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Tim Love

@timlovewriter.bsky.social
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Poetry (HappenStance), short stories (Nine Arches Press) and nowadays mostly Flash. See litrefs.blogspot.com for details

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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My Blog stats - 3 million hits and counting ... litrefs.blogspot.com/2026/07/blog...
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Blog stats - 3 million hits
Some of my blogs have been around for a long time, together getting over 3 millions hits. My guess is that AI's thirst for training data has...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My notes about FFF2026 are at litrefs.blogspot.com/2026/07/flas... A reminder that litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of... lists my reviews of Flash collections
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Flash Festival Festival, 2026
So another Flash Fiction Festival is over. On the way to Bristol I popped into Tewkesbury and Chelmsford, both for the first time. As ever, ...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
For fiction writers I think fictionbrain.com is well worth a look
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My "Analysis" poem is in the current Stick Figure Poetry issue - stickfigurepoetry.com/issue-22/#an...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
My "Stolen moment" micro is on FlashFlood with the surprise URL of flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/what...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
My "A bad night" poem is in the new London Grip - londongrip.co.uk/2026/05/lond...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
My "Dressed to kill" (Nanofiction) is in The Hoolets Nook today - www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A reminder that: litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of... is a list of links to story collection reviews, and litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of... are my flash collection reviews. There are loads of lit quotes on litrefsquotes.blogspot.com #LiteraryFiction #flashfiction #shortfiction
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
My "A good show" story is in BigCity Lit - www.nycbigcitylit.com/winter-2026-...
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Cambridge Writers @cambswriters.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/about/events...
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Hughes Hall Literary Day 2026 - Hughes Hall
Join us for a full‑day festival bringing together acclaimed novelists, poets, and thinkers from across the literary world.
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My "Props" (Flash) is in Mugwort - mugwortmag.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/s...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I've started some notes about Peter Daniels' "Happy and Fortunate" online at litrefsarticles.blogspot.com/2025/12/pete...
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Peter Daniels' "Happy and Fortunate"
"Happy and Fortunate" is a 13 page poem from "Old Men" (Salt, 2024) by Peter Daniels. It was shortlisted in the Wigtown Alastair Reid Pamp...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
If you're trying to write a sestina (I've not succeeded yet), you might find my notes useful - litrefsarticles.blogspot.com/2019/07/sest... #poetry
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I've added more items to my list of 360 #shortstories Collection write-ups at litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of... I liked the short story books that Salt published - by Frankel, Roensch and Merill
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I've added 7 items (my favourite being Santino Prinzi's book) to my list of #Flash Collection write-ups at litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of...
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Cambridge Writers @cambswriters.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Great evening yesterday at Cambridge Writers, celebrating the launch of this year's short story competition anthology: amzn.eu/d/21jpQBS
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THE SEA: Cambridge Writers Short Story Competition 2025
THE SEA: Cambridge Writers Short Story Competition 2025 eBook : Writers, Cambridge , Hooton, Hannah, Garvey, Anne, Goode, Harry: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Cambridge Writers @cambswriters.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Cambridge Writers has launched a new creative writing blog series, written by Hannah Hooton, our Publicity and Events Officer. Her first post is on descriptive writing - see it here: www.cambridgewriters.org?p=3791
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Descriptive Writing - Cambridge Writers
Welcome to part one of a Creative Writing Blog Series with Hannah Hooton  Descriptive Writing Types of descriptive writing:  What do you want to describe?  Why do you want to describe it? (Emotional m...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
My site of write-ups - litrefsreviews.blogspot.com - passed a milestone of a million hits this month. Currently it's at 1023326. A drop in the ocean compared with Tiktoc, and (I suspect) mostly bots ...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
A reminder that 1500+ Lit Quotes are at litrefsquotes.blogspot.com , Lit Articles are at litrefsarticles.blogspot.com , longer poetry reviews are at litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/longer-poe... and my write-ups of short stories are listed on litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of...
litrefsquotes.blogspot.com
Litrefs Quotes
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I'm back from @flashficfestuk.bsky.social, again impressed by how different it is each year. Maybe fewer braided pieces and hermit crabs? Here's what the karaokers missed in the quiet room
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"Art arises out of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not identical", Auden "Every poem starts out as either true or beautiful. Then you try to make the true ones seem beautiful and the beautiful ones true" - Larkin
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I've a poem in Black Nore Review today - "Flint and Glass" blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/t...
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Tim Love – “Flint and Glass”
Flint and Glass Both shine when in love. One’s opaque and sparks if struck precisely. The other’s more a container than a weapon, dangerous only if broken. I’m neither. If beachco…
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My story "Time to go" is out today in Marrow - marrowmagazine.com/time-to-go/
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Time to go – marrow magazine
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just back from the launch of a new, printed, mostly poetry mag - A5, 170+ pages, £5. The Little Review thelittlereview.co.uk
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
My "Body Language" (Flash) has just appeared in Toasted Cheese - tclj.toasted-cheese.com/2025/25-2/bo...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
My latest blog-post - "Workshop critiques and variety" - litrefs.blogspot.com/2025/06/work...
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Workshop critiques and variety
There are many styles of critiques. Some have names (Narratology, Deconstructionism, etc), some are tendencies (character-based, language-...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Ok, so you don't get the scribbly dynamism of poetryschool.com/poems/how-to... or flaubert.univ-rouen.fr/manuscrits but in compensation it's possible (I haven't done it) to analyse the development of a text, colour-coding the lines according to age/number-of-changes.
flaubert.univ-rouen.fr
Manuscrits · Centre Gustave Flaubert
Édition intégrale des manuscrits de Madame Bovary et de Bouvard et Pécuchet (1er volume). Autres manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen. Inventaire des manuscrits. Transcriptions....
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
When I program (I could do poems the same way), a click lets me save and recover versions. I can create branches and compare versions side-by-side. With a click I can back-up to the cloud. In my will I can leave instructions to make the back-up visible to all. Nothing's lost - even my mistakes.
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
My poem "Otherness" is in "Atrium" today - atriumpoetry.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
My poem "The Impossibility of Motion" is in Panoply today - panoplyzine.com/the-impossib...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My poem, "From Page to Stage" is in Snakeskin today - www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/328frompage....
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SNAKESKIN: The Poetry Webzine
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I've a Flash piece, "Triptych", in Metaworker - themetaworker.com/2025/04/04/t...
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Triptych by Tim Love - The Metaworker Literary Magazine
"Life looked ahead long before it could remember. The better we could anticipate the future, the better our chances of survival." - excerpt from "Triptych" by Tim Love.
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I've a poem, "After the Storm" in "Stick Figure Poetry" - stickfigurepoetry.com/issue-17/#af...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A Dribble today in "The Hoolet’s Nook" - www.thehooletsnook.com/stories--poe...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Got a rejection yesterday. I over-reacted, sending a dozen things off. I now have 10 stories, 11 flashes, and 16 poems out there. Time I started writing some new stuff.
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
"Poets writing about their poems" - see litrefs.blogspot.com/2025/01/poet...
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Poets writing about their poems
In "Don't ask me what I mean" (Picador, 2003), a collection of articles by poets about their books, Billy Collins wrote " Performing an act ...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Articles (some previously published in mags), interviews, and some notes I used to run various workshops litrefsarticles.blogspot.com/p/thematic-l...
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of... lists my write-ups of #shortstory collections (about 200) litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/p/reviews-of... lists my write-ups of #flashfiction collections (about 20)
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Tim Love @timlovewriter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So I'll start with a reminder about my lit-quotes hoard at litrefsquotes.blogspot.com - 1600+ categorised quotes to put in essays or start a review with.
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Litrefs Quotes
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