The new kid meets his match in S L Krutzig's "Drive", our winning Shooter Flash for April: shooterlitmag.com/2024/04/09/sho… #flashfiction #shortstories #literaryfiction #highschool #writingcommunity

It's @poetrysociety Free Verse poetry fair day! Come over to St Columba's in SW1 between 11:30am-6:30pm to meet a slew of poetry editors/publishers, including us! There will be sweets #poetry #writingcommunity #london #litmags

❛ Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you’ve no longer been bested by these events. Remembering poet Louise Glück, in the week she would have turned 81.

Riptides pull between a father and his daughter in Jon Fain's winning Shooter Flash for May, "Almost to the Point": shooterlitmag.com/2024/05/13/sho… #flashfiction #shortstories #literaryfiction #family #writingcommunity

Having just finished Trespasses, I'm tempted to write something just for the honour of Louise possibly reading it #amwriting #litmags #shortstories

Leonard Cohen, Buddha, beef, maths and more in jet mcdonald's winning Shooter Flash for June, "Death of a Ladle Man" shooterlitmag.com/2024/06/10/dea… #flashfiction #literaryfiction #shortstories #writingcommunity

I'm think of teaching a free 1hr short-story writing workshop - like a 101 of structure and shape (the hardest thing to do in the short form, imho). First, would you be interested? Second, pls RT! Probably early July.

The winners of our annual Poetry Competition are Maryah C and Anna Mindel Crawford - congrats to them for their powerful and timely work! Read both poems via Shooter's website... shooterlitmag.com/2024/07/02/poe… #poetry #protest #litmags #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity

A martial arts master's body-bending turns mind-bending in "Teenage Kicks", billy craven's winning Shooter Flash for July: shooterlitmag.com/2024/07/08/tee… #flashfiction #literaryfiction #shortstories #WritingCommunity

*The 2024 Shooter Short Story Competition is now open!* Deadline Oct 20th. £500 prize pot and publication in print + online. All entrants receive an e-copy of the A/W issue featuring the winner. Guidelines: shooterlitmag.com/competition/ #shortstories #fiction #writing #WritingCommunity

Shooter Flash is open for the September competition! Fiction and nonfiction tales up to 1K words welcome. As a bonus, all entrants receive a copy of the 2023 flash anthology. Guidelines: shooterlitmag.com/shooter-flash #amwriting #flashfiction #nonfiction #shortstories #WritingCommunity

The full Manchester Literature Festival programme has just dropped and it's packed full of ideas to inspire, move, challenge and reimagine the world through literature. 📅 4-20th October Tickets open for priority booking from today, on general sale Thursday. #CityofLit manchestercityofliterature.com/news/mancheste…

📖 #CheltLitFest line-up revealed 📖 Tickets for the 75th anniversary of The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival go on sale from 5 Sept or become a member to get priority booking 🎟️ ow.ly/6mCL50SWVCP Join us in Montpellier Gardens from 4 – 13 October

A platonic friendship runs its course in Corinne Whiting's "Friends First", our winning piece of flash nonfiction for August: shooterlitmag.com/2024/08/19/sho… #flashnonfiction #literarynonfiction #flashmemoir #friendship #romance

Venture into the darkness (and to the Subscriptions page to order!) for Shooter's 18th issue, themed Nightlife: shooterlitmag.com/2024/08/28/iss… #litmags #shortstories #poetry #nonfiction #literaryfiction #writingcommunity #readingcommunity

Submissions are open for the Coming of Age issue! Deadline October 20th: shooterlitmag.com/2024/09/02/sub… #litmags #shortstories #poetry #nonfiction #literaryfiction #amwriting

Shooter Flash is open for the October competition! Fiction and nonfiction tales up to 1K words welcome. As a bonus, all entrants receive a copy of the 2023 flash anthology. Guidelines: shooterlitmag.com/shooter-flash #amwriting #flashfiction #nonfiction #shortstories #WritingCommunity

Applications for the BBC Writers Open Call opportunity will open from 12 noon on Tuesday 5th November 2024 until 12 noon on Tuesday 3rd December 2024. Time to get polishing those scripts!   You can find the terms and conditions of entry on our website, and make sure to have a

Here's my wondrous contributor copy of Shooter Literary Magazine #18 'Nightlife'. 😍 Special thanks to EIC Melanie Sykes-White for the Ed's Note mention, and what an honour to open the issue with my Golden Shovel 'Shivering Out' (after Plath), alongside Dilys Wyndham Thomas! 🖤 shooterlitmag.com/2024/08/28/iss…

No ordinary swim session in "Pool Wolf" by Robin Dennis, Shooter's winning flash fiction for September: shooterlitmag.com/2024/09/09/sho… #flashfiction #shortstories #literaryfiction #litmags #boyhood