Join us for an evening with Laline Paull, author of The Bees and Pod! She’ll discuss storytelling, transformation, and writing at the intersection of fiction and ecology—followed by an audience Q&A. Moderated by Moyette Gibbons. 🌿📚 Register here: genevawriters.org/event-6430983

Congratulations to our Shortlist Prize winner, @moyetteg.bsky.social! 🌟🎉🥳

So delighted to have won the Shortlist Prize 2025 @firstnovelprize.bsky.social! A huge thank you to the amazing judges and The Literary Studio!📚🎉📚🎉

First Novel Prize@firstnovelprize.bsky.social · last yr.

✨ The wait is over ✨ The First Novel Prize 2025 winners have been announced! 🎉 Lots of ambition and originality in this year's entries. Our judges, Imogen Nelson & @rachelneely.bsky.social, had the tough task of choosing. See who won 👇 www.firstnovel.co.uk/first-novel-... #WritingCommunity

So much to say about yesterday @saloneurope.bsky.social but above all - it couldn't have happened without our Management Committee. Not just powerhouses, also standout writers & friends. So grateful 👑 @kplumhoff.bsky.social @bdiggswrites.bsky.social @royakhatiblou.bsky.social @norami.bsky.social

What a wonderful reading and discussion of our weekend’s theme, Rooted/Unrooted at Full Circle in Brussels Thank you so much to our guests, @kitdewaal.com, Balsam Karam and Philippe Marczewski, for their generous, insightful answers and beautiful readings.

What an amazing night! Great panel w @kitdewaal.com Balsam Karam & Philippe Marczewski - so many profound and diverse answers to great questions about writing, identity, process, what unroots you and being European writers. Thanks to @deborahzafer.bsky.social @norami.bsky.social & crew ❤️

Sad to leave Brussels after the @saloneurope.bsky.social - a whole weekend in a lovely city with a big gang of amazing writers for inspiration, talk, sharing and howls of laughter - what could be better? Bravo to @deborahzafer.bsky.social and the management team! 🙌🏽🎉✨💜

A fabulous weekend at the inaugural @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels. Amazing panels, readings, workshops, and writerly chat at the gorgeous Full Circle. Roll on Madrid in September 2026! 📚🇧🇪✍️📕📘📚

🎉 The 2025 First Novel Prize shortlist is here. Each of these remarkable novels-in-progress stood out for their originality and craft. Warmest congratulations to the shortlisted writers! 🌟🙌🥳

✨ We are excited to announce that award-winning freelance marketing consultant, podcast host and content creator Eleanor Pilcher will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers conference. 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration opens soon: genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

Joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers Conference is Nikesh Shukla! Award-winning author and founder of the Good Literary Agency. 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration is opening soon with early access for members: genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

✨ We at GWG are excited to announce that award-winning Luxembourgish literary agent Hannah Schofield from LBA Literary Agency will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers Conference. 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration opens soon: genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

Dorothy Koomson (@dorothykoomson.bsky.social) will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers conference as our keynote speaker! 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration is opening very soon with early access for members Find out more: genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

📣 Announcing the 2025 First Novel Prize longlist - all chosen from a dazzling field. Even with 20 places, the selection was agonising. So much amazing writing had to be left out. Thank you to all our entrants and many congratulations to the longlisted writers ✨ www.firstnovel.co.uk/first-novel-...

✨ We at GWG are excited to announce that writer, artist, teacher and filmmaker Douglas Beer will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers Conference. 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration is opening soon with early access for members: genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

✨ We are excited to announce that the Best Short Story Collection winner at the 2024 Cosmopolitan Book Awards, Shani Akilah, will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers Conference! 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration opens soon: genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

✨ We’re thrilled to announce that Goodreads Choice Awards finalist and editor Sara Nisha Adams will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers conference. 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration is opening soon with early access for members: genevawriters.org

Café writing session - Join fellow writers for some co-writing in a beautiful literary cafe inside Galerie Bortier, a gallery with a bookstore and lots of interesting restaurants and spaces to explore. Write, eat cakes, drink coffee. What’s not to love? Hosted by @moyetteg.bsky.social

📚Registration is opening soon for the 2025 Geneva Writers conference and we are thrilled to announce our 18 guest instructors! GWG members will get early access to tickets and exclusive discount rates. Join as a member to take advantage too. Find out more: genevawritersgroup.wildapricot.org

Things I’m looking forward to at our Annual Salon #2 ✨Our incredible panels✨ On Saturday, we'll be at at Full Circle. The day will include panels, workshops, readings and a catered lunch, taking place across all three floors of this beautiful, inspiring venue📔 (Sample of our panels below)

Only 8 places left for our Annual Salon in September—this year in Brussels🍻 Full programme available now🕺🏻 Get ‘em while they’re hot!

European Writers Salon@saloneurope.bsky.social · last yr.

Our latest newsletter is out, featuring our big Annual Salon Programme reveal!✨ Check out the speakers, panels, workshops and events we have booked over the 3-day event PLUS a day of eating, touring and otherwise flaneuring around Brussels🧇 There are still 9 places left—join us!

Fabulous evening yesterday listening to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie read from #DreamCount, discuss her novels, and writing in general at the Literaturfestival Zürich!🇨🇭📚📘🥂A lovely book-end to my month-long writing retreat in Schwandorf. 🇩🇪

It’s the last full day of my residency in Schwandorf 🇩🇪 and I’m spending it in my studio and my favourite local writing cafe! #WritingResidency @VCCA international exchange scholar. Lots of work done on Book 2!📚🖊️⌨️📘📕

It’s open studio day at my residency in Schwandorf, Bavaria. I’ll be reading an extract from my novel and the visual artists from America will be showing their work in their studios. Afterwards, there will be a party in our honour! 🎉📚🥂📚🎉 🇩🇪 #WritingCommunity

Another very hot start to the day at my month-long writing residency in Schwandorf, Bavaria. So, I’m writing and plotting outside in the shade in what has become my favourite local cafe before returning to work in my studio.📚🇩🇪⌨️🖊️📚#WritingCommunity #WritingResidency

Great @CapitalCrime1 panel yesterdayon Women Behind the Uniform! Also lovely listening to their publishing journeys and writing process!📘📚📕📚📒 #BookSky

Brilliant second panel @CapitalCrime1 with @JoCallaghanKat, Barnaby Martin, Dominic Nolan, and C.B. Everett!📚📘📕📚

I’m really looking forward to reading this gorgeous novel #AHouseforMissPauline! It tells the story of a 99-year-old Jamaican woman reckoning with the history of a community, past crimes, and the inheritance of the past. Thanks Fane Productions for my copy!📚📘📒📚#BookSky

Gorgeous book post waiting for me in London from the lovely people @FaneProductions. Which one should I read first? #BookSky #reading 📚📒📘

@jackmmorris.bsky.social and I are ready to mix! #Brighton #writing #writers #writingprompts

European Writers Salon@saloneurope.bsky.social · last yr.

There's still time to book tickets to our Literary Mixer in beautiful Brighton🏖️ We'll have: 🌊Walking and writing by the seaside 🎲A literary mixer (with games!) hosted by @stillsquirrel.bsky.social and @jackmmorris.bsky.social 🍷Wine, if you so choose 📚A chance to shop at wonderful Afriori Books 🔗👇