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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you Linda, and you aren't wrong about Anne's artwork. Ah I do love my mutant child.

Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 1d

"But it’s like that game where someone asks you not to think of an elephant, and there it is in your brain—the elephant. There they are—everyone I hate."

I don't hate this story by @jaimegill.bsky.social ... I freaking love it. And @anchalastudio.bsky.social 's art is brilliant as usual!

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"Fake it ‘til you make it, Tony says, though I’m not sure that works when the it is inside you."

Sharp as an incisor, a phenomenal #fiction #mustread from @jamiegill.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you so much Morgan. Who knew a hate baby would inspire love?

Morgan Lockhart @mizdoomcookie.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT a way to start my day. Brava @jaimegill.bsky.social

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"Fake it ‘til you make it, Tony says, though I’m not sure that works when the it is inside you."

Sharp as an incisor, a phenomenal #fiction #mustread from @jamiegill.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 22h

I added a new section, The Palace of Cheering & Celebration, to my newsletter to celebrate good news I've been told about any piece of writing that's come out of one of my workshops or Unbox Your Words monthly prompts! If you've been on one of my workshops, send me your news, let us celebrate you 🥳

Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 3d

In my Newsletter I talk about the FUEL ebook, 2 new Zoom workshops, do more cheering in the Palace of Cheering & Celebration, and muse about the gift economy, The Commons & the “counter-intuitive” mystery of free workshop tickets in Permission Corner! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 14h

This a wonderful, complex, vibrant story - read it right away. And as someone who knows people who grew up behind the iron curtain, I can say the period detail is impeccable. True Blue really was a prized contraband icon. Bravo Cole!

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 16h

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...

Cole Beauchamp — Does It Have Pockets

1989: Every day is the same in East Berlin, until it’s not

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 17h

Yesterday I mis-tagged the incredible @jaimegill.bsky.social whilst promoting his fan-f***ing-tastic new fiction, "The Hate Baby.". (Mea culpa!) Please read & give the real Jaime his much deserved flowers 💐: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 19h

High praise indeed coming from a master. Thank you so much @mmschreier.bsky.social. If I had a womb and this story was real, I'm sure I'd be having triplets. I'd call them DTJ, EM and JDV.

MM Schreier, author @mmschreier.bsky.social · 1d

Go read this epic tale from @jaimegill.bsky.social It's weird & hilarious & creepy AF, & perhaps a little too timely for comfort. (I gotta be careful to avoid the risk of my own TTP! lol*sob)

Well done, Jaime! #shortfiction

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"Fake it ‘til you make it, Tony says, though I’m not sure that works when the it is inside you."

Sharp as an incisor, a phenomenal #fiction #mustread from @jamiegill.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 19h

So bowled over by the response to my Hate Baby. Thank you Sarah.

sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 1d

"I’m so aware of it now, that little ball of poisonous tissue."

I can tell this one is going to stick with me for quite a while. Fantastic, horrifying work @jaimegill.bsky.social!

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"Fake it ‘til you make it, Tony says, though I’m not sure that works when the it is inside you."

Sharp as an incisor, a phenomenal #fiction #mustread from @jamiegill.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much @katherinegarrison.bsky.social. The reaction to The Hate Baby is making the whole hideous gestation worth it!

KGarrison @katherinegarrison.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven’t read this story yet, you absolutely should. What a great and horrifying commentary on the state of things. This one will stick with you.

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"Fake it ‘til you make it, Tony says, though I’m not sure that works when the it is inside you."

Sharp as an incisor, a phenomenal #fiction #mustread from @jamiegill.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much for taking my hideous offspring off my hands!

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"Fake it ‘til you make it, Tony says, though I’m not sure that works when the it is inside you."

Sharp as an incisor, a phenomenal #fiction #mustread from @jamiegill.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 1d

Okay so this reaction is as good as it gets. I’m gonna do a Lauryn Hill now and disappear at the peak of my powers. The next time you hear about me it will be in 15 years about a tax scandal. Toodle pip!

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the best stories I've read this year - and so of our time. So visceral. All the feels - had me laughing and left me haunted.

Kudos to @jaimegill.bsky.social to @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Just. So. Good.

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"Fake it ‘til you make it, Tony says, though I’m not sure that works when the it is inside you."

Sharp as an incisor, a phenomenal #fiction #mustread from @jamiegill.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 1d

Slight state of shock. I was so desperate to get onto the Oxford Flash Fiction longlist that I sent 3 stories hoping one would scrape in - and all made it. I will be forlorn if all die before the next stage, but for now can stay in state of tingly disbelief. THANK YOU @oxfordflashfiction.bsky.social

Oxford Flash Fiction Prize @oxfordflashfiction.bsky.social · 6d

We are thrilled to announce our long-list for the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025!

Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and for all those who entered this round!

oxfordflashfictionprize.com/news/

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 4d

More writing news! So happy my 1950s gay romance - All These Things I’ve Never Done - has won 1st place for short story in the Yeovil Arts contest. Maybe my gentlest story & happiest, & I love the judges comments. I work hard at my understatement!

Read here: www.henshawpress.co.uk/september-20...

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 6d

I’m SUPREMELY proud to be in this anthology of award-winning flash stories - which is also raising money for people facing fuel poverty this winter. The sheer calibre of the writers I’m with is humbling. So if you want to read the best of flash fiction (and me) buy this jam-packed bargain of a book.

Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 7d

It's publication day for FUEL ebook—with 75 prizewinning flash fictions plus TWELVE bonus flash stories not in the print book! It's a great read *and* all profits go to UK fuel poverty charities. The print book raised over £4k; winter is coming, help us raise more: www.fuelflash.net/product/fuel...

The cover of the FUEL ebook, with a large photo of a yellow petrol pump, below which are the words FUEL: An Anthology of prize-winning flash fictions raising funds to fight fuel poverty, edited by Tania Hershman. There is a banner across the top right hand corner which says "Ebook with 12 Bonus Prize-Winning Stories!"

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve got a couple of stories in this round up along with so many great writers and publications. My contributions are a very personal and intimate story, and an anti colonial murder love affair romp set in Myanmar and featuring cake. Hey, I’m versatile!

SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 7d

Our workshop participants slay us! More than 30 publications reported to us in September! We couldn't be prouder. Congratulations, trousers! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...

SmokeLong Workshop Celebration — September 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly

Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11d

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 11d

It’s so weirdly lovely to be on a train & see someone reading a book by an author you like, just such a pleasant feeling of silent fellowship

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 14d

If Trump says this, then hopefully many of the people who listened to him today will understand that this is a racist, cruel, and ultimately self-destructive policy for so many countries that actually benefit from the cultures, values, and labor that immigrants bring.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 12d

I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 12d

Oh I am so up for this one!

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 14d

I really don't think hearing my voice is much of a selling point but thank you so much for reading, appreciating and sharing @tomljanovic.bsky.social - it's a long story, so I particularly appreciate you spending so much time cooped up with William. I'm sure he appreciated the company.

T.L. Tomljanovic @tomljanovic.bsky.social · 14d

Another beautiful and brilliant story from Jaime Gill. And you get to hear his voice reading an excerpt!

Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 29d

This makes me so happy I could cry. Black Sky, Blue Earth - my aching story about climate collapse & personal rebirth - is the lead story in this year’s @oysterriverpages.bsky.social. It has a lot of my soul in it. Please read it & all of Oyster River’s work

www.oysterriverpages.com/black-sky-bl...

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 15d

That’s fantastic! Congratulations! Maybe spread the word among your NFFR colleagues if you haven’t already?

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 15d

More new awards I hope editors consider. The Monarch Queer Literary Awards - with a range of options for editors to nominate writers for, including short fiction, non-fiction, poetry etc. Stories don't have to be directly queer as long as the writers are. Accepting noms until November. monarch.gay

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 16d

On my story The God Of Luck (which was a bit potentially controversial and prickly) I decided at rejection #40 that if it reached 69 (and yes I chose that number for the infantile reason) I’d consider a rewrite even though I thought it was good and finished. Luckily Pangyrus picked it up on #63!

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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 17d

Such a vivid, voicy, vaulting story - and I always love to see collaborative fiction. This should be much more common than it is. Fictive Dream are such a reliable source of beautiful, inventive fiction

Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 23d

ICYMI today story is a jewel: Everyone’s Hangry at the Celestial Hurly Burly by Mikki Aronoff and Kathryn Silver-Hajo @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social #flashfiction. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/14/e...

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