Damhnait Monaghan 🇨🇦🇮🇪
@downith.bsky.social
Writer|Namesplainer|2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist|2022 Winner Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer|2020 Winner Saboteur Best Novella| Agent: Hilary McMahon @ Westwood Creative Artists
www.damhnaitmonaghan.com
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November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected for the inaugural Golden Egg Writing Residency at La Colemena de Montserrat in January 2026. Ten days to focus on my current writing project. And stare out the window at those magnificent mountains. Feeling very lucky. 😍
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected for the inaugural Golden Egg Writing Residency at La Colemena de Montserrat in January 2026. Ten days to focus on my current writing project. And stare out the window at those magnificent mountains. Feeling very lucky. 😍
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Our judge Kelli Borges shares her insights on all the winning stories. Find out our 2025 Flash Fiction Contest second and third place winners.
Special thanks to Kelli and our readers, Susan Pohlman and Elizabeth Spencer!
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Special thanks to Kelli and our readers, Susan Pohlman and Elizabeth Spencer!
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November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Our judge Kelli Borges shares her insights on all the winning stories. Find out our 2025 Flash Fiction Contest second and third place winners.
Special thanks to Kelli and our readers, Susan Pohlman and Elizabeth Spencer!
bit.ly/47ZNYyG
Special thanks to Kelli and our readers, Susan Pohlman and Elizabeth Spencer!
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Great choices!
We’re thrilled to announce that the judges for our microfiction comp are: Joanna Campbell, Emily Devane, Debra A Daniel & David Swann! The comp opens on 1 Dec for micros up to 100 words. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Great choices!
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The news is out! And I'm in very good company. We can't wait to read your micro entries! Next year's #nffd competition opens soon. 👇
We’re thrilled to announce that the judges for our microfiction comp are: Joanna Campbell, Emily Devane, Debra A Daniel & David Swann! The comp opens on 1 Dec for micros up to 100 words. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The news is out! And I'm in very good company. We can't wait to read your micro entries! Next year's #nffd competition opens soon. 👇
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Love reading the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social anthology, & each writer's unique take on that year's theme. So I'm thrilled to be the 2026 guest editor, working with @karjon.bsky.social. Click thru ⬇️ to discover the new theme. Can't wait to read all those wonderful subs. Open 1 Dec #FlashFiction
We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...
November 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Love reading the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social anthology, & each writer's unique take on that year's theme. So I'm thrilled to be the 2026 guest editor, working with @karjon.bsky.social. Click thru ⬇️ to discover the new theme. Can't wait to read all those wonderful subs. Open 1 Dec #FlashFiction
When one of your favourite flash writers is the guest editor, you know you’ll be subbing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Very excited to have Sharon Telfer as NFFD anthology guest editor. Follow the link to see this year’s theme!
Love reading the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social anthology, & each writer's unique take on that year's theme. So I'm thrilled to be the 2026 guest editor, working with @karjon.bsky.social. Click thru ⬇️ to discover the new theme. Can't wait to read all those wonderful subs. Open 1 Dec #FlashFiction
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When one of your favourite flash writers is the guest editor, you know you’ll be subbing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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32nd Award is open now. Judge writer and educator John Brantingham. Early bird discounts open till mid Dec. Closes Feb 1st. £1460 in prizes. Anthology. Results end of Feb.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
32nd Award is open now. Judge writer and educator John Brantingham. Early bird discounts open till mid Dec. Closes Feb 1st. £1460 in prizes. Anthology. Results end of Feb.
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
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Very excited to have Sharon Telfer as NFFD anthology guest editor. Follow the link to see this year’s theme!
Love reading the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social anthology, & each writer's unique take on that year's theme. So I'm thrilled to be the 2026 guest editor, working with @karjon.bsky.social. Click thru ⬇️ to discover the new theme. Can't wait to read all those wonderful subs. Open 1 Dec #FlashFiction
We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Very excited to have Sharon Telfer as NFFD anthology guest editor. Follow the link to see this year’s theme!
Fantastic choices here for theme and guest editor 👏👏
We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Fantastic choices here for theme and guest editor 👏👏
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Louvre heist mystery man revealed to be a 15-year-old dandy who styles himself after French resistance hero Jean Moulin: Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux.
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Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Louvre heist mystery man revealed to be a 15-year-old dandy who styles himself after French resistance hero Jean Moulin: Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux.
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Congratulations to all!
Many congratulations to our winners! 5 brilliant stories selected by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social
1st Adam Brannigan, 2nd @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
3rd @debdanthewriter.bsky.social
Highly commended @dawnsteffler.bsky.social All stories published bathflashfictionaward.com
1st Adam Brannigan, 2nd @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
3rd @debdanthewriter.bsky.social
Highly commended @dawnsteffler.bsky.social All stories published bathflashfictionaward.com
Bath Flash Fiction Award
International Rolling Flash Fiction Competition
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November 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Congratulations to all!
No joy for me. But congrats to everyone who made it!
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Very late in the day but at last our Oct 2025 Longlist. Congratulations to all. And apologies for the delay
Very late in the day but at last our Oct 2025 Longlist. Congratulations to all. And apologies for the delay
Oct 2025 Long List
Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.Author names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share that you are on the long l…
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October 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No joy for me. But congrats to everyone who made it!
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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Thank you to everyone from around the world who entered our 31st Award. We appreciate your support. Results announced on bathflashfictionaward.com by the end of Oct & email sent to subscribers
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October 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Thank you to everyone from around the world who entered our 31st Award. We appreciate your support. Results announced on bathflashfictionaward.com by the end of Oct & email sent to subscribers
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One follow away from a neat 1000.
To mark the occasion, 1 FREE COPY of my ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE www.adhocfiction.com/2022/06/posi..., stories published across the UK, US & Eire, is up for grabs to the first UK-based follower who asks.
#amwriting #booksky📚💙 #flashfiction #books
To mark the occasion, 1 FREE COPY of my ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE www.adhocfiction.com/2022/06/posi..., stories published across the UK, US & Eire, is up for grabs to the first UK-based follower who asks.
#amwriting #booksky📚💙 #flashfiction #books
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
One follow away from a neat 1000.
To mark the occasion, 1 FREE COPY of my ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE www.adhocfiction.com/2022/06/posi..., stories published across the UK, US & Eire, is up for grabs to the first UK-based follower who asks.
#amwriting #booksky📚💙 #flashfiction #books
To mark the occasion, 1 FREE COPY of my ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE www.adhocfiction.com/2022/06/posi..., stories published across the UK, US & Eire, is up for grabs to the first UK-based follower who asks.
#amwriting #booksky📚💙 #flashfiction #books
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Thank you for getting it back out in the world.
The light is on for Karen Walker! @kawalker.bsky.social💡
“One Penny Sit-Up, Two Penny Hang” is an incredible piece of flash historical fiction that—in a bold voice—illuminates the raw realities of a woman engaged in sex work.
Check out Karen’s beautiful writing over at the site!
“One Penny Sit-Up, Two Penny Hang” is an incredible piece of flash historical fiction that—in a bold voice—illuminates the raw realities of a woman engaged in sex work.
Check out Karen’s beautiful writing over at the site!
One penny sit-up, two penny hang - Karen Walker — Bulb Culture Collective
Still, he pays a penny. New, like him.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Thank you for getting it back out in the world.
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The Last Minute Club is open tomorrow 5th Oct, the final day of our 31st Award.All entrants tomorrow get a LMC badge. Can you guess the colour this time? A few samples of previous ones below. Winner gets a free entry to the award. Reply here. Results tomorrow
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October 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
The Last Minute Club is open tomorrow 5th Oct, the final day of our 31st Award.All entrants tomorrow get a LMC badge. Can you guess the colour this time? A few samples of previous ones below. Winner gets a free entry to the award. Reply here. Results tomorrow
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
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Wrote more. Woot!
Wrote.
October 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Wrote more. Woot!
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This is one of the best story collections I've ever read. Every story is satisfying, funny, sad, bright, and full of life.
My book came out October 8, 2024. (After 30+ years of writing, a book!)
I've been so grateful to anyone who has read it. I had a little goal of reaching 1000 copies sold (small press goals!), and we're close to that. I hope you'll consider ordering, reading, sharing reviewing on Goodreads, etc.💙
I've been so grateful to anyone who has read it. I had a little goal of reaching 1000 copies sold (small press goals!), and we're close to that. I hope you'll consider ordering, reading, sharing reviewing on Goodreads, etc.💙
Sad Grownups
Check out Sad Grownups - <p><strong>For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Winne...
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October 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is one of the best story collections I've ever read. Every story is satisfying, funny, sad, bright, and full of life.
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My book came out October 8, 2024. (After 30+ years of writing, a book!)
I've been so grateful to anyone who has read it. I had a little goal of reaching 1000 copies sold (small press goals!), and we're close to that. I hope you'll consider ordering, reading, sharing reviewing on Goodreads, etc.💙
I've been so grateful to anyone who has read it. I had a little goal of reaching 1000 copies sold (small press goals!), and we're close to that. I hope you'll consider ordering, reading, sharing reviewing on Goodreads, etc.💙
Sad Grownups
Check out Sad Grownups - <p><strong>For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Winne...
bookshop.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
My book came out October 8, 2024. (After 30+ years of writing, a book!)
I've been so grateful to anyone who has read it. I had a little goal of reaching 1000 copies sold (small press goals!), and we're close to that. I hope you'll consider ordering, reading, sharing reviewing on Goodreads, etc.💙
I've been so grateful to anyone who has read it. I had a little goal of reaching 1000 copies sold (small press goals!), and we're close to that. I hope you'll consider ordering, reading, sharing reviewing on Goodreads, etc.💙