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 June 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).
—
Karen Arnold made it onto the Free Flash Fiction shortlist and had a story accepted by New Flash Fiction Review
Rachel Ashworth’s piece Floating Moments In Space was published in Sensitive Skin
Anika Carpenter made it onto the Micro Madness longlist and had an acceptance from Hex Literary
Kavita Chhiba’s flash fiction ‘The Bookshop Escape’ was one of the winning stories in Kemptown Bookshop’s 50th Anniversary Writing Competition
Rachael Dunlop’s flash fiction ‘Mudlarking’ was chosen as the title story for this year’s National Flash Fiction Day 2026 Anthology
Heather Haigh’s poem ‘I am’ was published in Black Nore Review, alonside her flash fiction ‘Girl, Do You Ever’ and she shortlisted in the Red Shed Poetry comp
Terry Holland had an acceptance from Stone Club Publications
Dara Lutes made the shortlist of The Lucy Cavendish Prize
Paul McCauley and Laura Mugridge have started work on series two of their comedy podcast Inside the Lines
Sarah Oakes was interviewed about her sci-fi novel by Jane Friedman for The Hot Sheet. You can read the interview here.
Emma Robertson novel ‘A Girl’s Girl’ is now available to pre-order
Michael Simon’s novel ‘Fourth Wave’ is out
Rachel Swabey’s poem ‘Is it perimenopause or is it late stage capitalism?’ will be published in Vol. 3 of RAGE zine
—
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 June Toots on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW.