January 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 February toots, please make sure you post your wins in the February Toots Thread on the forum.

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

Karen Arnold had an acceptance from Banshee Press

Soo Doe had a piece of blank verse accepted by The Candyman’s Trumpet 

Lizzie Eldridge had her poem Zen and the Art of Karma Washing published in Culture Matters.

Heather Haigh’s flash fiction FFIST (Feline-First Integrated Smart Technology was publish in Trash Cat Lit

Kathy Hoyle nominated for 2026 Best Small Fictions for her story Humbug Shark in Does it Have Pockets won 2nd prize in the Hammond House Short 

Sarah Oakes her hermit crab flash The Questions People Ask published in Voidspace Zine and and acceptance from The Argyle Literary Magazine for her previously published flash The Terror of Turquoise Elfcap and an acceptance from Neither Fish nor Foul for a retelling of The Three Little Pigs.

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 February Toots Thread  on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW. 

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