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Tag: Flash Fiction

‘The Composition of Us’ by Johanna Robinson

11th January 202118th January 2021  Johanna Robinson

Johanna Robinson’s flash fiction, ‘The Composition of Us’, celebrates friendship between women – the joy, tears, late night talks and parties experienced before the pandemic and now in lockdown, online.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Corona Pandemic, Creative Writing, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Fiction, Flash Fiction, friendship, girlfriends, Johanna Robinson, Lockdown Living, Pandemic

‘Snip Snip’ by Victoria Smith, Joint Second Place in the Lucy Writers Flash Fiction Competition

18th June 201918th June 2019  Victoria Smith

Keeley is one of the few hairdressers left in the kingdom when the resident dictator requires a new hair cut. Terrified of saying no, three guards whisk her off to the palace to trim his ‘Eminence’s’ hair. Victoria Smith’s witty and deftly told short story is one for Angela Carter fans everywhere.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Angela Carter, Byte The Book, Creative Writing, Flash Fiction, Lucy Writers Flash Fiction Competition, My Ly, Retreat West, Snip Snip, Victoria Smith

‘Anactoria’ by Kate Ellis, Joint Second Place in the Lucy Writers Flash Fiction Competition

5th June 201910th June 2019  Kate Ellis

A knock at the door reawakens Professor Spencer from her reveries over the ancient Greek poet, Sappho. In this lush & poetic fragment of flash fiction, Kate Ellis celebrates the heated passions of women for women in literature and throughout history.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Byte The Book, Charles Algernon Swinburne, Erinna, Flash Fiction, Lucy Writers Flash Fiction Competition, My Ly, Pre-Raphaelites, Retreat West, Sappho, Simeon Solomon, Tate

‘A Very British Rebellion’ by Emily Slade, Winner of the Lucy Writers Flash Fiction Competition

28th May 201916th June 2019  Emily Slade

Dad just wants a quiet night in front of the tele, but when next-door starts playing loud music the evening takes a nasty turn. Emily Slade’s short story, ‘A Very British Rebellion,’ unites sharp dialogue with jolting images in an off-kilter tale about un-neighbourly hostilities.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Creative Writing, Emily Slade, Flash Fiction, Lucy Writers Flash Fiction Competition, Short Story

Lucy Writers Flash Fiction Competition Winner Announcement

28th May 201928th May 2019  Lucy Writers

Lucy Writers announces the winner of its first ever Flash Fiction Competition in collaboration with Retreat West and Byte The Book, and with sponsorship by My Ly.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash Fiction, GeneralTagged: Amanda Saint, Byte The Book, Competition, Creative Writing, Flash Fiction, Justine Solomons, Lucy Cavendish College, My Ly, Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, Retreat West
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