Get your dates, good dates, bad dates, all your dates 😄

Join us this coming Sunday afternoon for chilled writing times 😃🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Our upcoming dates for the next few months! 🥳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #writingcommunity #queerwriters #queercommunity #nolgbwithoutthet #relaxedwriting #manchesterwriters

We’re back Sunday 28th September 2025! 2pm – 5pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1642881114...

We’re back Friday 12 September 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1642876801...

We’re back Friday 12 September 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1642876801...

Just a few tickets left for tonight 😁 come join us for chilled writing times 😊

We’re back Friday 29th August 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fruit-sala...

We’re back Friday 29th August 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fruit-sala...

We’re back Friday 15th August 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1446133888...

We’re back Friday 15th August 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1446133888...

Thank you for joining us last night lovely chats and even some writing 🥰

Tonight! Come join us there’s a few spaces left 😃

We’re back Friday 25th July 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1339501377...

We’re back Friday 25th July 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1339501377...

We’re back Sunday 6 July 2025! 2pm – 5pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1339501026...

Boop - just a reminder Mark will be hosting a Fruit Salad meet up this weekend for Sparkle - we’ll be in Velvet on Canal Street - you’re very welcome to join it’s still free to attend (all of Sparkle is) and you don’t need to book anywhere 😄 We’ll be there from 12 til 5 Sunday 29th July 🥳 🏳️‍⚧️

Back this Friday for more chilled writing times 😁🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We’re back Friday 6 June 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1339500886...

Back tonight! Please note we’re downstairs, not in our usual spot today 🙂

Turnout from last week! Back next week 23rd May! 🥳

We’re back Friday 23 May 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273690716...

Thank you all for joining us last night fantastic turnout 🥰🥳

We’re back Friday 23 May 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273690716...

We’re back Friday 9 May 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273689873...

We’re back Friday 9 May 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273689873...

Tonight from 6pm 🙂 chilled queer community writing times 🥳 grab a free ticket 🎟️

Join us this Friday for a relaxed writing time together 😁

It's lesbian visibility week and nearly independent bookstore day, and Cottonopolis is now available to order from Queer Lit in Manchester! Seeing my little book in the lesbian collection is giving me big feelings #KidLit #QueerBooks #Manchester 💙📚 🌈📚 🧡🦄📚 🧡🤍🩷 www.queerlit.co.uk/collections/...

Back this Friday - join us for relaxed writing times 🥳 (or just chatting with writers, it’s been a week)

We’re back Friday 25 April 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273689001...

We know today may feel especially heavy for our trans and non-binary siblings. If you’re feeling overwhelmed or affected by the UK Supreme Court’s decision, please know you’re not alone. We’re here for you every day from 10am to 10pm. #TransRights #Trans #NonBinary #SupremeCourt #Gender

We’re back Friday 25 April 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273689001...

*One week* from today I will be at Queer Lit in glorious Manchester talking all things #sapphfic #histfic with Jodie Matthews & Carmella Lowkis, chaired by the one and only Emma Hinds! 📚🌈 Get your tickets here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multi-auth...

Oo we can't wait to host the 2025 Northern Publishers' Fair Sat 26th of April!! Join readers and writers alike at this free event celebrating independent publishing. Peruse books from 15 publishers across genres incl literary fiction, genre fiction, YA and children's, poetry and memoir. LINK BELOW

We’re back Friday 11 April 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273687927...

What a wonderful day of collective action! Authors deserve to be compensated for the use of their works, to earn a living from their ideas. If you’ve been you’ve been affected by the Meta LibGen data set, our piece includes useful resources - societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

We’re back Friday 11 April 2025! 6pm – 9pm details + free tickets below 🙂 Please do book a ticket if you’re coming along it’s useful to know how many of us there are 😊 Please remember to cancel if you're no longer able to attend so others can grab your space! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273687927...

So cool to see all 12 stories from The Book of Manchester on Commonword's Digital Lit Map of the city! 🐝📚 📍Click the Comma pins to read excerpts from each story pinned to their real-world location 📘The Book of Manchester commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo... 🗺️Visit the map google.com/maps/d/viewe...

We also now have a newsletter or a fruitletter if you will, so we can share upcoming dates & the odd freebie ticket we’re gifted. Very infrequent (our inboxes can’t handle overwhelm either) 😅 fruitsaladwriters.eo.page/signup-fruit...

A few tickets left for this Friday’s workshop event 🥰

If you're one of the (many) authors who have had their work pirated for AI @societyofauthors.bsky.social have issued some advice and information: [if you're not sure, you can check the LibGen database here - www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... ] societyofauthors.org/where-we-sta...

This coming Friday, 28th March 🥳 grab a free ticket 😊

This coming Friday, 28th March 🥳 grab a free ticket 😊

Something new and blue for us! Free workshop — Writing and selling your novel March 28th 6-9PM Social Refuge MCR by author E.M. Powell. Detailed info on the Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273697787... #manchesterwriters #writers #queerwriters #workshop #authorworkshop #empowell

Just looked at this database. 7 of my books have been stolen by Meta for their AI database. In 1842 my greatx3 grandfather called for an International Copyright Law to prevent his works being pirated. Now we have that law, yet once again authors are experiencing theft. @societyofauthors.bsky.social

Only a few tickets left for tonight 😄

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Zines are so back, baby

This Friday coming for our next chilled writing hangout 🥳 and we have an author workshop the week after (28th) 😄