June Gemmell
@junegemmell.bsky.social
Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, Northern Gravy and National Flash Flood.
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“The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it. ”
— Vanna Bonta
#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity
— Vanna Bonta
#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it. ”
— Vanna Bonta
#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity
— Vanna Bonta
#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity
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Congratulations to the 2025 MoonLit Getaway Short Fiction Contest Finalists!
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Follow @MGLiterary
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November 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Congratulations to the 2025 MoonLit Getaway Short Fiction Contest Finalists!
Follow @MGLiterary
#5amWritersClub
#WritingCommunity
Follow @MGLiterary
#5amWritersClub
#WritingCommunity
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Vonnegut
Vonnegut
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Vonnegut
Vonnegut
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The felines are ever closer... 🐈🐈⬛
FIVE days until submissions open for our themed pop-up call.
Give us your cat flash - 100 to 1000 words - any genre.
Give us great STORY and VOICE
Issue published early January before the trash cats reclaim the bin 🦝
trashcatlit.com/call-for-cat...
FIVE days until submissions open for our themed pop-up call.
Give us your cat flash - 100 to 1000 words - any genre.
Give us great STORY and VOICE
Issue published early January before the trash cats reclaim the bin 🦝
trashcatlit.com/call-for-cat...
a black and white cat is peeking out from behind a curtain .
ALT: a black and white cat is peeking out from behind a curtain .
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November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The felines are ever closer... 🐈🐈⬛
FIVE days until submissions open for our themed pop-up call.
Give us your cat flash - 100 to 1000 words - any genre.
Give us great STORY and VOICE
Issue published early January before the trash cats reclaim the bin 🦝
trashcatlit.com/call-for-cat...
FIVE days until submissions open for our themed pop-up call.
Give us your cat flash - 100 to 1000 words - any genre.
Give us great STORY and VOICE
Issue published early January before the trash cats reclaim the bin 🦝
trashcatlit.com/call-for-cat...
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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I'm offering a one hour mentoring session with a 3000 word read of your children's book manuscript. I'm an award-winning author who has mentored bestsellers, a Waterstones BOTM writer and more. I've published 14 kids books and have my debut picture book coming out next year. #Creatives4Sudan
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I'm offering a one hour mentoring session with a 3000 word read of your children's book manuscript. I'm an award-winning author who has mentored bestsellers, a Waterstones BOTM writer and more. I've published 14 kids books and have my debut picture book coming out next year. #Creatives4Sudan
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Thanks to the award-winning @failingwriters.bsky.social for their great reviews 😅🙌🏻
Just finished reading 1 of our absurdly talented listener’s books - @stgenevieve.bsky.social I thoroughly enjoyed this marvellously well observed, funny, and life affirming book!
And what’s this… you little tinker. You gave us an acknowledgement!
❤️😍
Well done! Bloody brilliant!
And what’s this… you little tinker. You gave us an acknowledgement!
❤️😍
Well done! Bloody brilliant!
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Thanks to the award-winning @failingwriters.bsky.social for their great reviews 😅🙌🏻
This is a wonderful book! Enjoyed every word. ❤️
Just finished reading 1 of our absurdly talented listener’s books - @stgenevieve.bsky.social I thoroughly enjoyed this marvellously well observed, funny, and life affirming book!
And what’s this… you little tinker. You gave us an acknowledgement!
❤️😍
Well done! Bloody brilliant!
And what’s this… you little tinker. You gave us an acknowledgement!
❤️😍
Well done! Bloody brilliant!
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This is a wonderful book! Enjoyed every word. ❤️
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🌟We're hiring!🌟
If you're an author or creative writing teacher, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for three tutors to join our fabulous team. Visit our website to find out more and apply before 5 December: zurl.co/RItsK
If you're an author or creative writing teacher, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for three tutors to join our fabulous team. Visit our website to find out more and apply before 5 December: zurl.co/RItsK
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🌟We're hiring!🌟
If you're an author or creative writing teacher, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for three tutors to join our fabulous team. Visit our website to find out more and apply before 5 December: zurl.co/RItsK
If you're an author or creative writing teacher, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for three tutors to join our fabulous team. Visit our website to find out more and apply before 5 December: zurl.co/RItsK
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Nov 26, 2025 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 challenge. Can you write a compelling story in exactly 100 words? 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐤… unleash your imagination and participate directly on our blog weekly. #100WW
inkinthirds.org/100ww-nov-26...
inkinthirds.org/100ww-nov-26...
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Nov 26, 2025 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 challenge. Can you write a compelling story in exactly 100 words? 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐤… unleash your imagination and participate directly on our blog weekly. #100WW
inkinthirds.org/100ww-nov-26...
inkinthirds.org/100ww-nov-26...
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If you all MUST do Christmas, can you at least make an effort to buy from small businesses?
They need the custom.
They need the custom.
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
If you all MUST do Christmas, can you at least make an effort to buy from small businesses?
They need the custom.
They need the custom.
Ordered. I‘m in the UK so it’s not here yet, but SO looking forward to it! ❤️
My book is about a month old now. Thanks a million to those who have supported, come out, and recommended the book. If you enjoyed it and could leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads, I would be grateful! Reviews are so important for smaller press books. Thank you!
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Ordered. I‘m in the UK so it’s not here yet, but SO looking forward to it! ❤️
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My book is about a month old now. Thanks a million to those who have supported, come out, and recommended the book. If you enjoyed it and could leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads, I would be grateful! Reviews are so important for smaller press books. Thank you!
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My book is about a month old now. Thanks a million to those who have supported, come out, and recommended the book. If you enjoyed it and could leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads, I would be grateful! Reviews are so important for smaller press books. Thank you!
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Subs are open for an unthemed issue! ✉️
Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words
Deadline: November 27
No fee
Click thru for full details
ettereview.com/submit/
Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words
Deadline: November 27
No fee
Click thru for full details
ettereview.com/submit/
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ettereview.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Subs are open for an unthemed issue! ✉️
Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words
Deadline: November 27
No fee
Click thru for full details
ettereview.com/submit/
Send us your gorgeous flash fiction, micros & prose poetry <1000 words
Deadline: November 27
No fee
Click thru for full details
ettereview.com/submit/
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AND watch for our next full issue to drop in the first two weeks of December. We’ll reveal the contributors a little later but wow, it’s got angles and all kinds of interest. You are so talented, friends.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
AND watch for our next full issue to drop in the first two weeks of December. We’ll reveal the contributors a little later but wow, it’s got angles and all kinds of interest. You are so talented, friends.
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Our nominees for the 2026 best microfictions anthology are here. The link is to all our nominations so far, with more to come so keep watching. Congratulations to all including today’s tiny gems.
templeinacity.com/category/nom...
templeinacity.com/category/nom...
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Our nominees for the 2026 best microfictions anthology are here. The link is to all our nominations so far, with more to come so keep watching. Congratulations to all including today’s tiny gems.
templeinacity.com/category/nom...
templeinacity.com/category/nom...
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Here it is, the newly expanded Joy edition, down the hall and to the left from the Joy division, don’t confuse them though we do listen to them sometimes.
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Here it is, the newly expanded Joy edition, down the hall and to the left from the Joy division, don’t confuse them though we do listen to them sometimes.
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
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The world felt out of tune for a while, a little too sharp in places, too dull in others. But tonight the ocean sang something patient. Something forgiving. I stood there and finally let myself breathe along with it.
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The world felt out of tune for a while, a little too sharp in places, too dull in others. But tonight the ocean sang something patient. Something forgiving. I stood there and finally let myself breathe along with it.
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Scottish artist Anne Redpath, Still Life of Flowers and a Teapot, c.1955 #womensart
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Scottish artist Anne Redpath, Still Life of Flowers and a Teapot, c.1955 #womensart
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Awkwardness: The Novelist's Secret Weapon
In our personal lives, we expend a lot of energy trying to avoid awkward situations. In fiction, we should embrace them.
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In our personal lives, we expend a lot of energy trying to avoid awkward situations. In fiction, we should embrace them.
darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/a...
#writingcommunity
Awkwardness: The Novelist's Secret Weapon
In our personal lives, we expend a lot of energy trying to avoid awkward situations. In fiction, we should embrace them.
darlingaxe.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Awkwardness: The Novelist's Secret Weapon
In our personal lives, we expend a lot of energy trying to avoid awkward situations. In fiction, we should embrace them.
darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/a...
#writingcommunity
In our personal lives, we expend a lot of energy trying to avoid awkward situations. In fiction, we should embrace them.
darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/a...
#writingcommunity
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Getting a few pre-deadline responses out today. 5 days left to submit, and we've got room in all categories - poetry, fiction, scripts, essays, and art!
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Getting a few pre-deadline responses out today. 5 days left to submit, and we've got room in all categories - poetry, fiction, scripts, essays, and art!
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Harry Bigham shares why every great book needs a sense of purpose. It’s what gives your story weight, depth, and meaning beyond the plot. If you want your writing to really resonate with readers, discovering your story’s purpose is the place to start: zurl.co/dr1Nx
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Harry Bigham shares why every great book needs a sense of purpose. It’s what gives your story weight, depth, and meaning beyond the plot. If you want your writing to really resonate with readers, discovering your story’s purpose is the place to start: zurl.co/dr1Nx
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We are currently open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction. Please click on the link for our guidelines #MicroMonday #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We are currently open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction. Please click on the link for our guidelines #MicroMonday #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...
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THIS WEEK! Vishwas R. Gaitonde joins me to talk about the stories in his debut collection ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN (Orison Books). "[A] fantastic new voice in world literature." - David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of WINTER COUNTS www.shortstorytoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
THIS WEEK! Vishwas R. Gaitonde joins me to talk about the stories in his debut collection ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN (Orison Books). "[A] fantastic new voice in world literature." - David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of WINTER COUNTS www.shortstorytoday.com