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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 · 21/09/2026
Thanks Lori, glad you liked.
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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 · 14/09/2026
Thanks for reading Louise, I appreciate it.
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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
Thanks for the repost Bronwen, I appreciate. Yes #HumanExtinction is what's in news atm. Maybe AI will spare us like the bird?
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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 · 09/09/2026
Yes. This is on my Spotify playlist- love it.
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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 · 06/09/2026
Thank you Claudia!
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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 · 29/08/2026
Thank you Kathy!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thank you so much for reading and reposting Linda. Much appreciated.
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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 · 24/08/2026
Thanks so much Laura for reposting my flash.
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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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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Congratulations Matt!
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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 · 03/07/2026
Definition of dogged. Congratulations!
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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
Yay Sarah, congratulations!
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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 · 05/06/2026
Thank you so much for championing my story Claudia.
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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 · 31/05/2026
Thanks so much Linda, for reading and sharing and your kind words.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Merci, ma puce.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Hey JP, thanks so much for the thumbs up!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Thank you for reposting Pam!
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thank you Kathy. Praise from you means a lot. Hope to see you at Bath FFF again in July.
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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
Haha! Thank you for reading Bronwen.
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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Bad girls!
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