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The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
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Kit de Waal
about 21 hours ago
My Name is Leon was first published 10 years ago today. I’ve written about my Decade of Joy on Substack. Enjoy!
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When ignorance is bliss....
or how I became a writer
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Marketa
about 23 hours ago
Celebrating my story The Survey being published in
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today. A dream come true. 🙏🥳💚
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Bluemoose Books
about 23 hours ago
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.
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Bluemoose Books 20th Birthday Bash
2026 sees legendary Hebden Bridge publisher Bluemoose Books celebrate their twentieth birthday. Since being founded in 2006 they’ve published an
https://www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/bluemoose-books-20th-birthday-bash/
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It's time to announce the winner of our 2025 Poetry Pamphlet Competition! 🎉
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Brandy O’Briant
2 days ago
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
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It's Issue 110 Launch Day! 🎉
about 24 hours ago
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A potential source of inspiration if you're thinking of submitting to our upcoming 'Gold' themed Showcase 👇
add a skeleton here at some point
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Atrium
16 days ago
Submissions OPEN from NOW until midnight Sunday 24th May.
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Bluemoose Books
15 days ago
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.
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Kathy Fish
15 days ago
In Defense of the Lowly Writing Prompt...plus several prompts (of course). Hope you enjoy! 💙
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In Defense of the Lowly Writing Prompt...
...and anything else that gets you to the page
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Jen Calleja
15 days ago
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...
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'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 ✍️
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#writingcommunity
#shewrites
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Salon Showcase: 'My father in the fields' by Lesley Taylor - Blog - Magazine : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
Salon Showcase: 'My father in the fields' by Lesley Taylor - Blog - Magazine : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
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'the afternoon settled / into yellow leaves / full again' Read 'Fed' by Lilly Allison in our latest Salon Showcase ✍️
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Salon Showcase: 'Fed' by Lilly Allison - Blog - Magazine : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
Salon Showcase: 'Fed' by Lilly Allison - Blog - Magazine : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
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15 days ago
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'She lived bravely, never conforming. She recognised this in me.' Read 'Freedom' by Nicola Reading in our latest Salon Showcase ✍️
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Salon Showcase: 'Freedom' by Nicola Reading - Blog - Magazine : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
Salon Showcase: 'Freedom' by Nicola Reading - Blog - Magazine : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
https://mslexia.co.uk/magazine/blog/salon-showcase-freedom/
15 days ago
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'Then the sun’s going down and I wonder where Da is.' Read 'Father's Day by Pam Hanley in our latest Salon Showcase ✍️
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Salon Showcase: 'Father's Day' by Pam Hanley - Blog - Magazine : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
Salon Showcase: 'Father's Day' by Pam Hanley - Blog - Magazine : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
https://mslexia.co.uk/magazine/blog/salon-showcase-fathers-day/
15 days ago
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What brilliant novels didn't make the list? It's time to have your say!
#amreading
#writingcommunity
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Joanne Harris
20 days ago
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…
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Yet another reason why it's good to make time to write ❤️
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20 days ago
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Vesica Press
20 days ago
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.
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Vesica Press
https://vesicapress.co.uk
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Are any of your favourites on this list? 👀
#amreading
#writingcommunity
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The 100 best novels of all time
A countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time
21 days ago
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Fly on the Wall Press
27 days ago
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:
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#writingcareers
#books📚💙
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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
27 days ago
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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 ✍️
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28 days ago
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Moira Garland
28 days ago
♀️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'. ♀️
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Tania Hershman 🏳️🌈 (@taniahershman.bsky.social)
Queer writer of odd things. 10th book, "It's Time", a hybrid chronomemoir, out now. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/;...
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What's books journalist and editorial expert Julie Vuong's perfect recipe for writing historical fiction? ✍️
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Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet)
28 days ago
My poem, Late Spring, originally published, several years ago in
@mslexia.bsky.social
is now on my blog
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Late Spring
After a mild winter, everyone predicted an early, warming spring but instead, chill mists kept back the flowers and buds so now in May, cela...
https://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2026/05/late-spring.html
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What's one book that changed your life? We'll be publishing a handful of our favourite comments in Issue 110 of Mslexia ✍️
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about 1 month ago
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Women Writers Network
about 1 month ago
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
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Hey there
#writingcommunity
, what are you working on this week? ✍️
about 1 month ago
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Women Writers Network
about 1 month ago
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
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100 must-read classics, as chosen by our readers
They broke boundaries and challenged conceptions. We asked you for your must-read classics; from iconic bestsellers to lesser-known gems, these are your essential recommends.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/100-must-read-classic-books
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National Flash Fiction Day
about 1 month ago
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:
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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
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Products | Liars' League
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about 1 month ago
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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.
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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.
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about 2 months ago
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The Poetry Society
about 2 months ago
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.
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The Bookseller
about 2 months ago
Bookshop Crawl UK has launched The Kent Bookshop Map, the first of its UK County Bookshop Maps 👇
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Bookshop Crawl UK releases first County Bookshop Map
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Want to receive a curated selection of competition and submission call-outs each month? Sign up to our Writing Opportunities newsletter 💌
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Prof Sunny Singh
about 2 months ago
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
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'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...'
about 2 months ago
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
about 2 months ago
We’re not interested in postcard skies. We want the tension behind them.
#Firmament
#Slimline
#PoemsAbout
#PoetsOfBluesky
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Call for Submissions: Poetry That Reaches Beyond - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout April 2026 | Publication Later That Year
https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/call-for-submissions-poetry-that-reaches-beyond/
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Roxie Key #TheDeadlySpark 🔥
2 months ago
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.
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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?
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This offer runs until 31 March (while stocks last!).
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Bluemoose Books
2 months ago
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
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We're thrilled to have Farhana Shaikh, editor of Dahlia Books, joining us in the Salon tonight, 5:30-7pm via Zoom!
2 months ago
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ALCS
2 months ago
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 💡📖🌳
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Katrina Naomi
3 months ago
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
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Malika
3 months ago
Writing inspo from
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magazine this morning. Always a joy to read!
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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...
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Indie Press Guide 5th Edition | Mslexia a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
The Indie Press Guide (5th Edition) features over 750 UK and Ireland independent publishers and literary magazines, with full submission details, genres, and contact information to help writers find t...
https://mslexia.co.uk/shop/indie-press-guide-5th-edition/
3 months ago
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Prof Sunny Singh
3 months ago
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!
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Women Writers Network
3 months ago
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
.
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