THIS Friday folks! 8pm start. 🙂🎃🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ The annual @writershq.bsky.social Halloween Flash Fiction open mic night. Fancy dress, quiz, prizes and spooky flash readings. All welcome!

Kathy Hoyle@kathyhoyle.bsky.social · last mo.

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Happy follow friday! Here’s a few mags that are currently OPEN for FREE subs :) @lespritlit.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social @oneart.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @chestnutreview.bsky.social @dipitylitmag.bsky.social @paranoidxtree.bsky.social @voidspacezine.bsky.social

'Getting an agent or book deal doesn't make all the writing struggles disappear.' A special episode of Northern Voices with @louisepowell.bsky.social about the submissions process that led to her debut novel Underdogs being picked up by @johnmurrays.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/gndHwdfe4UHX...

'As working-class writers we sometimes don't have that mentality of "I can do it".' Emerging writer Victoria Ferguson joins me on Northern Voices this week to talk about writing folk horror in Northern dialect, working-class mentality and the accessibility. on.soundcloud.com/JWEfsoOnjemA...

Three books that are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud! Special October crazy prices. All eBooks now £3.99 and all paperbacks only £8.99! This is not just comedy—this is Rob Gotobed comedy! IMDb: bit.ly/4eE9yxz Books: bit.ly/4hA0B7W

Come and join the flashy fun! On Fri 30th Oct I’ll be hosting our annual halloween open mic night and everyone is welcome! It’s all FREE- bring yr best spooky story- we have fancy dress and quiz prizes and amaaaaazing flash fiction!! 🍁🎃⚡️⚡️🔥🔥💥 details below!

Kathy Hoyle@kathyhoyle.bsky.social · last mo.

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Looking fwd to reading this beauty from @louisepowell.bsky.social 🙂🙂

writershq.co.uk/whq-event/fl... I’m hosting tonight from 8pm! It’s not too late to sign up. Come and join us to hear some fabuloys flash readings! 🙂😍

Flash Face Off Live - Writers' HQ

An evening of awesome stories, thoughtful feedback, slightly unhinged celebration and general merriment, WHQ-style.

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BlessedMabon. 🍁🍂🩷

Mabon blessings to you all. 🍂🍁💗🍂🍁💗 may you find peace and balance in your second harvest. #Mabonblessings

www.failingwriterspodcast.com/episodes/epi.... The annual Flash Fiction Competition is back! Head over to the lads @failingwriters.bsky.social to find out more! Great judge this year too !

The Failing Writers Podcast - the world's bestest writing podcast ever... probably

The Failing Writers Podcast is a writing podcast for everyone who has ever wanted to write a book... then put the kettle on instead.

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Say—here are about 78 literary journals opening for submissions in October. Some are open now or will close soon in September or October. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well, friends.

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Flash Face Off Live: Halloween Special - Writers' HQ

A night of Halloween storytelling, where YOU are the entertainment! Bring your sea shanties, monstrous myths, seafaring superstitions, ghostly legends and All Hallows' Tales.

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P.S. The Perfect Circle anthology is available now, full of gloriously unsettling tales by Eva Carson, @daveyfrankel.bsky.social, @kathyhoyle.bsky.social, @lynseymay.com, Lauren O’Donoghue & me, edited by Rob Redman & beautifully illustrated by Lucy Scott: www.uncertainstories.com/books/anthol...

Perfect Circle (Uncertain Stories #2)

This is the second anthology from Uncertain Stories.

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I DID IT!!! I finally submitted my thesis today! 4 years immersed in academic study. My brain has melted and there were MANY life-challenges along the way but I finally got there. Just the Viva exam to worry about now! (shhh we won't talk about that!) 😊🥳🥳🥳🥳

Woohoo Woo Hoo

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🌀Submissions are open NOW! 🌀Submit your creative nonfiction work via Submittable to River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and Beautiful Things: A Weekly Online Magazine of Micro-essays. 🌀Check out the LinkTree in our bio for easy access to Submittable. #BeautifulThings #RiverTeeth

I’m utterly devastated to learn that Dolly Parton has died. She was my absolute hero. Such a great loss. 😢

Dolly Parton Sings 'I Will Always Love You'

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Had a lovely confidence-boosting meeting with my brilliant supervisor this week. I can't believe that after four years of total immersion in brain-melting research and writing, this thesis is almost done, people!!! I'll be submitting very soon . EEEEEP!! Now, what the hell will I do next?

Random Tuesday: A Little Bit Of A Mystery

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The Writers' HQ WARFEST starts on September 1st! Come and join us and be part of the resistance! So many wonderful workshops! Find out more here... writershq.co.uk/festivals-ch...

The Writers' HQ Writing As Resistance Festival

Stories to change the world. A deep dive into the radical nature of creativity and the transformative possibilities of stories.

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Wonderful to celebrate with the people of Spain as they win the world cup! Such a great atmosphere!

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Out today! My story ‘Dead Man’s Hollow’ is featured in this brilliant anthology. Honoured to have work alongside this brilliant line-up of terrific writers! 😃😃😃

David Frankel @daveyfrankel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@uncertainstories.com 'Perfect Circle' is out! My story, ‘Swineside’ - is in v. good company, among stories by Eva Carson, @jmgatford.bsky.social , @kathyhoyle.bsky.social , @lynseymay.com and Lauren O’Donoghue, and brilliant illustrations by Lucy Scott. www.uncertainstories.com/books/anthol...

@uncertainstories.com 'Perfect Circle' is out! My story, ‘Swineside’ - is in v. good company, among stories by Eva Carson, @jmgatford.bsky.social , @kathyhoyle.bsky.social , @lynseymay.com and Lauren O’Donoghue, and brilliant illustrations by Lucy Scott. www.uncertainstories.com/books/anthol...

I LOVED this wonderfully mysterious novella, it reads like a dark and ancient folk-tale. Told in dialect, the narrative voice is just gorgeous! You can get a copy from @roadsongbooks.bsky.social now! ☺️👍

David Gladwin@dlgladwin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

According to an email from a reader this week, my novella Coldwell is "Atmospheric, evocative, rooted in time and place, poetic and a bit creepy." Available from @roadsongbooks.bsky.social. roadsongbooks.com/product/cold...

A future project is to draw in writers for a short story anthology. The 'theme' is to be decided - but verse and song lyrics will be invited in too. Submission guidelines, word counts and deadlines will be announced in the coming months. We're looking forward to this!

It starts TODAY! Write your entire butt off throughout June 🎉 writershq.co.uk/festivals-ch...

Eddie had the river zoomies today!!

But we need to know! Our worlds aren't going to build themselves, goddamit! writershq.co.uk/whq-event/us...

Arse in a chair. Fingers on keyboard. Structured writing time and unlimited writer fuel* *caffeine and biscuits writershq.co.uk/creative-wri...

Shhh study day! 📚✒️ Anxiety was little lower today, so I managed another 1200 words down on the thesis - gonna have LOTS of editing to do methinks , but better to have a little too much than not enough! Slowly, slowly it takes shape.

Pengu Pudgy: I Can Do This! Study Time

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