It’s tooting time in Toot Town! Let’s celebrate your writerly successes.
If you want your name in the November toots, please make sure you post your wins in the November Toots thread on the forum.
(PS) If we missed you off the October 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 read at an open mic poetry night for THE FIRST TIME EVER, had her flash fiction ‘We know about the brain drain and the brawn drain; now there is a ‘bairn drain’.” – Ian MacArthur, Scottish Emigration Report, Hansell, 1967 – a mother responds to concerns about the young population leaving Scotland’ published by Sextet Lit Mag, and ‘The Future is So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades’ accepted by BULL
Clare Martin had her flash fiction, ‘Good Soup’, accepted by Blood+Honey Lit and another, ‘Lemur Licks’ accepted by Ratbag Lit and her latest collection ‘Senses: Six Strange Tales of the Five Senses’ is out now
Colin had his story ‘Clean Lives’ published by Discretionary Love magazine
Heather Haighs had a piece accepted by Stygian Lepus, her fiction ‘Every Aspect Of Chelydra Serpentina’s Life is Aggressive, Even Their Breeding’ published by Flight of the Dragonfly and ‘A Life’ (CW death of a partner) published by Friday Flash Fiction AND she had her flash fiction ‘Press Room Thirteen, Deep Within The Bowels Of Parliament’ published by Urban Pig Press
Karen Arnold’s collection ‘Horse Dreams’ is now out in the world
Jane Jackson had a poem accepted by The Haiku Shack, and had two flash fictions accepted by The Zest of the Lemon
Jane Mooney reached her goal of fifty rejections
Jess Dolan had a mini subbing frenzy and had a poem shortlisted for an event run by Glasgow Women’s library
Jo Clark read her resistance flash fiction, ‘Taking our Country Back’ at her local in-person open mic and had ‘On leaving a familiar place’ accepted by WestWord, and had another piece shortlist in the Crossing the Tees competition, AND Stop Write Hear accepted her piece ‘Survivors’ for their first issue
Robert Alvarez and his writing group are all set for their anthologies of short stories ‘Ten Minute Tales’ to be published
Sarah Oakes got an acceptance from Fesst Zine for her flash fiction, ‘Elemental Odyssey’ and Voidspace Zine accepted ‘The Questions People Ask’
Terry Holland’s story, ‘Southeast of Soho’ was nominated for a Best Microfictions award by Trash Cat Lit
Uzma Chaudhry had her CNF ‘a trailer; coming soon near you’ published in in Potential…
Vicky Heath had a story published in Paragraph Planet and she was one of the ten finalists in the Sunday Post Short Story Competition
Wendy Ells got a full ms request from an agent
Yalan had one story longlist in the Oxford Flash Fiction competition and another make the top 10%
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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 November toots, please make sure you post your wins in the November Toots on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW.
