all here: bit.ly/3HxXXCc (I know it's early. You're probably at work. You can read it there; we won't tell your supervisor.) #DefenestrationMagazine

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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Thanks @trashcatlit.bsky.social for including my story in this 😍 and cngrats to all the other contributors 🥳🥳🥳

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

We were incredibly excited to learn that Cornwall In Short has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Awards 2025! Congratulations to all our amazing authors! The award ceremony will be held on Saturday July 5th. buff.ly/OQcmmtv

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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Great to receive this on a rainy Saturday afternoon 😍 Thanks @bathflashaward.bsky.social for including my story! I'm loving reading all the great stories in here 🤩🥳

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

So excited for this panel event for National Flash Fiction Day NZ, tomorrow at 10:30 pm BST www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf...

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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

How lovely to have a little micro-fiction published today by the guys over at @fictivedream.bsky.social

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Our NATURE EDITION is here! Spilling over with lost forests, wild seas, wily animals, lunar yearnings, magic menageries, mischievous moths and, as always, plenty of superb poetry and flash fiction buff.ly/d5eaihT #shortstories #flashfiction #poetry #writing #nature #climate #ecofiction

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 30/04/2025

'Field Observations Made During an Alien Abduction' by Kate Horsley / @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social is not what it seems. A piercing metaphor for trauma, control, and survival. Read now! inksweatandtears.co.uk/kate-horsley/ #InkSweatandTears #Submission #FlashFiction

A textured dark grey background with white text centered on the image. The title reads 'Field Observations Made During an Alien Abduction.' Below is a quote: 'The alien cries into my hair. I wonder if he remembers doing the things that put me in hospital; his body caging mine against the bed until I couldn’t breathe.' The quote is attributed to Kate Horsley, whose name appears at the bottom. The overall tone is stark and unsettling, suggesting themes of trauma and metaphorical alienation.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

MoLI is looking for volunteers.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

25 more days left to enter! Grand prize $2500! Total prize pot more than $4700! Big money for tiny stories. Do you have a gem just lounging around on your computer, in your journals, in your beautiful mind? Deadline May 10! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

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The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey) is now an annual competition that celebrates and compensates excellence in flash. Our first grand prize winner in 2018 was “Whale Fall” by ...

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Call for Submissions | Nature & Eco-writing | Deadline: May 15 2025 We would love to read your short fiction, flash, non-fiction, and poetry themed around nature, environment and ecology for our Nature & Eco-writing Edition: inkfishmag.com

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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Planning for this eco-humanities conference has swallowed me up these past few months but it’s been so much fun. If you’re in Cornwall this Friday/Saturday, consider popping along. It’s free! sites.exeter.ac.uk/reimagininge...

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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

😀Happy to have had this wee flash fiction published at the weekend! Thank-you ❤️ Discretionary Love ❤️ www.discretionarylove.com/diversions/

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Diversions, Discretionary Love

‘Mind your time,’ my dad phones to warn me an hour before we leave for the airport.

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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Thanks so much @bathflashaward.bsky.social @judehwriter2.bsky.social so happy to see my novella included here! Congrats @debdanthewriter.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @stephaniecarty.bsky.social Betty and all those shortlisted and longlisted 🤩🥳 Can't wait to read these novellas 😍

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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Thanks so much @bathflashaward.bsky.social Delighted to have been shortlisted in this! Congrats and good luck to the other shortlistees! 🤩🥳

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bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Congratulation to all the authors shortlisted for our 2025 NIF Award. 12 this time. There were excellent novellas to choose from on the longlist and we hope everyone finds publication. Thanks also to everyone who entered. Final results end of Jan. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/01/nove...

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Novella in Flash Award 2025 Short List

Congratulations to all the authors who have made the 2025 Novella-in-Flash Award Short List.(Final results in late January, 2025).Author names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share …

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Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

ICYMI - I had a teeny-tiny tale on @paragraphplanet.bsky.social yesterday

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Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Delighted to be longlisted - thanks so much @bathflashaward.bsky.social Congrats and good luck to all the other longlistees 🥳❤️

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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

If you submit today, you may just get a response before the end of the year instead of within 25 days! 😉 Submit: buff.ly/3OYTRme

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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Very proud to have launched ‘Cornwall In Short’ this week with @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social You can read more about it and order a copy (or two) in time for Christmas here: inkfishmag.com/inkfish-press/

Short story collection, book, Cornwall, Cornish writers, foxglove illustration,

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 02/12/2024

Presenting our Monthly Spotlight pick for December: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. Discover an extract, reading guide, competition and more ⤵️ thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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Monthly Spotlight: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan | The Booker Prizes

Claire Keegan’s tender tale of hope and quiet heroism is both a celebration of compassion and a stern rebuke of the sins committed in the name of religion

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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

If you have 4 minutes to read a little #flashfiction I wrote about #grief… this was published earlier in the year. Please do leave a comment on the story if you like it as it helps make me visible to the magazine. 🙂 flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2024/06...

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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Anyone in #Cornwall fancy coming to the #booklaunch of the book I’ve joint-edited? mailchi.mp/3e5e757bb10e...

Book launch Inkfish Cornish short stories

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

'She is undetailed, undescribed, reshapeable, ripe for newness/ Vivid against the palette of sun, an iridescent beetle perches/on her wrist. Ideas burst like fruit' 'Swarm of Blue Dots' and other poems by Jane Frank inkfishmag.com/swarm-of-blu...

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'Swarm of Blue Dots' and other poems by Jane Frank

Poetry in Inkfish Magazine

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

101 years ago today, 14 November 1923, William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Academy’s public citation praised "his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This is your one-and-a-half-day alert! Time is ticking as time will do! Get your micros under 250 words in before midnight NYC November 15. Please tell all your friends. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Our AUTUMN EDITION is here! Packed with blue jeans, aliens, lost love, erasure texts, frankenpoetry, and superb creative nonfiction! buff.ly/4fqs8GA

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Inkfish Magazine

An online literary journal for prose, poetry, and visual art, featuring established and emerging voices.

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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Three weeks until submissions open for the #WelkinMini. 100 words Free to enter Deadline = 2nd January A whole lot of fun + prizes to be won... Get scribbling!

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

There's just over a month left to submit to #flashfictionfebruary #microfiction #flashfiction #callforsubmissions. WC 200-850w. Deadline 15th December. Please follow the link for guidelines fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/

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