Build your knowledge of poetic style and form with our very first course series✨ Have you ever wanted to write poetry but felt held back by your lack of formal knowledge? Or are you already writing poetry and would like a better grounding?

Exciting to have the first meeting of our new Steering Group! We've got lots of exciting plans for 2025/6 and beyond and such great people to help make it happen ✨️ Who can you spy? 🔎🔎

I've studied much #poetry in academic settings, often super boring & I can say THIS 1st session on sonnets was a delight. Interesting, inspiring, organized, substantial. Can't wait for Rhythm & Ballad in session 2. TY, @saloneurope.bsky.social.

Next session 23 November - Rhythm and The Ballad. Join us! 🖊 🖋

Build your knowledge of poetic style and form with our very first course series✨ Have you ever wanted to write poetry but felt held back by your lack of formal knowledge? Or are you already writing poetry and would like a better grounding?

5 tickets left....

We have an interview with Salman Rushdie in our Nov 28th issue - his new book drops today, plus work by @margaretatwood.bsky.social @pattismithh.bsky.social and @johnirvingimr.bsky.social @devorahreine.bsky.social #publicationday #publishedtoday @anthonyhopkinss.bsky.social

Only a few tickets left for London! ✨Pop-up Salon at Queen’s Larder, where we’ll be hosting another of our popular open mic nights with our friends at Insurgent Press🌟 We’ll listen to excellent readings and get to know writers from across Europe

Only a few tickets left for London! ✨Pop-up Salon at Queen’s Larder, where we’ll be hosting another of our popular open mic nights with our friends at Insurgent Press🌟 We’ll listen to excellent readings and get to know writers from across Europe

Closing for Issue 4 ...TONIGHT!!!

On a poet hunt. Any word welders up for online open-miking on 28th January? @saloneurope.bsky.social

Seven hours in The Lair tonight, got a shitload done, cracking job. Got booked in for the next @saloneurope.bsky.social online event for what will be the first reading in 2026 from Keshed. You don't wanna miss it. Do you? Actually, don't answer that.

“After I gave birth, I understood entropy. Everything decays. Disorder is invincible. Raging in front of the Sex Museum in Amsterdam, I became entropy.” gonelawn.net/journal/issu... Read this, ooof. 😮 By @kplumhoff.bsky.social the Diva.

Writing our listings email tonight If you have a submission call, competition, event, course or anything else writers would like to know about, please let us know!

I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚 www.tickettailor.com/events/westw...

everyone involved in @saloneurope.bsky.social is simply gorgeous

Berlin book launch for Amateurs! At the HQ of the great @spikeart.bsky.social 4 November Spike Berlin Goebenstr. 22 10783 Berlin 7-10pm Tell your Berlin friends! Reserve a free ticket here spikeartmagazine.com/events/book-...

Launched this absolute stunner last night. A mighty read. @saloneurope.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social 🍞

If you know, you know.... Congratulations to quiz winners @ruralunease.bsky.social and @mgjanz.bsky.social 🏅 @kiklodge.bsky.social supreme hosting 👏

It was such a fun event - loved every minute! 💚💚

Also tonight we hosted Kristjan Haljak, an Estonian poet who I first heard read @europeanpoetryfest.bsky.social this year estlit.ee/person/1365 Definitely do go next year if you can. It's always a treat.

What a lovely night, it was an honour and a delight to kick off proceedings reading from my new book - and then sit back and be so well entertained! Thank you for having me, @saloneurope.bsky.social 😊

I was so nervous but had such a warm, lovely reception reading at @saloneurope.bsky.social. Wow, they’re all such great folks. Such a fantastic evening, I love them all.

Thanks for having me! A lovely event all round, very eclectic! Highly recommend to anyone looking for an evening of fun and varied new writing, from across Europe.

Absolutely loved this tonight! Such incredible variety, and beautiful readings from everyone involved. Bravo, @saloneurope.bsky.social 👏 Keep your eyes peeled for the next one in January! 👀

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Our 2nd book launch of the night! Chaos Theory by @sylvialeatham.bsky.social We're so glad to host you. Find out more here linktr.ee/SylviaLeatham

Looking forward to this European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social, later today! bsky.app/profile/tani... #WritingCommunity #booksky

All the smiles in the salon tonight! @kazbarwrites.bsky.social @vesnamain.bsky.social @kiklodge.bsky.social

And now 🥁 launching her book Cold Toast it is @kazbarwrites.bsky.social Buy it here www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/cold...

Now we have @vesnamain.bsky.social reading from her work in progress I, Lolita

Our next reader is @donalconaty.bsky.social Donal Conaty is a poet and satirist based in rural Sligo in the North West of Ireland. His reading this evening is drawn from an epic prose poem called Splintered, which is composed of the disjointed thoughts of a bewildered man.

Our 2nd reader is Elis Giromini - an Italian writer based in Brussels. She is the author of Centomila tulipani (2024) and winner of the Belgium Writers' Festival 2024. Her work has appeared in The Brussels Times Magazine.

Our 2nd reader is Elis Giromini Elis Giromini is an Italian writer based in Brussels. She is the author of Centomila tulipani (2024) and winner of the Belgium Writers' Festival 2024. Her work has appeared in The Brussels Times Magazine.

Our first reader tonight is @taniahershman.bsky.social A queer writer of odd things, Tania Hershman is the author of ten books of short stories, poetry, non-fiction and uncategorizable hybrids.

The online salon is on!

🎤 We added a few more places as so many people want to come! See you all later. We can't wait! 🎤

I am reading from work-in-progress, my novel, I, Lolita, tonight at European Writers Salon.

Delighted to read at this open mic tonight! Love @saloneurope.bsky.social

Regardez!

Looking forward to hangin with the cool kids ce soir

I'll definitely be there - not going to miss the chance to get some (virtual) time with @kiklodge.bsky.social, wittiest hostess ever (move over Dorothy Parker!) and listen to an amazing line-up of readers! 🎉🙌✨

Awesome. Get involved.

One place left for the online salon tonight! Join 50 writers from across the globe and an amazing line-up of readers, incl @taniahershman.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social @sylvialeatham.bsky.social @sjfrideswide.bsky.social @donalconaty.bsky.social and more! All hosted by @kiklodge.bsky.social

Last night's EWS @saloneurope.bsky.social #poetry session w/French poet Julie Irigaray was GOOD! I'm glad I'm in the full course. Next one - November 23. #Alexandrine Metre has 12 syllables per line... Take that, #IambicPentameter of my youth! It's for all levels, so if you're tempted, join!

Our Introduction to Poetic Forms workshop series is on! This month, we are learning about Closed Forms and the Sonnet. You can still join the rest of the series.

Our Introduction to Poetic Forms workshop series is on! This month, we are learning about Closed Forms and the Sonnet. You can still join the rest of the series.

Looking forward to reading an excerpt from my new @guillemotpress.bsky.social book, 'It's Time: A Chronomemoir', at my first European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social this Tuesday on Zoom and hearing the other readers! Tickets free, last few left! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...

Our online salon is this Tuesday! Still time to register to hear some fantastic readers and take part in our super serious quiz. Join us!

This starts tonight! Don't miss out if you are thinking of joining us to explore and write new poetic forms.