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Hoping for a few more participants on my Writing Historical Fiction half-day workshop (Sat 22nd June, 9am-1pm, on Zoom). More details in thread. Any questions just let me know! Retweets much appreciated! #histfic #MedievalTwitter #amwriting #writingworkshop 🖋️

Take your writing to the next level with New Writers Awards 2025. Now in its 15th year, our awards provide emerging writers financial support, industry insights and opportunities to develop their craft. Deadline: 31 July 2024 scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-au…

📣 Calling all writers! 📣 The EAF x Art Monthly Writer's Award will commission a writer to respond to the EAF24 programme. Through the Award, we aim to uplift writers who are from backgrounds currently underrepresented in art writing. Apply by: 28/6/24 buff.ly/3x1Dy30

10 years ago I was still stuck in the query trenches (lost & confused). Here’s a few things I’ve learned about writing/publishing in the past decade 🧵 1. Resilience. Rejection is part of the job. It gets easier. It’s not that your work isn’t good it’s that it isn’t a good fit.

It’s finally here, publication day for The Echoes of Us! Im so chuffed it’s out in the world now and readers can hopefully start enjoying. It’s a Time Traveler’s Wife x One Day romance/mystery set in Edinburgh and other sun soaked global locations. 🥳🥳🥳 Mountain Leopard Press 💖💖

We are in for a TREAT this week as Maggie & Me joins with the final performance of its national tour! 🤩 If you're keen to come along, be sure to add your name to the returns queue for a chance to get a last minute ticket 🎟️ Find out more here: traverse.co.uk/your-visit/box…

Join us on Tuesday 25 June with BPOC Writers for a Q&A session on the New Writers Awards. Find out everything you need to know about the awards and application process, with top tips to put your best submission forward. scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/qa-applying-to…

Letters To Our Future Government 📝 We're looking for young people to write letters, poems, songs and speeches to our future government. These will then be brought to life by professional theatre-makers at TravFest24. Deadline: Fri 12 Jul Find out more: traverse.co.uk/submissions-le…

Brilliant residential opportunities for care-experienced young people aged 14-30! ✨The upcoming residential will be in July, all about playwriting. More info here: moniackmhor.org.uk/youth/creativi…

Please share! We have FOUR scholarships for #UnderrepresentedWriters open for applications. Offered as part of the Breakthrough Writers’ Programme. Funded by Curtis Brown Books and our partners. #AmWriting curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/breakthrough-s… Details below (1/5) 🧵

We’re delighted to announce our first round of authors and chairs that will be joining us for the Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival 2024! Friday Night: Voices with Maggie O’Farrell and Jenny Brown OBE! Thread for details: 🧵

RT & follow us to be in with a chance of winning a free virtual 20-minute one-on-one session with Sian Ellis-Martin or @julietpickering, who’ll give you feedback on your submission package! 📚✍️ #BFLAOpenWeek #Querying #AspiringWriters

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! We offer new writers the chance to develop a story (fiction or non-fiction) for publication in Product. All welcome. RTs much appreciated #WritingCommunity #Writersmentors #writers #FootballFreeZone Details + deadline here: tinyurl.com/a82ccye5

I now aspire to being in a state of total array

Agree, as a writer over 40 I've been really grateful for the support of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. The awards are open to emerging writers of any age (plus they have a dedicated Next Chapter Award specifically for writers over 40)

This is a brilliant opportunity👇

This is what in Japanese is known as ‘tsundoku’: buying book after book to add to a pile you will never get to.

Because the world is utterly depressing rn, I'm gonna host another one of these free masterclasses, because what can we do but think and learn and write and organise. I'll be drilling into the fineries of short story structure (vs novels) and how we can make things of

Thank you Naomi Wood for a fantastic masterclass this evening on short story structure. Left me with lots to think about.

Delighted to have have been shortlisted for this. Thanks to I Am In Print and Liv Maidment and congratulations to all the winners.