Happy New Year! 2025 has been a genuinely exciting year for my writing. One of my poems was shortlisted for the Aurora Prize, and I was thrilled to win Hashtag2025. Let’s see what 2026 brings! ashprincewriter.wordpress.com #booksky #writersky #amreading #amwriting #kidlit #poetry #poetrycommunity

Happy New Year!

Bolton Children’s Fiction Award Shortlist - an annual event for young people in and around. Bolton www.facebook.com/share/1Cb9zp... #reading #mg #BCFA

My Aurora prize shortlisted poem on #poem #poets #poetry writingeastmidlands.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Fab afternoon in #peakdistrict followed by a lovely evening in Derby with #auroraprize. Xmas deco in restaurant me and Hubble ate in!! #amwritingpoetry #writing

Writing inspiration! #writingprompts

Fantastic! Congratulations to all! 🎉🎉

I'm passionate about making creative opportunities accessible to all, so I offer a free 6-month mentoring opportunity for children's writers who might find it particularly hard to pursue writing. Open for applications: 8th - 16th Nov. www.storygodmother.co.uk/index.php/op... #WritingCommunity

This month’s poetry read was Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - there are four copies in my house but I’ve had to borrow this edition for extra reading! 😂 #poetry #rubaiyatofomarkhayyam

Yayyyy!!! I’m beyond excited to win #Hashtag2025! Im looking forward to introducing a whole new type of genie into the world.🧞‍♂️😍🥰🎉🎉🎉🎉. Thanks to Helen and Abiola @hashtag_press for this fantastic opportunity. #writing #mgwriter #mgbookstagram #booksforchildren

#nationalpoetryday #poetry

The books for this month: Northern Boy Secrets on the Shore is the MG read The Count of Monte cristo - part research and part classic read #amrreading #books

This months’s poetry read #poetry #reading #writing

I’m writing something new and someone said it had a feel of Bel Canto so it is my current read. #wip #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amreading #Reading

No idea what Alexa translated as cockerel 😂🤨 #writingcommunity #writing #alexa #writingprompts

Picnic and foraging in between editing/reading/writing. #writing #reading #foraging

The #MerkyBooks New Writers’ Prize is back for another year 🎉🙌 Open to all Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic writers, aged 18-35, un-agented and unpublished. 🗓️ Submissions close on 26 August. Apply now: www.penguin.co.uk/about/publis...

The poetry read for this month #poetry

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Super proud to be on the #hashtag2025 shortlist #writing #writingcommunity

More for the TBR pile! 🙈☺️

Tonight! Can't wait to get spooky.

Privileged to have read this. Highly recommend B’s book.

This middle-son memory still makes me laugh! 😂 #writingprompts #writingcommunity

Competitions open in several different categories for women writers. Link below. Please share :)

Fab author talk with Trevor Wood at Bolton library #amreading #books #writingcommunity #crimebooks

The Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 has been awarded to Yael Van Der Wouden for her “unsettling, tightly-plotted” debut, The Safe Keep. The Women’s Prize for Non-fiction was awarded to Dr Rachel Clarke for The Story of a Heart 👇 www.thebookseller.com/news/yael-va...

Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writers' Prize now open for horror writers from underrepresented backgrounds. The winner will receive a publishing contract with a £10,000 advance, and representation by an agent Link here www.penguin.co.uk/about/publis... Please share :)

Are you writing historical fiction and feel like you're wading through tedious facts and dates of battles without ever really getting anywhere? 🏰 Prize-winning novelist Leila Aboulela shares her 7 tips on researching and writing historical fiction:

The Bolton Children's Fiction Award shortlist ashprincewriter.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/b...

Current non fiction read by Preeti Dhillon. It’s the fastest non fiction read in a while! A great read so far! (I’m confused as to what happened to the signed copy though! Must have picked up the wrong one on the night! 😂)

Come and chat with me and @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social tonight at 8pm, for #ukteenchat Bring all your questions. I'm looking forward to it! #MiddleGrade #KidLit #KidLitUK #authorsofbluesky #Gargoyles

This months poetry read goes well with spring walks #poetry #amreading #nature

Just realised I have two glaring errors in a synopsis I’ve been sending out! 🙈 Proof of why stepping away for a while is good #amwriting

I seem to write more poetry over Ramadan, 🤔but back to the MG edit and crossover/adult draft. #amwriting

I hope all those celebrating had/ are having a lovely Eid x

Publication day is finally here!! So excited for my book #IamNotaTourist to be out in the world! Happy to share this special day w/talented authors from @hqstories.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social! Many thanks to Marleigh Price & Imogen Morrell for all the support and hard work along the way

Excited to share my first article in a printed magazine! @mslexia.bsky.social is a magazine for women who write, and I was so thrilled to be able to share some of my tips for marketing your own books, securing local coverage and approaching bookshops and libraries. Enjoy! ✨ #Mslexia #BookMarketing

It's shocking, we know. But you don't have to write a story to sell it or get it published or to win prizes or even to show anyone. You can just do a thing because you love doing a thing. Are you shook? 😱

✨ANNOUNCEMENT COMING SOON✨ In tomorrow's newsletter, we'll announce our second featured author for our Annual Salon in Brussels! This author will join @kitdewaal.bsky.social and address this year's theme of Rooted, Unrooted 🌳 Sign up for our newsletter at the link below ⬇️

The Bridport Prize is offering two fully funded writer residencies in Dorset for writers from The Midlands and/or The North West of the UK who are working class and/or 60+ From Sunday 22 to Friday 27 June 2025. Writers must be available for the whole period. Details in link. Please share :)

Go grab this guys it’s a fab read!

'Nothing is off the table as long as it’s done well' – @mserinkelly.bsky.social Bestselling novelist and tutor of our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course, Erin Kelly, shares her tips for aspiring #PsychologicalThriller writers 🔎

Might finally get around to setting my lists up on here! #amwriting #amreading

A reminder that this 👇 takes place tomorrow! Ft. a poetry film by @elspethwrites.bsky.social developed as part of her @disabilityarts.bsky.social Artist Associateship this year 📽️

There's still time to enter #Discoveries2025. Submit your opening 10,000 words by 11:59pm tonight. #AmWriting https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/discoveries-2025

My lovely agent, Portobello Literary, is offering six months free subscription to their Substack to anyone who pre-orders These Mortal Bodies from an indie bookshop! They post loads of useful info about submissions, querying, book fairs and writing from an agent POV portobelloliterary.substack.com