Beyond delighted!

What are agents and editors looking for these days? This Friday, join @janechunlit.bsky.social, Robin Coleman, @agentismita.bsky.social, and Ariel Curry for a discussion about the current trends, common weak spots that lead to rejection, and more. Register FREE: authorsguild.org/event/nonfic...

On strike #ucu

Try writing the body from a 'crip' lens in a special festival edition of CRIPtic Spread the Word Salon with a workshop on writing the body & open mic session. Free. 29 March at 5.30pm Online, relaxed with breaks programmed in. Captioned and BSL interpreted. Details in link. Please share :)

Solidarity walk today @ucu.org.uk

An all-too-familiar story about accent bias and universities.

Ooh, fun!

Kit de Waal will headline a new literary festival taking place in East and West Sussex, spotlighting the work of female writers over the age of 50 👇

The Government is considering allowing AI companies to freely use your works, unless you opt-out. This is unfair and unworkable. Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

This afternoon's post-meeting walk

Check it out. Please share:)

Moss, magnified. Because it's 9am on Monday and it has already been a long week.

Today is World Wetlands Day, where we celebrate this remarkable habit. This is Rye Harbour Nature Reserve #WorldWetlandsDay Saltmarshes are coastal wetlands that are flooded & drained by salt water brought in by the tides - an incredible habitat for wildlife and carbon capture. 📷 Stuart Conway

Writing the Animal – my zoom workshop for the fabulous @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social on 18 March, book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pascale-pe...

Starting teaching on the shiny new module, Creative Non-fiction today. What kind of self are we happy to share?

Just 6 days until the deadline for our 29th Award on Sun Feb 2nd. £1460 in prizes. Results out by 2nd Feb. Judge @sfreligh.bsky.social Anthology. Thanks everyone who has entered so far! Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

RAPPEL | 💰 Le CRIEM reçoit les candidatures pour la bourse de maîtrise BMO jusqu'au 3 février prochain. Tous les détails ici: bit.ly/41DeNar ///////// REMINDER | 💰 CIRM is accepting applications for the BMO Master's Fellowship until February 3. Full details here: bit.ly/41E0MJD

We now have FOUR literary agencies on board for the 2025 #Curae FOUR Unpaid carers: we see you. 💙📚

The demise of twitter has made getting the #Curae word out difficult as this was a hub. Please do all you can to get the word out. It’s a unique writing prize, supported across industry and dedicated exclusively to unpaid carers UK and ROI. Closing date 1st March thecuraeprize.uk

PhD Studentship: Second-Order Effects of Disinformation: Perceptions of Disinformation and Trust in the Context of Russian Foreign Influence Operations Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN069/p...

The panel is inspired by my recent @ukri.org (AHRC) Leadership Fellowship on #geohumanities and regional fiction & CNF in #Quebec

Working on regional literature in Québec or Canada? Interested in being part of a panel hosted by me and Vanja Polic (U of Zagreb) at the British Association of Canadian Studies conference in April? If so, please email [email protected] by January 23. We have one panel, but can add more papers!

Writing West Midlands has some great affordable writing courses including From Pitch to Publication live zoom sessions starting in January. Details of all courses at writingwestmidlands.org

Bristol Short Story Prize now open for stories of up to 4000 words, judged by prize-winning novelists and a literary agent. Also winning stories published. Link below Please share. bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

Tutor in Contemporary Economic History University of Glasgow - College of Social Sciences / School of Social & Political Sciences #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLB759/t...

Eleanor Rathbone Professor of Contemporary European History University of Oxford - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLD009/e...

It’s 3 months since My Hummingbird Father was published! It’s been quite a 70th year for me. I’m so grateful to everyone who made it happen, @saltpublishing.com who took a chance on the novel, to all festivals and event organisers who helped the book find readers & to reviewers who wrote kind words

Oh, what a beautiful shot of a most beautiful bird.

I'm the obnoxious reviewer who finds all instances of stigmatizing language in your manuscript and then offers clear suggestions to correct said language because practice makes perfect 🤷🏽‍♀️. If you stigmatize you major revise!

'Field' Collage : Paint

Such a treat to hear Jennifer Wong read at Keele Hall this evening! Her poems are stunning! @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social

"How we stand here is important, how we breathe." Canadian writer Madeleine Thien donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers' Trust of Canada prize to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Lebanese Red Cross and the Woodcock Fund.

Wonderful-looking online talk with pay-what-you-can pricing 👇

The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis

#Nature #writing and #ecocriticism session today: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett's wonderful Twelve Words for Moss

Valleys version