Two fantastic #BMHS events this October! 🎭 📚 Archive on Show @ Lambeth Archives – Thu 9 Oct, 2pm 🎤 Kirsty Roberts Talk @ The Water Rats – Tue 21 Oct, 7pm (celebrating Black performers in Morecambe’s history) 📖 Book here: britishmusichallsociety.com/events

Our first guest on the new ACL Essex podcast was @drabbiecairns.bsky.social 🙌 We talked art, teaching, writing her new book pub’d by Routledge & her ice skating antics. We had a lot of fun! Link below to her book & the new podcasting course Lewis Walsh & I are running here, if you fancy having a go

Applications now open (until 27 June 2025) for the Institute of Historical Research's non-stipendiary IHR Fellowships. Ideal for active, non-affiliated historians who would benefit from a period embedded in @ihr.bsky.social 's community of public, local & academic historians, archivists, curators.

Tonight at Colchester WriteNight 7-9pm Quaker Meeting House, Colchester #booksky #writerssky essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/colche...

This weekend at Essex Book Festival is a treat!!! Saturday: Marina Warner, @poetclare.bsky.social, Holly Pester and Phil Terry at St.Leonard’s Church, The Hythe Sunday: Tony Peake, James Cahill, Maggie Hambling, Radhika Howarth and Marley Karazimba at The Minories #booksky #essexbookfestival

Come to this on Saturday! Going to be such a lovely afternoon #essexbookfestival

This weekend at Essex Book Festival is a treat!!! Saturday: Marina Warner, @poetclare.bsky.social, Holly Pester and Phil Terry at St.Leonard’s Church, The Hythe Sunday: Tony Peake, James Cahill, Maggie Hambling, Radhika Howarth and Marley Karazimba at The Minories #booksky #essexbookfestival

Thank you to @moniqueroffey.bsky.social for the wonderful conversation last night at Essex Book Festival. My mind was buzzing afterwards and I’m still thinking! Thanks to the Maldon Library staff who were fabulous hosts as usual 💕 Good luck with the crowd funding the Hey! Festival is going to be👌

Looking forward to chatting to you this evening, Emma at Maldon Library. #Passiontide

Preparing to interview @moniqueroffey.bsky.social at Maldon Library for Essex Book Festival tonight (5 June) at 7pm. Thrilled to be chatting about her latest book Passiontide! What would you ask Monique? What are your favourite author interview questions? Join the conversation - link above #booksky

❤️ ESSEX BOOK FESTIVAL has launched! 📚 Sir Ben Okri at Electric Palace Cinema with ‘Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken Hearted’. Inspiring thoughts - to write with lightness of touch and knowledge of darkness, continual transformation (writers! humans!) ✍🏽 with Colchester WriteNight

This sounds great @saltpublishing.com. On the need-to-read list!

Tomorrow!! City of Literature Publishing Fair Sunday 25 May National Centre for Writing at Dragon Hall 10.00 - 16.00 Price FREE Discover the vibrant publishing culture of the East of England at our popular biannual publishing fair! nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/city-...

Some of my best PhD experiences @universityofessex.bsky.social included presenting and attending @ensfr.bsky.social conferences. Here is my spotlight on writing short fiction (thanks Ines Gstrein & Paul Anthony Knowles). The challenge was answering 3 questions in 75 words! ensfr.univ-angers.fr

Thank you @livimichael.bsky.social Another great episode, this time on getting back to the source of your creativity and being realistic about the publishing world. Congrats on the publication of your next novel with @saltpublishing.com #booksky #writingandpublishing

Dear #BookSky, Times are tough. We’re fundraising to share even MORE fabulous books and authors with the world. Can you help? Share this post, and buy ANY of our books at 20% off, using discount code TheBigSaltSale in our checkout: www.saltpublishing.com/discount/The... Offer ends May 31st.

Listen to Carl Phillips discuss his 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize–shortlisted collection Scattered Snows, to the North on the prize’s YouTube! 'It’s one of those interviews,' Phillips says, 'where you suddenly find you're learning a lot about yourself.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVJk...

Friendly reminder: send us your poems and stories relating to the topic of the climate crisis by Thursday, 15 May, 5pm (Irish Time). more info here stingingfly.org/news/submiss...

Delighted to announce we will be publishing Livi Michael’s extraordinary Victorian novel, Elizabeth and Ruth in 2026.

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

My thoughts on short stories

we swapped our flash fiction with writers from Austria & Hungary, today we discussed responses & read together at Flash in Translation, PesText festival. Thanks to PesText & @ensfr.bsky.social for hosting/a fab idea. More please! with @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social @paulknowles.bsky.social #writesky

Our new Small Pleasures episode! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac0U... @ensfr.bsky.social @ailsacox.bsky.social

With @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social at @universityofessex.bsky.social today! Join us in conversation about her new ‘fantastically accomplished’ sci fi/spec fic/alternative history novel The Mune @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @sfgold.bsky.social #academicsky #booksky www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...

On May 1st #IndiePressDay Please give love to indie books and publishers, so important to the wider ecology of stories out there for readers #booksky

A VERY special @colchesterwritenight on Mon 28 April celebrating the launch of Sue Dawes @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social ‘fantastically accomplished’ novel #themune, pub’d by @sfgold.bsky.social. Join us to chat & write at the Quaker meeting house Colchester 7pm #booksky #scifisky #scifi #althistory

I’m sharing the contents and the first page of a short story of mine (“The Enormous Man”) which came out last week in the Quarter(ly), published by @quarterpress.bsky.social . Many thanks to Chris Smith for accepting the piece. Link in first comment.

A fun exercise planned breaking all the writing rules !

A VERY special @colchesterwritenight on Mon 28 April celebrating the launch of Sue Dawes @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social ‘fantastically accomplished’ novel #themune, pub’d by @sfgold.bsky.social. Join us to chat & write at the Quaker meeting house Colchester 7pm #booksky #scifisky #scifi #althistory

We’re trying to start a UK #IndiePressDay too on May 1st - Could you give it a boost? Thanks

It’s a week until the 2025 #Curae prize shortlist is announced. This year we have a poetry category as well as fiction and nonfiction. There are about 7.5 million unpaid #carers in the UK and this unique prize seeks to shine a light on that vital role.

✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects. Today's 'Form and Visual Experimentation' prompt is from -

From an interview with Lorna Goodison, published in PN Review 177. Goodison's new book, Dante's Inferno, is published this month! Follow the link below to read in full. 🔥 www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scri...

Graduation @universityofessex.bsky.social yesterday. Glorious day for it! Thank you to everyone who worked to make it special for us. It was! #phdsky #academicsky #highered

I’m running a free creative writing workshop in New Brighton today (1-3pm at District House, 112 Victoria Road). Come along for tips, prompts and writing exercises for crafting flash fiction & short stories. Floral. This workshop has been made possible with funding from the Community Lottery Fund.

Delighted to be part of the wholesome poetry revolution, led by the wondrous @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social - what a thrill to be included in this beautiful anthology ‘becoming’ 🧡🧡🧡

Come along and join me! @coffinworks.bsky.social @writingwestmids.bsky.social #poetry #workshop #writingcommunity

Some reading/writing updates.. Essex Book Festival 2025 brochure launches today - the line up looks amazing this year! @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social new book #themune pub’d @goldsmithspress.bsky.social is brilliant! Looking forward to chatting at 7pm on Sat @ Wivenhoe Bookshop. Come along #booksky

‘Many of the short stories in An Orchid in My Belly Button include #nature and the #environment as a theme.’ Thanks to @dragonfly.eco for interviewing me for the Indie Corner about my recent book An Orchid in my Belly Button by @elsewhen.press dragonfly.eco/indie-corner... #booksky #books

We were lucky to get a sneak preview at @ensfr.bsky.social conference. Looking forward to this!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/passiontid... Passiontide is a protest novel. We need protest more now than ever. Come join me at The Wanstead Tap, 15 May for the paperback launch of Passiontide. #books #protest #uprising #femicide #women

Reading this now @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social - brilliantly written 🙌 #booksky #themune

Thank you Neil Jones for coming to Colchester WriteNight and everyone who joined in with our activities! There will be fab park bench plays at Castle Park Theatre this summer… Next session 28 April for @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social launch of her new novel The Mune 🙌 #writingcommunity #booksky

Tomorrow evening at Colchester WriteNight were joined by Castle Park Theatre to work on some Park Bench Plays! All welcome to join us at the Quaker Meeting House 7pm #writingcommunity

reading & writing this week: Last session teaching 3rd year poetry @universityofessex.bsky.social Using folktales to write short fiction in my adult learning class Reading my friend @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social new book The Mune. Brilliantly written feminist sci fi, what’s not to like! #booksky

Please join us at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 3rd April for PN Review's Spring Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Stav Poleg, Ophira Gottlieb, Philip Terry and Alex Wong! Please reserve a free ticket as spaces are limited: www.tickettailor.com/events/carcanetpress...

Here it is, twenty years after the first edition. Hope you like it. www.routledge.com/Writing-Shor...

A great issue with so many riches from a whole range of short story writers and critics.

Happy #worldbookday (2) I received this and can’t wait to dive in @sylphsea.bsky.social #booksky

Happy World Book Day! some book/writing related joys this week: 📖 gathering words for flash fiction project with European Network for Short Fiction Research 🎤 taking my class @universityofessex.bsky.social to the LiFTS/Art exchange poetry open mic ☕️ meeting with Chelmsford poet Rebecca Carter