Pearl's Women X Film Festival has become BAFTA-Qualifying for Best British Short Film!

Women X Festival is BAFTA-Qualifying! - The Writing Squad

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From over 450 poems submitted, three Squad writers found their way onto the DIRT Plantable Poetry Competition longlist. Well done to Heather Chapman, Lauren Hollingsworth-Smith and Helen Bowell! From these, Helen went to be further shortlisted too.

Long & shortlisted for DIRT Plantable Poetry - The Writing Squad

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This year, two writers from the Squad - Charlotte Cropper and Tallulah Howarth - will be presented by the National Poetry Centre at Latitude Festival. They'll be performing on The Bookshop stage on the 25th July. More information on the link below!

Squad Writers at Latitude Festival - The Writing Squad

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Congrats to Lauren C. Maltas, who won New Writing North's Tempest Prize for Dining Table — her work in progress memoir about food, intimacy, delicious lives and bodies! Winners receive ongoing, personalised career development support, as well as a combination of cash prizes, mentoring and more.

Lauren C. Maltas wins Tempest Prize - The Writing Squad

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Kym has been longlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written) for their Oxford Poetry Prize piece ‘Braag’. Judges of the Oxford Poetry prize called the poem “mordant, funny, and sharply political.” Many congratulations to Kym for receiving this recognition!

Kym Deyn longlisted for Forward Prize - The Writing Squad

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7 artists + 7 artworks x 7 minutes = 7 Small Acts Squad grad Ruby Lawrence has been chosen to participate in 7 Small Acts - an evening of small acts/performances that each take an artwork from Falmouth Art Gallery’s extraordinary collection as their starting point.

Ruby to take part in 7 Small Acts - The Writing Squad

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Gala, Durham this Saturday! Celebrating the incredible versatility of brass, Brassed On will perform a show featuring North East local artists. Including Dilettante, the art-pop project of multi-instrumentalist Francesca Pidgeon, and Isabel Maria, a self proclaimed ‘pensive popstar’.

Brassed On - The Writing Squad

Celebrating the incredible versatility of brass, Brassed On will perform a show featuring North East local artists. Including Dilettante, the art-pop project of multi-instrumentalist Francesca…

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This Saturday morning join Theodore for another free workshop working with the archives of Hartlepool as a means to respond, reflect, and reimagine the past. More information on the linked article

Writing Back to the Archive workshop - The Writing Squad

Join Hartlepool’s Reader-in-Residence for a chance to explore the archives at The Local and Family History Centre.

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A free workshop with Theodore Forcer this Friday afternoon in Hartlepool - exploring the stories of the coast!

Words in the Sand workshop - The Writing Squad

Join Hartlepool’s Reader-in-Residence, Theodore Forcer, to explore the stories of our coast through creative writing!

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Listen to Ellen Osborne in conversation with Lucas Maxwell on the Booklings Chat podcast discussing her debut novel, The Seeker and the Shade.

Episode #157: Ellen Osborne

Podcast Episode · Booklings Chat · May 15 · 34m

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Kym speaks about their debut collection, Folkish, with Ian McMillan on The Verb. Available to listen to on BBC Sounds until July 7th.

Kym Deyn is a Guest on The Verb - The Writing Squad

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Squad grad Georgia Hinkley’s black comedy 'Bad Hair Day' will be shown alongside other fantastic plays as part of 53Two’s OFFCUT Festival in Manchester on both the 25th and 27th of June. The winning play of the festival, as voted by the audience, will win £10k worth of support and a full run.

Bad Hair Day – OFFCUT FESTIVAL - The Writing Squad

Squad grad Georgia Hinkley’s ‘black comedy about transsexuals’ will be shown alongside other fantastic plays as part of 53Two’s OFFCUT Festival in Manchester. Bad Hair Day will be showing on both the…

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After a very successful stand-up workshop for the Squad, Charlotte will be showing us how it's done with CroppaChoppa's Slumber Party, this Saturday at Manchester's Cultplex. Get ready for a night of your favourite comedians, games, prizes, and sleepover gossip.

CroppaChoppa’s Slumber Party - The Writing Squad

A Night of Stand-Up Comedy and Sleepover Games – for girls, gays, theys, and emotionally intelligent men!!

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Squad grad and CORE2 team member Georgia Affonso has been shortlisted for the Food Season & Vittles Food Stories Fellowship Prize. Congratulations Georgia!

Georgia Shortlisted for Food Writing Prize - The Writing Squad

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Kym Deyn will be reading from Folkish this Thursday evening at Edinburgh's Lighthouse Bookshop - go along to support if you're in the area

Rainbow Verses - The Writing Squad

For Indie Bookshop Week Rainbow Verses features Squad grad Kym Deyn, reading from their newest collection Folkish! And with them, Nathan Evans performing from Homography! and Zain Rishi, with Noon!

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Nara Rasool and Jack So from Squad 12 are performing a new play-in-verse this Thursday as part of Sheba Festival, Longsight. Free tickets!

Asking A Masc Lesbian To Open A Jar - The Writing Squad

At this year’s Sheba Festival, Jack and Nara have been commissioned to write and perform a new piece of work responding to the theme of the festival ‘Still We Rise’. A short play-in-verse exploring…

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After our afternoon with Hachette in Sheffield yesterday, all lines lead to York today for a Squad classic, Ten Things Every Story Needs with Mark Catley.

A free workshop next Wednesday in Hartlepool with Theodore Forcer!

Old Photos, New Ideas: making zines from the archive - The Writing Squad

Join Hartlepool’s Crossing the Tees Reader-in-Residence, Theodore Forcer, for a relaxed, beginner-friendly zine workshop!

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If you’re in the capital this Sunday afternoon, swim into Fish Island Books while Francesca Pigeon of Dilettantes shares her favourite reads and some of her own most recent music www.writingsquad.com/event/off-th...

Congratulations to Kym Deyn, whose collection 'Folkish' has been named by the Poetry Book Society as a Summer Recommendation for 2026.

Folkish is a Poetry Book Society Summer Recommendation - The Writing Squad

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Billie Collins has been chosen for the Little Chick Emerging Writers Scheme - an opportunity for early-career writers to develop their TV screenwriting with BAFTA & Emmy award winning writer Abi Morgan and Sue Gibbs, Head of Development at Heyday Television UK. Congrats!

Billie joins Little Chick Emerging Writers Scheme - The Writing Squad

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For the milestone 50th episode of Gregory Kearns’ podcast, The Poems We Made Along the Way, he speaks to Carl Phillips about the eroticism of line breaks, developing titles of poems, and poetry as a place to explore uncertainty.

Gregory interviews Carl Phillips for 50th podcast episode - The Writing Squad

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Opening today - the DIRT Plantable Poetry Competition, an opportunity to publish a collaborative Earth-positive pamphlet! Submissions close on the 14th of June.

Joe Wright is a judge for the DIRT Plantable Poetry Competition - The Writing Squad

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Libby Maeve's debut short story, Sticky, out now, Squad writers featuring in And Other Poems, and a bumper anthology by Hive Young Writer's Network

Recently Published In… - The Writing Squad

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All lines lead to Leeds and a mic stand today for our Stand Up comedy workshop with Squad writer Charlotte Cropper.

"What makes the Writing Squad so special is having 50% of our Board made up of Squad grads"... Welcoming Tayiba Sulaiman, Rory Thorp and Beth Westbrook to the Board and OnBoard Experience! Learn more about them here

Squad Writers join our Board - The Writing Squad

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Join Squad writer and “viscerally relatable" comedian Charlotte Cropper this Friday in Manchester for a comedy night like you've never been to before. There will be games, prizes, mischievous mascots and sleepover gossip!

CroppaChoppa’s Slumber Party - The Writing Squad

A Night of Stand-Up Comedy and Sleepover Games – for girls, gays, theys, and emotionally intelligent men!!

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The Seeker and the Shade is out today! An intense, compelling fantasy novel for young adults and old. Enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn, first love, soul mates, and good versus evil feature in this story of a battle against the darkness, both from within and without. Congratulations Ellen!

Ellen Osbourne releases debut novel - The Writing Squad

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I've written about attending @improbable1.bsky.social's Dedicated & Disgruntled gathering last weekend. www.emmaadamswriter.co.uk/new-blog/202... It's a love letter. But it's something else too. It's a coming out, a meditation & a prayer. If you read & like it, please share. Thank you x #DandD21

Amulet — Emma Adams: Writer

A love letter to the Improbable Theatre Team after Devoted and Disgruntled #21

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This morning for the first time pulling out a book of poetry on the tram caused a small child across the aisle to blurt out "oooh Mum, what's *she* reading". Excellent cover @kymdeyn.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social Excellent contents too 👏🙌