Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖
Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Climate change l Contrib ed @nnffr.bsky.social
SL Bridport, Bath, Oxford & WestWord Prizes. BSF BMF & Pushcart noms.
Published stories:
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- So if you're a writer looking for those all too elusive free spots on top notch writing courses... WELCOME! ##WritingCommunity
- Thanks to the generous sponsors for my stair climb challenge, I have free spots for low-income writers on all my upcoming #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses. Details about the courses: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/courses-work... Sign up to the "lottery": docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- Reposted by Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
- Reposted by Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
- Love this so much - breaking free
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- The girls wanted to be Sue when they grew up, hands strong from kneading dough for the week’s bread, lips sealed w tight mauve lines of lipstick, ever slim figure just a whisper, just a suggestion. Love the use of repetition in this story @necessaryfiction.com necessaryfiction.com/stories/bles...
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- Reposted by Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖We’re very excited to reveal the cover and title for this year’s anthology. It’s available to pre-order on Kindle & from our bookshop. Many thanks to @jeanettesheppard.bsky.social for the image & @sudhab.bsky.social for the title: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...
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- "Tiffany who says, “Fuck yeah, this is going to be so rad... whose wide shoulders and biceps tense into tight lines when she holds the magazine out" Who can resist Tiffany? Perfect buzz cut of a story by @aniking.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/love-buzz-cu...
- "When the day comes & the air smells of rain & renewal; when the wind is a whisper instead of a howling curse; when the sun’s light is no longer a cold prison searchlight but a warm lantern" Fantastic hopeful tale from @kathrynkulp.bsky.social Did my heart good gooseberry-pie.com/how-to-plant...
- This winning story in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social is 🔥 Love and respect to @pleomorphic2.bsky.social - a staunch advocate of following your heart when it comes to #flashfiction #EmbraceTheWeird
- STOKED to have won this contest with a WEIRD ASS centipede-woman story, thank you @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social. Thanks @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and @sharon54.bsky.social for critique.The other stories are absolute corkers too! Dig in! 🧡🐛 gooseberry-pie.com/the-undulati...
- If you missed Matt's incredible #MattsStairClimbChallenge, there's still a chance to support low-income writers for a funded place on his courses (he has a backlist of 50 writers interested!) and his charity - Anno's Africa. #WritingCommunity www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
- Want to write with me in August? My #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb "Colourful Characters" course is open for bookings. Online. Work-at-your-own-pace. Pay-what-you-can pricing. Body Language | Senses | Voices | Perspective www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...
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- Only 2 full weekend spots left for our Annual Salon in Brussels! 🗓️ 12-14 September Featuring: ✨An open mic salon ✨Speakers including @kitdewaal.com and Balsam Karam ✨Panels & workshops ✨Drinks & dining ✨Touring, shopping & writing around Brussels And more! (See below for details)
- "The neighbor’s dogs barked, and the cicadas clicked as if nothing had changed, as if the phone call had been nothing but a dream, as if hell wasn’t about to be unleashed." @brechtdp.bsky.social takes on a daunting topic with a nuanced exploration of love, time & silence. @hudsonreview.bsky.social
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- "If she tucked light into her pockets, no one saw it. In her ears there was singing. In her throat, on her tongue." Lyrical language, great use of repetition & rhythm in this #flashfiction from @jadjosey.bsky.social - delighted to be issue buddies! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-37-may...
- She felt a sweet ache in her forearm as she swung the mallet pounding the eight inch nail into the sidewall of the last oversized tire of his Lincoln Navigator @fbereaud.bsky.social with a #resistance #flashfiction @epistemiclit.bsky.social epistemiclit.com/current-issu...
- I’m checking my ‘working days to retirement’ spreadsheet when Sunil, my supervisor, materialises at my elbow. “Got a minute, Carl?” “Take your pick,” I say, hitting F5 to refresh. “Any one of the next 55,441.” @chriscottom.bsky.social in @epistemiclit.bsky.social epistemiclit.com/current-issu...
- Absolute 🔥 from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social "How can you do that to your beautiful hair, and I want to tell you stop, but it’s not my place to say anything because I know what hurting yourself means" fracturedlit.com/you-are-pull...
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