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Mon Dickson

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Writer. Dentist try-hard. Cornflakes uptight. She/her. #FlashFiction & #ShortStories at Temple in a City | Anti Heroin Chic | Splonk | jmww | X-RAY + more. Best small fictions nominee 2026. NSSF Academy graduate. writingandthelike.wordpress.com

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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🎉 It's that time again! Submissions time! 🎉 Delighted to announce that submissions are open from the 16th of May until the 26th of May 2026. You can find full details on how to submit and what we are looking for here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/submissions

Submissions are open from 16th May - 26th May 2026

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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

By my caclulations, entries open for the Welkin Genre Prize, two weeks on Monday!!!! Who's excited? Who's writing something this weekend? What categories are you hoping to enter?

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bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

3 weeks till the 33rd BFFA closes on Sunday 7th June. Stories up to 300 words. £1460 in prizes. Publication offer for longlisted stories. Results end of June. Read our interview with Shelley Roche-Jacques, Feb BFFA 1st prize winner for inspiration www.bathflashfictionaward.com/category/vie...

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The Bridport Prize @bridportprize.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

15 days to go. There’s still time to enter the Bridport Prize! Submit your Poetry, Short Story, Flash Fiction or Novel for the chance to win prizes, be published, and have your work read by leading writers and industry professionals. ✨ Open to writers worldwide Enter now: bridportprize.org.uk

Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My first read of the day and it's a beautiful one

Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Very excited to be signed up for this with lifelong friend and super talented writer @julietpersimmon.bsky.social

Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

If you haven't already, do read this impeccable piece, and if you have, read it again

Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My Best small fictions nominated story, 'How to make a living coffin' @templeinacity.bsky.social is available to read here, and in great company. Congratulations to all the nominees! ✨🎉

Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Big Feelings about this Best Small Fictions nomination. Huge thanks to the wonderfully supportive @eireneeleni.bsky.social 🙏

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

It’s here, it’s live, your little slice of joy. A micro issue bursting with heart-filling poetry, flash, micro and CNF, brief and brilliant as a sun glint on water. Sip at them whenever it hurts. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

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JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Issue 3 contributors.

L. Acadia
Mehreen Ahmed
Hilary Ayshford
Samantha Backlund-Clapp
Robin J Bartley
Lanie Brice
Chris Cottom
Ivan de Monbrison
Litsa Dremousis
David Gaffney
Ezra Gatlin
S.A. Greene
Alaina Hammond
Rachel M. Hollis
Amy Marques
Rob Moore
Jay Parr
Juanita Rey
Chris Scott
R. P. Singletary
Calla Smith
Joanna Theiss
Christina Tudor
Dominic Walsh

Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Congratulations all! 🙌🙌

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Temple in a city nomination for Pushcart and Best of the Net (that one announced belatedly but submitted on time). Congratulations to all authors and look for more nomination announcements soon. templeinacity.com/temple-in-a-...

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Temple in a City literary journal

Temple in a City literary journal award nominations, Best of the net, Pushcart prize

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Choose your metaphor but if you can write your heart and vision and send it into the world, here and other great lit mags. The counter to the dehumanization of our work and our lives is us. It’s you. It’s we. It’s putting one word after another because we can and we will.

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Alt: Myley Cyrus writes the we will on a whiteboard

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Send some joy our way for a special issue-let, a micro mag, an itty issue but happy, like sun flashing through cloud or whatever it is that makes you happy. Like your first solo bike ride. A final leaving. Or return. We don’t know, it’s your joy but we can share it. Open for just a couple of days.

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Ephemeral joy and nonsense joy and ecstatic joy and contemplative joy, the joy of being and of doing and of not doing and of burning it down and of building it up and anyway there’s lots of variations don’t be afraid, a little joy won’t make you unserious, it patches you up so you can be serious

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Subs open for flash, micro, poetry art and letters until November 15. All welcome. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

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Temple in a City

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

With a brand new category. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

Mix and match: Creatives, we see you. Why stick to one form when you have three? Send up to 3 pieces of any mix of micro, flash, poetry or art. One poem and two flash? Sure. Two poems and one micro? Why not. Fly free. Same word counts apply (up to 1,000, no minimum). Submit in
one .doc or doc file, art as 1000-1500 pixels wide files

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

How many days left to submit? Not many days. Subs close Nov 15 and ANOTHER Mercury retrograde is coming even faster than that so templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

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Temple in a City

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Subs open to Nov 15, welcoming your work like templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

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Alt: a man opening his arms wide with a brick wall in the background

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Really looking forward to hosting this panel discussion on "Emotional Depths" with @claudiamonpere.bsky.social & @dawnsteffler.bsky.social. Should be such a great event. It's a week on Monday at 7pm GMT for anyone who'd like to sign up: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

Write Beyond the Lightbulb. Emotional Depths. Hearts, Souls and Minds. Panel discussion on creating resonance (with Claudia Monpere and Dawn Tasaka Steffler)

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Come write with us. It's free. Five events each week between Nov 8 and Dec 14. Promptember will be an energetic promptathon with breakout sessions to awkwardly chat (a tradition at SmokeLong). Do 1 event per week, 3, or all. Donations go to @sundresspub.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

Ready for Promptember 2025? - SmokeLong Quarterly

Join the SmokeLong community for Promptember, a mysterious intermonth happening between November and December of live write-in events designed to light a fire under your writing life. Participate in o...

Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Wander, wonder, send your work.. subs open for issue 4!

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Link here for easy access. Subs open until November 15. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

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Temple in a City

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Every day is a good day to share a piece of writing or art you love. Or like. Or found uncomfortable. Or made you question or feel or think. That made you want to smile or cry or paint or draw or love. That reminded you of something you have or lost or could find. That carried your feet another step

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Feeling no no no, read this mossy gem by @mondickson.bsky.social yes yes yes. templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

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Temple in a City

Temple in a City literary journal, Monica Dickson

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 25/09/2025

Temple in a City @templeinacity.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions duotrope.com... #amwriting

Re-opening: Temple in a City

Temple in a City @templeinacity.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/temple-in-a-city-39172 #amwriting

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Anyone feeling lost, thinking nothing can change for the better, a little reminder by Kendra Cardin that it can. A change in the recipe, flash fiction. templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

Wishes can come true. Beautiful flower seedling not yet scattered to the wind but getting ready to burst out and find welcome soil.

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Cheshire Novel Prize @saranaidinecox.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

And a great competition from Joffre books for writers of colour. 👇

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bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Are your stories in full flower yet? One week to go till the deadline for our 31st Award on Sun Oct 5th.. £1000 first prize. Up to 300 word #flashfiction. Results out fast. Anthology publication offer for 50 longlisted. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

A tiny story or poem a day has anti-bacterial properties we are sure of it templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

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Temple in a city Issue 2, Light

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

A tiny story or poem a day is good for the skin,we are sure of it templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

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Temple in a city Issue 2, Light

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

A tiny story or poem a day is the best revenge against insufferable exes, bosses, colleagues, neighbours, demons, goblins, animated dolls and clown nightmares,we are sure of it templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

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Temple in a city Issue 2, Light

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

"Be the kid you were before you got realistic. That kid's real too." 💕 Send your work to the wonderful TiaC, they will take such good care of it!

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Got a little site cleanup and boy are we excited. Same look but more intuitive, easier to use. Easier to find your favourite story or author. templeinacity.com

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Temple in a City

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Got a few minutes today? Dip into this little issue filled with tiny delights. Some will take your breath, some will help you let it out, some will take your hand, some will fill your heart, some make you laugh, some will brim your eyes. Try one. See what you get. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

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Temple in a city Issue 2, Light

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I'd be grateful if you can send links for flash stories where climate change plays a role. I'd like my students to write these kinds of stories for an assignment, but I don't have many models. Thanks!

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It’s never too late for tiny gems to fill you up up up up. There’s a bunch to choose from, what do you have to lose but a few minutes? Spend them on flash poetry art people poured time, effort and heart into making just for you. Yes, you! This is for you. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

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Temple in a city Issue 2, Light

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

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Farhana Shaikh 🍉 @farhanashaikh.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Tickets from just £25. Book today for £10 off day passes and all weekend passes. Also, 50% off bursary places are available for underrepresented writers. Apply via email. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/short-stor...

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Short Story September Festival Weekend

Join us for a jam-packed weekend of talks and workshops on mastering short stories.

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 12/09/2025

ICYMI: If only the privileged can afford to become agents, it's mostly the privileged who get published, says Siobhan Cole in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

The missing link

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JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Creative Nonfiction Editors Wanted! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/c...

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Creative Nonfiction Editors Wanted!

We’re growing again, and we’d like to add another associate creative nonfiction editor!

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The whole issue is complete. 9 new authors, micros, flash and poetry to explore. Gift yourself a little reading. Set aside 10 minutes a day. Read something new. Rediscover the love. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

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Temple in a city Issue 2, Light

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🫶🫶🫶 @templeinacity.bsky.social put so much soul and heart into celebrating their contributors 🙏 it's a really special journal to be part of. Do take a look - and send them your work!

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This little @deniseb.bsky.social flash tiptoes toward the ember of trust in ourselves and each other then lights it up. A gorgeous reminder of how else we can be. Let it warm you. templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

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Temple in a City literary journal, Denise Bayes fiction

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A tiny absurdist whirl by Colin James. Go on, take a bite. templeinacity.com/micro-colin-...

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Temple in a City

Temple in a City literary journal, Colin James

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HAD @havehashad.com · 10/09/2025

I'm not even totally sure how to describe today's footnoted collage-y pastiche from a.d. but it feels kinda like one of those "only on HAD" pieces and I really love it a lot www.havehashad.com/uuksi

A screenshot of a Twitter post featuring a colorful graphic with the text "Unlock Your Potential!" in bold letters, accompanied by a motivational quote about personal growth and self-improvement.

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Look here, folks, this little gem will remind you it’s not too late, we can trust and rely on ourselves and each other. A little ray of goodness to rekindle the warmth we sometimes forget we carry.

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

You should not miss this. You will miss out if you miss this. Don’t miss out.

Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

In case you missed it, here's my latest flash, 'How to make a living coffin' in the tremendous @templeinacity.bsky.social Issue 2, Light

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Trade off-hours emails and doom scrolling with little bites of gloriousness. Each one takes seconds to a few minutes to take in though the effects on your mood and consciousness can be lasting. Warning: not govt approved. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

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Temple in a city Issue 2, Light

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters