THE WRITE TRAIL looks like a really important new festival, founded by Dr Poonam Madar, Ph.D. & free to attend.

In this time of political dystopia, protecting our mental health, community building, world-building, & raising our voices is more important than ever.

The deadline for our Writers' Award is fast approaching! Have you submitted yet? 👀

Here's your daily dose of encouragement, this time from past judge @Dorothykoomson✨

Submit and find out more at: bit.ly/CFWA2024

Just over a month left to enter the Creative Future Writer's Award on the theme of 'reveal.' I had some success in this prize several years back and it changed everything for me. Details below..

🚨 W&A Short Story Competition 2024

Here is this year's shortlist, made up of six entries, followed by two runner-up entries AND our overall winner as selected by this year's judge, the brilliant Kirsty Logan!

Find out who won: bit.ly/3Q1fAvc

We are pleased to be working in partnership with New Writing South & RISE to present this unique opportunity for safe & creative connection. Join us!

Telling Our Stories project is funded by RISE communities Rising Project

15 winners. £23K of prizes in training, mentoring, assessment and coaching. One unmissable development opportunity.

For writers facing barriers due to health, mental health, identity or social circumstance.

Submit your poetry or prose entries here ⬇️
writingeastmidlands.co.uk/event/competit…

Just over a month left to submit to our Writer's Award! ✨

Hear some of our past winners talk about what winning the award has meant to them 🧡

Don't leave it too late to submit, make sure you get your application to us before midnight on May 19th!👇 bit.ly/CFWA2024

Do you have a work in progress or first draft, but somehow it’s not quite feeling ‘finished’? Join The Literary Consultancy  trusted six-week Self Editing courses and build a practical toolkit to get your book (and future books!) over the finishing line.

Learn More: literaryconsultancy.co.uk/2024/02/self-e…

📢We've officially opened our doors again! Or, we're now receiving applications for our Open Doors Project 📢

If you're from a traditionally under-represented background, looking for a publishing role, please consider applying before 25.04 :

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Please RT!

🧵✍️We read synopses every day and we feel your pain. A thread on writing a strong one-page synopsis for your novel.
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⏰Scholarship applications are closing soon for some of our upcoming in-person courses!

✍️Getting Started: Beginners' Fiction – Apply by 4 April
✍️The Salon: Developing Your Poetry – Apply by 7 April
✍️Writing Fiction – Apply by 14 April

Find out more👇
faberacademy.com/scholarship-pr…

🚨 Last chance to give us your feedback! 🚨

We want to hear from you on how we can develop & improve our work in the future in our short survey 😊 + you can enter our prize draw to win a £20 Waterstones gift card 📚

Survey closes on April 1st! bit.ly/WritersSurvey24

New Workshop! The Poetry of Food 🍇
Our #Leeds Writer in Residence Jem Henderson will be running 2 workshops on the poetry of food.

Can't make it to Leeds? Jem is also running this workshop ✨ online ✨

Book now! bit.ly/Leeds-CF-1

#PoetryCommunity #WritingWorkshop

📢 Writer in residence wanted 📢

Build creative relationships and inspire new writing. Working with communities in Bolsover District Cultural Corridor.

Deadline to apply ➡️ 3rd May 2024
And more here ➡️ bit.ly/WEMJOBBWR

Last chance to fill out our writers survey! ✍️

We want to hear your thoughts on how we can develop & improve our work in the future 😊

As a thanks you can enter our prize draw to win a £20 Waterstones gift card 📚

Survey closes on 1 April! 👇
bit.ly/WritersSurvey24

📣 Calling all #Manchester #Writers ! 📣

Join writer Chloe Elliott on this three week course at @mcrpoetrylib 📚

Suitable for new & established writers looking to write about what we contain within & what we find without our bodies.

Book: bit.ly/CF-MCR-1

A fantastic writing competition for underrepresented writers with a brilliant array of prizes.

#WritingCommunity

This Saturday! 😊 FREE creative workshop for young BPOC in Sussex.

If you're like me and have folders full of great lines and bits of dialogue that have somehow never magically turned into stories, my workshop with The Crow Collective on Sat 20th April (4pm BST) might be just what you need

BlackInk New Writing Competition celebrates cis and trans women and nonbinary writers of the African and African Caribbean Diaspora telling their stories.

Submit 2K words of writing by 28th March to win £500 plus publication in BlackInk Issue 5.

➡️bit.ly/BLACKINKCOMP