I taught my first class as a screenwriting lecturer at @metfilmstudio.bsky.social yesterday afternoon! Very exciting to meet my first cohort of students who I can already tell are going to be superstars. This whiteboard was a list of films and TV we love with our whole hearts 📺🎥🎞❤️

💯 Our afternoon in conversation session features Edge Hill shortlisted @afahynes.bsky.social and this year's winner of the debut prize, Malachi McIntosh @theemmapress.bsky.social This will be a deep dive into putting together a collection, working with a small press, and the impact of prizes.

Join us for a jam-packed programme of events and classes on writing and publishing short stories. £10 off when you book your place today. There are also bursary places for those on a low income. Email me for more info. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/short-stor...

I'm looking forward to heading to Leicester this month for Short Story September Festival, organised by my brilliant publisher @farhanashaikh.bsky.social of Dahlia Books ✍️📚🤩 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559822764879/?discount=DAHLIA25

I'm so looking forward to being part of this 👏 I'll be in conversation with Malachi McIntosh and @farhanashaikh.bsky.social about the Edge Hill Prize shortlist and all things short stories. Join us in Leicester in September for what looks set to be a really inspiring weekend!

This looks well worth a go 👏 Get on it, screenwriters!

THE BUMBAG IS BACK #KarenPirie season 2 #WhatAreYouWatching? 📺

The perfect weekend to sit, write and polish your story for the @LeicesterWrites Short Story Prize It's your last ever chance to enter the open to all prize. Submit your new and original story to us: leicesterwrites.co.uk

A quick reminder that we're currently accepting pitches for stories for publication. The time we're looking for stories - fiction or non-fiction - about what it means to be working class in 2025. Pitch us! Full details: thebeemagazine.com/open-call-fo...

Writing work will never appear in such abundance as when you're desperately trying to take a holiday 🌞🏖 💻 👩‍💻

Network@LFF supports up to 15 UK-based #screenwriters, #directors, & #producers working in fiction and documentary to attend a series of industry talks, screenings & sessions at the BFI London Film Festival. Deadline: 18th July Full Details: www.bfi.org.uk/get-funding-...

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...

Looking forward to being unattractively smug about this for the rest of the day. Writing is thinking - you can't outsource it. And contact with AI actually makes you lonelier. What are we doing?? time.com/7295195/ai-c...

This week it's a very close call: am I more excited for 28 Years Later... 🧟‍♀️ 🧟‍♂️ ...OR... DCC Cheerleaders season 2?? 👯‍♀️🤸‍♀️ #WhatAreYouWatching? 📺🎞

One week to go and final reminder to book to join me for my online writing workshop if you've had your eye on it! There are a handful of tickets left if you'd like to spend the evening adding a whole load of new techniques to your writer's toolkit 💡✍️😀

I'm really enjoying Dept Q from the wonderful Scott Frank - and it's particularly great to see a British police drama break the mold of the same old tone and style we've mostly just repeated for the last decade or longer. Anyone else watching? What do you make of it? #WhatAreYouWatching? 📺

Two weeks to go until my online ideas workshop for writers ✍️💡 We'll spend the evening trying some practical exercises to help you both generate new ideas and start to flesh them out. Would love to see you there!

Today I'm mostly working on my talk for the @bbcwriters.bsky.social Voices groups next week - all about pitching and general meetings. Screenwriters - any tips for writers starting out? What do you wish you'd known about pitching when you first entered the industry?

Nominations are now open for the Manchester Culture Awards, and we think Ghosts at the Old Library deserves a nod for Best Event. Whether you came to one of our performances, picked up a set of our chapbooks or listened to our podcasts - we’d love your support! www.manchester.gov.uk/cultureawards

Right excuse me but wtaf was that season finale??? #TheLastOfUs

I'm so bored of male writers giving us historical female characters who are apparently pretty little wild things just longing to escape the trappings of femininity that society puts them in. Hair, clothes, customs: these are things most women have always made practical use of in ways that suit them

Fancy a bit of a catch up on #WhatAreYouWatching? 📺 I've just binged & loved #Sirens (Netflix) which is surprising, knotty & nuanced - don't let the wrappings fool you! 🧜‍♀️ Also enjoying #CodeofSilence (ITV) which has done a brilliant job (I think) of centering the lead character's Deaf experience

💥 For this bank holiday weekend only, I'm offering a 20% discount on my ideas workshop next month ✍️💡 Please share with anyone who might be interested - the discount code is BANKHOL20 and ends at midnight on Monday! www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-writ...

OK this is v niche but I've been watching a lot of Spanish TV drama recently (not telenovellas - I mean Netflix shows like Cable Girls and The Lady's Companion) and they are SO differently put together to British and US stuff. Do they teach screenwriting differently? Does anyone know more?

I needed something mindless to do after I finished the second draft of my novel, so I slaved over this paint by numbers of a council of cat cardinals. Yesterday I bought it a frame worthy of its glory. BEHOLD.

Thrilled to receive my contributor copy of the 2nd issue of @remainsmagazine.bsky.social, which opens with my story of an eco funeral director whose plans go horribly wrong... 🪦⚰️☠️ Can't wait to read the rest of the wonderful new horror stories in here 👀🖤 remains.uk/products/iss...

My wife and I both properly loved Sinners - and I'm v glad we saw it in the cinema 👏 Sexy and cinematic and surprising and such great performances all round. All the stuff classics are made of

I'm so pleased to see people signing up for this workshop 👏💙 I'm planning a session full of practical trips, tricks and exercises to get those ideas muscles working 💪💡 Join us!

✨️I'm teaching a one-off online writing workshop on the evening of Monday 23rd June all about IDEAS.✨️ How do you have them on demand? How do you recognise a good one? And when you've had one, what the hell do you do next? Sign up here! 🎟 www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-writ...

🕳⚠️ A sink hole has opened up on the street outside my house today. Which, y'know, not ideal and all, but I find more myself capable of enjoying Sink Hole Day than I would have imagined

A brief guide to the UK short story scene.

Loving my latest read so far - A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike. A bit Briefly, A Delicious Life or The Vaster Wilds, but also very much its own creation

Spent an evening this week listening to this great line-up talk lesbians and history at this sapphic historical fiction panel event, hosted by Queer Lit 🎩 @sflayzell.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social @4thestatebooks.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

Thrilled to bits to have a story coming out in issue 2 this spring. Look at that line-up!

My wonderful friend @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social's work is always something special. Can't wait for this!

This week I was in London and I discovered the Wallace Collection for the first time. Can't believe I never knew this place existed - what a gem!! 🩷

Eight tickets left! New date for TV WRITING: PITCH DOCS workshop after last one sold out super quick. 22nd April, 6.30 - 9.30 pls share! #TVwriting #Screenwriting www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...

Had a very nice evening at this historical fiction panel hosted by @savidgereads.bsky.social! @alexhaybooks.bsky.social @emiliahart.bsky.social

Calling all #writers: Can YOU write a story in just 75 words? Paragraph Planet publishes one piece of #flashfiction every day (and has done since 2008). Submit today! Https://www.paragraphplanet.com/submission.php

Great to see Stephen Graham, Hannah Walters and Erin Doherty absolutely nailing it this spring with two extraordinary TV shows: A Thousand Blows and the remarkable Adolescence. Incredible! #WhatAreYouWatching 📺

Is there anything that could make you more excited to read an email than being told the sender would like to recall it

🚨 We're hiring! IPPR is looking for an External Affairs and Events Officer to join our communications team. You'll help plan and deliver events, build partnerships, and engage key stakeholders. www.ippr.org/jobs/externa...

I'm so sorry to tell you that cutting open a date and filling it with that Lotus biscoff spread stuff is unacceptably delicious and now I'm going to pass on the curse like a snacking version of It Follows

On Thursday I got to spend a very special evening with @farhanashaikh.bsky.social and my fellow @edgehillprize.bsky.social shortlisted authors @londonreview.bsky.social. HUGE congratulations to Tessa Hadley and Malachi McIntosh who so deservingly took home prizes 👏👏

101 Exercises for Playwrights is back! You can read and subscribe for FREE ! buttondown.com/MarkRavenhil...

I'm having the most wonderful weekend @gladlib.bsky.social with @finonad.bsky.social, edging closer to the end of the 2nd draft of my novel which is starting to feel like a real book! ❤️

Dear writers, don’t forget our Writers in Residence submission window opens on Monday! Gladstone’s Library’s competitive Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values. 📚 1/2

Happy Valentine's Day! 💝 "When my husband came home, there was something different about him..." Here's a little love story about a genie from my book of monstrous love stories, which is free to read online @minorliteratures.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2016/11/04/l...

Lovely to hear my publisher @farhanashaikh.bsky.social talking to BBC Radio Leicester so eloquently about Dahlia Books, Monstrous Longing and our @edgehillprize.bsky.social shortlisting ahead of the prize ceremony next week! You can listen from 11:00 onwards🎙 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I love to get queries for books that fit any of these descriptors: weird, strange, odd, quirky, creepy, bizarre, peculiar. I would kill to find the next Edward Gorey. Like seriously, an author and/or illustrator with the same twisted, quirky vibe is my dream. Or the next Roald Dahl. #MSWL