📢We've officially opened our doors again! Or, we're now receiving applications for our Open Doors Project 📢

If you're from a traditionally under-represented background, looking for a publishing role, please consider applying before 25.04 :

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Our next Twitter Chat is on Women Writers and the Environment. Maybe I’ll write a story about these mallards in a flooded park. Have you written about the environment? Join us Thursday 18th April at 18:00 BST! #WritingCommunity #WomenWriters #BookRecommendations

#writingcommunity have signed and hope you will too. I was arrested in a Just Stop Oil protest and recently acquitted. Not asking for anything radical - just that the government should follow the advice of its own advisers (and scientists across the world). #ClimateEmergency

If you’re resisting getting on with your creative projects, OR if you’re finding less joy in the creative process these days, please join us for this Zoom workshop w. London Lit Lab - on Sat 18th May!

‘Managing the Inner Critic’.

The link is below:

londonlitlab.co.uk/course/live-on…

The door is still open for our 2024 Award. Ten days to go until our £1750 prize fund award ends on Monday 15th April . For #shortstorues up to 2200 words. Shorter pieces welcome too. Open theme.. Results out in August. Bathshortstoryaward.org

Writers: our website is still in development but I want new submissions. #mswl 🧵:

High-concept YA - if it includes & addresses untold histories / historically marginalized characters, all the better

YA horror - ALL OF IT

Literary / commercial-literary horror - see above…

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy. That’s more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding for creative arts at university level is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic…

2 weeks to go: online short story event!

✨ Useful tips on character, plot, structure and conflict
✨ Featuring 3 former Bridport Prize short story winners
✨ Tickets/more info here: bit.ly/shortstory-eve…

Sean.Lusk Elaine Chiew Ben Hinshaw #ShortStory

So many people experience resistance when facing the blank page.

This workshop with the inspirational Anita Goveas looks perfect for exploring useful sources for your ideas, incl. “techniques to try when the blank page is beckoning but the words are not cooperating.” 👍🏻👍🏻

Delighted to be part of the next Hawkesbury Upton Lit Fest event 'A Sense of Place' on 27th April. Thanks as ever to 📚 Debbie Young 📚

£10 gets you a cake-filled, jam-packed Lit Fest in a day in beautiful Goucestershire in St Mary's, Hawkesbury GL9 1BN

See you there ❤️

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Intrigued by some of the other books supposedly written by me on Goodreads. This one could probably sum up the school “holiday” experience for quite effectively.

🧵✍️We read synopses every day and we feel your pain. A thread on writing a strong one-page synopsis for your novel.
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The only thing criminal about homelessness is the fact we live in a society that tolerates it.

We're open to submission so why not send us something beautiful? #callforsubmissions #flashfiction #shortstories . Photo by Simon Berger. Please follow link for guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-gui…

This, with the wonderful Laura Besley, looks like a really useful workshop. Hands up if you find dialogue tricky? #amwriting 👋

#Writers ! BathShortStoryAward is open for entries until Monday 15 April at midnight BST. You’re invited to submit stories up 2,200 words on any theme or subject. The year’s judge is award-winning novelist & short story champion Sophie Haydock. Good luck! skylightrain.com/enter-the-bath…

Thank you so much, Andrea 😊I’m really thrilled that you enjoyed Blue Hawk! 🦅

A different sort of Easter bunny 🐇This bonkers but lovely book has been great company on the train home from a few days in Paris. Happy Easter to all 🪺 #theyearofthehare #amreading

Some tips on #writing for those submitting to #literaryagents after #Easter :
1)we look for joy on the page, joy in the writing, full immersion, confidence from the storyteller & learn something new about our lives

2)Be ruthless with openings-use the Netflix “Skip Intro”
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Join Sean.Lusk Ben Hinshaw & myself to talk all things #shortstory . Do short stories prepare you to write novels? What R yr thoughts? All 3 of us were past Bridport prize SS winners & will have novels out soon.

#Novel #shortstory #BookTwitter #book twt #book #book event