We’re delighted to partner with Headline Eternal to launch Modern Stories: It Must Be Love, a romance novel-writing competition seeking to support emerging writers from Black, Asian, mixed heritage and/or multiple ethnic backgrounds. Opens for entries 12 Feb, learn more:

Folding the pages of a borrowed book is bad book etiquette. Dungeon behavior, really.

why is it always the 30k mark!!

Unsolicited writing advice from someone who's just regained their writing mojo: Stop worrying about the market. Just write something you think is fascinating. If you can, distance yourself from people who sap your confidence about your writing and yourself. Celebrate every achievement.

I received a scholarship place in 2022 and it was invaluable in terms of how I now view craft, approaching the blank page, and my own self-belief. Opportunities like this are so important for diversity in the industry. Apply!!!

Scholarship reminder! Our Breakthrough Novel-Writing Scholarship For Writers of Colour closes soon. This scholarship will award one talented writer of colour with limited financial means a place on our three-month Writing Your Novel course in London with Laura Barnett 📚 🗓️ Apply by 26 Oct:

I live in one of the most multicultural areas of the UK and there is rarely a day where I'm not positively impacted by that - whether it's delicious food, really good local businesses or my incredibly kind neighbours. I'm not saying this as a political statement, more just a reality of my life.

Still plenty of time to enter, but don't put it off forever! Closing date is the 22nd of May. www.iaminprint.co.uk/competitions...

Obviously it's a first draft so it's not a book, nor is it good, but the vision is good, the dream of it has the aroma of goodness.

I got some advice from an agent recently and oh my gosh - I love this book....like it...it might actually be GOOD. #amwriting

Our Breakthrough Novel-Writing Scholarship for Writers of Colour closes this weekend! ⏰ This scholarship will enable a talented writer of colour to join our three-month online Writing Your Novel course taught by Christopher Wakling 📚 Apply by 9 Feb:

I must not be a perfectionist. Perfectionism is the first draft killer. 😭 #writing #booksky

Issue 3 of @thebelfastreview.bsky.social An absolutely gorgeous publication! Online preview thebelfastreview.wixsite.com/home/copy-of... with sneak peek of my book, “Barren” (due out end of March) with the first chapter published p33 Thanks for including me alongside such talented writers.

lyrics to my songs 'by the light of the winter sun' and 'i dreamed last night' are published in the belfast review today! very exciting.

We’re days away from launching Issue 3. Launch will be on social media, as before, so everyone can promote themselves & share each other’s work. Follow us here, Insta or Bsky. Print & digital issues will be in our shop, plus a free preview online🍀

CLYTEMNESTRA X STUDIO GHIBLI Longing for a lost home, Andromache's world shifts when her husband dies and she finds herself in a deathly battle of wills with her ex-captor's wife. But Andromache is determined to rebuild a life with her children and won't be a slave - not again #2025pit #A #F #HF

I can't enter pitch events coming up because my manuscript isn't finished yet, but oh my gosh! There are so many talented, creative, intelligent people out there with amazing ideas. #writing #booksky #querying

May I present my #AgentGuide for #YouDeservepIt - THE BREATH OF SILENCE, an epic fantasy with: Warrior FMC + Smuggler MMC enemies to friends Thwarted Romances 💔 Betrayal & Vengence 🗡️ Reincarnation & Revolution ⚔️ Sinister Magical Objects 💣 #Q #A #F

A trailer for HYACINTHUS, my 110k historical fantasy 🪻🏹 THE SONG OF ACHILLES meets CLYTEMNESTRA and HERA in this lyrical, golden-gilded Greek myth retelling that centres on a Spartan prince’s desire for glory and all consuming love for a god. #YouDeservepIt #Q #A #HF

My kid, Nanci, has two songs published in #thebelfastreview

Ringing in the New Year with more details about our contributors. Hope everyone is as excited for the new issue as we are! (Coming 31st Jan) #WritingCommunity