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Gill O'Halloran

@quickasaflash.bsky.social
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First pub TrashCat Lit. NFFD Anthology Editors Award 25. Shortlisted for Fish. Stories in SmokeLong, BULL, DIHP, New Feathers, Bath+Oxford anthologies. LISP finalist + winner of Westword + Flash500. Poetry collection in Top 20 Small-Press Poetry awards

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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lost cats in between MRI scans, a beached seal reading about war, falling in love incorrectly, an imprisoned tree... such a buzz when familiar words form unfamiliar unions. Plus a haunting prose palindrome from @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social And I'm in it too with thoughts about ageing disgracefully.
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Justin Karcher @justinkarcher.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Big thx to @havehashad.com for publishing two of my poems. Here’s the first one
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Day two of teases for our upcoming prose poem issue 🦝 Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social gives us a blistering, darkly funny look at ageing 💜 Lavanya Arora gives us joystick-jabbing nostalgia in one piece, and post-relationship surreal networking in his second 💜 COMING 28th
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wow @lorifontanes.bsky.social I love this haunting retelling of Adam and Eve.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This lit mag was a new find thanks to @therelphian.bsky.social. I found some beautifully strange pieces in the last edition so I'm pleased to be in this latest one. Thanks to editor @leiabutler.bsky.social for her collaborative approach. www.fullhouseliterary.com/new-fc/the-w...
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The Weight of a Pulse by Gill O’Halloran — Full House Literary
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I love this eco-spec piece by @sflayzell.bsky.social ; like a poem, I didn't need to understand it all, because the feeling of rebellion and hope short-circuits the intellect, and that's a buzz.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Any story about a swimming pool gets my vote, and this one by @travisflatt.bsky.social is mesmerising.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Poetic and moving, don't miss this story by @keithwoodruff.bsky.social . It's one of many worth reading in latest Trash Cat Issue.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social does it again with her stunning lyrical style, while still hitting you with the substance.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So happy to have a new story up here. Thanks to @thedrevlow.bsky.social for being a top-class collaborative editor, and to @smokelong.bsky.social fitness for support with the first draft. Maybe listen to the quoted #jackieleven song while reading? www.youtube.com/watch?v=91_F...
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Jackie Leven - Call Mother a Lonely Field (Official Audio)
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"it can mean anything because the girls live inside their phones and often on another planet so the word may be alien unknown untranslatable and not even a word but a magic spell." You need to read this wonderful breathless micro by Nora in @claudineliterary.bsky.social.
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Very overwhelmed & honoured to have been picked for this by the @smokelong.bsky.social community. There are SO MANY within the writing world who inspire others every single day, so I'm sure this must have come down to about 0.001% of a vote. The fact that I now get to pass my good fortune onto...
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Do read this beautiful winner by Kate. Love how the prose projects such beautiful cinematic images onto the page.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Congratulations Alison. So good.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Send stuff to Trash Cat Lit if you seek an editor who'll champion you long after she publishes you!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is breathtakingly beautiful writing.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Congratulations to all the longlisters!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Jaime Gill's 'Obedience' is emotionally precise, and quietly explosive. Do read it.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Vibrant lyrical flash by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
"We’ve heard that some people go baby picking every year—tradition—but neither Meredith nor I can imagine that." Love this strange micro by Jessica.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
What a beautiful, quietly powerful flash!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I love Ian's quietly beautiful poem 'Lastly.'
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Joyce Bingham @joycebingham.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Thrilled to win this competition. Blown away by the stunning performance of Danielle Farrow in reading my story at @cymerafestival.co.uk Huge thanks to Noel and Pippa and of course the judges.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
'real boys are rough and tumble, they thump and dump, you want her, you take her,' Do go read this wonderfully inventive flash by Cole.
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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It really is a privilege to log in each morning and see the submissions that have been sent in overnight. I'm constantly amazed by the quality and creativity of every single one. As always, whittling these down to longlists is going to be HARD!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Thank you Claudia! Everyone, Claudia Monpere's debut collection 'The Periodic Family' is due out in October. She's one of the best flash writers I know. #FlashFiction
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thanks Emma!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thank you so much for reading Zoe!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thank you for reading Suzanne!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thank you!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thanks @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social for publishing this one. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/fla...
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flamingos in fedoras by gill o’halloran — Bottle Rocket
Strasbourg 5 am. A heron’s heavy row across a blue July sky, over green gravel lakes beside the motorway. We’re sixteen. Hungover French drizzles from our English tongues as we waste away with the was...
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Just a few days left to help preserve our wildlife AND grab yourself a great anthology at a steal of a price.
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
One of our lovely Trash Family have started their own lit mag. Pam's an excellent writer and will be a cracking editor. Get on it to be part of the inaugural issue 🌻
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Great to see @kathyfish.bsky.social writing about poetic forms in flash. Thanks @mattkendrick.bsky.social for the workshop this one began in, and for suggesting it to Kathy, and of course @trashcatlit.bsky.social for publishing it.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
'I love the use of the badger costume and tutu as these permissive vehicles for upending expected gender behavior... and am such a fan of the overtness of the voice'. Thank you @aniking.bsky.social for choosing my @smokelong.bsky.social story www.smokelong.com/stories/full...
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Full-On Badger - SmokeLong Quarterly
Reading Festival 2010, a wet August bank holiday and the mud’s on special offer. We don’t care, we’re lost in never-never land—you in a tutu, me in badger costume. You love the thrill of lacy frills a...
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is such fun, and the language punches.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026.... Thanks @jprelph.bsky.social for introducing me to this lit mag. Was mesmerized by Jordyn Damato's unsettling flash.
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Sister Sister by Jordyn Damato — Full House Literary
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JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Lovely to see my flash popping up for Women’s Fiction Wednesday over at Micromance Magazine💕 Give my version of a love story for the ages a read of you have a few minutes. Don’t worry, it’s not zombies… micromancemagazine.substack.com/p/a-love-that-…
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"Welkin Me Up" Sorry your afternoon is rubbish health-wise Matt. Sending good wishes.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is an incredible and terrifying story that had me racing through to the end.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thank you Marcella!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Very pleased to be with JMWW. Thanks to senior editor @thorntonforreal.bsky.social for being such a collaborative partner, and @smokelong.bsky.social 's summer intensive last year for the prompt. You can read more about the community school here iskul.my
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
congrats to the longlisters!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Love the playful warmth in this dad n daughter tale
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
'The years grinding down our lustre and your laughter, powdering into a slow drift apart' Do go n read Cole's beautiful words in her new flash.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Happy Phoebe is flying high. Thank you to Ben @ BULL for publishing. @matthollingsworth.com it must be pigeon season, both our pigeon stories out now. Thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social October25 fitness group for feedback and encouragement.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
@matthollingsworth.com I remember the making of this one. What a gem!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Thanks for putting my story up. I recommend the prompted stories, made me write something I'd never have written otherwise.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Congratulations Jack, you should not be at all cool about this. A triumph!
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