Today is the last day that I can say FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN is Blackwell's Fiction Book of the Month. So I'm saying it! 😉

Pregnant cat walk

I'd love for you to join me this weekend for my new workshop: WHAT DID YOU SAY? Writing Effective Dialogue.
✍️ Saturday, 4th May
✍️ 4-6pm, BST
✍️ Register here: crowcollectiveworkshops.com/2020/01/04/dia… (Free places available!)
#fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity #dialogue

Submissions are open for the next edition of our é-zine on the theme ‘Belonging’

What does belonging mean to you?

epoquepress.com/ezine-next-edi…

#shortstories #poetry #spokenword #photograghy #visualart #music #shortfilm

Hope to see you there.

Exactly 2 years ago today I signed with Bloodhound Books for my debut SHATTERED. Can’t wait for them to publish my next novel before the end of the year ☺️ 📖 ✨

I'm so excited for the release of this version of my #microfiction #collection , (UN)NATURAL ELEMENTS, by Downingfield Press on 21st June!
#amwriting #WritingCommmunity #fiction #shortfiction

'One rejection Oxblood received was along the lines of: Sorry, but we’ve already bought a working-class novel this year.'

Absolute pleasure to talk with Tom Benn about representation, Beatrix Potter and his novel OXBLOOD.

joebedford.co.uk/tom-benn/

Photo credit: Beth Moseley

'Big Screen Writing: Write Better Books & Stories Using Screenwriting Techniques': Workshop with Wayne Kelly on Sat 11 May Attenborough Arts Centre eventbrite.com/e/big-screen-w… Jonathan Taylor Everybody'sReviewing University of Leicester

Author of the Shardlake novels dies aged 71 theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Jonathan Taylor UCU Universities UK Times Higher Education It is scandalous ('Oh, it's the kudos, old bean').

'Things Japanese' workshops with the brilliant Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana - 6 week course, May 8th-June 12th, plus stand-alone workshop on May 11th: 'of butterflies': eventbrite.co.uk/e/things-japan… &
eventbrite.co.uk/e/of-butterfli… Creative Writing at Leicester The Poetry Society Everybody'sReviewing SALT · Independent trade publisher, est. 1999

Many wonderful poets are already signed up!
Still a few places left...excited!
The Writing School 𝔼𝕨𝕒𝕟 𝕄𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕟
Jeanette Burton 💙 🇺🇦 SALT · Independent trade publisher, est. 1999

Longbarrow Press was launched in Sheffield 18 years ago today. Over the next few hours, we'll post 18 loosely threaded tweets - anecdotal, aphoristic, archival - that reflect on the ethos and evolution of the press. What we do, how we do it, why we do it. In no particular order.

On reflection I think that turning universities into businesses with vast investment portfolios dependent on tuition fees, rents, and profiteering was bad, actually

Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester: the brilliant Imtiaz Dharker and her new collection 'Shadow Reader' Bloodaxe Books Read two wonderful poems from the collection here …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2024/04/imtiaz… Jonathan Taylor The Poetry Society British Library PoetryBookSoc Everybody'sReviewing

Perry Anderson observed in 1964: “When a Labour government is in power, it is an isolated, spot-lit enclave, surrounded on almost every side by hostile territory, unceasingly shelled by industry, press and orchestrated ‘public opinion’.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester - the brilliant Imtiaz Dharker and her new collection 'Shadow Reader.' Read two wonderful poems from the collection here: …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2024/04/imtiaz… The Poetry Society PoetryBookSoc Bloodaxe Books Everybody'sReviewing Newcastle University University of Leicester Library & Learning Services

How do universities get away with paying external examiners for PhDs such a scandalously low rate UCU ? Given the time involved, it comes out as less than minimum wage. Universities UK Times Higher Education #university #Universities