🎄All I want for Christmas....... (apart from the new Patti Smith memoir and an ergonomic pillow) ....is happy writers 🎉 If you’re looking for support with your writing via mentoring, a manuscript assessment, or a combination of both, do get in touch! Availability from March 2026. #amwriting

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It was such a pleasure to support Debbie as she worked on her novel, which is now ready to send out into the world. If you’re looking for support with your writing, and would like to discuss the various options, do get in touch. I’d love to hear from you. Availability from March.

I'm looking to work with new writers from March 2026, so if you need support via mentoring, a manuscript assessment, or a combination of both, and would like to meet for an informal chat to discuss the various options, do get in touch! www.meganbradbury.com #amwriting #mentoring

The writers I’ve been supporting this year are coming to the end of their mentorships, which means I will have availability for mentorships and manuscript assessments from March 2026. If you are looking for support with your writing, get in touch! I’d love to hear from you. www.meganbradbury.com

Here’s to all the writers and artists who plan to do over this bank holiday the sorts of things bank holidays are designed for, which is to stay indoors, out of the sun, on your own, ignoring domestic tasks, getting as much work done as possible before ordinary life ensues. I salute you! 🫡

Dear writers, I support prose writers across a range of genres & forms including long-form fiction, short stories, memoir, and hybrid narratives. If you are looking for support via mentoring and/or a manuscript assessment, do get in touch. Now taking bookings from May. www.meganbradbury.com

Dear writers, I support prose writers across a range of genres & forms including long-form fiction, short stories, memoir, and hybrid narratives. If you are looking for support via mentoring and/or a manuscript assessment, do get in touch. Now taking bookings from May. www.meganbradbury.com

Does anyone here use a mechanical keyboard for writing? Is there one you’d recommend?

I’m now taking bookings for manuscript assessments and mentoring sessions from March, so get in touch if you are a prose writer in need of support. More details here: www.meganbradbury.com

Once all this Xmas malarky is over and you’ve kicked out all the guests, and you’ve managed to make it back to your favourite writing spot only to realise that you’d like some support from another writer who can give you feedback and discuss your ideas, get in touch with me! Availability from Jan.

If anyone is about in London on Monday, I’ll be discussing my novel, Everyone is Watching, with the brilliant Lilian Pizzichini at the Colony Room Green in Soho from 6.30pm. Would love to see you there!

I’m here for the war bores.

I’d recommend any writer currently experiencing the writing blues to get themselves to the nearest Ali Smith book signing/event because she is a balm for the soul.

The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis

The Magic Mountain: come for the high modernism, stay for the recycling schemes

Has anyone found a starter pack for creative writing mentors/tutors?

To anyone interested, I support writers across all genres of prose (fiction, non-fiction, hybrid projects) in different ways (mentoring, editing, ms assessment), so if you need writing support get in touch or check out my website. I’m taking on new writers/projects from Jan. www.meganbradbury.com

A writer-parent who regains their sleep be like:

Always love a trip to the Imperial War Museum.

*new bookings klaxon* Working in association with @WritersCentre, I mentor prose writers across a range of genres and forms including long-form fiction, short stories, memoir, and hybrid narratives. More here: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/the-full-story… Now taking on new writers from October.

I’m thrilled to be working in partnership with @writerscentre.bsky.social, offering longterm mentoring for writers. The Full Story is a uniquely tailored 12-month programme aimed at writers looking to improve their craft and grow a long-form project. nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/the-full-sto...

I’ve been listening to this on Audible over the last few months, a collection of books I’ve not read since I was a kid. It is utter perfection, without fault, as exciting as it was when I was ten years old. Man, to be able to write like Susan Cooper. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dar...

I would like to skip the tidying, baking, buying stage of Christmas and move straight to the eating, drinking, reading part of Christmas, please.

If there’s an activity more fun than getting slightly drunk whilst making veggie burgers and listening to Tracy Chapman then I’ve not heard of it.

I’m so chuffed for one of my students who has been offered a place on the Creative Writing MA at UEA! UEA has exceptionally good taste!

If you're interested in studying Creative Writing in London at MA/MFA level then come along to a special taster online session happening tomorrow Thursday 7 December at 5pm, in which literary agent Lucy Luck will be in conversation with my colleague Joe Thomas www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Right, where’s all the good book chat?