Very much looking forward to my first in-person reading from my new book, 'It's Time: A Chronomemoir', next Thurs 4pm at the Manchester Poetry Library alongside my brilliant @guillemotpress.bsky.social stablemates @susiecampbell.bsky.social and Prerana Kumar! No booking necessary, come say hello!

Join us this coming Sunday afternoon for chilled writing times 😃🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Many thanks for literature.

The Green Party now has 78,000 members. Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line. I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

This was wonderful! Thank you @taniahershman.bsky.social for giving my brain the space to run riot with random words and unexpected ideas for 90 mins. An absolute tonic!

Very much looking forward to my first in-person reading from my new book, 'It's Time: A Chronomemoir', next Thurs 4pm at the Manchester Poetry Library alongside my brilliant @guillemotpress.bsky.social stablemates @susiecampbell.bsky.social and Prerana Kumar! No booking necessary, come say hello!

Last few places left for my Zoom writing workshop 'The Art of the Swerve' this Sun Sep 21, 7-8.30pm UK. With a mix of playful writing exercises & discussion of swervy pieces, we’ll see how swerving might help us out of ruts & habits. Free & pay-what-you-can available: www.tickettailor.com/events/

💯 Author panel discussion with @catherinemenon.bsky.social, Bekki Burns, and @laurabesley.bsky.social on developing your short story craft. Chaired by Jonathan Taylor, this panel boast of major prize wins, DYCP grant success, and several PhDs between them. Does any of that help with craft?

Unbox Your Words is a year old! The first post, which I sent out in Sep 2024, wasn’t a writing exercise but a provocation, so in celebration, this month‘s is too - an invitation to do something most workshops would tell you not to. Go on, try it! taniahershman.substack.com/p/unbox-your... #AmWriting

A great article about pockets in women's clothing, the history and the designers who champion them. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

With her painstakingly detailed dioramas of crime scenes, Frances Glessner Lee helped homicide investigators visualize a crime’s chain of events. For our full podcast episode about ‘The Mother of Forensic Science’ click here: www.lostwomenofscience.org/podcast-epis...

Huge congratulations to the 5 authors shortlisted for the 2025 #BBCNSSA 🥳📚 Our 2025 finalists are Emily Abdeni-Holman, Colwill Brown, Edward Hogan, Caoilinn Hughes & Andrew Miller 👏✍️ Catch all the stories next week on BBC Radio 4 📻 Find out more: bbc.co.uk/programmes/art…

Join @csmithpoet.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of BYCATCH at Wembley Library, alongside poet Erica Hesketh. Their books are beautifully moving explorations into the beginning and end of life, parenting & ageing, sadness & joy. Thursday 16th October 6.30pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-in-...

Looking forward to this so much! cc @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social @creativetourist.bsky.social

Looking forward to this so much! cc @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social @creativetourist.bsky.social

"Approaching writing [with joy] can help us write what we want to write in the way we want to write it. This doesn’t mean the writing is necessarily joyous in content. I’ve found that writing on dark, painful topics can also bring a certain joy in the achievement of having said what I want to say."

In my Sep newsletter, I talk about joy, more joy, and whether I'm not only a queer writer of odd things but also a queer potter of odd things (with pics)! Letting go of ideas of form & utility in pottery leads me to interesting places, as it has in writing! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...

Reminder that we are open year-round for prose submissions! Have an idea for an essay, interview or conversation? Drop us a line. andotherpoems.com/essays/

Long live The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – uncommonly lovely invented words for what we feel but cannot name, such as maru mori (“the heartbreaking simplicity of ordinary things”) and apolytus (“the moment you realize you are changing as a person") www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/d...

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. ~ Martha Graham

Memoir, essay, lyric or informational? Or just plain different. Learn how combining various nonfiction modes helps tell your story as best you can, using the most advantageous tools. with Dinty W. Moore, Next Week. writingcraft.com/event/webina...

Join us for a captivating afternoon with 2 of Britain’s most original literary talents, Sarah Hall and Daisy Johnson, as they discuss their haunting new books exploring nature, myth, folklore and the female body. 🗓️3pm, Sat 11 Oct 📍Central Library 🎟️ manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/sarah...

For day 5 of #SciArtSeptember prompt corridor I am sharing the pollinator garden work which I made for my show about the future of pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. 🧪🐡 Using collaged linocut prints I built up this little garden with multiple native wildflowers, bees, moths, butterflies, 🧵

Happy publication day to the Two Roberts! Welcome back to the world, which loved you then almost forgot you and is now turning towards you again. My novel is a celebration of them and their bravery and brilliance, as artists, lovers, outsiders. 🖼️ 🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🧑‍🎨 🧑‍🎨 📕 buythebook.online/the-two-robe...

Delighted that my new odd little book has flown as far as Germany!

This is great news!

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After raising £4k for fuel poverty charities from the print anthology, the FUEL flash ebook—with 12 bonus flash stories—is on its way! That’s 87 brilliant, surprising prizewinning flash stories by writers worldwide, exploding the myth that there's a formula for a “winning” story. www.fuelflash.net

Last few spots on my fast & fun Zoom 1-hr Writing Muscle Workout, Tues Sept 2, 7-8pm UK. Open to anyone at any stage of your writing journey and whatever word-shapes you write, free & pay-what-you-can places, all ticket-holders get the recording after. Join us! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Forest of Imagination is public pedagogy and research, developing our collective ecological imagination. Learning comes alive as a transdisciplinary encounter with space, time, affect, aesthetics, environment, human and more-than-human relationships, and as an experimental pedagogical innovation 💚

Last few spots on my fast & fun Zoom 1-hr Writing Muscle Workout, Tues Sept 2, 7-8pm UK. Open to anyone at any stage of your writing journey and whatever word-shapes you write, free & pay-what-you-can places, all ticket-holders get the recording after. Join us! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

So grateful to anyone who takes time to say lovely things about something I’ve written—especially my newest odd thing in which I’ve done odd things I’ve never done before! Thank you to all those of you who have got in touch with your thoughts on It’s Time, every single comment means the world to me.

So grateful to anyone who takes time to say lovely things about something I’ve written—especially my newest odd thing in which I’ve done odd things I’ve never done before! Thank you to all those of you who have got in touch with your thoughts on It’s Time, every single comment means the world to me.

💭 To help inspire your entries for this year's National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society will be releasing a series of prompts throughout the competition. Today's prompt comes from Lee Knapper, who was commended in the 2024 National Poetry Competition. Thank you, Lee!

I never want cost to keep anyone from joining my zoom writing workshops so there are always free, concessionary and pay-what-you-can options. Find out more about my Sept Writing Muscle & Art of the Swerve workshops here - join us, whatever word-shapes you write! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Your reminder that everyone should read Murderbot (this is the gorgeous Danish cover art)

Listened to my first episode of Search Engine podcast because I was bewildered by this "Dubai chocolate" thing. And they've just explained EVERYTHING I've never understood involving TikTok, Gen Z - and people who get sent food to film themselves eating online. www.searchengine.show/a-dubai-choc...

A joyous week co-tutoring a residential course at magical Totleigh Barton on short fic, non-fic, poetry & hybrids with a group of thoughtful, generous, curious, talented writers! Thank you to my co-tutor, @hollycorfieldcarr.bsky.social and the @arvonfoundation.bsky.social team. I needed that 😊✨

Delighted to have a micro included in Fictive Dream's MicroMonday #21! Written in a recent @smokelong.bsky.social Summer workshop.

Is ‘chronomemoir‘ a real word? It is now. It’s my term for a book in which I explore what it’s like to be a creature living inside time & with time inside me, from science, art & TV shows to Google searches, cake, Virginia Woolf – and conversations with Time itself! taniahershman.com/its-time-a-c...

Edinburgh, Act II, Scene 1 Books The trip began with orders delivered to our hotel. I was so pleased that @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social & @taniahershman.bsky.social could send on short notice signed copies of their books. I'm excited to read Rosie's This Is How I Fight and Tania's chronomemoir.

I am teaching on this online short story course for Arvon in October - be great to see some of you there A few places are concession spots, available at a 30% discount for low-waged writers or those receiving certain benefits. Here's the link to the week: www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

I'll be teaching an online masterclass for the @arvonfoundation.bsky.social for academics wishing to write for a general audience. Expect fun writing exercises and some tips from me I've learnt along the way writing my book Hot Air. Everyone welcome, not just academics! www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Long hot days are perfect for listening to short stories - I've been enjoying some of this summer's best from BBC Radio 4 - starting with a very affecting piece from KM Elkes ( @kmelkes.bsky.social ) set in the Arizona snowbird community - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"You don’t really ever walk 192 miles, you just take one step, then another, and that’s how books are written too. I type a sentence, I follow the line, and a book unfurls behind me." @jennashworth.bsky.social interviewed for @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/the-...

"I realize I'm interested not in just playfulness & permission to play but messiness." In my August writing newsletter—as well as two new Zoom writing workshops and links to my book launch recording—I riff on permission not just to play but to get 'messy'! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...

I never want cost to keep anyone from joining my zoom writing workshops so there are always free, concessionary and pay-what-you-can options. Find out more about my Sept Writing Muscle & Art of the Swerve workshops here - join us, whatever word-shapes you write! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

I'm interviewed about my new book, It's Time: A Chronomemoir, in @guillemotpress.bsky.social' Journal: "It always makes me laugh that, whenever I’m interviewed about my work, people assume there was a plan. There’s never a plan!" Read the full interview here: www.guillemotpress.co.uk/journal/2025...