February 2026 Toot Your Flute

Who won at writing in January? 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 March toots, please make sure you post your wins in the March Toots Thread on the forum.

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


Ellen-Arwen Tristram 
got a ‘judge’s choice award’ from the ‘Not Quite Write’ competition and had her flash fiction The Future Is So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades published by BULL

Heather D Haigh’s flash fiction ‘More Darnin’ than Cloth’ was published by Root Smoke and her poem Moving On was published by The Skinny Poetry Journal

Jane Mooney got encouraging feedback from her mentor

Jo & Catherine’s cosy crime novel The Pie & Mash Detective Agency was published by Penguin Random House

Kayleigh Kitt’s short story The Silo was published in SciFanSat

Lizzie Eldridge performed her poetry in a cabaret in Dundee in front of Jeremy Corby

Nick’s short story, Closet, was published by Open Book. It was also read and discussed on their podcast

Sarah’s flash fiction ‘Not Weaselly Spotted’ was accepted by Cleaver Magazine

Sarah Oakes found a flat. Which means a new desk and more writing! And she got an offer to turn her sci fi novel The Jewels of Inglprious Fortune into an Audible.

Sarah Royston’s flash fiction collection ‘Fernseed’ was listed on the Waterstones website

Vicky Heath had an acceptance from Micromance Magazine and her flash fiction ‘You Have Arrived at Your Destination’ was published by Trash Cat Lit

Zeina Abigh got a spot on the ‘Finish your Novel’ course at Goldsborro academy

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 March Toots Thread on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW. 

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