July 2026 Toot Your Flute

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

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

Karen Arnold made it onto the longlist of the latest Free Flash Fiction competition and the Write By The Sea festival competition

Rachel Ashworth’s flash fiction ‘The Importance of Ebbing the Gelatinous Wobble’ was published in Neither Fish Nor Foul

Shona Ray Ferguson had her second ever Flash fiction acceptance

Terry Holland’s flash fiction ‘Sturm & Drang’ was published in Neon & Smoke

Kayleigh Kitt’s short story ‘Demi’ was published by Hooghly Review and her flash fiction The Shaitan Hunter was published in SciFanSat

Sarah Master’s flash fiction ‘Not So Weaselly Spotted’ was published in Cleaver Magazine and her story ‘Don’t say hello’ got an honourable mention in https://expositionreview.com/flash-405/dont-say-hello/ “Saudade” competition

Jane Mooney was on the the Stainsby Festival Poetry competition  longlist

Sarah Oakes got an acceptance this morning from Wicked Shadow Press and her story ‘Leviathan Lair’ was published in Flash of the Dead: Snakes 

Sam Wynter achieved six published poems and two published essays over the past five month

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 August Toots on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW. 

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