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Diane Simmons

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Co-Directs NFFD.NIF: ‘Finding a Way' (Ad Hoc Fiction), ‘An Inheritance' (V.Press), ‘A Tricky Dance’ (Alien Buddha Press), ‘William Prichard & Co’ (Arroyo Seco Press). ‘Bereft of Reason’ (V. Press) forthcoming 2026. www.dianesimmons.co.uk

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12.03.2026 12:38 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations, James! It's an absolute cracker of a story!!!🎉💐🍾

11.03.2026 21:53 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations to the winners!

11.03.2026 21:44 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations to all the winning and highly commended authors. Loved each and every one of your micros.

11.03.2026 21:39 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats all around!

11.03.2026 21:36 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations, James! It's an absolute cracker of a story!!!🎉💐🍾

11.03.2026 21:51 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you to Microfiction judges for all their hard work @daveswann.bsky.social @devaneemily.bsky.social @debdanthewriter.bsky.social @joannacampbell.bsky.social

11.03.2026 20:07 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Congratulations to all the selected microfictions! I spy a shadowy slip of a story among them 👤 Thanks to @joannacampbell.bsky.social, @debdanthewriter.bsky.social, @devaneemily.bsky.social and @daveswann.bsky.social for all their hard work behind the scenes at @natflashfictionday.bsky.social ❤️

11.03.2026 19:57 👍 33 🔁 4 💬 12 📌 2
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Buy tickets for Unwritten Women: Filling in History's Gaps – Unbox Your Words: Unwritten Women - Filling History's Gaps – Zoom Unbox Your Words: Unwritten Women - Filling History's Gaps – Zoom, Thu 19 Mar 2026 - History has many, many gaps in it - and much of what's forgotten or unwritten involved what women did, across the w...

Join me on March 19 7-9pm UK for my Zoom writing workshop, Unwritten Women: Filling History's Gaps - we'll use stories of astonishing women that history ignored as inspiration for fictions/poems/hybrids! Pay-what-you-can places & recording if you can't join live: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

11.03.2026 18:50 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

‘…it’s important to me to keep trying to write about the hard things…’

So true, @sarahillswrites.bsky.social. Great interview between her and Brenna Womer in @smokelong.bsky.social, about her prose poem, ‘Worm’ 🪱 (CW: sexual violence)

10.03.2026 17:51 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Been very busy doing NFFD stuff & editing my new novella (out this year from @vpresslit.bsky.social). Got a day off tomorrow & am looking after little grandson. That will be a nice rest 😱

11.03.2026 19:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Extremely pleased to be highly commended in this competition. Thank you to the judges and @natflashfictionday.bsky.social team for their speedy work.

11.03.2026 19:21 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0

Yay! So excited to have come joint third.

11.03.2026 18:35 👍 28 🔁 3 💬 9 📌 0

I can’t do it. I am too old. I try. I’ll keep on trying.

11.03.2026 18:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So excited to have a "highly commended" piece published online and in the upcoming anthology! 🎉 Read "I’m invited to Watch Them Feed Her Body Into the Incinerator" and all these amazing pieces!

11.03.2026 18:03 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 0

We are excited to announce the results of our 2026 microfiction competition. Thank you to everyone who entered. You can read the winning & highly commended stories here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

11.03.2026 17:39 👍 35 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 11

Just slept for 3 hours then ate two samosas. Lovely!

10.03.2026 19:40 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Always loads of fun! Get your @flashficfestuk.bsky.social ticket now 🎟️ 🎉

07.03.2026 11:07 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

I wasn’t allowed anything off the lunch menu 😂

05.03.2026 07:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

😂

04.03.2026 21:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That would have blown their minds.

04.03.2026 21:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was in a cafe today & was told 11:45 was too early to be served a jacket potato. It’s not the 1950s!

04.03.2026 20:47 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Congratulations!!

04.03.2026 15:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What a joy to be included with such wonderful women! Thank you @womensprize.bsky.social

04.03.2026 15:11 👍 109 🔁 9 💬 20 📌 1
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Two Irish authors on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine nominated for award worth £30,000

Congrats to Wendy and Kit! @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @kitdewaal.com www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

04.03.2026 14:11 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0

Congratulations!

04.03.2026 15:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

True 😂

04.03.2026 07:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Psychotherapist Keir Starmer asking Donald Trump, "And are these windmills in the room with you right now?"

Psychotherapist Keir Starmer asking Donald Trump, "And are these windmills in the room with you right now?"

Starmer's next meeting with Trump.

03.03.2026 19:09 👍 306 🔁 76 💬 13 📌 2
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Trump lashes out at the United Kingdom:

"The UK has been very uncooperative... They've ruined relationships... They got windmills all over the place that are ruining the country, ruining the landscapes, ruining the beautiful fields... You have Sharia courts adjudicating law."

03.03.2026 17:38 👍 579 🔁 189 💬 348 📌 455

Lol

03.03.2026 19:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0