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Peter McAllister

@petermcallister.bsky.social
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Writer. University Lecturer. North Cornwall Book Festival Director. Editor & Co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social.

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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Bye bye #stmichaelsmount. Off for another day teaching lovely #Englishliterature students at @exeter.ac.uk
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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This amazing little creative non fiction piece from the always incredible @justine1902.bsky.social makes me feel all the feels. Well worth a read, all!
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
New anthology coming soon from Inkfish Press.
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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Listen to this new short story by Peter McAllister from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, A New Way to Live by PT McAllister
Kathleen learns that even after years of marriage, her husband John can still surprise her
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matchbook literary magazine @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Subs are open until Jan 12! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
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matchbook Submission Manager
Submit to matchbook (a project of matchbook literary magazine). Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
OPEN. www.stanchionzine.com/submissions
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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Wondering what to submit? This week we’re especially interested in: shadows, fish, wheelbarrows, rain, Infinity Train, cardboard, love of all kinds, forests, errands, ornaments, elk & other antlered animals, mail, football, and wheels.
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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
DEADLINE JANUARY 15TH: Send this to a friend who should submit to our In-House Fiction and Poetry Contests! Use the link in our bio to submit your work for a chance to win a cash prize and publication before the deadline. #writingcontest
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Paraselene @paraselenemag.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We are BACK OPEN for poetry and book review submissions! Visit our Submit page here: paraselenemagazine.com/submit
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Are you looking ahead for submission opportunities? We have THREE this Spring 🦝 February - New Writers, Preloved Words trashcatlit.com/spring-2026/ March - Microfiction for the Mini Bin trashcatlit.com/microfiction... April - Prompted Flash Challenge trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop... #submissions
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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Tune in to #BBC #Radio4 today at 3:45pm and hear my story being read by the velvet-voiced Helen Lloyd. Thanks to everyone who helped me with feedback on this one. If you miss it today, you’ll be able to listen in your own time on the Radio 4 website, here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, A New Way to Live by PT McAllister
Kathleen learns that even after years of marriage, her husband John can still surprise her
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.
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Submissions - Seize The Press
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Deadline extended! We are now accepting submissions to our Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers through January 8. The winning entry will receive $1500. Head to the link in our bio to submit your work!
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Acre Books is reading queries and submissions for #poetry manuscripts during the month of January. To learn more, visit acre-books.com/submissions/. 📚🖊️ #booksky
Acre Books is open for poetry submissions January 1 to 31.
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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN for the 2026 Sarabande Annual Prizes through Submittable starting today Jan 1 - Feb 15. This year’s judges are: Kaveh Akbar (Short Fiction), Adrian Matejka (Poetry), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Essay)! Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨
Cream background with the white Sarabande logo bleeding through in the background. Black text at top reads: Submissions Open. Underneath in pink text it reads: Sarabande Annual Prizes. Along the left hand side are the judges headshots. Top to bottom reads: Photo of Kaveh Akbar, black text next to his headshot reads “Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction selected by Kaveh Akbar”; Underneath is Adrian Matejka’s headshot and text next to his photo reads “Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry selected by Adrian Matejka”; followed by the headshot of Aimee Nezhukumatathil and next to her photo is text that reads “Sarabande Prize in the Essay selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.” At the bottom right in pink text it says “open submissions” and underneath in black text the open submission dates “Jan 1 - Feb 15”
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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
New Year, New Goals. Aiming to finish a novel in 2026? Start a short story? Or do you simply want to write more regularly? This course is for you… click to learn more: inkfishmag.com/kickstart-yo...
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Kickstart Your Writing!
Join six live learning sessions held on Saturdays from 10am-1pm (GMT).
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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
🔔 A special two-day submission window opens for next year’s Christmas and winter anthology but only, as a thank you, for those who have bought our anthology. We will have another general submission window quite soon! 🙏 🎅 🎄 ❄️ www.blackboughpoetry.com/events #poetry #writing #poet
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Neither fish nor foul 📖 @neitherfishnorfoul.com · 28/12/2025
And just like that and without any fanfare … Neither Fish Nor Foul is open for submissions. Closes 1 March 2026 or when 150 subs reached. 100-500 words, no theme. Likely will take a while to respond this time - up to 90 days. Agonising, sorry. duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
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Neither Fish Nor Foul Submission Manager
Submit to Neither Fish Nor Foul. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
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Hub City Press @hubcitypress.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
‼️Less than a week left to submit‼️ Send your short story collection in by January 4 at 11:59PM—finalists will be read by the one and only Catherine Lacey! Learn more and submit at hubcity.submittable.com.
C. MICHAEL
CURTS SHORT STORY BOOK PRIZE
prize advance of $5000
SUBMISSIONS OPEN THROUGH JAN. 4, 2026
2026 JUDGE
CATHERINE
LACEY
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 30/12/2025
we're open for fiction for just a little bit longer!! get those stories in and please, read the guidelines 🖤 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
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The Deadlands Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Fiction
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Neither fish nor foul 📖 @neitherfishnorfoul.com · 30/12/2025
Little reminder we’re open and excited to read your work. Also that it really is worth reading a few published stories on the website to identify the kind of thing most likely to get published …
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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The amazing @justine1902.bsky.social at work again. This is a beautiful story of hers. Well worth a read… 😍
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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Guys guys guys, I’m in the Radio Times!!! Listen in to BBC Radio4 in early January if you fancy hearing my short story #shortstory #bbc #radio4
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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
We know you've been writing and making art all year. Submissions to Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine are always open. Send us your best today! www.doorisajarmagazine.net/submissions #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human. December’s theme is “letting go.” January’s upcoming theme is “sound.” buff.ly/Zreigwv #writingcommunity
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Thrilled to see my flash piece, ‘The Altar of St Cindy’, in brilliant company in this beautiful issue of @vestalreview.bsky.social Thanks so much to David Galef, @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece began, and to my lovely writing group as always ❤️
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Bleating Thing Magazine @bleatingthing.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
SUBMISSIONS ARE !! OPEN !! For our fifth issue now thru JAN 31 Guidelines and theme description are available @ bleatingthingmagazine.com/submit
Against a backdrop of marble, a flower grows from a broken statue of a bird in a cupped pair of hands. The statue is obscured by the text, which announces:

ISSUE 05:
FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTED CULT

sculpture garden/classical statuary

The image is colored pale shades of green & pink.Against a backdrop of marble, a staff-wielding shepherd gazes out at his flock, a lamb nestled in the crook of his arm. 

The text bubble reads:

SUBMISSIONS OPEN 
NOW THRU JAN 31

BLEATINGTHINGMAGAZINE.COM
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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
December is here, which means you have 15 days left to submit to AGNI! Our submission portal will be open until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 15th—and then we'll be closed for a monthlong break. We look forward to reading your work! 🔥
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Submit to AGNI
We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” We seek out writers who tell their…
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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 30/11/2025
🎁 Our Cyber Monday sale is up & running—and ENDS Tuesday night! Grab these deals NOW: buff.ly/O7sPDAS
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FutureCycle Press @futurecyclepress.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Every day, we give away one or more Kindle #poetry titles. Today's FREEBIES are listed FIRST here: buff.ly/4h7F6uh. Our world needs its #poets, so please read and share! More info: buff.ly/40M9app
Free Kindle Days from FutureCycle Press
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Wild Willow Magazine @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
One month left! Original poetry, fiction, visual art, nonfiction, and translations! Winter! Hope! Persistence ! Endurance! Submit here by December 31st: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissio...
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Written Tales @written-tales.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Friday Afternoon Freedom — Carmen Fong poem from the surgical ward - Written Tales ✍️ Writers: share your voice. Submissions open now on Written Tales. 🔗 Link in bio #poetry #writingcommunity #writing #shortstory #reading writtentales.com/friday-after...
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Friday Afternoon Freedom — Carmen Fong poem from the surgical ward - Written Tales
Carmen Fong tallies the cost of healing: bodies, paperwork, penance. Gratitude falters under fatigue, yet at 1 a.m. she scrubs again, chasing redemption through fluorescent light.
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
AND!!! we open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts for a month starting Monday* ... *in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more all info here: oleada.io/publication/...
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
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Prairie Fire Magazine @prairiefiremag.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
We're in the final stretch! Contest deadline is December 1st! prairiefire.ca/conte...
Image shows contest information, three copies of past contest issues, the PF and McNally Robinson Booksellers logo and an illustration of a typewriter with leaves coming out the back. 
Text: McNally Robinson Booksellers & Prairie Fire Writing Contests
2025 Annual Writing Contests
$3750 in cash prizes! One cash prize of $1250 in each category. 
MRB Poetry Contest (up to three poems per entry, max. 150 lines total) Judge: Tolu Oloruntoba
MRB Short Fiction Contest (one piece per entry, max 5000 words) Judge: Shashi Bhat
MRB Creative Non-Fiction Contest (one piece per entry, max 5000 words) Judge: Basma Kavanagh
Deadline Extended to December 1st, 2025
Fee: $34 per entry, which includes a one-year subscription to Prairie Fire. 
Complete guidelines at prairiefire.ca. For inquiries: prfire@prairiefire.ca
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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Want to be part of this issue? You can. Subs permanently open to make this popup micro issue an ongoing and growing apothecary of joy. You’re welcome to contribute to or just borrow and browse. 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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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Submission period PROCESS /MARGINALIA / OTHER WOR(L)D(S) closes Sun. Nov. 30th at midnight Pacific Time. If you are working on a hybrid or have pieces unpublished & remarkable in form & content w/at least 2 elements of: #text, #image, #video, #sound #art #hybrid send to: icefloeprojects@gmail.com
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blackfoxlit.bsky.social @blackfoxlit.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Just today and tomorrow left before our Liar Liar Prize closes! (Our general reading period will close as well!) 🦊 blackfoxlitmag.com/contests/ #callforsubmissions #litmags #WritingCommunity #writersky
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 27/11/2025
Show don't tell?!? This craft maxim is a bit of a contradiction, and yet it's still super important. Let's break it down 👇 #writingcommunity
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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Need an excuse to avoid awkward holiday small talk? Say you're submitting to Fahmidan. Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme
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Bleating Thing Magazine @bleatingthing.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
!! THEME REVEAL !! for Issue 05 This issue, we are seeking poetry, flash, essays, hybrid work, & visual art surrounding the theme FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTED CULT: sculpture garden / classical statuary Submissions open DEC 1 Keep your eyes peeled - we'll be posting prompts this week to inspire you!
Against a backdrop of marble, a flower grows from a broken statue of a bird in a cupped pair of hands. The statue is obscured by the text, which announces:

ISSUE 05:
FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTED CULT

sculpture garden/classical statuary

The image is colored pale shades of green & pink.Against a backdrop of marble, a stone-hewn lamb gazes up at its robed shepherd. The text bubble reads:

For this theme, we challenge submitters to explore & respond not just to artworks themselves, but the very concept of "classical." 

Who decides what is "classical?" Who/what is excluded from that scope? What are the dangers of clinging to iconography that reifies harmful traditions?

The image is colored pale shades of green.
Against a backdrop of marble, a staff-wielding shepherd gazes out at his flock, a lamb nestled in the crook of his arm. 

The text bubble reads:

SUBMISSIONS OPEN DEC 1

BLEATINGTHINGMAGAZINE.COM
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Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Announcing our 2026 Subscription!! Our year of travel through books! Each title will take you to another country - if not several! You will receive the following 8 titles 2 weeks before their publication www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...
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Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡 We want to read your previously published wonders! Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past! Full Guidelines can be found Here:
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Submission Guidelines — Bulb Culture Collective
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Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Submission Slot ✍️ Poet Laureate: For poems up to 14 lines that respond to news items and issues of topical importance. The subject matter is up to you, but we encourage you to think outside the box! Include a link to the topic or news item you have chosen.
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Poetry - Submissions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
Poetry - Submissions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Really enjoying catching up with Eve Grubin's session @nawewriters.bsky.social conference on bringing silence into one's work. Fitted well w @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social 's session. It's a great idea to have all of the recordings available! 🙏 #NAWE
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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Long as it is, it’s not a bad start to the commute. Back up to Exeter today to teach some lovely undergraduates. #Englishliterature #creativewriting
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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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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
What is a chapbook, you ask? Dawn Macdonald unpacks the format. bit.ly/4pY0qXQ @yukondawn.bsky.social @49thshelf.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @bookgaga.bsky.social #poetry
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Curious about the workshop community of SmokeLong Fitness? You can give it a test drive in Nov/Dec. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
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Try SmokeLong Fitness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Are you curious about the community workshop of SmokeLong Fitness but don’t know if you can commit to a year without a peek behind the curtain? You can try SmokeLong Fitness in November and December 2...
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Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Thrilled & honoured to learn @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social has nominated my piece ‘Habitat’ for a Pushcart Prize! 🤩 Huge thanks to supremely supportive editors @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social & congratulations to my (decidedly more talented) fellow nominees. 🥳
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