The Failing Writers Podcast
@failingwriters.bsky.social
A podcast for anyone who’s ever dreamed of being a writer… then got distracted by a video of a cat being frightened by a cucumber.
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If you’re heading out to watch the new #wutheringheights movie, you might enjoy some light Brontë background info to get you in the mood! Go to Season 4, Episode 3 of The Failing Writers Podcast on any platform. With a biographer, an English Prof and a guide at the Bronte Museum … It’s a beauty! 😃
February 11, 2026 at 2:19 PM
If you’re heading out to watch the new #wutheringheights movie, you might enjoy some light Brontë background info to get you in the mood! Go to Season 4, Episode 3 of The Failing Writers Podcast on any platform. With a biographer, an English Prof and a guide at the Bronte Museum … It’s a beauty! 😃
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PEOPLE OF EDINBURGH! I'm doing a lovely event TOMORROW EVENING at Muirhouse Library as part of @edbookfest.bsky.social's Paper Trails mini-festival. Please come and hear me blether with Nyla Ahmad, it's FREE BUT TICKETED, go here:
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@orendabooks.bsky.social
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@orendabooks.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
PEOPLE OF EDINBURGH! I'm doing a lovely event TOMORROW EVENING at Muirhouse Library as part of @edbookfest.bsky.social's Paper Trails mini-festival. Please come and hear me blether with Nyla Ahmad, it's FREE BUT TICKETED, go here:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/edi...
@orendabooks.bsky.social
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/edi...
@orendabooks.bsky.social
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I'm going to be at Prestwick Library next Wednesday for a wee chat with whoever turns up. Come find me. @orendabooks.bsky.social
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January 9, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I'm going to be at Prestwick Library next Wednesday for a wee chat with whoever turns up. Come find me. @orendabooks.bsky.social
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Well, that’s the last episode of the season released into the wild.
Thanks to everyone who has listened this year. We’ve had some amazing guests, have loved our outings like our poetry night and jaunt around Edinburgh. Hope you’ve enjoyed them too. Have a great Xmas and see you again in 2026!
Thanks to everyone who has listened this year. We’ve had some amazing guests, have loved our outings like our poetry night and jaunt around Edinburgh. Hope you’ve enjoyed them too. Have a great Xmas and see you again in 2026!
December 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Well, that’s the last episode of the season released into the wild.
Thanks to everyone who has listened this year. We’ve had some amazing guests, have loved our outings like our poetry night and jaunt around Edinburgh. Hope you’ve enjoyed them too. Have a great Xmas and see you again in 2026!
Thanks to everyone who has listened this year. We’ve had some amazing guests, have loved our outings like our poetry night and jaunt around Edinburgh. Hope you’ve enjoyed them too. Have a great Xmas and see you again in 2026!
👍 @scrivenerapp.bsky.social is top notch. You won’t regret it, Anthony.
That was a great interview!!
AND I got Scrivener last week with the Failing Writers discount - thank you so much.
AND I got Scrivener last week with the Failing Writers discount - thank you so much.
December 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
👍 @scrivenerapp.bsky.social is top notch. You won’t regret it, Anthony.
More Scottish 🏴 shenanigans this week with the brilliant, genre-eschewing @dougjohnstone.bsky.social. We caught up with him in the Holyrood 9A for a pint and a fascinating natter… check the link int’ bio
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
More Scottish 🏴 shenanigans this week with the brilliant, genre-eschewing @dougjohnstone.bsky.social. We caught up with him in the Holyrood 9A for a pint and a fascinating natter… check the link int’ bio
It’s so important to somehow FIND TIME TO WRITE. Not suggesting you necessarily do a @michaelpedersen.bsky.social - but hope this serves to remind you to grab a bit of time this week for a scribble!
Boop our bio to hear more from this remarkable human…
Boop our bio to hear more from this remarkable human…
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It’s so important to somehow FIND TIME TO WRITE. Not suggesting you necessarily do a @michaelpedersen.bsky.social - but hope this serves to remind you to grab a bit of time this week for a scribble!
Boop our bio to hear more from this remarkable human…
Boop our bio to hear more from this remarkable human…
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Easy on the reins of the heart – it’s National Grief Awareness Week 2025. New grief, old grief, the anticipation of grief, the shouldering or witnessing of grief, grief by proxy, by package, by post. What a thing it is is love, miss, & to mourn. Here’s a new wee piece I’ve been tinkering with 💜💛🖤.
December 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Easy on the reins of the heart – it’s National Grief Awareness Week 2025. New grief, old grief, the anticipation of grief, the shouldering or witnessing of grief, grief by proxy, by package, by post. What a thing it is is love, miss, & to mourn. Here’s a new wee piece I’ve been tinkering with 💜💛🖤.
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Supremely chuffed to see Muckle Flugga named as Irvine Welsh’s Novel of 2025 in The Observer.
‘told in a poet’s lush but drum-tight voice…as arresting as an airport thriller’ 💜💚🥰💚💜.
📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga
@faberbooks.bsky.social
‘told in a poet’s lush but drum-tight voice…as arresting as an airport thriller’ 💜💚🥰💚💜.
📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga
@faberbooks.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Supremely chuffed to see Muckle Flugga named as Irvine Welsh’s Novel of 2025 in The Observer.
‘told in a poet’s lush but drum-tight voice…as arresting as an airport thriller’ 💜💚🥰💚💜.
📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga
@faberbooks.bsky.social
‘told in a poet’s lush but drum-tight voice…as arresting as an airport thriller’ 💜💚🥰💚💜.
📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga
@faberbooks.bsky.social
Need a bit of joy in your life, writers? Then join us in a backroom of the lovely @portybooks.bsky.social for an absolute delight of a natter with @michaelpedersen.bsky.social
and savour the power, beauty and effulgence of those little pieces of story, we call words.
Episode out now - bop the bio.
and savour the power, beauty and effulgence of those little pieces of story, we call words.
Episode out now - bop the bio.
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Need a bit of joy in your life, writers? Then join us in a backroom of the lovely @portybooks.bsky.social for an absolute delight of a natter with @michaelpedersen.bsky.social
and savour the power, beauty and effulgence of those little pieces of story, we call words.
Episode out now - bop the bio.
and savour the power, beauty and effulgence of those little pieces of story, we call words.
Episode out now - bop the bio.
Just finished reading 1 of our absurdly talented listener’s books - @stgenevieve.bsky.social I thoroughly enjoyed this marvellously well observed, funny, and life affirming book!
And what’s this… you little tinker. You gave us an acknowledgement!
❤️😍
Well done! Bloody brilliant!
And what’s this… you little tinker. You gave us an acknowledgement!
❤️😍
Well done! Bloody brilliant!
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Just finished reading 1 of our absurdly talented listener’s books - @stgenevieve.bsky.social I thoroughly enjoyed this marvellously well observed, funny, and life affirming book!
And what’s this… you little tinker. You gave us an acknowledgement!
❤️😍
Well done! Bloody brilliant!
And what’s this… you little tinker. You gave us an acknowledgement!
❤️😍
Well done! Bloody brilliant!
Yvette has good taste
Many thanks to Yvette Huddleston @yorkshirepost.co.uk
Her TV pick of the week is
Leonard and Hungry Paul @ronanhession.bsky.social
Episode 3 is on BBC Two tonight at 10pm and on BBC iPlayer.
Marvelous.
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Her TV pick of the week is
Leonard and Hungry Paul @ronanhession.bsky.social
Episode 3 is on BBC Two tonight at 10pm and on BBC iPlayer.
Marvelous.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-cul...
TV Pick of the Week: Leonard and Hungry Paul - review by Yvette Huddleston
Leonard and Hungry Paul BBC iPlayer, review by Yvette Huddleston
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Yvette has good taste
Check out Map Men, @JayForeman.bsky.social & @markcooperjones.bsky.social in this week’s ep.
Talking about their brilliant book This Way Up - OUT THIS WEEK @HarperCollins.bsky.social and about collaborative writing, working in different mediums… & Mark’s beautiful 🧠❤️
Listen here!
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Talking about their brilliant book This Way Up - OUT THIS WEEK @HarperCollins.bsky.social and about collaborative writing, working in different mediums… & Mark’s beautiful 🧠❤️
Listen here!
pod.fo/e/340266
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Check out Map Men, @JayForeman.bsky.social & @markcooperjones.bsky.social in this week’s ep.
Talking about their brilliant book This Way Up - OUT THIS WEEK @HarperCollins.bsky.social and about collaborative writing, working in different mediums… & Mark’s beautiful 🧠❤️
Listen here!
pod.fo/e/340266
Talking about their brilliant book This Way Up - OUT THIS WEEK @HarperCollins.bsky.social and about collaborative writing, working in different mediums… & Mark’s beautiful 🧠❤️
Listen here!
pod.fo/e/340266
Did this in Edinburgh with the lovely Veronique. Can highly recommend!
Writing, tea, friends, joy. Bliss 😍
Let's do this one last time in 2025...
Birmingham, 26 Oct & 16 Nov
Bradford, 2 Nov
Brighton, 1 Nov & 22 Nov
Chichester, 9 Nov
Edinburgh, 9 Nov
Leeds, 8 Nov
Walthamstow, 15 Nov SOLD OUT
Book now writershq.co.uk/creative-wri...
Let's do this one last time in 2025...
Birmingham, 26 Oct & 16 Nov
Bradford, 2 Nov
Brighton, 1 Nov & 22 Nov
Chichester, 9 Nov
Edinburgh, 9 Nov
Leeds, 8 Nov
Walthamstow, 15 Nov SOLD OUT
Book now writershq.co.uk/creative-wri...
October 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Did this in Edinburgh with the lovely Veronique. Can highly recommend!
Blummin lovely chatting to ‘viral sensation’ (yep, that’s what I’m going with) @autumnwoods-author.bsky.social about getting TikTok to work for you, writing on a phone🤯 and planting your feet firmly on the ground while the world goes crazy.
Hit that bio link
Hit that bio link
October 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Blummin lovely chatting to ‘viral sensation’ (yep, that’s what I’m going with) @autumnwoods-author.bsky.social about getting TikTok to work for you, writing on a phone🤯 and planting your feet firmly on the ground while the world goes crazy.
Hit that bio link
Hit that bio link
⏰ There’s still plenty o time to enter our £500 flash fiction contest! In assoc’ with @scrivenerapp.bsky.social
300 words
Theme: “a lie”
Head of judgery the amazing @fictionalsarah.SubStack.com from @writershq.bsky.social
£4 entry fee
Deadline midday Fri Oct 24
Info here: failingwriterspodcast.com
300 words
Theme: “a lie”
Head of judgery the amazing @fictionalsarah.SubStack.com from @writershq.bsky.social
£4 entry fee
Deadline midday Fri Oct 24
Info here: failingwriterspodcast.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
⏰ There’s still plenty o time to enter our £500 flash fiction contest! In assoc’ with @scrivenerapp.bsky.social
300 words
Theme: “a lie”
Head of judgery the amazing @fictionalsarah.SubStack.com from @writershq.bsky.social
£4 entry fee
Deadline midday Fri Oct 24
Info here: failingwriterspodcast.com
300 words
Theme: “a lie”
Head of judgery the amazing @fictionalsarah.SubStack.com from @writershq.bsky.social
£4 entry fee
Deadline midday Fri Oct 24
Info here: failingwriterspodcast.com
Please tell me this is just some publicity stunt and not actually true. 😳
Book banners hate books about Crayons?!!?
This is ridiculous.
Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us
This is ridiculous.
Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us
October 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Please tell me this is just some publicity stunt and not actually true. 😳
May I alert you to a rather joyful £500 writing competition you perhaps didn’t know you needed in your life, but in fact absolutely do…?
www.failingwriterspodcast.com
#flashfiction
www.failingwriterspodcast.com
#flashfiction
The Failing Writers Podcast - the world's bestest writing podcast ever... probably
The Failing Writers Podcast is a writing podcast for everyone who has ever wanted to write a book... then put the kettle on instead.
www.failingwriterspodcast.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
May I alert you to a rather joyful £500 writing competition you perhaps didn’t know you needed in your life, but in fact absolutely do…?
www.failingwriterspodcast.com
#flashfiction
www.failingwriterspodcast.com
#flashfiction
And awaaay! Our 300 word flash FICTION competition is officially go. With the marvellous Sarah Lewis from @writershq.bsky.social taking the gavel. Have a squizz at the latest episode for the FACTS about how to get your grubby mitts on that 500 knicker
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pod.fo/e/3331dd
The Failing Writers Podcast: S5 Ep16: FLASH FICTION COMPETITION!
Finally.I know, I know.It's that time of year we all look forward to.The leaves begin to loosen their grip. The sky is pregnant with it's autumnal offerings.Jon gets poetic.But aside from all that ...
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September 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
And awaaay! Our 300 word flash FICTION competition is officially go. With the marvellous Sarah Lewis from @writershq.bsky.social taking the gavel. Have a squizz at the latest episode for the FACTS about how to get your grubby mitts on that 500 knicker
pod.fo/e/3331dd
pod.fo/e/3331dd
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Julia Roberts narration of the BBC TV adaptation of Leonard and Hungry Paul @ronanhession.bsky.social is in the can as they say.
Transmission date is confirmed and I'll let you know very, very soon.
We established BM in Nov 2005 and now our second book is made into a TV drama.
Bloody Magic!
Transmission date is confirmed and I'll let you know very, very soon.
We established BM in Nov 2005 and now our second book is made into a TV drama.
Bloody Magic!
September 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Julia Roberts narration of the BBC TV adaptation of Leonard and Hungry Paul @ronanhession.bsky.social is in the can as they say.
Transmission date is confirmed and I'll let you know very, very soon.
We established BM in Nov 2005 and now our second book is made into a TV drama.
Bloody Magic!
Transmission date is confirmed and I'll let you know very, very soon.
We established BM in Nov 2005 and now our second book is made into a TV drama.
Bloody Magic!
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Thanks to the Failing Writers podcast for having me and other writers on to chat about indie/snall press publishing.
Give the episode a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/5Gxx...
Give the episode a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/5Gxx...
S5 Ep14: Small Independent Publishers Pt1
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September 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Thanks to the Failing Writers podcast for having me and other writers on to chat about indie/snall press publishing.
Give the episode a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/5Gxx...
Give the episode a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/5Gxx...
Considered publishing through a small press? Click the link in our bio for all the skinny in our doublebill on indie publishers.
In part 1 we talk to happy customers:
@cwmcguinness.bsky.social
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
#lukepalmer
@stgenevieve.bsky.social
… then … 1/2 🧵
In part 1 we talk to happy customers:
@cwmcguinness.bsky.social
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
#lukepalmer
@stgenevieve.bsky.social
… then … 1/2 🧵
September 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Considered publishing through a small press? Click the link in our bio for all the skinny in our doublebill on indie publishers.
In part 1 we talk to happy customers:
@cwmcguinness.bsky.social
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
#lukepalmer
@stgenevieve.bsky.social
… then … 1/2 🧵
In part 1 we talk to happy customers:
@cwmcguinness.bsky.social
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
#lukepalmer
@stgenevieve.bsky.social
… then … 1/2 🧵
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For those of you just waking up in the UK, sitting down to lunch in Goa, or enjoying your afternoon in Sydney, you'll be the first to read Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...
September 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
For those of you just waking up in the UK, sitting down to lunch in Goa, or enjoying your afternoon in Sydney, you'll be the first to read Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...
Cripes. Against all expectations we seem to be finalists in 4 categories of the Independent Podcast Awards.🧐(Checks the email again) Yep. Still there. Best dig out some gladrags! 😃🤯😭
#podcastawards
#jingleoftheyear
#books
#selfimprovement
#thearts
#podcastawards
#jingleoftheyear
#books
#selfimprovement
#thearts
September 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cripes. Against all expectations we seem to be finalists in 4 categories of the Independent Podcast Awards.🧐(Checks the email again) Yep. Still there. Best dig out some gladrags! 😃🤯😭
#podcastawards
#jingleoftheyear
#books
#selfimprovement
#thearts
#podcastawards
#jingleoftheyear
#books
#selfimprovement
#thearts