Emma Phillips
@words-outwest.bsky.social
Flash fan, poet, short fiction writer. Likes actual and imaginary travel. Words: 2nd place Bath Flash June 2021, Best Microfiction 2022, Free Flash Fiction Competition Winner.
Check out the latest issue of Paperbound. My poem 'What is a Flag?' inspired by recent UK madness is inside. If you don't fancy reading that, check out the authors instead. Thanks @paperboundmag.bsky.social for publishing this. ❤️
💜🌟The CHANGES issue is officially out now!🌟💜
Look no further for your favourite author interviews, book recommendations, writing and drawing tips, and loads more - we're delighted to share this brand new issue with readers.
Check it out TOTALLY FREE now👇
🌟 paperboundmag.com/issues (Link in bio)
Look no further for your favourite author interviews, book recommendations, writing and drawing tips, and loads more - we're delighted to share this brand new issue with readers.
Check it out TOTALLY FREE now👇
🌟 paperboundmag.com/issues (Link in bio)
December 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Check out the latest issue of Paperbound. My poem 'What is a Flag?' inspired by recent UK madness is inside. If you don't fancy reading that, check out the authors instead. Thanks @paperboundmag.bsky.social for publishing this. ❤️
Thanks @thedirigible.bsky.social for inclusion in the December flurry. Wonderful platform for children's poetry. Tell anyone you know with an interest in children's poetry. dirigibleballoon.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thanks @thedirigible.bsky.social for inclusion in the December flurry. Wonderful platform for children's poetry. Tell anyone you know with an interest in children's poetry. dirigibleballoon.org
Reposted by Emma Phillips
Thank you so much for your patience while we prepare the next issue. It will be worth the wait, we promise!
We are thrilled to be including these brilliant writers and illustrators in the next issue 🤩 More info about the new edition coming very soon 👀📚
We are thrilled to be including these brilliant writers and illustrators in the next issue 🤩 More info about the new edition coming very soon 👀📚
December 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Thank you so much for your patience while we prepare the next issue. It will be worth the wait, we promise!
We are thrilled to be including these brilliant writers and illustrators in the next issue 🤩 More info about the new edition coming very soon 👀📚
We are thrilled to be including these brilliant writers and illustrators in the next issue 🤩 More info about the new edition coming very soon 👀📚
Big thanks to Nish X Hegde for choosing my story for the shortlist and thanks to Ian for publishing it.
As chosen by Judge Nish X. Hegde @nishxhegde.bsky.social
FFF Competition Thirty Shortlisted:
Mama Says
by Emma Phillips
@words-outwest.bsky.social
#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction
#shortfiction #fiction #writing #writers #writingcompetitions
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
FFF Competition Thirty Shortlisted:
Mama Says
by Emma Phillips
@words-outwest.bsky.social
#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction
#shortfiction #fiction #writing #writers #writingcompetitions
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
Competition Thirty Shortlisted: Mama Says – Free Flash Fiction
Mama says hate grows slowly; it festers in corners, plants its seed, gains momentum until its tendrils tighten around the core of you, the kind of weed you need to rip out before it takes hold of ever...
freeflashfiction.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Big thanks to Nish X Hegde for choosing my story for the shortlist and thanks to Ian for publishing it.
Congratulations to all! 🎉👏
A nice fast drum roll, please...
FFF are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty Shortlist...
Thank you to all who entered C30.
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
freeflashfiction.com/competition-...
FFF are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty Shortlist...
Thank you to all who entered C30.
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
freeflashfiction.com/competition-...
Competition Thirty Shortlist | Free Flash Fiction
Competition Thirty Shortlist As Chosen by Judge Nish X. Hegde After Dinner by Caroline McKenzie Aspirations by Joanna Miller Dream Catcher by Karen Arnold Mama Says by Emma Phillips Sap by Stuart Ca...
freeflashfiction.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Congratulations to all! 🎉👏
Good luck all. As always, a stellar list!
A drum roll, please...
FFF are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty Longlist...
Thank you to all who entered C30.
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
freeflashfiction.com/competition-...
FFF are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty Longlist...
Thank you to all who entered C30.
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
freeflashfiction.com/competition-...
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Good luck all. As always, a stellar list!
Reposted by Emma Phillips
Very proud of this beautiful baby! 🦝
If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌
If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌
We're so excited to share our first print anthology, available to purchase for only £9/ $11.50 🦝
Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for
@WildlifeTrusts
and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for
@WildlifeTrusts
and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
September 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Very proud of this beautiful baby! 🦝
If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌
If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌
Trash Cat has a print anthology...take a look below. All for a good cause.
We're so excited to share our first print anthology, available to purchase for only £9/ $11.50 🦝
Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for
@WildlifeTrusts
and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for
@WildlifeTrusts
and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
September 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Trash Cat has a print anthology...take a look below. All for a good cause.
Such a wonderful online resource for children's poetry. Show your teacher friends, your primary aged children and anyone who writes for children.
The Dirigible Balloon is a free-to-use poetry bank for children, families and schools which is safe, devoid of pop-ups and hosts over 2000 excellent poems from 500 poets worldwide. #Education #Teachers #Poetry
Come and see >>> dirigibleballoon.org 🎈
Come and see >>> dirigibleballoon.org 🎈
September 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Such a wonderful online resource for children's poetry. Show your teacher friends, your primary aged children and anyone who writes for children.
Thanks @trashcatlit.bsky.social for selecting my story alongside these fabulous writers.
July 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Thanks @trashcatlit.bsky.social for selecting my story alongside these fabulous writers.
Huge thanks to Ian and team, judge @sagreene1.bsky.social for commending my flash and Tiverton Museum for the eponymous New Perfection Refrigerator, 1930 of the piece.
As chosen by Judge S.A. Greene -
@sagreene1.bsky.social
Competition Twenty-Eight Highly Commended:
The New Perfection Refrigerator, 1930
by Emma Phillips
@words-outwest.bsky.social
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
@sagreene1.bsky.social
Competition Twenty-Eight Highly Commended:
The New Perfection Refrigerator, 1930
by Emma Phillips
@words-outwest.bsky.social
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
Competition Twenty-Eight Highly Commended: The New Perfection Refrigerator, 1930 – Free Flash Fiction
*****Keeping the Chill in Your Icebox for Longer! Damn, we could use more ice, brighter smiles, lipstick on the rim of a glass as we slide the last olive down a cocktail stick towards the summer’s...
freeflashfiction.com
July 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Huge thanks to Ian and team, judge @sagreene1.bsky.social for commending my flash and Tiverton Museum for the eponymous New Perfection Refrigerator, 1930 of the piece.
I spy many a flashy friend on the list so competition will be fierce as usual. Good luck all!
A drum roll please...
FFF and Free Flash Fiction are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Twenty-Eight Long-list.
Congratulations to those who made the Long-list and commiserations to those who did not make it this time.
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
freeflashfiction.com/competition-...
FFF and Free Flash Fiction are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Twenty-Eight Long-list.
Congratulations to those who made the Long-list and commiserations to those who did not make it this time.
#writingcompetitions #flashfiction
freeflashfiction.com/competition-...
Competition Twenty-Eight Long-list | Free Flash Fiction
Competition Twenty-Eight Long-list A New Episode of Dancing On Ice, an Old, Old Longing by Heather D Haigh After Removing My Clown Shoes, I Don't Know What Else To Wear by Jude Potts Between Dust an...
freeflashfiction.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I spy many a flashy friend on the list so competition will be fierce as usual. Good luck all!
Read in one breath. Then read it again. Wow!
Friends, I'm pumped to be in Ghost Parachute today, with banging artwork by Brett Barr. Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social
"And tomorrow is lurking, the shadow that will be cast by the sunrise. You are inside me and I can ignore it."
**CW for self harm.**
ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...
"And tomorrow is lurking, the shadow that will be cast by the sunrise. You are inside me and I can ignore it."
**CW for self harm.**
ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...
I’ll L*ve You — Ghost Parachute
“I’ll leave you,” you say as you head out the door. You say this every morning. It is happening as you say it. You always wait for my reply, so I say, “I love you too,” and the door shuts behind you w...
ghostparachute.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Read in one breath. Then read it again. Wow!
If you only have time to read one thing today, read this.
Zombie Duck is here!! 🙏❤️
Thank you to @smokelong.bsky.social eds for choosing this as a Smokey finalist & creating AMAZING artwork for it, to the wonderful @helenrye.bsky.social for an incredible SmokeLong Fitness prompt, & FIB + Fitness friends for early feedback.
www.smokelong.com/stories/zomb...
Thank you to @smokelong.bsky.social eds for choosing this as a Smokey finalist & creating AMAZING artwork for it, to the wonderful @helenrye.bsky.social for an incredible SmokeLong Fitness prompt, & FIB + Fitness friends for early feedback.
www.smokelong.com/stories/zomb...
Zombie Duck - SmokeLong Quarterly
On the third night of looting after the election, I’m holed up with Grandma Beryl in assisted living because emergency services are at max capacity. I need to make sure she doesn’t take a tumble, chok...
www.smokelong.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
If you only have time to read one thing today, read this.
Congratulations to the three winners, great stories. 🎉👏👏👏
Congratulations to the Winners of our Charity Flash Competition, judged by @judehwriter2.bsky.social. Commiserations to our shortlisters whose stories weren't picked (they were all FAB!) and thanks to all who entered
thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-...
thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-...
Spring 2025 Competition – The Propelling PencilExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandTwitterToggle MenuExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExp...
thepropellingpencil.com
June 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Congratulations to the three winners, great stories. 🎉👏👏👏
Thanks @lunchontuesday.bsky.social for the wonderful flashflood. Will keep me busy over the next week. Loving what I've read so far.
June 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Thanks @lunchontuesday.bsky.social for the wonderful flashflood. Will keep me busy over the next week. Loving what I've read so far.
Such fab workshops with @jupiterjonz.bsky.social and @susmitab.bsky.social, panel discussion with flash giants @judehwriter2.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
and the anthology launch. Massive well done to @scooterwriter.bsky.social for making the day happen.
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
and the anthology launch. Massive well done to @scooterwriter.bsky.social for making the day happen.
June 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Such fab workshops with @jupiterjonz.bsky.social and @susmitab.bsky.social, panel discussion with flash giants @judehwriter2.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
and the anthology launch. Massive well done to @scooterwriter.bsky.social for making the day happen.
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
and the anthology launch. Massive well done to @scooterwriter.bsky.social for making the day happen.
Reposted by Emma Phillips
Miss Piggy always gets down to The Last Minute Club when a party’s on! 6 and a half hours to go till the deadline of our 30th award, 300 words or under
£1460 in prizes Results out fast
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
£1460 in prizes Results out fast
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
a cartoon pig is wearing a purple feathered costume
ALT: a cartoon pig is wearing a purple feathered costume
media.tenor.com
June 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Miss Piggy always gets down to The Last Minute Club when a party’s on! 6 and a half hours to go till the deadline of our 30th award, 300 words or under
£1460 in prizes Results out fast
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
£1460 in prizes Results out fast
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
If historical poetry is in any way your thing, I've got a poem in Sundial Magazine.
"Our labour lines the merchant’s purse,
the finery of France upon his back
our wool sacks are his plunder and his riches."
Read "The Sergemaker's Rebellion, Tiverton", a new #histfic #poem by Emma Phillips
sites.google.com/view/sundial...
the finery of France upon his back
our wool sacks are his plunder and his riches."
Read "The Sergemaker's Rebellion, Tiverton", a new #histfic #poem by Emma Phillips
sites.google.com/view/sundial...
Sundial Magazine - The Sergemaker's Rebellion, Tiverton
It’s not the gold of the sun, the emerald grass,
nor russet hues of Devon earth
you seek, but serge.
Our labour lines the merchant’s purse,
the finery of France upon his back
our wool sacks are his p...
sites.google.com
June 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
If historical poetry is in any way your thing, I've got a poem in Sundial Magazine.
Chuffed my title made it to the shortlist. Good luck all.
Our Spring 25 competition Shortlist is live! Well done to all the stories that are here and good luck to those that were left out this time - we know they'll find great homes soon
Please celebrate anonymously while @judehwriter2.bsky.social does her judging!
thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-...
Please celebrate anonymously while @judehwriter2.bsky.social does her judging!
thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-...
Spring 2025 Competition Shortlist – The Propelling PencilExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandTwitterToggle MenuExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpan...
thepropellingpencil.com
May 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Chuffed my title made it to the shortlist. Good luck all.
Reposted by Emma Phillips
Our Spring 25 competition Shortlist is live! Well done to all the stories that are here and good luck to those that were left out this time - we know they'll find great homes soon
Please celebrate anonymously while @judehwriter2.bsky.social does her judging!
thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-...
Please celebrate anonymously while @judehwriter2.bsky.social does her judging!
thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-...
Spring 2025 Competition Shortlist – The Propelling PencilExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandTwitterToggle MenuExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpandExpan...
thepropellingpencil.com
May 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Our Spring 25 competition Shortlist is live! Well done to all the stories that are here and good luck to those that were left out this time - we know they'll find great homes soon
Please celebrate anonymously while @judehwriter2.bsky.social does her judging!
thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-...
Please celebrate anonymously while @judehwriter2.bsky.social does her judging!
thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-...