Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️
@aruwriting.bsky.social
We're a creative writing research centre based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, organising and posting both research and community writing events. We repost lit subs calls!
https://creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/research/cambridge-writing-centre/
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Hello Bluesky! We're a writing research centre based out of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge -- a group of writers and academics aiming to make writing research vibrant and accessible, working together with local writing groups on events, seminars and workshops!
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In case you haven't seen our latest trailer, hop inside the dark coach for the Vampire's Castle! 🦇🧛♀️🏰
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Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampire's Castle
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November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In case you haven't seen our latest trailer, hop inside the dark coach for the Vampire's Castle! 🦇🧛♀️🏰
youtu.be/HnrunnHfLgg?...
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Two new Cambridge Writing Centre events for your calendar! Firstly, on Friday 28th, a double book launch for @sidekickbooks.bsky.social 's latest anthologies, which feature a number of alumni from ARU's Creative Writing MA course. More details/booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Two new Cambridge Writing Centre events for your calendar! Firstly, on Friday 28th, a double book launch for @sidekickbooks.bsky.social 's latest anthologies, which feature a number of alumni from ARU's Creative Writing MA course. More details/booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Looking for something to kick back to day? Catch up with the last season of our podcast. Here's Episode 4, 'The Best Novels are #Detective Novels'. #writing
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Episode 4: The Best Novels Are Detective Novels
In this episode we talk pit lit, portal lit, severed limbs and the 'academic's path' through the US with novelist Bryan Hurt, able supported by UK poet Penny Boxall. Featuring a reading of Bryan's sho...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Looking for something to kick back to day? Catch up with the last season of our podcast. Here's Episode 4, 'The Best Novels are #Detective Novels'. #writing
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This one's coming up fast: editorial assistant at Tor, part of Pan MacMillan.
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Editorial Assistant, Tor - Pan Macmillan
Are you passionate about science fiction, fantasy and romantasy? We have an exciting opportunity to join the expanding Tor team as our new editorial assistant. We are looking for someone who is con...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This one's coming up fast: editorial assistant at Tor, part of Pan MacMillan.
careers.panmacmillan.com/jobs/6659752...
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Cranthorpe Millner in Cambridge are looking for a part-time Editorial Assistant on a 10-month contract, at £12.21 Per hour:
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Cranthorpe Millner Publishers hiring Editorial Assistant Job in Cambridge, East of England, England | Glassdoor
We’re a small, independent publishing house looking for a creative, detail-oriented Editorial Assistant to join ou... See this and similar jobs on Glassdoor
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October 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Cranthorpe Millner in Cambridge are looking for a part-time Editorial Assistant on a 10-month contract, at £12.21 Per hour:
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www.glassdoor.co.uk/job-listing/...
Bloomsbury are currently looking for a full-time editorial assistant to join their Children's Education team. London-based, salary pay point or range: £27,000
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Editorial Assistant, Children's Education
The Vacancy Editorial Assistant, Children’s Education The opportunity Bloomsbury Education is looking for an enthusiastic, well-organised Editorial Assistant to join a small dynamic team publishing ex...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Bloomsbury are currently looking for a full-time editorial assistant to join their Children's Education team. London-based, salary pay point or range: £27,000
www.publishers.org.uk/job/editoria...
www.publishers.org.uk/job/editoria...
Strange Pilgrims are currently looking for submissions of fiction and non-fiction, up till November 30th:
submissions.strangepilgrims.com
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Strange Pilgrims Submission Portal
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October 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Strange Pilgrims are currently looking for submissions of fiction and non-fiction, up till November 30th:
submissions.strangepilgrims.com
submissions.strangepilgrims.com
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SUBMISSION CALL: We are open for poetry pamphlet/chapbook submissions until 30th November.
A very small percentage of people who submit actually buy a book from us. If everybody who submitted bought a book it'd be a massive boost to us.
Full guidelines here: www.brokensleepbooks.com/submissions
A very small percentage of people who submit actually buy a book from us. If everybody who submitted bought a book it'd be a massive boost to us.
Full guidelines here: www.brokensleepbooks.com/submissions
October 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
SUBMISSION CALL: We are open for poetry pamphlet/chapbook submissions until 30th November.
A very small percentage of people who submit actually buy a book from us. If everybody who submitted bought a book it'd be a massive boost to us.
Full guidelines here: www.brokensleepbooks.com/submissions
A very small percentage of people who submit actually buy a book from us. If everybody who submitted bought a book it'd be a massive boost to us.
Full guidelines here: www.brokensleepbooks.com/submissions
Last chance to sign up for this!
Free online workshop, 24th October, 4-6pm: Environmental Puzzles in Twine, an interactive story-telling tool. First hour covers the basics, then the second is a step-by-step guide to a building a simple puzzle.
More info: creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/events/curre...
More info: creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/events/curre...
October 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Last chance to sign up for this!
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My lovely friend David Lambert's first novel THE HOUSE IN BACOLET is out now from @peepaltreepress.bsky.social!
David is a former colleague from @aruwriting.bsky.social, and every summer hosts the writing retreat I run in France.
Here he is reading from the book:
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David is a former colleague from @aruwriting.bsky.social, and every summer hosts the writing retreat I run in France.
Here he is reading from the book:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjL8...
David Lambert reads from 'The House in Bacolet'.
YouTube video by Peepal Tree Press
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October 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
My lovely friend David Lambert's first novel THE HOUSE IN BACOLET is out now from @peepaltreepress.bsky.social!
David is a former colleague from @aruwriting.bsky.social, and every summer hosts the writing retreat I run in France.
Here he is reading from the book:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjL8...
David is a former colleague from @aruwriting.bsky.social, and every summer hosts the writing retreat I run in France.
Here he is reading from the book:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjL8...
Alice Willitts and Christina Thatcher in conversation with each other at last night's Silence Speaks reading event!
October 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Alice Willitts and Christina Thatcher in conversation with each other at last night's Silence Speaks reading event!
Your final reminder, Cambridge! Alice Willitts and Christina Thatcher will be performing their #poetry tonight, at the Recital Hall at ARU. A conversation-led reading, with time for questions from the audience!
On the 15th October, we're hosting a special performance by poets Christina Thatcher and Alice Willitts -- full details here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silence-sp...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silence-sp...
October 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Your final reminder, Cambridge! Alice Willitts and Christina Thatcher will be performing their #poetry tonight, at the Recital Hall at ARU. A conversation-led reading, with time for questions from the audience!
Free online workshop, 24th October, 4-6pm: Environmental Puzzles in Twine, an interactive story-telling tool. First hour covers the basics, then the second is a step-by-step guide to a building a simple puzzle.
More info: creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/events/curre...
More info: creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/events/curre...
October 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Free online workshop, 24th October, 4-6pm: Environmental Puzzles in Twine, an interactive story-telling tool. First hour covers the basics, then the second is a step-by-step guide to a building a simple puzzle.
More info: creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/events/curre...
More info: creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/events/curre...
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Are you free on the evening of December 16th? 🎄 Join me for this masterclass all about finding multiple (infinite?) ways in to the same subject matter. We’ll write a ridiculous amount of poems in 2 hours…with brand new exercises
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Masterclass: Infinite Ways in to Writing Poems | Tackling big subjects with wonder | Arvon
For the third year running, with all new prompts and exercises, Arvon favourite Caroline Bird returns for our final Masterclass of the year, which promises to be a bolt of creativity to kick-start som...
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October 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Are you free on the evening of December 16th? 🎄 Join me for this masterclass all about finding multiple (infinite?) ways in to the same subject matter. We’ll write a ridiculous amount of poems in 2 hours…with brand new exercises
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
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Lauren Berlant reading group 📚
Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras
From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
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Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras
From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
bit.ly/4nFi9C0
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Lauren Berlant reading group 📚
Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras
From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
bit.ly/4nFi9C0
Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras
From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
bit.ly/4nFi9C0
Join CWC's Tory Young for an interview with novelist Tessa Hadley at Waterstones, Cambridge this Wednesday, 8th October. Tickets here:
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An Evening with Tessa Hadley | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Tessa Hadley today.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Join CWC's Tory Young for an interview with novelist Tessa Hadley at Waterstones, Cambridge this Wednesday, 8th October. Tickets here:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
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On the 15th October, we're hosting a special performance by poets Christina Thatcher and Alice Willitts -- full details here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silence-sp...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silence-sp...
September 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
On the 15th October, we're hosting a special performance by poets Christina Thatcher and Alice Willitts -- full details here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silence-sp...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silence-sp...
Pan MacMillan are currently recruiting for a Communications Assistant to work in their Bluebird and Picador imprints.
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Communications Assistant, Bluebird and Picador - Pan Macmillan
This is an exceptional opportunity to join the communications teams of two of the most exciting imprints in publishing: Picador, a literary powerhouse and home to great prize-winning authors, and B...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Pan MacMillan are currently recruiting for a Communications Assistant to work in their Bluebird and Picador imprints.
careers.panmacmillan.com/jobs/6563623...
careers.panmacmillan.com/jobs/6563623...
Kim Moore is judging this year's Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Submit 20 pages of poetry by 2nd November -- two winning entries will be selected for publication by Smith|Doorstop Books.
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poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions...
The International Book & Pamphlet Competition - The Poetry Business
The 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition is open from 1st OCTOBER 2025 The UK’s most prestigious collection competition – […]
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October 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Kim Moore is judging this year's Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Submit 20 pages of poetry by 2nd November -- two winning entries will be selected for publication by Smith|Doorstop Books.
poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions...
poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions...
Curtis Brown's Discoveries 2026 Prize for women writers is free to enter, and you only have to submit the first 10,000 words of a novel. Deadline 12th January!
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/discoveries-...
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Discoveries 2026
Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown literary agency and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development prog...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Curtis Brown's Discoveries 2026 Prize for women writers is free to enter, and you only have to submit the first 10,000 words of a novel. Deadline 12th January!
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/discoveries-...
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/discoveries-...
The Hilary Mantel Prize for adult longform fiction is open till the end of the year! More details: amheath.com/hilary-mante...
A new prize for emerging talents in memory of Hilary Mantel
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Hilary Mantel championed emerging writers - a new prize in her memory will help them get published
Judged by Maggie O’Farrell, Ben Miles and Chigozie Obioma, the Hilary Mantel prize will recognise emerging talent, and pay tribute to the Wolf Hall author’s legacy
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October 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Hilary Mantel Prize for adult longform fiction is open till the end of the year! More details: amheath.com/hilary-mante...
Reminder, especially to #Cambridge residents! Brand new poems and stories on the Major Arcana of the Tarot this Wednesday, at ARU's Recital Hall. @angliaruskin.bsky.social @anglialt.bsky.social
More info/free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...
More info/free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...
September 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Reminder, especially to #Cambridge residents! Brand new poems and stories on the Major Arcana of the Tarot this Wednesday, at ARU's Recital Hall. @angliaruskin.bsky.social @anglialt.bsky.social
More info/free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...
More info/free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...
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We're getting close now...!
The Henshaw Press Writing Competition closes at midnight TOMORROW.
Now is the time to send us your most brilliant 2k-word stories - we can't wait to read them!
#writing #WritingCommunity
The Henshaw Press Writing Competition closes at midnight TOMORROW.
Now is the time to send us your most brilliant 2k-word stories - we can't wait to read them!
#writing #WritingCommunity
September 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
We're getting close now...!
The Henshaw Press Writing Competition closes at midnight TOMORROW.
Now is the time to send us your most brilliant 2k-word stories - we can't wait to read them!
#writing #WritingCommunity
The Henshaw Press Writing Competition closes at midnight TOMORROW.
Now is the time to send us your most brilliant 2k-word stories - we can't wait to read them!
#writing #WritingCommunity
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🧪 Open to Science Poetry Submissions 🖋️
The Consilience journal is now open for submissions of science-themed poetry and artwork! Issue 23 explores the topic of ‘Tension’.
Submit your work for free here:
www.consilience-journal.com/submit
#SciComm #SciArt #Poetry
The Consilience journal is now open for submissions of science-themed poetry and artwork! Issue 23 explores the topic of ‘Tension’.
Submit your work for free here:
www.consilience-journal.com/submit
#SciComm #SciArt #Poetry
submit — Consilience
For each issue of Consilience we invite submissions of poetry or artwork. All submissions must have a link to science, fit the theme of the upcoming issue, and also be in line with our inclusivity sta...
www.consilience-journal.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
🧪 Open to Science Poetry Submissions 🖋️
The Consilience journal is now open for submissions of science-themed poetry and artwork! Issue 23 explores the topic of ‘Tension’.
Submit your work for free here:
www.consilience-journal.com/submit
#SciComm #SciArt #Poetry
The Consilience journal is now open for submissions of science-themed poetry and artwork! Issue 23 explores the topic of ‘Tension’.
Submit your work for free here:
www.consilience-journal.com/submit
#SciComm #SciArt #Poetry
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FLASH WRITERS! I'm judging the Allingham Flash Fiction Comp and it's been extended!
The deadline extended to Sunday, 12 Oct at 23:59 / 11:59 pm. Applies to both on-line and postal submissions. All other competition rules and guidelines remain in effect; see www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...
The deadline extended to Sunday, 12 Oct at 23:59 / 11:59 pm. Applies to both on-line and postal submissions. All other competition rules and guidelines remain in effect; see www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...
September 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
FLASH WRITERS! I'm judging the Allingham Flash Fiction Comp and it's been extended!
The deadline extended to Sunday, 12 Oct at 23:59 / 11:59 pm. Applies to both on-line and postal submissions. All other competition rules and guidelines remain in effect; see www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...
The deadline extended to Sunday, 12 Oct at 23:59 / 11:59 pm. Applies to both on-line and postal submissions. All other competition rules and guidelines remain in effect; see www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...