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Edward Barnfield retweeted
We may be past the dog days of summer, but the heat lingers… and it’s blazing to life in SUMMER IN THE CITY, out this December!
We’re delighted to share the Table of Contents for our third anthology of the In the City series edited by R. B. Wood and Anna Koon - swipe to check it out.
Pre-order now wherever you buy books!
Order direct: links.ruadanbooks.com/SUMITC
#shortstories #urbanfantasy #darkfantasy #BookBoost #Bookish #anthology
ALT Background photo of cracked black pavement features a centered image of the SUMMER IN THE CITY cover, with the Ruadán Books logo in the upper right corner of the graphic. Half a stylized sun with rays in white peaks out behind the paperback, and white text beneath reads, “Coming 12.01.26, swipe for Table of Contents.”
ALT Background photo of cracked black pavement features a list of the 18 stories that make up the Table of Contents in SUMMER IN THE CITY, giving the titles and authors. The Summer in the City paperback is pictured in the upper right quadrant of the graphic, with white and red text underneath reading, “18 authors illuminate how heat brings out the worst in Summer in the City… Coming 12.01.26.” The Ruadán Books logo is in the lower right. You can find the full TOC in this blog post on Ruadán’s site: https://links.ruadanbooks.com/SUMITCTOC.
Ho ho horror. Really pleased to have my “Quantum Christmas” story here, featuring… me (and a special guest).
The 2025 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction ConThology Show exists in the wild! Listen on your favorite podcast app or at the link below. I'm still adding the text of the stories to the site, but they will all be there asap.
weirdchristmas.com/2025/12/2…
Boom. Really pleased to have a short short in amongst all these one-line-wonders. Big thanks, @punk_magazine
One Shot Kill — Issue 3 — Featuring: Zachary Wilhide, Terena Elizabeth Bell, Nathan Pettigrew, Dr. John A. Tures, William Draycott, David M. Simon, Keith Roysdon, Scott MacLeod, Lawrence Kithcart, and Edward Barnfield punknoirmagazine.wordpress.c…
My story was posted at 9am this morning, and they already made a film about it….
#flashflood #nffd2025
@nationalflashfd
flashfloodjournal.blogspot.c…
Edward Barnfield retweeted
FlashFlood: 'Today is the New Tomorrow' by Edward Barnfield dlvr.it/TLLgRH #nffd2025
So, if you ever lose faith in the power of the short story, the speech below - which Ken Leung knocks out the park - borrows from a Denis Johnson story, “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden”.
Eric Tao "Money is Peace" speech youtu.be/7qwK7V5jkh0?si=_bGP… via @YouTube
Written around 2013, a couple of years before he was diagnosed with the liver cancer that killed him, it gets revived as part of a hit HBO / BBC series and speaks to a new generation a decade later.
Man. I have a story in this book, which will be wrapped inside this masterpiece.
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Really pleased to be longlisted and published - again! - in the @LeicesterWrites short story competition. Big thanks to judges @AbiFAHynes, @ihussainwriter and @lauravcoleman, and to the indefatigable @dahliabooks for organising.
Many congrats to everyone who entered this year’s @LeicesterWrites short story competition. My fellow judges @AbiFAHynes and @lauravcoleman and I had the impossible task of whittling down the final three. Somehow, we got there, but with much deliberation.
leicesterwrites.co.uk/
Edward Barnfield retweeted
Don’t be so judgy: See how it feels to be genetically engineered, in "A Kid with Six Arms Wants to Kick My Ass" #story by Edward Barnfield. “Offshoots: Humanity Twigged" #SFF #anthology from Third Flatiron. bit.ly/3Lg9jsS #books
Jazzed to have my story, “A Kid with Six Arms wants to Kick my Ass,” in Third Flatiron's new #SFF #anthology, "Offshoots: Humanity Twigged.” Fantastic to see it in print - thanks @TFlatiron and @julirew!
ALT Offshoots: Humanity Twigged anthology by Third Flatiron
Splash. Pleased to have a story wash up in this year’s #flashflood.
Big thanks to the @nationalflashfd team for all their hard work.
FlashFlood: 'Observing the Speed Limit in Liminal Space' by Edward Barnfield dlvr.it/T8Klgz #nffd2024
Well, how about that? Buzzed to have a story nestling beside work by all these great writers. Big thanks to @pbarb and @HungryShadow1 for letting me join the party.
🚨 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! 🚨
Look at this FREAKING UNBELIEVABLE #TOC for AND ONE DAY WE WILL DIE: STRANGE STORIES INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC OF #NEUTRALMILKHOTEL edited by @pbarb with a foreword by @awaytobuildit! (Author tags in following post)
Blog link: bit.ly/3VkdCrz
Edward Barnfield retweeted
Very excited to reveal the cover & title of this year's anthology. Many thanks to Jennifer Brutschy for allowing us to use her story title as the title of the anthology & to @InkLinked for designing such a wonderful cover. You can pre-order from our bookshop.
A short, sharp shock for your Saturday morning. Big thanks to @punk_magazine for publishing.
Walk Straight ‘til You Hear the Splash punknoirmagazine.wordpress.c…
Whoop, whoop! This is quite a writing month.
Great to see my highly commended story here. Big thanks to the team at @RCSherrifftrust and congrats to the winners!
The full list of winners and winning, highly commended and commended entries can be found here:
rcsherrifftrust.org.uk/elmbr…
@ElmbridgeBC
From one flood to another…. Very happy that my story, ‘Observing the Speed Limit in Liminal Space’, will appear in FlashFlood journal at around 21:45 BST on June 15 (National Flash Fiction Day). Big thanks to the team at @nationalflashfd!
Well, this is rather wonderful.
‘Back in the day of the York Minster, you could be barred for being boring, but never for being drunk.’
@CharlotteIvers steps back into seventies Soho, trying to live — and drink — like the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker.
the-fence.com/bakers-dozen/
