Our second anthology is open for submissions! We're after short stories on the theme of sorcery, from writers living in the North of England. Take a look, send us a tale - and if you could help spread the word, that would be magical 🪄 🔮 carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/

Morgan cut her hair, stole a dead boy's clothes, and walked out of a burning Camelot with her mother's dragon scale. To save Britain she needs the Knight. To deserve the Knight must destroy the only power she has. THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA/SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN #QueerPit #sapphic #A #UP #F #MYTH

‼️Writers, don't forget - The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition closes on 1 JULY at midnight! We're looking for fresh voices and bold ideas. Up to 3,500 words, set all or mainly in the past. Full details and entry form at historicalwriters.org/awards/the-d... #HWADDSS26

Applications for our Jen Eve Taylor Novel-Writing Scholarship for Disabled Writers are now open! 🌟 This scholarship, in memory of Jen Eve Taylor, will award one disabled writer a place on our three-month online Writing Your Novel course. Find out more: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/the-j...

Attention historical fiction writers! 📜 The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Award is a competition for unpublished short stories of up to 3500 Words. The winning writer will receive £500 and be offered mentoring sessions from an author and agent. Enter by 1 July:

making a moodboard/collage for my current fantasy wip. i don't think i've ever been more obsessed with something i'm writing before. it's dark, it's romantic, it's wild. #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity

The energy I am bringing to my new fantasy #wip #amwriting #writesky ##writingcommunity

Sapphic Swan Lake x Cyrano de Bergerac SWAN SONG has: 🔥Slow-burn romance ☕️ Tea leaf reading magic system 💌 Letters exlporing grief 🕰️ Time as the enemy 🔮Witches 🦢A monstrous swan curse 🥀Dark fairytale elements #questpit #Q #YA #F

SING ME THE GRAVE About an archeologist witch who can see the memories of the dead, and the medieval seer she's excavating, as they communicate across time to expose a centuries-long conspiracy against a culture of women who dared to hold more power than men. #questpit #Q #A #HF #RF #U

Actively querying my debut novel SHE CAME BY IT HONESTLY, a multi-generational story of mothers and daughters and the corrosive power of family secrets. #questpit #Q #U #WF

Two historians compete to be the first to publish a breakthrough discovery about civilizational collapse. The twist? One is studying the life of the other, hundreds of years in the future. And the civilization that collapsed? It’s ours. #questpit #W #A #S

THE HOUSE OF WORDS, complete at 84K, combines the translation themes of BABEL with the tight pacing and vibrant mythology of THE RAVEN SCHOLAR, with morally grey characters in the vein of SIX OF CROWS. #QuestPit #Q #F

THE RAVEN SCHOLAR x BABEL A translation assistant with a crippling fear of illness is thrust into the scheming royal court of the enemy when he is ordered to spy on the queen's translator. ⚔️ lethal all-female knights. ☠️ conniving courtiers. 🔥 a cat and mouse game of wits. #QuestPit #Q #A #F

She curates history. He’s inside it. RESONANCE — an upmarket speculative novel exploring emotional avoidance, curated lives, and a connection that exists only across time. 🔥 Slow burn 💭 Introspective 🕰️ Time travel 🎭 Tragedy This is not a story about ❤️ #QuestPit #A #S #Q

Fiona, a Fate tasked with scheduling the lives & deaths of mortals to maintain the balance of light & dark, must track down a killer when the unscheduled body of a Chosen One lands on her best friend's doorstep & the worlds begin to break. #questpit #F #Q #MY

THE BONES OF RENAVERE The Witcher X Game of Thrones ⚔️ Sword & Sorcery 🦴 Bone Based Magic 🐉 Dragon Lore 🌎 High Stakes 👥 Multi pov & timeline 🏠 Found Family #questpit #q #a #f #my

Poet Empress X HOTD Yug must stop his sister from vying for their mom's magical crown. But then their vile stepsister would rule. The only way to stop both? Seduce the stepsis' top mage—aka Yug's ex—into vying for the crown. Problem is, she's wary of both the crown AND Yug #Qiestpit #F #A #PoC #DIS

THE STARLESS SEA x HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE “When the Sun disappeared, the Stars wept.” ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep Querying soon! #QuestPit #A #F #R #W #Q

Sapphic Swan Lake x Cyrano de Bergerac Sometimes trying to save someone you love results in their death sentence instead. 🔥Slow-burn romance ☕️ Tea leaf reading magic 💌 Letters exploring grief 🦢A monstrous swan curse 🕰️ Time is the enemy 🔮Witches 🥀 Dark fairytale #questpit #Q #YA #F

#editors, explore the five stages of grief on a fantastical, macabre quest through the afterlife in this Over the Garden Wall x Beetlejuice cozy fantasy horror🫀💐 #questpit #AG #A #F #H #R #LGBTQ

#questpit #W #A #DF #R All her life, Selba's had smoky visions of the future, but they’re never useful. She can't predict weather or fate, & certainly not her BFF's tragic demise. But when her dead friend returns & asks her help to end a civil war, Selba's finicky Sight might just save the world.

SIX OF CROWS x THE MUMMY A time traveling bounty hunter with a debt to pay and knack for disaster needs to steal and return a time altering relic to Fate and her Council if he has any hope of buying back his freedom and saving the immortal he loves. #questpit #Q #YA #F

BEDUÄFAN Society told Moira to sit down and shut up, so she commandeered her own ship and life, joining the revolution. Now she must overcome betrayal, heartbreak and defy the odds. ⚔️ Swashbuckling Adventure 🧙‍♀️ Witches & Faeries & Pirates ⚔️ Overthrowing the Patriarchy 🧡 Love triangle #QuestPit #F #Q

A hidden continent that protects the gate between our world and the demon world risks discovery if the people living on it can't get along. One of its generals has died, and his widow must train his successor as her grief destabilizes her magic. #Q #questpit #F #HauntingtheNarrative #R #A #BIPOC

THE HOUSE OF WORDS follows a translation assistant with a crippling fear of illness who is thrust into the scheming royal court of an enemy nation when he is ordered to spy on the Queen's translator. Combines the thorny dynamics of BABEL with the tight pacing of THE RAVEN SCHOLAR. #QuestPit #Q #F

THE HOUSE OF WORDS, complete at 84K, combines the translation themes of BABEL with the tight pacing and vibrant mythology of THE RAVEN SCHOLAR, with morally grey characters in the vein of SIX OF CROWS. #QuestPit #Q #F

Elara: grappling with divine power & joining a rebellion, lest her bff be drafted. Adrian: grappling with a crush & having to wake up early. Oh, and deciding if he’ll take up the mantle of power. 🕊️A LIGHT THAT BINDS 🗡️a heist ✨stolen magic 🔥slow burn 🏛️political intrigue #Q #A #F #RF #QuestPit

✨🌊CURSED CURRENTS🌊✨ When a curse surges across the land, a scorned queen must work with the prince who stole her crown to uncover a royal conspiracy, only to discover her buried truth is the realm’s only salvation. #QuestPit #Q #A #RF

Sailor Moon x 🇮🇩 folklore A messy magical hero never fails her quests. But when a witch queen curses her family, turns her sister into a puppet, she's forced to fulfill a pact to save them. A pact that involves stealing the heart of her soulmate for the queen #questpit #YA #F

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN × THE RAVEN SCHOLAR × Ukrainian folklore To find her missing mentor and escape her murky past, an ambitious student must investigate a deadly conspiracy brewing in the mythical underworld of her city. #questpit #A #F #W #ownvoices

Once a famous musician, Abbas Faridi lives a quiet life in Calais, until the death of a migrant boy shatters his fragile anonymity. When a string of similar deaths follow, Abbas is drawn into a reluctant partnership with Dr. Aiysha Obeid in a dangerous search for justice. #questpit #W #A #T #LF

A Literary Agents Guide To: Fated Fires ✨Slow Burn Sapphic Romance✨ ✨Court Politics with a side of magic✨ ✨Unknown true identity✨ ✨Betrayal ✨ ✨Girlhood!!!!✨ #questpit #W #DF #R #YA

A young wizard’s journey to reconcile his past goes sideways when he is robbed and taken to a cursed and decrepit village where things aren’t as they appear. One guest turns into another, and he must rely on the last people he ever would have chosen to keep moving forward. #QuestPit #ROMCOM #NA

♣️♦️ PHANTASMA X SINNERS ♥️♠️ This New Adult Fantasy Features: 🃏 Dual POVs 🎲 Second Chance Romance 🃏 Deadly Bargains 🎲 Sinful Behavior 🃏 Poisons & Playing Cards 🎲 Black Social Commentary #QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC

THE HOUSE OF WORDS follows a translation assistant with a crippling fear of illness who is thrust into the scheming royal court of an enemy nation when he is ordered to spy on the Queen's translator. Combines the thorny dynamics of BABEL with the tight pacing of THE RAVEN SCHOLAR. #QuestPit #Q #F

Just one week left to enter the @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers! Find out more: www.creativefuture.org.uk/for-writers/...

Last chance to apply for the It Must Be Love romance competition! 💘 The prize is open to writers from a Black, Asian, mixed heritage and/or multiple ethnic background, unagented, unpublished UK writers (18+), across all romance sub-genres. More details below 🧵

Less than a month until the spring season #questpit event!! We’re so excited to see all your works. Will you be pitching something new?

We have two Breakthrough scholarship opportunities open for applications at the moment! 📖 Breakthrough Scholarship for LGBTQIA+ Screenwriters 📚 Breakthrough Novel-Writing Scholarship for Writers with Low Income Find our more & apply by 20 Apr:

Thought I'd put out an Agent's Guide to my upmarket romantic fantasy, SING ME THE GRAVE! Romantic Fantasy | 99k word | querying #AgentsGuide #amquerying #fantasy #revpit

Read it, loved it. Tense AND funny. How can that be?

'It’s possible to keep your work-in-progress evolving without being seated in front of a screen' 💻️ Former CBC student and YA & children's author Tasha Harrison @dotdashtash.bsky.social shares her advice for working on your novel away from the screen.

canva is so much fun....maybe a waste of time ultimately and images aren't really anything to do with writing 😅 but still SO much fun #writesky #amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity

#amquerying a fantasy novel: a translation assistant is thrust into the scheming royal court of an enemy nation when he is ordered to spy on the queen's translator, for fans of THE RAVEN SCHOLAR and BABEL. One word can change everything. #amwriting #writingcommunity

I'm currently querying a fantasy novel: a translation assistant is thrust into the scheming royal court of an enemy nation when he is ordered to spy on the queen's translator, for fans of THE RAVEN SCHOLAR and BABEL. #amquerying #writesky #writerscommunity

Applications for our Jennie Godfrey Novel-Writing Scholarship close this weekend! ⏰️ This scholarship will award one talented writer with limited financial means a place on our three-month online Writing Your Novel course. Apply now:

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!!