Thank you so much!!! Iβm such a big fan of your writing, Claudia, I love it!!! πβ€οΈπ€©
@katehorsleywriter
Writer, tea drinker & Uni Lecturer | Fiction & Poetry - Cincinnati Review, Citron Review, Vestal Review, Bridport, Bath, Oxford Flash | Novels - William Morrow & Harper Collins | Editor @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social https://www.katehorsley.co.uk
Thank you so much!!! Iβm such a big fan of your writing, Claudia, I love it!!! πβ€οΈπ€©
"My Cindyβs eighty-five, she giggles. No way, Jayne shrieks, she looks forty-nine. Whatβs her secret, retinol, Botox, baby stem cell cellulite...? All of it, says Marissa solemnly." @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social Brilliant story. Winner: SmokeLongWorkshopPrize
www.vestalreview.net/the-altar-of...
Thank you so much, thatβs so lovely!! β€οΈπ₯°
Thank you Eileen! β€οΈ
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Aaargh I had to reread this news a few times because I thought I was imagining it! Thanks so much to the wonderful people at @smokelong.bsky.social and congratulations to all the amazing writers on here!!!! πβ€οΈπ₯³π
Yay!!!! πππ Congratulations everyone!!!Love the @smokelong.bsky.social workshops and all the work produced in them so much!! πβ€οΈπ
Aaarrrgghh!!!! Thrilled to see a couple of my stories in with such brilliant company - I remember many of the amazing pieces shortlisted here so vividly and fondly!! πβ€οΈ
Listen to this new short story by Peter McAllister from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Aiming to finish a novel? Start a short story? Or do you simply want to write more regularly? This course is for youβ¦
inkfishmag.com/kickstart-yo...
Thank you SO much Emily!! Aaarggh!! Iβm fangirling 200% - your writing inspires me all the time!!! LOVE βThe Night the Walrus Came to Take My Babyβ - itβs perfect!!! πβ€οΈ
Such a surprising and beautiful story by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social.
"In the back room, out of sight of the Cindys, Marissa sticks used wax strips on our faces, and we jump about screaming at the touch of pubes there." Stunning. Moves from humor to heartbreak in a flash @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social
www.vestalreview.net/the-altar-of...
Thank you so much Claudia! Youβre such an inspiration to me and Iβm such a huge fan of your writing, so this has absolutely made my day!! β€οΈ
Thank you!! Loved your piece too! β€οΈ
Such a fantastic piece!!
3 highlights from Vestal Review this week:
πΉ Last Play:@marioaliberto3.bsky.social
πΉ Saint Cindy:@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
πΉ The Walrus:@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
Full issue: www.vestalreview.net/issue-67
#VestalReview #FlashFiction #LiteraryMagazine #ShortStories #WritingCommunity #Fiction
I absolutely loved yours, Eileen - really brilliant! β€οΈ
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Waxing everything for the body beautiful.
Read "The Altar of Saint Cindy," by Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social in issue 67.
vestalreview.net/the-altar-of-saint-cindy
Art by Jinghong Chen
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Thrilled to see my flash piece, βThe Altar of St Cindyβ, in brilliant company in this beautiful issue of @vestalreview.bsky.social
Thanks so much to David Galef, @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece began, and to my lovely writing group as always β€οΈ
This was such a lovely event! Thanks so much for organising it, Robert!!
I Just did a reading with Inkfish Press, with Tim Moder, and
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social. Tim and I have chapbooks out with Inkfish Press, and Kate is a co-founding editor of @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine and Press (& a very good poet).
Enjoy it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBWF...
Amazing!! Congratulations Justine!!! πβ€οΈπ₯³
So happy to have a wee story in this issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social Thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social @mariegethins.bsky.social and the team, and congrats to all the other contributors π₯³
THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = Β£75, 2nd prize = Β£40, 3rd prize = Β£25, HC = Β£10.
I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
SEXTET literary magazine issue II: Traces
Excited for the launch of SEXTET Issue II on December 4th, with writing from me, @ewenglass.bsky.social and many others! Work from this issue will be on display in @sixfootgallery.bsky.social until Jan 6th -
sixfootgallery.co.uk/traces/
Congratulations!!! π₯³