August 2026 Toot Your Flute

Who won at writing in June? The monthly list of WHQers and their writerly wins.
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It’s tooting time in Toot Town! Let’s celebrate your writerly successes.

If you want your name in the September toots, please make sure you post your wins in the September Toots on the forum.

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

Amy O’Neil made it onto the BPA First Novel longlist

Angela Coraccio took the plunge and submitted an essay 

Heather Haigh’s flash fiction Meat was published by Urban Pigs Press

Isobel Sheene had a story accepted by Hotch Potch

Jane Jackson’s poem Tall Tales was published by The Monthly Poet

Jude Potts had one flash fiction accepted by Neon and Smoke and another by Mr Bull 

Lauren Phillips-Freeman had an acceptance from Rock n’ Heavy

Lizzie Eldridge had a music review published by Culture Matters

Caroline osella stories was selected for inclusion in The Elias Thorne Anthology eBook

Pamela Pescosolido had a flash fiction accepted by WestWorld

Patrick Dunne was longlisted in a flash fiction competition

Sarah Master’s flash fiction Cutting the Mustard was published by Mr Bull

Shona Ray Ferguson’s flash fiction She Comes to Me as a Telescope was published by Crow & Cross Keys

Terry Holland’s first ever group photo exhibition in London will include excerpts from his flash fiction

Vicky Heath’s story Sea Glass Eye was published by Micromance Magazine

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 January toots, please make sure you post your wins in the September Toots on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW. 

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