Emm 🦋📚🇬🇧
@emmhenderson.bsky.social
Developmental editor. Addicted to politics, crime fiction and black coffee.
MA Creative Writing (Brunel)
Writing workshops and 1:1’s.
Lit event organiser.
CIEP 🦋💙
📍 Harrogate, UK
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MA Creative Writing (Brunel)
Writing workshops and 1:1’s.
Lit event organiser.
CIEP 🦋💙
📍 Harrogate, UK
No DMs.
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We’re finally here! Come and visit us in the Authors’ Lounge, with Black British Book Festival, an exclusive space for authors to network and take some time away from the show floor during #LBF25. We’ll be here from 9:00 – 15:30 today. #LondonBookFair
March 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We’re finally here! Come and visit us in the Authors’ Lounge, with Black British Book Festival, an exclusive space for authors to network and take some time away from the show floor during #LBF25. We’ll be here from 9:00 – 15:30 today. #LondonBookFair
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ICYMI: Major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers and Simon & Schuster, have filed a joint lawsuit in America challenging “book banning” in public and school libraries 👇 #BookSky
Big Five publishers band together in legal challenge against library 'book ban'
www.thebookseller.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
ICYMI: Major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers and Simon & Schuster, have filed a joint lawsuit in America challenging “book banning” in public and school libraries 👇 #BookSky
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What did you say? The Bristol Short Story Prize has reopened and you can submit until 23:59 TONIGHT?
Go, go, go!
bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Go, go, go!
bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
a little girl with pigtails and a bow on her head says so excited !
ALT: a little girl with pigtails and a bow on her head says so excited !
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
What did you say? The Bristol Short Story Prize has reopened and you can submit until 23:59 TONIGHT?
Go, go, go!
bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Go, go, go!
bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
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We’re open for submissions for Issue 5 (unthemed) and Issue 6 (roulette) until January 31. Head to our submissions page for guidelines—and for more info/inspiration on the roulette theme!
December 29, 2024 at 4:33 PM
We’re open for submissions for Issue 5 (unthemed) and Issue 6 (roulette) until January 31. Head to our submissions page for guidelines—and for more info/inspiration on the roulette theme!
WEATHERGLASS NOVELLA PRIZE 2025
Submissions close March 1st 2025
The winner will be chosen by Ali Smith.
Submissions close March 1st 2025
The winner will be chosen by Ali Smith.
Weatherglass Prize for a novella (rare in this day and age), with the wonderful Ali Smith as judge.
International.
Please share:
weatherglassbooks.com/novella-priz...
International.
Please share:
weatherglassbooks.com/novella-priz...
December 29, 2024 at 12:06 AM
WEATHERGLASS NOVELLA PRIZE 2025
Submissions close March 1st 2025
The winner will be chosen by Ali Smith.
Submissions close March 1st 2025
The winner will be chosen by Ali Smith.
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Gisèle Pelicot said the most powerful four words I’ve heard this year - The Times of London
“Shame must change sides”
“Shame must change sides”
December 21, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Gisèle Pelicot said the most powerful four words I’ve heard this year - The Times of London
“Shame must change sides”
“Shame must change sides”
Bristol Short Story Prize!
Don’t miss out on your chance to win £1,000 and publication in the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology!
Up to 4k words.
Link below 👇
Bristol Short Story Prize now open for stories of up to 4000 words, judged by prize-winning novelists and a literary agent. Also winning stories published.
Link below
Please share.
bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Link below
Please share.
bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Bristol Short Story Prize
bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
December 18, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Bristol Short Story Prize!
Don’t miss out on your chance to win £1,000 and publication in the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology!
Up to 4k words.
Link below 👇
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🚨Last chance to get your orders in before Christmas! 🚨
There is still time to buy Christmas gifts! We've got something for everyone:
📕Murder in Harrogate
📚Mystery Book Bundles
🥤Theakston Old Peculier Water Bottle
☕️Emma Bridgewater Mugs
🎼Sunday Series Subscriptions
🎁Vouchers
Head to HIF Shop to get yours!
bit.ly/HIFShop23
📕Murder in Harrogate
📚Mystery Book Bundles
🥤Theakston Old Peculier Water Bottle
☕️Emma Bridgewater Mugs
🎼Sunday Series Subscriptions
🎁Vouchers
Head to HIF Shop to get yours!
bit.ly/HIFShop23
December 16, 2024 at 11:16 AM
🚨Last chance to get your orders in before Christmas! 🚨
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This is maddening if you use MS word to write books. Opt out to stop them using your writing to train A.I. Please share.
How to turn off MS Word scraping your writing to train its AI medium.com/illumination...
MS Word is Using You to Train AI
How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents
medium.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:02 PM
This is maddening if you use MS word to write books. Opt out to stop them using your writing to train A.I. Please share.
🤣🤣 I HAVE to try this!
Has anyone else ever plugged a wireless mouse receiver into someone else's laptop at work and then set opposite them moving the mouse and watching them go mad as their pointer flies around the screen without them controlling it?
😂
😂
December 14, 2024 at 3:26 PM
🤣🤣 I HAVE to try this!
This is fab! An ultimate directory for Bluesky 👇
If youre still looking for your tribe, here’s a directory of hundreds of starter packs covering all interests and searchable by keyword. Repost and check it out.
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
December 14, 2024 at 9:04 AM
This is fab! An ultimate directory for Bluesky 👇
Happy Friday! Have a great weekend! 🍺
a cartoon of tom playing a guitar with the words good morning my darling happy friday hello weekend
Alt: a cartoon of tom playing a guitar with the words good morning my darling happy friday hello weekend
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Happy Friday! Have a great weekend! 🍺
Oooh, look! A pile of signed books giveaway in the Book of the Month comp.
December 13, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Oooh, look! A pile of signed books giveaway in the Book of the Month comp.
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Submissions close 9th Jan 2025. £40k total prize fund.
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting is the biggest playwrighting prize in Europe, in partnership with the Royal Exchange Theatre.
www.writeaplay.co.uk
December 13, 2024 at 6:53 AM
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Submissions close 9th Jan 2025. £40k total prize fund.
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Full length poetry open call …
Open call for full-length poetry manuscripts plus chapbook contest abd itger prizes. Please share :)
balticwritingresidency.submittable.com/submit
balticwritingresidency.submittable.com/submit
Action, Spectacle Submission Manager
We offer open call for full-length poetry manuscripts manuscript consultations for poetry online and in-person workshops chapbook contest Action, Spectacle magazine - www.action-spectacle.com A...
balticwritingresidency.submittable.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Full length poetry open call …
The Edinburgh Essay Award.
Essays on any topic, up to 2k words.
Essays on any topic, up to 2k words.
The Edinburgh Essay Award
Competition deadline: 28th February 2025
Open to non-fiction writers worldwide.
'Arts and culture, memoirs, travelogues, philosophical reflections and insightful analyses of historic or contemporary issues'
#WritingCommunity
Read more:
www.writing.ie/writing-comp...
Competition deadline: 28th February 2025
Open to non-fiction writers worldwide.
'Arts and culture, memoirs, travelogues, philosophical reflections and insightful analyses of historic or contemporary issues'
#WritingCommunity
Read more:
www.writing.ie/writing-comp...
December 9, 2024 at 2:07 PM
The Edinburgh Essay Award.
Essays on any topic, up to 2k words.
Essays on any topic, up to 2k words.
This … 👇
A reminder to please pay your freelancers before popping off for the holidays otherwise Santa won’t visit you and you will be doomed to live in a forever-winter with no Christmas and Mr Tumnus will be turned to stone.
December 9, 2024 at 2:02 PM
This … 👇
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Empowered women empower women.” — Unknown
December 8, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Empowered women empower women.” — Unknown
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I keep reading that this is a place for kinder people, but gentle souls have always been among us. We just couldn’t hear them anymore. Perhaps our gathering here is proof that we missed those voices. What a wonderful thing to believe about ourselves. It can be a bold move to choose kindness.
December 9, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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Fiction books by children's and YA writers can and should be included in Fiction of the Year lists.
Otherwise, please rename your lists as Adult Fiction of the Year.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
Otherwise, please rename your lists as Adult Fiction of the Year.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
The best fiction of 2024
From Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo to Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings, Percival Everett’s James and a host of inventive debuts – this year’s highlights in fiction
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Fiction books by children's and YA writers can and should be included in Fiction of the Year lists.
Otherwise, please rename your lists as Adult Fiction of the Year.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
Otherwise, please rename your lists as Adult Fiction of the Year.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
The End is only the beginning.
The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing.
December 4, 2024 at 10:40 PM
The End is only the beginning.