You absolute should (We've got a free course for that writershq.co.uk/courses/writ...)

You don't need a magic formula to finish your novel. You need to sit the fuck down and write. Join us in June for an entire uninterrupted day of writing 👇 writershq.co.uk/creative-wri...

On the 3rd June I'll be running an online creative writing workshop all about writing science fiction for @writershq.bsky.social ✍️ I'm so excited for this!!! You can grab a ticket here: writershq.co.uk/whq-event/wr... #speclist

It starts TODAY! Write your entire butt off throughout June 🎉 writershq.co.uk/festivals-ch...

We've made it! It's the end of Subbing Month at WHQ, or just the end of another month of writing. Give yourself a pat on the back. Pick your gold star and tell us how you did.

Holy shit 🥲 ❤️

You don't need to tinker endlessly with your story. Submit it. Now! Go on. Go! Find out how the pros do it in this blog right 'ere. Go read it. Go on. Go! writershq.co.uk/we-asked-six...

We've got this, gang ✊

Stop everything and read this gorgeous essay from @aliceslater.bsky.social and then go submit the story you've been sitting on for a decade. It might change your life 😍

Updating the guidelines for WHQ workshop facilitators. Too much?

Arse in a chair. Fingers on keyboard. Structured writing time and unlimited writer fuel* *caffeine and biscuits writershq.co.uk/creative-wri...

But we need to know! Our worlds aren't going to build themselves, goddamit! writershq.co.uk/whq-event/us...

We are all the angry frog this morning

Team Brum! Uncharacteristically, we've got some last minute places free at the #Birmingham Writers' Retreat this Sunday, with the awesome Mara Livermore. Times are tough. Treat yourself and your words. We'll even make you a cuppa ☕️ writershq.co.uk/creative-wri...

This year's Write a Novel Festival is open for booking and it's so frikken good! Are you ready for a month of deep-diving into everything that makes a novel great, AND more tea and biscuits than you can shake a scone at? Yes. Of course you are. Click the thing. writershq.co.uk/festivals-ch...

Saturday's Brighton Writers' Retreat is SOLD OUT 🎉 (Actually it's more than sold out coz we accidentally sold too many tickets when we updated the website last week shhhhh don't tell anyone)

Okay team, we're activating the event email plugin again. Prepare your inboxes for the accidental deluge...

An entire weekend of writing, hanging out with the best writers, more writing, tea drinking, more writing and A LOT of eating. Oh and more gold stars than you can shake a stick at. Join us for the Edinburgh Writers' Retreat Big Weekender! writershq.co.uk/whq-event/ed...

This whole refresh business got us thinking about what WHQ is really about, and everything we played with came down to this: Creativity is a radical act. But!

We're back and we are YELLOW! Check it writershq.co.uk Mwa 😘

Big news. It's time to say goodbye to this old chap. The actual horror! What does it all mean? We’ll tell you in a few hours. Keep an eye on your inbox till then.

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Head to the blog to find out the three inextricable parts of the story ecosystem.

No YOU didn't press send on the end of April gold stars... How was your writing month just gone? Pick your gold star, give yourself a pat on the back, and let's crack on all over again ✍️ ✍️ ✍️

You can write awesome stories. Yes you can. writershq.co.uk/flash-face-o...

Writers are masochists change my mind

Every day life? Gross! Run away! Write with us! We'll feed you tea and pastries! writershq.co.uk/creative-wri...

Judging this was so much fun. The winning stories are <chef's kiss>. Go read them!

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The myth of the tortured artist is bullshit. You don't have to burn yourself out in the service of your writing. Art is FUN. Creativity is JOYFUL. Stories are vibrant and full of life and humanity and so should you be. Here's how writershq.co.uk/the-writers-...

Gang! If you've had a novel or short story of flash or essay or anything published while you've been at WHQ, please come and tell us about it using our sexy new form! writershq.co.uk/got-published/

"Developmental psychologist Ellen Winner talks about the ‘rage to master’. A phenomenon she observed in gifted children – a single minded, obsessive dedication to developing their skill and knowledge of their particular interest." writershq.co.uk/want-to-be-g...

MORNING GANG! What are we writing this week?

"Through all of this precarity, we come back to the same question over and over again: what does a writer do? What is a writer for? What is the use of words when destruction and oppression are hovering overhead?" writershq.co.uk/what-joy-and...

The one life hack you need for your writing ➜

Pls though

Writing doesn't have to be an isolated, tortured affair. It can be *fun*! SHOCKED PIKACHU FACE Come write a butt tonne of words, drink tea, eat biscuits and have a jolly lovely time writershq.co.uk/creative-wri...

The Write A Short Story Festival starts TODAY! Come write the best goddamn story you've written so far. We've got soilpunk, we've got the archeology of fiction, we've got parallel lives, we've got editing, we've got publishing WE'VE GOT IT ALL GANG! writershq.co.uk/festivals-ch...

It's the end of Wild Draft March! Did you write? Did you draft? Did you stare out the window, a solitary tear rolling down your cheek as you pondered the plight of your protagonist without actually ever writing any fucking thing down? Pick your star, tell us how your month has gone.

"henceforth tootsweet let us [add this bit later], milady," he intoned, hissing while breathing in through his pursed clenched lipteeth.

"In art, in stories, we find a moralistic sanctuary. The good guys win, the bad guys lose. This is the place where we can begin to outrun the shadows of our history and redraw the maps of humanity." Read the full article writershq.co.uk/becoming-hum...

It is absolutely going to be a banger and you should be there

The number one reason people don’t finish their novel isn’t about structure or plot or technique. It's because they don't stop fucking about long enough to actually start writing.

Whyyy is it like this?!

Fun fact: there is not one other person on this whole entire beautiful and terrible planet that can write the stories that you write.

<Marketing jazz hands> Here's an awesome free course that will make you ascend in writerly bliss. Write A Tiny Novel - a life-changing whirlwind tour of how stories work and how all the bits of your story fit together.

BY THE WAY this glorious thing starts on Wednesday 1 April. Bag your spot here writershq.co.uk/festivals-ch...

One man's trash is another man's, er, also trash

There's a secret to finding time to write and it's probably not what you think.

Fuck AI. Write an absolutely banging short story with your own glorious brain. The Writers' HQ Write A Short Story Festival is in April and you should definitely join us writershq.co.uk/festivals-ch... With @lindzmcleod.bsky.social @sarahkat.bsky.social @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social @aliceslat