November 2025 Toot Your Flute

Who won at writing in November? The VERY long 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 December toots, please make sure you post your wins in the December Toots thread on the forum.

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

Alison Wassell came 2nd in the Flash 500 competition

​​Ellen-Arwen Tristram got a mention on The Failing Writers’ Podcast for being ‘audacious’ enough to write about (miniature) golf when Sarah Lewis (who was this year’s flash comp judge) specifically said she didn’t want to read anything about golf. Extra gold star for you Ellen-Arwen! Even better than that, she made the longlist for the Not Quite Write flash competition! 

Heather Haigh’s flash fiction The Shiny People was published by Twin Flame Literary, Embraced by an Alien from the Purple Planet, I almost Touched Infinity was published by Wailing and Gnashing, and she had acceptances from Red Rose Thorns, Black Hare Press and Emerald City Ghosts

Jess Dolan’s shortlist poem won

Jo Bee had a story, published in the KissMet Quarterly Anthology

Jo Clark’s flash fiction On Leaving a Familiar Place was published by WestWord

Joseph Millson finished his novella MILLER ROSE ROBERTS and got offered a publishing deal with a publisher 

Karen Arold’s  flash fiction, Dream Catcher, was highly commended in the latest free flash fiction contest

Kayleigh Kitt’s short story, Transparent Truths, was published by SciFanSat

Lucy Kaufman’s psychological suspense ebook Don’t Forget the Crazy is now available on Amazon

Mairead Robinson’s flash fiction, When My mother Is Admitted to Hospital, We Organise a Team of Cleaners to Perform a Deep Clean of Her House, was published by Gooseberry Pie

Sarah Oakes book, The Jewels of Inglorious Fortune, was nominated for a books of brilliance a by Readup – The Book Club

Vicky Heath had a story published in the KissMet Quarterly Anthology, and got an acceptance Micromance Magazine. She also received a certificate, and book token for a story that will be published in the Sunday Post magazine supplement, and her piece The Season Ticket was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Micromance Magazine

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 November toots, please make sure you post your wins in the December Toots on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW. 

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