What a way to start the week! Commended in the Marlowe and Christie first novel competition! I entered last year in a flurry of comp entries during the dark months of winter and forgot all about it. So keep at it, keep going and eventually good things will happen! #authors #writingcommunity

How many is too many?! Sure, there’s some editing to be done and still a bit more to be written, but that’s a lot of words!!

Here's a thing: In conversation with a writer friend recently she mentioned the @romanticnovelists.bsky.social 'But I don't write romance!' I said, yet when I looked at my novel in more depth, I realised it is in fact a love story. Who knew! @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social

Woohoo! Chuffed to bits to have been longlisted in the @newwritersuk.bsky.social Historical Flash Fiction Competition. Really made my day! Congratulations to everyone else - what a clever bunch we are! Watch out 2026 - here we come! #authors #writers #writingcompetition

Just got my hooves on a copy of #theapprovalofsheep by writer friend and colleague, @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social and really looking forward to getting stuck in! Who’s reading what this December?

So many to choose from! Zoom meet-ups I mean! This morning I’ll be hitching up with the @societyofauthors.bsky.social #Oxford branch for a two hour writing session. I can feel the focus and support already! Here’s to the next 1000 words.. #writingcommunity #authors #writers

Beautiful day in #hampshire yesterday, and this fantastic #autumn display fed the imagination. Look at those colours! Back at the desk now, tippity-tapping away. Half way through! Yeah! How are you getting on? Drop me a note in the comments 👍🏻⭐️ #writers #writing #writingcommunity #words #novel

Just an average day in the #library Why work on my novel when I can chat with Whateverhisnameis ?! #writingcommunity #authors

Received my copy of #brokenground from @uncertainstories.com recently and it’s packed with great writing. I love this full story on a postcard. It really is brilliant - perfect 1 minute read for this time of year with a creepy supernatural edge! Dim the lights, sit back & draw back the veil…

Coming soon - episode 1 of The Tortured Writers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts on 8th November 2025! Tag a friend and follow us to win a pre-order of @willrdean new book #Adrift out February 2026. #TheTorturedWritersPodcast #writers #writingpodcast #WritingCommun

Three weeks to go!

Hi there - a little late to the party - it's beens so busy! But a huge Thank You to everyone who came to the festival, worked the festival, volunteered at the festival It was an absolute blast! @gwynethbox.bsky.social @pageturning.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social

Hahahaha! Thought I’d send myself a few emails just for lols. Got to have that PMA haven’t we, #authors & #writers!

Come with me, #authors, as we start our writing week. So many words to capture! Don’t let them get away! #writers #books #research

I'm not sure which came first, the artistic or the literary vignette, but here we have a photographic vignette of Watson, the writer’s cat, asleep on top of the antique writing desk I inherited from my mother. #writingcommunity #caturday

Just started this and loving it. Perfect for thenightsaredrawingin reading!

Submissions to the current @presshenshaw.bsky.social quarterly #shortstory competition close in four days!

Yep - I'm all over this one! Actually am. Time to get writing! #writers #writingcommunity #authors #shortstories #shortstory Thank you @thefictiondesk.com No excuses!

Just spent a lovely hour+ with amazing and inspiring author @sophiehannah.bsky.social & #poet Nic Arbury @ #LeamingtonSpa #library courtesy of Warks Libraries talking all things Lambert (if you know, you know!) and hearing some of Nic’s stupendous poetry. #author #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Deadline 31st August fellow #writers Plenty of time. (heard that before) #writingcommunity @shortstorycomps.bsky.social

Love it! Oh the things we could but mustn’t write… that list surely is endless!

Oh! One of my #favourite things! My little ol’ rucksack stuffed with my trusty laptop on our way to a quiet #writing spot somewhere. Will I get to the end of the chapter? Will it all make sense? Twitching to start #editing but NO! I must wait until the end.How’s your writing going #writingcommunity?

Hi Readers! We’ve been away doing Stuff, most recently the @writingwestmids.bsky.social conference which of course was excellent. Here’s a snap of what you missed! @leenanorms.bsky.social @riotcommons.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social @gwynethbox.bsky.social #authors #writingcommunity #books 📚📝

Some interesting #books here methinks! Not all mine I hasten to add. Quite alarming really, seeing your #reading material on display like this! Who has what on their shelves? (you should see the other shelf not in this picture!)🤣 #writers #reading #books #libraries #writingcommunity #writing

A great @societyofauthors.bsky.social event last night organised by #author @franhill123.bsky.social talking local #literary festivals Reading from my notes it’s good to see how far @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social has come so quickly The team must be doing something right! @gwynethbox.bsky.social

Hello There #writers ICYMI only 3 days left to our #deadline #fiction #poetry #creativenonfiction and #flash A big #thankyou to everyone who has entered so far - we're loving your work! Special thanks to the CNF #authors many of whom have shared some beautiful stories with us 🧡✍️📖 #writingcommunity

This flash fiction piece by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social plays with the Final Girl trope in a really compelling and new way: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/02/27/s... #FlashFiction #FlashLit #Writing #Writer #WritingCommunity

Just under a week left to enter the @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social writing competition. I'm looking forward to reading all the #poetry entries :-) Fiction, CNF & Flash categories, too. Full details & guidelines on the #SWLitFest website: www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com #writingcommunity

Good Morning from the #UK! Who’s reading what today? We’re in for some unseasonally good weather this w/e so will you #read or will you #write?! Hmmmm! #writingcommunity #authors #poets

Good morning evening wherever you are in #theworld A few weeks left to enter our #writingcompetition #writers! #fiction #flash #poetry and #creativenonfiction Pls help us reach 300 entries & support our little #litfest - we’re nearly there! 🙏✒️

Northern Gravy have published some wonderful work over the last few years-all available in their brand new anthologies! Delighted to have a story in both the fiction and the children and young readers anthologies! Pre-order here! 👇👇👇 northerngravy.substack.com/p/pre-order-...

Spent last night in fevered #editing mode for a comp I thought closed in March. Turned out it was midnight last night. Managed to get it done though - quite liked the pressure tbh! Anyone else love a #deadline? #writingcommunity #authors #fiction

Pinch punch #writingcommunity ! 28 days to go… @shortstorycomps.bsky.social

Good luck with it - will like to see the end result 👍🏻

Hi #writingcommunity Thank you for all the re-posts about our #writingcompetition. Makes a huge difference especially as this landscape is relatively new and we’re still looking for some of our previous followers from youknowwhere 😜 #authors #poets #writers 🙏

That’s fantastic Caroline! Congratulations! @gwynethbox.bsky.social @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social

I heard someone talking on the radio this morning about leaving #dog hair out for #birds to use in their nests *If pets have been treated with certain flea treatments, this could kill the chicks* Now seems a good time to repost this article 👇 #neonicotinods www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thank you @societyofauthors.bsky.social #westmidlands branch for the opportunity to host a meeting for our members talking about #literaryfestivals and how to create one. Looking forward to it! @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social @franhill123.bsky.social @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social

The Global Online Stanza - online poetry discussion twice a month. (Stanza run in association with @poetrysociety.bsky.social) Check website: globalonlinestanza.com
 Email to be added to mailing list: [email protected] #GlobalOnlineStanza #Poetry #Poems #Stanza #WritingGroup #Writing

Thanks go to #stratford observer #newspaper for highlighting our #writingcompetition. Every post helps! They’re not on here yet but hopefully our message will get through! 😄 @stratforduponavon.bsky.social @magicalley.bsky.social @stratforddc.bsky.social 🙏🤗

Gabriel Byrne reads "Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tn2...

Absolutely. Positivity grows and grows and grows…😄

Beautiful

Good evening #writers Just a little post to let you know our #writingcompetition is open ✒️ #flash #poetry #creativenonfiction and good ol’ #fiction 📑 Let’s see your work! Details on the website 👍🏻 @simonwhaley.bsky.social @gwynethbox.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social

Hey! Good news to see @franhill123.bsky.social 's new book getting some airplay! #writingcommunity #books #sequel #writers Congrats Fran!

And good luck with it! Sounds fascinating. Lots of research to do I bet (my favourite bit!)

Good morning Blueskyers. Damp and foggy here in the #WestMidlands but halfway through #January already! Who’s doing what today? Good stuff?

A really informative and interesting evening , thank you so much!

This is looking good #authors! #creativenonfiction #poetry #fiction #flash So much to choose from! £75 top prize thank you very much! @gwynethbox.bsky.social @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social @franhill123.bsky.social #authorcommunity #writingcommunity #poets #books #reading #shortstories

The South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing competitions are now open. One for poets, one for fiction writers, one for flash fiction writers, and one for creative non-fiction writers (I'm judging that one!). More details here: www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com/competition-...