Tania Hershman 🏳️🌈
@taniahershman.bsky.social
Queer writer of odd things. 10th book, "It's Time", a hybrid chronomemoir, out now. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
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It's publication day for FUEL ebook—with 75 prizewinning flash fictions plus TWELVE bonus flash stories not in the print book! It's a great read *and* all profits go to UK fuel poverty charities. The print book raised over £4k; winter is coming, help us raise more: www.fuelflash.net/product/fuel...
If there's anyone in your life (or maybe you!) who enjoys odd, uncategorizable, playful writing, I have some copies of my new book, 'It's Time', and a few of my other books - hybrid, poetry, short stories - in my online shop that I'd be happy to sign & post worldwide! taniahershman.com/shop/
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November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If there's anyone in your life (or maybe you!) who enjoys odd, uncategorizable, playful writing, I have some copies of my new book, 'It's Time', and a few of my other books - hybrid, poetry, short stories - in my online shop that I'd be happy to sign & post worldwide! taniahershman.com/shop/
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The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science is out now. The full video of Jessy reading a selection of poems from this collection is up on our YouTube channel!
@goldsf.bsky.social @jessyrandall.bsky.social
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@goldsf.bsky.social @jessyrandall.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science is out now. The full video of Jessy reading a selection of poems from this collection is up on our YouTube channel!
@goldsf.bsky.social @jessyrandall.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC60...
@goldsf.bsky.social @jessyrandall.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC60...
Such a gorgeous piece! gooseberry-pie.com/when-my-moth...
Very proud that my story about deep cleaners is out in Gooseberry Pie today 😁 gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/
Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories
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November 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Such a gorgeous piece! gooseberry-pie.com/when-my-moth...
Having a rest today, a "creative pause", something I love doing & which feels very necessary - yesterday was intense!
I've just written 2500 words of my novel-in-progress in the past hour, which is unheard of for me! You know when it feels like it's not coming *from* you but coming *through* you? Never experienced anything quite like this. I'm feeling like I'm on the home stretch, I can almost see the end now. Wow!
November 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Having a rest today, a "creative pause", something I love doing & which feels very necessary - yesterday was intense!
I've just written 2500 words of my novel-in-progress in the past hour, which is unheard of for me! You know when it feels like it's not coming *from* you but coming *through* you? Never experienced anything quite like this. I'm feeling like I'm on the home stretch, I can almost see the end now. Wow!
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I've just written 2500 words of my novel-in-progress in the past hour, which is unheard of for me! You know when it feels like it's not coming *from* you but coming *through* you? Never experienced anything quite like this. I'm feeling like I'm on the home stretch, I can almost see the end now. Wow!
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Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
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PERVERSE 9E is out today! This week features poems by Phoebe Gilmore, Philip Gross, Philip Chijioke Abonyi, Linda Black and Ellie Li. Read all five poems from this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9e
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
PERVERSE 9E is out today! This week features poems by Phoebe Gilmore, Philip Gross, Philip Chijioke Abonyi, Linda Black and Ellie Li. Read all five poems from this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9e
Tonight! Why not come join us and warm up that writing muscle?! It's going to be fun... (there may be elephants...)
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Join me for my Zoom Writing Muscle Workout tomorrow (Sun) evening 7-8pm UK: 3 writing exercises in 60 mins to warm up your writing muscle, whatever shape you write in! Free & pay-what-you-can available, if you can't come live you'll get the recording afterwards: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Tonight! Why not come join us and warm up that writing muscle?! It's going to be fun... (there may be elephants...)
www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
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Here's a brilliant starter pack of Hybrid Writers from the great @taniahershman.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #booksky #writingcommunity
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Here's a brilliant starter pack of Hybrid Writers from the great @taniahershman.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #booksky #writingcommunity
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The theme for LGBT+ History Month UK 2026 is ‘Science and Innovation’. The new badge is available from our website (lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/shop/).
Find out more about the month and our five figures at: lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history...
#LGBTQIA
#LGBTplusHM
#lgbthm26
Find out more about the month and our five figures at: lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history...
#LGBTQIA
#LGBTplusHM
#lgbthm26
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The theme for LGBT+ History Month UK 2026 is ‘Science and Innovation’. The new badge is available from our website (lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/shop/).
Find out more about the month and our five figures at: lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history...
#LGBTQIA
#LGBTplusHM
#lgbthm26
Find out more about the month and our five figures at: lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history...
#LGBTQIA
#LGBTplusHM
#lgbthm26
Join me for my Zoom Writing Muscle Workout tomorrow (Sun) evening 7-8pm UK: 3 writing exercises in 60 mins to warm up your writing muscle, whatever shape you write in! Free & pay-what-you-can available, if you can't come live you'll get the recording afterwards: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Join me for my Zoom Writing Muscle Workout tomorrow (Sun) evening 7-8pm UK: 3 writing exercises in 60 mins to warm up your writing muscle, whatever shape you write in! Free & pay-what-you-can available, if you can't come live you'll get the recording afterwards: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
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There's still time to sign up for @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social's A Personal Anthology, her pick of and introduction to a dozen favourite short stories.
Hitting inboxes at 2pm. Sign up here:
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Hitting inboxes at 2pm. Sign up here:
apersonalanthology.substack.com/about
apersonalanthology.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
There's still time to sign up for @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social's A Personal Anthology, her pick of and introduction to a dozen favourite short stories.
Hitting inboxes at 2pm. Sign up here:
apersonalanthology.substack.com/about
Hitting inboxes at 2pm. Sign up here:
apersonalanthology.substack.com/about
I *love* this idea!
We publish *imaginary* research abstracts!
The Journal of Imaginary Research is now accepting submissions of new short fictional pieces. Click to read:
Why Abstract fiction?
The theme
How to get started
What to submit to us
What *not* to submit
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The Journal of Imaginary Research is now accepting submissions of new short fictional pieces. Click to read:
Why Abstract fiction?
The theme
How to get started
What to submit to us
What *not* to submit
journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog/2025/10/28/c...
Call for Abstracts – Journal Of Imaginary Research Volume 11
The Journal of Imaginary Research is now accepting submissions of new short fictional pieces for our annual volume produced each November to celebrate Global Academic Writing Month. We pu…
journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I *love* this idea!
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Hi writing folks! We've just migrated to bluesky and thought we should introduce ourselves. We're an online queer literary journal, we've been going since 2019 and we love writing that is daring and innovative.
We're looking to be connected to the writing community here, so please follow and RT! 🍎🍇
We're looking to be connected to the writing community here, so please follow and RT! 🍎🍇
November 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Hi writing folks! We've just migrated to bluesky and thought we should introduce ourselves. We're an online queer literary journal, we've been going since 2019 and we love writing that is daring and innovative.
We're looking to be connected to the writing community here, so please follow and RT! 🍎🍇
We're looking to be connected to the writing community here, so please follow and RT! 🍎🍇
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Bursary time! Please apply if you're eligible and join me and @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social in January. 👇
Did you know...? Our best-selling Self-Edit Your Novel course now boasts ✨more than 100✨ published authors among its alumni! Quite the achievement for course leaders Debi Alper and Emma Darwin.
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bursary time! Please apply if you're eligible and join me and @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social in January. 👇
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I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
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Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
www.bestmicrofiction.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks
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We are 5! 🎈
THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org
THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We are 5! 🎈
THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org
THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org
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"What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?"
The Dawn of Everything, @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
The Dawn of Everything, @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?"
The Dawn of Everything, @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
The Dawn of Everything, @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
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In my latest Highly Irregular newsletter I talk about what's happened since I started offering unlimited free & pay-what-you-can places on my own Zoom writing workshops in January. It's not what I - and maybe you - might have expected, in the best way! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...
Highly Irregular Newsletter #34 Oct 2025
FUEL ebook, physics collides with fairy tales, warm up your writing muscle, and more cheering and celebration, and musings on the gift economy
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October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In my latest Highly Irregular newsletter I talk about what's happened since I started offering unlimited free & pay-what-you-can places on my own Zoom writing workshops in January. It's not what I - and maybe you - might have expected, in the best way! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...
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Stunning piece by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social
"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, & trapped animals, hiding their young. Not the day the suitcase is full of an exploding mine..."
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"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, & trapped animals, hiding their young. Not the day the suitcase is full of an exploding mine..."
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/10/09/t...
Thanks #MilkCandyReview for getting 'The Suitcase of Lost Belongings' out there! And thanks @corrineleith.bsky.social for the prompt and @fionamckay.bsky.social for the feedback to get there!
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The Suitcase of Lost Belongings ~ by Rosaleen Lynch
She can’t take her children in the suitcase. They would fit if she emptied it. They could top and tail in the folds of the quilt she made of their clothes, but there’s not even enough room for thei…
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October 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Stunning piece by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social
"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, & trapped animals, hiding their young. Not the day the suitcase is full of an exploding mine..."
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/10/09/t...
"She can’t take her children in the suitcase. Not the day the suitcase is full of forest fire, screeching firehawks, & trapped animals, hiding their young. Not the day the suitcase is full of an exploding mine..."
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/10/09/t...
Looking forward to listening to this, can’t wait to hear you read, @abrackenbury.bsky.social!
This is beautifully done! @dawnpoet.bsky.social should be on national radio. @taniahershman.bsky.social works in fascinating hybrids: a writer enticingly in love with ideas. Varied & very moving Open Mic readings. LINK IN COMMENTS!
October 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Looking forward to listening to this, can’t wait to hear you read, @abrackenbury.bsky.social!
What a lovely night, it was an honour and a delight to kick off proceedings reading from my new book - and then sit back and be so well entertained! Thank you for having me, @saloneurope.bsky.social 😊
Our first reader tonight is @taniahershman.bsky.social
A queer writer of odd things, Tania Hershman is the author of ten books of short stories, poetry, non-fiction and uncategorizable hybrids.
A queer writer of odd things, Tania Hershman is the author of ten books of short stories, poetry, non-fiction and uncategorizable hybrids.
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
What a lovely night, it was an honour and a delight to kick off proceedings reading from my new book - and then sit back and be so well entertained! Thank you for having me, @saloneurope.bsky.social 😊
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I'll be running my most generative workshop, on prose poetry series and sequences, online 7-9:30 p.m. GMT, on November 16 and 24th. Interested? Email me at carrie.etter at gmail dot com for more information.
a woman sits at a table writing with a pen
ALT: a woman sits at a table writing with a pen
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October 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I'll be running my most generative workshop, on prose poetry series and sequences, online 7-9:30 p.m. GMT, on November 16 and 24th. Interested? Email me at carrie.etter at gmail dot com for more information.
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I’m so happy (and a bit shy) to share that my first ever selected poems are in this collection from @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thank you so much to editors David Hanlon and Katie Jenkins, and I can’t wait to read all the work.
Out now: Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 — edited by @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free to download from The Broken Spine website.
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Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 - Eds. David Hanlon & Katie Jenkins (Digital) - The Broken Spine
Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 (Digital Edition) Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 brings together bold, contemporary voices from across the globe. Edited by David Hanlon and Katie Jenkins, this downloadable...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I’m so happy (and a bit shy) to share that my first ever selected poems are in this collection from @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thank you so much to editors David Hanlon and Katie Jenkins, and I can’t wait to read all the work.