Our 2026 Flash Fiction competition is now open on the theme of “The Bell”. Get your entries (maximum 300 words) in by 8 August 2026. fossewaywriters.com/2026/05/29/f...

Winning entries from our 2025 poetry competition on the theme of Absence: fossewaywriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/2...

Poetry Competition Winners 2025 fossewaywriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/p...

Launch of our 2025 Poetry Competition on the theme of Absence.

Yesterday evening I went to a tabletop gaming café to join a meeting of the @fossewaywriters.bsky.social and... brennigjones.com/2025/01/17/f...

Winning entries from our recent epistolary short story competition: The Red Mug by Kate Diamond; Paper Bridges by Mark Smith; Just Browsing by Linda Cooper.

Meetings at LetsXcape cafe now on Thursday evenings.

Winners of our Epistolary Short Story Competition and judge's report by Alex Davis

Had a great meeting yesterday evening at the LetsXcape Together cafe in Newark where we discussed our next collaborative project, provisionally titled "Newark in the Round". A bunch of the town's (fictional) residents meet in a series of fascinating stories. First drafts due before Christmas!

If you want to enter this competition, you've got 24 hours to get your submission in!

"And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. A moment later she found that she was standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air."