Christmas has come early! So delighted to place second 🥈 in this year’s Festive Flash Fiction Competition from @failingwriters with @ScrivenerApp, judged by @DevaneEmily 🎉 I loved writing ‘In Which Kai Stages a Christmas Coup’ ☺️ 🦃

Christmas has come early! So delighted to place second 🥈 in this year’s Festive Flash Fiction Competition from @failingwriters with @ScrivenerApp, judged by @DevaneEmily 🎉 I loved writing ‘In Which Kai Stages a Christmas Coup’ ☺️ 🦃

You can listen to the story in the latest podcast episode 🙃 🎧 Always a treat to have your words read out 🎶 https://t.co/gM67vtzIks

Are you finding writing a 100 word micro for our competition a bit tricky? The first of this season's interviews is with our micro fiction competition judge @JDMontgomery_ and he has some excellent advice:

Includes stories from @bdiggswrites @WelkinPrize Gordon W. Mennenga @100word_story @PunyFingers @nationalflashfd @ShaneJLarkin @Splonk1 @sfreligh @GhostParachute @sarahillswrites @havehadhavehad @francinewitte @gonelawn Guy Biederman @amygcb @TruffleLitMag Nan Wigington ✨

Thinking of entering @nationalflashfd’s 2025 Microfiction Competition? Here, I get my teeny-tiny brain thinking about what works for teeny-tiny stories, give you permission to write less, and share some of my favourite 100-worders to love and learn from 😍

🐸💙We are thrilled to announce the details of our 4th annual Blue Frog flash fiction prize! 💙🐸 https://t.co/0CF4UGtvWz

This is so beautiful and perfect. Also love how your first and last lines mirror each other. So sorry for your loss. @JDMontgomery @EmergeJournal

I very rarely write CNF. But when Artemis died, I couldn’t find a lot of flash that captured the loss of a much-loved pet. It felt important to me to try and put that feeling into words. Thanks for publishing this, @EmergeJournal ❤️🐈 https://t.co/v1SNNaIhAp

"When she came into my life, I didn’t like myself much. But she pulled on my yarn-heart, until all the knots came undone" @JDMontgomery_ in @EmergeJournal ❤️💔❤️

Meow! (That’s the cat, out the bag… 🐈 😉) I couldn’t be more excited about judging @nationalflashfd’s 2025 Microfiction Competition with these three flash stars! 🌟 🌟 🌟 It opens on my birthday, 1 December, so help me celebrate by sending lots of amazing entries to read 🎉

‘…our secret desires revealing themselves through the stories we tell each other.’ This is lovely, and loving, and the exact loveliness I need right now. @HollyPelesky in @moonrabbitcandy 🎶

Love this so much 👇

‘She wants to stare into Jimmy Taylor’s dark blue dark blues and see something other than the kind of midnight that doesn’t even have a fleck of the moon.’ So much yearning in this brilliant new @francinewitte flash in @centaurlit 👁️ https://t.co/sXBEduK8K1

‘…though possibly if another bee had fastened itself to my shoulder right then, I would have drowned it, too.’ Oof, what a corker from Michelle Ross in the new issue of @centaurlit 🐝 https://t.co/xilJnp5evC

‘Shut your waves up, shut your waves up and leave me alone; I just came here to light a cigarette and moon-breathe, not to talk about the past.’ Devastating new flash from @NoraNadj in @FracturedLit; love how the sea becomes a character… 🌊

i'll be honest, that final "I can't do everything" kinda extra hit today. helluva short today from @alex_tronson! https://t.co/AecJ7xYtCa

‘You think of Brown Rabbit, hope he is being stroked in a pattern of threes down his back where the fur has worn thin…’ Beautifully done. @mlmcguinness in @FictiveDream 🏫

‘You may fear the necessity of destruction, but sometimes forests need to burn, cornfields need to burn, our bodies need to burn into vapor like a pot left boiling.’ A scorcher from @nancystohlman in the new issue of @GhostParachute ⚡️

‘…cabbage raids at dawn, strong legs rocketing across the knoll, boxing potential mates…’ Dynamite writing from @sarahillswrites in @havehadhavehad 🐇