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Rebecca Field

@rebeccafwrites.bsky.social

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Flash writer living in Derbyshire U.K. Words in Milk Candy Review, Ghost Parachute, Sunlight Press, Bull Magazine, Phare Magazine, Visual Verse, Gone Lawn and others. Works for NHS

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Apr 20

Amazing to be part of this issue (p171) with a flash piece that I’ve been working on for a while, thrilled it has found such a fantastic home. Check it out here! ⬇️⬇️

The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · Apr 20

Issue 4 is live! 🥁
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/issue-4/

And it's beautiful and free. 💯

Thank you all for being lovely. Please do spread the word. 🙏

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Aug 13

Some fantastic book post today!
@jankaneen1.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social @andrewporter01.bsky.social

Can’t wait to get started on these ❤️

Two books: The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter and Hostile Environments by Jan Kaneen

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · Aug 7

Happy publication day for Hostile Environments by the phenomenal @JanKaneen1 - a gut punch of a short story collection, with character and heart. Pick up your copy today!

www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congratulations Gill! 🙌

Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Jul 28

Love all the wonderful details in this piece Tracie, congrats! 🐌 🐌

Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Jul 28

‘I remember cancer is a constellation, so I squint at the stars some more, but all I see is a mess of white dots, blinking and unblinking…’

I love all the recurring elements and motifs in this story and how they all work together so perfectly. Sara Hills does it again!! 🤩

Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · Jul 28

NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“The Bright Jars of Our Bodies” by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social is now up!

Art by Sherry Shahan

flash-frog.com/2025/07/28/t...

The Bright Jars of Our Bodies by Sara Hills

When we run out of nice things to say to each other, Gil and I watch TV like we’re each just a brain in a jar, sitting side by side. Except instead of brains we’re hearts. And by hearts, I mean sex…

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Jul 11

Wow 😮 love it 🥰

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Jun 28

Thanks, all moved in at last! 🏡

Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Jun 28

Congratulations James! It’s a great little micro, thoroughly well deserved 👏 🥂

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Jun 15

Try anything once I reckon! Hopefully we can meet for a more normal coffee soon ☕️

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Jun 14

This is great Suzanne! 🌊 I didn’t know an iced lavender latte was a thing but now I want one.

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · May 31

‘..tomorrow might bring dolphins playing alongside the ship, beckoning him like messengers from a better place..’

Love this beautifully crafted tale of a boy and a whale by @sagreene1.bsky.social 🐋 🌊 Congratulations Suzanne!

Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · May 20

As chosen by Judge Chris Cottom...
@chriscottom.bsky.social

Competition Twenty-Seven Highly Commended:

The Boy On The Ann Alexander
by
S.A. Greene
@sagreene1.bsky.social

#writingcompetitions #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction

freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...

Competition Twenty-Seven Highly Commended: The Boy On The Ann Alexander – Free Flash Fiction

The boy on the Ann Alexander doesn’t want to die. Not on a velvet night like this under a sky hung with a million laughing stars. Not when tomorrow might bring dolphins playing alongside the ship, bec...

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · May 10

Love this gorgeous cover and the anthology title! 😍
As always, it’s amazing to have a small story inside and I hope to get to Bath next month to read it at the launch event. 👀

National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · May 10

We’re very excited to reveal the cover and title for this year’s anthology. It’s available to pre-order on Kindle & from our bookshop. Many thanks to @jeanettesheppard.bsky.social for the image & @sudhab.bsky.social for the title: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · May 1

Ah thanks Suzanne! Glad you liked it :)

Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Apr 20

Amazing to be part of this issue (p171) with a flash piece that I’ve been working on for a while, thrilled it has found such a fantastic home. Check it out here! ⬇️⬇️

The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · Apr 20

Issue 4 is live! 🥁
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/issue-4/

And it's beautiful and free. 💯

Thank you all for being lovely. Please do spread the word. 🙏

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Apr 17

Thank you Dan! Appreciate you reading 🦗 🦗

Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Apr 17

Thanks so much to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for publishing a micro of mine today. Check out the issue here ⬇️⬇️
gooseberry-pie.com/issue-31/

Issue 31 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Stories Updates The shortlist for Gooseberry’s annual writing contest has been sent to our terrific guest judge, Melissa Llanes Brownlee. She’ll be reading the submi...

gooseberry-pie.com

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Mar 14

Congratulations Suzanne, loved your characters in this piece and the meaty breath of the café, gorgeous writing 👏 👏

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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · Mar 13

As chosen by Judge Joanna Miller...

Competition Twenty-Six Highly Commended...

Lunch Date
by
S.A. Greene
@sagreene1.bsky.social

#writingcompetitions
#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction

freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...

Competition Twenty-Six Highly Commended: Lunch Date – Free Flash Fiction

It’s drizzling outside but I’m wrapped up warm in the café’s meaty breath and Dad’s hey-there! hug and I’m thankful he still looks the same and his stubble still feels like a dry wide tickle against m...

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Mar 10

Congratulations Elena, loved your piece ❤️

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Mar 10

Has anyone else read this amazing novella by @henryhoke.bsky.social? Absolutely loved it 🥰

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · Mar 10

As we continue to share daily highlights from our amazing Spring reprints issue - a reminder that NEW SUBS open on 1st April.
Flash Fictions up to 1000 words. Any genre.
Theme: Collectors and Special Collections.
All details and some prompts here:
trashcatlit.com/flash-pop-up...

#SubmissionCalls

Flash Pop-Up Spring 2025

SUBMISSION CALL OPENS 1st APRIL 2025 For this special issue of Trash Cat Lit, we want stories about characters with special collections.We want weird and creepy, strange and magical, kitsch and ret…

trashcatlit.com

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Mar 8

Great to be part of this lineup, thank you so much for accepting my piece @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
⬇️⬇️ 😊

The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · Mar 8

Issue 4 Flash Fiction line-up reveal!

See ya'll in a flash!⚡️

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Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Mar 7

Thanks Sherry!

Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Mar 4

Thanks, can’t quite believe it!

Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social · Mar 4

Thanks James! Crazy isn’t it?! Such a nice surprise