Fiona McKay 📚NEW BOOK OUT NOW📚🏳️⚧️ally🏳️🌈
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Writer |THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (Ad Hoc)| THE TOP ROAD (Ad Hoc) | DRAWN AND QUARTERED (Alien Buddha) | BSF 2024 | Autistic+ADHD
🇮🇪Ireland
Joined March 2015
📘 It’s here!! 😁 The Lives of the Dead is available through your regional Amazon!! So excited to see this 😍📘 https://t.co/sAQq0OPOTZ
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Thank you for the nomination, Lionesses ❤️❤️❤️
Pushcart Prize nominee In Your Orbit / Fiona McKay
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Thank you so much to @PrideRoars94731 for nominating my piece In Your Orbit for a pushcart and congratulations to the other nominees 😍
We are over the moon to be able to nominate the following pieces from The Pride Roars for a Pushcart Prize, congratulations everyone! @fionaemckayryan @NinaMD1 @TLTomljanovic @JoyceBingham10 @sugarpigblog @DelGeo14
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I've been so excited about this! My short story "Homing" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on 7th November, Read by Charlotte McCurry BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Homing by Marie-Louise McGuinness
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A seemingly ordinary day inspires a woman to reflect on what led her to this life.
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‘and all the spaces between these places in the suitcase, are full of maps with imaginary lines.’ A stunner from @quotes_52 in @moonrabbitcandy
Dearest lovelies! Have you gotten the chance to read the glorious story from the wonderful @quotes_52 we've got for you? It's so beautiful! 💖🐇🍬 https://t.co/uAHfXfteyG
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The humanitarian flotilla of boats sailing to Gaza must not be attacked by the IDF. The blockade is illegal and children are starving. There are also 22 Irish citizens onboard, risking their lives to come to the help of the people of Gaza. @gbsumudflotilla
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Human thriving is incompatible with hate, fear-mongering, or coercive systems. We stand for Safety, Dignity & Freedom We are building spaces where neurodivergent people can heal, connect, and lead. Read our solidarity statement: https://t.co/866JYGHD0z
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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A lovely offer by @DelGeo14
I feel like it's time to give something back to the #WritingCommunity. It might not be Twitter's anymore, but we're still here. So, I'm offering free beta reading to 3 stories up to 1000 words. Tell me about your story and I'll pick three by Friday. Feedback by Sunday🙂
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RT @BarryAndrewsMEP: JUST NOW: here in #Strasbourg, finally the @europarl_en agreed a position on the ongoing horror in Gaza. Our negotiat…
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Beautiful words from @DeniseBayes ❤️
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Temple in a City literary journal, Denise Bayes fiction
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Our second spotlight from the prompted stories issue 🦝 We loved the voice of the MC in this quirky crytozoological romp, the almost gleeful positivity. A fantastic take on the prompts - Forest, Cryptid and Strange Photos 📸 Read here: https://t.co/IsVJ9cMcV5
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Our first spotlight from our current issue 🦝 We loved Del's apocalypse, the humour in an unexpected interaction, the certainty of the MC. A clever interpretation of prompts - Underground, Enhanced Human and Infectious Agent 🦠 Read here: https://t.co/Nevjp5jvxN
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It’s lovely to be in the bin with all these trash cats @TrashCatLit ❤️ Many thanks to Group 8 @SmokeLong Fitness who gave feedback on this 😘
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Fiona McKay ‘Cars these days don’t have a spare,’ the man says. Kate, looking in the boot of the car, is startled, her heart a flock of sparrows. The empty country road, her flat tyre. Where had he…
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Thank you so much for the lovely review @Madeleine_write ❤️❤️❤️ I particularly love the final line - ‘I devoured it with tears in my eyes’ 🥹🥹🥹
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Huge thanks to @SmokeLong reviews editor Erin Vachon and reviewer Emily Webber for the thoughtful review of my novella-in-flash The Lives of the Dead - available from @AdHocFiction and Amazon 🤩
smokelong.com
Reviewed by Emily Webber Fiona McKay’s novella-in-flash, The Lives of the Dead [Ad Hoc Fiction, 2025] draws us into Kate’s life as she stands on the brink of marriage and motherhood. Reading this...
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Huge thanks to @SmokeLong reviews editor Erin Vachon and reviewer Emily Webber for the thoughtful review of my novella-in-flash The Lives of the Dead - available from @AdHocFiction and Amazon 🤩
smokelong.com
Reviewed by Emily Webber Fiona McKay’s novella-in-flash, The Lives of the Dead [Ad Hoc Fiction, 2025] draws us into Kate’s life as she stands on the brink of marriage and motherhood. Reading this...
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🛑 Stop now and Read this!! 🛑 A piece of brilliance from SA Greene!!!
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When a third testicle dropped, he asked her to enlarge his trousers so he could house everything more comfortably and she said which century do you think we’re living in?
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New Ani King piece ❤️❤️❤️
New Ani King: “when the last one crosses the threshold my living room is gonna be full up, bird stacked on bird stacked on shitting bird” 💙🐈⬛💙 https://t.co/wgiZYBAdJe
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Back in the bin!! Delighted to have a story in this next issue - and thanks to my Group 8 @SmokeLong summer friends who gave feedback on this one ❤️
HERE THEY ARE! 25 contributors to the upcoming Prompted Stories issue. Split into new and existing Trash Family for your consumption. The issue will launch on Thursday 🦝 @Madeleine_write @sclly21 @Jitling @AdLibby1 @biddablesheep @JennyHart2001 @10kandalatte @jupiterjonz 1/2
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