Got big writing plans for the year ahead? Submit your 2026 writing resolutions here by 31st December, and we will send them back to you at the end of the year to hold you accountable! One favourite gets a literary goodie bag - Europe only. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Some writing resolutions coming in already.... Good luck to the writer who wants to: 'Find an agent for my NIF, create an Instagram account for my writing & start work on a new NIF to keep me busy and out of mischief...' Send us yours!

On this longest night, we invite you to reflect on your writing plans for the year ahead. Submit your 2026 writing resolutions here, and we will send them back to you at the end of the year. One favourite gets a literary goodie bag - Europe only. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Want to connect with other writers this winter? Read our newsletter to find out what's going on.

Fully funded residency in Italy? Apply by 6 Jan Residencies — The Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature and the Arts share.google/G1LyyXrldRRV...

Did this writer tame the 'wild chaos' of their life in 2025? Let us hope so....

Did this writer achieve their dream in 2025 of living 'entirely by writing'? We hope so and can't wait to find out ✨️

Did you submit a writing resolution to us last year, then forget all about it? Yes, you! We'll be sending them back to you this week so you can see how you did and opening 2026 resolutions after Christmas.

People all over the world rave about German "Literaturhäuser"...but they are under threat these days. A petition here to keep the Leipzig one going... innn.it/zukunftliter...

Author Yael van der Wouden on the history behind THE SAFEKEEP (Viking), a history that, for the most part, was discussed only within small Jewish communities in the Netherlands. We’re profiling our entire 2025 #WalterScottPrize list this season. Have you read them all? #booksky

Our newsletter is out with lots of opportunities to meet online this winter. Join our friendly community. We want to meet you! europeanwriterssalon.substack.com/p/join-our-f...

Highly recommend all online and in-person offerings from this beloved salon. 💜💜💜

lovely people, quality programming —check them out, #writer skeeps 👇

Our Assetto Fellowships for Creative Practitioners-in-Residence are now open! We’re inviting artists, designers, filmmakers, writers and other creative practitioners to spend 3 to 4 months working within the Warburg Institute. Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/research-fel...

New stuff from @saloneurope.bsky.social to dig your gnashers into this winter.

Our newsletter is out with lots of opportunities to meet online this winter. Join our friendly community. We want to meet you! europeanwriterssalon.substack.com/p/join-our-f...

I’ll be running a new online creative writing workshop – 'The Dreaming Machine' – for @saloneurope.bsky.social on February 9th #creativewriting #shortfiction #poetry See here for details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dreami...

Email just went out to our Supporters and will come to everyone else tomorrow. Please consider becoming a Supporter of EWS. We use the money for: ✨️ Paying workshop leaders ✨️ To provide bursaries ✨️ Volunteer expenses ✨️ Venue hire It makes a massive difference.

Just a few spots left for our session on Musicality and The Vilanelle this Sunday evening at 7pm CET. Sign up for just one or for the whole course. We are all learning together!

Newly announced, Arvon's programme of day time online retreats - a whole month worth of Thursday's in March will bring @mailbykite.bsky.social & I into your writing room - bringing support, guidance & workshops for your wip or something new @arvonfoundation.bsky.social www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Our next workshop series led by @markabowles.bsky.social explores how we express on the page what can't be said. RAGE * TRAUMA * MADNESS * *SILENCE* Join the whole course or individual sessions.

Really looking forward to this!

The University of Galway and Literature Ireland are delighted to announce the 2026 Translator Fellowship. 🗓️ Deadline: 6:00 p.m. (Irish time) on Tuesday, 6th January 2026. 🖋 For more information on eligibility and how to apply, please visit our website: www.literatureireland.com/latest/liter...

Our next workshop series led by @markabowles.bsky.social explores how we express on the page what can't be said. RAGE * TRAUMA * MADNESS * *SILENCE* Join the whole course or individual sessions.

Start the new year with an open mic! Tickets 🎟️ available on the link: 5 mins per reader in a suppprtive and encouraging environment🎙️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975125745...

Join us on December 14th for the next in our poetry workshop series. This time we are focusing on Musicality and The Vilanelle. In these friendly sessions we explore the form and write our own.

Enjoying my first Jhumpa Lahiri this weekend. What are you reading, friends? 📚

"This way of looking is first of all attentive.The soul empties itself of all its own contents in order to receive the being it is looking at, just as he is, in all his truth. Only he who is capable of attention can do this.” Simone Weil on paying attention.

This morning, we are co-writing in Soho at Bar Termini and drinking the absolute best coffee ever (no dispute)

Was so great seeing everyone! Such good readings tonight - what a span of topics and styles. These are the links to the stories- forgot to say they've both been nominated for the @monarch.gay award. The summer of the corn goddess @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social thehooghlyreview.com/issues/murals

Every time I do an @saloneurope.bsky.social event, my heart feels so full ❤️

Delighted to have @markabowles.bsky.social read now. Always a pleasure

What would life be without collaborators? Grateful for mine, especially @norami.bsky.social ❤️

Next up we have @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social Delighted to have her read her escapist fantasy for us!

We are delighted to welcome @jamesleeauthor.bsky.social for his first visit to the salon!

Our next reader is @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social whose prose poetry we 💛

Our next reader is @nomad-sw18.bsky.social We always love hearing her read ❤️

So happy to meet @rachelmalik.bsky.social at last and hear her read ❤️ Welcome to the salon!

Our readers so far including our good friend @aldbera.bsky.social

Now we are writing from our rage with @markabowles.bsky.social

A cosy night of words and community awaits those joining us in London tonight 🍷 🎤

Tonight! 2 tickets left! Do come if you can 🎤 🍷 🎤

Writer friends, please welcome my fellow Berlin-based writer @janewords.bsky.social to Bluesky! And be sure to check out her amazing work like this story in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social: gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...

Last chance to book for London tomorrow night! Come in from the cold 🥶 and join us for words, wine, and the warmth of community. 🎤 🍷 🍺 🎤 London Literary Salon - hosted by EWS and Insurgent Press www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-lit...

Only 2 tickets left, so if you are thinking of booking do it! We would love to meet you.

Last chance to book for London tomorrow night! Come in from the cold 🥶 and join us for words, wine, and the warmth of community. 🎤 🍷 🍺 🎤 London Literary Salon - hosted by EWS and Insurgent Press www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-lit...

In the wet and cold that is London right now, looking forward to Wed evening's pop up salon with @saloneurope.bsky.social ! @deborahzafer.bsky.social @judepickledplum.bsky.social @markabowles.bsky.social @aldbera.bsky.social @rachelmalik.bsky.social - who else is going to be there???

Join us in London on Weds night for a cosy night of word and community. We can't wait to meet you!

Join us for the 4th quarterly edition of Café Littéraire: European Book Club Each quarter, we discuss a book by a European author. Your host is @norami.bsky.social, an Associate Director of EWS and host and producer of Chosen Tongue, a podcast dedicated to translingual writers and their journeys