ClodaghO
@iamagnat.bsky.social
Writer, engineer, mother, dabbler in crafts. Words in Trash Cat Lit, The Storms, The Hooghly Review, Silly Goose Press and others.
Join us, have a laugh.
Still places in this workshop next week for anyone who fancies it. Going to be a lot of fun(ny) and should get you writing from new angles.
My last workshop of the year is a silly safari through humorous techniques. Feels like we all need a bit of levity after the year we've had. We'll look at daffynitions, spoonerisms, comic triples and much more.
Tues 2nd Dec 7pm GMT
OR Sat 6th Dec 9am GMT
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Tues 2nd Dec 7pm GMT
OR Sat 6th Dec 9am GMT
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Join us, have a laugh.
Join us...*not a cult*. Lovely to meet other writers.
We are writing with abandon. Promptember. Sign up and start writing with us next week. It's free. This one's on us. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...
Ready for Promptember 2025? - SmokeLong Quarterly
Join the SmokeLong community for Promptember, a mysterious intermonth happening between November and December of live write-in events designed to light a fire under your writing life. Participate in o...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Join us...*not a cult*. Lovely to meet other writers.
A story within a story told by a brilliant storyteller. Magical work.
Super chuffed to have my flash up at @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social featuring an enigmatic storyteller and his doubting ex-wife. This story was much rejected, so thank you @davidestringel.bsky.social for believing in it 🙏🏾
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-...
the fable of the storyteller and his witch — Blood+Honey
by Sumitra Singam “It was never clear who hurled the first stone. The flinty piece of rock hit her on the head, leaving a dark bloom of blood.”
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November 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A story within a story told by a brilliant storyteller. Magical work.
These will definitely be fun. Also useful in a writer-ly way. Join us....
Two weeks on Tuesday or three weeks tomorrow - come be funny with me in December 😀😆🤣😜☺️ and learn about the universe of tone and the lyrical / humour overlap among other exciting and edible-sounding things. Also, I've written a story about the loch ness monster going to the pub...
My last workshop of the year is a silly safari through humorous techniques. Feels like we all need a bit of levity after the year we've had. We'll look at daffynitions, spoonerisms, comic triples and much more.
Tues 2nd Dec 7pm GMT
OR Sat 6th Dec 9am GMT
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Tues 2nd Dec 7pm GMT
OR Sat 6th Dec 9am GMT
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
These will definitely be fun. Also useful in a writer-ly way. Join us....
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It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
Interesting and accessible piece in @therumpus.net by Sean Cho about what AI will never be able to do.
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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus
My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Interesting and accessible piece in @therumpus.net by Sean Cho about what AI will never be able to do.
therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
@matgost.bsky.social This press takes reprints and is looking for cat themed horror. Time again for ghost kittens?
www.apeppress.com
www.apeppress.com
Apep
Apep Press is an independent queer-owned horror publisher specializing in boundary-pushing horror fiction that challenges traditional narratives. We publish novels, novellas, anthologies, and graphic ...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
@matgost.bsky.social This press takes reprints and is looking for cat themed horror. Time again for ghost kittens?
www.apeppress.com
www.apeppress.com
@mattkendrick.bsky.social Maybe more of a poem than a flash, but wins it for long-title award.
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
@mattkendrick.bsky.social Maybe more of a poem than a flash, but wins it for long-title award.
Delighted to see my Halloween haiku included in this issue of The Solitary Daisy.
Thanks for all the spookiness! Today's issue of the Solitary Daisy is now available. Please share widely! #haiku #haikusubmissions
Issue 62 – Spooky Haiku - The Solitary Daisy
Wow, your spooky haiku were so awesome!! Such a great variety of eerie ideas. Had our spines tingling!
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November 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Delighted to see my Halloween haiku included in this issue of The Solitary Daisy.
Now you can listen to my actor son Conall read my story on Trash Cat Lit.
trashcatlit.com/awakening/
trashcatlit.com/awakening/
Awakening
Clodagh O’Connor Listen to Clodagh read her story The three moons float in the night sky – they look down on us like the mothers we barely remember. My brother shoves one of his carved wooden…
trashcatlit.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Now you can listen to my actor son Conall read my story on Trash Cat Lit.
trashcatlit.com/awakening/
trashcatlit.com/awakening/
So pleased to have this piece up at Thin Skin Magazine. Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for detailed editing notes! thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...
Harbour - Thin Skin
Alice is by the pier again, looking. Her eyes are blurred by drink or tears; she is no longer sure which. Finding a tussle of bushes she squats down to piss.
thin-skin.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
So pleased to have this piece up at Thin Skin Magazine. Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for detailed editing notes! thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...
Interesting.
This has been my earworm for nearly 10 days now, so I'm so so sorry, but now I have to inflict it on you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHsp...
Running up that hill Cover in Early Middle English BARDCORE/MEDIEVAL version. Original by Kate Bush.
YouTube video by the_miracle_aligner
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October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Interesting.
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Wishing for more Short Fiction before we close on Friday!
Don't be late, submit by end of day GMT 31st October for your chance to make our wishes come true!
www.frazzledlit.com
Don't be late, submit by end of day GMT 31st October for your chance to make our wishes come true!
www.frazzledlit.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Wishing for more Short Fiction before we close on Friday!
Don't be late, submit by end of day GMT 31st October for your chance to make our wishes come true!
www.frazzledlit.com
Don't be late, submit by end of day GMT 31st October for your chance to make our wishes come true!
www.frazzledlit.com
One for you @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social A popup Christmas card that has a Kraken inside (well it looks more like an octopus). Strap line on the card reads Have a Kraken Christmas.
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Have a Kracken Christmas
Delivery: Posted same business day if ordered by 4pm. Looking for something a little bit different this Christmas? Our Christmas Kracken is ready to help you celebrate the holiday season. Stock: 200...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
One for you @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social A popup Christmas card that has a Kraken inside (well it looks more like an octopus). Strap line on the card reads Have a Kraken Christmas.
paperbear.ie/products/hav...
paperbear.ie/products/hav...
A delightful entanglement of Cinderella with Snow White by @jcpillard.bsky.social in Corvid Queen corvidqueen.com/stories/glas...
Glass Slippers, Iron Shoes / J.C. Pillard — Corvid Queen
Sitting by the side of the road, the stem of the pumpkin digging into her backside, Ella briefly allowed herself to criticize the fairy’s choice of conveyance.
corvidqueen.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A delightful entanglement of Cinderella with Snow White by @jcpillard.bsky.social in Corvid Queen corvidqueen.com/stories/glas...
Some excellent little stories here.
Our skeletal micro series is LIVE!! Go rifle through these (phenomenal) skeletons with us and celebrate these (amazing) writers~
@bobbycrace.bsky.social
@jbstone.bsky.social
@emilygoldsmith.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social
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October 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Some excellent little stories here.
The wonder of bookshops. Thinking of you, @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
It’s Bookshop Day so here’s a poem in celebration of all those amazing bookshops out there.
October 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The wonder of bookshops. Thinking of you, @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
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In the mood for nostalgia? Thrilled to have my East Berlin story published by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
"Jan has no time for their cotton-candy happiness. His father disappeared 5 years ago. No Stasi shadows, no neighbours with a grudge. Just gone.
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
"Jan has no time for their cotton-candy happiness. His father disappeared 5 years ago. No Stasi shadows, no neighbours with a grudge. Just gone.
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
Cole Beauchamp — Does It Have Pockets
1989: Every day is the same in East Berlin, until it’s not
www.doesithavepockets.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
In the mood for nostalgia? Thrilled to have my East Berlin story published by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
"Jan has no time for their cotton-candy happiness. His father disappeared 5 years ago. No Stasi shadows, no neighbours with a grudge. Just gone.
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
"Jan has no time for their cotton-candy happiness. His father disappeared 5 years ago. No Stasi shadows, no neighbours with a grudge. Just gone.
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
I'm delighted to have a haiku of mine included in this podcast. Lots of tiny lovelies within, take a listen.
if you go down to the woods today
you’re in for a big surprise
no teddy bear’s picnic, I’m afraid
but creepy crawlies and flies
Be brave… have a listen poetrypea.com/s8e39-creepy...
you’re in for a big surprise
no teddy bear’s picnic, I’m afraid
but creepy crawlies and flies
Be brave… have a listen poetrypea.com/s8e39-creepy...
S8E39 Creepy Crawlies in haiku & senryu – Poetry Pea
poetrypea.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I'm delighted to have a haiku of mine included in this podcast. Lots of tiny lovelies within, take a listen.
#30Words30Days Day 30 Connect
What a month it has been! Each daily challenge firing new connections; inspiring all the writers in this wonderful group. The essence of a story captured in just 30 words.
What a month it has been! Each daily challenge firing new connections; inspiring all the writers in this wonderful group. The essence of a story captured in just 30 words.
September 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
#30Words30Days Day 30 Connect
What a month it has been! Each daily challenge firing new connections; inspiring all the writers in this wonderful group. The essence of a story captured in just 30 words.
What a month it has been! Each daily challenge firing new connections; inspiring all the writers in this wonderful group. The essence of a story captured in just 30 words.
#30Words30Days Day 29 Pickle
Gran’s pickle jars line her kitchen shelves. I open one to top up my cheese sandwich. She was right when she said they’d make my eyes water. Love you, Gran.
Gran’s pickle jars line her kitchen shelves. I open one to top up my cheese sandwich. She was right when she said they’d make my eyes water. Love you, Gran.
September 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
#30Words30Days Day 29 Pickle
Gran’s pickle jars line her kitchen shelves. I open one to top up my cheese sandwich. She was right when she said they’d make my eyes water. Love you, Gran.
Gran’s pickle jars line her kitchen shelves. I open one to top up my cheese sandwich. She was right when she said they’d make my eyes water. Love you, Gran.
#30Words30Days Day 28 Check
He used that ‘don’t-be-such-a-little-girl-about-it’ voice, the one that made her do things that she hadn’t wanted to. On route they checked each other’s parachutes. She made sure hers were final.
He used that ‘don’t-be-such-a-little-girl-about-it’ voice, the one that made her do things that she hadn’t wanted to. On route they checked each other’s parachutes. She made sure hers were final.
September 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#30Words30Days Day 28 Check
He used that ‘don’t-be-such-a-little-girl-about-it’ voice, the one that made her do things that she hadn’t wanted to. On route they checked each other’s parachutes. She made sure hers were final.
He used that ‘don’t-be-such-a-little-girl-about-it’ voice, the one that made her do things that she hadn’t wanted to. On route they checked each other’s parachutes. She made sure hers were final.
#30Words30Days Day 27 Organ
The gothic arches soar, igniting sparks of faith. One catches, smoke billows through the stone ribs. Crashing timbers and fiery air - the cathedral organ bursts out its last song.
The gothic arches soar, igniting sparks of faith. One catches, smoke billows through the stone ribs. Crashing timbers and fiery air - the cathedral organ bursts out its last song.
September 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#30Words30Days Day 27 Organ
The gothic arches soar, igniting sparks of faith. One catches, smoke billows through the stone ribs. Crashing timbers and fiery air - the cathedral organ bursts out its last song.
The gothic arches soar, igniting sparks of faith. One catches, smoke billows through the stone ribs. Crashing timbers and fiery air - the cathedral organ bursts out its last song.
Food based Issue of Reverb magazine open for submissions until Sept 30th ( @pleomorphic2.bsky.social , I'm thinking of you...). Instagram link only, hope this works www.instagram.com/p/DNSyl9VNok...
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September 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Food based Issue of Reverb magazine open for submissions until Sept 30th ( @pleomorphic2.bsky.social , I'm thinking of you...). Instagram link only, hope this works www.instagram.com/p/DNSyl9VNok...