If you were suddenly transported to the world of your book, where would you be? We'll be publishing a handful of our favourite comments in Issue 111 of Mslexia ✍️ #amwriting #writingcommunity

'Before Uprising, I wrote all of my books at the dining table. But I started writing this book and the story was so much darker than anything I'd written before. I didn't feel capable of existing within the confines of my normal life.'

If the writing life is feeling a bit too solitary, come write with us! We'll be online for today's write-in from 12-1pm via Zoom. Whether you've got 15 minutes or an hour, come along and say hello! Visit the Event page in the Salon to join in. ✍️ mslexia.co.uk/salon/ #amwriting #writingcommunity

Don't miss our upcoming flash fiction workshop with Martha Lane on 13 July, 5:30-7pm via Zoom. She'll be leading a generative workshop full of prompts and practical techniques. Visit the Event page in the Salon to register ✍️ mslexia.co.uk/salon/ #amwriting #writingcommunity #mslexia #mslexiasalon

Does having a competition or submission deadline help you to finish a piece of writing? We'll be publishing a handful of our favourite responses in Issue 111 of Mslexia ✍️ #amwriting #writingcommunity

Today is the final day to send us your submissions for Issue 111! It's time to polish up those pieces and send them off! We can't wait to read what you've been writing ❤️ mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-... Psst...You've got until 11:59pm BST to submit! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

This week I'm catching up on printed literary magazines including @mslexia.bsky.social. What are your recommendations? Online I've had great experiences both as a reader and writer with @trashcatlit.bsky.social, Funny Pearls and The Phare. #BookSky #WritingCommunity

My first magazine cover! Look at the bottom right! Thank you @mslexia.bsky.social

📣 News alert! We are opening submissions up for the month of July. More info soon at badlilies.uk/submit

Our 2026 Short Story Competition is ✨ OPEN ✨ for entries!

SAVE THE DATE! National Writing Day 2026 is on Wednesday 24 June and everyone is invited to join in. Sign up to our mailing list by 1 June to get advance info on this year’s writing activity, created by Patrice Lawrence and share on the day using #NationalWritingDay. mailchi.mp/firststory/n...

📣📣Do you write articles for magazines or journals? The deadline to add these to your ALCS account has changed to 31 October. Make sure you log in and submit your eligible articles before this date to ensure you're paid what you're owed in March 2027.

Our 2026 Novel Competition is ✨ OPEN ✨ for entries!

💚 We're seeing poetry pamphlets and novellas from UK Authors + Smaller manuscripts from authors worldwide! 💚 #poetry #writingcommunity

What’s the one book that changed your life? @mslexia.bsky.social asked the Question and below is my response. #Books #Writing #Archaeology #History

'Doshi reminds us that moments of beauty – of nature, human and nonhuman – persist…Her poems scream fiercely, unflinchingly of war and then, without blinking, she sings of what we might return to, what we might survive for.' – Ellora Sutton, @mslexia.bsky.social, on Tishani Doshi's Egrets, While War

‘Trilogy’ listed on the pages of the latest gorgeous @mslexia.bsky.social with praise from @janethomas.bsky.social and the latest new Northern poet @nickykippax.bsky.social 🙏💚🙏 Published by @thebrokenspine.co.uk available here: www.amazon.co.uk/Trilogy-wife...

Delighted that my #poem 'some people' is this issue of @mslexia.bsky.social 's Poet Laureate poem, inspired by Aloka the dog and the monks' walk through the US earlier this year. And what a beautiful cover!

So, I've finally updated my blog for the first time in over a year... Here's a big rambling writing update on The Novel, including twice being longlisted in the @mslexia.bsky.social Novel Competition! #writingcommunity dipikawrites.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/i...

Reading sorted for the weekend. My copy of @mslexia.bsky.social arrived today. The Survey looks gorgeous in it. 💚

My third column about how to successfully run your own writers' workshop is in the newest @mslexia.bsky.social so I do recommend picking up a copy to learn about the importance of constructive feedback, to give as well as to get mslexia.co.uk/magazine/lat...

June news: shorturl.at/F2oQZ New books from John Challis, Frank Ormsby & Lawrence Sail; Online launch event 23/06; Joanna Lowry wins @mslexia.bsky.social pamphlet competition; The Taste of Lightning on the @oxfordcct.bsky.social Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize shortlist; plus much more!

Thrilled to have my story 'Sort As You Go' featured in this edition of @mslexia.bsky.social

My Name is Leon was first published 10 years ago today. I’ve written about my Decade of Joy on Substack. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/kitdewaa...

Celebrating my story The Survey being published in @mslexia.bsky.social today. A dream come true. 🙏🥳💚

We're celebrating our 20th birthday together with @leedslibraries.bsky.social at @leedslitfest.bsky.social On Saturday 13th June, 1pm at Leeds Central Library Do come along if you can. www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/bluem...

It's time to announce the winner of our 2025 Poetry Pamphlet Competition! 🎉

Been holding back this one for a while, but now I can share that my novel The Kite has been longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition! So honoured and thrilled. And inspired to keep going. #amwriting #amquerying #litfic #booksky #writersofbluesky #writesky @mslexia.bsky.social

It's Issue 110 Launch Day! 🎉

A potential source of inspiration if you're thinking of submitting to our upcoming 'Gold' themed Showcase 👇

Submissions OPEN from NOW until midnight Sunday 24th May. atriumpoetry.com/submission-g...

We-mortgaged the house in 2006 to start Bluemoose Nearly lost the house again in 2013. Authors short listed for 31 literary prizes, 2 books adapted for BBC Two. Another chosen for National Junior Certificate in Ireland. Reaching readers corporates don't even bother with. @thebookseller.com

In Defense of the Lowly Writing Prompt...plus several prompts (of course). Hope you enjoy! 💙 open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

Giving a talk and workshop this Thursday at UCL East around literary translation as a creative-critical practice. Sign up here: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...:

'You work these fields. You walk these fields. You know these fields and they know you.' Read 'My father in the fields' by Lesley Taylor in our Latest Salon Showcase ✍️ mslexia.co.uk/magazine/blo... #amwriting #writingcommunity #shewrites #mslexia #mslexiasalon

'the afternoon settled / into yellow leaves / full again' Read 'Fed' by Lilly Allison in our latest Salon Showcase ✍️ mslexia.co.uk/magazine/blo... #amwriting #amreading #writingcommunity #mslexia #mslexiasalon

'She lived bravely, never conforming. She recognised this in me.' Read 'Freedom' by Nicola Reading in our latest Salon Showcase ✍️ mslexia.co.uk/magazine/blo... #writingcommunity #amwriting #shewrites #mslexia #mslexiasalon

'Then the sun’s going down and I wonder where Da is.' Read 'Father's Day by Pam Hanley in our latest Salon Showcase ✍️ mslexia.co.uk/magazine/blo... #writingcommunity #mslexia #mslexiasalon

What brilliant novels didn't make the list? It's time to have your say! #amreading #writingcommunity

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 91644: if your plot is getting too complicated, try asking these questions: Whose story is this? What do they need? What’s stopping them from achieving it? If you’re not sure if the answers, your plot structure may need looking at…

Yet another reason why it's good to make time to write ❤️ #amwriting #writingcommunity

Vesica Press is now live. Publishing work that cannot be published anywhere else. Not because it is difficult, but because it refuses the categories that would make it easy. Poetry. Hybrid writing. Creative-critical work. Practice-based research. The third thing. vesicapress.co.uk

Are any of your favourites on this list? 👀 #amreading #writingcommunity www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Join Anna Vaught and Isabelle Kenyon for a discussion and Q&A about career trajectories, what has worked or not, and tips for staying creative AND financially secure. Tickets: fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/95147... #writingcareers #books📚💙

Is it important to schedule a time to write? We'll be publishing a handful of our favourite comments in Issue 110 of Mslexia ✍️ #amwriting #writingcommunity

How do you get back into writing after a lull? We'll be publishing a handful of our favourite comments in Issue 110 of Mslexia ✍️ #writingcommunity #amreading #mslexia #mslexiamagazine

♀️Join me online on 18th May @mslexia.bsky.social and excellent, energetic, tutor taniahershman.bsky.social. Discover the joy of writing 'When Physics and Fairy Tales collide'. ♀️

What's books journalist and editorial expert Julie Vuong's perfect recipe for writing historical fiction? ✍️

My poem, Late Spring, originally published, several years ago in @mslexia.bsky.social is now on my blog craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2026/05/late...

What's one book that changed your life? We'll be publishing a handful of our favourite comments in Issue 110 of Mslexia ✍️ #writingcommunity #amreading #mslexia #mslexiamagazine