Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

Writer & teacher | Flash fiction in @flashfroglitmag @reflexfiction @streetcakemag @InkSweatTears @lostballoonmag @popshotmag & more | Lancashire bred | she/her lucysmithwriter.com Cardiff, Wales Joined April 2020

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

2 months ago

Just read this absolutely brilliant flash, 'Amy's Blue Period' from @WriterLeeFlatt in the RF Arc Hive - strange and lingering roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/po…

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

3 months ago

"You may think the blank page is the source of your fear, but I believe it is the remedy" - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Writing Through Fear nanakwame.substack.com/p/writing-thro…

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

6 months ago

My food for thought for the week. This post, along with this: theguardian.com/books/2025/mar…

Sam Altman @sama

7 months ago

My food for thought for the week. This post, along with this: theguardian.com/books/2025/mar…

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

a year ago

A humungous thank you to everyone behind the fantastic @FlashFicFest – my first year and I was blown away. Incredible workshops and panels, such a great atmosphere. I’ve left with exciting new books in my bag, the writing hand cramp is real, thank you for all the inspiration!!

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Marie-Louise McGuinness @mlmcguinness

2 years ago

"I imagine you reading your forehead in the mirror, the handwriting that looks nothing like mine, feeling for the first time that you don’t know me at all." @lucysmithwriter in @flashfroglitmag flash-frog.com/2024/02/19/wri…

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

2 years ago

flash-frog.com/2024/02/19/wri… The artwork accompanying my flash by Liana Ashenden blew me away. Thank you @flashfroglitmag

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

2 years ago

Overjoyed to have my flash Writing Backwards published by @flashfroglitmag ! Such a wonderful magazine and my experience with them was wonderful, I felt really valued as a writer. Go have a read if you have a spare few minutes!

Flash Frog @flashfroglitmag

2 years ago

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

2 years ago

xraylitmag.com/lucky-one-pame… Loved getting sucked in to this flash from @xPamelaPainterx in @xraylitmag - the characters stick to the brain after reading

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James Montgomery @JDMontgomery_

2 years ago

‘I like seven best. It’s a warm sunny yellow and I hear it as A… It’s my centre, it anchors all the other numbers and notes.’ Beautiful musical quality to this story from @ek_macdonald in the inaugural issue from @Prop_Pencil 🧺 thepropellingpencil.com/laundry-by-emi…

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Bath Flash Fiction @BathFlashAward

2 years ago

Just a reminder if you have a Novella in Flash tucked away in a drawer — our 7th NIF award closes this Sat 30th September. 6000-18000 words. £300 1st prize +publication with @AdHocFiction £100 for 2 runners up + publication bathflashfictionaward.com

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

2 years ago

Found this flash non-fiction in @TahomaReview from @susanlleary today and I loved it. 'There Will Be More Sunrises' tahomaliteraryreview.com/blogs/excerpts…

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

2 years ago

"Nervous laughter, and then, as if someone had slit open the bottom of a bag of rice, an outpouring." A story full of lingering, sticky visuals and a quiet reflection of our complicated relationships with the things we've lost, by Anita Lo in @SmokeLong smokelong.com/stories/hana-s…

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

2 years ago

Maire Morrissey Cummins' beautiful haiku in the Spring Issue from @WalesHaiku foggy morning - the wingbeat of wrens along the stream There's so many in the issue, but this one gave me a feeling of a past dream, gorgeously written. waleshaikujournal.com/spring23

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

3 years ago

This one by Frankie McMillan from @NewFlashFicRev worked on me slowly, it's gorgeous newflashfiction.com/you-cant-miss-…

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Laura Besley @laurabesley

3 years ago

Don't let anyone tell you that #flashfiction is quick and/or easy to write. Every form is hard in its own way. I've just submitted a piece of 450 words that I've been dipping in and out of for over a year. #amwriting #WritingCommmunity

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

3 years ago

"We press our sweaty palms together in solidarity until we see Mama racing up the block, dodging looters being looted. Her long caramel hair flying. A beacon in the dark." Gorgeous writing from @KarenCrawford_ in @Cheap_Pop last autumn, the images in this have stuck with me

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3 years ago

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

3 years ago

“I try to encourage people who feel I’ve been important to them. If somebody says, you changed my life, I’ll say, I hope for the better, but you’re going to keep going. I thank them and try to remind them that I’m just a stepping stone to themselves.” theguardian.com/music/2022/nov…

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Lucy Smith @lucysmithwriter

3 years ago

There's such a heavy quietness to this story from @DianeGotAuthor in @SmokeLong. Quiet, then louder in the middle, then horribly quiet again - all done in such a small space. Gorgeous. smokelong.com/stories/21-all…

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Matt Kendrick @MkenWrites

3 years ago

My blog post this month is a collection of scribbled musings from judging writing competitions over the summer, thinking about the process of judging and the details (big and small) that helped me choose my winners: mattkendrick.co.uk/post/in-it-to-…