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Rebecca Field

@rebeccafwrites.bsky.social
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Flash writer living in Derbyshire U.K. Words in Milk Candy Review, Ghost Parachute, Sunlight Press, Bull Magazine, Phare Magazine, Hooghly Review, Gone Lawn and others. Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominee. No longer using X

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘The only water he leaves is two symmetrical footprints where he steps off the ladder. He cannot drip.’ Read The Pool Boy by @travisflatt.bsky.com ⬇️⬇️ 🏊‍♂️
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One last dive into the archives for the Smokelong #archivechallenge and I’ve unearthed this gem by @francinewitte.bsky.social Love the absurdity of the dog wearing clothes in this tale of heartbreak 💔 🐕 gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Gone Lawn 38 : Francine Witte
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Continuing with a bird theme, next up is this fabulous duck solidarity story by @taracampbell.bsky.social 🦆 🦆 📦 @smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Gone Lawn 62 : Tara Campbell
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Another story from the back catalogue of @gonelawn.bsky.social this time from the always awesome @kiklodge.bsky.social Love the voice of this all knowing parrot protagonist! 🦜 🩸 @smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Gone Lawn 55 : Kik Lodge
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Away for a few days in the beautiful Wye Valley, perfect day to catch up on reading this Novella in flash by @bsherm36.bsky.social @adhocfiction.bsky.social
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 20/08/2026
The Salt Sale is live: 40% off a selection of our backlist, while stocks last. Discount applied automatically at checkout – nothing to key in. Browse the list → www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Congratulations on the publication Laurie! @laurieember.bsky.social Hope it will be the first of many more to come 🥳 🙌
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Around 30 participants from A SmokeLong Summer 26 are taking a deep dive into around 30 flash journals (one each). To read this impressive list of flash, all you need to do is search for #archivechallenge
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’ve always admired this piece by @timcraig.bsky.social for its use of motif in this portrait of a marriage 🔨 💅 @smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Gone Lawn 46 : Tim Craig
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
For my next delve into the archives of @gonelawn.bsky.social for the Smokelong #archivechallenge I have selected this beautiful micro by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social So much here in so few words.. 🌳 🍊 gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Gone Lawn 55 : Allison Field Bell
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National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The Kindle copy of our 2026 anthology ‘Mudlarking’ is only £2.99. If you enjoy NFFD please consider buying a copy to support us. It’s full of imaginative flash on the theme of Bridges & it also contains our winning micros! www.amazon.co.uk/Mudlarking-N...
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Mudlarking: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2026 (National Flash Fiction Day Anthologies) eBook : Jones, Karen, Jendrzejewski, Ingrid, Simmons, Diane: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Mudlarking: National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2026 (National Flash Fiction Day Anthologies) eBook : Jones, Karen, Jendrzejewski, Ingrid, Simmons, Diane: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A Personal Anthology always takes the summer off... but this year has been quiet all round. It will be starting up again in September, and I'm keen to round up potential contributors. Get in touch if you're a fan of short stories and would like to share your favourites! apersonalanthology.com
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A Personal Anthology
Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Next up in my #archivechallenge for @smokelong.bsky.social is this stunning and original take on the five stages of grief by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social I live how the limes keep making their appearances throughout 🍋‍🟩 ❤️ gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Gone Lawn 60 : Emily Rinkema
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
For the next few weeks I will be diving into the archives of the wonderful @gonelawn.bsky.social for the @smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge First up, love the absurdity of this story by @sgscarso.bsky.social that keeps on building to that amazing final line! 🐄 ❤️ gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Gone Lawn 50 : Slawka G Scarso
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Today is Parkrun day! But did yours feature a couple of Austen characters? Don’t jog past this one from the inimitable @sagreene1.bsky.social 🏃 🏃‍♂️ 🏃🏻‍♀️ ⬇️⬇️
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
‘My personal volcano fits nicely between the ficus and the window overlooking my ex’s house..’ Think I could use one of these! Love the quirkiness of this 🌋 ⬇️⬇️
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is so good! 😂🐄 🐄 🐄 Check out these bonkers bovines created by @sagreene1.bsky.social
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ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
While I work on resurrecting the Ellipsis archive, let’s get the ball rolling… Web submissions are open, 6th-16th June. 1,000 words or fewer. The usual guidelines apply and can be found here: ellipsis-zine.com/submit
Submissions are open for Ellipsis Zine6th June - 16th June ellipsis-zine.com/submit
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is the BEST news!! ⬇️⬇️🥳🥳
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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
i love this 300 word story by Kate Catinella ! it's about a girl that goes on a date with a guy who piles his plate with shredded parmesan what a good ending ! the role reversal in 300 words is impressive & memorable & thoughtful - read this pronto xraylitmag.com/cheese-drawe...
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Cheese Drawer by Kate Catinella
There’s about seven inches of grated parmesan piled onto a side plate. The waiter said Say when, and the guy never said when. Just watched the waiter shave more and more of the block until finally the...
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National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Lovely to receive some pre-orders of ‘Mudlarking’. We really appreciate your support ❤️
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I so love the marvellous inventiveness in any story by @sagreene1.bsky.social Check it out! ⬇️⬇️ 📚
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Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Hot off the press, the latest The New Climate newsletter. In which I make this link, amongst other things... (Your click will support independent climate journalism) medium.com/the-new-clim...
 Trump's latest gold-plated vanity statueRemarkably in the same week, the latest Banksy statue appeared in central London, 29th April, portraying a Trump-like leader so blinded by his own flag that he’s about to march straight off the plinth.
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A SmokeLong Summer 26 is all about the global flash community, and we can't wait to write with you . . . and a friend! Check out the events calendar (still adding events), and book by May 23rd! www.smokelong.com/a-smokelong-...
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A SmokeLong Summer 26 — Events Calendar - SmokeLong Quarterly
While we are still in the planning stages of A SmokeLong Summer 26 (our fifth year!), we do have quite a few of our ducks in relatively nice rows. There might be a few changes to this schedule, and we...
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If anyone is still using Twitter/x please note that my account over there has been hacked! I am not promoting crypto currency. Unfortunately I clicked on a link in a dm that I thought was was from a member of the flash community.. trying to resolve it with difficulty :(
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Thrilled to be part of the amazing NFFD anthology with my story about trolls under bridges!! 🥳 🧌 🐐 Thanks so much to the editors, looks like a fantastic lineup..
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It was amazing to win an editor’s choice award last year, don’t forget to send in your entry soon!! ⏰ ⬇️⬇️
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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New flash in Milk Candy Review today! Check it out if you have a minute: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/02/05/t...
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Things That Don’t Matter ~ by Emily Rinkema
It’s our neighbor Manny’s 50th birthday and we are hosting his party even though he has a wife, who is sitting on our couch in her linen overalls laughing at something my husband Leif just said. Sh…
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Thanks so much to @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social for nominating this flash fiction of mine for Best Small Fictions 2026. It’s in issue 4 but I’ve screenshotted it below for ease of location 🥰
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Suzanne (writing as S A Greene) @sagreene1.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Delighted to have my shortlisted piece up today! A lovely way to start my weekend…
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
‘Around the time wombs became controlled by AI the ninth testicle sprouted..’ So many brilliant lines I could have picked from this piece by @sagreene1.bsky.social - you have to read this one ⬇️⬇️🤩
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Some fantastic book post today! @jankaneen1.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social @andrewporter01.bsky.social Can’t wait to get started on these ❤️
Two books: The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter and Hostile Environments by Jan Kaneen
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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Happy publication day for Hostile Environments by the phenomenal @JanKaneen1 - a gut punch of a short story collection, with character and heart. Pick up your copy today! www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
‘I remember cancer is a constellation, so I squint at the stars some more, but all I see is a mess of white dots, blinking and unblinking…’ I love all the recurring elements and motifs in this story and how they all work together so perfectly. Sara Hills does it again!! 🤩
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
‘..tomorrow might bring dolphins playing alongside the ship, beckoning him like messengers from a better place..’ Love this beautifully crafted tale of a boy and a whale by @sagreene1.bsky.social 🐋 🌊 Congratulations Suzanne!
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Love this gorgeous cover and the anthology title! 😍 As always, it’s amazing to have a small story inside and I hope to get to Bath next month to read it at the launch event. 👀
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Amazing to be part of this issue (p171) with a flash piece that I’ve been working on for a while, thrilled it has found such a fantastic home. Check it out here! ⬇️⬇️
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thanks so much to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for publishing a micro of mine today. Check out the issue here ⬇️⬇️ gooseberry-pie.com/issue-31/
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Issue 31 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Stories Updates The shortlist for Gooseberry’s annual writing contest has been sent to our terrific guest judge, Melissa Llanes Brownlee. She’ll be reading the submi...
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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
As chosen by Judge Joanna Miller... Competition Twenty-Six Highly Commended... Lunch Date by S.A. Greene @sagreene1.bsky.social #writingcompetitions #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
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Competition Twenty-Six Highly Commended: Lunch Date – Free Flash Fiction
It’s drizzling outside but I’m wrapped up warm in the café’s meaty breath and Dad’s hey-there! hug and I’m thankful he still looks the same and his stubble still feels like a dry wide tickle against m...
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Has anyone else read this amazing novella by @henryhoke.bsky.social? Absolutely loved it 🥰
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
As we continue to share daily highlights from our amazing Spring reprints issue - a reminder that NEW SUBS open on 1st April. Flash Fictions up to 1000 words. Any genre. Theme: Collectors and Special Collections. All details and some prompts here: trashcatlit.com/flash-pop-up... #SubmissionCalls
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Flash Pop-Up Spring 2025
SUBMISSION CALL OPENS 1st APRIL 2025 For this special issue of Trash Cat Lit, we want stories about characters with special collections.We want weird and creepy, strange and magical, kitsch and ret…
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Great to be part of this lineup, thank you so much for accepting my piece @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️ 😊
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
So thrilled to be in this anthology once again, 8th year running!! Thanks so much to @karjon.bsky.social and to @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social for selecting me for the editors choice award and to @hombrehompson.bsky.social for edit suggestions! Amazing news!! 🤩
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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"Each morning, they sat in the fire bowls and weighed each other, using pea gravel from the patio." Weighing It All Up by Jude Higgins @judehwriter2.bsky.social #microfiction #flashfiction #flashfictionfebruary. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/02/26/w...
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trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"the living-room carpet is a fever of wrapping paper scrunched into balls / it is Christmas day / Peter has bought a bicycle for his angelfish / Charlotte is staring at me as if I’m the last remaining Brussels sprout" @mattkendrick.bsky.social's "Strange fish" trampset.org/strange-fish...
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Strange fish
by Matt Kendrick
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Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Brilliant to see @mslexia.bsky.social spotlighting Dahlia Books, publisher of my debut collection 'Cold Toast' out in May!!
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Don’t forget to send something!! ⬇️⬇️ 🏃 🏃‍♂️
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Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
My second skull. 💀 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/gir...
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Girls on the Beach by Kathryn Kulpa
1. Once there was a girl who died because she cut school and went to the beach. It was June, the first warm day of summer, and she was getting dressed that morning, pulling on her navy blue kn...
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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Your daily reminder to vote, vote, vote!!! There have so far been 77 votes and the voting is TIGHT! The top 3 are very, very close. And there are 6 other stories that aren't far behind. 😬 So, every vote counts!
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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Really wish I had something for this… maybe you do? Must see if I can find something 👀 #submissioncall
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