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flashficfestuk.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Two more fabulous workshops to whet your festival appetite. Go deep in different ways with @stephaniecarty.bsky.social & @susmitab.bsky.social More details and book at flashfictionfestival.com

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 21/03/2026

'We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.' -Ursula K. Le Guin 🎨Arthur Rackham #BookWormSat

Illustration showing a woman in a dark, dense forest.

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kara oakleaf @karaoakleaf.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

very surprised and grateful to see this little story win the 2025 new flash fiction review prize! the whole @nffr.bsky.social issue is phenomenal and i’m so glad to be in such good company 🥰 newflashfiction.com/body-as-a-si...

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New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed) (@nffr.bsky.social)

New Flash Fiction Review is an online magazine devoted to flash fiction. Read more: https://newflashfiction.com

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Books bought with the money I’ve made from selling my first pieces of art ✨

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Would you like to have a cry? Yes. Yes you would. Read this @trampset.bsky.social piece by Oladosu Michael Emerald. It's 230 words. You will be grateful you took 3 minutes out of your day, I promise. trampset.org/reasons-to-s...

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Reasons to Stay Alive When the World Burns

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Jus finished @debdanthewriter.bsky.social In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit - winner of @bathflashaward.bsky.social Novella-in Flash award. Wonderful voice. Broke my heart quietly.

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

So pleased to share my new novella in flash out for pre-order with AdHocFiction. 3 women’s lives intertwine can unscrupulous adoption agency.

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flashficfestuk.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Want to go shadowy with your #flashfiction stories? @stephaniecarty.bsky.social & @susmitab.bsky.social are leading workshops on darker themes at the flashfiction festival 18-20th July! Flashfictionfestival.co

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Down the Red Rabbit Hole talking about sleep disorders, the brain and fiction… shows.acast.com/the-red-rabb...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Textile artwork by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico #WomensArt

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a hillly landscape and windmill under a swirling windy sky

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Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

99p on kindle for 5 days! My slightly creepy suspense novel about a girl who nobody knows exists amzn.eu/d/81PMan9 A SAFE PLACE

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 25/03/2025

When we say that we hope this post is ‘awesome,’ we don’t mean we want it to be expressive of awe or terror. We mean that we hope you like it. This reduction of a word's intensity is called ‘semantic bleaching.’

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Etymology of the day: in the expression ‘just deserts’, ‘deserts’ is an old past participle of the French ‘deservir’, meaning ‘deserve’. To get your just deserts is to get what you deserve. ‘Desert’ in this sense is obsolete, which is why lexicographers see ‘just desserts’ popping up everywhere.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18/03/2025

meme | noun | an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media

You have a 10-hour flight, where are you sitting meme
1: moist
2: irregardless
3: synergy
4: literally
5: impactful
6: adulting

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13/03/2025

‘Rhythm’ has two h’s and no vowels. Just remember: Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move Rhythm is also a dancer and a soul’s companion.

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Sam Steele @samsteeleauthor.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Want to know how to forge a Great Master and get away with it? Then read THE LAST LETTERS OF VILLA CLARA. She’s out today in paperback in all the usual places. @headlinebooks.bsky.social @sheilland.bsky.social #1960s #art #tuscany #london #vermeer #historicalfiction #publicationday

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

My little sleeping beauty / wolf flash reprint with Trash Cat Lit 🐺

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Hurray I’m in Issue 3 of Trash Cat Lit with a reprint 🐺 Some bedtime reading…

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A triple tease for Issue 3 🦝 @emilyrinkema.bsky.social delivers a complex, heart-breaking journey of loss in Grace, @markpeters.bsky.social takes us somewhere children’s dreams become all too real in Last Rites of Spring, and @stephaniecarty.bsky.social reimagines a lupine fairytale in Waking Beauty

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A dating app but it's just one picture of someone's bookshelves, one of their usual grocery haul, one of their pets, and one their thermostat

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Natali Simmonds @natalisimmonds.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Daily reminder

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National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Final day to submit. You have till 23:59 GMT today (Saturday 15 Feb) to submit to Micro Fiction Comp (100 words, no theme) & our anthology (500 words, theme of SEASONS). Cash prizes! Huge thanks to everyone who has subbed. Good luck! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

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ALT: a black and white photo of a grandfather clock with the words tick-tock below it

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Human: I’ll have two desk chairs in my room so if a cat sits on one I can wheel over the other Cats:

Photo shows my cats winning yet again. A white rag doll cat sits on the nearest and a British blue in the other chair staring straight at me defiantly.

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Rachael Gray @rachaelgray.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

PRICE DROP! Get the 2nd in the Elderwick Mysteries series for only 99p🎉📚 geni.us/TurnUpforTheBooks 🚪🗝️ 🏡 Small villages can hide big secrets #cosymystery #lockedroom #booksky

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This morning’s sunshine has reminded me of the word ‘philocaly’: a love of beauty, even in the smallest things.

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Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hello, all. Because of the entry system screw up last night and we're a little low on entries, we'll reopen for 24 hours as soon as we can make it happen on Monday morning, so you have the weekend to get your entry ready, and we'll announce Monday when we're open! Share?! bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

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Bristol Short Story Prize

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bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Today! Guess the colour of The Last Minute Club badge & win a book! ( could be a duo of colours!) Badge colour (s) revealed tomorrow

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Over the moon with this result and that my novella-in-flash will be published thanks to @bathflashaward.bsky.social and @judehwriter2.bsky.social . Congratulations to everyone named below, new novella-buddies 👊

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Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Help me find fiction writers I can tell about our amazing prize! Please share--there are only three days until the deadline!

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MicroFlashFic @microflashfic.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Someday you will write the book. Most people will not read it. But someone will, and it will change something inside them. Then they will write a book, wholly their own, but slightly indebted to your ideas. And so on. The chain never ends. There are echoes of you at the end of the world.

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Every desk is a standing desk once the cat gets your office chair…

A white ragdoll cat is curled asleep on the office chair which has been rolled away from a desk with a computer on to create standing space in front of it the writer’s bedroom

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Genuinely excited for this beauty 😍

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Just read The Family Next Door by Charlotte Stevenson and CRIKEY, I guarantee you’ll not guess what’s going on. My kind of ending 👌

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Say what now?

Picture of old fashioned looking poster that reads:

Five blank books will be shipped to you. Set them in the room where you sleep. Do not touch the books. The books may make sounds. Do not open the books. The books may bleed. Tell no one about the books.
To order, send an empty envelope, with a return address to the address below:
Paperback Paradise, books, that read you offer, 123 skeleton Street, man screaming, ND

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Haven’t had sleep paralysis for a long time. Wrote a character who has it and sees a man by her bed. Wake up 03:30 to a man by my bed rocking from side to side for several minutes while telling myself it’s not real 😳

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Day off work today - did 9 hours of editing and never got round to getting dressed, oops 😅 Looking forward to Severance season 2 tomorrow evening as my reward.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Why not start 2025 with a new series? This year is packed with fabulous sequels, you can jump on board with book one now for 0.99! Exclusive to our website, ends 17/1 23:59, titles vary by country! @natania.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com @pennyvixen.bsky.social geni.us/Solarissale

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Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

My 7-week-old book! 12yo Cate has never left home but everything is about to unravel 🐦‍⬛ 🌳 ✨ www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DKJM6JD...

Book cover for A Safe Place shows a windy path to a solitary house with menacing skies behind

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