Gill O'Halloran

Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social

Our very first prose poetry issue is NOW LIVE 🦝 Twenty absolute stunners for you to savour. Huge thanks to Jude Potts @judepickledplum.bsky.social for her reading assistance. We'll start highlighting these beauts soon. For now, grab a brew and lose yourself 💜 trashcatlit.com/prose-poetry... 1/2

trashcatlit.comProse Poetry, September 2026We have twenty beautiful pieces in this, our first issue of prose poetry. Inspired by a very special raccoon, Jimothy, the theme was a celebration of tenacity and difference. Click on the images to…

Neither fish nor foul 📖@neitherfishnorfoul.com

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Full House Literary@fullhouselitmag.bsky.social

Also featured is the wonderful 'The Weight of a Pulse' by @quickasaflash.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...

Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social

For today's Prompted Story spotlight, we have @sflayzell.bsky.social and her eco-fic flash 🦝 We loved how balanced the light, sweeter elements were with the dark undertone of elitism and excess. A poignant exploration of determination and hope. Read and listen trashcatlit.com/codename-cal...

Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social

ICYMI today we're delighted to be featuring The Pool Boy by Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please follow the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/09/04/t...

Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social

Today's contributor spotlight is for @keithwoodruff.bsky.social and his beautiful character, Cow🦝 We loved the emotional heft that came from this two-character piece, how tender and unexpected it was given the prompts, and the note of hope at the end. Read trashcatlit.com/the-light-is... 1/2

Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social

"moon far from our doublewides and fixer-uppers, and we chewed our biscuits and red-eyed gravy over prayer" Stunning as usual from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social. Pay attention to the form in this, how the sentence length unfurls like a spiral: fracturedlit.com/we-didnt-wea...

MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social

"I said my dad’s not a liar, you are, you gobshite, and then I spat at Auntie Fiona, even though she’s a lady." - Gill O'Halloran mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Nora Nadjarian@noranadj.bsky.social

Thanks, @claudineliterary.bsky.social 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

The Village with All of the Flash Writers@heyflashvillage.bsky.social

Matt Kendrick is the winner of The Villager Challenge 2026 for his inspiring commitment to the flash community. The prize ($200) will be passed along to two more people. Matt has already chosen two people to receive a free place in one of his workshops. smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/105247...

Kate Axeford@kateaxeford.bsky.social

Thanks so much to Judge Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social for choosing my story. I am made up ! Thanks too to Ian Rushton for all his hard work making this fabulous competition happen 👏

Alison Wassell@alisonwassell.bsky.social

So happy to have been shortlisted in this lovely competition.

Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social

Just over 10 days until our Prompted Stories challenge commences 🦝 Here's what the phenomenal Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social did with her three prompts in our first prompted issue 💜 Fabulously titled, darkly humorous and unexpected, read here: trashcatlit.com/get-thee-bes...

New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed)@nffr.bsky.social

The weight of memory weaves through this story by @abbywilliams.bsky.social - a tough subject, handled beautifully. "the curled question mark of dark hair, soft as butter, light as a butterfly wing." newflashfiction.com/sometimes-it...

newflashfiction.comSometimes it’s the weight of a watermelon by Abigail Williams | Issue #41Occasionally even the scent of chip shop vinegar is enough to take Jenny back to her old redbrick road, the chafing cold of the privy, the knife-tear sensation so unexpectedly agricultural, anatomical...

bathflashaward.bsky.social@bathflashaward.bsky.social

Congratulations to the 50 longlisted authors from our June round. Now with judge @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social Final results end of June. Best wishes to all.

bathflashfictionaward.comLonglist BFFA June 2026Congratulations to all the authors who have made our Award long list and huge thanks to all who entered.Author names are yet to be announced, so while it is fine to share that you are on the long l…

Jaime Gill@jaimegill.bsky.social

My historical story Obedience is out in Masters Review, my attempt to capture the climate of fear, oppression & brutality in New York’s gay bars before the Stonewall uprising. I love Jack, my MC, I’m proud of the story and very grateful to MR for giving it a home mastersreview.com/new-voices-o...

Rosaleen Lynch@rosaleenlynch.bsky.social

Thanks to the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social team for including 'The Five Stages of Ecological Grief' 🙏 Loving reading all the brilliant flashes from so many writers I admire! 🥰

Jessica Klimesh@jekwriter.bsky.social

Happy National Flash Fiction Day!! Here's my piece in the FlashFlood!! @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/just...

Jude Higgins@judehwriter2.bsky.social

Thanks @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for posting my story yesterday. It’s such an honour to be in the Flood!

Ian Johnson@youcanandyouwill.bsky.social

Really honoured to feature in Moonflake Press' treasured anthology with a wee poem I'm quite chuffed with. Lots of heartfelt, sparkly stuff within. moonflakepress.com/treasured

Shoreline of Infinity@shoreinf.bsky.social

Here are the winning writers and the longlist for the Cymera Festival/ Shoreline of Infinity Scottish SFF&H short story competition. www.shorelineofinfinity.com/cymera-festi...

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

What happens when Pinoccio meets toxic masculinity? New flash out with WestWord - great to be in this issue with Stephanie Percival, Richard Garcka & Bonnie Meekums. Special thanks to Amanda Saint for believing in this story @retreatwest.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/westword...

open.substack.comAfter two years in the slammer, what's a real boy to do?A Micro by Cole Beauchamp

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social

I may have jumped the gun a little bit, but what are guns for if not for jumping... Anyway, entries are now OPEN for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!! Micros up to 100 words Free to enter Send UP TO TWO micros across FIVE categories Deadline 30th June www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

Claudia Monpere@claudiamonpere.bsky.social

"Under stones, sunk in silt, the locket she lost after she lost him." Stunning , heartbreaking haibun by @quickasaflash.bsky.social trashcatlit.com/naming-game/

trashcatlit.comNaming GameGill O’Halloran Listen to Gill read her story After lessons, they play leapfrog on the lawn. On the lawn, at the far end, the river where he paddled, where frogs gaze frozen under stones. Und…

Emma Phillips@words-outwest.bsky.social

Read this if you remember travelling pre internet, when the world was your oyster, there was no social media and your folks had no clue about your antics. Actually, just read it.

Zoe Davis@meanerharker.bsky.social

What an amazing piece today from @quickasaflash.bsky.social up on Bottle Rocket - seriously go check this one out, it's incredible. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/fla...

bottlerocketlitmag.comflamingos in fedoras by gill o’halloran — Bottle RocketStrasbourg 5 am. A heron’s heavy row across a blue July sky, over green gravel lakes beside the motorway. We’re sixteen. Hungover French drizzles from our English tongues as we waste away with the was...

Suzanne (writing as S A Greene)@sagreene1.bsky.social

...'Liv has the dark one; I got the blonde, the one with dead nits’ eggs in his hair. ' Love, love the attitude in this trippy, fabulously-titled story from @quickasaflash.bsky.social 🦩

Ian Johnson@youcanandyouwill.bsky.social

Brilliance and brevity from @quickasaflash.bsky.social - do not regret rien not reading...

Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social

Hey, you, our gorgeous 27-story print anthology is at a bargainous prices for May. Help the wildlife of Britain and get a copy here: mybook.to/WhatComesToL... 🦌🦡🦊🦉🦋 work by @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social @terryholland.bsky.social @clareobrien.bsky.social @quickasaflash.bsky.social and more

Pam Avoledo@pamavoledo.bsky.social

Long drives have inspired me to create over the years. With Silver Canyon Review, my literary journal, I hope to see the stories from the missed turns and the backroads. Submissions are open now. silvercanyonreview.com

Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social

This one from @quickasaflash.bsky.social makes great use of anadiplosis and it's a haibun: trashcatlit.com/naming-game/

trashcatlit.comNaming GameGill O’Halloran Listen to Gill read her story After lessons, they play leapfrog on the lawn. On the lawn, at the far end, the river where he paddled, where frogs gaze frozen under stones. Und…

Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social

This month's #Mondettes picked by @aniking.bsky.social is on the theme of "embracing the animal as a way to bring out the human." ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis 🪴Ten fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/may-2026

mondettes.substack.comMay 2026Ten stories picked by Ani King

Sumitra Singam@pleomorphic2.bsky.social

Lads, I have a piece I love dearly out at Bottle Rocket today. Give it a read if you were ever a horny teenager and you’d like to know how teenagers were horny in a Malaysian girls’ school: www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/seq...

bottlerocketlitmag.comsequeira by Sumitra Singam — Bottle RocketThe new teacher arrived like a prince, his legs scissored in his trousers, and all we could think of, us fifteen-year-olds caged in our pinafores with our chests bursting out of them, was that dangle ...

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social

I'm having a rubbish health afternoon, so to make it better, let's do a little prize draw. Who'd like to come to this workshop for free? To get your name in the hat, simply quote post saying "Welkin Me Up" by 9pm BST THIS EVENING!! (if you're already signed up, you can pass your spot to a friend!)

JMWW Journal@jmwwjournal.bsky.social

Flash Fiction: Full-Spectrum Climate Resilience by Gill O’Halloran Today’s sea-cucumbers fetched little, will barely cover my needs, never mind my family’s needs. The sea’s become a desert, but we cannot sell or eat sand.

jmwwblog.wordpress.comFlash Fiction: Full-Spectrum Climate Resilience by Gill O’HalloranToday’s sea-cucumbers fetched little, will barely cover my needs, never mind my family’s needs. The sea’s become a desert, but we cannot sell or eat sand.

Free Flash Fiction@freeflashfiction.bsky.social

A round of applause, please... It is congratulations and commiserations time, as FFF and Free Flash Fiction are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty-Three Longlist... #writingcompetitions #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/competition-...

Linda M. Bayley@lmbayley.bsky.social

I can't even tell you how much I love that this is being published today, on what would have been my dad's 87th birthday. Thank you to @templeinacity.bsky.social and to @smokelong.bsky.social , where this piece was born. #FlashInTheFeed

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

Queer love, an expanding universe and a collapsing relationship - I've gone all cosmic in my new story, up today with Bottle Rocket 🚀 Thanks @stillsquirrel.bsky.social for the great Art & Flash session on Bhupen Khakhar that sparked this story. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/thi...

bottlerocketlitmag.comThis is how a star explodes by cole beauchamp — Bottle RocketYou bring me plastic flowers, say "They'll never die" with a wry smile that suggests the joke is on everyone else. But it’s a fitting statement on this dying planet. We think we’re standing but we’re ...