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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the most quotable craft book I've read in years. Keep finding sections I want to share with the world! McCracken's analogies for writing are terrific. Are you a "shook-up bottle of soda pop" kind of writer, a cicada, or an annual? #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Photo of page 88 from inside Elizabeth McCracken's craft book, A Long Game, with the underlined passage: "A writer is someone upon whom nothing is lost."

Photo from inside Elizabeth McCracken's craft book, A Long Game, highlighting section 24, beginning with "Writing isn't ballet, nor piano", that discusses the common advice that writers need to write every day (spoiler alert: McCracken doesn't think this is true).

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Have a novel or memoir excerpt you want rigorous, craft-based feedback on? Come join us in Nantes! Apply to the Nantes Writers' Workshop, a week-long, intimate and intensive writing workshop. Deadline to apply is March 15. #amwriting #writingcommunity nanteswritersworkshop.com

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Lots of exciting events coming up in 2026! In particular: Feb 11, when the European Writers' Salon turns 2. I'm thinking it'll be like a flash mob for writers celebrating community, all over Europe. 🤩

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We're open for applications! Deadline: March 15, 2026 for our June session. Prose writers, I'm looking at you. Yes, you. Find out more here: nanteswritersworkshop.com

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 17/12/2025

REMINDER - there is a fully funded bursary place available for my Six Month Writing Course in association with @gladlib.bsky.social The Deadline is 7th January. www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/the-si...

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(Sold Out) The Six-Month Writing Course with Kit de Waal - Gladstone's Library

Join Kit de Waal for a six-month journey into the art and discipline of storytelling, with two visits to the UK’s finest residential library.

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

It's Publisher's Marketplace official! I have so many things to say that I won't say anything except for I FEEL CENTURIES LIGHTER 🥳 #debut #fiction #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

We’re open!

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I've just spent the last four days interviewing my mother about our family history for a new novel project. She turned up with a slim Ziploc bag of photos that - some more randomly than others - survived the many, many moves. The oldest is from 1922. Can you spot it? #amwriting

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Excited to be speaking at NAWE this year about using bad metaphors & corny love poems in the classroom. (Yes, yes). And if that's not your jam, there are 80 (!) other sessions to choose from.

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Europeana @europeana.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Looking to explore #CulturalHeritage collections & get creative? Join the Europeana Writers’ Room! Use Europeana’s collections as prompts, try fun exercises, and share in a friendly, no-pressure space. 📅 5 November ✍ All levels welcome 🍂 Write around the theme of 'cozy comfort' ☕ 🔗 bit.ly/4mtqVC9

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Europeana Writers’ Room - monthly creative writing workshops | Europeana PRO

Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for an hour dedicated to writing and creativity. We’ll use collections available on Europeana.eu to inspire you,…

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

For all ye prose writers secretly afraid of / bewildered by poetry, this course is made for you. Make friends with the villanelle, ghazal, or pantoum. (They are good friends to have). Sign-up is flexible - you can pick & choose which sessions to attend. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"[Sales] track is like credit: it might be better to have none at all." Such an insighful piece by @tajjaisen.bsky.social in @thewalrus.ca - helped me wrap my head around our literary culture's obsession with debuts. thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

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The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Loved discovering Dial-a-Poem, a 1968 phone art project by the poet John Giorno, thx to @moma.bsky.social & this piece in @parisreview.bsky.social: shorturl.at/3RchH dial-a-poem.org

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Applications for the Solitude Fellowship (Germany) are now open and run until mid-November. "Aimed at artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners from around the world...no longer at the very beginning of their careers, but not yet firmly established." www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowshi...

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Solitude Fellowship

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Europeana @europeana.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

To find out more about @fondationme.bsky.social (Foundation for Remembrance of Slavery), its mission and how it is giving young people the keys to understanding history and combatting prejudice, read our interview with Director Aïssata Seck ➡️ bit.ly/4qamZbV

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Foundation for Remembrance of Slavery brings national memory into dialogue with global history | Europeana PRO

We talk to Aïssata Seck, Director of the Foundation for Remembrance of Slavery, about the organisation’s mission and how it is giving young people the keys…

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"As a Serious Reader, the fervent love of a page-turner felt like it could set me apart as intellectually lazy." Delighted by this essay, which I relate to big time. Follow your bliss is now my ruthless reading motto. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/in-d...

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In Defence of Easy Reading

Sam Van Zweden: For a long time, I felt like the books I consumed needed to be worthy. Seeking pleasure instead has reminded me why I fell in love with words in the first place.

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Wish I could go to the @genevawriters.bsky.social conference! Registrations now open for Nov. 14 - Nov. 16. Special shout-out to historical fiction writer Janet Skeslian Charles, who'll be holding a workshop on Setting the Tone: Taking Your Novel to the Next Level. genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...

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GWG Conference 2025

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Marc Reyes @marcus1984.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

This week @contingent-mag.bsky.social announced a #cfp for our December series, A Time of Monsters. If you have a monster pitch, please send it our way. Thanks to a Kitchings Family Foundation grant, every essay will be $300. #skystorians #monsters contingentmagazine.org/cfp-a-time-o...

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CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 02/10/2025

The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis. I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work. The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open. Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk Please share :)

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

For writers of flash, you still have until Oct. 12 to submit! short-edition.com/en/contest/p... #MoneyChronicles I love these little story dispensers; you can find them in train stations all over France, and so many more places, including (funnily enough) the university library in Iowa City!

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Home - Principal - 2025

Home - Principal - 2025. Write a short story and take part in the Principal - 2025 prize to share your taste for writing

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Europeana @europeana.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Looking to explore #CulturalHeritage or make space for creativity? 💡 Join the Europeana Writers’ Room! Use Europeana’s collections as prompts, try fun exercises and share in a friendly space. 📅 First Wed of every month, next session 1 Oct ✍ All levels welcome 🔗 bit.ly/4mtqVC9

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Europeana Writers’ Room - monthly creative writing workshops | Europeana PRO

Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for an hour dedicated to writing and creativity. We’ll use collections available on Europeana.eu to inspire you,…

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Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Shout out to Afabwaje Kurian's debut novel BEFORE THE MANGO RIPENS which has been named finalist for the 2025 Zora Awards for Black writers of fiction. people.com/2025-zora-aw... After witnessing her revision journey, it's such a joy to see this book getting the recognition it deserves!

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2025 Zora Awards Finalists Are Here — See the Full List (Exclusive)

The Zora Awards have announced their 2025 finalists. Hosted by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, the award honors Black writers across fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

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Katherine Plumhoff @kplumhoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

3 days. 3 salons. 5 hosts. 25 readers. 100 attendees. intimate moments and communal ones, laughter and tears, favorites new and old. @saloneurope.bsky.social, see you next year in Madrid, Sept 25-27, to do it all again.

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