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For writers of flash, you still have until Oct. 12 to submit! short-edition.com/en/contest/p... #MoneyChronicles I love these little story dispensers; you can find them in train stations all over France, and so many more places, including (funnily enough) the university library in Iowa City!

Fantastic new prize for emerging UK writers in memory of the peerless Hilary Mantel - entries open until end December www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

This was so good I read it all in one day. Could not stop!

Last chance to buy tickets!

Essential resource.

ICYMI, our newsletter of opportunities for writers across Europe came out over the weekend, featuring: @thewhitepube.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @mslexia.bsky.social @theberlinreview.bsky.social @fahmidangroup.bsky.social @icwa.org @womensprize.bsky.social

Today I handed a copy of Arcana 12 from @underlandpress.bsky.social to my French publisher @lufthunger-club.bsky.social. Why? Because Arcana features the translation to the short story they once published : Bring me the Head of Louise Michel! Do you know you can read it online ? 👇

If you missed it over the weekend, do check out our listings email full of useful info and opportunities for European Writers.

Got an email to say that a teacher, at an international secondary school in France, loved The Wooden Hill so much, she is planning on teaching stories from it to the students. Isn't that just lovely? 😊 AND SURREAL. @epoquepress.bsky.social

This is what we are reading this sunny Sunday. What are you all reading today and would you recommend it? 📚 📖 📚 📖

I'm excited to get started on reading this today in time for book club. Still time to join me (Deborah) and @norami.bsky.social our host. Supporters go free to book club! 📚 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cafe-litte...

Check out all the opportunities and events we've found for you, including from @frazzledlit.bsky.social @genevawriters.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @thebrb.bsky.social @thin-skin.bsky.social @fahmidangroup.bsky.social @writefestbe.bsky.social & many more 🖊

Autumn weather is the perfect opportunity to cosy up in your home and write that novel you've been dreaming of all summer🍃 To help you get there, our Opportunities Newsletter just landed—chock-full of residencies, contests, grants & everything else you need to meet, learn and be inspired💫

Following the success of Julie Irigaray's Prose Poetry Workshop, we’re delighted to bring you her new online course, The Body in Poetry 📅 Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:00 - 20:00 BST Whether it is changing, (un)tamed, or suffering, the body plays a greater role in our lives than we want to admit...

Only a few Paris tickets left now, so don't delay if you are thinking of coming....

Our next Café Littéraire: European Book Club is coming up—you still have a few weeks to read the book! 🗓️ 7 October Our book club is hosted by @norami.bsky.social, assistant director of EWS and host of @chosentongue.bsky.social, a podcast dedicated to translingual writers and their journeys

After a few months of sitting flat-bummed on the writing bench, have finally got meself a new story out in @mrbullbull.bsky.social with a shithot drawing by @jeromefage.bsky.social

Following the success of Julie Irigaray's Prose Poetry Workshop, we’re delighted to bring you her new online course, The Body in Poetry 📅 Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:00 - 20:00 BST Whether it is changing, (un)tamed, or suffering, the body plays a greater role in our lives than we want to admit...

perfectly captures the experience 💙

📚 Book Event in Madrid! Pilar Quintana presents her latest novel Noche negra tonight at Librería Rafael Alberti (Calle Tutor 57) 🖋️✨ It's a haunting story of solitude, memory & survival in the jungle and by the sea 🌿🌊. 🎟 Free entry – limited seats! 🖤 The event is in Spanish #madrid #bookshop #event

Hey, London people, we're going along to this. Want to join us?

Really happy to cameo in @aldbera.bsky.social’s piece about @saloneurope.bsky.social, which captures how unique and special the weekend was. Yay for nerding out over tea, and long live the Scroll! 📜

Manchester Poets will be hosting my reading tomorrow evening (Sept 19th) at Chorlton Library. My reading will start just after 8.00pm after the Manchester Poets' slot. #poetry #poetryperformance www.creativetourist.com/event/manche...

If you’re looking for an excuse to shuffle I Who Have Never Known Men to the top of you TBR pile:

Delighted that the audiobook version of All My Precious Madness, read by Paul Hilton and produced by @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social has been shortlisted for a Speakie in the best fiction audiobook category: www.thebookseller.com/news/the-bri...

I am looking forward to this. Have wanted to read the book for ages!

Truly moved by this Substack by @aldbera.bsky.social describing her experience at our Annual Salon over the weekend. This is everything we hoped for—creating a place where writers from across Europe can come together and get to know each other—to make writing a little less lonely💛

Our next Café Littéraire: European Book Club is coming up—you still have a few weeks to read the book! 🗓️ 7 October Our book club is hosted by @norami.bsky.social, assistant director of EWS and host of @chosentongue.bsky.social, a podcast dedicated to translingual writers and their journeys

Still buzzing from my time at the European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels this year! So grateful for the chance to teach a workshop on prose poetry & liminality, speak on a panel about the submission process as an editor, and meet so many inspiring & talented writers! 📚Thank you!

Couldn’t make it to Brussels? Miss your besties from #EWSBrussels2025? Our free quarterly online salon is next month, as usual hosted by our illustrious @kiklodge.bsky.social 🗓️ 28 Oct 19:00 CET Link below!

Got an event or a competition or a submission call or anything else you want writers in Europe to know about? Our listings newsletter goes out this weekend so tell us and we will share.

Just back from @saloneurope.bsky.social in elegant Brussels. An outstanding event encompassing workshops, performance and discussions about many aspects of writing – from finding an agent to marketing and the nature of language. Truly stimulating and highly memorable. #poetry #shortfiction #novels

3 days. 3 salons. 5 hosts. 25 readers. 100 attendees. intimate moments and communal ones, laughter and tears, favorites new and old. @saloneurope.bsky.social, see you next year in Madrid, Sept 25-27, to do it all again.

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Couldn’t make it to Brussels? Miss your besties from #EWSBrussels2025? Our free quarterly online salon is next month, as usual hosted by our illustrious @kiklodge.bsky.social 🗓️ 28 Oct 19:00 CET Link below!

Did you meet @grahammort.bsky.social at #EWSBrussels2025 and think, ‘Hey this guy is ace I wish he was teaching a class’? Well then you’re in luck! Graham’s class will help you dive deep into your character’s minds with close third POV. Still a few spots left!

Our Paris mini salon in November will be small and intimate, so if you are thinking of coming to read or listen, don't take too long to decide. Tickets selling very fast! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paris-lite...

Did you meet @grahammort.bsky.social at #EWSBrussels2025 and think, ‘Hey this guy is ace I wish he was teaching a class’? Well then you’re in luck! Graham’s class will help you dive deep into your character’s minds with close third POV. Still a few spots left!

I'm really looking forward to this online poetry session about writing the body in poetry. Who's joining me? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-body-i...

Still buzzing over the weekend with @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels. Old friends, new friends, genuinely blown away by the talent in the room. Here's Belgian poet and hip hopper Giovanni Baudonck's performance, inspired by Turner's painting "The Slave Ship." He brought the typhoon alright.

For @mandobanjoman.bsky.social He asked people of varying ages for their first childhood memory. Then wrote a poem around it. I took a photo of him + the translation because it was the year you were born, but here's the poem itself:

One of the highlights of #EWSBrussels2025 was the performance given by four incredible Flemish poets, Els Moors, Giovanni Baudonck, @spooninmybrain.bsky.social and Xavier Roelens

One of my @saloneurope.bsky.social weekend highlights was hosting four flemish poets. Incredible variety of performance and style - and nothing like I've seen before. To find out more about them all, see below.

had a delicious time in Brussels this weekend with #writer fam esp @smokelong.bsky.social #flash folks—kudos to @saloneurope.bsky.social for an amazing event!

Thank you Steven! It was so lovely meeting you

After an incredible weekend at @saloneurope.bsky.social's #EWSBrussels2025, I decided to upgrade to Supporter. The Salon exceeded my expectations in every way. If you can, I encourage you to support EWS's vital work! If you're curious, happy to chat. europeanwriterssalon.substack.com?r=1x8pg&utm_...

Brussels book catch 😊 Came back home from @saloneurope.bsky.social with some cool books to read 📚📚📚 #booksky

A fabulous weekend at the inaugural @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels. Amazing panels, readings, workshops, and writerly chat at the gorgeous Full Circle. Roll on Madrid in September 2026! 📚🇧🇪✍️📕📘📚

Sad to leave Brussels after the @saloneurope.bsky.social - a whole weekend in a lovely city with a big gang of amazing writers for inspiration, talk, sharing and howls of laughter - what could be better? Bravo to @deborahzafer.bsky.social and the management team! 🙌🏽🎉✨💜