I so needed that writerly comfort. Thanks @writershq.bsky.social

📕HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY, ASPIRING AUTHORS!📕 Are you a writer of Children's stories, looking to publish your book? Today only, I am offering 10% off ALL my editing services. Just quote "World Book Day" using my contact form when you email to book in! melissawelliver.com/editorial-se...

🌊 Some secrets are buried deep, but others? They surface when you least expect it… 🌊 Find out what happens in Secrets of the Deep…

HERE WE GO AGAIN x ITS A SIN While honouring his uncle's dying wish to reunite six iconic drag queen activists, a young gay man learns dark secrets about his adoptive mother. When she demands he stops his search, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #YouDeservepIt #A #Q

Giveaway! Repost to enter. To celebrate Rainbowsaurus winning School Reading List’s ‘Best Picture Book of the Year’, I’m giving away a signed copy. Just repost to enter (no need to follow). This is my first giveaway on my BlueSky account so the odds of winning will most probably be favourable! 😊

Join us tonight - Tues 14th Jan 8-9pm GMT for #ukteenchat with the fabulous @susanbrownrigg.bsky.social right here on Bluesky! Hope to see you there 🙂 #MG #kidlit #writerslife #WrongTracks @uclanpublishing.bsky.social

🚂👻 Check out the fabulous new book by @erandalljones.bsky.social now available for pre-order🚂👻 ⤵️

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Calling Neurodivergent Authors! I'm looking to set up an ND Writing Prize. If you have a few minutes to spare and dont mind surveys, I'd really appreciate you have a little lookie at this: www.surveymonkey.com/r/GHR6DTY Thank you so much! 💖

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Time zones are fascinating. Australia is already in 2025, Europe is still 2024, and the USA is currently in 1939.

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#DFBDecember Day 24 To say thank you for a wonderful year, we’re giving away 5 bundles including DFB branded chocolate, a set of Adventuremice pins, and more! To enter, like and follow! Winner chosen at random. UK entries only. Closes 31st Dec Prizes will be sent in Jan

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🐈‍⬛ Good luck to all who’ve entered - especially my @write-mentor.bsky.social friends 🐈‍⬛

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I'm all caught up with reading for the #WelkinMini. You've got just two and a half weeks to enter if you're still scribbling a story, so now is the time to upgrade from flip-flops to trainers, but we're probably not in ice-skates territory just yet: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

York looking good today 🤩

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Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work. I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.

Wow this is beautiful! Good luck in your agent search, Gustavo 🪁

Already ONE HUNDRED entries received in less than 4 days! Wow! The response to this has been wonderful. And the quality of the stories has been amazing. So many brilliant writers out there. All details about the competition can be found here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

If you're thinking of querying an agent with your novel, but aren't sure where to start, or you want to know what makes a good agent, then my latest substack is for you! alensunclouded.substack.com/p/choosing-a... #WritingCommunity #amquerying

Submissions to our anthology on the theme of SEASONS (up to 500 words) and entries to our Micro Fiction Competition (no theme, up to 100 words) are now open. For more details pls click on the link: nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

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Just finished workshop 3 of 5 in @write-mentor.bsky.social ‘s Query Masterclass. Loving it so far 💃🕺 #amwriting #amquerying #mg

#NationalLottery30 #ThanksToYou Being awarded Arts Council DYCP funding last year has completely changed my world. Thank you 🥰

If you’re a fan of flash fiction you might like to follow National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social

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Two weeks until submissions open for the #WelkinMini 100 words Free to enter Deadline = 2nd January Will you be a "micro wizard" or a "disco comet" or "tiny romancer"? www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Just 2 reviews away from activating the portal to author immortality… If you have read, please, please review. It would make my whole weekend! TYSM! ❤️

Lovely to see some submissions coming in to our anthology over the Christmas holidays. If you have a few days off work, why not give it a go? This time round we have a theme of the natural elements: air, water, fire and earth. Up to 500 words: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! We're giving $100 to help boost your writing in 2024—workshop, comp/submission fees, membership, critiques, books, pens—anything you find helpful, anywhere. Like & share to enter. We'll also give $100 to one of the organisations we support—winner to choose. Ends midnight NYC Dec 23

One chapter and a pitch is all you need to submit. Why not give writing for this readership a go? www.searchlightawards.co.uk/competitions/

Today is mostly a chana masala kinda day ✨ #feedingcreativity #amwriting #kidlit

Our fourteenth, and final zine, will be a collection of flash fiction of 1,000 words or fewer. Submission guideline: www.ellipsiszine.com/fourteen/

Heyyy, taking a leap into the blue sky and it feels goooood 🪁 #amwriting #fiction