An old-ish one, kindly published by the lovely Janus Literary - on hiatus, about the experience of being bullied as a young girl who didn’t realise she was autistic.

Good news! We have a stunner for you to read today from the magnificent SaraS! This one's so gorgeous! 💖🐇🍬 milkcandyreview.home.blog/2024/04/18/the…

I'm interviewed in @irishtimesmag today by the lovely Niamh Donnelly. It's behind a paywall so you'll have to buy hard copy, if you want to read. We talk #Seaborne, autism, burnout, sobriety. They used two of my sis's author pics, which is great! #únaoconnorphotography

I'm back on YouTube with some new videos including this one on writing letters to literary agents... Hope this one might help some writers who are out there in the querying trenches! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writingtips #publishing youtu.be/buLtt3iEw-Y

The latest FREE post from my Writing Talk Substack. All about the power of the quirky in your writing worky! Please do share. And you can subscribe to my Substack for FREE to get weekly updates and insights about writing craft, publishing, and more... kmelkes.substack.com

My chapbook’s launch countdown continues!!! If anyone’s looking for a little poetry this upcoming Saturday, I (along with some very special guests) will be reading! 🚀 ✨ Register ⬇️ today!!

🎇Bookings for my August Colourful Characters course are now OPEN! Body Language | Senses | Voices | Perspective Learn lots of useful techniques to bring all these to life 5th–18th August 2024 Online, fully asynchronous Pay-what-you-can pricing

🖖🏾🙏🏾Ever grateful for these words’ 1st homes in Rejection Letters 100 Words of Solitude LockdownBabyBabble Janus Literary - on hiatus #RedFernReview PEPPER COAST LIT (SUBS CLOSE) The Bosphorus Review AkeArts&BookFestival #JournalofExpressiveWriting The Kalahari Review #RainbowPunch now the wee chicks 🐣 gathered in Mythic Picnic

With June less than a month away, the Writer’s Regimen is almost here! ☀️ The ✨ Writer’s Regimen✨is a daily June newsletter of generative writing materials by SER Editors! Sign up to gain entry to a Regimen-exclusive contest to win $50 + chance of publication. 🌺 🔗 in bio!

Managing the Inner Critic - a workshop THIS Saturday (18th May). Can’t attend on the 18th? 🤔 The video recording made available to those who book! 🥳 Hope you’ll join us! Details and direct link for booking - click photo: londonlitlab.co.uk/course/live-on…

By kind permission of NFFD, I’m selling postcards of my cover image for ‘Tiny Sparks Everywhere’ - this year’s National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. DM me or leave a comment here. Size: 7” x 5”/ 125mm x 175mm, 350gsm. £3.15, inc shipping. Sorry, UK only. NOT available in the NFFD Shop.

We are pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Best of the Net Anthology! Judges for this year’s anthology were Kristen Arnett, C.T. Salazar, Tijuana O. Eaton, and Astri Snodgrass. See the full list of winners and finalists on our site! bestofthenetanthology.com

...it’s not just about a beetle on a page or in a drawer or in a box ..." Kudos, Rosaleen Lynch ☘️ and Janus Literary - on hiatus, BOTN '24! bestofthenetanthology.com/2024-2/fiction…

Congrats to Rosaleen Lynch ☘️ for her story, "Skin Beetles," originally published in Janus Literary - on hiatus!!

Our EIC is on holiday, so this is terribly late, but huge congratulations to Rosaleen Lynch on her BOTN acceptance and publication. The Janus team is proud of and happy for you Rosaleen Lynch ☘️! It's a brilliant flash. Thank you Kristen Arnett for choosing it. 🙏🏻

Huge congratulations to #ColinBarrett for being longlisted for the 2024 #BookerPrize for #WildHouses! Click on the link below to revisit our #ArtofReading episode where Colm Tóibín and Colin Barrett discuss #Homesickness, his collection of short stories. bit.ly/3WVmyFQ

The #CWprize is open, and we want your story!  This is a chance to win £5,000, see your story published, join a supportive literary community, and launch your literary career! Commonwealth citizens aged 18 or over should enter by 1 November!  commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-pr…

Go big. Submit your 100-word story. We're open for submissions from September 1-8. 100wordstory.org/submit/ #flashfiction #microfiction #100wordstory

You know what to do! We're open until we reach our cap (which happens quickly these days), so get your work in ASAP!