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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · 9d

Aww thanks for thinking of me James! 🥰

Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · 9d

Love this! 🥰

'The Secret to Aging Well' from @stillsquirrel.bsky.social in @paragraphplanet.bsky.social

Check it out here ⬇️
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New Flash Fiction Review (subs open) @nffr.bsky.social · 9d

Delighted to announce our nominations for Best of the Net - @jackmmorris.bsky.social for "Ernst is coming home" and @kateaxeford.bsky.social for "The truths behind a pumpkin dare, Northern Alberta, 3rd July, 1991"

Best of the Net 2025 #BOTN #flashfiction
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And the Best of the Net Nominees are... | New Flash Fiction Review

Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees!

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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · 9d

Big congrats Jack & Kate! 🎉🎉

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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 17d

FFF16072021
As Chosen by Judge Abi Hennig

FFF Competition Four Winning Flash Fiction:

Goldilocks and My Imaginary Family
by Rosaleen Lynch

@rosaleenlynch.bsky.social

#flashfiction #writingcompetitions

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Competition Four Winning Story: Goldilocks and My Imaginary Family – Free Flash Fiction

I buried my imaginary family and Goldilocks under the porch, like in the movies, but easier using an imaginary shovel to dig an imaginary hole that their imaginary bodies would fit in. I couldn't brin...

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 9d

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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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · 23d

And in 2018 too...

Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · 23d

Protesting Trump's first state visit to the UK in 2017 and protesting the second one today #stillnotwelcome

Protesting Trump's state visit with placards outside American Embassy

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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · Sep 1

Loved that detail!

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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · Sep 1

Wow! Another stunner from @sagreene1.bsky.social in the 10th Anniversary @nffr.bsky.social 🍇

S A Greene @sagreene1.bsky.social · Sep 1

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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Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social · Aug 30

Another #JaneAusten inspired story is up! @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social's DICTIONARY OF DAYS, read by @margaretashleyvo.bsky.social
www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

ALSO subs for our next theme, #HAUNTEDandHUNTED, close next Sunday 7th September - submit here:
www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congrats to the winners of the @psmokejournal.bsky.social Summer Editor's Prize! 👏 Delighted to be a finalist & be included in the next issue, in such fine company! 🥰

Peatsmoke Journal @psmokejournal.bsky.social · Aug 31

Our 2025 Summer Editor's Prize Contest has come to an end! We'd like to thank everyone for their submissions- it made our job so hard! Without further ado, here are our winners!

2025 Summer Editor's Prize
Poetry Winner: "The Odds" by Emily Portillo. Finalists: Sean Cho A. for "A cube who is growing. and growing unsure of himself. #4" and Sarah Moore for "Vampire Wife"
Flash Winner: "Orange Juice" by David Cohen. Finalists: Rosaleen Lynch for "Bodies of Water", Eileen Frankel Tomarchio for "Sad Library Things", and Kim Magowan for "On Her Way to the Corner Store"
Fiction Winner: "Teeth in All the Wrong Places" by Emely Taveras. Finalists: Emily Drew for "Terminal Break", Erin Striff for "Sustainable Living", and Gretta Trafficante for "Penny's Head"
Congratulations to all the winners, and we thank everyone for their submissions! Sincerely, Peatsmoke Journal

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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · Aug 13

Great @liarsleague.bsky.social performances last night & lovely to enjoy them with @tomwrote.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social
@sagreene1.bsky.social & Bridget, @fionamckay.bsky.social & Co,
@cherylmarkosky.bsky.social &
@fabwrites.bsky.social & Co! 🥰

Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social · Aug 13

📸 Photos from last night’s SOLD OUT #LiarsLeague #WomenAndGirls x #JaneAusten show of readings by our amazing actresses! 📚6 Austen-inspired #shortstories by authors including @hannahahahah.bsky.social @donnatracywriter.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social - check out story videos on YouTube soon!

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Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social · Aug 9

Meet the #WomenAndGirls Talent 9! #LiarsLeague’s #JaneAusten special on Tue 12 Aug at The Phoenix stars Margaret Ashley reading Rosaleen Lynch’s moving #flashfiction DICTIONARY OF DAYS, charting a life (& death) through an #Austen lens
🎟️£5 ticket link, bio below. www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · Aug 9

And all your hard work paid off! 🎉

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Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social · Aug 3

Meet the #WomenAndGirls Talent #4!
#LiarsLeague’s #JaneAusten special on Tue 12 Aug at The Phoenix, W1 premieres @hannahahahah.bsky.social's TO KEEP YOU AS MY OWN, a story of Regency ladies in love – but not with a suitor.

🎟️£5 tickets here, author bio in reply: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

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Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social · Jul 31

Time to meet the talent for #LiarsLeague’s #WomenAndGirls x #JaneAusten show on Tue 12 Aug at @ThePhoenix_W1 - it’s Sarah Courtauld, whose short story WHICH #PRIDEandPREJUDICE CHARACTER ARE YOU? faces the awful possibility that some of us are Mrs Bennet 😱

Tix £5: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · Aug 3

Wow! I just held my breath reading:

'Bullets are not circles but they leave circles behind'

Check out this powerful piece by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · Aug 1

"Jamar splayed on the hood of your car as the cops are grinding grinding his face into the hot metal and you’re in the passenger seat hands high and visible cause you know what to do Mama drilled that in good and proper." - Cole Beauchamp @nomad-sw18.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · Aug 3

Congrats Cole...Great piece ...you had me right there with them feeling that tension...and yes sadly a story that needs to be told!

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Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social · Aug 2

Meet the #WomenAndGirls Talent #3!
#LiarsLeague’s #JaneAusten special on Tue 12 Aug at @ThePhoenix_W1 features @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social's #flashfiction DICTIONARY OF DAYS, viewing a life (& death) through an #Austen lens

🎟️£5 tickets here, author bio in reply: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · Jul 28

“…‘sometimes you’ve just got to take it on the chin.’”

@stillsquirrel.bsky.social & @sarahillswrites.bsky.social & @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social & @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...

The Third Best Dinner Set - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash by Anika Carpenter, Sara Hills, Rosaleen Lynch, and James Montgomery David’s favourite fish is bream, which he will only eat off of our antique dinner set. His old mo...

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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thank so much Pat! 🥰

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Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social · Aug 1

Meet the #WomenAndGirls Talent #2!
#LiarsLeague’s #JaneAusten special on Tue 12 Aug at @ThePhoenix_W1 features @donnatracywriter.bsky.social whose story SHOTS & SHAMELESSNESS reimagines Austen for GenZ, including Mr Bingley's smoothie empire
🎟️£5 TICKET LINK:
www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thanks! 🥰 Hope you have a great trip!

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · Jul 30

Conversations w writers - What are your dreams like? How does your memory work? What happened when you left school? Why is it easier to stand up for other people than yourself?

Other people - um, how are you?

All the good stuff today w @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social August

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