It’s tooting time in Toot Town! Let’s celebrate your writerly successes.
If you want your name in the January toots, please make sure you post your wins in the January Toots Thread on the forum.
(PS) If we missed you off the December list, we are extreeeeemely sorry. Give us a nudge via the usual channels, and we’ll add you in).
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BD Watson’s flash fiction Hoping the Fighting Temeraire Will Help Him Sleep, was published in the Hysteria 11 Anthology
Clare Martin had her story Christmas Caro published by Cafe Lit
Dawn Bernadette Haigh had her story Father Christmasssssssss published in the Eerie Christmas’ anthology
Doug Devaney signed a contract with a publisher. His novel ‘Black Vinyl’, is due out in June 2026 with Hawkwood Books
Gary Tierney published his story Monster, Fear and Lavender
Heather Haigh was awarded Writer of the Year by Wakefield Word and the Black Horse Poets, and had poems accepted by Osiris Press, and an acceptance from Trash Cat Literary, and a short story accepted by Byker Books
Kayleigh Kitt got paid for a piece of flash fiction
Matt Gostelow was interviewed on the Story Radio podcast about Silent Screams: An Anthology of Quiet Horror
Lizzie Eldidge’s novel Vandalism is going to be translated into Arabic
Rachel Swabey won the Hysteria Writing Prize short story category, with my story Seabeast and was one of three winners of the Curtis Brown Creative Winter Story contest on Instagram
Sammy Fyfe wrote her first novel. The Pakhan’s Claim can be found here.
Sarah Oakes novelle-in-flash made in onto the Bath Flash Fiction Award longlist
Sarah had her story Starfish Don’t Bleed published in The Sunlight Press
Terry Holland read his infamous ‘severed hand’ story on the podcast Story Radio
Yalan had an acceptance from Frazzled Lit, and her piece It’s Not a Pyrrhic Victory If We’re Paid Shitloads of Money was published by Disappointed Housewife
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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 January toots, please make sure you post your wins in the January Toots Thread on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW.
