Guys something weird is going on. @kathyhoyle.bsky.social not only has SLIDES for her workshop tonight but she's sent them to us AHEAD OF TIME. What in the worldy world world is this timeline?!

writershq.co.uk/whq-event/st... I’m running a workshop on subverting stereotypical working-class tropes over @writershq.bsky.social this Thursday (18th September) - come and join me!

The Writing as Resistance Festival starts today with a FREE creative writing workshop. Join us for Writing Through The Apocalypse where we're going to explore why stories are important, how can we get deeper into our own writing practice to find deeper...

How did I make literary magazine rejections into a game? You can read about it here, with awesome contributions from @electrarhodes.bsky.social, @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social and @aniking.bsky.social and a cameo from @lindzmcleod.bsky.social: tyrtle.com/2025/08/29/s... #WritingCommunity #LitMags

Sent some writing subs out today -I’m a sucker for punishment!! 😜😜

Back from holidays to find these two beauties waiting for me. Thank you Northern Gravy for featuring my stories in your gorgeous anthologies. If you’d like a copy you can order here : northerngravy.com/shop/?fbclid...

152 copies of Ghost Signs sold last year and only ONE e-book. Total royalties for 2024/5, eighty three quid 😭 anyone wants to help feed my kids and pay the mortgage, both of which are killing me, you can get it from all the usual bookshops and online outlets. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...

Our annual short story contest is open NOW through October 31st. Send us your best! Find all guidelines here: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Writers of speculative fiction or fiction that doesn't quite fit a 'genre', take a look at this! - An offshoot of the brilliant The Fiction Desk, Uncertain Stories now publishes gorgeous anthologies. You can submit short fiction of up to 15,000 words! t.co/XioNfedZp0

Woohooo it’s #Dollypartonday! Recognising this amazing woman for her contribution to music, charity and general fabulousness! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

#lammas blessings one and all. 🩷

In case you thought you were having a bad day - I got a double writing rejection and had dental treatment , all before 11am! 🤣🤣 #thistooshallpass

Late to the party but WOW! One of the most brutal, brilliant short story cycles I’ve ever read! It literally blew me away!

One of my favorites interviews for my memoir Home Is Where We Start, with the brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social. We talked about my commune childhood, enculturation, punk, micro-history, collective autobiography and being “A Kid God.” (Paperback out this week!) www.3ammagazine.com/3am/we-were-...

A brilliant journal article by Jen Bowden about the bias faced by Northern writers in publishing, particularly those who use regional dialect (like me!). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m thinking about sending my short story cycle ‘Sea Fret’ out on submission. It’s set in the North East, full of vivid landscapes and dialect and it’s written from the very bones of me. -just thinking about it, mind , let’s not get too carried away! ☺️

I’m reading this. Dark, brutal and utterly brilliant!

woohooo - I've finally had the compression bandages removed after my leg surgery! I'm freeeeeeee!😀

You can read my review of the amazing 'Cuddy' by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Myers here 👇 Thank you so much to Everybody's Reviewing for the 'honourable mention' in your book review competition. 😀 everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...

Ahh, this is lovely - my book review of Cuddy by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social has received an honourable mention and will be published soon. Thanks so much to Everybody's Reviewing and congrats to the winning reviewers. creativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2025/06/book...

Worried you might be a weirdo? Know you're a weirdo & are worried? What if the popular kids don't like me? There's a bit in The Alchemy (@renardpress 2023) called 'Where there's shit there's gold' & I AM DONE with modesty now. It's fucking brilliant & I wrote it for you. The gold, my love, is YOU x

Double digits! Do you remember when you finally made it to 10 candles on the cake? Well, NFFR is 10 this month. To celebrate we're inviting submissions on the theme of 10 when we open for subs from 1-15 July. We welcome broad interpretations. Have fun. Surprise us!

northerngravy.substack.com/p/pre-order-... I’m delighted to have work in two of the three Northern Gravy anthologies! Jump aboard the gravy boat and order your copy here! 👇⚓️⚓️ 🎉🎉

Visceral, brutal, brilliant! Brace yourself for this absolute banger from @stuhennigan.bsky.social in 3am Magazine. #shortfiction #working-classstories www.3ammagazine.com/3am/shit-lif...

Had a minor op on my leg yesterday, I’m a bit bruised and sore and wearing a fecking hip-to-toe compression stocking in this heat! It’s absolute torture! So I’m having a nice little complain about it tyvm!

Cheers to Rick for this. Not often you see your work alongside that of a Nobel laureate 😱😱😱😱😱

Just found out I didn't make the longlist of a rather prestigious writing competition which, quite frankly, I had no business entering lol - Ah well - a little spit and polish and out it goes again. #rejectionsarefuel

Seems like June must not be a month for heartache as we haven't recevied any submissions for Broken Hearts Literary Gallery lately. Have anything to send our way? I'm leaving general subs open for the rest of the month! See link below to submit.

Just been updating the **FREE** resources section on my website. Hopefully lots of useful stuff here on everything from body language to collective nouns, sensory inspiration to proverbs & sayings. PLUS lots of lists of example stories including a list of lists... www.mattkendrick.co.uk/resources

Lovely to have this story of mine reprinted for today’s #flashflood! Originally published by Reflex Press, huge thanks @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for giving it another outing. 😃😀😃

‘I wipe tables and scrub chilli fries and gossip from the red-leather booth seats.’ Ooh, such a great flash from @kathyhoyle.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social’s FlashFlood, the danger implied 🍔

This month’s #ekphrastic #writingworkshop will feature parrots, a rainbow staircase, gangsters, angels, prosthetic dog’s testicles… all brought to us via the work of a wonderfully glamorous artist. 🔗 www.anikacarpenter.com/ekphrastic-w...

So honoured that my story My Past is Not My Future will be read on the brilliant Sherry's Shorts today, along with stories by Mary Beth Fuller and Sherry herself! If you haven't come across this show (on Inverness Hospital Radio) it's a gem, both for the patients and as a forum for the short story.

@natflashfictionday.bsky.social so excited to be taking part In this year’s flash flood. My story ‘The Lighthouse’ will appear at 10.45am (BST).

We've helped thousands of writers kick imposter syndrome in the shins, put a lid on fear, AND find a joyful writing practice! Join Flash Face Off - the free weekly writing challenge for people with a head and heart full of stories ⚡️ ❤️ writershq.co.uk/flash-face-o...

Happy book birthday to @lyndseycroal.bsky.social !!! ❤️ Scottish folklore has landed! 🥳🥳🥳

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Hand me my magic wand please! I’m about to start turning two years of research and reading into a PhD thesis! #letsgo #PhDstudy

"The liminal space that exists between loss and what remains is where empathy and compassion reside, and so often we seem to forget that—myself, included." 👇👇👇

If there are any of you who might be interested in me putting on a second session for my summer workshops at a more Australasia / Asia / East of UK-friendly time, please let me know. I currently have 5 or 6 people interested but need about 20 to make this viable.

Eddie wishes you all a fabulous weekend! 🩷

Ahem. A casual reminder that we will lock you in a room with no wifi and endless caffeine and pastries and ACTUALLY MAKE YOU WRITE. We'll also give you a gold star for your efforts because we're nice like that ⭐️ Still tickets left for: Bradford, Edinburgh and Chichester. See thread for booking

Me in The New Statesman today on poverty. Please share :)

Part 2! If you're wondering what we like, check out the #FlashFiction we've nominated for awards from @sightlined.bsky.social and @travisflatt.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/best-small-f...

Quick reminder folks! It's THIS Thursday - for the flash curious out there. 😀

In the days of lovely Twitter I often put out a call for help with research in writing my books. So here goes, Bluskiers. I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better. Please share :)

I've also got free spots on my upcoming workshop series - a workshop on USP, one on voice, and a panel discussion on speculative / historical: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/courses-work... Sign up for free spots: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

These are asynchronous, with an AMAZING teacher @mattkendrick.bsky.social!! Price need not be a barrier now! Sign up!