Huge congrats to Ana Sun on her short fiction collection! Just out from NewCon Press (while we are at Milford SF Writer Workshop.) 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 @singingtotigers.bsky.social @milfordsff.bsky.social #speculativefiction #solarpunk #climatefiction #newrelease www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

The last day at Milford Speculative Fiction Writers’ Workshop. Very bittersweet after a week full of intense writing craft discussions, mutual encouragement & community. So happy to be part of this group. I already reserved my spot for September 2026.✨✍️✨ @milfordsff.bsky.social #MilfordSF

Lunch at The Glynne Arms pub & restaurant in Hawarden on the last day of Milford SF Writers’ Workshop. Great food, great conversation! 🍻 @milfordsff.bsky.social #MilfordSF

The 2025 Milford critique week just ended, and we have reports! @jaceybedford.bsky.social gives us a look at how it gets off to a start (and what we did before email!): milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/m...

The face of a writer who just wrote a brand new story (a flash). 🥳 With thanks to Milford Speculative Fiction Writers Workshop for the time, place & inspiration! ✨✍️✨ Now to revise the story that the Milford group critiqued for me… www.milfordsf.co.uk/about.htm @milfordsff.bsky.social #MilfordSF

Welcome to Vera and the rest of the crew busy this week at the workshop! The Milford SFF Writers' Workshop is going on RIGHT NOW at @gladlib.bsky.social in North Wales. It happens every year. To join us next September, find out more here: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/about-milfor...

Landing a literary agent is the dream for many writers, but it's not easy. @felipeazucares.bsky.social tells us about his journey and gives some important tips on how to approach this big step for many writers: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/a...

Pete Sutton hits us again with #11 in his series of Writing About Writing About Writing in which he looks at writing guides to see what's good and what isn't terribly helpful! milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/w...

We share the sad news that a past Chair of the Milford SF Conference, author David Gullen, passed away a few days ago. Dave was an award-winning writer and a funny, witty & wonderful person. We send our deepest condolences to his wife, Gaie Sebold, his family, his friends, and the writing community.

Are you a newer writer hoping to publish but not totally sure how the industry works or what you might need to do to get your book seen? @jaceybedford.bsky.social talks about what she wish she'd known: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/m...

Pete Sutton is back with another Writing About Writing About Writing post. This time: a couple of practical guides, a book on writing 21st-century fiction (which is odd seeing as how we are only 25 years in!), and one about writing Interactive Fiction. milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/w...

David Gullen continues his insights on his read of The Iliad: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/t...

Pete Sutton gives us more titles in his series of Writing About Writing About Writing. This time, he takes a look at two books on horror writing, one on Choose Your Own Adventure books, and another on editing. Which ones have you read? milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/w...

Ok, gang, share your recent twisted research searches! Here, the Milford Mandrake had to look up how strong (or not) bones from a mummified corpse would be! #writing

"I want to believe so badly, in a truth beyond our own," says Agent Fox Mulder in The X-Files - arguably Ground Zero for today's internet theoreticians. It's that kind of thing we'll be discussing at Writing the Occult: Belief on 6 September. Details via writingtheoccult.carrd.co

It was incredibly helpful as a graduate student to see how works in progress need constant revision and testing to get better. Finished products don’t just start off finished, and the struggle is what allows the better version to be made.

What happens when you read a "classic" as a writer with some experience of the world? Author and Milfordite David Gullen read The Odyssey as a younger person but now visits The Iliad as an adult. His thoughts are as fascinating as the story he read: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/t...

Jacey Bedford continues describing her publishing journey, from working with an agent on changes to the book to what a style sheet is. milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/i...

Get writing, everyone! Short submission window for (short) short and dark SFFH stories!

Announcing The Best of British SFF eBook Bundle. Includes Priya Sharma's debut, All the Fabulous Beasts, which we published in 2018. $5 gets you the 3 main books. $25 gets you all 10! Incredibly well-curated bundle from @lavietidhar.bsky.social storybundle.com/bestof

COVER REVEAL @amshine.bsky.social is back with a haunting, atmospheric modern Gothic horror tale based on traditional Irish mythology. Ancient evil is awakened on a lonely isle off the coast of Ireland. #Grace Published February 2026 @headofzeus.bsky.social

Writing and then publishing a book is definitely a journey (it's a marathon, not a sprint!), and @jaceybedford.bsky.social is here to tell us about the first stage of her experience. milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/m...

Another entry from Pete Sutton on Writing About Writing About Writing milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/w...

@julietemckenna.bsky.social shares her thoughts on writing in shared worlds: "The benefits that a shared world can offer an author more than balance ... restrictions." milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/f...

This post is from a few months back, but there are still (as of a week ago) 3 spots left on September's workshop week at Gladstone's Library. And this year (2025) has special pricing, so be there or be square! milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/s...

24 hours left in the @cymerafestival.co.uk auction!! Don't miss out on all these incredible lots! From signed and dedicated books to author 1-2-1s to games to critique packages, it's a smorgasbord of bookish delights! www.32auctions.com/organization...

We're smashing into Pride 2025 with a gang of radical queer writers and a brand new book: #WrathMonth We're channeling our fury into a new collection of biting, blood-splattered stories at the cutting edge of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. 💙📚🪐📚🌈📚🌈🚀💫

Over on the Milford blog, @tiffaniangus.bsky.social has a post about being a co-author, which is timely considering she and Val Nolan are currently working on Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 3! milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/h...

In his continuing series of review of books about writing, Pete Sutton looks at a book that analyses how best sellers are put together and a 'classic' from the 1940s. milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/w...

Last week was the Milford Writing Retreat. The 20 of us did 200,000+ words! Jacey Bedford shares a bit more about what we got up to during our time away. milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/m...

If you're working on a crime story, @julietemckenna.bsky.social has a bit to say about how too often "fiction" inspired by real criminal cases can cross the line from exploration to exploitation: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/a...

Some more short fiction over on the blog, this time by @idakeogh.bsky.social: "The Reminder" milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/t...

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Milford Bursary for SF Writers of Colour, who will be attending the workshop in September at Gladstone's Library! Meet Ashley Deng and @singingtotigers.bsky.social and read more about them here: milfordsf.co.uk/bursaries.htm

Every word is true. (cough)

How about some free short fiction? @David Gullen's story "Schenectady"--about a writers' group, the extremes of envy, and where ideas come from--is right here ready to get into your eyeballs! milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2024/12/24/s...

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

We are a few months into the year (how did that happen?!), and @jaceybedford.bsky.social is here to list her six favourite books of 2024! milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/s...

A new Writing About Writing About Writing post from Pete Sutton! milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/w... This time round, he finds two for the discard pile. Have you read them? Were they helpful to you or do you agree with Pete's take?

On the Milford blog: @julietemckenna.bsky.social takes apart the argument that SFF is too "escapist" to be important or worthy of consideration: "Fantasy offers me ... fundamental realities but gives me thrills, chills and heroism along the way." milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/b...

Happy World Book Day! So, what is everyone reading? Here at Milford HQ, we have TBRs as high as the sky!

As we find ourselves in <ahem> "interesting times", @multijimbo.bsky.social (Jim Anderson) muses on his imaginary discipline of prophetics & wonders about the strangest prediction from SF that’s come to pass and which one would be the most worrying. milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/p...

One for poets *and* prose writers: one of Pete Sutton's latest Writing About Writing About Writing posts looks at books about writing poetry. Which ones will he keep ... and which ones will he relegate to the 'give away' pile? milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2024/11/12/w...

Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.

Over on the Milford blog, @julietemckenna.bsky.social has a bit to say about lazy writing, cliches, and the difficulty of creating something new & original in fantasy ... and science fiction. milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2024/11/05/f...

Curious about liminal, haunted spaces that tell us more about ourselves and our futures than about themselves? @felipeazucares.bsky.social edges up against the border in his look at these eerie places: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/m...

This is now our main social media account (along with Fb because each works in slightly different ways). You won’t find us on IG, TT, X, or Threads, so please follow us here for info about the Milford workshops & retreats, great blog posts on all things SFF, and other related news and shenanigans!

On the Milford blog, we catch up with Pete Sutton's Writing on Writing on Writing: this time 2 books about metaphor, 1 on poetic diction (by an Inkling) & a 4th on the history of English. Though not necessarily practical, they contain "extra" knowledge. milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/w...

A really lovely piece on the benefits of Milford from @catchingwords.com. And I can greatly confirm that the story in question really is that good.

Hearing from new Milford workshop attendees reminds you how valuable finding a new group is and how special Milford is when you're trying to ascertain whether your writing is actually working. @catchingwords.com reports from her first Milford: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2024/10/08/f...