It’s tooting time in Toot Town! Let’s celebrate your writerly successes.
If you want your name in the June toots, please make sure you post your wins in the July Toots on the forum.
(PS) If we missed you off the March list, we are extreeeeemely sorry. Give us a nudge via the usual channels, and we’ll add you in).
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Anika Carpenter’s micro fiction ‘Tell Me Something I Don’t Know After Fifteen Years of Marriage’ was shortlisted in this year’s Micro Madness Competition
Amy O’Neil’s novel was shortlisted for the WriteMentor Novel and picturebook awards
Catherine won the writing competition at her local literature festival
Christopher Carr got a place on the Creative Writing MA course at the University of Hull
Dot Buchanan was longlisted in the Bath Flash Fiction Award
Doug Devaney had a brilliant review of his novel ‘Black Vinyl’ in Travellers Times
Heather Haigh had two pieces published in the Something Magic Anthology from Osiris Press
Jane Claire Jackson’s flash fiction ‘Initial Reactions’ was featured in this year’s Flash Flood
Kayleigh Kitt’s flash fiction ‘A Knight in Shining Armor is a Man Who’s Had His Metal Tested’ was published in Micromance Magazine, ‘Notice of Addendum’ was published in SciFanSat
Lauren Phillips-Freeman received some very encouraging feedback on her poetry and completed and published three poems in an in-person writing retreat
Mya Lucia poem ‘Dear Nan’ the Bi Women Quarterly’s Summer Edition
Rachael Dunlop’s flash fiction ‘glimpse’, which was a runner up for the Pokrass Prize, was published in the in the Flash Fiction Festival 2025 anthology
Rebekah Lawrence’s first paid piece was published in The People’s Friend Special
Sarah Oakes retelling of The Little Mermaid was published in Syncopation Literary Journal, her flash fiction ‘Dropped Weight’ was published in the Flash Flood Write-in and she was long-listed for The Bath Flash Fiction Award
Sarah McPherson’s flash fiction ‘Down From the Door’ was featured in this year’s Flash Flood
Terry Holland’s story ‘Sturm & Drang’ will be published in the next issue of Neon & ‘SmokeThree Studies for Figures at the Base of a Monument to a Failed Relationship’ will be published is the summer issue of Raw Lit and his hip-hop inspired tale of protest and confrontation in Hong Kong was published in 13 Tracks
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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 July Toots on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW.