September Toot Your Flute

The biggest toot right now is that we all spent August running the fash off the streets and this month is the WRITING AS RESISTANCE FESTIVAL yayyyyyyy!!! Let’s write some stories and fuck some shit up. Woop.

Tells us your wins, your acceptances, your holy-shit-I-finished-a-sentence-without-getting-distracteds!

(Oh and remember the Submit2024 thread for all those who participate :))

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 October toots, please make sure you post your wins in the October 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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Malina Douglas had the short story Marmaris Musk published by The Mantlepiece Literary.

Jude Potts had a piece published in Trash Cat Lit and made the second round in Bridport Flash.

Sophie Thompson is setting up a micropress (called Tom Thumb Press), which should be up and running at the end of the month.

Naomi Brotherton has read and recorded a flash piece for a podcast submission and has a piece in Bakunawa Press and another in SciFanSat.

Billie-Leigh Burns received an acceptance from Hooghly Review.

Marie-Louise McGuinness received an acceptance from Fictive Dream.

Jack Morris has a story in Kaleidotrope Summer 24, which Maria Haskins called brilliant and picked for her #7 monthly roundup of stories.

Heather Haig received an acceptance from The Writers Journal and another from Thin Skin. A piece that started off in FFO also found a home with RedRoseThorns publication. One flash and two poems are coming out in Frazzled Lit, and she has also made the Oxford Longlist!

Sarah Oakes had the flash On Eastbourne Beach published by Literary Namjooning, and The Ocean of Kindness won a Pushcart Prize.

Carolyn Emett has written 30,000 words of a first draft this year and has been accepted onto Faber Academy’s selective  “Writing a Novel” course.

Sarah Masters might not have made the Oxford longlist, but she did make the top 20%!

Lizzie Eldridge received lovely feedback for the flash Sumud and an acceptance from Valiant Scribe Literary Journal. A preview of the book It Doesn’t Matter When will be in the next edition of Alien Buddha Press. Northern Gravy also reached out to include a previously published piece in one of their anthologies, which they are working on with the publisher Valley Press!

Eleanor Dickenson hit ‘submit’ on her MA dissertation.

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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 October toots, please make sure you post your wins in the October toots thread on the forum. OKAY BYE NOW. 

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By: Kerry-Ann Kerr