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Last chance to apply for the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists, which offers financial support and mentorship for early career Black scholars based in the UK. Apply by Sunday 10th November: bit.ly/3B7F7hP

Thank you Paul, Amy, and Debbie for a wonderful and insightful panel!

📣 Calling Black and African writers worldwide! The Afritondo Short Story Prize 2025 is open for submissions! This year’s theme is “masks”. Stories must be written in English and between 3,000 to 5,000 words. Deadline: 23 December Learn more: commonwealthfoundation.com/opportunity/af…🔗

Our member Paul Knowles recently presented at a panel for Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow!

🗣️✍️Building your Portfolio - how writers can establish themselves through competitions, magazines and more. Ft. Paul Knowles (co-editor Manchester Review), Debbie Taylor (editor @mslexia) and author A.K Blakemore. #NCWID24

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“This is with-out-doubt one of the most essential reads of 2024.” Fantastic review of Duets by The Manchester Review Manchester Review themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=12556

✨CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS✨  We're inviting submissions in fiction, life writing, and poetry on the following themes until Friday, 22 November. ✏ Community, Solidarity, Justice  ✏ Healing & Repair  ✏ Dystopias & Aftermaths Submit your work: wasafiri.org/about/submit/

Very much looking forward to our event on Saturday British Library as part of their Irish Writers’ Weekend. We have 5 writers reading work from Issues 50 (Summer 24) and 51 (our upcoming winter issue). Full programme information plus tickets for Saturday/weekend available here:

The Best British Short Stories 2024 just published 5 days ago! Head to the link below to find out more: saltpublishing.com/products/best-…

I reviewed Duets, a cracking collection of co-written short stories from innovative indie ⁦Scratch Books⁩ in the print edition of today’s ⁦Guardian Books⁩ ⁦Guardian Saturday⁩

An eclectic and varied shortlist. Fascinating comments on the website from Bernie McGill Tom Conaghan and @HarrietHirshman

My piece 'Is being a short story writer sustainable?' is now live on Writers & Artists. Thank you for all your insights and for Abi Hynes for her help! writersandartists.co.uk/advice/being-s…

Very proud of ENSFR member Sonya Moor (The Comet & Other Stories), who features in the Best British Short Stories 2024 anthology edited by Nicholas Royle and published by Salt Books!

CFP for a proposed special issue Orbit: Journal of American Literature, entitled "Thomas Pynchon in Eastern Europe". The issue will be co-edited by Sergej Macura and Molnár Gábor Tamás. More info at the link below: orbit.openlibhums.org/news/770/

CFP: The 2025 conference of the Katherine Mansfield Society will re-examine the importance of place in Mansfield’s writings. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1st February! More here: birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/…

Another CFP for a special issue on the Canadian short story!

The latest issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English The Journal of the Short Story in English is out! journals.openedition.org/jsse/4393

Happy new year from the ENSFR! 2025 is an important year for us as it marks the 10-year anniversary of our first ever conference. You can read more about it here: ensfr.univ-angers.fr/2014/10/

Scratch A4 Summer ‘25 opens today! Send us a fantastic <1000 word story before 26th April! Judges: Liv Bignold Tom Conaghan Denise Rose Hansen Info on submitting here: scratch-books.co.uk/scratcha4compe…