@mattkendrick.bsky.social
Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
@mattkendrick.bsky.socialThis brought me so much joy - thank you!
@mattkendrick.bsky.socialThanks, Lori. Hope you're doing okay. Have a great Sunday!
@mattkendrick.bsky.socialAw, that's so kind, Anne. I'm glad you're enjoying the EF - I really enjoy teaching this course, especially when I'm working with such wonderful writers. Have a brilliant Sunday and keep up the good work!
@mattkendrick.bsky.socialThanks, Bronwen. Think I saw that you're also continuing to suffer. Looks like you've had some nice travels to France though? The Loire? I used to live around there so I know that area quite well - brought back some lovely memories.
@mattkendrick.bsky.socialThanks, Suzanne. Isn't life ridiculous some times? Especially when you have ridiculous bodies like ours! Hope the universe is being kinder to you this week and that you're enjoying the Editorial Funnel.
@mattkendrick.bsky.socialThanks, Georgene. You too. Hope you're having a nice Saturday.
@mattkendrick.bsky.socialThanks Clodagh. It's nice to know I'm being somewhat useful to the world. Definitely not feeling like I'm really doing that today, but hopefully somewhat helpful on other days. Hope you're enjoying the EF. Looking forward to catching up tomorrow.
@mattkendrick.bsky.socialPS apologies to those at my workshop earlier - I was NOT at my best and I hope it didn't come across too much. PPS apologies to everyone who I owe stuff to (like replies to emails) PPPS apologies for missing everyone's brilliant writing - I've missed so much this last month. 🫥
@mattkendrick.bsky.social🫠 Sick & tired of feeling sick & tired this week. Sometimes spoonie life is TOUGH. Mainly posting this as I know there are many others suffering alongside me. Someone posted something about their illness earlier in the week & it really helped me. So, I hope this helps someone in the same way.
@mattkendrick.bsky.socialLast (ish) call for this. Tomorrow night at 7pm BST or Saturday morning UK time (9am start) 👇 How writers handle time is something I often pick up on in my editing work and hopefully this session gives plenty of ideas for handling it in a stronger fashion
@mattkendrick.bsky.socialMy #CraftArticle for October is on creating complex characters and making sure they aren't entirely "good", thinking about the roots of good and evil, good questions to make good characters do bad things, the inner battle etc:
@mattkendrick.bsky.social"It is spring – that month that comes in like a lamb and takes its leave with a vicious swipe of its lion’s paw"
A stunner from @fionamckay.bsky.social Love the language, the rhythms, the deep and resonant emotions beneath every word. Brilliant, brilliant writing.
@mattkendrick.bsky.socialI've read it about twenty times already. I love it so much. One of my favourite flashes of the year for sure! I so admire you in the way you always give your reader something unexpected, something new; how you're always finding wonderful ways to make your writing fresh.
@mattkendrick.bsky.social"Shards of white gleam in the starlight. My teeth, crusted into the frozen roadside soil. Eyeteeth. The molar I chipped in middle school."
Love how @mynachang.bsky.social plays around with time in this tense, beautifully written piece of flash. Wonderful writing.
@mattkendrick.bsky.socialIsn't it just? I had to just sit with this one. Some amazing work in this anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute.
@mattkendrick.bsky.social"Hey Trixie,
Meet us at the Fernwood Cemetery this Sunday- we’ll be passing through."
Wonderful use of the epistolary from @rgvaughan.bsky.social
@mattkendrick.bsky.social"The husbands crave sex. The babies crave feeding. The mothers crave sleep. They discuss these things with the facilitator in the New Mothers Group."
The way this piece from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social moves through perspectives and time is so skilful and fascinating; wonderful flash
@mattkendrick.bsky.social"you love sleeping on a roof so much more than sleeping under a roof—and you feel something move in your beard but it isn’t alarming"
A tiny gem of a piece from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social; I love the whole feel of this; sparkling writing
@mattkendrick.bsky.social"Long, dark hair in a black bikini. In one she’s topless, in another she’s with her cousin. In another she has a pug nose." Love the way this piece from @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social shifts into future speculation in the final third.
@mattkendrick.bsky.social"she was taken not to a hospital, but to a church. there: the priest adorned her face in holy water & prayer" Ooft - the weight of emotion in this powerful micro from @jjpena.bsky.social
