It’s tooting time in Toot Town! Let’s celebrate your writerly successes.
If you want your name in the April toots, please make sure you post your wins in the XXX 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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Ellen-Arwen Tristram got awesome feedback on a poem from a top-tier comp
Heather Haigh piece Letters to Mams was published by The Wild Umberella
Joan Grant ran a workshop at Brompton Library about Jane Austen and other women who lived in that time period
Jude Potts and her creative women’s group have put together a book celebrating all their creative practices
JP Relph made it to the longlist of The Pride Roars competition
Karen Arnold’s flash fiction ‘Aiden Carthy Walks on Water‘ was awarded second place in The Pride Roars competition. She also had a flash fiction accepted for the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology
Lizzie Eldridge had a poem published by Culture Matters
Rachel Dunlop had a flash fiction accepted for the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day anthology
Rachel Toburen’s flash fiction ‘Moving Day‘ was published by The Archived Press
Sarah had a flash fiction accepted for the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day anthology
Sarah Oakes flash fiction The Little Pig’s House was published by Neither Fish Nor Foul
Sarah Royston made it onto the Not Quite Write longlist and was interviewed by Tractor Beams podcast about “Grubbers,” Queer Ecologies, and Imagining Decomplexified Worlds
Sam Wynter was awarded a WHQ bursary
Vicky Heath’s flash fiction ‘Trophy Wife‘ was published by Bunker Squirrel Magazine, and Afternoon Delight was published by Micromance Magazine and they were awarded a place on a stand-up comedy course for women and marginalised genders
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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 April Toots on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW.