Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖
Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
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- "Wrapped in her butterfly quilt, still smoky from the brushfire I set when I was four. From the kitchen window, she saw me emerging from a wall of flames as if I’d just harrowed Hell." @christopherallen.bsky.social in Ghost Paracute, + ❤️ the word "recumbent" ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...
- "Like his atomic number, there are 84 ways he destroys. He thinks I called him Popa as a loving nickname. He is delusional about many things, but this perhaps the most." Wowsa. Stunning micro by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @centaurlit.bsky.social & an upcoming book w @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
- I'm thrilled to have my micro, "The Periodic Family" in the beautiful @centaurlit.bsky.social. Thanks so much @lynnmundell.bsky.social centaurlit.com/the-periodic...
- When you just gotta know...
- Go get em’ folks. 500 lit mags with the fastest response times: www.chillsubs.com/lists/fastes... Featured: @offbeatlit.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social @neologismpoetry.bsky.social
- Wow wow wow 🎉 Congratulations to @jupiterjonz.bsky.social on winning the @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social Novella prize. Chosen by Ali Smith no less. And to Anju Gaston. Both books sound amazeballs.
- So, this! I am, of course, delighted but also slightly speechless 😊 open.substack.com/pub/weatherg...
- "Tonight Sarah is shaving and scrubbing and Ubering to nightclubs. She’s on the prowl with stilettos that make her feet ache, powering down cocktails bought by strangers." Oh the things Sarah is getting up to! Read my latest in @eunoiareview.bsky.social eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/s...
- Tick tock I'm still figuring out my ending. AGGGGH. Gonna be another 11.59er 😅
- Six hours till our 32nd Award ends & there’s the usual crazy party going on at The Last Minute Club! £1460 in prizes — results out fast —by the end of Feb Bathflashfictionawardaward.com
- Good God that was close even for me!
- Winner of the Welkin, what a story! Couldn't say it better than Matt: "Describes other conflicts, other explosions, other ravaged cities; and more generally it explores that universal juxtaposition between dark & light, between the things that ravage & the power of art to bring healing and hope.
- FIRST PLACE in the Welkin Writing Prize 2026, "August 4, 2020" by Yara Zgheib. A swirling evocation of destruction and chaos juxtaposed with the haunting beauty of music: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
- Delighted to have my flash published in @eunoiareview.bsky.social Inspired by a postcard prompt with the words of my title, my micro has fake tans, club hopping and other strange routes for dealing with grief.
