Tom W.
@tom1walsh.bsky.social
Writer/editor. Words in Hobart Pulp, HAD, Dead Mule, Lost Balloons, Litro, Janus Literary, Welkin Prize and elsewhere. Fan of Flash Fiction Online, where I learned how much dedication it takes to produce a quality mag.
Recent move to Cambridge MA
Recent move to Cambridge MA
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Tom W.
@tom1walsh.bsky.social
· Jul 25
Folktale Flash Winners
Read the winning and shortlisted stories
westword.substack.com
Happy to be in the top three for WestWord Folktale Flash competition with these fine flash writers. Thanks Amanda! #flashfiction
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Another wow from Claudia! And she even takes her own pictures!
I'm thrilled my CNF "Potato Boy" is up @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Fun to take the accompanying photo in my granddaughter's doll house. Many thanks to EIC Olga Katsovskiy @theweightofaletter.bsky.social & the lovely @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
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#flashfiction
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#flashfiction
Creative Nonfiction: Potato Boy by Claudia Monpere
My first boyfriend poured huge piles of dirt on his living room floor. The house was a tiny rental— flaked, chipped paint.
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December 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Another wow from Claudia! And she even takes her own pictures!
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@bendinggenres.bsky.social Issue 48 is now live!!! Our Nov/ Dec 2025 issue is filled with hybrid flash, poetry and CNF, an amazing issue! Congratulations to all BG editors and talented writers! Happy Publication Day!!! #Writer #writerslift #writerscommunity bendinggenres.com
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December 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
@bendinggenres.bsky.social Issue 48 is now live!!! Our Nov/ Dec 2025 issue is filled with hybrid flash, poetry and CNF, an amazing issue! Congratulations to all BG editors and talented writers! Happy Publication Day!!! #Writer #writerslift #writerscommunity bendinggenres.com
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social @chiphouser.bsky.social thanks Matt for your great site! And everyone should check out these three writers I became friends with this year.
Who wants something nice for a weary Wednesday? Quote post this post & tag 1, 2 or 3 other writers who inspire you / support you / are amazing human beings. I'll pick a winner at random. Poster + nominees win a free recording of one one of my workshops: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/workshop-rec...
Workshop-recordings (List) | MattKendrick.co.uk
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December 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social @chiphouser.bsky.social thanks Matt for your great site! And everyone should check out these three writers I became friends with this year.
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Who wants something nice for a weary Wednesday? Quote post this post & tag 1, 2 or 3 other writers who inspire you / support you / are amazing human beings. I'll pick a winner at random. Poster + nominees win a free recording of one one of my workshops: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/workshop-rec...
Workshop-recordings (List) | MattKendrick.co.uk
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Who wants something nice for a weary Wednesday? Quote post this post & tag 1, 2 or 3 other writers who inspire you / support you / are amazing human beings. I'll pick a winner at random. Poster + nominees win a free recording of one one of my workshops: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/workshop-rec...
Anyone else find this annoying—you search Submittable for “no fee” submissions and you get to the end and there is required fee? First three mags that showed up today. Understand it’s a tough business, just don’t label it no fee. End of rant.
December 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Anyone else find this annoying—you search Submittable for “no fee” submissions and you get to the end and there is required fee? First three mags that showed up today. Understand it’s a tough business, just don’t label it no fee. End of rant.
A beautiful many layered piece!
Many of my published stories are the result of prompts, which are magic mind-stretchy things. Here's a new one, written about a photo I drew from a pile provided by Nancy Stohlman at the flash fiction retreat she and @kathyfish.bsky.social hosted in Grand Lake, CO this summer.
Richard’s Christening, June 1957, by Chip Houser
Richard’s Christening, June 1957 This time is a beautiful time, when the innocent shine of our babies’ eyes reflects your bright, bright future. This time, when we celebrate new life swaddled in...
www.ekphrastic.net
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A beautiful many layered piece!
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I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
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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:
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
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…
milkcandyreview.home.blog
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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:
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
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The students of Claudia Monpere's flash fiction course are reading and discussing the SmokeLong queue this week! www.smokelong.com/santa-clara-...
Santa Clara University Students Read the Queue! - SmokeLong Quarterly
This week students from Claudia Monpere’s flash fiction course read our submission queue! Here is our interview with the students: Who are you? We’re a mix of creative writing minors and business and...
www.smokelong.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The students of Claudia Monpere's flash fiction course are reading and discussing the SmokeLong queue this week! www.smokelong.com/santa-clara-...
“The last anything doesn’t announce itself.” Love this one Claudia, another stunner.
"Crow's angry with me after my indulgent breakfast.
'I know, I know,' I tell him as the rain picks up and I start moving again." I'm thrilled to have "Yellow Gifts" in @necessaryfiction.com. Huge thanks to @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for all the love he gave it, and to editor Steve Himmer.
'I know, I know,' I tell him as the rain picks up and I start moving again." I'm thrilled to have "Yellow Gifts" in @necessaryfiction.com. Huge thanks to @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for all the love he gave it, and to editor Steve Himmer.
This week's story, chosen by guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social, is "Yellow Gifts" by
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/yell...
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/yell...
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“The last anything doesn’t announce itself.” Love this one Claudia, another stunner.
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
Love this Kathy!
I am beyond thrilled to have a story featured in the NINTH anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute amongst some of the best writers I know. Kudos to all. Hope you enjoy "The Saddest Fuckers of All" and the gorgeous artwork by Kaylan Friedman. ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
The Saddest Fuckers of All — Ghost Parachute
I am needing a prescription for the Pill. I can no longer use Student Health due to living in a new town and not being a student anymore. I am telling this to the kid as he is rolling out pizza dough ...
ghostparachute.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Love this Kathy!
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make a little art today. read a story, enjoy a painting, appreciate and escape into a little art today. look back at something you've made and let yourself feel proud of it today. reach out and tell a few people how much you love something they made today...
Tell three writers how much their work means to you.
In case anyone else feels like they're screaming into a void about their work these days, please remember there are countless readers who aren't on social media who have probably read + loved your work without ever saying a word.
(Another reason why having a website is so important.)
(Another reason why having a website is so important.)
September 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
make a little art today. read a story, enjoy a painting, appreciate and escape into a little art today. look back at something you've made and let yourself feel proud of it today. reach out and tell a few people how much you love something they made today...
Great episode; great podcast!
Always a thrill to be on @michellehooverauth.bsky.social 's 7AM Novelist Podcast! This time I'm with @christinemurphyaut.bsky.social, @nancycrochiere.bsky.social and Janet Rich Edwards talking about what makes us fall hopelessly in love with stories.
#booksky #writingcommunity
#booksky #writingcommunity
Roundtable: Inviting the Reader Into Your Story
Podcast Episode · The 7am Novelist · 09/02/2025 · 50m
podcasts.apple.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Great episode; great podcast!
At the edge of Cambridge Commons, reminders from the resistance
August 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
At the edge of Cambridge Commons, reminders from the resistance
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This is a great reminder to send us your regret story if you didn’t get a chance to last month!
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
@flashfictiononline.bsky.social is open for their “Regret” call ($100/story, 500-1000 words) until 8/7
ffo.submittable.com/submit
ffo.submittable.com/submit
Flash Fiction Online Submission Manager
Update 8/1/2025: We are OPEN again for regret-themed stories. REGRET EXTENSION~ Aug 1-7: OPEN for stories themed REGRET, no sub cap. UPDATE: This is a one-week extension to our July submission period....
ffo.submittable.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is a great reminder to send us your regret story if you didn’t get a chance to last month!
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
Creative signs in Cambridge Common today as folks gather to say Fuck the Regime!
August 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Creative signs in Cambridge Common today as folks gather to say Fuck the Regime!
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
Happy to be in the top three for WestWord Folktale Flash competition with these fine flash writers. Thanks Amanda! #flashfiction
westword.substack.com/p/folktale-f...
westword.substack.com/p/folktale-f...
Folktale Flash Winners
Read the winning and shortlisted stories
westword.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Happy to be in the top three for WestWord Folktale Flash competition with these fine flash writers. Thanks Amanda! #flashfiction
westword.substack.com/p/folktale-f...
westword.substack.com/p/folktale-f...
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I **may** have started a new newsletter 🧐
This is for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date with upcoming flash / short-fiction courses, workshops & events being offered by all your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags & awesome independents.
fromthecoursesmouth.substack.com/p/from-the-c...
This is for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date with upcoming flash / short-fiction courses, workshops & events being offered by all your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags & awesome independents.
fromthecoursesmouth.substack.com/p/from-the-c...
From the Course's Mouth | Matt Kendrick | Substack
A monthly round-up of flash and short fiction writing courses, workshops and events from your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags and awesome independents. Click to read From the Course's Mou...
fromthecoursesmouth.substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I **may** have started a new newsletter 🧐
This is for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date with upcoming flash / short-fiction courses, workshops & events being offered by all your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags & awesome independents.
fromthecoursesmouth.substack.com/p/from-the-c...
This is for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date with upcoming flash / short-fiction courses, workshops & events being offered by all your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags & awesome independents.
fromthecoursesmouth.substack.com/p/from-the-c...
It’s strange times when the headline “Marines will begin withdrawing from Los Angeles” is “below the fold” and sounds normal in the scheme of things.
July 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It’s strange times when the headline “Marines will begin withdrawing from Los Angeles” is “below the fold” and sounds normal in the scheme of things.
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WGBH building in Boston today
July 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
WGBH building in Boston today
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One of my tasks for the day is to create a list of historical and speculative prompts for my upcoming panel discussion with @mynachang.bsky.social and @sharontelfer.bsky.social and now I want to write half of these stories 😁🥸 (but must focus on novel, no short fiction for Matt!!!)
In 4 weeks, I'm hosting a discussion on historical & speculative fiction with @mynachang.bsky.social & @sharontelfer.bsky.social
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Hopefully it might inspire some new pieces. If it does, where are your favourite places to send historical & speculative subs?
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Hopefully it might inspire some new pieces. If it does, where are your favourite places to send historical & speculative subs?
July 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
One of my tasks for the day is to create a list of historical and speculative prompts for my upcoming panel discussion with @mynachang.bsky.social and @sharontelfer.bsky.social and now I want to write half of these stories 😁🥸 (but must focus on novel, no short fiction for Matt!!!)
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Why not treat yourself to a hump-day treat and book onto my Glorious Words course in September? Such a great group already signed up. Should be a lot of fun. Just six places left for anyone who wants to join us 👇
My September #GloriousWords course is now open for bookings.
A chance to play around with language & ponder things like metaphors, adjective-noun pairings, weasel words, tone etc.
8-21 Sept
Online, work-at-own-pace
Pay-what-you-can pricing
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-gloriou...
A chance to play around with language & ponder things like metaphors, adjective-noun pairings, weasel words, tone etc.
8-21 Sept
Online, work-at-own-pace
Pay-what-you-can pricing
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-gloriou...
July 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Why not treat yourself to a hump-day treat and book onto my Glorious Words course in September? Such a great group already signed up. Should be a lot of fun. Just six places left for anyone who wants to join us 👇