Very pleased to be here at @curveleicester.bsky.social on a freezing day for the warm, lovely and inspiring Platform conference! Thank you to @farhanashaikh.bsky.social and the Middle Way Mentoring scheme middlewaymentoring.co.uk/platform-con...

Happy world book day! Join us for Platform Conference for Writers of Colour, a day-long event, which aims to support and encourage with advice and inspiration. Takes place in #Leicester on 5th April. Check out the programme and book your ticket: middlewaymentoring.co.uk/platform-con...

Super pleased to be on this podcast today talking about AI ethics and the importance of transparency, human rights, fairness and all the good crunchy things that technology often ignores. Do have a listen!

Catherine Menon (@catherinemenon.bsky.social) is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research explores the ethics and safety of intelligent systems that are used by members of the public, such as home assistance robots. Listen to our chat: www.robottalk.org/2025/02/21/e...

First meeting of the year with The Whole Kahani. A great way to spend what was otherwise a grey and rainy Sunday working on anthology number four with these fabulous writers 😍. @catherinemenon.bsky.social Reshma Ruia, Deblina Chakrabarty, Radhika Kapur

You have EIGHT DAYS LEFT to submit your story(ies) up to 4,000 words to the Bristol Short Story Prize, full details here: bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk! Please share!

You can now read my new book, The Best of Everything, early! I hope you enjoy it. Available to request and review on Netgalley here: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/544489

Is handwriting really disappearing? Most of you on here are writers so I guess not personally - but outside that bubble? Somebody must be buying all those Moleskines, after all. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

Small presses based in the UK and Ireland! We're compiling the 5th edition of our Indie Press Guide and are looking for any presses who aren't already on our radar. Get in touch if this is you! DM us for more info 😀

🦅Writing the Urban Weird: Course eBook Taught & Edited by me! Beyond the world we know lurks another just out of sight. These fantastic shorts by writers on our Urban Weird course turn the familiar into the unrecognisable. Available now for 99p! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DTFK9CT...

Very much enjoyed this @fictivedream.bsky.social story.

Bucks/Beds/Northants writers: what does 'Home' mean to you? Submissions close at 23:59 on Sun 19/1. Prizes/publication for winners. Details: mklitfest.org/mink2025 #shortstories #creativewriting #submissionsopen #creativenonfiction #poetry #writingcompetition #flashfiction

PLR payments always feel a bit like magic to me; lovely, but also slightly baffling.

Hello writers! Hello readers! Give us a follow and together let's make 2025 the best Leeds Lit Fest yet.

Our Flash Fiction, Short Story, Poetry and Novel Awards close for submissions on 31 May. Enter at bridportprize.org.uk To listen to a little inspiration from former winners and judges 👉 bridportprize.org.uk/writers-room... 🔊 #CreativeWriting

I have a piece up for The Bookseller today, in which I consider how major publishers can create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat. www.thebookseller.com/comment/what...

Today is your very last chance to enter the @womensprize.bsky.social Discoveries Prize! Entries close TODAY. It's completely free, so why not give it a try? www.womensprize.com/writers/disc...

Have you submitted your story to the Bristol Short Story Prize yet? We accept stories up to 4000 words till the end of January, and we offer both prizes and publication to all the shortlisted authors! More details: bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk Please share!

The Booker shortlists of the 1970s are of exceptionally high quality, and while some of the novels may have fallen out of fashion, they’re essential volumes for any keen reader’s library. Here are 10 novels well worth rediscovering, five decades later ⤵️ thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Weatherglass Prize for a novella (rare in this day and age), with the wonderful Ali Smith as judge. International. Please share: weatherglassbooks.com/novella-priz...

A shout out to the fantastic Dahlia Publishing and @farhanashaikh.bsky.social here - look at this discount! Grab a copy of my collection Subjunctive Moods, or any of the other wonderful books on there

Thank you, Nick! And it's lovely to find you and so many old friends on here :)