Short Story Comps
Posts and reposts about short story / flash / micro competitions in the UK and beyond.
@storyshaoni.bsky.social
Writer/reporter. Shortlisted Dinesh Allirajah Prize 2025. 3rd place DRFWritersPrize 2020 and BristolPrize2019. Agent: Matthew Turner, RCW Literary Agency
@desperatelit.bsky.social
International bookshop 🌟 BOOKSHOP TEMPORARILY CLOSED Opening again: Mid-May
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
Cork based non-profit arts organisation promoting Irish and international literature since 1993. ➡️ Southword Editions Info@munsterlit.ie
@rclas.bsky.social
www.rclas.com RCLAS’s mission is to maintain and build a welcoming community of writers and readers, to support the goals of writers at all stages of their development, and to promote an appreciation of all forms of literary arts.
@kristinbairokeeffe.bsky.social
I wrote a novel about a woman radicalized by her first hot flash—CLEMENTINE CRANE PREFERS NOT TO. (out 10/14/25) Preorder: bit.ly/4j1U1Xj Substack: kbok.substack.com
@kateblackadder.bsky.social
Writer (novel Stella’s Christmas Wish plus short stories, magazine serials, occasional flash fiction) and reader (in many genres). Toast-and-marmite eater. Member of Romantic Novelists Association and Edinburgh Writers’ Club.
@julianhoffman.bsky.social
Writing, nature, people, climate, place. New book: LIFELINES (May, 2025) Author of IRREPLACEABLE & THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS Upcoming: RIVER SONG Prespa, Greece. Rep'd by @jmlockhart.bsky.social linktr.ee/jhoffmanprespa
@kerrymead.bsky.social
I'm sorry, I don't know my personality type. Writing memoir, essays, fiction, place, & neurodivergence. Curae Prize '23 shortlisted. Words in The Mechanics Institute Review, Oranges Journal, GIITTV. #ADHD. Complete lefty. linktr.ee/kerrymeadwriter
@morrislau78.bsky.social
@redfernjon.bsky.social
Nonbinary author to Proud Pink Sky and The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights. Ambitopia evangelist. Written for Guernica, Strange Horizons, Reckoning, PinkNews, and Nature Futures. They/them. Website: redjon.com
@laurajeanmckay.bsky.social
Writer. THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY winner of The Arthur C Clarke Award and The Victorian Prize for Literature. Latest collection GUNFLOWER. She/her. Views mostly other people's. laurajeanmckay.com.au On Meeanjin - Turrbal and Jagera Country. Anti gen AI
@ffteague.bsky.social
Poet: From Pittville to Paradise (2022), Interruptus: A Poetry Year (2025)
@ekphrasticreview.bsky.social
The Ekphrastic Review is an online daily journal of writing inspired by visual art. It is a worldwide family of readers and writers who love art and literature. Our Ekphrastic Academy has Zooms on art and creative writing. https://www.ekphrastic.net
@roryduffy.bsky.social
Short stories etc. Winner #ennisbookclub 2025. Winner #RedLineBookFest 2019 Shortlisted/runner up- Sean O'Faoláin, RTE Short Story Award (twice), #Cuirt, Bath, @WritersWeek. Wild Atlantic Words. John McGahern Award. PJ O'Connor. @ForwardPrizes nominee 2021
@junegemmell.bsky.social
Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, Northern Gravy and National Flash Flood.
@yallaalia.bsky.social
🚀Dancer & Writer. ✨Brit based in Zurich. ⚡️Words in Fractured Lit, LEON Literary, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Your Impossible Voice…Nom BSF & BM 2025
@savzac.bsky.social
Flash narratives in @nationalflashfd| @BendingGenres| @LiteraryRuby. Best Small Fictions 2025 nominee. Shortlist - NFFD microfiction Food and travel writer. Bylines @BBC_Travel, @AJEnglish,@atlasobscura .... www.saverazachariah.com
@ezhang77.bsky.social
Writer | Chicago | Work in HAD, Maudlin House, The Citron Review + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25 https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
@cliffjones.bsky.social
Neurodivergent author/editor of dreampunk: DRECK (2023), MIRRORMAZE (2020), SOMNISCOPE (2024), THE LASTING LANDS. Software developer, linguist, visual/martial artist, INFP-T, 4w5, Scorpio, he/him. 💚
@laurabweisswriter.bsky.social
Author, journo, food writer. flashfiction. Flash in/forthcoming: JMWW, South Florida Poetry Journal, Bright Flash Lit, Ekphrastic Review, Five on the Fifth, 10 x 10 Flash. Journalism NY Times, NPR, others. Author: Ice Cream A Global History.
@pegasusunder.bsky.social
writer&psychiatrist M.D. pub @ Clarkesworld, Fantasy Mag, Podcastle, The Rumpus, FIYAH, Fractured Lit, + Scottish New Writers Award (Callan Gordon Award) RLF Reading Round Fellow Rep C. L. Geisler at ArtHouse Lit
@irahawthorne.bsky.social
curiosity & wordsmithery poetry & flash|micro|short fiction creative nonfiction Despite everything, still daring to love this world. 📚 🏳️🌈 🐈 Queer; she/her #microfiction #flashfiction #writesky #poetry #creativenonfiction
@proliffany.bsky.social
🏆 1st Tadpole Press 100-Word Contest 🌟 Highly Commended @bathflashaward.bsky.social ✨ 2X Longlisted @smokelong.bsky.social Words in Buckman Journal, Human Obscura, Black Glass Pages https://tiffany-harris.com
@cbcbott.bsky.social
Writer. MA in Writing. University of Warwick. Journalist and PR professional turned Creative Writer.
@newwelshreview.bsky.social
New Welsh Review is Wales' foremost literary magazine. Publishing great writers from Wales & beyond. NWR #137: Slovakia is available to order now!
@micromancemagazine.bsky.social
EIC: @glynnbrownwrites.bsky.social The only lit mag 100% dedicated to romance flash. Accepting romance/love stories 75-1200 words and romantic poetry of any length/style.. Micromancemagazine.substack.com
@wcorklitfest.bsky.social
#Bantry: 11-18 July 2025. Check out our line-up & download brochure. Booking open for all events https://linktr.ee/westcorkliteraryfestival
@writing.ie
Award winning magazine for writers at all levels http://www.writing.ie - based in Ireland but for writers everywhere. Featuring book and writing news, tips, technique, competitions, submission opportunities and much more. We want to help! 📚💙
@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social
Welcome to the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York #UoY. 8th in UK University Guide A world top 35 Department Athena Swan Silver Award
@thewingedmoon.bsky.social
contemporary poetry magazine with a love of folklore, nature and place and writing that goes beyond the surface. we publish in print and online with amazing art and a vibrant weekly newsletter www.wingedmoon.com
@penstricken.bsky.social
Penstricken is an online literary journal featuring short fiction and poetry from new and established authors. 📚✍️ www.penstricken.com
@crankedanvil.bsky.social
Writing Prizes | Critique/Feedback Service | Indie Press | New Writing | Est. 2012. | https://crankedanvil.co.uk/ | EIC: Paul Dunn https://bsky.app/profile/pauldunnwriter.bsky.social
@afterdinnerconversation.com
Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers. Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
@christopherfielden.bsky.social
Award-winning writer and editor. Drummer in Airbus, Little Villains and Three Day Week. Member of ALCS, ASCAP, Clockhouse London Writers and Stokes Croft Writers. www.christopherfielden.com
@ninanazir.bsky.social
Poet, artist, blogger, teacher. Bibliophile. Tree hugger. Caffeine connoisseur. Creative af. Room 204 Writer with Writing West Midlands. www.sunrarainz.wordpress.com
@tinymolecules.bsky.social
A quarterly literary journal. We love flash, we love experimental, we love saying something big in a small space. https://www.tinymolecules.com/ EIC @sdobbie.bsky.social
@genrepunkmag.bsky.social
Literary magazine for weird little experiments. 🏳️🌈 ♿️ 🇵🇸 🤘🏻 Run by Audrey T. Carroll (https://bsky.app/profile/audreytcarroll.bsky.social). Genrepunkmag.wordpress.com
@amandaearl.bsky.social
she/her: sharing Ottawa -area literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl. NO DMS. No "Only Fans"!
@badbadpoet.bsky.social
Poet, artist, performer and publisher based in the UK. Prolific maker of visual poetry. Recent books: MOREAU’S DOCTORED BODIES (Steel Incisors), COSMIC HORROR (Hem Press). Currently attempting a vispo Beowulf. https://t.co/QoN4GHLvNE
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky No time for pretence! Edited by @alanparry83.bsky.social www.thebrokenspine.co.uk https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
Writer visual artist publisher. FATHER TECTONIC now available from ETHELZINE Press (2025). In tons of journals incl. Otoliths, Storms Journal, Pissoir, Cable Street. Anthologies: Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors), Book of Penteract (Penteract Press) more.
@sugarhousereview.bsky.social
Sugar House Review is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit poetry publisher based out of Utah. Our mission is to promote an eclectic range of poets through publishing and live events. SugarHouseReview.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.
@cmakris.bsky.social
poet & writer “one of Ireland’s foremost avant-garde poets” - The Irish Times yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
@vastchasmmag.bsky.social
cultivating community and publishing bold work: flash, short fiction, cnf, poetry, and other nonconforming pieces
@chestnutreview.bsky.social
International litmag ALWAYS open for submissions. Pays $120/piece. Responds in 30 days. Free subs in most genres. Free issues online. Paid feedback options. If you don't submit, we can't pay you. Home: chestnutreview.com Support: patreon.com/ChestnutReview
@ex-puritan.bsky.social
Publishing fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and reviews. Proudly awarding The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. https://linktr.ee/ex_puritan