Thank you so much!!! I’m such a big fan of your writing, Claudia, I love it!!! 😍❤️🤩
09.02.2026 16:51
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The Altar of Saint Cindy — Vestal Review
"My Cindy’s eighty-five, she giggles. No way, Jayne shrieks, she looks forty-nine. What’s 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...
09.02.2026 01:02
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Thank you so much, that’s so lovely!! ❤️🥰
08.02.2026 11:00
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Thank you Eileen! ❤️
06.02.2026 08:36
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❤️❤️❤️
05.02.2026 19:08
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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!!!! 😍❤️🥳🎉
05.02.2026 18:01
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Yay!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations everyone!!!Love the @smokelong.bsky.social workshops and all the work produced in them so much!! 😍❤️🎉
05.02.2026 17:57
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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!! 😍❤️
28.01.2026 16:39
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Aiming to finish a novel? Start a short story? Or do you simply want to write more regularly? This course is for you…
inkfishmag.com/kickstart-yo...
13.12.2025 14:18
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Thank you SO much Emily!! Aaarggh!! I’m fangirling 200% - your writing inspires me all the time!!! LOVE ‘The Night the Walrus Came to Take My Baby’ - it’s perfect!!! 😍❤️
13.12.2025 14:07
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Such a surprising and beautiful story by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social.
13.12.2025 13:15
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The Altar of Saint Cindy — Vestal Review
"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...
13.12.2025 03:13
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Thank you so much Claudia! You’re such an inspiration to me and I’m such a huge fan of your writing, so this has absolutely made my day!! ❤️
13.12.2025 11:52
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Thank you!! Loved your piece too! ❤️
10.12.2025 10:37
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Such a fantastic piece!!
10.12.2025 10:36
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3 highlights from Vestal Review this week:
🔹 Last Play:@marioaliberto3.bsky.social
🔹 Saint Cindy:@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
🔹 The Walrus:@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
Full issue: www.vestalreview.net/issue-67
#VestalReview #FlashFiction #LiteraryMagazine #ShortStories #WritingCommunity #Fiction
10.12.2025 10:19
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I absolutely loved yours, Eileen - really brilliant! ❤️
09.12.2025 19:23
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😍😍😍
09.12.2025 18:31
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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
09.12.2025 17:42
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❤️❤️❤️
08.12.2025 15:21
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Thank you!! 🙂
08.12.2025 12:43
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Thrilled to see my flash piece, ‘The Altar of St Cindy’, 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 ❤️
08.12.2025 12:35
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This was such a lovely event! Thanks so much for organising it, Robert!!
07.12.2025 18:21
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Inkfish Press Poetry Reading with Robert Allen, Tim Moder, and Kate Horsley.
YouTube video by Robert Allen Poet
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...
07.12.2025 18:17
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Amazing!! Congratulations Justine!!! 😍❤️🥳
05.12.2025 10:04
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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 🥳
05.12.2025 10:02
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THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £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...
29.11.2025 09:47
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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/
29.11.2025 13:09
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Congratulations!!! 🥳
27.11.2025 17:59
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