Tonight! Why not come join us and warm up that writing muscle?! It's going to be fun... (there may be elephants...) www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Here's a brilliant starter pack of Hybrid Writers from the great @taniahershman.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #booksky #writingcommunity

The theme for LGBT+ History Month UK 2026 is ‘Science and Innovation’. The new badge is available from our website (lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/shop/). Find out more about the month and our five figures at: lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history... #LGBTQIA #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

Join me for my Zoom Writing Muscle Workout tomorrow (Sun) evening 7-8pm UK: 3 writing exercises in 60 mins to warm up your writing muscle, whatever shape you write in! Free & pay-what-you-can available, if you can't come live you'll get the recording afterwards: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

‪There's still time to sign up for @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social's A Personal Anthology, her pick of and introduction to a dozen favourite short stories. Hitting inboxes at 2pm. Sign up here: apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

I *love* this idea!

Hi writing folks! We've just migrated to bluesky and thought we should introduce ourselves. We're an online queer literary journal, we've been going since 2019 and we love writing that is daring and innovative. We're looking to be connected to the writing community here, so please follow and RT! 🍎🍇

Bursary time! Please apply if you're eligible and join me and @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social in January. 👇

I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers. "Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."

Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com #FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks

We are 5! 🎈 THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org

"What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?" The Dawn of Everything, @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social

In my latest Highly Irregular newsletter I talk about what's happened since I started offering unlimited free & pay-what-you-can places on my own Zoom writing workshops in January. It's not what I - and maybe you - might have expected, in the best way! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...

Stunning piece by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social "She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, & trapped animals, hiding their young. Not the day the suitcase is full of an exploding mine..." milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/10/09/t...

Looking forward to listening to this, can’t wait to hear you read, @abrackenbury.bsky.social!

What a lovely night, it was an honour and a delight to kick off proceedings reading from my new book - and then sit back and be so well entertained! Thank you for having me, @saloneurope.bsky.social 😊

I'll be running my most generative workshop, on prose poetry series and sequences, online 7-9:30 p.m. GMT, on November 16 and 24th. Interested? Email me at carrie.etter at gmail dot com for more information.

I’m so happy (and a bit shy) to share that my first ever selected poems are in this collection from @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thank you so much to editors David Hanlon and Katie Jenkins, and I can’t wait to read all the work.

One place left for the online salon tonight! Join 50 writers from across the globe and an amazing line-up of readers, incl @taniahershman.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social @sylvialeatham.bsky.social @sjfrideswide.bsky.social @donalconaty.bsky.social and more! All hosted by @kiklodge.bsky.social

Looking forward to reading an excerpt from my new @guillemotpress.bsky.social book, 'It's Time: A Chronomemoir', at my first European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social this Tuesday on Zoom and hearing the other readers! Tickets free, last few left! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...

Looking forward to reading an excerpt from my new @guillemotpress.bsky.social book, 'It's Time: A Chronomemoir', at my first European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social this Tuesday on Zoom and hearing the other readers! Tickets free, last few left! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...

Being at the Lionesses v Brazil match last night inspired me today to write the scene in my alt-history novel where one of my main characters & her friends go to their first women's football match in 1917 & have their minds blown. It's not what my novel's about, but I think it might play a big part!

Fantastic list of attractions at a Wakefield fete in 1894. Go for the lemon and sheep cutting, stay for the old ladies and fish.

Being at the Lionesses v Brazil match last night inspired me today to write the scene in my alt-history novel where one of my main characters & her friends go to their first women's football match in 1917 & have their minds blown. It's not what my novel's about, but I think it might play a big part!

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." ~ Dorothy Parker

Here’s to the single women who are flourishing and the journalists, such as @amymwilk.bsky.social who are recognizing that! #SingleAtHeart www.womenshealthmag.com/relationship...

I'm about to give a talk on Zoom to an undergraduate narrative non-fiction class - I am not a fan of genres and labels, so will be encouraging them to get "naughty" and write what they want in the way they want to write it, showing them what I did in several of my own books, including It's Time!

One of my favourite books of the past few years is 'Interdependence' by ecologist & philosopher Kriti Sharma: "So much has to come together to bring a body into being at every moment—as much in this moment as in the moment of conception or the moment of birth. The body is always being created."

One of my favourite books of the past few years is 'Interdependence' by ecologist & philosopher Kriti Sharma: "So much has to come together to bring a body into being at every moment—as much in this moment as in the moment of conception or the moment of birth. The body is always being created."

A thrill to be reading from my new hybrid book, 'It's Time: A Chronomemoir' (@guillemotpress.bsky.social) on The Poetry Place this Sunday - with their wide-open definition of poetry! - alongside the wonderful @abrackenbury.bsky.social and the open mic poets! Tune in here: westwiltsradio.com

We are thrilled to announce our short-list for the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025! Congratulations to all of the authors who reached the list and for all those who entered this round! It looks to be an exciting anthology in 2026! oxfordflashfictionprize.com/news

For #spacetober_challenge prompt telescope: #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell as a grad student in ‘67 discovered the 1st radio pulsar, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of EM radiation. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭#histsci This radiation can only be observed when the star is pointed towards 🧵

Still time to conquer your Fear of Physics and join me tomorrow (Mon) night for my When Physics and Fairy Tales Collide Zoom writing workshop! Details here, concessions and pay what you can available, and if you can't make it live, you'll get the recording after! app.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Still time to conquer your Fear of Physics and join me tomorrow (Mon) night for my When Physics and Fairy Tales Collide Zoom writing workshop! Details here, concessions and pay what you can available, and if you can't make it live, you'll get the recording after! app.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Happy birthday to trailblazing #programmer & #computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.⁠ 🧪👩🏼‍🔬🐡 #histsci ⁠ Trixie Worsley earned one of the first 🧵

Time to take on the Daily Mail and this Labour Government. Let's keep growing our movement with the joy of knowing we all deserve so much better - and we can make it happen. Time to join.greenparty.org.uk

Stunning piece by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social "She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, & trapped animals, hiding their young. Not the day the suitcase is full of an exploding mine..." milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/10/09/t...

Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven are now open until 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between. Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit

So much looking forward to this year’s Allott / Poetry Society lecture by #DianeSeuss @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

Might I highly recommend the Quiet Posters feed here on BlueSky with posts from those who don't raise their voices much? It's my source of serenity, art, poetry and more, it's what I love about social media. Yes, my other feeds include Cats! *and* Cat Pics, what of it??

Might I highly recommend the Quiet Posters feed here on BlueSky with posts from those who don't raise their voices much? It's my source of serenity, art, poetry and more, it's what I love about social media. Yes, my other feeds include Cats! *and* Cat Pics, what of it??

The copies of our newspaper are here! What a beautiful thing! Order the first issue of The Visual Poetry Times now via @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social - it’s small but packed with visual poetry fun ❤️ I’m now off to post the contributors’ copies. www.thepoetrykiosk.com

Do you have "Fear of Physics"? Let me cure you at my Zoom writing workshop, When Physics & Fairy Tales Collide, Mon Oct 20 7-9pm UK! We'll play with weird & wonderful physics words, celebrate female physicists and invent particles! Pay-what-you-can available: app.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Love this (I have a weakness for pieces with bullet points), by @corinnaboard.bsky.social, in the new issue of @perversemag.bsky.social! #cacti "I visit the cacti in the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew. I stay there for a long time and stand very still. The air around me prickles."

Happy @adalovelaceday.bsky.social! Just planning my When Physics and Fairy Tales Collide Zoom writing workshop for next Mon, including a celebration of Maria Goeppert Mayer - the 2nd woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics - & her shell theory of the nucleus! app.tickettailor.com/events/tania... 🧪

Do you have "Fear of Physics"? Let me cure you at my Zoom writing workshop, When Physics & Fairy Tales Collide, Mon Oct 20 7-9pm UK! We'll play with weird & wonderful physics words, celebrate female physicists and invent particles! Pay-what-you-can available: app.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Workshop 6pm Monday 27th Oct (recording also available) in #postmenopause as a time of creative possibility. An existential, psychotherapeutic and creative look at #menopause as turning point, opening towards our vital third act. All welcome. onlinevents.co.uk/event/how-to...

In my latest Highly Irregular newsletter I talk about what's happened since I started offering unlimited free & pay-what-you-can places on my own Zoom writing workshops in January. It's not what I - and maybe you - might have expected, in the best way! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...

When you wake up with the idea for the next scene of your novel and it involves one of your (human) main characters talking to a rabbit. (Yes, I have just begun writing the scene. No, the rabbit hasn't spoken. Yet.)

I added a new section, The Palace of Cheering & Celebration, to my newsletter to celebrate good news I've been told about any piece of writing that's come out of one of my workshops or Unbox Your Words monthly prompts! If you've been on one of my workshops, send me your news, let us celebrate you 🥳