Don't forget, @womenwritersnet.bsky.social community: today is the final day for entering @mslexia.bsky.social's 2025 Fiction Competition! #writing #writers #womenwriters #WritingCommunity

Our 2025 Fiction Competitions close one week from today! ⏰ mslexia.co.uk/competitions... Running through your editing checklist? Check out Kirsty Logan's workshop '13 Steps to the Perfect Edit' in the Salon's Showcase events mslexia.co.uk/salon/events/ #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

See my blog about ‘Rattle Chains’ appearing on an episode of the Haunted UK Fiction podcast! #GhostStory #Blog #Podcast

It's that time of year again! Here's one of my favourite poems from #bluejellyandstrawberries to share with younger children on school visits (a calm one, unusually!!). Answer in 2nd image, plus gorgeous illustration by Kate Sheppard @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social #autumnpoems #ks1 #ukkidlit #kidlituk

Today is Book Club Day and our newest Book Club is called Sisterhood & Stories - a women only book club run by Women's Aid Orkney that takes place at Orkney Library on the 1st Monday of every month. All women are welcome to join in. For more information, please contact Women's Aid Orkney.

‘Rattle Chains’ is now live on the Haunted UK Fiction podcast! I absolutely love how it was read with all the sound effects 🖤 Brew a cuppa, curl up somewhere comfy, and have a listen to my ghostly tale tonight… #GhostStory #AudioFiction #WritingCommunity

Beautiful story, June. Heartbreaking and lyrical. Thanks so much for sharing it 💛

Tonight! Anyone else got a spooky story - real or imagined? 👻🖤 #GhostStory #SpookySeason #WritingCommunity

Oooh, excited that my ghost story ‘Rattle Chains’ will be on the Haunted UK Fiction podcast this Wednesday 10th September! Hands up who loves a spook! 👻🖤 #WritingCommunity #GhostStory #Podcast

I have a poem published in Issue 9 of @ausauthora.bsky.social The theme was ‘Cracks’, and at the time I was waking up extremely early in the morning, so naturally I wrote poems about dawn. Hope you enjoy it! #Poem #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity www.authora.net/issue-9/elle...

Nerve to Write is a new online magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!

Our submission window for Issue 17 will be open starting September 1! We accept prose (fiction & non-fiction), poetry, art and photography! Please visit www.wishbonewords.com/submit for more guidelines. Tag some disabled and chronic talent below to spread the word! 🪷▫️🪷▫️🪷

Absolutely brilliant book of short stories - absolutely loved meeting a wonderful variety of characters! #BookSky

WOMEN POETS WANTED For a new collection that "scans the breadth of lived experience across identities, cultures & generations reflecting the richness of women’s experiences today." Deadline: 12 Oct 25. For details/how to submit visit the RSF website: www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org/anthology-of...

Raffy looking extra floofy this #InternationalDogDay!

Internet Poetry - I really hope you enjoy this poem! The world at the moment is A LOT and I hope my poem is a tiny star in the gathering night… #PoetrySky #WritingCommunity #Poem

“Eldritch is a word that often appears in Scottish poetry and literature that deals with odd or otherworldly sounds, sensations and experiences…” H.P. Lovecraft’s favourite word is a Scots one (beating e.g. “rugose”, “squamous”, & “batrachian”) #WyrdWednesday www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2009/11/scot...

SUBMISSIONS are now OPEN for our next issue ‘Dear World’ which will be out in November. Please send 1-3 poems by September 20th. We can’t wait to read them 💜 www.dustpoetry.co.uk/submissions

Today is a poetry kind of day, I think. Reading, writing, editing, compiling. I’m also working on secret stuff that is staying stubbornly secret! This means less doodles for social media but I think it’s worth the wait 👀 But for now, back to staring at poems… #PoetrySky #WritingCommunity

Sound up for Pickle slurping on a hot Orkney day! 🐽 #Pig #Orkney #AnimalFamily

Night / Summer / Orkney by Andrew Dennison, published in Issue Seven. Read the full issue here: andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/ #poetry #poems #poemoftheday

Happiness is the sun sparkling on the sea on a bright #Orkney day…

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(1/2) Key genetic differences found in people with ME/CFS > Swipe to find out more. These findings reflect the lived experience of thousands of #pwME. Thanks to all our participants & supporters who made this possible! Read a summary of our results: shorturl.at/pgsjk

Utterly amazing news! I took part in giving my DNA and I’m so glad DecodeME has found something so soon! A truly wonderful day in the M.E. community 💙🧬

The Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025 is now open! One story. 1,000 words. One shot at glory. This year, we’re going big: one annual competition to celebrate the best in flash fiction. Enter now! 👉 oxfordflashfictionprize.com #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #OxfordFlashFictionPrize

Subs are open for issue 4, no theme! This is the last main issue of 2025. See our submission guidelines at flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/submission-guidelines/. If you have questions, our DMs are open! . . . #litmags #submissioncall #opentosubs #chronicillnesses #disabilities #mentalhealth

A few little sketches now available on my website! www.emilyhare.co.uk/collections/... #pencil #drawing #art #originalart #monsterart #monsters

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize Closing date 8 November!

Poets! The news is out... Submissions to "Woman, Mapped" to open shortly @foundationswift.bsky.social www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org/news/rebecca... #poets #submissions

Herbbut isn’t sure about dancing in the rain but will do a little wiggle in slightly inclement weather. He doesn’t want his favourite jumper to shrink. Or to sprain an ankle. Or to be seen at all, really. In fact, he thinks it’s best to make a hot-chocolate and forget the whole thing… #ArtSky

This little goblin loves her coffee! It makes her guzzle and buzz and all fuzzywuzz! Of course, virtual coffees are just a big as buzz as all that too - head over to ko-fi.com/ellenforkinart and make a woman and her goblin pals all fuzzywuzz! @ko-fi.com

I have a piece, ‘Snapshot’, in the magical Mugwort Magazine! My haibun is all about the lovely crows of Orkney 🖤 #Writing #Poetry #WritingCommunity #Orkney #LitMag

Cash, publication, contributor copies, bragging rights, an invisible/weightless championship belt. It can all be yours. #WritingCommunity #WritingContest #LitMag #CallForSubmissions #WritersLift #LiteraryJournal #LiteraryMagazine #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Mystery #LiteraryFiction

Just to let you know I’m now on Ko-fi! If you have enjoyed an artwork, story or poem, you can make the goblins incredibly happy and buy us a little coffee! #Art #Writing #Poetry

An older piece - Tiny Hoard watercolor, ink, gouache #traditionalart #watercolor #illustration

Have a little look at my latest blogpost and newsletter where I talk about #NationalFlashFictionDay, the Island Games writing project in #Orkney, and also two published poems… #Blog #PoetrySky

Super delighted to be nominated! How exciting! 😍✨

Cute peedie goblin with a hat full of biscuits! #ArtSky #FantasyArt #Faeries

So happy to be painting watercolours again. Can’t show you the work just yet for *secret reasons* but I’m having a whole lot of fun with my paintbrush! #ArtSky

So many excellent stories - have a look! 👀

Gorgeous… Handsome… Distinguished… Still a baby! 🧡

Entries close in eight days! Our international flash fiction competition for up to 500 words is open until 30 June. flash500.com/flash-fiction/ Prizes: £300/£200/£100 Judged by @dublinwriter.bsky.social #Writer #WritingCommunity

We Are Open For Submissions. The Short Story Award judged by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social needs you! Closing on 30th June. Keep those subs coming! @jmcm.bsky.social

A happy goblin sketch from a happy artist/writer! Exciting things are afoot… #ArtSky

A little poem, soaring out into the world, via the lovely Oatleaf Poetry Magazine… #Poetry #PoetrySky #ChronicIllness

The 2025 National Poetry Competition is now open for entries! This year's judges are Denise Saul, Ian Duhig and Susannah Dickey - find out more about them on our website. The National Poetry Competition offers to winners a first prize of £5,000, a second prize of £3,000, a third prize of ...

What a fantastic day of #FlashFlood and still going, I think! So many brilliant flashes, it really is a treat! #NFFD2025 #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity

It’s the #FlashFlood where @natflashfictionday.bsky.social share a flood of flashes all day! I’ve read some amazing ones so far and look forward to a day filled with tiny stories. Here’s my flash: ‘Still, the Silence Comes’…