James Montgomery
Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Gooseberry Pie, Fractured Lit, FlashFlood | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | 🌟 HC Bath Flash Award ‘23 | 🥈 Micro Madness ‘24 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
- Reposted by James MontgomerySo, this! I am, of course, delighted but also slightly speechless 😊 open.substack.com/pub/weatherg...
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- Reposted by James Montgomery>The Pride Roars - Flash Competition 2026<-- @theprideroars.bsky.social -Free to enter -Open to all women writers -1000 words max -Submissions via google form 14/2-28/2 or until we reach our cap. theprideroars.blogspot.com/p/flash-comp...
- ‘The thickest black I’ve ever seen. Hearing the sirens through the TV.’ Devastating, and devastatingly beautiful. My God, what a winner. Yara Zgheib in @welkinprize.bsky.social 📺 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
- ‘I watched my shadow stay behind, loyal to the dirt.’ One to read and re-read and re-read. Muntasir Salman, second place in the @welkinprize.bsky.social 🚌 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
- Reposted by James MontgomeryBut what a cutie that first draft is.
- ‘Doctors don’t cure witchery, na? The men, they punish.’ This gave me shivers. What a deserving placement in the @welkinprize.bsky.social from @anibanerjee.bsky.social 👏 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
- ‘I’d had Tom the Cat for two years when I started dating Tom the Man.’ Fantastic writing from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @welkinprize.bsky.social; funny, but it’s also got claws 🐈 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
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- Huge thanks to @saloneurope.bsky.social for a brilliant evening! The variety of work shared is what really makes it special. Cheers @kiklodge.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social 👏 Especially wonderful to hear @eileentomarchio.bsky.social read this beauty 🍦❤️ ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...
- Reposted by James MontgomeryStonker of an open-mic tomorrow night at 7pm CET with a riot of writers and poets including @regretteruane.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @stuhennigan.bsky.social @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @eileentomarchio.bsky.social 🙌🌟🤗🪶Come, there’s a quiz on sweets! @saloneurope.bsky.social
- Nab one of the last few tickets to this popular party 🎉 The previous salon was my first one, and I just loved the variety of readings. I’ll be sharing a brand new story (*gulp* 🫠), so do come along if you fancy it. Would love to see lots of friendly, flashy faces there 😍 @saloneurope.bsky.social
- ‘She lies naked under a white morgue sheet waiting to be revealed.’ Jo Withers never misses. Just look at how collaborative this piece is with the reader. Brilliance in @welkinprize.bsky.social 🎬 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
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- ‘He’d sit on my wife’s lap at breakfast and spew toast into my cereal.’ All rests on that great final line… Petra Marteleur in @welkinprize.bsky.social 🥣 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
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- ‘I taught the robot how to say sorry. Sorry widened into a corridor.’ I mean, COME ON. Love the paths this David Anson Lee micro in the @welkinprize.bsky.social takes, how it trusts the reader, how it feels effortless but there’s so much craft at play… 🪑 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
- ‘the serpentine turpentine in a blue bottle / arranges the boy’ The language, the voice…! Unbelievable from @kathyfish.bsky.social in Frigg Magazine 🪟 friggmagazine.com/issuesixtyfi...
- ‘of my apple, my cheese stick, my breast, my French fry, my toast, my shoulder, my banana, my omelet, my heart, I glow.’ Such a distinctive voice. Just wonderful from @robinzlotnick.bsky.social in @welkinprize.bsky.social 🍎
- ‘Ghosts don’t float, they lean.’ Absolutely incredible writing from J.M.C Kane in @welkinprize.bsky.social - I wish I’d written this! 🪟 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
- ‘At last, the dirty water baby has become a queen.’ Wonderfully evocative writing from @bsherm36.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social 🌊 www.frazzledlit.com/p/penelope-b...
- ‘There are exactly seventy-eight steps from our house to the pond,’ he told me. ‘Count them as we go.’ This is so beautiful from @kiptain.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 🎣 fictivedream.com/2026/01/12/m...
- ‘You asked for astronaut jam for your pancakes.’ What a turn! A suitably welkin-y stunner from @melissafitz.bsky.social - the first shortlisted story up in this year’s @welkinprize.bsky.social ✨ www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
- My entry didn’t quite make the cut, but sparkliest of congratulations to everyone who’s been longlisted for this wonderful competition! 💫 @welkinprize.bsky.social
