Sam Hacking
@samhacking.bsky.social
Artist & Writer: BA Hons Slade School of Fine Art Writer | MA Distinction Creative Writing UEA 2022| Escalator Prize ‘19 | Shortlisted BSSP ‘23 | Longlisted UEA New Forms ‘21 | Longlisted Bath Short Story ‘25 | samhacking.com | @samhackings
I have discovered printmaking - etching to be precise- and love the moody, gnarly landscapes I can create! #printmaking #art
October 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I have discovered printmaking - etching to be precise- and love the moody, gnarly landscapes I can create! #printmaking #art
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Norwich, are you ready for an evening of dynamic poetry? 🎤
This November, Bad Betty Press presents poetry from Desree, Hasti, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, and Kareem Parkins-Brown.
Sign up on the night for a three-minute open mic slot!
Tue 4 November, 7pm, NCW. Book now: buff.ly/KwRcQ1D
This November, Bad Betty Press presents poetry from Desree, Hasti, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, and Kareem Parkins-Brown.
Sign up on the night for a three-minute open mic slot!
Tue 4 November, 7pm, NCW. Book now: buff.ly/KwRcQ1D
October 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Norwich, are you ready for an evening of dynamic poetry? 🎤
This November, Bad Betty Press presents poetry from Desree, Hasti, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, and Kareem Parkins-Brown.
Sign up on the night for a three-minute open mic slot!
Tue 4 November, 7pm, NCW. Book now: buff.ly/KwRcQ1D
This November, Bad Betty Press presents poetry from Desree, Hasti, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, and Kareem Parkins-Brown.
Sign up on the night for a three-minute open mic slot!
Tue 4 November, 7pm, NCW. Book now: buff.ly/KwRcQ1D
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❛ A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight...
Ursula K. Le Guin, born #OTD in 1929.
Ursula K. Le Guin, born #OTD in 1929.
October 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
❛ A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight...
Ursula K. Le Guin, born #OTD in 1929.
Ursula K. Le Guin, born #OTD in 1929.
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Deadline Today: Deadline October 21st – YOUNG ADULT Short Story Contest (everyone wins)
festivalforfamily.com/young-adult-...
Submit your YOUNG ADULT Short Story to the Festival here and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video .
festivalforfamily.com/young-adult-...
Submit your YOUNG ADULT Short Story to the Festival here and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video .
October 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Deadline Today: Deadline October 21st – YOUNG ADULT Short Story Contest (everyone wins)
festivalforfamily.com/young-adult-...
Submit your YOUNG ADULT Short Story to the Festival here and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video .
festivalforfamily.com/young-adult-...
Submit your YOUNG ADULT Short Story to the Festival here and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video .
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Bath Flash Fiction Award results slightly delayed owing to illness www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/bffa...
BFFA lists delayed, but not that delayed
Did you enter the October Award this year and are you, like the little tin chap pictured, waiting anxiously for our longlist? Our Judge, Kathryn Aldridge-Morris has now been sent the zip file of fi…
www.bathflashfictionaward.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Bath Flash Fiction Award results slightly delayed owing to illness www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/bffa...
September 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Only 2 weeks left to go of Britten Pears Summer Contemporary Exhibition at Snape, Suffolk- open till 31st Aug!💫 #art #painting #artexhibition
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August 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Only 2 weeks left to go of Britten Pears Summer Contemporary Exhibition at Snape, Suffolk- open till 31st Aug!💫 #art #painting #artexhibition
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Submissions to Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine are free and open all year long. Send us your best today!
Link to guidelines:
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/submissions
#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #indiepress #litmag #doorisajar
Link to guidelines:
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/submissions
#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #indiepress #litmag #doorisajar
August 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Submissions to Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine are free and open all year long. Send us your best today!
Link to guidelines:
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/submissions
#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #indiepress #litmag #doorisajar
Link to guidelines:
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/submissions
#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #indiepress #litmag #doorisajar
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Amazing opportunity to win £75,000 for your idea for a book. You get help to write it with a writing course and you only need 1500 words of your idea.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Details in link.
Please share :)
Prize | The Novelry
Enter The Next Big Story prize at The Novelry for a chance to win $100,000 (£75,000 U.K.). Eight shortlisted entrants will receive The Finished Novel Course. Opens May 1, 2025. Closes July 31, 2025. T...
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July 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Amazing opportunity to win £75,000 for your idea for a book. You get help to write it with a writing course and you only need 1500 words of your idea.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Details in link.
Please share :)
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Joanna's recent piece on the short story form @literaryhub.bsky.social is great! And you can read her gorgeous short stories, which we published in 2015, here: www.nyrb.com/products/ver...
July 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Joanna's recent piece on the short story form @literaryhub.bsky.social is great! And you can read her gorgeous short stories, which we published in 2015, here: www.nyrb.com/products/ver...
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 @poetrybyheart.bsky.social competition, announced at the Grand Finale at Shakespeare's Globe on Monday. Well done Anna, Albie, Charlie & Laurissa, teacher winner Matt Carmichael, and all who took part!
poetrysociety.org.uk/news/pbhchampions2025
poetrysociety.org.uk/news/pbhchampions2025
July 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 @poetrybyheart.bsky.social competition, announced at the Grand Finale at Shakespeare's Globe on Monday. Well done Anna, Albie, Charlie & Laurissa, teacher winner Matt Carmichael, and all who took part!
poetrysociety.org.uk/news/pbhchampions2025
poetrysociety.org.uk/news/pbhchampions2025
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Three weeks until the deadline of the #FoyleYoungPoets of the Year Award! Judged this year by poets Colette Bryce and Will Harris.
If you're aged 11-17, send your poems by 31 July for the chance to win.
Enter online at foyleyoungpoets.org
If you're aged 11-17, send your poems by 31 July for the chance to win.
Enter online at foyleyoungpoets.org
July 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Three weeks until the deadline of the #FoyleYoungPoets of the Year Award! Judged this year by poets Colette Bryce and Will Harris.
If you're aged 11-17, send your poems by 31 July for the chance to win.
Enter online at foyleyoungpoets.org
If you're aged 11-17, send your poems by 31 July for the chance to win.
Enter online at foyleyoungpoets.org
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I'm nearly on 200 subscribers already 😁
Come and join us!
Come and join us!
Hello writers and readers! I'm thrilled to announce my new Substack: "The Writing Kit." 🖋️
It's a friendly space packed with tools, tips, and tricks for your writing journey.
Join me for thoughts on fiction, good prose, and the writing life. Subscribe for free!
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It's a friendly space packed with tools, tips, and tricks for your writing journey.
Join me for thoughts on fiction, good prose, and the writing life. Subscribe for free!
substack.com/@kitdewaal?u...
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July 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I'm nearly on 200 subscribers already 😁
Come and join us!
Come and join us!
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Celebrate #RefugeeWeek with us! 🎉
Take part in immersive storytelling with Sara Stanley ('One Button and the Sea'), hear traditional stories from those with lived experience of refuge, and try your hand at Moomin-themed activities.
Sun 15 June, 10am–3pm, NCW. buff.ly/PZhdVXR
Take part in immersive storytelling with Sara Stanley ('One Button and the Sea'), hear traditional stories from those with lived experience of refuge, and try your hand at Moomin-themed activities.
Sun 15 June, 10am–3pm, NCW. buff.ly/PZhdVXR
June 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Celebrate #RefugeeWeek with us! 🎉
Take part in immersive storytelling with Sara Stanley ('One Button and the Sea'), hear traditional stories from those with lived experience of refuge, and try your hand at Moomin-themed activities.
Sun 15 June, 10am–3pm, NCW. buff.ly/PZhdVXR
Take part in immersive storytelling with Sara Stanley ('One Button and the Sea'), hear traditional stories from those with lived experience of refuge, and try your hand at Moomin-themed activities.
Sun 15 June, 10am–3pm, NCW. buff.ly/PZhdVXR
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The litmag that @jmcm.bsky.social and I run is open for Short Story subs for our competition until 30th June.
We're all caught up with the inbox and would love to see more.
Don't sit on your work. Send it!
Judged by @NualaNiC. Cash prizes!
Details:
frazzledlit.com
We're all caught up with the inbox and would love to see more.
Don't sit on your work. Send it!
Judged by @NualaNiC. Cash prizes!
Details:
frazzledlit.com
Frazzled Lit | Substack
Welcome to Frazzled Lit, the newest home for great prose, flash fiction, poetry and CNF! Subscriptions are free, but are not required to view our content. Click to read Frazzled Lit, a Substack public...
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June 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The litmag that @jmcm.bsky.social and I run is open for Short Story subs for our competition until 30th June.
We're all caught up with the inbox and would love to see more.
Don't sit on your work. Send it!
Judged by @NualaNiC. Cash prizes!
Details:
frazzledlit.com
We're all caught up with the inbox and would love to see more.
Don't sit on your work. Send it!
Judged by @NualaNiC. Cash prizes!
Details:
frazzledlit.com
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And this is a silly Joy Division-related picture I made a few years ago...
June 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
And this is a silly Joy Division-related picture I made a few years ago...
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With the queen @bernardineevaristo.bsky.social moments before Her Majesty Queen Camilla joined Women’s Prize Live, ahead of our @womensprize.bsky.social awards ceremony on Thursday.
What a week celebrating dazzling, exceptional, brilliant women and their writing.
Roll on 2026 …
What a week celebrating dazzling, exceptional, brilliant women and their writing.
Roll on 2026 …
June 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
With the queen @bernardineevaristo.bsky.social moments before Her Majesty Queen Camilla joined Women’s Prize Live, ahead of our @womensprize.bsky.social awards ceremony on Thursday.
What a week celebrating dazzling, exceptional, brilliant women and their writing.
Roll on 2026 …
What a week celebrating dazzling, exceptional, brilliant women and their writing.
Roll on 2026 …
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The Frome Festival short story competition for stories of between 1,000 and 2,200 words closes 31 May. Entry fee £8. 1st prize £400, 2nd prize £200, 3rd prize £100. There are also local 1st and runner-up prizes. fromeshortstorycompetition.co.uk
Frome Festival Short Story Competition
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April 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The Frome Festival short story competition for stories of between 1,000 and 2,200 words closes 31 May. Entry fee £8. 1st prize £400, 2nd prize £200, 3rd prize £100. There are also local 1st and runner-up prizes. fromeshortstorycompetition.co.uk
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Congratulations to the authors of the 2025 Bristol Short Story Prize longlist!
Now live on our website: bit.ly/4bNzJi5
Now live on our website: bit.ly/4bNzJi5
a man and a woman are dancing in a room with their hands in the air .
ALT: a man and a woman are dancing in a room with their hands in the air .
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March 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Congratulations to the authors of the 2025 Bristol Short Story Prize longlist!
Now live on our website: bit.ly/4bNzJi5
Now live on our website: bit.ly/4bNzJi5
March 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Diana Evans in conversation with Stephanie Y. Tam gracing our @writerscentre.bsky.social stage tonight 💜
March 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Diana Evans in conversation with Stephanie Y. Tam gracing our @writerscentre.bsky.social stage tonight 💜