June Gemmell

I’m in it! I’m in it! I’m in it! 😊

I’m so happy to be in this, but so sad it’s the last one. 😢

If you haven’t heard, Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine is closing down. This whole week (from Monday, Oct 26th to Friday, Oct 30th) is the last week we are taking orders for the magazine. Here is a link to all of our issues: www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues

A peek behind the curtain: @scoops.bsky.social takes point on designing/formatting our issues of Chandelier, and GLOWERING is simply *stunning.* I can't wait until we can share it, and I can't wait for everyone to read these 12 incredible (and spooky) pieces of writing! 🎃 October 30! 🎃

Bluesky not letting me upload photos, so you’ll just have to imagine my windy walk by the river today, through overhanging branches full of the colours of autumn. 🧡

Can you spot White Door in this wonderful @litbox.bsky.social vending machine for books of authors in the DMV? It's run by @ladiwoods.bsky.social & this is her second LitBox location, just opened at The Roost in DC. Thank you, Lauren Woods!! 🙏💙💙💙

If you love the short form, these anthologies offer the best of two worlds. You get to read some of the best work around AND support those who do the work to lift short fiction from pen to page. What a bargain 💜

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

National Flash Fiction Day is run entirely by volunteers. We hove lots of exciting things planned. Please consider buying one of our fabulous anthologies to support us! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...

IMPORTANT INFO RE. SUB CALL Our post-apocalypse call will now be January 2027. We are adding a day to the window, so 1st to 15th January for your post-apocs up to 2000 words 🦝 Our Winter call remains 1st - 14th November ❄️ trashcatlit.com/call-for-pos... trashcatlit.com/winter-mood/ #submissions

Our Galawe’en free events start tomorrow with FOUR of Scotland’s acclaimed horror and fantasy writers. Join Amy jane Stewart, @mkhardywrites.com and @lyndseycroal.bsky.social for a celebration of contemporary dark fiction. 7pm Stow Station House. Book through our Eventbrite page. #halloween

Three authors. Three nightmares. One very unsettling October #literarysalon with @ediliterarysalon.bsky.social - join us in Tuesday 27th October at the Outhouse!

SUBMISSIONS WILL OPEN SOON! Recommended Reading, Electric Literature's home for short fiction, and The Commuter, our home for flash, poetry, and graphic narratives, will both be open for submissions from Monday, November 2 to 11:59 PM Pacific Time on Sunday, November 8, or when we reach our cap.

Everything is alone. Stars. Stones. Strangers. Even you. And yet, here we are, alone together.

Just finished this! Gosh @barbarabyar.bsky.social your imagination knows no bounds! Surreal, totally engaging and highly original. A wide sweep of a novel. Loved it! 🥰 Published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social

Looks like a great @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social lineup for next year, I'll definitely be getting the new books from Sean O'Brien and Penelope Shuttle. You can support Broken Sleep by the Crowdfunder in the thread, or by ordering some books.

Sunday morning reading @saltpublishing.com

Big thanks to @jmcm.bsky.social at the mighty @frazzledlit.bsky.social for catching up about Bunch of Psychos, which comes out next Friday from @urbanpigspress.bsky.social Link here www.frazzledlit.com/p/bunch-of-p...

This press is far from perfect but one thing we have in our favor is we aren’t owned by a billionaire. Our funding comes from sales and when we’re short the money comes out of pocket. Book club subscribers help keep this press alive.

'Tiree Wave' by Beth Robertson Fiddes, contemporary painter of Western Scottish sea and landscapes #womensart

Between tick & tock lies a dislocated hour. Home to things with names too terrible to say. In the lost hours, in the gained hours, temporal spirits come through. Between tick and tock, some swear they can hear a soul trapped in time, scratching at glass. #ClocksGoBack

New nails:

This is why it's dangerous to give rich people so much power over our lives. Sometimes, they are appallingly ignorant. The Nazis added the word "socialist" to their name purely as propaganda to appeal more to workers. But the party--and Hitler--hated real socialists and communists.

Sarah Morgan, contemporary UK printmaker #WomensArt

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Hey, you. 👋🏼 Yeah you. Have you heard about the Lightbulb Collective? Or the FREE LUNCH chats? No? Well stop reading my post and read @mattkendrick.bsky.social ’s newsletter 👇🏼 because you don’t want to miss this. Ok seriously. Stop reading this. Read that👇🏼

ICYMI ☄️🌀

🛋️ Submissions are Open for our Winter Issue🛋️ . We want your poetry, fiction, and art! No theme. Just the goods! Full guidelines at LampLit.net. We’re on ChillSubs! 😎 We can't wait to see you! 🛋️ . #poetry #prose #fiction #art #essay #nonfiction #inktober #illustration #submissionsopen #lamplitmag

ICYMI we're open for #submissions of contemporary #shortstories and #flashfiction #callforsubmissions #submissionsopen. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We're looking forward to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

Who'd like to be part of the Lightbulb Collective or have a virtual lunch, tea or breakfast with me? Find out about a couple of free and hopefully wonderful things from me in my latest newsletter: prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/free-thing...

If you did something amazing today, I'm proud of you. If you went to work today, I'm proud of you. If you took a shower, I'm proud of you. If you did some laundry, I'm proud of you. If you got out of bed, I'm proud of you. And if all you did was make it through another day, I'm still proud of you.

Saw them and loved them! 💕📸 @hollypelesky.bsky.social

How to submit to the Black Herald Magazine / proposer des textes à la revue Poetry: from 20th Sept to 31st Oct 2026 / Poésie : du 20 sept au 31 oct 2026 In English, French or in translation Literary essays & reviews, ongoing / Essais littéraires et critiques www.blackheraldpress.com/magazine

British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer & short story writer Doris Lessing was born #OTD in 1919. Awarded the #Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, she was the 11th woman and oldest person to win the award, at age 88. #Poetry #LitSky #BookSky

WRITERS! New Writing Scotland seeks a new co-editor for English- & Scots-language work. Applicants should be currently based in Scotland & have a strong publishing record, with a focus on poetry. Post is up to 3 years: stipend £1500 per issue. #writers #writing Pls RT 👇 asls.org.uk/new-writing-...

This is your roughly 24-day notice to get your micros under 250 words in. Grand prize $1000. The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished work considered. Deadline Nov 15th! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Around 1.7m pieces of plastic are binned in the UK every week. There are lots of eco-friendly soap bars that contain only natural ingredients, and many are plastic-free - so choosing bars instead of liquid handwash is one way to reduce plastic pollution. More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/reviews/Natu...

If you’ve been waiting for the right place to send your work, Fahmidan Journal submissions are now open. Submit now: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit%E2%81...

Ooh look what’s just dropped through the letter box! Delighted to receive my copy of the Federation of Writers (Scotland) anthology. I‘m in there 😁with my Highly Commended story ‘For Auld Lang Syne’. And I see some other names I know! 🎉🎉 @writersscotland.bsky.social

Tonight! There’s still lots of room to come and write with us! Start and finish a flash draft in one sitting! Register here: loungewriters.com/2026/09/16/f...

Went to my writers’ group yesterday morning. Wrote a thing in the workshop. Came home. Wrote another thing in the afternoon. Had to have a lie down. 😴💤

maybe if i scream loud enough a poem will come out

Ohmigod Tracie!!! What a piece of writing! The voice. The tension. The perfect ending. Stunning.

Heartbreakingly beautiful! 💔 @anniejowrites.bsky.social

Barra https://www.wikiart.org/en/samuel-peploe/barra-1902

In case you've been out of the loop, Cowboy Jamboree put out 2 stellar flash collections this month: SPINNING by @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social & THE PERIODIC FAMILY by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social Get yours 🔥: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/books.html

I got in! Thank you @bulbculture.bsky.social I’m absolutely delighted!🎉 You’ll all see my little creepy story soon. 👻