A few snaps from Future Karaoke: Retro Toys and the launch of Calque Press's Ragged Band of Travellers. A great close-out to CWC's 2025 events calendar! #poetry #writing @angliaruskin.bsky.social @anglialt.bsky.social

Call for papers 🌊 Thalassopoetics: Ocean readings in French When we consider French literary traditions from the sea rather than the land, what perspectives does it give us, and what questions are we prompted to ask? 20-21 April 2026 Murray Edwards College Deadline 31 Dec 2025 bit.ly/47S2nyb

Happening this Friday! Aye, me Bloody Hearties!

And the British Museum is looking for a new Assistant Website Content Editor, for £29k. Apply by 27 November. jobs.theguardian.com/employer/937...

The British Library is looking for a new permanent Publishing Assistant, at £25-30k -- deadline 1st December: www.artsjobs.org.uk/jobs/search/...

Submissions are open! FBM specializes in the unpublishable--works don't fit traditional story beats, or structure. If this is your story, go to faunbymoonlight.com. We are a paying market, ALWAYS read your submission, and ALWAYS give you detailed feedback #magazine #submissions #art #writer

We are still open for submissions for our two newest anthologies - Poems for Protest & The Cat Poetry Book roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/

In case you haven't seen our latest trailer, hop inside the dark coach for the Vampire's Castle! 🦇🧛‍♀️🏰 youtu.be/HnrunnHfLgg?...

Two new Cambridge Writing Centre events for your calendar! Firstly, on Friday 28th, a double book launch for @sidekickbooks.bsky.social 's latest anthologies, which feature a number of alumni from ARU's Creative Writing MA course. More details/booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Looking for something to kick back to day? Catch up with the last season of our podcast. Here's Episode 4, 'The Best Novels are #Detective Novels'. #writing www.podbean.com/media/share/...

This one's coming up fast: editorial assistant at Tor, part of Pan MacMillan. careers.panmacmillan.com/jobs/6659752...

Cranthorpe Millner in Cambridge are looking for a part-time Editorial Assistant on a 10-month contract, at £12.21 Per hour: www.glassdoor.co.uk/job-listing/...

Bloomsbury are currently looking for a full-time editorial assistant to join their Children's Education team. London-based, salary pay point or range: £27,000 www.publishers.org.uk/job/editoria...

Strange Pilgrims are currently looking for submissions of fiction and non-fiction, up till November 30th: submissions.strangepilgrims.com

SUBMISSION CALL: We are open for poetry pamphlet/chapbook submissions until 30th November. A very small percentage of people who submit actually buy a book from us. If everybody who submitted bought a book it'd be a massive boost to us. Full guidelines here: www.brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

Last chance to sign up for this!

My lovely friend David Lambert's first novel THE HOUSE IN BACOLET is out now from @peepaltreepress.bsky.social! David is a former colleague from @aruwriting.bsky.social, and every summer hosts the writing retreat I run in France. Here he is reading from the book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjL8...

Alice Willitts and Christina Thatcher in conversation with each other at last night's Silence Speaks reading event!

Your final reminder, Cambridge! Alice Willitts and Christina Thatcher will be performing their #poetry tonight, at the Recital Hall at ARU. A conversation-led reading, with time for questions from the audience!

Free online workshop, 24th October, 4-6pm: Environmental Puzzles in Twine, an interactive story-telling tool. First hour covers the basics, then the second is a step-by-step guide to a building a simple puzzle. More info: creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/events/curre...

Are you free on the evening of December 16th? 🎄 Join me for this masterclass all about finding multiple (infinite?) ways in to the same subject matter. We’ll write a ridiculous amount of poems in 2 hours…with brand new exercises ⁦‪‬⁩ www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Lauren Berlant reading group 📚 Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4nFi9C0

Join CWC's Tory Young for an interview with novelist Tessa Hadley at Waterstones, Cambridge this Wednesday, 8th October. Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

On the 15th October, we're hosting a special performance by poets Christina Thatcher and Alice Willitts -- full details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silence-sp...

Pan MacMillan are currently recruiting for a Communications Assistant to work in their Bluebird and Picador imprints. careers.panmacmillan.com/jobs/6563623...

Kim Moore is judging this year's Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Submit 20 pages of poetry by 2nd November -- two winning entries will be selected for publication by Smith|Doorstop Books. poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions...

Curtis Brown's Discoveries 2026 Prize for women writers is free to enter, and you only have to submit the first 10,000 words of a novel. Deadline 12th January! www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/discoveries-...

The Hilary Mantel Prize for adult longform fiction is open till the end of the year! More details: amheath.com/hilary-mante...

Reminder, especially to #Cambridge residents! Brand new poems and stories on the Major Arcana of the Tarot this Wednesday, at ARU's Recital Hall. @angliaruskin.bsky.social @anglialt.bsky.social More info/free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...

We're getting close now...! The Henshaw Press Writing Competition closes at midnight TOMORROW. Now is the time to send us your most brilliant 2k-word stories - we can't wait to read them! #writing #WritingCommunity

🧪 Open to Science Poetry Submissions 🖋️ The Consilience journal is now open for submissions of science-themed poetry and artwork! Issue 23 explores the topic of ‘Tension’. Submit your work for free here: www.consilience-journal.com/submit #SciComm #SciArt #Poetry

FLASH WRITERS! I'm judging the Allingham Flash Fiction Comp and it's been extended! The deadline extended to Sunday, 12 Oct at 23:59 / 11:59 pm. Applies to both on-line and postal submissions. All other competition rules and guidelines remain in effect; see www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...

Winners of this short fiction contest receive cash and a physical copy of the anthology they are published in! Simultaneous and multiple submissions of all genres are accepted. Follow: @mgliterary.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #LitMag #5amWritersClub #WritersLift

On the 15th October, we're hosting a special performance by poets Christina Thatcher and Alice Willitts -- full details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silence-sp...

Aaaaand we're back! Tickets for the 13th Future Karaoke are available FOR FREE here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=... Poems and stories inspired by the Major Arcana. Wednesday 1st October from 6.30pm at ARU's Recital Hall in Cambridge. Attend in-person or online!

Our friends at @writerscentre.bsky.social Norwich are running a FREE online drop-in next week for anyone who's interested in applying for Escalator New Writing Fellowships. A great opportunity to get advice on applying! More details here: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/escal...

Cambridge #Poetry Festival have a stall outside #Cambridge station this afternoon, as part of Summer in the Square! Here's our poetry dice game.

This is happening tonight: #Cambridge #Poetry Festival 50th anniversary reading!

The #Cambridge #Poetry Festival returns in 2026. This year it's the 50th anniversary of the original 1975 festival, so under the CPF branding, we're helping to promote a whole load of Cambridge-based poetry events over the summer. bsky.app/profile/angl... bsky.app/profile/angl...

CWC's Alison MacLeod contributes to this BBC Radio programme examining three faces of D. H. Lawrence. Episode 2, 'Class', is up now! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The next Future Karaoke lit jam will be at the Devonshire Arms on June 17th -- Cambridge-based writers read new poems and stories inspired by the names of Milton Brewery beers! Free entry: bit.ly/futurekaraoke12 to book ahead!

Cambridge Community Arts are introducing new paid-for courses to help support their community work; first two courses are Kick-start your novel and Online screenwriting. See their website for details: www.camcommarts.org.uk/paid-courses

Free writing workshop at Cherry Hinton Library, 28th May: Writing the Non-Human: A Nature Poetry & Prose Workshop. See Library Live for details: www.library.live/calendar/wri...

Any Cambridge-based writers on Bluesky who we haven't followed yet?

Submissions are OPEN for our 11th theme 🔸️LOST & FOUND🔸️ Please be mindful of word counts when submitting flash fiction, nonfiction, and short story. Check out our website for more information and details regarding our guidelines. We can't wait to read your work!

And if you don't know what Pirate Point is? Check out the first issue of our funny little punk zine here 🏴‍☠️ piratepoint.itch.io/issue-1

#Writersky, start your engines! Submissions for our summer issue are now OPEN! 📢 Theme: Love and Hate #Fiction: max. 5,000 words #Poetry: max. 4 poems Non-fic: 1,000-2,000 words about #writing. For full submission guidelines, visit: penstricken.com/submissions

Submissions are open until the end of the month for our 2025 flash fiction, poetry, short story and novel prizes! 📝⭐ Don't forget, you may also be eligible for our Young Writer Award, Dorset Award or Never Too Late Award (you don't need to enter these separately). All info at bridportprize.org.uk

The Cambridge launch of 'Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon' is tomorrow at 6.00 in Waterstones. Jon has written an over-long promotional Substack talking about other space-themed poetry books. shotscarecrow.substack.com/p/low-gravit...

Cambridge! Who's up for this tonight? Cocktails and poetry at D'Arry's from 6.30pm.