Cumbrian writer. Loves cats, zombies, microbes, forensics. Editor of @trashcatlit, an online lit mag Websites, socials and stuff: https://xitter.cf/t.co/op1bmInCGF
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Here are universal links to my two new collections, the novella I wrote with @MatGost - which is currently only £6.50!, and the cracking anthology I edited for @TrashCatLit 🦝
mybook.to/SickInkCollection
mybook.to/OneForSorrowCollec…
mybook.to/WatcherNovella mybook.to/WhatComesToLight
Great to see my little post-apoc flash published in Apricot today. Thank you Lizzie for having me 🖤
‘My church is full of ghosts. They displaced the few ancient ones from Before, who’d lingered here...’
JP Relph’s moving flash fiction piece, ‘The Ministering of Souls’, follows a priest seeking hope and meaning in a new world.
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Thinking of writing something for our biohazard horror call? Here are some of things our reader, Zoe Davis @MeanerHarker would like to see 🦝
This call is open for eight more days.
Give us horror and your dark biology 🖤
All the details are here:
trashcatlit.com/call-for-bio…
More wonderful news! I stay off socials much of the week now and it’s wonderful to return to such surprises. Thank you @MicromanceMag for this nomination 💜
Thank you so much to the team @HooghlyReview, I am beyond thrilled to receive this nomination 🖤
Spent weekend in Derby for the Edge-Lit spec fic festival. Did some decent thrifting and spent loads of time with these absolute legends.
@MrLovelyday @MeanerHarker and @sjtownend (@BagBonesPress Ed)
I was inspired, invigorated, and laughed so much. Trash Family are the best 💜
As always, I was blown away by what writers can do with the most random sets of prompts. These thirteen flash were outstanding.
Thank you Jo Clark and @MrLovelyday for the second reading and help curating the issue.
Now, go read it 😀
Our Autumn Prompted Story issue is LIVE! 🦝
13 flash fiction written to blind-chosen prompts.
Grab a cuppa and snacks, sit back and immerse yourself in the imagination and creativity of our 12 contributors
trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto…
@JoyceBingham10 @jessebinger @ZachBreneman
I was so pleased to be published by @FlashFicFest in their festival anthology volume eight. It's packed with stellar writers. I just want it to be known that my story has been printed incomplete. For anyone reading the book, my story is missing the final 100 words.
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Now this here is a damn STORY. Cinematic, tense, funny, tragic. Go read. Its dust is on fire 🔥
“I socked him in the mouth at eighty percent, remembering the time he saved me in the creek, when I got tangled in the reeds.”
Some dusty Americana from me, back in the brilliant @MISTERBULLBULL (thanks to equally brilliant @thedrevlow ). Early Springsteen meets Making a Murderer. Home is where the hurt is🐔
The Green Bin is looking to be fed trees and plants and fungi and landscape and flowers and all things green! Send your leafy, soily treasures 💚
The Green Bin is now OPEN for subs of flash and short fiction until 14th June 🦝
Make sure to check out our mood board to see what we'd love to read. trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/
Sub guidelines and form: trashcatlit.com/general-subm…
We can't wait to wallow in all your green 💚
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ICYMI, it’s warm & fuzzy.
For our 76th feature, we explore the feral side of love, where romantic entanglement is literal—bound in a long, hairless tail. Read “Once Bitten,” by @RelphJp. It gives ‘animal lover’ a whole new meaning. Cheers, JP!
hawkeyemag.com/stories/relph…
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We went offline for the weekend, broiling in the bin, complaining about the neighbour's BBQ 🦝
Back to it with reminders!
🌳Summer subs open 1st June for the Green Bin
🦊Our charity anthology is reduced in price until May 31st
Links in comments
Stay cool and trashy 💜
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“His own kind reject him, fearing his size, his otherness. My kind can never know of him, so he is trapped between worlds.”
For our 76th feature, we explore the feral side of love, where romantic entanglement is literal—bound in a long, hairless tail. Read “Once Bitten,” by @RelphJp. It gives ‘animal lover’ a whole new meaning. Cheers, JP!
hawkeyemag.com/stories/relph…
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We are extending the deadline for subs for our 'Still Hungry' short story anthology to 19th June -- more details here. And thanks to those who have already submitted; we will get back to you!!! urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/05… #shortstories
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“He returns nightly. Cold fur reeking of detritus and wild things. I feed him marshmallow, shredded beef, crispy potato. I feed him with my mouth.”
For our 76th feature, we explore the feral side of love, where romantic entanglement is literal—bound in a long, hairless tail. Read “Once Bitten,” by @RelphJp. It gives ‘animal lover’ a whole new meaning. Cheers, JP!
hawkeyemag.com/stories/relph…
Absolutely bloody thrilled to have found a home with Hawkeye for this strange, sexy, bitey story. Thank you guys 🖤
Hope you’ll give Once Bitten a read. It might make you feel different about bin-strewn alleys 😝
For our 76th feature, we explore the feral side of love, where romantic entanglement is literal—bound in a long, hairless tail. Read “Once Bitten,” by @RelphJp. It gives ‘animal lover’ a whole new meaning. Cheers, JP!
hawkeyemag.com/stories/relph…
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For our 76th feature, we explore the feral side of love, where romantic entanglement is literal—bound in a long, hairless tail. Read “Once Bitten,” by @RelphJp. It gives ‘animal lover’ a whole new meaning. Cheers, JP!
hawkeyemag.com/stories/relph…
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SUBMISSIONS CLOSE IN ONE WEEK!
Submissions are open until May 22
Issue 7: DECEPTION and DIRTY REALISM
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ALT Call for submissions Until May 22 Deception and dirty realism text is on a black background, Underbelly Press logo is in the bottom right corner, image of a skull to the right of the text.
Much of this darkly funny cracker will be so relatable, some of it joyfully less so…
“The hellbound colleagues exchanged a cordial nod. Nchulu wondered if he enjoyed racket sports outside of work.”
Go read, it’s Helluva entertaining 🖤👹
My first Villain Era (not of this parish) outing - demons, ennui, and workplace grievances. See you in hell?
villaineralit.com/2026/05/12…
Lovely to see my flash popping up for Women’s Fiction Wednesday over at @MicromanceMag 💕
Give my version of a love story for the ages a read of you have a few minutes. Don’t worry, it’s not zombies…
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