Our Instagram community has really grown this year! To celebrate, our 1000th follower will get the FINAL copy of the Dialect Anthology, free and gratis and jam full of work by brilliant rural writers in the UK. Come and find us in the Other Place! instagram.com/dialectwriters…

I'll be at Humber Street Gallery on September 12th with Dave Haslam and Lucy Nichol talking about the places that inspired our writing. It's my first event in Hull, a city that had a huge, positive impact on me, so I'm incredibly excited for this one. eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-and-pla…

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📣 POSTPONED Really sorry to say that due to Covid, we are having to postpone our Words in the Woods retreat for families this Sunday 8th September. Not an easy decision, we were so excited to see everyone - but don’t worry, we’ll be back with bells on, *Saturday 28th Sep*!

Step into autumn and grab yourself a place on this equinox eco-writing workshop, in Stroud’s beautiful Sladebank Woods, guided by poet in residence JLM Morton 👇 dialect.org.uk/coursesworksho…

I'm offering an online course through The Irish Writers Centre. Would love some shares. Thanks. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/connec…

Feels like an emergency - next person to follow us on Instagram gets a FREE copy of the Dialect anthology packed full of the finest poetry and prose by rural writers around the UK! 💥

Visit this refurbished historic building &listen to fab poetry from @MartinFigura & Helen Ivory open mic slots email [email protected] CheltenhamPoetryFest Gloucester Poetry Festival Glos Writers Network The Gloucestershire Poetry Society Jason Conway dialectwriters Adam Horovitz Nigel Kent ChloeJPoetry Annie Ellis

Poetry Cafe Gloucester Library Tues 24th Sept. 12.30 - 2.00pm. Feature poet, the lovely Rose Lennard. Join us & bring a poem to share. The Gloucestershire Poetry Society Glos Writers Network Gloucester Poetry Festival CheltenhamPoetryFest Annie Ellis Anna Saunders Nigel Kent dialectwriters Buzzwords Poetry #poetry #library

So looking forward to our next feast and did NOT know interdimensional werewolves were on the menu but that’s fine dining for you 🌟

Reviewed Held by Anne Michaels for Guardian Books and Orbital by Samantha Harvey Times Books Both now on The Booker Prizes Both brilliant books. Wish everyone could win. #litfic #WritingCommmunity #writerslife

Tonight! The live, online launch of Loops, an *extraordinary* new collaboration between poets Clare Pollard and Freya Sacksen. This is plantable poetry from the eco-poetry imprint, DIRT 🌱 7pm, free tickets via our website 🌟🌸 dialect.org.uk/events/dirt-po…

Online meals are the best kind!Grab yourself a seat at our imaginary table this Tuesday 24th September 7pm - the *amazing* Adam Farrer is bringing three courses of writing discussion and interdimensional werewolves - lmk on the best wine to pair with that with ok thx

A HUGE congratulations to Dialect founder, poet and solid gold egg of a person JLM Morton on being *highly commended* by Forward Prizes. Grab your copy of Red Handed from Broken Sleep Books, it’s extraordinary ❤️

Tonight!! Food, family, seaside towns, werewolves, mashed up pigs and burlesque, not all at the same time (ok maybe at the same time). Really looking forward to meeting the brilliant Adam Farrer for three imaginary courses of writing chat - 7pm! dialect.org.uk/events/dialect…

Call-out for submissions 📢 We are now open for Fiction & Non-fiction submissions exclusively by Welsh writers with lived experience of racism, ableism and/or poverty 🖋️ Deadline: 5pm Wednesday 30th October. Find out more here serenbooks.com/submissions/

To celebrate Candlestick Press's incredible achievement selling a million pamphlets (a million!), I'm sharing Love Song for Ewe, a fondly tongue in cheek poem from Wonky Animals. Beautiful cover Jane Burn Brava to Diane for being brilliant. I love that proceeds go to the animals🐑

Thank you Adam! Such a feast for the soul (and no surprise to anyone that we’re Team Pickled Onion) 🧅