It’s my editor’s choice week this week, and man, am I nerdily excited about it. We get anything from about 90-250 submissions a week, and...

UK National Flash Fiction Day this year is 15th June and the line-up for the annual anthology to celebrate this has been announced. I’m...

Flashing Norwich is excited to present a stellar cast of writers of flash fiction for this free reading event on Wednesday 1st May, 7-9pm...

SmokeLong Quarterly, the international flash fiction journal I edit for, is running a half-day flash fiction workshop in Norwich on...

Such a nice review of my story here from Adam Lock. Thanks, Adam! https://www.adamlock.net/adam-locks-blog/favourite-shorts-9-what-the-un...

I love Atticus Review, and having this story published there a couple of weeks ago made me very happy. It started from a prompt in a...

Here's the link to the SmokeLong AWP 2019 video, starring us and lot of very cool writers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3B21-QXCs&t=...

SmokeLong is travelling! The SmokeLong on the Road blog series will be featuring video interviews with as many of its editors and...

It’s February, and I’ve finally accepted that the New Year is over and 2019 is definitely here. It’s been cold for approximately 400 days...

A few weeks ago someone posted in a Facebook writers’ group about a flash fiction competition which had published guidelines which...

Unexpected and terrific news last week that my story, Reunion, published in the Ellipsis Zine Two anthology, was nominated for a Pushcart...

Last weekend was the Bristol Short Story Prize ceremony at the beautiful, cathedral-like Reading Room of the Bristol Central Library....

What wonderful stories we received in this contest. There were nearly 300 entries. I read every one of them, most of them at least twice...

One of the happiest things that’s happened to me in approximately ever was being asked, this summer, to join the editorial team of the...

I have a new story up at New Flash Fiction Review, here. It comes with a big content warning for eating disorders, although I didn’t set...

I’m really, really happy to be on this list. This story is close to my heart – the characters live for me and, ridiculously, even though...

I was at work scrubbing limescale off an Air B’n’B shower screen when one of my writer buddies messaged me to congratulate me on making...

I’m honoured – and right now, a tiny bit emotional – to be judging the Autumn round of this terrific flash fiction competition with...

I’m so excited to be guest editing at my all-time favourite literary journal this week. SmokeLong has always been my go-to place to find...

http://www.100voicesfor100years.com/voice-of-the-day/2018/4/25/one-in-twenty-three This project is celebrating the 100th anniversary of...