Our next #WomenWritersNet #SkyChat is coming soon. ⏰ When: Thursday 19 Feb, 6pm GMT 🦋 Where: @womenwritersnet.bsky.social 💘 What: Women Writing Romance and Intimacy Join us to share your experience of reading and writing around this topic, (#romance as a genre or as part of other writing)

A #ValentinesTreat for you coming up next week. Our next #WomenWritersNet #SkyChat is on Women Writing Romance and Intimacy. Thursday 19 February 6pm GMT. Come and join the fun. It is the fastest hour of the week. All welcome!

I'm off to Paris this weekend. Yay!! It sounds like a #romantic getaway but it is pure coincidence that it ties in with #ValentinesDay 😄 Top of my wish-list is a trip to the wonderful @shakespeareandcompany.com #EnglishBookshop #indiebookstore Photo: Andres Garcia, Unsplash

I have been informed my winners badge will be added alongside my poetry book Thunder and Lightning on Amazon - Thank you all those who voted. #poetrybook #winner #badge @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk

An extremely thoughtful and thought-provoking article from @nastasyaparker.bsky.social Rounding out characters. We all know that our characters should be fully rounded, but how do we actually make that happen? #WomenWritersNet #writingcommunity nastasyaparker.com/the-writing-...

A riveting article by @cejacobson.bsky.social about the hidden work of women behind modern literary masterpieces: publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing... #womenwriters @womenwritersnet.bsky.social #womenshistory #herstory #booksky

To tie in with #ValentinesDay, our #WomenWritersNet #SkyChat next week is Women Writing Romance and Intimacy. Do you read or write #romance? Does it form part of your work? What about intimate scenes? Join the chat to share thoughts, ideas, tips and challenges around this topic. Everyone welcome!

In this episode, NLI Podcaster in Residence @zoecomyns.bsky.social's guest is writer @nualaoconnor.bsky.social – they discuss writing historical fiction and specifically the case of An Cailín Bán – Ellen Hanley. 🎧 Listen here: on.soundcloud.com/pddR057jUPNu...

World Book Day tokens are valid from today! 🎉 The token can be exchanged for one of the exclusive books created for World Book Day 2026 (or redeemed against the cost of a full price book) during the redemption period from Thursday 12th February - Sunday 15th March.

A date for your diaries: 18 March #climatefictionprize shortlist #WomenWritersNet

Another from @theconversation.com Rethinking the Classics series, this time looking at #Caravaggio's #Medusa. "It's time to reclaim the symbolism, to see Medusa as a symbol of female empowerment, of legitimate rage and resistance." #WomenWritersNet theconversation.com/caravaggios-...

With hawks featuring in the films #Hamnet and #HIsForHawk, here's a fascinating article about the importance of falconry for medieval women. "hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world." theconversation.com/medieval-wom...

The latest episode of the Granta podcast is available now. Featuring Sujatha Gidla, author of Ants Among Elephants, we discuss the history of the caste system, writing a political memoir, and Gidla’s experiences as a train conductor for the New York City Subway. granta.com/podcast-suja...

Sound advice from @joannechocolat.bsky.social This will be something that we’ll be touching on (no pun intended) in our next #WomenWritersNet #SkyChat on Thursday 19 Feb. How do you write well about physical intimacy and sex without it becoming anatomical or uncomfortably explicit?

Well but this is one of the many things to love about WH (in my little old opinion). It’s always been criticized. In a technical sense it is sprawling (maybe even a touch sloppy) and morally it will make a lot of us cringe. Then again, some of us don’t care, we love it just the way it is

I think we could even say that inspiring polarized reviews is such an established quality of Wuthering Heights that no reaction or opinion could be controversial. This book has been making people mad since 1848. Almost nobody is indifferent to it. That’s a gift that transcends “good” or “bad”

A controversial opinion about #WutheringHeights (the book not the film) in @the-independent.com What do you think? Is it a masterpiece or a truly awful book? A tragic love story or story of a toxic relationship? #WomenWritersNet #EmilyBronte #classicliterature www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

The NIFTY Book Club looks fab. Check Laura’s thread for all the novellas-in-flash they’ll be discussing this block #WomenWritersNet

Tonight we announce the winners of our 2025 Translation Prizes. Nine literary translators and one editor will be honoured at a ceremony at the British Library, celebrating outstanding translations of prose, poetry and non-fiction, from languages from around the globe and across a range of genres.

A great opportunity to win a place on a Jericho Writers course Self Edit Your Novel #WomenWritersNet

With #ValentinesDay just around the corner, here's a list of romance books by black authors from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #WomenWritersNet #romance #blackwriters www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-dow...

We're really enjoying @theconversation.com Rethinking the Classics series. Here's a great post about Malorie Blackman's @malorieblackman.bsky.social Noughts and Crosses. #WomenWritersNet #dystopianfiction theconversation.com/malorie-blac...

In Spring, as Scotland goes to the polls to elect a new Scottish Parliament, @womenslibrary.bsky.social looks back to a time when women were fighting for such a basic democratic right. Book now for this event exploring fascinating aspects of suffrage history womenslibrary.org.uk/event/suffra...

A Turner Prize winning artist comes to a @dcadundee.bsky.social this month – for recs on art events at @womenslibrary.bsky.social, @fruitmarket.bsky.social and more in February, check out @rachelashenden.bsky.social's round-up!

There seems to be a run of tv and film adaptations of books at the moment. Get ahead of the curve with this list of books to read before you see them on screen from @the-independent.com. Or have you read them already? #WomenWritersNet www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Huge thanks to the prestigious Historical Novel Society for featuring a write-up on The Fire In Their Eyes by Stephanie Bretherton! 📖 ✍️ 📖 ✍️ We’re delighted that the reviewer found much to like in this dual timeline novel set in both ancient prehistory and the present day. 🕰️ 🌍 🕰️ 🌍

This is Stan, my second writing helper. Of course, I haven't moved him off the seat and now I am perching precariously as I try to work (although he is keeping my bum warm 😹) How's everyone else's Monday going? What are the #writingplans for the week? #WomenWritersNet

We are collaborating with Stroud Arts Festival for an event with Professor Daisy Fancourt, leading psychobiologist, to discuss her latest book Art Cure—an exploration of the science behind how the arts transform our health. 🗓️21st March at 7pm 🎟️ stroudbookfestival.org.uk/events/art-c...

Headline Eternal and Curtis Brown Creative (CBC) are joining forces to launch Modern Stories: It Must Be Love, a romance novel-writing competition seeking to "uplift and support" emerging writers from Black, Asian, mixed heritage and/or multiple ethnic backgrounds. Read more 👇

Calling all writers! Check out the Writers Day on Saturday 7 March organised by The Writers Workshop in Sheffield. Info below

Did you know that @societyofauthors.bsky.social run lots of free online events covering all sorts of topics? Check out their website to discover more. These author events look particularly good. First one 5 March with @gracequantock.bsky.social #WomenWritersNet

Good morning everyone. It’s @drhelenmtaylor.bsky.social on the #WomenWritersNet account this week. This is Ada Lovelace, one of my writing companions, waiting for me to get going. Do you have a writing companion? Are they a help or a hindrance? 😸

At #womenwritersnet we're holding our breath until 31 March when #ThePeoplesRepublicOfLove written by follower @heatherika.bsky.social and published by @srlpublishing.bsky.social launches. What a great premise for a novel. Do follow the link for more information: srlpublishing.co.uk/product/the-...

Wow! This looks so interesting... a new novel from #womenwritersnet follower @heatherika.bsky.social. Do click the link for more information: srlpublishing.co.uk/product/the-...

That's my week managing the #womenwritersnet account over. Here's a glimpse of Cape Cornwall where @gailaldwin.bsky.social be spending the next week. Look out for posts from @drhelenmtaylor.bsky.social who'll be here from Monday.

Evening all at #womenwritersnet. I'm just home from looking after my grandson. Let me wish you a fabulous evening and if you're writing, get stuck in.

Hello #womenwritersnet! This is @gailaldwin.bsky.social on the account and I'm pleased to report it's a dry day in #Dorchester. I've been on a walk around the town to get my muscles working. What have you done to get your writing muscles active this morning?

The clock ticks, night calls, Arms extending less we fall - Sweet dreams around us creep, Gathering us up in peaceful sleep. E M Edwards. #Writing #poetry @womenwritersnet.bsky.social #tuesdaynight #goodnight

www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar... New piece out this morning. Let me know what you think. It’s fiery but also constructive. 💙📚#booksky

Great event on Sunday at the Irish Center in Portland, Maine. We looked at the architecture of stories and the importance of immersive scenes for fiction authors, memoir writers et al. Lovely group of writers @irishexpat.bsky.social #Irish @writingcommunity.bsky.social @womenwritersnet.bsky.social

I recently applied for a new passport and the old one was returned today with its edge clipped. I now have five old passports in a drawer. Surely 50 years of travel can provide inspiration for writing. Do you ever check the stamps and visas in your passport as a way to generate ideas?

Afternoon all! This is @gailaldwin.bsky.social managing the #womenwritersnet account this week. Today marks the halfway point of deep cleaning my house ready for holiday letting from March. I find cleaning the most uninspiring of jobs. Which tasks leave you without a shred of inspiration?

“Hungry and scared” by Tania Christie is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet www.paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity #amwriting

Amazon has announced a range of free workshops and resources for the National Year of Reading 2026, a campaign aimed at helping people rediscover the joy of reading 👇 #BookSky

Good evening dear #womenwriters. Are you ready for a relaxing time or do you have your nightly writing activities planned? This is Mari Helin's photo on @unsplash.com that exactly depicts how I'll be spending the next few hours. See you tomorrow!

On a London walk to celebrate the birthday of author @catherinerandall.bsky.social, I learnt that the Guildhall Library contains Shakespeare's First Folio. 36 plays were collected for publication by John Heminge and Henry Condell. Without their efforts, half of Shakespeare's plays would've been lost

Morning all! This is @gailaldwin.bsky.social managing the #womenwritersnet account this week. It's rather grey outside but perhaps this gives us writers impetus to stay indoors get creative. How are you approaching the first day of your writing week?

As part of National Grief Awareness Week, I'm re-sharing my favourite interview I ever did about grief. It was with Cariad Lloyd for her excellent - and much missed - Griefcast, a show that got closer to the horror, humour and healing of grief than any other. shows.acast.com/griefcast/ep...

Morning all, it’s Friday! Any writing wins this week? We’d love to hear and celebrate your success. #writing