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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Does anyone know someone who has wanted to write for ages but isn't getting round to it? I ask because we have a few spaces to fill on our wonderful Introduction to Creative Writing 12 week course on Weds eves on Zoom. It explores the craft of storytelling on the page. Starts 23 Sept. Please share!

Photograph by Nick Quan of the sun shining through the trees of a yellow autumn wood and a leaf lined path twisting away into the woods towards the light.

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Let an Autumn of writing commence! I love thinking about how many novels, novellas, poems and short stories get developed at Writing Room - all those words in that particular order which might not have happened otherwise. Amazing! We can include screenplays from this term too! Exciting writing times

An autumn leaf bookmarks a page in a novella on a bench in an orchard in England

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What are some of the things you've ended up doing to avoid writing? Opening The Document can feel impossible. It's easier to vacuum the house from top to bottom, clean out the compost bin, re-roof the shed... What else?

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A really good quarterly journal for you to check out, Writing Roomers, if you haven't already.

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Really lovely from a fiction editor - take courage Writing Roomers and send your work out to journals and competitions - the right place for your stories and poems is waiting! It might just take a bit of finding. ✏️👏📘🏆

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Please know that I am haunted by some stories we have declined. Please know that sometimes one sentence in your story that is not quite right for us lands in my jaw and will live there forever. Please know I realize you are sending us your heart.

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

They take writing seriously at Quirky Farm Bistro in Harrogate! You never know when you'll need to jot something down... We also take writing seriously and can't wait to work with you this Autumn: poets, life writers, memoirists, novelists, story writers, flash-fictionistas & screenwriters welcome!

Photograph of an old fashioned typewriter on a windowsill above a toilet - the loo in a cafe in Harrogate!

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

First magazine publication - see it CAN happen, Writing Roomers, if you keep sending your work to the right places, the editors will find you!

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Love this piece! Looks like lots of writing inspo here Writing Roomers

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Writing prompt for a heatwave - let's have some sunstroke-induced points of view! Today I snapped these sun-loving flowers. POV buttercup, anyone? If not, how about writing a piece entitled 'Do you like butter?' #WritingPrompt #CreativeWriting #WritingCommunity #Writers #WritingCourses

A mass of shiny yellow buttercups at close range. Photo taken alongside a meadow in Bath, 26 May, in the heatwave!

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Right, Writing Roomers, you can do this! Up to 2000 words and the ideal deadline - two and a half weeks and a theme is perfect to focus the mind! Good luck 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 #writingcomps #shortstories #shortfiction #creativewriting #writingcommunity #onlinewritingcourses #onlinewritingclasses

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A memorable character will have a unique voice. Can you create one for this individual? They have a life story to share… Write for at least 15 minutes. Thanks to Natalie Kinnear for the fab photo! #writingcommunity #lifewriting #creativewriting #writingprompts #imagination #writingcourses

A smiling bright-jade green sock puppet with big eyes, against a striking yellow background. What's this fella's story?! How would he/she/they sound if they spoke and what would they say?

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Sharing with you our latest student blogpost. "For years I was a shadow artist, supporting others to fulfil their creative dreams while neglecting my own." Anna Bianchi tells us how and why she finally stepped out of the shadows to publish a book of her own! blog.writingroom.org.uk/2025/05/02/g...

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

There's a new writer for you to meet: blog.writingroom.org.uk Carys Shannon's debut literary novel Truth Like Water is out in Sept (Parthian). With it signed off, Carys joined our course Writing Into the Heart of Childhood Experience with Sita Bramachari and found new inspiration! #WritingCommunity

New author Carys Shannon has written a blog post for Writing Room Org UK describing her writing journey to date.

Award-winning authors of YA and Children's books, Sita Brahmachari, one of our tutors at Writing Room Org UK

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Exciting submissions opportunity Writing Roomers! Nothing like a deadline and people who are keen to read your work. Good luck! ✏️📘🌟💙

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This should be a fantastic hour of guided writing on the theme A Moment of Silence, with poet and editor @lisadmkelly.bsky.social , exploring the idea that silence can be as important as speech in communication, and responding in poetry, life writing, fiction or a mixture! #CreativeWritingCommunity

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Fantastic to see so many people joining us here at Bluesky! We love featuring new Writing Room writers on our blog, so do have a look at the latest post, by upcoming poet and storyteller, Alex Murdoch. He starts "I was never the most expressive person in the world..." ! 😀 💙 ✏️ blog.writingroom.org.uk

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Anyone fancy reading a highly entertaining short story about an irrepressibly feisty crab super? See the lastest Masque & Spectacle for Writing Room writer Aoife Sadlier's first published piece! masqueandspectaclejournal.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/t... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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THE RESURRECTION – Aoife Sadlier

Old Jim surveyed the crab through the porthole opening of the plastic bag. It was wriggling and writhing, as if freshly electrocuted. It was brown and speckled and shiny and hard. He was sure of those...

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Great new blog post on our website by new writer Kathryn Bodenham - blog.writingroom.org.uk “Everyone has a book in them.” I’ve heard that so many times. Could it be true? Could I be harbouring the Next Great Novel? If I was, I was keeping it so well hidden, I didn’t know it was there… #Writing

Photo of new writer Kathryn, a great new addition to our productive and creative Writing Room community of developing and established poets, fictionistas and memoirists.

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Take note, Writing Roomers! Really worth looking into this comp for LGBTQ+ writers. 📕📙📙📗📘💟

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Short Story Comps @shortstorycomps.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Flash fiction anthology contest - open to all who identify somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum - to be judged by V.G. Lee and Jake Arnott.

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Enjoying Bluesky and the friendly chat! Can anyone recommend more people to follow for further book and writing related conversations? Fiction, poetry, memoir, comps, prizes, publishers. Thanks!

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Thought I'd share the process questions for this morning's Start Your Writing Week - the first of the term and of 2024. Do answer them if you want to! Is January 1st different for you to any other 1st of the month?

Always lifts my heart to come across snowdrops - thank you ivv on Unsplash for these snowdrop woods of childhood!

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Writing Roomers take note! It's always inspiring to see someone getting an acceptance. Really worth sending your work out because you never know!

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Any writers out there at the stage of wanting help editing their WIP? We have a new 6-session eve course on Zoom with the amazing Jenny Parrott of award-winning indie press Oneworld! So excited about this one. We'd welcome help spreading the word via reposts! writingroom.org.uk/coursesandma...

Jenny Parrott at a sunny Harrogate Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Today our Spring 1 term starts bright and early with our Life Writing & Memoir students in their first interactive Zoom session with Gio Iozzi. Our courses are wonderfully full which means we have the pleasure of working with around 80 new writers over the coming weeks! Welcome all and enjoy! ✏️📘

Thanks to Nyran Serito on Unsplash for these orange and yellow mountain flowers, blue skies above.

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

This is such a lovely post from Writing Roomer James Woolf! I'd be thrilled with that too James - very well deserved! 👏✏️📘🤩

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

This looks good Writing Roomers! ✏️💙🤩

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

I love these lines - both the written lines and the lines in the sky! 🌟✏️💛

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Exactly 4 weeks left to submit to Flash Fiction February so please start perfecting your stunning flashes because we would love to read them. Word count 200-850w, deadline Dec 31st #microfiction #flashfiction #callforsubmissions. Guidelines below fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/

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Flash Fiction February 2024

Flash Fiction February, now in its seventh year, is an annual event during which we will feature a new piece of flash fiction throughout February 2024. That’s a new story every day starting on 1 Feb...

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

And now this! So happy for our Patron of Writing, poet Hannah Lowe who has won the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer's Award! It's been a great few weeks for Writing Room team. 💙 ✏️🌟📙 💛

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Very excited for members of our lovely Writing Room team! Our editing tutor Jenny Parrott is Editor at Oneworld, the indie press which published this year's Booker winner! And our children's/YA tutor Sita Brahmachari has just been made Fellow of the Royal Societ of Literature. CONGRATS TO BOTH!! 🌟

Photograph of Jenny Parrott by Mark Rusher

Photograph of Sita Brahmachari by Ruth Guthrie for Writing Room

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Would love to read BOTH these books! (Christmas list...) So happy #TheOldie ❤️ featured them. This what independent presses need the most as marketing budgets are small or non-existant. When Ambit magazine had to stop printing, it got a bit of press. But press was needed before that point! 🙃

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Perfection in a spider's web! Thanks @gladlib.bsky.social - many of our Writing Room writers are hoping to visit you one day, minibeasts or no minibeasts! #WritingCommunity #Writers #CreativeWriting

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Anyone follow the King Lear Prizes? We're so happy to hear that one of our Writing Room students, Carl Heap, is on the shortlist for poetry in the Experienced Amateur category! Carl's worked so hard, and the poem is brilliant! You can read it here: www.kinglearprizes.org.uk/poetry-short... #Writers

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Would love to get along to @smallpulishers.bsky.social at Conway Hall. Looks fun @henninghampress.bsky.social - thanks for sharing that there's another chance tomorrow! 📘📗📕📙 #WritingCommunity #Books #Writers #Poets #Writing

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Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Our latest student blog post is live! Philip Palios: "The reason I write is another thing that changed this year. Deep in the ‘core belief’ file I threw out my idea of changing people through writing and sought a new aim: serving them..." blog.writingroom.org.uk/2023/10/27/g... #WritingCommunity

Writing Roomer Philip Palios atop Mauna Kea on Hawai'i Island (4,207 metres above sea level), his "first and only time walking above the clouds".

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