Gail Anderson 🦜

Writer: Ignite Fellow 2023 @scottishbktrust, CW tutor @OxfordConted. Words, prizes in sundry places. Sailor. Swimmer. Former animator.

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

Crazy-happy my odd little octopus flash won the @NewWriters_UK 2024 prize! 🐙 🥂🌞

Many thanks @tiredpsych for your lovely words – and big congrats to fellow prize winners @janeannedugdale + Twig Firth + all short and longlisters! WOO-HOO! @atwbyrne @jupiterjonz @biddablesheep

[Mslexia ✨ @Mslexia]

Congrats to our Flash Fiction Competition finalists! Beatriz Sasse for ‘Where white pebbles dream’, Gail Anderson @smallgreenberd for ‘Parenthetical’, and Margaux Vialleron @MargauxVlln for ‘The story of the woman with cold hands’! 🙌

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@JackieMorrisArt I've been looking for an update as to where Hound stands in its publication? I see the subs have closed on it. Do you have a date it will be ready? I'm looking forward to seeing it, and hopeful it might be my friend's Christmas present this year!

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@NewWriters_UK @SundressPub @JordanHamel_ Thank you!❤️❤️

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@BrittanyFerries when is your 2025 sailing schedule due to be published, please?

[Matt Kendrick @MkenWrites]

Wonderful to see the return of @matchbooklitmag after their hiatus. This story from @GabeDurham is a peach (or a pumpkin or an artichoke) - "For my first three Halloweens I was a pumpkin. When the following year I got to choose, I asked to be a butternut squash."

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@jupiterjonz @nationalflashfd @karjon @sarahillswrites Well done! 🥂🥂🥂

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@Fionajanemack @FairlightBooks Just read it, Fiona — it drew me right in! Such excellent detail in the boating/fishing, the strong characters, and such a glorious ending. What a great story — you go from strength to strength!

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@mickfortune Thanks Mick — and yes, see you both soon! ❤️

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

Crazy-happy my odd little octopus flash won the @NewWriters_UK 2024 prize! 🐙 🥂🌞

Many thanks @tiredpsych for your lovely words – and big congrats to fellow prize winners @janeannedugdale + Twig Firth + all short and longlisters! WOO-HOO! @atwbyrne @jupiterjonz @biddablesheep

[ON HIATUS Stephanie Carty @tiredpsych]

There is now a SELF-LED version of my popular Psychology of Character for Writers online course.
Same resources and immediate access to work through by yourself.
Low fee with access till Feb 2025.
✍️ 🧠 1/2

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@Fionajanemack @NewWriters_UK @tiredpsych @janeannedugdale @atwbyrne @jupiterjonz @biddablesheep @FictiveDream Fiona, just read your 'Different Ways to Catch the LIght' in @FictiveDream – what a moving, perfect story. And yes – interspecies communications! Maybe we should team up to write a flash bestiary? 😉🦦🐙

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@jupiterjonz @NewWriters_UK @tiredpsych @janeannedugdale @atwbyrne @biddablesheep Thank you so much! 🌞

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@sb_sweeney @NewWriters_UK @tiredpsych @janeannedugdale @atwbyrne @jupiterjonz @biddablesheep Ha, Sean - as well you know, you have to have been snapped by a few first to know to avoid them! 🦞🦞 Many thanks!

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@LouiseIhringer @NewWriters_UK @tiredpsych @janeannedugdale @atwbyrne @jupiterjonz @biddablesheep Thanks Louise – I could not be more thrilled!!

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@JakeKendallAuth @NewWriters_UK @tiredpsych @janeannedugdale @atwbyrne @jupiterjonz @biddablesheep Thank you, Jake! So chuffed!

(Actual footage of me on hearing the news ⬇️)

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@janeannedugdale An excellent story, @janeannedugdale!

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@biddablesheep @NewWriters_UK @tiredpsych @janeannedugdale Thank you, Frances! I'm thrilled! 🌞

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@SedateBookings @BuffaloNichols @FatPossum Saw you tonight @BuffaloNichols in Glasgow’s Macintosh Church @ccfest and you were HOT. Thanks for a tremendous evening. 🎸 ⭐️ 🙏

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@heckaseuss Happy birthday (a day late) from Scotland. Love your work. Keep on keepin on. ❤️

[Gail Anderson 🦜 @smallgreenberd]

@BBCSSO @christhile Incredible evening!!