Anika Carpenter

Join me once a month for an hour of art appreciation and writing time, and come away with 3 - 4 new drafts. Sign up here eepurl.com/i1v4GA for reminders, free writing prompts & art-related recommendations. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop #shortstories #flashfiction #poetry

Got a little cash to help a writer out? @taniahershman.bsky.social is raising funds to offer a free place on her upcoming residential Arvon course👇

This month's Art & Flash digestif is here! ☕ Click on the link for writing inspiration, art-related recommendations, wet tights and...blue merkins! 🔗 mailchi.mp/03bb86823249...

This month's Art & Flash digestif is here! ☕ Click on the link for writing inspiration, art-related recommendations, wet tights and...blue merkins! 🔗 mailchi.mp/03bb86823249...

Tonight 8 - 9pm UK BST. An hour of writing and art appreciation. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop #writingprompts

UK friends please sign.

Sassy ekphrastic flash by Mikki Aronoff in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 'Astroturf tickles Claire’s toes as she flings her evening wrap over Roger’s swiveling eyes...' Trappings by by Mikki Aronoff gooseberry-pie.com/trappings/

Join me on tomorrow for something monstrously good. We’ll be looking at artwork ‘imbued with dark humour, grotesque horror & raw psychological honesty’ & writing stories about our wild insides! £15 for one session or £30 for three. #writingworkshop #ekphrastic 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

Where can you see werewolves like you've never seen before? In this month's #ekphrastic #writingworkshop 🐺✍️ Sessions on: Monday October 19th Wednesday October 21st Find out more about Art & Flash here - 🔗 mailchi.mp/6d6d03f4c472...

Where can you see werewolves like you've never seen before? In this month's #ekphrastic #writingworkshop 🐺✍️ Sessions on: Monday October 19th Wednesday October 21st Find out more about Art & Flash here - 🔗 mailchi.mp/6d6d03f4c472...

Electric Literature is seeking readers for our personal narrative essay series. Submit through our Submittable page today! Applications will be accepted through 11:59 PM PT on Sunday, October 25. buff.ly/3B3hcmF

Help stop a local wildlife site in Essex UK from becoming a data centre. Petition closes TODAY action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/200909/...

Exciting news (well we think so)! We are looking for new people to regularly contribute to our archive! We accept applications from anyone based in the UK who has an interest in sending us their thoughts and opinions about life in the UK. #Skystorians massobs.org.uk/write-for-th...

'The man in the moon looks out from the moon, looks out from the moon and says, “Gee, I wish I could try Earth pastelillos.” Lunatic by @sadboyslowjams.bsky.social in beauteous @hexliterary.bsky.social 🌙 hexliterary.com?p=3613

What if it wasn't a glass slipper but a glass book? What if the action took place in a bookshop and not at a grand ball? Just a couple of questions answered in @ivygrimes.bsky.social witty and surreal collection Glass Stories. grimscribepress.com/glass-stories/

Now up to 1,963 signatures (of 2,000). Please sign (if you haven't already) and please re-post (if you haven't already). Pothole Studio is a Small Good Thing in a Big Bad World and under imminent threat of permanent closure. Your support is appreciated: www.change.org/p/save-our-p... Thank you!

@kiklodge.bsky.social your collection is wonderful! Magical, smart and brilliantly weird. I love Karaoke in the Catacombs especially. It echoes like a gently devastating indie film. 💔 🔗 www.hive.co.uk/product/kik-... (UK) @stanchion.bsky.social (US)

Next sessions - Oct 19 & Oct 21 ✍️ Expect werewolves, ex-boyfriends, crazy club nights and a neo-baroque ballroom. #writingprompts #contemporaryart Booking link: www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

Next sessions - Oct 19 & Oct 21 ✍️ Expect werewolves, ex-boyfriends, crazy club nights and a neo-baroque ballroom. #writingprompts #contemporaryart Booking link: www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

High as the sleepwalking girl to have a story in one of my all-time favourite lit mags! Thank you for having me @hexliterary.bsky.social ❤️🍄

High as the sleepwalking girl to have a story in one of my all-time favourite lit mags! Thank you for having me @hexliterary.bsky.social ❤️🍄

'My neighbor, Rooster, is sling-shotting baby doll heads into our backyard the morning my husband says, “we need to talk,” while hunched over the divorce papers scattered across the table.' Something Worth Saving by @avitus27.bsky.social ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

Just booked onto this with @vkootstra.bsky.social & @batconservation.bsky.social Thursday 29 October 8 - 9 pm BST Learn about bats. Write about bats. Bats, bats, bats! 🦇 #writingworkshop #wildlife #prompts writershq.co.uk/whq-event/wr...

'It’s definitely not the first time I’ve witnessed a man sizing up my husband. And, to be fair, Bob’s shorts are on the tight side.' Pent-up desire, a confined marriage and frisky monkeys. Primate Signaling by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

'I’d imagined heaven peaceful: harps and clouds, feathered angel wings. Instead, heaven is a schoolyard, and everyone’s a bully.' Tongue by @djpoissant.bsky.social #flashfiction ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

What to kiss goodbye to and how best to do it? If only there were a guide book. www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/art/Co... #collage

Whimsy October is here, and this month your whim follows you! The theme for our spookier shade of whimsy is… Wholesome Horror. Writers have 7 days to piece together a 300-word tale of whimsy based on one of our five whims and the unique object in their inbox. Now it’s time to run from your whim!

'The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July.' Salma in the Vase by @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social This gorgeous #flashfiction hums with the disorientation, & overwhelming love & fear that comes with being a mother. hexliterary.com?p=3557

#Bristol friends if you get the chance to see this do. It's brilliant AND @tiptreejen.bsky.social Jen Rowe is in it! 30th October Bristol Improv Theatre www.themaydays.co.uk/event/happil...

Fancy listening to a short story featuring a maggot religion, a dodgy pub and an expensive bass guitar? 👇 #shortstory shows.acast.com/blindboy/epi...

More than a sidekick! For queer writers and anyone who wants to write queer character with the complexity and sensitivity they deserve. Four weeks, starting Sunday through Wild Writers Studio. www.wildwritersstudio.com/store/p25/wr...

In this month's Art & Flash Digestif: A brass bad, a rebel comedian, a #writingprompt, a submission opportunity and a promise of something delightfully monstrous to come. 🔗 mailchi.mp/38d67bc79ab3...

In this month's Art & Flash Digestif: A brass bad, a rebel comedian, a #writingprompt, a submission opportunity and a promise of something delightfully monstrous to come. 🔗 mailchi.mp/38d67bc79ab3...

Submission details: www.ellipsis-zine.com/submit

TONIGHT 8 - 9pm UK time ✍️ Come along to tonight's Art & Flash and write in response to artwork that gets people together to celebrate creativity, history and the power of community. #writingworkshop #contemporaryart #fiction #poetry 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

@jackmmorris.bsky.social is looking for 'protagonists with some fire in their bellies & characters who do not go gentle into that good night. Folks who don’t accept their fates' for @neitherfishnorfoul.com 🔥 #flashfiction #subsopen

Joy, Play & Community #writingworkshop Join me on Mon or Wed to explore the work of an artist whose projects get people together to celebrate creativity, history and the power of community. Come away with 3 - 4 drafts and a glow in your heart. 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

'It’s always difficult when you’ve known them personally, although to be fair Miss Kozlowski’s lovely smile had been skillfully preserved...' @sagreene1.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social. There may be blossom and chocolate, but damn Happyland is a dark place. newflashfiction.com/springtime-i...

Very happy to have a story in @nffr.bsky.social. Big thanks to Louella Lester for the brilliant photo prompts. I had a lot of fun looking up Moxley's Rentals and was delighted to find they're still going strong. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

A reminder that we are opening for Halloween-themed submissions for our e-zine Chandelier SEPTEMBER 15! We would very much love to read your previously published spooks and haunts! 🎃

‘To establish that AI did not write your book, we will upload it to an AI detector.’ A Note from Your Editor Regarding the Entirely Routine Authentication of Your Humanity by @doctoryasmin.bsky.social www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-n...