Do you want to flex your creative muscles this #BankHolidayWeekend? 📖✨ Check out the selection of FREE #AmWriting resources available to everyone on our website: curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/free-creative-…

Jag har tänkt en hel del på litteraturkritik de senaste dagarna. Det har påmint mig om rimligheten i hur Jonas Thente förra året sammanfattade de enda två frågor kritik faktiskt bör ta ställning till: "Vad vill detta verk, och hur väl lyckas det med detta? Det är allt."

The Writing Magazine #ChapterBookPrize and #PictureBookPrize submission window opens tomorrow! More info about the book prizes: storygodmother.co.uk/index.php/oppo… And check out the next two issues of the magazine for more tips! Good luck, everyone! #storygodmother #WritingCommunity

.Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський's tv address to the Russian (!) people might be the most moving speech that I've ever seen in my entire life. The whole world needs to see, understand and share this crucial Ukrainian message. #StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #Україна #Russia #Россия

MeToo is over, we go back to whisper networks and the powerful men go back to being untouchable. I'm so fucking tired.

Submissions to the #BPAPitchPrize 2022 are now open! We're thrilled to have Hattie Grünewald from The Blair Partnership as our judge this year. Submit your first 500 words by Nov 6 for the chance to meet Hattie one-on-one. bluepencilagency.com/bpa-pitch-priz…

Please keep signing & sharing everyone. Let’s get to 10,000 signatures! change.org/p/no-job-cuts-… English Association University English British Association for Modernist Studies bacls BAVS British Association for Romantic Studies London Society for Medieval Studies BAAS (British Association for American Studies) The Mechanics' Institute Review #SaveBirkbeck

Keep making some noise! 👇🏼It doesn’t have to be this way. Dismay at threat of ‘devastating’ job cuts at Birkbeck, University of London | Birkbeck, University of London | The Guardian theguardian.com/education/2022…

If you're an aspiring writer, please do submit for the excellent Discoveries development programme in partnership with Curtis Brown Creative Audible UK 🎧 Curtis Brown Books womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/discoveries

Watch NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pick apart this reporter's question during a joint press conference with Finnish PM Sanna Marin. He asked the pair 'are you two meeting because you're similar in age and got a lot of common stuff there?' Read more: trib.al/HSLyzZQ

Retweet if you think big media channels have a responsibility, when women are dying every three days from misogyny and male violence, not to legitimise and embolden abusive misogynistic views. ITV should fire Jeremy Clarkson.

Merry Christmas from the team! Margaret James Cathie Hartigan Sophie Duffy 🇺🇦💀💐 @MartynWaites 🎄1st Prize £1000 Closing date for submissions 11.59pm Jan 1st creativewritingmatters.co.uk

The White Review Poet’s Prize 2023, run in partnership with @CHEERIOPublish, is now open for entries, and for the first time, we are open to submissions from poets anywhere in the world. thewhitereview.org/prize/the-whit…

4. Written a poetry pamphlet / collection, but *not* published it? The The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition is judged by 上海包养/上海修车/上海喝茶/上海资源/上海上门/上海按摩/上海会所/上海学生/上海楼凤. Top prize: publication + £700. Entry fee: £29. Deadline: 1 March. poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/t…

Massi Fritz: Går inte att missförstå vad ”snippa” är omni.se/a/3EPRye

Det här är ett sånt enormt svek av samhället. Först lanseras ordet snippa för att göra det lättare för barn och unga att prata om kvinnlig sexualitet. Sedan används ordet, helt adekvat, av en flicka som blivit utsatt för ett övergrepp. Men då går det så här? Gubbjävlar.

"Ensam            en-sum Start saying the word ‘enjoy’, but stop yourself after ‘en’. Instead of puckering your lips for a‘j’, as if you’re about to kiss your child" Swedish pronunciation: lesson 1 by REBECCA ZÄTTERSTRÖM picciolettabarca.com/posts/swedish-…

Thank you La Piccioletta Barca for featuring one of my poems