July Toot Your Flute

Tell us all your writerly wins for July. We wanna know them alllllll. What mags have accepted you? What stories have you finished? What wins are you celebrating?

(Oh and remember the Submit2024 thread for all those who participate :))

A place for all your writerly wins, achievements, publications, goals smashed, small victories and big news.

With no more preamble necessary, let us get on with The Tooting.

(PS if you want your name in the August toots, please make sure you post your wins in the August toots thread on the forum.)

(PPS If we missed you off the list, we are extreeeeemely sorry. Give us a nudge via the usual channels, and we’ll add you in).

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Alison Wassell has a story about a dead Girls’ World head published by Does It Have Pockets and Witcraft also published a story that started life in FFO.

Catherine Russell was shortlisted for The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers Competition and had a piece of short fiction accepted for publication in Oranges Journal. Briefly Zine will also be publishing a previous FFO!

Tabbie Hunt has had two stories shortlisted by WOW (Women on Writing) and entered Twist in the Tale’s writing battle and received kind and helpful feedback.

Helen Connell was a finalist in the WOW Flash Fiction Contest.

Marie-Louise McGuinness made the the Bath Short Story Longlist.

Sarah Oakes had the flash My Favourite Museum published by RNIB and received an acceptance from Litmora Literary for the horror flash The Terror of Turqouise Elfcap. A Nervous Descent was also published in the Unseen anthology by FromOneLine and the Literary Namjponing accepted the flash On Eastbourne Beach which started life in FFO!

Naomi Brotherton has a flash piece called A Mouthful of Cherry Pie on BULL and had a sci-fi piece published in Scifansat.

Sarah McPherson had a story that placed 4th in the TL;DR Press 1,000 Word Herd Flash Fiction Competition.

Heather Haig came second place in the WestWord monthly micro and is very chuffed with a Highly Commended for FFF22 and came runner up in the Kay Snow Award for Fiction.

Jude Potts received good feedback on a story that’s featured in the Hunger anthology, an acceptance from Punk Noir for a revised version of an FFO piece, and another from FFF.

Terry Holland will have a piece in Punk Noir’s A Good Death series in August and has a story on the Flash 500 longlist.

Alexandra Gough had two stories longlisted and a novel reached a second round of judging by Bridport.

Lizzie Eldridge had a collection of flash published by Alien Buddha Press.

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Omg wow, you guys are the absolute literal, figurative, complete BEST. Well frikken done. 

And like we said up there, if you want your name in the August toots, please make sure you post your wins in the August toots thread on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW. 

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By: Kerry-Ann Kerr