Julia Ruth Smith

Oh, you mean THIS book?

Great news - our Spring Charity Flash Fiction competition is now OPEN!
@judehwriter2.bsky.social is our Guest Judge and our charity for this round is @cftrustuk.bsky.social
500 words, £170 in prizes, deadline 27 April
Details are here thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-...
Send your best!

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a man in a top hat says " you don t really think you 'll win do you ? " ALT: a man in a top hat says " you don t really think you 'll win do you ? "

There's villainy afoot! #FlashVillain 2025 contest now open to submissions.

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I’ve been followed by 65 people in 2 days and really it’s just so tiring when they’re not writing folk or even real people. Also have no ideas in overwhelmed tiny brain. Going to catch up on Severance. Full moon, watch out. Ciao.

Welkin Stories | MattKendrick.co.uk Prize-winning stories from The Welkin Writing Prize.

The #WelkinPrize is over for another year 😥 but hopefully the glow of these amazing stories will linger for a good while yet. If you've not read them all yet, or you'd like to read them again, or read the dazzlers from 23 or 24, you can catch them all here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Amongst Stars — Ghost Parachute Hank’s my dog; I chose him, named him, raised him. Bill’s working fly-in-fly-out when I pack a box of records, then scoop up jeans, a jacket, bathers, goggles, my red dress – the one he loathes – book...

‘He leaps onto the seat beside me, licking me and licking me, my wet dog, Hank’

Yikes! Love it!

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100% with you.

We need to talk about home scars — Ghost Parachute Yesterday I found a summer photo of Finn in his pineapple sun hat when the three of us went crabbing down Ness Cove, probably one of the last we have of him without tubes shooting up his nose, and it ...

‘Finn is big-eyed and his mouth is packed with words.’

A Kik-story for a grey morning @kiklodge.bsky.social

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Disappointed not to have made the final cut but I throw my hearty congratulations towards all of the winners! 🥳✨

The Welkin Writing Prize | They won’t let you in "They won’t let you in" by Nora Nadjarian

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Don't worry if you're a bit 2 or 5 like our Ed - we open for subs on the 1st February for reprints and 1st March for themed stories for a charity print anthology 🦝

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#SubmissionCalls
#FlashFiction

Wait until the sauce starts to #congeal, volcanic over the bland cauliflower. That’s it. The rich cheese and a hint of mustard is all it takes to evoke potential. I’m so hopeful I could spoon it all up, buttery lips leaving their mark on a wineglass for tomorrow to worry about.
#vss365 #prompt

ants in anti-establishment angst - on it!

Unlikely animal poets 👀😍

Micros are weird little things. You read them quickly then some days later they can pop into your head out of nowhere! This one by @jameygallagher.bsky.social just keeps tapping away at my mind.

Latest #ekphrastic writing challenge from the brilliant @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social

Deadline: January 31
Wordcount: 1,000 max
Prompt: Pavonia, by Francis Picabia
#FlashFiction

Issue 4 Submissions

We're getting a LOT of poetry submissions. Send in your Micro Prose, Fiction & CNF too!

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She’s brill! ⭐️

Catching Babies — Split Lip Magazine Ted and Katie sit as far away from you and Amir as they can on the sectional. Ted looks uneasily at the baby on your lap. He’s like, is it gonna…? You smile and hold the baby out. Of course not, you r...

‘I’m sorry for the Bluey test. It’s just that the babies are so insidious—we had to make sure. You don’t know how to play bass, do you?’ 😅

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Submissions are Open | Seaside Gothic Submissions are open from 13th January to 19th January 2025 for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to Seaside Gothic, a quarterly print magazine.

…and we are open for submissions! ONE WEEK ONLY!

Good egg 🥚
Highly recommend!

Me! And I loved it!

They asked us to #measure ourselves against the trees and we fell short, how could we not? Birds circled, mocking us for having dreams but never the will to fly. We surrendered to the grass in our laziness and let the ants carry us away.
#vss365 #prompt

Tonight some Italian men of the 21st Century will laughingly call women ‘Befane’ and ask where they hide their broom, and I will eat them all.

Just hanging out, being cool 😎

It’s addictive, isn’t it? Congratulations!

Just saying but I dreamt about you last night!

I’ve only gone and blinking made it to the shortlist!! Thank you so much for this boost and good luck to everyone else who made it, and big love indeed to everyone who entered. (Can you tell I’m excited?!) 💫🥰

Answer Key by Sarah Mills

I left the restaurant hungry, imagining all the things I could have done with those letters.

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