September 2026 Toot Your Flute

Who won at writing in September? The monthly 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 October toots, please make sure you post your wins in the October Toots on the forum.

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


Anika Carpenter’s flash fiction ‘Adam Stuart Moxley Was the Love of My Life’ was published in New Flash Fiction Review

Heather Haigh’s had a short story published in the anthology Once Upon a Time in Whitby and three poems published in the latest Hope Collective edition

Jane Jackson’s ‘Teach me a Rain Dance’ was published in Swim Press

Jo Clark finished a full first draft of her novel

Kayleigh Kitt’s short story The Grey Wash was published in Issue 38 of SciFanSat

Karen Arnold’s flash fiction ‘Aiden Carthy Walks on Water’ was nominated for Best Small Fictions 2027 and ‘Whalebone Garden’ was highly commended in the latest Free Flash Fiction Competition

Kat Tuker’s self-published her novel ‘A Promise of Blood & Stone’

Sarah Master’s shortlisted in The Briport Prize for Flash Fiction

Sarah Oakes’s had a flash fiction accepted for inclusion in this year’s Flash Fiction Festival Anthology

Tabitha Bast presented the Literary Sisters: An Anthology at Brontë Women’s Writing Festival. The anthology includes Tabitha’s story ‘And the weary are at rest’ and is free to download here

Terry Holland’s work was published in Issue 5 of Ancient Times and in the anthology of stories, poems and found text A Psychogeography Of Brussels

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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 October Toots on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW. 

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