Sharing with you our latest student blogpost. "For years I was a shadow artist, supporting others to fulfil their creative dreams while neglecting my own." Anna Bianchi tells us how and why she finally stepped out of the shadows to publish a book of her own! blog.writingroom.org.uk/2025/05/02/g...

There's a new writer for you to meet: blog.writingroom.org.uk Carys Shannon's debut literary novel Truth Like Water is out in Sept (Parthian). With it signed off, Carys joined our course Writing Into the Heart of Childhood Experience with Sita Bramachari and found new inspiration! #WritingCommunity

Exciting submissions opportunity Writing Roomers! Nothing like a deadline and people who are keen to read your work. Good luck! ✏️📘🌟💙

This should be a fantastic hour of guided writing on the theme A Moment of Silence, with poet and editor @lisadmkelly.bsky.social , exploring the idea that silence can be as important as speech in communication, and responding in poetry, life writing, fiction or a mixture! #CreativeWritingCommunity

Fantastic to see so many people joining us here at Bluesky! We love featuring new Writing Room writers on our blog, so do have a look at the latest post, by upcoming poet and storyteller, Alex Murdoch. He starts "I was never the most expressive person in the world..." ! 😀 💙 ✏️ blog.writingroom.org.uk

Anyone fancy reading a highly entertaining short story about an irrepressibly feisty crab super? See the lastest Masque & Spectacle for Writing Room writer Aoife Sadlier's first published piece! masqueandspectaclejournal.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/t... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Great new blog post on our website by new writer Kathryn Bodenham - blog.writingroom.org.uk “Everyone has a book in them.” I’ve heard that so many times. Could it be true? Could I be harbouring the Next Great Novel? If I was, I was keeping it so well hidden, I didn’t know it was there… #Writing

Take note, Writing Roomers! Really worth looking into this comp for LGBTQ+ writers. 📕📙📙📗📘💟

Flash fiction anthology contest - open to all who identify somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum - to be judged by V.G. Lee and Jake Arnott.

Enjoying Bluesky and the friendly chat! Can anyone recommend more people to follow for further book and writing related conversations? Fiction, poetry, memoir, comps, prizes, publishers. Thanks!

Thought I'd share the process questions for this morning's Start Your Writing Week - the first of the term and of 2024. Do answer them if you want to! Is January 1st different for you to any other 1st of the month?

Writing Roomers take note! It's always inspiring to see someone getting an acceptance. Really worth sending your work out because you never know!

Any writers out there at the stage of wanting help editing their WIP? We have a new 6-session eve course on Zoom with the amazing Jenny Parrott of award-winning indie press Oneworld! So excited about this one. We'd welcome help spreading the word via reposts! writingroom.org.uk/coursesandma...

Today our Spring 1 term starts bright and early with our Life Writing & Memoir students in their first interactive Zoom session with Gio Iozzi. Our courses are wonderfully full which means we have the pleasure of working with around 80 new writers over the coming weeks! Welcome all and enjoy! ✏️📘

This is such a lovely post from Writing Roomer James Woolf! I'd be thrilled with that too James - very well deserved! 👏✏️📘🤩

This looks good Writing Roomers! ✏️💙🤩

Love this idea! 👏📘💛

I love these lines - both the written lines and the lines in the sky! 🌟✏️💛

Exactly 4 weeks left to submit to Flash Fiction February so please start perfecting your stunning flashes because we would love to read them. Word count 200-850w, deadline Dec 31st #microfiction #flashfiction #callforsubmissions. Guidelines below fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/

And now this! So happy for our Patron of Writing, poet Hannah Lowe who has won the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer's Award! It's been a great few weeks for Writing Room team. 💙 ✏️🌟📙 💛

Very excited for members of our lovely Writing Room team! Our editing tutor Jenny Parrott is Editor at Oneworld, the indie press which published this year's Booker winner! And our children's/YA tutor Sita Brahmachari has just been made Fellow of the Royal Societ of Literature. CONGRATS TO BOTH!! 🌟

Would love to read BOTH these books! (Christmas list...) So happy #TheOldie ❤️ featured them. This what independent presses need the most as marketing budgets are small or non-existant. When Ambit magazine had to stop printing, it got a bit of press. But press was needed before that point! 🙃

Aha! Love this 😀📙✏️💛

Perfection in a spider's web! Thanks @gladlib.bsky.social - many of our Writing Room writers are hoping to visit you one day, minibeasts or no minibeasts! #WritingCommunity #Writers #CreativeWriting

Anyone follow the King Lear Prizes? We're so happy to hear that one of our Writing Room students, Carl Heap, is on the shortlist for poetry in the Experienced Amateur category! Carl's worked so hard, and the poem is brilliant! You can read it here: www.kinglearprizes.org.uk/poetry-short... #Writers

Would love to get along to @smallpulishers.bsky.social at Conway Hall. Looks fun @henninghampress.bsky.social - thanks for sharing that there's another chance tomorrow! 📘📗📕📙 #WritingCommunity #Books #Writers #Poets #Writing

Our latest student blog post is live! Philip Palios: "The reason I write is another thing that changed this year. Deep in the ‘core belief’ file I threw out my idea of changing people through writing and sought a new aim: serving them..." blog.writingroom.org.uk/2023/10/27/g... #WritingCommunity

It's so good to be here. Huge thanks to @devaneemily.bsky.social for throwing us a bit of rope! 🤩 🤩 #Writers #Writing #Books #WritingCommunity #WritingCourses #CreativeWriting #Poets #Poetry #Fiction #Memoir #FlashFiction #ShortStory #IndependentPress