Peter Burns
https://peterburns69.wordpress.com/
Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2023, Best Small Fictions nominated 2023, Bath Flash Fiction Anthology 2023, National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2022, Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2021, 1st Prize Flash 500 competition 2020
@medhawrites.bsky.social
Poet, editor and translator between Edinburgh, London and Delhi. SciencesPo/ UoE. TEDx speaker, New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). Ed-at-large at Pen and Anvil Press, MA. My book ‘Afterbody’ is out soon through Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh.
@smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social
"A Small, Good Thing" is a podcast about short fiction, in which I get to discuss the short story form with academics, writers, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories. Instagram: @smallgoodpodcast smallgoodpodcast@gmail.com
@ensfr.bsky.social
We aim to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers into the practice, criticism and transmission of short fiction in its diversity of forms and to facilitate collaboration in both critical and practice-led research.
@ailsacox.bsky.social
Writer and critic, Emerita Professor of Short Fiction at Edge Hill University UK. Short stories, Precipitation, https://www.confingopublishing.uk/ https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Short-Stories-A-Routledge-Writers-Guide/Cox/p/book/9781032582481.
@emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social
Writes fiction & non-fiction, teaches, blogs @ This Itch of Writing https://linktr.ee/emmadarwinwriter
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster. 🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
@francesgapper.bsky.social
Queer, shy and anxious. Old, pigeon-chested, takes frequent naps and rarely goes far. Writes tiny things. 2024: Atlas and Alice, Splonk, Gooseberry Pie, Switch, SoFloPoJo, Best Microfiction, Southword, Literary Namjooning, Neither Fish Nor Foul, Trash Cat
@cbigs.bsky.social
pushcart and best microfiction nominated writer | recent stories: ghost parachute| cleaver| BULL | your impossible voice | new chapbook: http://InRareCases.com
@eleanor-luke.bsky.social
Writer of flash fiction, short stories and maybe a novel. Words in NFFD, FreeFlashFiction, Retreat West. LL Reflex Flash contest. Top 10 Oxford flash award 2022.
@deniseb.bsky.social
Flash fiction and short story writer. Free Flash. Ellipsis zine. 100 Word Story. Firewords. Centrifictionist. Roi Faient.Wells SL. Southport SL. Flash Amiga.
@salenacasha.bsky.social
writer. runner. product manager. recent words in HAD, Ghost Parachute, and The Forge. 1×WigleafTop50 selection, 2xPushcart nom, 1×BOTN nom, 2xBSF nom. salenacasha.substack.com & https://linktr.ee/salenacasha
@variantlit.bsky.social
Variant Literature is a small press and magazine. http://variantlit.com/ Next issue coming Summer 2025 ✨️
@sagreene1.bsky.social
Writer. trampset*Janus*MythicPicnic*NewFlashFictionReview*Fictive Dream*ThePhare*MaudlinHouse*FlashFlood*Mslexia*BathAwardAnthologies*Sledgehammer*Ellipsis*Reflex* FreeFlashFiction* Bridport '22SL BathFlashSLx2 Pushcart noms x 2
@quickasaflash.bsky.social
Lido-lover, inhales music,exhales poems + tiny stories, pub. @BathFlashAward and @OxfordFlash anthologies, winner @Prop_Pencil comp 24, NFFD 25 Editors Choice award winner, shortlisted for Fish Publishing Flash comp 25.
@anneh23.bsky.social
Charity worker, writer, dancer, tuneless singer, rambler. Discovering the joys of grand-parenthood.
@catherineogston.bsky.social
Flash fiction, short stories and longer fiction. YA ms going out on submission. Rep: Al Guthrie, The North Literary
@taylor-strickland.bsky.social
Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
@erinbondo.com
Canadian in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Current hyperfixation: #FlashFiction | #AmWriting | She/Her
@nick-martin.bsky.social
I run The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in the US. Returning soon. Living with Long Covid. Profile photo by Victor G Jeffreys II. The Informant: https://www.informant.news Other places to find me: https://linktr.ee/nick_martin
@toddclaystuart.bsky.social
Poet • Writer • Excitable Boy • Words in well-lighted places • Noms Pushcart BOTN Best Small Fictions Best Microfiction Wigleaf 50 More words @ toddclaystuart.com
@prison-stories.bsky.social
My award-winning Prison Short Stories, all written at San Quentin, support my work in picking up prisoners who are paroling. 🖋️ Joyce Carol Oates published one. I served 39 years, 23 of them at San Quentin. There, I discovered that words can heal.
@deborahzafer.bsky.social
Reading, writing, poems, rabbits 🐇 ✡️ Mostly writing short fiction. Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social www.deborahzafer.com
@jmwwjournal.bsky.social
jmww (https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/), a weekly journal of writing publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews. Our stories have appeared in Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, BIFFY, and Best of Net.
@elizabethbaines.bsky.social
Writer of short stories, novels, plays. http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk Astral Travel, a novel, published by Salt Books https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/astral-travel-9781784632199
@czapsticks.bsky.social
writing improvising dancing - London, UK Writer @ the List, Springback Collaborator @ Chisenhale Dance Space Regular performer @ Hoopla & FA improv https://linktr.ee/domczapski
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
Writer, Designer • Words: Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Masters Review, Fractured, Los Angeles Review, HAD, Hobart, X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House • Rep'd by Mina Hamedi / Janklow & Nesbit sarpsozdinler.com
@lakotaman.bsky.social
Oglala Lakota — Enrolled at Pine Ridge, S.D. — “The earth sings her revolution, she calls brave men and women to her defense.” — The only easy day was yesterday.
@librarylaura93.bsky.social
School librarian, teacher, language learner, reader and writer.
@asls.org.uk
Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present. https://asls.org.uk
@theprideroars.bsky.social
A collective of women's voices -2025 social media posts by @delgeo14.bsky.social and @mlmcguinness.bsky.social https://theprideroars.blogspot.com
@jamestopham.bsky.social
Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner. https://james-topham.com
@lmariharris.bsky.social
Reader, Writer, Ozarks dweller. Wigleaf Top 50. Best Microfiction. Editor at trampset.
@philippaeast.bsky.social
Novelist. #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 pubbed by HQ/HarperCollins. Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
@lindzmcleod.bsky.social
Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic. PhD student in Creative Writing. President of the Edinburgh Writers' Club. Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV) Bae: @pegasusunder.bsky.social www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
@barlowadams.bsky.social
Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention.
@shipraagarwal.bsky.social
(she/her) 🌈 Doctor-turned-Writer from India | MFA Fiction ASU '27 | Tin House Summer Scholar '24 | Kenyon Review WW '23 | Stories in: Witness Magazine, The Rumpus | Nominated for: PEN/Dau, Pushcart | Working on a novel-in-stories www.shipraagarwal.com
@bdiggswrites.bsky.social
Writer, fiction and non. Highly Commended, Bridport Prize and Bath Flash Fiction. Nom for Pushcart & Small Fictions. Finalist BOTN. Work in SmokeLong, Fictive Dream, FlashBack Fic, and many other lovely journals. Ex-attorney. Mother of Boys.
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
Writer Debut Collection COLD TOAST available now for preorder from Dahlia Publishing Wigleaf Top 50 & Winner of Bath Flash Fiction Award, The Forge Flash Nonfiction prize, Manchester Writing School's QuietManDave prize kamwords.com
@judehiggins.bsky.social
Flash Fiction writer — runs Bath Flash Fiction Award, directs short fiction press, Ad Hoc Fiction, & Flash Fiction Festivals U.K.
@jeanettesheppard.bsky.social
Artist. Flash Fiction writer. Learning to make pots. Artist-in-Residence @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Insta sketchbook @sheppardjeanette Seventy Percent Water - winner Ellipsis Flash Fiction Collection; s/list Saboteur Awards jeanettesheppard.com
@zenabarrie.bsky.social
Co-Director of Camden Fringe Works at Cōnfingō Publishing Writes things, reads things, goes to watch things
@theguardian.com
The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com 🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com 🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
@davidclensy.bsky.social
Writer. Working on a five-book WW2 naval thriller series for Sapere Books. Standalone debut novel, Prayer in Time of War, came out in 2024. Non-fiction books include Walking the White Horses and Island Life: A History of Looe Island. www.davidclensy.com
@safiemf.bsky.social
Author of The Frozen Man // Screenwriter // Late-Diagnosed Autistic // Mostly Irish // Senior Editor at https://www.cara-wordsmith.com // Doesn't Feed the Trolls
@manchesterreview.bsky.social
The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing. https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
@mrneilalcock.bsky.social
Filmy words man. Into Bond, Hitchcock, Scorsese, Kubrick, Hawks, Wyler, Bogart, Keaton and Blighty's Basil Dearden. HITCHOLOGY: A FILM-BY-FILM GUIDE TO THE STYLE AND THEMES OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK is out now! More info: neilalcock.com/hitchology