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

We're shining a spotlight on our #WomenWritersNet #AuthorInterview series this week by sharing past interviews. Today, we're featuring our own @drhelenmtaylor.bsky.social's #Memoir, love lay down and we wept together. @wiltonsquare.bsky.social

Hey there #writingcommunity, what are you working on this week? ✍️

This reader selected list of all time #classicbooks from PRH has some great titles but I think it still reflects that there is still a way to go with the perception of #womenwriters. Only 25% of the list are women with some very notable omissions. #WomenWritersNet www.penguin.co.uk/discover/art...

FlashFlood is open! We’d love to receive your subs 😊 Flashes up to 300 words, pre 2023 prev published considered, reserved spots for debut writers. You have until 23:59 on 25 April: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

Ready for some ILLUSION & CONFUSION? 5 pro actors perform 5 brand-new short stories for just £5 tomorrow at @liarsleague.bsky.social. 7.30pm, 21 April at The Phoenix 📚 Dagon cultists, ghost thieves, hallucinating parrots, Kafkaesque officials & more. Tickets at liarsleague.sumupstore.com/products

If the writing life is feeling a bit lonely, come along to today's write-in. Grab a cuppa, whatever your working on, and settle in for a quiet, congenial hour of writing with your fellow Salon members from 12-1pm. mslexia.co.uk/salon/events/ Not a Salon member? Become one for £18 a year.

Don't miss our Salon workshop 'Plot With Your Nose' with bestselling author Alice Slater, 20 April 5:30-7pm. Discover how to create a page-turning plot that keeps the tension simmering, break through writers block, and lean into the grain of your brain to make your book bang. mslexia.co.uk/salon/

We're now halfway through #NaPoWriMo 2026! Take a moment to reflect on the journey so far, and where it might lead you next, with Julia Bird's thoughtful prompt. Julia founded Blown Rose, a press who have a stall with us at this year's Free Verse Festival. Tickets are FREE at the link in our bio.

Bookshop Crawl UK has launched The Kent Bookshop Map, the first of its UK County Bookshop Maps 👇 #BookSky

Want to receive a curated selection of competition and submission call-outs each month? Sign up to our Writing Opportunities newsletter 💌 mslexia.co.uk/contact/news... #amwriting #writingcommunity

The news is out! When I started this mad, bad, dangerous prize a decade ago, I never thought it would grow to three awards. But here we are: still shouting about future classics and current #mustreads #jhalakprizeat10

'How would you feel if someone offered you a large amount of money to write a novel? I'm talking a five-figure amount here, a life-changing amount, a reduce-your-mortgage or pay-off-your-overdraft amount. But there's a catch...'

We’re not interested in postcard skies. We want the tension behind them. #Firmament #Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky

Plot twist: I currently have 5 different jobs (author, copywriter, content creator, administrative secretary for @thecwa.bsky.social and a cleaner.). If you want to find out how I fit it all in, check out my latest article in @mslexia.bsky.social, the UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.

There are still a few days left to get a ✨ FREE ✨ Mslexia Diary & Planner when you take out a subscription! Ready to join our incredible community of women writers? mslexia.co.uk/shop/subscri... This offer runs until 31 March (while stocks last!). #writingcommunity #mslexiamagazine #Mslexia

Good morning. Doing something very special with @leedslibraries.bsky.social Libraries are so, so important. Public portals for the imagination. If you are able, please do support them, they need you more than ever. @thebookseller.com @librariesconnected.bsky.social

We're thrilled to have Farhana Shaikh, editor of Dahlia Books, joining us in the Salon tonight, 5:30-7pm via Zoom!

This week over 100,000 ALCS members will receive their share of £34m. Let's celebrate the value of human creativity, something that isn't going anywhere 💡📖🌳

Thanks to @sophieherx.bsky.social for a fab shout out to 'dance as if' (published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social) in the current issue of @mslexia.bsky.social I'm delighted to be described as 'a champion of collaboration and cross pollination across artforms'. #danceasif #collaboration #poetry

Writing inspo from @mslexia.bsky.social magazine this morning. Always a joy to read!

With over 750 editors to choose from, there’s bound to be one in our Indie Press Guide who's on the look out for your style of writing! Ready to get your work out there? mslexia.co.uk/shop/indie-p...

My proudest achievement is building a book family that powers this prize In 10 years, Jhalak Prize has grown from a single prize to a portfolio of 3 awards: 1. Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize, 2. Jhalak Poetry Prize 3. Jhalak Prose Prize BEHOLD THIS EXCELLENCE! #jhalakprizeat10

THIS THURSDAY (19 March): Meet up with us at 6pm GMT to chat about #WomenWriters & #Writing the Messy Middle at our monthly #WomenWritersNet #Skychat. It’s great opportunity to ask questions, share your knowledge, and network with our #WritingCommunity. @drafttouch.bsky.social @vignettes.bsky.social