The seventy-three long, grey days of February are over!!!
Here in the UK, a host of golden daffodils are popping up all over the place, showing-off their fancy yellow bonnets like winter was never a thing, and while those luminous flowers are doing their groovy dance the words of WHQers will spring up all over the place too.
Hooray!
Show off like the daffs and post your writing successes right here.
Sparkle, sparkle shiny writers! ✨
A place for all your writerly wins, achievements, publications, goals smashed, small victories and big news.
With no more preamble necessary, let us get on with The Tooting.
(PS if you want your name in the April toots, please make sure you post your wins in the April toots thread on the forum.)
(PPS If we missed you off the list, we are extreeeeemely sorry. Give us a nudge via the usual channels, and we’ll add you in).
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Sarah Oakes made it on the National Flash Fiction Day Microfictions longlist and was Highly Commended. Plus, their debut novel is available to buy on kindle!
Jude Potts received a copy of Paranoid Tree.
Sarah McPherson received an acceptance from Cross & Cross Keys, has made it into the National Flash Fiction Day anthology, and started a flash fiction book club.
Naomi Brotherton had two pieces accepted in the same week and had a piece published that started life as an FFO that was lengthened. A short story was also published in SciFanSat.
Zeina Abi Ghosn has two stories in the magazine Mukoli and both began their lives as part of FFO!
Lizzie Eldridge had a story published by Northern Gravy in 2023 has been included in a new anthology compiled by Northern Gravy.
Sarah Masters has a story on Witcraft and made the longlist of Westword’s Hermit crab competition.
Jane Mooney might have already tooted about being awarded 2nd place in the Searchlight Picture Book Text competition but you can now read the story here! Also they received an acceptance for a micro-fiction piece from 101 words.
Vicky Heath had a short story about football, family and romance accepted by Micromance Magazine.
Heather Haigh received a Highly Commended in FFF 26 with an FFO piece and another FFO piece can be found in Bottle Rocket.
Terry Holland received an acceptance from Seaside Gothic.
Aimz Rushton was awarded a fully funded place at the forthcoming Mslexia Memoir School and received an acceptance from Muswell Press’s third Queer Lives, Queer Loves anthology for a memoir essay.
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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 April toots, please make sure you post your wins in the April toots thread on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW.
