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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · 16d

Since 2018, Fairlight Books have been publishing a number of novellas each year in their Fairlight Moderns series. It would be worth getting in touch with them.

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · 23d

At the end of a lovely summer, Botanical Short Stories has been growing new shoots 🌿🌿🌿

I look forward to sharing some lovely news about our anthology of #shortstories about #plants and #flowers soon 💙

lnk.to/BotanicalSho...

#BookSky #booknews #reading #nature

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · Sep 26

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

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Katherine Stansfield @kstansfield.bsky.social · Apr 15

NEWS! I've been hard at work with a fantastic group of fellow writers making a new online magazine about thrutopias. BENDING THE ARC launches 22nd April! Our aim is to write thriving, desirable futures into being. Pls subscribe & share!

bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com

Bending The Arc | Bending The Arc Magazine | Substack

publishing stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth. Click to read Bending The Arc, a Substack publication.

bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com

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David Gaffney @ggaffa.bsky.social · Aug 9

I am teaching on this online short story course for Arvon in October - be great to see some of you there

A few places are concession spots, available at a 30% discount for low-waged writers or those receiving certain benefits.

Here's the link to the week: www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Online Writing Week: Short Fiction | Stories that pack a punch | Arvon

The magic of short fiction lies in its ability to hold a whole universe within its tantalisingly small landscape. Bringing a sense of play and curiosity to the page, this course will give you the chan...

www.arvon.org

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Jul 31

Last few days to enter The Short Story's #Cambridge #Prizes 2025 for #shortstories and #flashfiction

Entry by optional donation

The Short Story celebrates contemporary short form #fiction and publishes reviews, interviews & essays

#booksky #writingcompetitions

theshortstory.co.uk/competitions...

The Cambridge Prizes 2025 - OPEN 1st July - TSS Publishing

The Cambridge Prize for Short Stories & Flash Fiction is open to submissions 1st – 31st July 2025. The Prize is open to all nationalities. This year, we are operating a ‘donate what you can’ policy, w...

theshortstory.co.uk

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Jul 7

Many congratulations, Amy

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 29

@petermcallister.bsky.social will be leading a discussion with Jackie Taylor, Rob Magnuson Smith, @amarkle.bsky.social & @emmatimpany.bsky.social at Penzance Litfest, & they’ll be reading from our Holyer an Gof Publishers' Awards-shortlisted anthology, Cornwall In Short! Book here: buff.ly/H8AWToG

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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · Jun 28

The #anthology of short stories I co-published with @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof awards this year!!

#booksky #award #shortlist #shortlisted #literaryfiction

Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 28

We were incredibly excited to learn that Cornwall In Short has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Awards 2025!
Congratulations to all our amazing authors!
The award ceremony will be held on Saturday July 5th.
buff.ly/OQcmmtv

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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social · Jun 24

I’m leading a discussion with four fantastic authors about their work and what #Cornwall means to them at the Penzance Litfest this year. They’ll each be reading a section of a story @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social published in the anthology ‘Cornwall In Short’. More details below:

Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Jun 22

Upcoming event at Penzance Litfest - details below

Please come along for readings from the wonderful Cornwall In Short #shortstory #anthology & a discussion about what #Cornwall means to us @petermcallister.bsky.social
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social

theacornpenzance.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Jun 22

Upcoming event at Penzance Litfest - details below

Please come along for readings from the wonderful Cornwall In Short #shortstory #anthology & a discussion about what #Cornwall means to us @petermcallister.bsky.social
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social

theacornpenzance.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Jun 12

Welcome to the world Short | Poto - The big book of small stories | Iti te kupu, nui te kōrero

100 short, short stories in English and te reo Māori, inc my story 'Remains | Ngā toenga'

Congratulations to eds Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong & all involved

www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/short-...

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Jun 8

Exciting addition to Cornwall's literary landscape: the beautiful first edition of @aspier-mag.bsky.social, full of good stuff. It was about time someone created a new literary journal for Cornwall, reviving the previous tradition of Scryfa, the Parabola Project and the legendary Cornish Review.

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · May 29

The first issue of Aspier, a new #literary and #arts magazine for #Cornwall, is full of wonderful #shortstories, #poetry, #essays and #features

Many congratulations to editor Sravya Raju & all the contributors

@aspier-mag.bsky.social @shelleytrower.bsky.social

More here: www.aspiermagazine.co.uk

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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social · Apr 14

Call for Submissions | Nature & Eco-writing | Deadline: May 15 2025

We would love to read your short fiction, flash, non-fiction, and poetry themed around nature, environment and ecology for our Nature & Eco-writing Edition: inkfishmag.com

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Apr 13

Thanks very much, Anna x

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Apr 13

Happy book birthday to my first publication, Over the Dam, a pamphlet of five short stories published 10 years ago today -

Over the Dam is no longer in print but four of its stories are included in Three Roads, my second short story collection from Postbox Press, an imprint of Red Squirrel Press

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Apr 4

Thank you🌿💜

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Apr 4

Happy book birthday to Botanical Short Stories

One year old today!

Huge thanks to our wonderful contributors and readers

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Mar 9

💜💜💜

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Mar 6

Many congratulations, Anna x

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Mar 6

How absolutely magical to receive this beautiful artwork of a golden oriole in a fig tree

It was inspired by my story 'A Bird So Rare' in Three Roads (Red Squirrel Press, 2022) which features the surprise appearance of this very bird

Huge thanks to wonderful friends for sending this gorgeous gift

A painting of a gold and black golden oriole in a fig tree

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Feb 17

I seem to have started a Starter Pack to my surprise - please join if you wish - let me know:

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Feb 6

Delighted to say that my #shortstory 'Perran in the Sands' is now available on #BBCSounds

This work, from the #TwelveStoriesfromTwelveSections anthology, is about Cornwall's patron saint, #StPiran & his ancient oratory in sand dunes near #Perranporth #Cornwall

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC Radio Cornwall - BBC Radio Cornwall, Stories inspired by Cornwall's protected landscape

Perran in the Sands by Emma Timpany

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social · Dec 23

Such a wonderful book 🌿

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