Congratulations to our Shortlist Prize winner, @moyetteg.bsky.social! 🌟🎉🥳

So delighted to have won the Shortlist Prize 2025 @firstnovelprize.bsky.social! A huge thank you to the amazing judges and The Literary Studio!📚🎉📚🎉

So much to say about yesterday @saloneurope.bsky.social but above all - it couldn't have happened without our Management Committee. Not just powerhouses, also standout writers & friends. So grateful 👑 @kplumhoff.bsky.social @bdiggswrites.bsky.social @royakhatiblou.bsky.social @norami.bsky.social

What a wonderful reading and discussion of our weekend’s theme, Rooted/Unrooted at Full Circle in Brussels Thank you so much to our guests, @kitdewaal.com, Balsam Karam and Philippe Marczewski, for their generous, insightful answers and beautiful readings.

What an amazing night! Great panel w @kitdewaal.com Balsam Karam & Philippe Marczewski - so many profound and diverse answers to great questions about writing, identity, process, what unroots you and being European writers. Thanks to @deborahzafer.bsky.social @norami.bsky.social & crew ❤️

Sad to leave Brussels after the @saloneurope.bsky.social - a whole weekend in a lovely city with a big gang of amazing writers for inspiration, talk, sharing and howls of laughter - what could be better? Bravo to @deborahzafer.bsky.social and the management team! 🙌🏽🎉✨💜

A fabulous weekend at the inaugural @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels. Amazing panels, readings, workshops, and writerly chat at the gorgeous Full Circle. Roll on Madrid in September 2026! 📚🇧🇪✍️📕📘📚

🎉 The 2025 First Novel Prize shortlist is here. Each of these remarkable novels-in-progress stood out for their originality and craft. Warmest congratulations to the shortlisted writers! 🌟🙌🥳

✨ We are excited to announce that award-winning freelance marketing consultant, podcast host and content creator Eleanor Pilcher will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers conference. 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration opens soon: genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

Joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers Conference is Nikesh Shukla! Award-winning author and founder of the Good Literary Agency. 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration is opening soon with early access for members: genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

✨ We at GWG are excited to announce that award-winning Luxembourgish literary agent Hannah Schofield from LBA Literary Agency will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers Conference. 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration opens soon: genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

Dorothy Koomson (@dorothykoomson.bsky.social) will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers conference as our keynote speaker! 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration is opening very soon with early access for members Find out more: genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

📣 Announcing the 2025 First Novel Prize longlist - all chosen from a dazzling field. Even with 20 places, the selection was agonising. So much amazing writing had to be left out. Thank you to all our entrants and many congratulations to the longlisted writers ✨ www.firstnovel.co.uk/first-novel-...

✨ We at GWG are excited to announce that writer, artist, teacher and filmmaker Douglas Beer will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers Conference. 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration is opening soon with early access for members: genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

✨ We are excited to announce that the Best Short Story Collection winner at the 2024 Cosmopolitan Book Awards, Shani Akilah, will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers Conference! 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration opens soon: genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

✨ We’re thrilled to announce that Goodreads Choice Awards finalist and editor Sara Nisha Adams will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers conference. 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration is opening soon with early access for members: genevawriters.org

Café writing session - Join fellow writers for some co-writing in a beautiful literary cafe inside Galerie Bortier, a gallery with a bookstore and lots of interesting restaurants and spaces to explore. Write, eat cakes, drink coffee. What’s not to love? Hosted by @moyetteg.bsky.social

📚Registration is opening soon for the 2025 Geneva Writers conference and we are thrilled to announce our 18 guest instructors! GWG members will get early access to tickets and exclusive discount rates. Join as a member to take advantage too. Find out more: genevawritersgroup.wildapricot.org

Things I’m looking forward to at our Annual Salon #2 ✨Our incredible panels✨ On Saturday, we'll be at at Full Circle. The day will include panels, workshops, readings and a catered lunch, taking place across all three floors of this beautiful, inspiring venue📔 (Sample of our panels below)

Only 8 places left for our Annual Salon in September—this year in Brussels🍻 Full programme available now🕺🏻 Get ‘em while they’re hot!

Fabulous evening yesterday listening to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie read from #DreamCount, discuss her novels, and writing in general at the Literaturfestival Zürich!🇨🇭📚📘🥂A lovely book-end to my month-long writing retreat in Schwandorf. 🇩🇪

It’s the last full day of my residency in Schwandorf 🇩🇪 and I’m spending it in my studio and my favourite local writing cafe! #WritingResidency @VCCA international exchange scholar. Lots of work done on Book 2!📚🖊️⌨️📘📕

It’s open studio day at my residency in Schwandorf, Bavaria. I’ll be reading an extract from my novel and the visual artists from America will be showing their work in their studios. Afterwards, there will be a party in our honour! 🎉📚🥂📚🎉 🇩🇪 #WritingCommunity

Another very hot start to the day at my month-long writing residency in Schwandorf, Bavaria. So, I’m writing and plotting outside in the shade in what has become my favourite local cafe before returning to work in my studio.📚🇩🇪⌨️🖊️📚#WritingCommunity #WritingResidency

Great @CapitalCrime1 panel yesterdayon Women Behind the Uniform! Also lovely listening to their publishing journeys and writing process!📘📚📕📚📒 #BookSky

Brilliant second panel @CapitalCrime1 with @JoCallaghanKat, Barnaby Martin, Dominic Nolan, and C.B. Everett!📚📘📕📚

I’m really looking forward to reading this gorgeous novel #AHouseforMissPauline! It tells the story of a 99-year-old Jamaican woman reckoning with the history of a community, past crimes, and the inheritance of the past. Thanks Fane Productions for my copy!📚📘📒📚#BookSky

Gorgeous book post waiting for me in London from the lovely people @FaneProductions. Which one should I read first? #BookSky #reading 📚📒📘

@jackmmorris.bsky.social and I are ready to mix! #Brighton #writing #writers #writingprompts

Finding it so hard to concentrate on work this afternoon, so I’m reading novel excerpts ahead of a GenevaWriters workshop on Saturday instead! #WritingCommunity #Booksky 📚📘🖊️📒📚

A lovely lunch and writing in one of my favourite 🇨🇭cafes! What a perfect way to spend the afternoon!🖌️📒📘📚🖊️

Diving into @NzeluWrites wonderful #HereAgainNow ahead of his @GenevaWriters workshop next Saturday on ‘Opening A Novel’. Really looking forward to the workshop as I start Novel. 2! #BookSky #WritingCommunity📚📘📒📚

Brighton and Sussex writers, we would love to meet you! When: 26 June Where: Afrori Books What: An evening of writing, connection and community 🖊 🍷 🍺 🍻 🖊 🤝 🌊 🖊 Please repost and join us! Full details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/literary-m...

So sorry to miss this! I’ll be at a writing residency in Germany. Do go if you can. It will be fabulous!⬇️⬇️

Fabulous evening in Geneva yesterday listening to David Nicholls talking about #YouAreHere, his writing process, being a screenwriter, and his other novels. A really lovely, thoughtful author.📚📚 #WritingCommunity #Booksky

I’m off to see David Nicholls at the Société de Lecture in Geneva tonight. He’ll be talking to journalist and author, Clare O’Dea. Really looking forward to it! I adored #OneDay!🎉📚🎉

If publishing actually wants more working class writers, more POC writers, more trans writers, more disabled writers, more *any* marginalised writers, the solution is really simple: PAY THEM. Give writers enough money to live and they'll give you all the words you want.

I’ve bought a ticket to see Chimananda Ngozi Adichie at the Zurich Literature Festival on July 12th! Really looking forward to it!🎉🎉🎉

A fabulous opportunity to win $100,000 from The Novelry online writing school for the opening three pages of a novel. A stellar line up of judges. Competition open to residents of the UK, US, Canada, and Australia only. Good luck!🤞🏽🤞🏽🔥🔥 www.thenovelry.com/prize

Don’t forget to sign up for our FREE quarterly online salon! 🗓️ 15 July 2025, 7p CEST (that’s 6p for UK folks) Always fun, friendly and inspiring💫

Come be beside the seaside with us in June! When: 26 June Where: Brighton! Who: Lots of friendly writers 🌊 ☀️ 🌊

Writing this afternoon in the cafe closest to my home. It’s quiet as it’s almost the end of the working day and sensible people are outside enjoying the sun. Happy weekend! 📚☀️🖌️⌨️📚📘#WritingCommunity

Our bursary places sold out very quickly, so we've added some more for Sat/Sun only. Take a look! We would love to meet you.

Monday Memories! #IrishWritersRetreat at Banshee Castle in Tipperary last September. 🖊️📚✍️ #WritingCommunity #Booksky

Happy Easter! A fabulous afternoon view from my village of Lake Geneva and the French Alps!🇨🇭☀️🇨🇭

I’m going to spend some of the Easter holiday planning and researching my second novel. I have two lovely notebooks - gifts from writing friends- to get me started!📚🖊️📚📘📒# #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amreading #booksky

I met a friend here in Geneva for lunch today and I’ve discovered a new favourite writing cafe! #WritingCommunity #Booksky #amwriting 📚🖊️📚📘

Plotting and planning my second novel in a new notebook in my favourite 🇨🇭writing cafe! #amwriting #WritingCommunity #books.

✨Brussels Event Details✨ 📅 12-14 September If you're on the fence about joining our Annual Salon in Brussels, or are one of the 60+ people who’ve already signed up, our latest Substack is full of details for what to expect: ✨Guest speakers ✨Planned panels ✨Dining ✨Tours ✨Writing & workshops

Really looking forward to @womensprize.bsky.social Summer Party in June. It was fabulous last year. Who else is going?