Looking forward to this, come join us in Manchester on April 18th! I'll be chatting about hybrid, cross-genre writing too...https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-courses/how-get-published-manchester

This is an unusual, striking and important hybrid collection challenging stereotypes around mental health and the doctor patient relationship. @eleanorholmes.bsky.social - I’ve never read anything like it! It’s beautiful 🤩 💎 Available from www.ethelzine.com/moth

Issue 2 of The Visual Poetry Times is here and is looking SHARP! Subscribers, hold on tight, your copies are on their way to you and should arrive in the next few days.🤍 Subscribe or buy a one-off copy here: www.thepoetrykiosk.com/product-page...

Details about my latest free workshop for paid Substack subscribers is now live! open.substack.com/pub/victoria...

This is an incredibly compelling and beautiful written radio drama by Pippa Goldschmidt (wonderfully read by Liza Sadovy) - highly recommended. #forloversofliteratureandscience

Is Francesca and Michaela’s sapphic love story the most historically accurate thing Bridgerton has ever done? Yes. open.substack.com/pub/vulgarhi...

You will be unsurprised to hear that Sinéad Morrissey’s memoir “Among Communists” is a tremendous piece of writing. Special edition currently available from No Alibis. Get yours quick. Such a great read

I'm taking a short story writing weekend at Yarn, Ballycastle, 11th & 12th April with food supplied by award-winning Ursa Minor Bakehouse & Cafe. Sea air, salt water, short stories, speciality bakes. Maybe even sunshine. See you there? www.yarnballycastle.com/event-detail...

That feeling when you're writing page 316 and you can start to see how your book might end, what has been a blur is beginning to come into focus. So exciting! #Pantser #NoPlotting #AmWriting #WingingIt

There are 7 slots for workshops on Sat and Sun at the festival with a choice of four or five in each. Here are two of them. The fab @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social & Alison Powell We’ll be sharing more workshops soon & thanks to festival team member @sarahillswrites.bsky.social for creating the pic

Step into two powerful stories. Read extracts from our Memoir Award winners, Alinah Azadeh and Dayna Bateman. Explore now: buff.ly/0Q9G2sU #MemoirWriting #CreativeNonfiction #WritersCommunity #AmWriting #BridportPrize

What a line-up of readers for #Moth launch 🚀 readers on #internationalpoetryday Huge thanks to @carolebromley.bsky.social @taniahershman.bsky.social @bethosmond.bsky.social @sarahraybould.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @the-ethelzine.bsky.social for saying YES 🙌

Short. Sharp. Unforgettable. Our Flash Fiction Award is open — just 250 words could win £1,000 and publication. Enter your story today: bridportprize.org.uk #FlashFiction #WritingCompetition #WritersLife #AmWriting

Congratulations to the winner @bsherm36.bsky.social & the runners up Rosaleen Lynch & Emma Williams of the February online festival writing challenge. Read their brilliant & colourful stories selected by judge @scooterwriter.bsky.social www.flashfictionfestival.com/news/

@scooterwriter.bsky.social thanks so much for the re-post, Diane!

Still some free and pay-what-you-can places left for my zoom writing workshop tonight 7pm UK time - inspired by women that history ignored! If you can't join live, all ticketholders get a link to the recording after to watch and write along to at your leisure: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Tomorrow night, my brand new zoom writing workshop inspired by women that history ignored! Join us, still a few free and pay-what-you-can places left & you're welcome to have your camera off. If you can't join live, you'll get a link to the recording after! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

so excited for this! details and last few remaining tix below 💜👇

Join us here, this Thursday #writing #womeninhistory #recording #Zoom

The fabulous full line-up of "Daughters of Fire"! Online on 17th March, 7pm UK time #PoetryReading #WomensWriting Including some remarkable #PoetsOnBluesky: @kymminbarcelona.bsky.social @mariellisdunning.bsky.social @jirobb.bsky.social @gillcresearch.bsky.social @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social 🔥

I’m so excited about this brand new zoom workshop I’m running this Thurs inspired by women that history ignored. Come join us, still free and pay-what-you-can places left - and if you cant join live, all ticketholders get a link to the recording afterwards! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Where to begin is always such an interesting thing to think about with a piece of writing, whatever length or shape - and it's the subject of my Unbox Your Words post this month! My thoughts and a beginning-related writing exercise here: taniahershman.substack.com/p/unbox-your...

Where to begin is always such an interesting thing to think about with a piece of writing, whatever length or shape - and it's the subject of my Unbox Your Words post this month! My thoughts and a beginning-related writing exercise here: taniahershman.substack.com/p/unbox-your...

In Permission Corner in my March Highly Irregular newsletter, I write about permission... not to publish. Read the rest of the post here: taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...

Join me on March 19 7-9pm UK for my Zoom writing workshop, Unwritten Women: Filling History's Gaps - we'll use stories of astonishing women that history ignored as inspiration for fictions/poems/hybrids! Pay-what-you-can places & recording if you can't join live: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

In Permission Corner in my March Highly Irregular newsletter, I write about permission... not to publish. Read the rest of the post here: taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...

Join me on March 19 7-9pm UK for my Zoom writing workshop, Unwritten Women: Filling History's Gaps - we'll use stories of astonishing women that history ignored as inspiration for fictions/poems/hybrids! Pay-what-you-can places & recording if you can't join live: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Drawing on literary studies, philosophy, social science and neuroscience, @noreenmasud.bsky.social's project at @bristoluni.bsky.social will interrogate the deep structural and aesthetic impact of face blindness on contemporary poets and novelists who identify as face blind.

It's #DentistDay! This is Lilian Murray who became the first female dentist to qualify in the UK. She initially tried to enrol at the London Dental School but was refused entry to the building in case she distracted male students & was interviewed on the pavement instead! #InternationalWomensDay

Yes yes yes! "Fantasy...is true to the experience of the human psyche. Specifically, it’s true to what’s wild in it that the reasonable, consensual, self-restrained daylight world doesn’t easily express, but which everyone feels." Francis Spufford @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

There's still a long way to go until we might not even need an #internationalwomensday. Come to my zoom writing workshop on March 19th to be inspired by so many astonishing women & let's fill in some of history's gaps. 💪Details here, pay-what-you-can available: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

There's still a long way to go until we might not even need an #internationalwomensday. Come to my zoom writing workshop on March 19th to be inspired by so many astonishing women & let's fill in some of history's gaps. 💪Details here, pay-what-you-can available: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

I can't wait either - I will be slipping in some thoughts on hybrid and cross-genre writing too! Come along to MMU, Sat April 18th, it looks like a great day and it would be lovely to meet you - www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...

In my March newsletter you can find out about my latest Zoom writing workshop, Unwritten Women: Filling History's Gaps, on March 19th, and in Permission Corner I'm sharing some thoughts about permission... not to publish. taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...

Gorgeous gorgeous book - you'll be wanting to pre-order this one!

In my March newsletter you can find out about my latest Zoom writing workshop, Unwritten Women: Filling History's Gaps, on March 19th, and in Permission Corner I'm sharing some thoughts about permission... not to publish. taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...

I can't wait either - I will be slipping in some thoughts on hybrid and cross-genre writing too! Come along to MMU, Sat April 18th, it looks like a great day and it would be lovely to meet you - www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...

Edith Clarke was the first female professor of electrical engineering in the USA. She developed a method to calculate the maximum power that a power transmission line could carry and remain stable. Read more & subscribe: adalovelaceday.subst...

Submissions for issue 22 (autumn/winter 2026) are now open until 31 March! We’re looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays ✨ bansheepress.org/submit

6 hours left to enter - go for it, I'd love to read your flash story! 300 words max, that's the only guideline: fishpublishing.com/competition/...

6 hours left to enter - go for it, I'd love to read your flash story! 300 words max, that's the only guideline: fishpublishing.com/competition/...

Out on 26th February! What can fictional representations of blocked short story writers teach us about writer’s block and what causes a writer to feel blocked? In the next episode, I’ll discuss these questions with Aaron Colton, Associate Professor at Emory University in Atlanta. Stay tuned!

New Interview of @tcboudreau by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social about Timothy's new collection, published by @StanchionZine next week! "...flash fiction is freedom; it encourages us to play, to make something short, strange, and intense..." fracturedlit.com/flash-fictio...

Happy paperback publication day to my second book, SISTERS IN SCIENCE! Dive into the true story of how Lise Meitner, Hedwig Kohn, Hertha Sponer, and Hildegard Stücklen fought sexism to become eminent physicists, then helped each other flee the Nazis. #nonfiction #womenshistory

If you haven't already stumbled across Short Works on BBC Sounds, do give it a whirl. Lots of new & some established writers. Beautifully read by lyrical voices. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @loujnicholls.bsky.social @littlebear75.bsky.social @intothehinterlands.co.uk

Congratulations to the 3 Winners of our 2026 novella in flash award! 1st prize Victoria Melekian, runners up @bsherm36.bsky.social & @joannacampbell.bsky.social & highly commended @fionajanemack.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social & Bill Merklee www.bathflashfictionaward.com/category/win...

Ridiculously excited to say that we have @amalelmohtar.com with us on the 9th of April in conversation with @elizachanwrites.bsky.social! "Fairytales with teeth"? Oh we are so ready. Tickets via link below!

Come write some philosophical fiction with me in York @yorklitfest.bsky.social! Everyone is welcome and all you'll need to bring with you is a pen and paper. Tickets and more event info: www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/lets-ge... #York #CreativeWriting #PhilSky @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social

Not long left to submit your 300-word gems to Fish Flash Fiction Prize. I'm judging and I'm reading ALL the entries, so you know I'll see your story. Deadline Feb 28, send your word-shapes even if you think they might be "too weird" or "not flash enough"! fishpublishing.com/competition/...

Happy to answer 2 questions posed in today's Bookseller: Q. Where are the 'childfree-by-choice' heroines? A. In all my books, and many others. Q. Can autistic writers capture emotions? A. This doesn't really deserve any answer other than a massive eyeroll but guess what? Yes we can.