If you're working on a novel, this is an amazing opportunity to have feedback on your opening 10,000 words from the brilliant @phoebeannmorgan.bsky.social. Subscribe to her blog anyway - always an informative read! #writers #WritingCommmunity #writingadvice open.substack.com/pub/honested...

Hugely proud to have a chapter in this collection! I explore the missing history of theatre cleaners, often a women's history, and traced the fragments of their lives that remain.

It's been an interesting week...

Tonight!!

The British Fantasy Awards will be presented on Saturday 1st November, in the evening, at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton. Happy `reading! britishfantasysociety.org/british-fant...

If you're a neurodivergent adult in the South of England, there's still plenty of time to sign up for free online creative writing workshops with Emma Robdale and myself through Beyond the Spectrum. Starting Monday 22 September! beyondthespectrum.uk/for-adults/e...

Beyond excited to be joining Beyond the Spectrum as a Shadow Writer! I'll be assisting Lead Writer Dr Emma Robdale with FREE online creative writing workshops for autistic adults in the South of England. Sessions start next Monday 22nd September! Sign up here: beyondthespectrum.uk/for-adults/e...

CALL FOR ART SUBMISSIONS: BFS Horizons magazine is looking to increase the art featured in its pages - we’re now taking submissions for issue 20! We’d love artwork from both new and established artists, and can now accept both full colour and B&W artworks for the cover and also internal art. 1/2

The applications you've all sent us so far are SO GOOD! Keep 'em coming! You've got until this Friday to apply. #QueerSFF #QueerFiction 🌈📚🪐 #WriterSky #WritingCommunity 💙📚 #RSM2025

Our submission window for Issue 17 will be open starting September 1! We accept prose (fiction & non-fiction), poetry, art and photography! Please visit www.wishbonewords.com/submit for more guidelines. Tag some disabled and chronic talent below to spread the word! 🪷▫️🪷▫️🪷

I'm only a little way into this but I'm already blown away - as a disabled person in the UK in 2025, to see your experiences depicted with such piercing clarity is deeply, deeply meaningful. And the WRITING!! I read p. 22 three times over; it's nothing short of stunning.

Me, return from a gorgeous family holiday in pieces over the stray cat I accidentally befriended and had to leave behind? Apparently, apparently.

Logging OFF!

Yep, that's Dora.

This time last year, Ollie's absolute limit was paddling. Now, she's started going on strike and refusing to budge when we try to leave the beach because she's not done playing yet thank you very much. (Dora, meanwhile, has always secretly been a seal).

when i feel behind and think, "i should have done this years ago" i try to remember that i couldn't have done it earlier; i needed everything that came before

UK government sat on detailed research, including reports into disability employment, poverty and benefits, then quietly published them *after* MPs voted for £2 billion-a-year cuts to disability benefits www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-q... Essential reporting from @johnpring.bsky.social

As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP

Ollie is chuffed to bits over her new favourite toy: a big rock.

An honour to have been shortlisted!! Huge thanks to @losbennett.bsky.social and big congrats to this talented bunch of writers 🌟

A fun new one: a medical professional using resources dated 2004, with references exclusively from the 80s and 90s. I know ME/CFS research is underfunded, but come on.

I've made a new list on @bookshop.org of books that explore nature / walking / the outdoors by disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill writers - Nature Beyond Cure - aka our own narratives are messy and complex. Do share! #BookSky #DisabledWriters uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature...?

The gates have opened, the horns are blowing, submissions are open for our folkloric anthology! From now until the end of September, send us your delicious folklore-inspired tales. We're going to make something magic happen. Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/

No concession should be considered good enough. This is a truly terrible, appallingly spiteful and harmful Bill.

We're looking for readers to share their work at our event days. We particularly welcome diverse voices. Just fill in the form below, and we'll be in touch. BFS membership not required. forms.gle/SgWq2qoroCpA... #BritishFantasySociety #FantasyBooks #HorrorBooks #SFFBooks #BookReading #BookSky

So excited to dive into this!! (And so excited to see my artwork on the cover - madness!!)

Dora (biggest baby in the world) is somehow FIVE today!! She has little white hairs on her chin now 😭

This is where I am. New book in the making. Thousand words a day if I can. They don’t have to be good words.

Little in life better than dogs in the sunshine* tbh *Heavily restricted to avoid overheating!

LGBTQ+ writers with works in progress, you have until July 2nd to submit a short sample of writing to @TLCUK for the chance to win free professional feedback and 1:1 coaching. All applicants also get an invitation to an exclusive writing masterclass! literaryconsultancy.co.uk/2025/05/anno...

Huge congrats to all those shortlisted!!

At the beginning of the year, I said if I saw anything writing-related that was free for me to apply for, I'd go for it. So very, very grateful for all the organisations working to make all these different opportunities accessible in this way.

!!! I see my novel title!!

June is turning out to be a real writing month!! Absolutely delighted that a little piece of flash fiction I wrote about my dog Ollie will be appearing in Issue 16 of the wonderful @wishbonewords.bsky.social later this year!

Beyond excited to have been selected as a juror for this year's British Fantasy Awards for Best Non-Fiction! Can't wait to get stuck into these 📚

An immense joy to have been shortlisted for the Emerging Authors Showcase at @brightbookfest.bsky.social - to read from my novel in front of some real literary legends, to get to know these brilliant writers and their work, to have been welcomed so warmly at Afrori Books!!

There's currently a gorgeous exhibition of Victor Hugo's artwork on at @royalacademy.bsky.social - if you're in the vicinity of London before the end of June, don't miss it!!

A belated Barricade Day! Snippets of June 5-6 in my thesis on #LesMis - a little thread. hdl.handle.net/10779/uos.24...

🗣️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Queer comics people!! If you’re a queer person with a queer comic/graphic novel coming out soon, please tell me (and everyone) about it!!!

We're delighted to announce that the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship will run for a third consecutive year, in partnership with @writersandartists.bsky.social Applications are open from 1st September 2025 to 1st October 2025. Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn

The letter will be part of a wider campaign launched by disabled celebrities that aims to bring attention to the government’s proposed cuts. Using the hashtag, #TakingThePIP asks disabled people to share their experiences, contact their MPs, and “take a stand” on social media.

“I’m in tears reading the stories of what might happen if these further cuts go ahead, which is why I’ve joined forces with others to demand action.” A strong piece by Cherylee Houston MBE on why she and fellow disabled celebs have launched #TakingthePIP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Once again soliciting suggestions for books by gender diverse authors (any genre, preferably small press or self-pub--zines & graphic novels/comics are cool too!). Drop your books, publisher links, and recommendations in the comments! Self-recs are enthusiastically encouraged.

Getting writing, queer dears: I want ur essays & poems in my eyes for catflap #5, Outburst Arts' awesome magazine. Deadline: 30 June for finished poems & essays / 10 June for essay pitches, pls read FAQ carefully! Paid. Pls share! Pls submit! No genAI! No str8s! outburstarts.com/events-proje...

For those with ME/CFS/LC: I have personal experience of post-viral syndromes (plural). While they're all different there are commonalities. Here are some things that help me. They might help you, they might not, but it seemed worth sharing. Do consult your medical professional. And much luck 💕

Today is World Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. It’s also an awareness day for ME/CFS and other chronic pain and fatigue conditions. #FibromyalgiaAwareness #WorldFibromyalgiaDay #FibroWarrior #ChronicPainAwareness #May12Awareness

Priscilla's first break-in of the year - eventually successful, but only due to the implementation of a new swivel technique to overcome the inevital leg-flail-tip-needed moment. Much hissing involved.

#WisCon is urgently looking for panelists! The con is online May 23 to 26, and is AWESOME. wiscon.net/2025/05/08/u... #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #SFF 💙📚🪐📚

It wouldn't be true to say I've finished the first draft of my novel, but it does feel like the second draft is very much in play now too.