Bronwen Griffiths

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Issues Visit the post for more.

Send us your literary stories heavy with strange metaphor and liminal stands, grounded in narrative and ethereal beauty. Check out prior issues and submit here:

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Edinburgh Flash Awards Results — Scottish Arts Trust Edinburgh Flash Ficition and True Flash Results

Stunning story THREADS by Narmeen Zain that won the Edinburgh Flash prize.

"The summer my sister vanished was full of unusually bright light. Late afternoon sun poured into our kitchen,
illuminating the hazy steam from her pot of kheer."

www.scottishartstrust.org/results-flas...

River Keeps by Cathy Ulrich What is lost in the river is all the things thrown or dropped or tossed: keys and beer bottles and a silver-plated bracelet with a clasp that came undone and someone’s bag they didn’t want, a plast…

NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“River Keeps” by Cathy Ulrich is now up!

Art by Becks Simpson

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YOU'RE ALL INVITED!
On March 15th, come help me celebrate with
@theandrewkclark.bsky.social the publication of my debut novel, IN THE DESERT from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Links to follow!

THE INFLUENCER The influencer told me to begin each day with love, so I placed my head out my window and said “I love you” to the trees. Three trees, to be precise, three plane trees to the left of my view, rustling, restless, murmuring, a quadrant of quivering amid a wall of immovable concrete.

Donna Stonecipher

Thank you, Annalisa, and thank you also for sending this gem to us. Thrilled to be featuring it today @annalisacrawford.bsky.social‬ #microfiction #MicroMonday

I've chosen the two recipients to send my novel to. Thanks for (the few) who requested.
This morning I called my local BBC station to try & promote my novel. How I hate doing the publicity! I'd much prefer to be quiet at my desk.

War Crimes - Barren Magazine The baby white and heaving, his skin grey with dust, a smear of blood on his forehead. The baby gasping but soon as still as a stone.

Re-posting this from 2018
barrenmagazine.com/war-crimes/

I'm not sure if anyone responded! I'll wait until Monday.

It was on this day, a month ago, when I found out that happy won't ever mean happy again. I can't speak much about it, I barely can write, but I wrote this tiny thing, and I am grateful to David Estringel and Blood Honey for publishing it ❤️

www.bloodhoneylit.com/mileva-anast...

I'm hoping to get back on the hills! I'm still recovering from my hip replacement 4 months ago. I have a plan to climb Cader Idris again this year. We will see. Might have to go for a smaller mountain.

I don't think there's anything too upsetting in there. I think she'd enjoy it. I thought it was slightly overlong for the subject matter but you could always abridge it.

We're sharing @jaimegill.bsky.social's flash today and celebrating his birthday! 🦝
We love the imaginative structure used, and how tension builds like a movie until that smashing last line.

Read and listen to a stunning reading here:
trashcatlit.com/this-is-not-...

Happy Birthday Jaime 🎂

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Flowers on the Roadside

I'm re-posting this for #InternationalWomensDay
It was written after the murder of Renee Good but is about other brave women too
bendinggenres.com/flowers-on-t...

This somewhat sunny day we bring another fabulous preloved story 🦝

We loved the gritty, salty language here, the relatable-while-infuriating MC, and the use of cheese to enrich and hold the story.
Grab a cracker or two and read @jdhellenwrites.bsky.social rich tale
trashcatlit.com/the-ripening...

"About the Longevity of Labelling Bell Jars"

Wonderful title and wonderful piece from @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social. So many emotions bubbling away in this, so much realness at its heart.

newflashfiction.com/about-the-lo...

Family Business — Ghost Parachute ‘Jesus, would you look at her, what is she like?’ ‘You know I can’t see anyone from this angle, mam. I’ve got to keep looking up, keep imploring me da to save me from myself, you know the drill,’ Jesu...

ghostparachute.com/issue/march-...

Thank you to @brettpribble.bsky.social and Ghost Parachute for having my story in this issue ❤️

A tight drum roll, please...

FFF and Free Flash Fiction are pleased to announce the FFF Competition Thirty-Two Longlist...

#flashfiction
#writingcompetitions

freeflashfiction.com/competition-...

I've booked this year!

"She imagines silkworms, far from this cold city-life, feasting on white mulberry leaves, spinning protective cocoons, ending up [...] stabbed or boiled alive for thread"

Beautifully evocative flash from @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social

newflashfiction.com/bamboo-silk-...

Just read it. Marvellous story. That last line...ohhhh

Beached by Rachel M. Hollis | Issue #40 “I’m a beached whale,” my mom says, tugging at her stomach in the mirror like she’s trying to peel it off.

“Beached means sick. Or hunted. Or lost. It means you drifted too far from home and couldn’t find the tide again."

A powerful tale from @rachelmhollis.bsky.social in Issue 40.

newflashfiction.com/beached-by-r...

I remember this, thanks for re-posting and thanks again to @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social

Beginner’s Guide to Five Flash Fiction Writers and Their Unique Styles by Mandira Pattnaik Here are five flash fiction writers we recommended reading and why:

@mandirapattnaik.bsky.social guides her Substack readers to this article featuring the work of @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social Jo Withers + myself. A bite-size survey for flashers at all levels! THANKS!!

jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2022/04/08/b...

I was being a bit facetious. You do now have the word 'press' there. Is that the change? I can't recall if it was there before

Only a bigly bigly war!

If you'd like to buy the book it's available now as a paperback & E-book.
troubador.co.uk/bookshop/con...
www.amazon.co.uk/Longshore-Dr...

I'm giving away 2 paperbacks (UK people only sorry) - please respond & I'll pull you out of a hat this weekend.
If you could write me a review after you've read the book that would be great.
"A haunting tale
of love, loss, and the healing power of wild
places."