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Ruth Brandt @ruthabrandt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A marvellous Yorkshire Writing Retreat. A week of writing, sharing feedback and food, laughter and togetherness with @mattkendrick.bsky.social @susmitab.bsky.social @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @jennyhart2001.bsky.social @morganparks.bsky.social

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Bookings open from The Editorial Funnel in October, three weeks of fun-filled activities prodding your writing from different angles - playing around with highlighter pens, cutting pieces in half, and asking lots of questions of your work: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/the-editoria...

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Last night of writing retreat week 1. What an amazing group. We’ve written, pondered, laughed and chatted about anything and everything. @summermoth.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @cake-girl.bsky.social @orli-bee.bsky.social @morganparks.bsky.social

An amazing list of writers on their last night of a writing retreat, jazz hands to the ready, shocked faces and expressions of surprise.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@ruthabrandt.bsky.social and I are having the best time hosting an inspiration of writers deep in the Yorkshire countryside. What an incredible group already writing some incredible words! We had a lovely welcome session yesterday. Today I've taught a workshop called...

An inspiration of writers sitting down intrepibly for a first night meal at a writing retreat in the Yorkshire countryside

A brilliant collection of writers (plus Matt Kendrick crouched in the background) wondering what they've let themselves in for on the first night a writing retreat. They are sitting on a grey corner sofa with a window behind luscious with life.

Seven writers scribbling away stories for writing bingo. They are sitting on a grey corner sofa in front of a dark blue wall. It's evening; the lights are on.

Four writers concentrating hard on writing stories for writing bingo. They are sitting on a grey sofa but nothing about them (or their stories) is grey.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

If you're interested in my new editing course, a place has come up for April (13th April-3rd May - send me a message if interested). Otherwise, bookings are open for June (1st - 21st) & places are going like hot cakes... www.mattkendrick.co.uk/the-editoria... This is online, asynchronous & PWYC 😀

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Orli Baumgart @orli-bee.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

my piece is a mondette! 😳🤩😫 so cool to be included among such beautiful pieces 🥰 thank you @kathrynreese.bsky.social!

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

i love how poetry is (all at once) overthinking and overfeeling and overlanguaging

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

i want time to watch more films but i also want time to read more books but i also want time to look at more nothing

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Karen Baumgart @cake-girl.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

‘Friends I believe actually like me. Music vibrating through the house’s skeleton and into my own. The realisation that I’m able to feel things again. How it’s too much and not enough.’ 🥹💗 Such a vulnerable, heartbreaking CNF flash from @orli-bee.bsky.social turningleafjournal.com/2025/12/15/o...

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“Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday Party,” Orli Baumgart

Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday PartyBy Orli Baumgart A jumble of jackets and bags strewn about my friend’s bedroom near the entryway. A staircase that stretches up to the main floor wit…

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Wonderful list piece from @orli-bee.bsky.social Always brilliant to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world

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Orli Baumgart @orli-bee.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

so thrilled to share this cnf piece that’s just been published in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social 🥹 i wrote it in @mattkendrick.bsky.social’s Glorious Words course. with Matt’s feedback, it was by far the least daunting editing process i’ve ever experienced! 😎 turningleafjournal.com/2025/12/15/o...

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“Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday Party,” Orli Baumgart

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Orli Baumgart @orli-bee.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

so so excited to have a creative nonfiction piece in this issue!! 🤩🥰

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Mayticks @mayticks.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

WE ARE LIVE ON KICKSTARTER. This is not a drill! Oh hek, please share!!! This has been a years worth of work with more than 50 people involved in bringing this project to the world! Let's make it everything we can! www.kickstarter.com/projects/may...

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Embodied: Portraits and Stories of Queer Body and Self

A book of watercolour portraits alongside personal experiences of moving a queer body through the world.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. —David Lynch

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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Reminder for Asia-Pacific / early-morning UK writers, NEW DATES / TIMES for my upcoming workshops to hopefully suit. 5th July+6th Sep 9:00 BST / 18:00 AEST / 13:30 IST Also, details on FUTURE workshops & WORKSHOP RECORDINGS for those who can't attend live 😁: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-workshops

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WBTL Live Workshops

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

love it when a collection’s title poem lives up to the hype—like, yes you are the Titular One, the One Who Ties All the Themes Together, the One Who Is Long But Worth It, or the One Who Is Suddenly Short Hehe, the One Who Shows How Good This Title Is for the Book, the One Ring to

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

If there are any of you who might be interested in me putting on a second session for my summer workshops at a more Australasia / Asia / East of UK-friendly time, please let me know. I currently have 5 or 6 people interested but need about 20 to make this viable.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Day 4: "Do a challenge for charity" 😬😬😬 In 4 weeks, I'm attempting to "scale Ben Nevis" by climbing the stairs 517 times. Pretty sure I'll get nowhere near that number. But hopefully I'll at least get part of the way. If you'd like to sponsor me, you can do so here: forms.gle/UfJtT7aEdWS4...

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Matt's Stair Climb Challenge

I'm attempting to climb Ben Nevis. Kind of. Since I live with a chronic health condition and can't actually get to Ben Nevis, I'm attempting to climb the equivalent of Ben Nevis by going up and down...

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

the intimacy of a word doc containing a bad draft of the poem you know you must write

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Karen Baumgart @cake-girl.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

So glad this tiny micro found a home in In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction. And grateful for how it gave me a second chance to find the words I wasn’t brave enough to say in the moment 💗 inshortjournal.com/karen-baumga...

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Orli Baumgart @orli-bee.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

not to brag but i’ve been a @cake-girl.bsky.social stan since the day i was born ✨ my mum is the coolest 🪼 also go read her exquisite micro !!

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