MaireadWrites
@maireadwrites.bsky.social
Writes things, teaches things, learns things, parents a person, and some other things (BFFA winner; Bridport SL; Pushcart Nominated; LL Wigleaf Top 50) South West, UK, but Northern.
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“It’ll take them the rest of the day, so we leave them to it and head to the hospital, to sit at my mother’s bedside and watch her sleep.”
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“It’ll take them the rest of the day, so we leave them to it and head to the hospital, to sit at my mother’s bedside and watch her sleep.”
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When My mother Is Admitted to Hospital, We Organise a Team of Cleaners to Perform a Deep Clean of Her House - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Aleksi Partanen on Unsplash by Mairead Robinson They start in the attic with buckets and bleach, their efficient brooms sweeping spiders into tiny binbags as sunlight spills through gaps in t...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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“It’ll take them the rest of the day, so we leave them to it and head to the hospital, to sit at my mother’s bedside and watch her sleep.”
gooseberry-pie.com/when-my-moth...
“It’ll take them the rest of the day, so we leave them to it and head to the hospital, to sit at my mother’s bedside and watch her sleep.”
gooseberry-pie.com/when-my-moth...
‘His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opened with a swift beheading’ - the unsettling atmosphere, the almost imperceptible build to an understanding of quiet devastation - magnificent.
Thrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read:
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Nothing certain ~ by Matt Kendrick
The day the sun forgets to rise, Mr White sits down for breakfast at precisely twelve minutes past seven. This is in the dining room. It is Tuesday. His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opene…
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November 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
‘His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opened with a swift beheading’ - the unsettling atmosphere, the almost imperceptible build to an understanding of quiet devastation - magnificent.
Very proud that my story about deep cleaners is out in Gooseberry Pie today 😁 gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/
Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories
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November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Very proud that my story about deep cleaners is out in Gooseberry Pie today 😁 gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/
Wonderful stories - what a treat to read them - congratulations 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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October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Wonderful stories - what a treat to read them - congratulations all.
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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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October 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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
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Congratulations Debra A Daniel! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/octo...
3rd Prize October 2025 Award: Debra A Daniel
My Husband Watches Henry the Donkey by Debra A Daniel When the news is overwhelming, my husband turns to Youtube. “Here comes Henry,” he says. Henry’s owner brings treats and the donkey prances to …
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October 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Congratulations Debra A Daniel! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/octo...
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Congratulations Emily Rinkema! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/2nd-...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Congratulations Emily Rinkema! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/2nd-...
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Congratulations Adam Brannigan! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/1st-...
1st Prize, October 2025 Award: Adam Brannigan
Two Nude Night Owls by Adam Brannigan Its past midnight, and I’m sitting at my fire pit, burning old letters from old girlfriends. Old photos. Old birthday cards. Trinkets and whatever. It’s time t…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Congratulations Adam Brannigan! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/1st-...
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I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚
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Buy tickets – Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom
Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom, Sat 22 Nov 2025 - Curious about how to move from publishing standalone flash to a body of work? This 2-hour workshop breaks down everyth...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚
www.tickettailor.com/events/westw...
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The time of Spook and Ghoul is ever closer - a good time therefore to creep yourself out with a bumper read of short fictions full of darkliness.
Available for less than ten English poundlets, it opens with Wigleaf longlisted piece - A Whisper of Before.
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Available for less than ten English poundlets, it opens with Wigleaf longlisted piece - A Whisper of Before.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The time of Spook and Ghoul is ever closer - a good time therefore to creep yourself out with a bumper read of short fictions full of darkliness.
Available for less than ten English poundlets, it opens with Wigleaf longlisted piece - A Whisper of Before.
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
Available for less than ten English poundlets, it opens with Wigleaf longlisted piece - A Whisper of Before.
mybook.to/SickInkColle...
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"When my wife looks out the window of our house & sobs while the rain beats down, it’s because she says our baby doesn’t recognize her anymore, because she’s an alien now, a glowing oval-headed monstrosity tucked into a maternity dress."
@timfrankquill.bsky.social
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October 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"When my wife looks out the window of our house & sobs while the rain beats down, it’s because she says our baby doesn’t recognize her anymore, because she’s an alien now, a glowing oval-headed monstrosity tucked into a maternity dress."
@timfrankquill.bsky.social
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@timfrankquill.bsky.social
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Chuffty Badge for me! Congratulations to all nominees and thank you so much @trashcatlit.bsky.social xxx
We are thrilled to share our nominations for @pushcartprize.bsky.social
@francesgapper.bsky.social
@adlibby.bsky.social
@quickasaflash.bsky.social
@stephaniecarty.bsky.social
@maireadwrites.bsky.social
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
Good Luck you fabulous Trash Family 💜
@francesgapper.bsky.social
@adlibby.bsky.social
@quickasaflash.bsky.social
@stephaniecarty.bsky.social
@maireadwrites.bsky.social
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
Good Luck you fabulous Trash Family 💜
October 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Chuffty Badge for me! Congratulations to all nominees and thank you so much @trashcatlit.bsky.social xxx
Read this! Read this this this! Superb!
I have a story in the amazing new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social alongside so many of my flash heroes! gooseberry-pie.com/or-was-it-a-...
Or Was It a Baby? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Diane Picchiottino on Unsplash by Emily Rinkema It’s 5:00 a.m. and I ask my husband if he wants to hear my dream, but he pulls the quilt over his shoulders. I ask my other husband, but he jus...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Read this! Read this this this! Superb!
So excited to be part of this stellar collection and WHAT A BARGAIN! Snap it up, dear readers.
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 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
So excited to be part of this stellar collection and WHAT A BARGAIN! Snap it up, dear readers.
@kiklodge.bsky.social Another banger!
"Graham Moiselle waits in line like everybody else. He’s not an eejit. He doesn’t usually ask anything from anyone. He’s not looking for trouble. He just wants to be heard. That’s all he wants." @kiklodge.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
September 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
@kiklodge.bsky.social Another banger!
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“and I don’t tell her I know why all I got for my birthday was pants from the church drive so small they pinched tight around the middle because her bottles and cigarettes cost us her whole paycheck.”
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“and I don’t tell her I know why all I got for my birthday was pants from the church drive so small they pinched tight around the middle because her bottles and cigarettes cost us her whole paycheck.”
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Superpower - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Bradley Allweil on Unsplash by Jenny Stalter Mom says love is the most powerful thing on earth, and that’s how she’ll quit drinking, which is called self-love, and that’s how she found me a n...
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September 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
@jennystalter.bsky.social
“and I don’t tell her I know why all I got for my birthday was pants from the church drive so small they pinched tight around the middle because her bottles and cigarettes cost us her whole paycheck.”
gooseberry-pie.com/superpower/
“and I don’t tell her I know why all I got for my birthday was pants from the church drive so small they pinched tight around the middle because her bottles and cigarettes cost us her whole paycheck.”
gooseberry-pie.com/superpower/
"Act 1. Anton Chekhov beak-raps the glass roof of Dad’s passion project / our house and shits on it. “We should never have adopted that seagull,” says Helena, my stepmother.
Was there ever a more intriguing opening?? Fizzing with wonderful, is this. Congratulations @francesgapper.bsky.social
Was there ever a more intriguing opening?? Fizzing with wonderful, is this. Congratulations @francesgapper.bsky.social
Second hero is from @francesgapper.bsky.social 🦝
We loved the pace of this cleverly structured piece, the superb characterisation and of course, a Trash Eagle - elevated.
Very unexpected use of prompts: Building Remodel, Unlikely Hero, Firearm
Read here: trashcatlit.com/into-stones-...
We loved the pace of this cleverly structured piece, the superb characterisation and of course, a Trash Eagle - elevated.
Very unexpected use of prompts: Building Remodel, Unlikely Hero, Firearm
Read here: trashcatlit.com/into-stones-...
September 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Act 1. Anton Chekhov beak-raps the glass roof of Dad’s passion project / our house and shits on it. “We should never have adopted that seagull,” says Helena, my stepmother.
Was there ever a more intriguing opening?? Fizzing with wonderful, is this. Congratulations @francesgapper.bsky.social
Was there ever a more intriguing opening?? Fizzing with wonderful, is this. Congratulations @francesgapper.bsky.social
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We're opening subs for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize on 15 Sept!
Read what judge Graham Faulkner wants:
"Capturing the decisive moment with arresting detail. Writing to the questions, not the answers. The ability to create a mood, an intimacy, a connection."
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Read what judge Graham Faulkner wants:
"Capturing the decisive moment with arresting detail. Writing to the questions, not the answers. The ability to create a mood, an intimacy, a connection."
newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...
September 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
We're opening subs for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize on 15 Sept!
Read what judge Graham Faulkner wants:
"Capturing the decisive moment with arresting detail. Writing to the questions, not the answers. The ability to create a mood, an intimacy, a connection."
newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...
Read what judge Graham Faulkner wants:
"Capturing the decisive moment with arresting detail. Writing to the questions, not the answers. The ability to create a mood, an intimacy, a connection."
newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...
My first published flash under my new name - thank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social - very proud to be a repeat offender x
Today's spotlight is from repeat bin offender, @maireadwrites.bsky.social . She also did our Q&A🦝
We love the lush lyrical language in this piece, the glorious entomology used to tell of queer love.
Read and listen here: trashcatlit.com/when-i-was-b...
Q&A here: trashcatlit.com/2025/09/14/q...
We love the lush lyrical language in this piece, the glorious entomology used to tell of queer love.
Read and listen here: trashcatlit.com/when-i-was-b...
Q&A here: trashcatlit.com/2025/09/14/q...
September 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
My first published flash under my new name - thank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social - very proud to be a repeat offender x
Loved this inventive, funny flash from @pj-mccarthy.bsky.social
Up next we're spotlighting @pj-mccarthy.bsky.social's prompted flash🦝
We loved the strangeness of this from the outset, the characters' voices, the perfectly pitched humour - and the squirrels: bringing one of our favourite flash moments ever.
Read here: trashcatlit.com/growing-pains/
We loved the strangeness of this from the outset, the characters' voices, the perfectly pitched humour - and the squirrels: bringing one of our favourite flash moments ever.
Read here: trashcatlit.com/growing-pains/
September 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Loved this inventive, funny flash from @pj-mccarthy.bsky.social
"In our Gothic Revival suburban semi, Alice and I read large-print smut to one another over breakfast. After that, as the light dims, it’s cocktail hour." A gleeful and glorious flash - much needed in these dark times; from @jupiterjonz.bsky.social
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Daylight Saving
Jupiter Jones Following the global conflict of the dirty thirties, daylight becomes a scarce commodity. Particles of something (apparently natural) in the atmosphere twilights the whole of the nort…
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September 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"In our Gothic Revival suburban semi, Alice and I read large-print smut to one another over breakfast. After that, as the light dims, it’s cocktail hour." A gleeful and glorious flash - much needed in these dark times; from @jupiterjonz.bsky.social
trashcatlit.com/daylight-sav...
trashcatlit.com/daylight-sav...
Can't wait to sit down with a cup of tea and a biscuit to read these, and look! One of mine's in there amongst such good company; climb in and see what you can find...
We pushed and we pushed and we have delivered a pair of delightful flashy collections 🦝🦝
Thirteen flash from all new Trash Family:
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Twelve flash from repeat bin offenders:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto...
A bumper read of amazing prompted stories - ENJOY!
Thirteen flash from all new Trash Family:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto...
Twelve flash from repeat bin offenders:
trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto...
A bumper read of amazing prompted stories - ENJOY!
September 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Can't wait to sit down with a cup of tea and a biscuit to read these, and look! One of mine's in there amongst such good company; climb in and see what you can find...
Glorious!
Delighted that my story The Tenth Testicle has dropped today in the Tenth Anniversary issue of @nffr.bsky.social… newflashfiction.com/the-tenth-te...
The Tenth Testicle by S.A. Greene | Issue #38
When a third testicle dropped, he asked her to enlarge his trousers so he could house everything more comfortably and she said which century do you think we’re living in?
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September 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Glorious!
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The Writing as Resistance Festival starts today with a FREE creative writing workshop.
Join us for Writing Through The Apocalypse where we're going to explore why stories are important, how can we get deeper into our own writing practice to find deeper...
Join us for Writing Through The Apocalypse where we're going to explore why stories are important, how can we get deeper into our own writing practice to find deeper...
September 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The Writing as Resistance Festival starts today with a FREE creative writing workshop.
Join us for Writing Through The Apocalypse where we're going to explore why stories are important, how can we get deeper into our own writing practice to find deeper...
Join us for Writing Through The Apocalypse where we're going to explore why stories are important, how can we get deeper into our own writing practice to find deeper...