Justine Sweeney
@justine1902.bsky.social
Writing wee stories about Belfast and other bits and pieces. Bath Novella-in-Flash shortlistee 2025. Words in places like: @theDublinReview.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social FlashFictionMagazine Bath & Fish Anthologies
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There are 27 short fictions in our print anthology - two of them deal beautifully with stories of escape 🦝
If these teases tempt you, you can grab a copy for less than £10!
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
What Comes to Light by @quickasaflash.bsky.social 💜
Thin Place by @justine1902.bsky.social 💜
If these teases tempt you, you can grab a copy for less than £10!
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
What Comes to Light by @quickasaflash.bsky.social 💜
Thin Place by @justine1902.bsky.social 💜
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
There are 27 short fictions in our print anthology - two of them deal beautifully with stories of escape 🦝
If these teases tempt you, you can grab a copy for less than £10!
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
What Comes to Light by @quickasaflash.bsky.social 💜
Thin Place by @justine1902.bsky.social 💜
If these teases tempt you, you can grab a copy for less than £10!
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
What Comes to Light by @quickasaflash.bsky.social 💜
Thin Place by @justine1902.bsky.social 💜
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A treasure amongst treasures - where is your copy of What Comes to Light?
Twenty-seven incredible short fictions available to buy now and raising funds for @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Find out more and get story teases here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
Twenty-seven incredible short fictions available to buy now and raising funds for @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Find out more and get story teases here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
October 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A treasure amongst treasures - where is your copy of What Comes to Light?
Twenty-seven incredible short fictions available to buy now and raising funds for @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Find out more and get story teases here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
Twenty-seven incredible short fictions available to buy now and raising funds for @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Find out more and get story teases here: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...
Happy to have a short story in here... thanks @trashcatlit.bsky.social Can't wait to read the other stories 😃
We're so excited to share our first print anthology, available to purchase for only £9/ $11.50 🦝
Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for
@WildlifeTrusts
and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for
@WildlifeTrusts
and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
September 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Happy to have a short story in here... thanks @trashcatlit.bsky.social Can't wait to read the other stories 😃
brilliant Kate congrats ❤️❤️❤️
"Dad’s personality traits are gatherer, unstable, nurturing, handy, and insane. He wants to fix things and that’s what he’s good at, but he has these random mood swings where he runs after you wielding a garden gnome or pruning shears." - Kate Horsley mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
August 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
brilliant Kate congrats ❤️❤️❤️
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Publication day for this darkly comic little piece I think many readers can relate to. Thanks to @defenestrationmag.bsky.social for getting it up on your site. 🙂
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#amwriting #flashfiction #shortstory
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#amwriting #flashfiction #shortstory
"Books Books Books," by Peter McAllister
Leila's front wheel wobbles when she cycles over a crack in the tarmac. A car behind blares its horn as she struggles to steady the books in her basket and keep her summer dress from flaring up.
'You...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Publication day for this darkly comic little piece I think many readers can relate to. Thanks to @defenestrationmag.bsky.social for getting it up on your site. 🙂
www.defenestrationmag.net/2025/08/book...
#amwriting #flashfiction #shortstory
www.defenestrationmag.net/2025/08/book...
#amwriting #flashfiction #shortstory
congrats @petermcallister.bsky.social , great wee story in here 😁
Time to unveil the August 2025 issue of Defenestration! We have ten short stories and seven poems for you this month. Read it all here: bit.ly/3HxXXCc
(I know it's early. You're probably at work. You can read it there; we won't tell your supervisor.) #DefenestrationMagazine
(I know it's early. You're probably at work. You can read it there; we won't tell your supervisor.) #DefenestrationMagazine
August 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
congrats @petermcallister.bsky.social , great wee story in here 😁
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Time to unveil the August 2025 issue of Defenestration! We have ten short stories and seven poems for you this month. Read it all here: bit.ly/3HxXXCc
(I know it's early. You're probably at work. You can read it there; we won't tell your supervisor.) #DefenestrationMagazine
(I know it's early. You're probably at work. You can read it there; we won't tell your supervisor.) #DefenestrationMagazine
August 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Time to unveil the August 2025 issue of Defenestration! We have ten short stories and seven poems for you this month. Read it all here: bit.ly/3HxXXCc
(I know it's early. You're probably at work. You can read it there; we won't tell your supervisor.) #DefenestrationMagazine
(I know it's early. You're probably at work. You can read it there; we won't tell your supervisor.) #DefenestrationMagazine
Thanks @trashcatlit.bsky.social for including my story in this 😍 and cngrats to all the other contributors 🥳🥳🥳
We're back in the bin after a superb weekend @flashficfestuk.bsky.social where we met Trash Family in the flesh! 🦝
With Trash Family in mind, as promised here are the contributors for the upcoming charity print anthology.
Twenty-seven stunning stories we can't wait to share 🤩
With Trash Family in mind, as promised here are the contributors for the upcoming charity print anthology.
Twenty-seven stunning stories we can't wait to share 🤩
July 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Thanks @trashcatlit.bsky.social for including my story in this 😍 and cngrats to all the other contributors 🥳🥳🥳
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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.
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Congratulations to all our amazing authors!
The award ceremony will be held on Saturday July 5th.
buff.ly/OQcmmtv
June 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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
Congratulations to all our amazing authors!
The award ceremony will be held on Saturday July 5th.
buff.ly/OQcmmtv
Great to receive this on a rainy Saturday afternoon 😍 Thanks @bathflashaward.bsky.social for including my story! I'm loving reading all the great stories in here 🤩🥳
June 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Great to receive this on a rainy Saturday afternoon 😍 Thanks @bathflashaward.bsky.social for including my story! I'm loving reading all the great stories in here 🤩🥳
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So excited for this panel event for National Flash Fiction Day NZ, tomorrow at 10:30 pm BST www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf...
June 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
So excited for this panel event for National Flash Fiction Day NZ, tomorrow at 10:30 pm BST www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf...
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How lovely to have a little micro-fiction published today by the guys over at @fictivedream.bsky.social
Today from #MicroMonday we're thrilled to bring you two superb micros: Forever Teaching Lessons by Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social and Insufficient Grounding by Katie Strine #microfiction. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/06/09/m...
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June 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
How lovely to have a little micro-fiction published today by the guys over at @fictivedream.bsky.social
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Our NATURE EDITION is here! Spilling over with lost forests, wild seas, wily animals, lunar yearnings, magic menageries, mischievous moths and, as always, plenty of superb poetry and flash fiction buff.ly/d5eaihT
#shortstories #flashfiction #poetry #writing #nature #climate #ecofiction
#shortstories #flashfiction #poetry #writing #nature #climate #ecofiction
June 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Our NATURE EDITION is here! Spilling over with lost forests, wild seas, wily animals, lunar yearnings, magic menageries, mischievous moths and, as always, plenty of superb poetry and flash fiction buff.ly/d5eaihT
#shortstories #flashfiction #poetry #writing #nature #climate #ecofiction
#shortstories #flashfiction #poetry #writing #nature #climate #ecofiction
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'Field Observations Made During an Alien Abduction' by Kate Horsley / @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social is not what it seems. A piercing metaphor for trauma, control, and survival.
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/kate-horsley/
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #FlashFiction
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/kate-horsley/
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #FlashFiction
April 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
'Field Observations Made During an Alien Abduction' by Kate Horsley / @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social is not what it seems. A piercing metaphor for trauma, control, and survival.
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/kate-horsley/
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #FlashFiction
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/kate-horsley/
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #FlashFiction
Closes tonight!
FlashFlood is now open for submissions until Saturday 26 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Previously published accepted (2022 & earlier). Debut writer spots. Free to enter. For more details see here: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...
a cartoon of homer simpson in an orange raft
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April 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Closes tonight!
A well deserved story publication in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social by an AMAZING writer @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social !! 😍🥳
Beyond thrilled to see my micro ‘The Meat Ration’ published in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social today! Thank you so much to Kate Jayroe, to my wonderful writing group, and to the amazing writers and editors at @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece was part of the March Micro Marathon ❤️
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A Note On miCRo Collaborations & Announcing the Winner of SmokeLong Quarterly’s March Micro Marathon, Judged by Us!
Collaborating on the editorial level brought me back to what this is all about: community. We’re gathering work that we want to celebrate with readers.
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April 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A well deserved story publication in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social by an AMAZING writer @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social !! 😍🥳
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MoLI is looking for volunteers.
📢 MoLI is looking for volunteers! 📢
Join the team at the MoLI and help bring literature, culture, and creativity to life! We welcome applications for our Learning, Garden, and Visitor Experience Volunteer roles.
For more info, and to apply please visit www.i-vol.ie/organisation...
Join the team at the MoLI and help bring literature, culture, and creativity to life! We welcome applications for our Learning, Garden, and Visitor Experience Volunteer roles.
For more info, and to apply please visit www.i-vol.ie/organisation...
April 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
MoLI is looking for volunteers.
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Happy this #MagdaleneLaundy story got 2nd & will be published - can’t wait to read it & hear stories at Fish Anthology launch @wcorklitfest.bsky.social Congrats to all winners & SL/LL-ees! Tnx Fish, Tania & my writing workshop pals inc. @smokelong.bsky.social
Happy this #MagdaleneLaundy story got 2nd & will be published - can’t wait to read it & hear stories at Fish Anthology launch @wcorklitfest.bsky.social Congrats to all winners & SL/LL-ees! Tnx Fish, Tania & my writing workshop pals inc. @smokelong.bsky.social
Flash Fiction Prize 2025: RESULTS - Fish Publishing
Winners Short-list Long-list From all of us at Fish, thank you for entering your flash stories. Congratulations to the writers who were short or long-listed, and in particular to the 10 winners who...
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April 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Happy this #MagdaleneLaundy story got 2nd & will be published - can’t wait to read it & hear stories at Fish Anthology launch @wcorklitfest.bsky.social Congrats to all winners & SL/LL-ees! Tnx Fish, Tania & my writing workshop pals inc. @smokelong.bsky.social
Happy this #MagdaleneLaundy story got 2nd & will be published - can’t wait to read it & hear stories at Fish Anthology launch @wcorklitfest.bsky.social Congrats to all winners & SL/LL-ees! Tnx Fish, Tania & my writing workshop pals inc. @smokelong.bsky.social
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25 more days left to enter! Grand prize $2500! Total prize pot more than $4700! Big money for tiny stories. Do you have a gem just lounging around on your computer, in your journals, in your beautiful mind? Deadline May 10! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey) is now an annual competition that celebrates and compensates excellence in flash. Our first grand prize winner in 2018 was “Whale Fall” by ...
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April 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
25 more days left to enter! Grand prize $2500! Total prize pot more than $4700! Big money for tiny stories. Do you have a gem just lounging around on your computer, in your journals, in your beautiful mind? Deadline May 10! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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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
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
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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
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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Planning for this eco-humanities conference has swallowed me up these past few months but it’s been so much fun. If you’re in Cornwall this Friday/Saturday, consider popping along. It’s free!
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March 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Planning for this eco-humanities conference has swallowed me up these past few months but it’s been so much fun. If you’re in Cornwall this Friday/Saturday, consider popping along. It’s free!
sites.exeter.ac.uk/reimagininge...
sites.exeter.ac.uk/reimagininge...
😀Happy to have had this wee flash fiction published at the weekend! Thank-you ❤️ Discretionary Love ❤️ www.discretionarylove.com/diversions/
Diversions, Discretionary Love
‘Mind your time,’ my dad phones to warn me an hour before we leave for the airport.
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February 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
😀Happy to have had this wee flash fiction published at the weekend! Thank-you ❤️ Discretionary Love ❤️ www.discretionarylove.com/diversions/
Thanks so much @bathflashaward.bsky.social @judehwriter2.bsky.social so happy to see my novella included here! Congrats @debdanthewriter.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @stephaniecarty.bsky.social Betty and all those shortlisted and longlisted 🤩🥳 Can't wait to read these novellas 😍
Congratulations to winners of our 2025 NIF Award
1st prize @debdanthewriter.bsky.social
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Runners up @fionamckay.bsky.social
& @stephaniecarty.bsky.social
Plus highly commended Justine Sweeney & BettyJoyce Nash
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/01/winners-novella-in-flash-award-2025/
1st prize @debdanthewriter.bsky.social
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Runners up @fionamckay.bsky.social
& @stephaniecarty.bsky.social
Plus highly commended Justine Sweeney & BettyJoyce Nash
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/01/winners-novella-in-flash-award-2025/
congratulations to all of you with flowers and confetti falling
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January 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Thanks so much @bathflashaward.bsky.social @judehwriter2.bsky.social so happy to see my novella included here! Congrats @debdanthewriter.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @stephaniecarty.bsky.social Betty and all those shortlisted and longlisted 🤩🥳 Can't wait to read these novellas 😍
Thanks so much @bathflashaward.bsky.social
Delighted to have been shortlisted in this! Congrats and good luck to the other shortlistees! 🤩🥳
Delighted to have been shortlisted in this! Congrats and good luck to the other shortlistees! 🤩🥳
Congratulation to all the authors shortlisted for our 2025 NIF Award. 12 this time. There were excellent novellas to choose from on the longlist and we hope everyone finds publication. Thanks also to everyone who entered. Final results end of
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Novella in Flash Award 2025 Short List
Congratulations to all the authors who have made the 2025 Novella-in-Flash Award Short List.(Final results in late January, 2025).Author names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share …
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January 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Thanks so much @bathflashaward.bsky.social
Delighted to have been shortlisted in this! Congrats and good luck to the other shortlistees! 🤩🥳
Delighted to have been shortlisted in this! Congrats and good luck to the other shortlistees! 🤩🥳
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Congratulation to all the authors shortlisted for our 2025 NIF Award. 12 this time. There were excellent novellas to choose from on the longlist and we hope everyone finds publication. Thanks also to everyone who entered. Final results end of
Jan. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/01/nove...
Jan. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/01/nove...
Novella in Flash Award 2025 Short List
Congratulations to all the authors who have made the 2025 Novella-in-Flash Award Short List.(Final results in late January, 2025).Author names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share …
www.bathflashfictionaward.com
January 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Congratulation to all the authors shortlisted for our 2025 NIF Award. 12 this time. There were excellent novellas to choose from on the longlist and we hope everyone finds publication. Thanks also to everyone who entered. Final results end of
Jan. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/01/nove...
Jan. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/01/nove...