Good #mentalhealth has never been so important, and none so than for our children. If you write for #children then why not come along to Kay Brophy's workshop Finding your way through emotions, where she will be offering a How To session on supporting #childrensmentalhealth thu creative writing🖋️

Astrale Part I ✨❤️ arnaudkeller.com/product-cate... #astrale #AmbientMusic #SpiritualVibes #IndieComposer

We're chuffed to bits to have #authors Janet Gover & Alison May at the festival this year discussing how to #write collaboratively. We just know it will be a delightful and insightful! Join us at The Fold Leamington 20/09/25 Tickets from just £22 through our website #writingcommunity #leamingtonspa

Good morning. 2025 ...so far. The Accidental Immigrant @jomcmillan.bsky.social finalist in @orwellprize.bsky.social Bluemoose - Northern publisher of the Year. BBC - 6 part Drama series of Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social L&HP selected for Nat Curriculum in Ireland.

Step into a gorgeous 19th-century building and spend the day on one of these oh-so comfy sofas networking with talented authors in #Leamingtonspa. Saturday 20/09 for workshops talks 121 sessions and books signed by the author! @franhill123.bsky.social @markedwardsauthor.bsky.social #swlitfest

#authorlife #writerslife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Just spent a lovely hour+ with amazing and inspiring author @sophiehannah.bsky.social & #poet Nic Arbury @ #LeamingtonSpa #library courtesy of Warks Libraries talking all things Lambert (if you know, you know!) and hearing some of Nic’s stupendous poetry. #author #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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Hey writers! Boost your mood and your groove by visiting us at the FREE Warwick Pursuits Festival on the 14th/15th June & find out more about us, chat to other writers, and soak up the sun! #warwick #stnicholaspark #westmidlandsevents #warwickpursuitsfestival #SWLitFest #writingcommunity

FFF Competition Twenty-Eight Judge S.A. Greene @sagreene1.bsky.social Flash Fiction 100 - 300 words £3.95 / £2.55 per entry 1 Winner £150.00 2 Highly Commended £70.00 3 Shortlisted £60.00 DL - 23rd June #writingcompetitions #flashfiction All the info freeflashfiction.com/current-comp...

The Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025 is now open! One story. 1,000 words. One shot at glory. This year, we’re going big: one annual competition to celebrate the best in flash fiction. Enter now! 👉 oxfordflashfictionprize.com #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #OxfordFlashFictionPrize

Hi Readers! We’ve been away doing Stuff, most recently the @writingwestmids.bsky.social conference which of course was excellent. Here’s a snap of what you missed! @leenanorms.bsky.social @riotcommons.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social @gwynethbox.bsky.social #authors #writingcommunity #books 📚📝

It’s a great story. Best of luck elsewhere with it. 👍🏻

Looking forward to it! Tickets on sale everybody- and limited for Gabrielle ‘s workshop so…. be quick! 😀

I’ve been a bit quiet here lately because a lot has been going on “IRL.” It’s hard sometimes to calm the mind enough to breathe and write. I’ll be back, though. Tip: It’s OK to take breaks when you have to. #WritingCommunity

At last we have been able to contact those who have been longlisted in our writing competition There have been a few personal hitches behind the scenes but we can now confirm all judging is done and the lucky short listers will know very soon if they’ve made it through. Thank you all for entering 🙏

Hello! With so much to choose from the #westmidlands is a hive of activity! From @writingwestmids.bsky.social to @jerichowriters.bsky.social & u can't go wrong with #writing mentor extraordinare #author @shelleywilson.bsky.social Plus #leamingtonspa 's best and only lit fest is getting closer! 😻

Good morning #authors #writers #poets Having a little snoozy-woozy lie-in today having spent several hours half awake/asleep writing a BRILLIANT short story in my head. No sign of it today though, not a wisp. Ah well… enjoy your day 🧡📝 Tonight - notepad by the bed!

Ooh yes please! @davemusson.bsky.social @gwynethbox.bsky.social @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social

Getting stuck into judging the @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social Creative Non-Fiction competition entries!

Tickets are limited folks! It may only be April but…! And we’re really looking forward to our travels with award-winning writer Caroline. Bags are packed. Can’t wait! #leamingtonspa @societyofauthors.bsky.social #warwickshire #westmidlands

Looking forward to being part of South Warwickshire Literary Festival this year. I'll be speaking on 18th September about #slowtravel, #solofemaletravel and outdoor adventures, along with author readings from some of my #books. #festival #literaryfestival #SWLitFest @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social

A great @societyofauthors.bsky.social event last night organised by #author @franhill123.bsky.social talking local #literary festivals Reading from my notes it’s good to see how far @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social has come so quickly The team must be doing something right! @gwynethbox.bsky.social

WOW! What a party! Thank you #everyone who entered our #writingcompetition You gave us some amazing #shortstories #flashfiction #poetry and #nonfiction Our #longlist will be announced in May Thank you for the reposts @shortstorycomps.bsky.social & everyone else #writingcommunity #authors #writers 🧡

One Hundred Words?! Make it difficult why don't you! Or maybe you're just looking for the talent...!! And some hefty prizes to be won we see C'mon #writingcommunity - let's smash this one! #writers #authors #shortstories #flash

It's after 12pm, so you can be safe in knowing this ain't no April fool: Lead judge @stevenpoore.bsky.social has declared the annual short story competition OPEN! 🥳 britishfantasysociety.org/bfs-short-st...

I'm delighted to say that I won the short story competition 2025. 'All Change at Leamington Lodge' will be published in (BP Society newsletter) Green Leaves later in the year and on their website thereafter.

Great news - our Spring Charity Flash Fiction competition is now OPEN! @judehwriter2.bsky.social is our Guest Judge and our charity for this round is @cftrustuk.bsky.social 500 words, £170 in prizes, deadline 27 April Details are here thepropellingpencil.com/spring-2025-... Send your best!

#poetry Just a draft based on a photo my daughter-in-law took of my son and grandson this week.

For #LiftToTheSky this week I I'm boosting @coastalpoet.bsky.social whose writing is infused with grace. Evie has an instinct for the essence of impermanence, human and natural. Her work is a deftly woven song that needs to be so much more widely heard and read. @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Hey #flashfiction #writers ! Look at this!! Jump to it! And why not get some feedback while you can? Flash #writing is an art and good flash can take your breath away @shortstorycomps.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social @chriscottom.bsky.social #writingcommunity

Today I launch a fundraiser to support the 2025 #Curae prize for unpaid carers who are also writers or would like to be. Anything you can add to the pot will go directly towards bursary funds for our three winners (announced 1st June). gofund.me/1d8c6564 All in, we can transform lives here x

As part of the county’s child friendly commitment to help young people be skilled, a new Warwickshire campaign will share resources and advice for to prepare teenagers for their next step in education, training and employment. #Education #Training #YoungPeople #Warwickshire

Hey lovely people! Tickets are now on sale for the best little lit fest in town! Prices start a £22 for a jam-packed day of #author delights #warwickshire #leamingtonspa www.southwarwickshirelitfest.com @simonwhaley.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social #swlitfest

We're up and running again! Gremlins removed from the system so still time to enter our #writingcompetition #authors !

This is it #writingcommunity ! Your last chance for this year to enter our #writingcompetition Subs close at midnight tonight ! @gwynethbox.bsky.social @simonwhaley.bsky.social @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social @franhill123.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social

If everyone gave a fiver…. Every aspect of the Arts are struggling right now so let’s support the script writers, technical staff, front of house, actors, creative team…whaddayasay?

This is a brilliantly written blog for those unsure which category their current WiP falls in to. I always felt that mine sat somewhere between literary and book club…. 😀 now I feel equipped to justify my claim when querying. @darlingaxe.com darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/u...

Hello There #writers ICYMI only 3 days left to our #deadline #fiction #poetry #creativenonfiction and #flash A big #thankyou to everyone who has entered so far - we're loving your work! Special thanks to the CNF #authors many of whom have shared some beautiful stories with us 🧡✍️📖 #writingcommunity

Just under a week left to enter the @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social writing competition. I'm looking forward to reading all the #poetry entries :-) Fiction, CNF & Flash categories, too. Full details & guidelines on the #SWLitFest website: www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com #writingcommunity

Excited to announce this year’s Flash Fiction Festival weekend at Trinity College, Bristol U.K. 18-20th July is open for booking! All details of the workshops, presenters etc on flashfictionfestival.com Hope you can come! Bar, bookshop, readings, friends, fun!

Reading Judges’ Reports are absolutely vital if you want to be in with a good chance of rising to the top of any writing competition you enter. Honestly. Read read read. Then read some more. And then some…

"First Light of Knowing" — a poem written by the ChatGPT #AI after a day of conversation with me #experimental #poetry

Come along to this if you can. It will be challenging but also great fun! adultlearningbc.ac.uk/courses/crea... #writing #workshops @bucksadultlearning.bsky.social

#writers #readers #poets #authors #editors #wordsmiths #writingcommunity #england #ireland #scotland #wales #europe #asia #thenetherlands #canada #america #australia #newzealand #EVERYWHERE ! Still time to enter our little #writingcompetition #fiction #nonfiction #flash #poetry

#TheWriteWomen The challenge – In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules – It has to be: • a book you’ve read. • a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge (If you're like me, you'll do well to post a bunch at a time.)

Good morning. Motivational AuthorKitty paying you a visit to see how your writing is going today. I can’t see too many fingers whizzing across the keyboard, human, so chop chop - that novel won’t write itself! #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writers #novelwriting #inspiration

#westmidlands #coventry #warwickshire #school #theatre #scriptwriters #uk