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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you!! ❤️

Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 18h

Congratulations Emily!!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 1d

So excited to see my flash piece 'The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter' in this special fampunk edition of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
Thanks as always to the amazing people at
@smokelong.bsky.social where this piece began! 😍

Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 2d

Our Nov 2025 FamPunk issue is now available on our website and via Weightless! Selected by our guest editor Emma Burnett, this issue features spec-fic families of all sorts. Go small and go home!
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
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Flash Fiction Online November 2025

Flash Fiction Online’s November 2025 “”FamPunk”” issue is a collection of family-centered speculative fiction, selected by our guest editor this month Emma Burnett. We…

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much for including me in this - it looks amazing!! 😍❤️🥳

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!! ❤️

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!! ❤️

Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 4d

Thrilled that my flash piece ‘A Surfeit of Lampreys’ is in the gorgeous Autumn issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social shout out to my lovely writing group for all their help as always and to the always brilliant @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece took shape ❤️

Tiny Molecules @tinymolecules.bsky.social · 4d

Our Autumn Issue is here. 11 spooky stories to chill your bones. Read, enjoy, and share widely!
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations Adele!!! 🥳🥳🥳

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 21d

Curious about the workshop community of SmokeLong Fitness? You can give it a test drive in Nov/Dec. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...

Try SmokeLong Fitness - SmokeLong Quarterly

Are you curious about the community workshop of SmokeLong Fitness but don’t know if you can commit to a year without a peek behind the curtain? You can try SmokeLong Fitness in November and December 2...

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · 21d

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

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Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · 21d

Thrilled & honoured to learn @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social has nominated my piece ‘Habitat’ for a Pushcart Prize! 🤩 Huge thanks to supremely supportive editors @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social & congratulations to my (decidedly more talented) fellow nominees. 🥳

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · Sep 25

September MicroVerse roundup is out!

Flash Roundup * September 2025

A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · Sep 24

“My blood has opened a conduit to an elsewhere, importing emissaries of shell, feather, fur, and hoof to remind me that boundaries leak, that absence is merely another geometry of presence.” Strange and beautiful story—so unexpectedly emotional. I love everything @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social writes!

Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · Sep 23

"There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—"

The cool thing about helping run a lit mag is that you are madly in love with everything you publish, like this @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social grief story, which is weird and beautiful and perfect! Check it!

The Hand's Aperture by Mizuki Yamagen

There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—like a channel grown curious and turning back on itself. Last week it was a mosquito bite: a temporary river...

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · Sep 21

😍🥳

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · Sep 21

Thank you!!! ❤️

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · Sep 21

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“The manual described the Olivetti’s body parts – space bar, ribbon spool, paper table, platen knob, ribbon vibrator – and I read you out the last two, tangled naked with you in our hotel sheets, and you laughed at me,”

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Red Olivetti - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Dcps Chloé on Unsplash by Kate Horsley Every time I move, I take the typewriter with me – Olivetti Lettera 35, kitsch relic of the 1970s, the keys like raked auditorium seats climbing towards...

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · Sep 19

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“When Papa’s safely gone, I climb on Mama and wrap my arms tight around her and snuggle my face in her flower-smelling neck, whispering, you’re mine, all and always mine,”

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Peanut - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Pexels.com Photo by Melike-baran by Kate Horsley On Sundays, when Papa’s out running, Mama and I look at photos of us, cuddling in bed with Kipper the dog and Mama’s photo box labelled ‘Peanut’ in Mam...

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · Sep 18

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“Four years of separation are duly mourned in sleeves of interlocking puzzle pieces inked in orange and green, while blackwork notes freckle tender inner thighs every time a lover tries to read their bodies,”

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Needles - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Dynamic Wang on Unsplash by Kate Horsley Every time something big happens, the sisters get tattoos, beginning with that constellation eulogising their virginity, twin Scorpios hich later blur...

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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · Sep 10

Over 150 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in September 2025. Please share & best of luck!

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Background image shows an open notebook with pen on a wooden table. Text reads: Publishing Your Work - September 2025, Poetry & Writing Submissions - Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies. www.thisiswordbox.com

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · Sep 11

Such a beautiful edition - loved reading all the stories in it!! 😍❤️

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · Sep 11

Read new issue of Gooseberry Pie

Beth Konkoski Chad Foret @charhamrick.bsky.social Jane Yager @jennystalter.bsky.social
Elizabeth Meyer Gonzalez
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social

gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/

Issue 35 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Jeff Harvey Stories Gooseberry Pie’s nominations for Best of the Net 2026: Check out Flash Fiction Institute a new flash fiction educational and community hub offering virtual classes, craft ...

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thank you!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thrilled to have three micros up in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social ❤️ gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/ Shoutout to @smokelong.bsky.social where these pieces all began! x

Issue 35 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Jeff Harvey Stories Gooseberry Pie’s nominations for Best of the Net 2026: Check out Flash Fiction Institute a new flash fiction educational and community hub offering virtual classes, craft ...

gooseberry-pie.com

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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social · Sep 8

Smeagol will swear on the Precious

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · Sep 6

Our first print anthology is coming at the end of the month! 🦝
27 amazing short fictions that celebrate the theme of treasure in unexpected places.
Proceeds of sale go to
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

Updates here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
We can't wait to share What Comes to Light 💜

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