Delighted to highlight some of my flash stories published in 2020.

‘The correct hanging of game birds’ in X-R-A-Y (June 2020)
Click link to read - http://x-r-a-y.com/the-correct-hanging-of-game-birds-by-rosie-garland/fiction/

‘Facts of matter’ was Highly Commended in the Litro Flash Friday Isolation Competition, 2020.
Click link to read - https://www.litro.co.uk/2020/06/highly-commended-flash-story-isolation-theme-facts-of-matter/

‘Waiting for time to catch up’ – featured in the New Flash Fiction Review ‘Disneyland is Closed’ issue 21, May 2020
http://newflashfiction.com/rosy-garland/

‘The first man on the moon’ won First prize in the Lunate 500 Flash Fiction competition, 2020.

“This is what flash can do; condense a moment, a scenario, a dream, and commit to it utterly. The details are just fantastically vivid and unexpected, harkening to an era of apothecaries, leather-bound tomes, angels and demons as corporeal as the rest of us. A delight in tiny form.” Helen McClory (judge)
Click link to read - https://lunate.co.uk/lunate500/lunate-500-winner-the-first-man-on-the-moon-by-rosie-garland

‘Heirlooms’ – in Loss Lit, issue 10 (2020)
Click link to read - http://losslit.com/feature/heirlooms/

Retreat West Flash Fiction Festival

Saturday 17th September
Online event

14.00 – 15.00 Workshop

Collaborative Flash Writing with Meg Pokrass and Rosie Garland

Discover the creative potential of working with another writer. A workshop exploring the creative duet of collaborative writing, and how and where to begin. Using a variety of readings and discussion, Meg Pokrass & Rosie Garland will introduce participants to collaborative writing. Their collaborative flash fictions have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best Small Fictions 2022. They will draw on their own experience of building a successful writing partnership, with insights on how it can be done. With plenty of time for participants’ questions, they will reflect on the positives & potential pitfalls of writing collaboratively – not forgetting the sheer darn fun.

Meg is the author of six flash fiction collections, an award-winning collection of prose poetry, two novellas-in-flash and a collection of microfiction, ‘Spinning to Mars’ – recipient of the Blue Light Book Award in 2020. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Washington Square Review, Wigleaf, Waxwing and McSweeney’s. She is the Series Founder and Co-Editor of Best Microfiction.

Writer and singer with post-punk band The March Violets, Rosie writes poetry, prose and things that fall between & outside. Her latest collection ‘What Girls do the Dark’ (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2021, & Val McDermid has named her one of the UK’s most compelling LGBT+ writers. Her story “The Hanging of Game Birds” was selected for inclusion in Best Microfiction 2021.

https://www.retreatwest.co.uk/online-flash-fest/

Quick as a Flash - Writing Micro-Fiction with Rosie Garland | Short Course

Want to create a world in 250 words? Welcome to Flash Fiction! You’ll have the chance to sample some great Flash Fiction, learn how to craft your own, and receive encouragement and support where to send your stories.
3 sessions, fortnightly from Tue 15th March 2022. For writers at all levels.

Time & Location
Tue 12th April 7pm -9pm 19:00 – 21:00 GMT
Zoom
£65 for the whole course (3 sessions)

Workshop dates
Tue 15th March 7pm-9pm
Tue 29th March 7pm-9pm
Tue 12th April 7pm -9pm

https://www.outonthepage.co.uk/event-details/quick-as-a-flash-writing-micro-fiction-with-rosie-garland-short-course

National Flash Fiction Day - FlashFlood

My flash fiction, What goes on in the bushes, will appear on the FlashFlood journal at around 10:40 a.m. (BST) on Saturday, the 26th of June 2021 (National Flash Fiction Day 2021).
http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/

NFFD Anthology 2021

At 7pm (BST) the NFFD Anthology 2021 ‘Legerdemain’ is launched!
Everyone is invited to the online launch of the 2021 UK NFFD anthology 'Legerdemain'. From 7 pm on the day, over thirty authors will be sharing their stories with you via YouTube. You will be able to access the videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYUyp0Ylh1BXeFH_TJvHwcg

https://www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/2021/06/02/national-flash-fiction-day-2021-anthology-title-and-cover-reveal/

The FlashFlood Editors
http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/
https://nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/