Writing Room Org UK
@writingroomorguk.bsky.social
A welcoming online home for all creative writers, established 2013. We help people write fiction, memoir & poetry. Friendly courses, small classes, hosted live online. Writing drop-in groups & events. Patron of Writing Hannah Lowe. www.writingroom.org.uk
Sharing with you our latest student blogpost. "For years I was a shadow artist, supporting others to fulfil their creative dreams while neglecting my own." Anna Bianchi tells us how and why she finally stepped out of the shadows to publish a book of her own!
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May 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Sharing with you our latest student blogpost. "For years I was a shadow artist, supporting others to fulfil their creative dreams while neglecting my own." Anna Bianchi tells us how and why she finally stepped out of the shadows to publish a book of her own!
blog.writingroom.org.uk/2025/05/02/g...
blog.writingroom.org.uk/2025/05/02/g...
There's a new writer for you to meet:
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Carys Shannon's debut literary novel Truth Like Water is out in Sept (Parthian). With it signed off, Carys joined our course Writing Into the Heart of Childhood Experience with Sita Bramachari and found new inspiration!
#WritingCommunity
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Carys Shannon's debut literary novel Truth Like Water is out in Sept (Parthian). With it signed off, Carys joined our course Writing Into the Heart of Childhood Experience with Sita Bramachari and found new inspiration!
#WritingCommunity
March 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
There's a new writer for you to meet:
blog.writingroom.org.uk
Carys Shannon's debut literary novel Truth Like Water is out in Sept (Parthian). With it signed off, Carys joined our course Writing Into the Heart of Childhood Experience with Sita Bramachari and found new inspiration!
#WritingCommunity
blog.writingroom.org.uk
Carys Shannon's debut literary novel Truth Like Water is out in Sept (Parthian). With it signed off, Carys joined our course Writing Into the Heart of Childhood Experience with Sita Bramachari and found new inspiration!
#WritingCommunity
Exciting submissions opportunity Writing Roomers! Nothing like a deadline and people who are keen to read your work. Good luck! ✏️📘🌟💙
We open for submissions tomorrow (3/1/25), Bluesky! Send us your best — we're excited to read your work.
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February 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Exciting submissions opportunity Writing Roomers! Nothing like a deadline and people who are keen to read your work. Good luck! ✏️📘🌟💙
This should be a fantastic hour of guided writing on the theme A Moment of Silence, with poet and editor @lisadmkelly.bsky.social , exploring the idea that silence can be as important as speech in communication, and responding in poetry, life writing, fiction or a mixture!
#CreativeWritingCommunity
#CreativeWritingCommunity
I'm excited to be joining the teaching team @writingroomorguk.bsky.social & running 'A Moment of Silence' in March. You can find out more about all the available courses to carve out some writing time, welcoming writers at all levels & writing in all disciplines.
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Lunchtime workshops | Writing Room
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January 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This should be a fantastic hour of guided writing on the theme A Moment of Silence, with poet and editor @lisadmkelly.bsky.social , exploring the idea that silence can be as important as speech in communication, and responding in poetry, life writing, fiction or a mixture!
#CreativeWritingCommunity
#CreativeWritingCommunity
Fantastic to see so many people joining us here at Bluesky! We love featuring new Writing Room writers on our blog, so do have a look at the latest post, by upcoming poet and storyteller, Alex Murdoch. He starts "I was never the most expressive person in the world..." ! 😀 💙 ✏️
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blog.writingroom.org.uk
December 2, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Fantastic to see so many people joining us here at Bluesky! We love featuring new Writing Room writers on our blog, so do have a look at the latest post, by upcoming poet and storyteller, Alex Murdoch. He starts "I was never the most expressive person in the world..." ! 😀 💙 ✏️
blog.writingroom.org.uk
blog.writingroom.org.uk
Anyone fancy reading a highly entertaining short story about an irrepressibly feisty crab super? See the lastest Masque & Spectacle for Writing Room writer Aoife Sadlier's first published piece!
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#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
THE RESURRECTION – Aoife Sadlier
Old Jim surveyed the crab through the porthole opening of the plastic bag. It was wriggling and writhing, as if freshly electrocuted. It was brown and speckled and shiny and hard. He was sure of those...
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March 4, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Anyone fancy reading a highly entertaining short story about an irrepressibly feisty crab super? See the lastest Masque & Spectacle for Writing Room writer Aoife Sadlier's first published piece!
masqueandspectaclejournal.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/t...
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
Great new blog post on our website by new writer Kathryn Bodenham - blog.writingroom.org.uk
“Everyone has a book in them.”
I’ve heard that so many times. Could it be true? Could I be harbouring the Next Great Novel? If I was, I was keeping it so well hidden, I didn’t know it was there…
#Writing
“Everyone has a book in them.”
I’ve heard that so many times. Could it be true? Could I be harbouring the Next Great Novel? If I was, I was keeping it so well hidden, I didn’t know it was there…
#Writing
February 16, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Great new blog post on our website by new writer Kathryn Bodenham - blog.writingroom.org.uk
“Everyone has a book in them.”
I’ve heard that so many times. Could it be true? Could I be harbouring the Next Great Novel? If I was, I was keeping it so well hidden, I didn’t know it was there…
#Writing
“Everyone has a book in them.”
I’ve heard that so many times. Could it be true? Could I be harbouring the Next Great Novel? If I was, I was keeping it so well hidden, I didn’t know it was there…
#Writing
Take note, Writing Roomers! Really worth looking into this comp for LGBTQ+ writers. 📕📙📙📗📘💟
Flash fiction anthology contest - open to all who identify somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum - to be judged by V.G. Lee and Jake Arnott.
February 5, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Take note, Writing Roomers! Really worth looking into this comp for LGBTQ+ writers. 📕📙📙📗📘💟
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Flash fiction anthology contest - open to all who identify somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum - to be judged by V.G. Lee and Jake Arnott.
February 5, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Flash fiction anthology contest - open to all who identify somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum - to be judged by V.G. Lee and Jake Arnott.
Enjoying Bluesky and the friendly chat! Can anyone recommend more people to follow for further book and writing related conversations? Fiction, poetry, memoir, comps, prizes, publishers. Thanks!
January 9, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Enjoying Bluesky and the friendly chat! Can anyone recommend more people to follow for further book and writing related conversations? Fiction, poetry, memoir, comps, prizes, publishers. Thanks!
Thought I'd share the process questions for this morning's Start Your Writing Week - the first of the term and of 2024.
Do answer them if you want to!
Is January 1st different for you to any other 1st of the month?
Do answer them if you want to!
Is January 1st different for you to any other 1st of the month?
January 8, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Thought I'd share the process questions for this morning's Start Your Writing Week - the first of the term and of 2024.
Do answer them if you want to!
Is January 1st different for you to any other 1st of the month?
Do answer them if you want to!
Is January 1st different for you to any other 1st of the month?
Writing Roomers take note! It's always inspiring to see someone getting an acceptance. Really worth sending your work out because you never know!
January 5, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Writing Roomers take note! It's always inspiring to see someone getting an acceptance. Really worth sending your work out because you never know!
Any writers out there at the stage of wanting help editing their WIP? We have a new 6-session eve course on Zoom with the amazing Jenny Parrott of award-winning indie press Oneworld! So excited about this one.
We'd welcome help spreading the word via reposts!
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We'd welcome help spreading the word via reposts!
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January 5, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Any writers out there at the stage of wanting help editing their WIP? We have a new 6-session eve course on Zoom with the amazing Jenny Parrott of award-winning indie press Oneworld! So excited about this one.
We'd welcome help spreading the word via reposts!
writingroom.org.uk/coursesandma...
We'd welcome help spreading the word via reposts!
writingroom.org.uk/coursesandma...
Today our Spring 1 term starts bright and early with our Life Writing & Memoir students in their first interactive Zoom session with Gio Iozzi. Our courses are wonderfully full which means we have the pleasure of working with around 80 new writers over the coming weeks! Welcome all and enjoy! ✏️📘
January 2, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Today our Spring 1 term starts bright and early with our Life Writing & Memoir students in their first interactive Zoom session with Gio Iozzi. Our courses are wonderfully full which means we have the pleasure of working with around 80 new writers over the coming weeks! Welcome all and enjoy! ✏️📘
This is such a lovely post from Writing Roomer James Woolf! I'd be thrilled with that too James - very well deserved! 👏✏️📘🤩
Absolutely DELIGHTED with this Amazon & Goodreads review. 🙏to Robin Price aka 'Crimefictionfan'. INDEFENSIBLE will be published Friday 5 Jan.
🔗 geni.us/Indefensible
🔗 geni.us/Indefensible
December 30, 2023 at 7:26 PM
This is such a lovely post from Writing Roomer James Woolf! I'd be thrilled with that too James - very well deserved! 👏✏️📘🤩
This looks good Writing Roomers! ✏️💙🤩
Magazine Editors: Last week to submit! We close on the 15th… www.bestmicrofiction.com
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
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December 12, 2023 at 7:15 PM
This looks good Writing Roomers! ✏️💙🤩
Love this idea! 👏📘💛
Happy festive season everyone! We're starting our Christmas Countdown of 12 festive stories today with a feel-good flash from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social.
Enjoy!
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Enjoy!
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December 4, 2023 at 3:52 PM
Love this idea! 👏📘💛
I love these lines - both the written lines and the lines in the sky! 🌟✏️💛
How many lines have YOU written this morning? asks Mother Nature. Not many, I reply, I’m too busy reading yours in the sky.
December 4, 2023 at 3:51 PM
I love these lines - both the written lines and the lines in the sky! 🌟✏️💛
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Exactly 4 weeks left to submit to Flash Fiction February so please start perfecting your stunning flashes because we would love to read them. Word count 200-850w, deadline Dec 31st #microfiction #flashfiction #callforsubmissions. Guidelines below fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/
Flash Fiction February 2024
Flash Fiction February, now in its seventh year, is an annual event during which we will feature a new piece of flash fiction throughout February 2024. That’s a new story every day starting on 1 Feb...
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December 4, 2023 at 10:50 AM
Exactly 4 weeks left to submit to Flash Fiction February so please start perfecting your stunning flashes because we would love to read them. Word count 200-850w, deadline Dec 31st #microfiction #flashfiction #callforsubmissions. Guidelines below fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/
And now this! So happy for our Patron of Writing, poet Hannah Lowe who has won the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer's Award! It's been a great few weeks for Writing Room team. 💙 ✏️🌟📙 💛
December 4, 2023 at 2:13 PM
And now this! So happy for our Patron of Writing, poet Hannah Lowe who has won the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer's Award! It's been a great few weeks for Writing Room team. 💙 ✏️🌟📙 💛
Very excited for members of our lovely Writing Room team! Our editing tutor Jenny Parrott is Editor at Oneworld, the indie press which published this year's Booker winner! And our children's/YA tutor Sita Brahmachari has just been made Fellow of the Royal Societ of Literature. CONGRATS TO BOTH!! 🌟
November 30, 2023 at 9:37 AM
Very excited for members of our lovely Writing Room team! Our editing tutor Jenny Parrott is Editor at Oneworld, the indie press which published this year's Booker winner! And our children's/YA tutor Sita Brahmachari has just been made Fellow of the Royal Societ of Literature. CONGRATS TO BOTH!! 🌟
Would love to read BOTH these books! (Christmas list...) So happy #TheOldie ❤️ featured them. This what independent presses need the most as marketing budgets are small or non-existant. When Ambit magazine had to stop printing, it got a bit of press. But press was needed before that point! 🙃
“Little Toller Books are always beautiful - Inside and out”
Thanks so much to the #TheOldie for picking two of our books in their roundup for Christmas.
All Around The Year by Michael Morpurgo and David Crouch and Colin Ward’s ‘irresistible’ The Allotment.
Thanks so much to the #TheOldie for picking two of our books in their roundup for Christmas.
All Around The Year by Michael Morpurgo and David Crouch and Colin Ward’s ‘irresistible’ The Allotment.
November 21, 2023 at 9:58 AM
Would love to read BOTH these books! (Christmas list...) So happy #TheOldie ❤️ featured them. This what independent presses need the most as marketing budgets are small or non-existant. When Ambit magazine had to stop printing, it got a bit of press. But press was needed before that point! 🙃
Aha! Love this 😀📙✏️💛
November 21, 2023 at 9:52 AM
Aha! Love this 😀📙✏️💛
Perfection in a spider's web! Thanks @gladlib.bsky.social - many of our Writing Room writers are hoping to visit you one day, minibeasts or no minibeasts! #WritingCommunity #Writers #CreativeWriting
We don't go in very much for Hallowe'en decorations, but fortunately, a garden spider kindly added a seasonal touch to our flowerbed. You shouldn't find any webs in the building, though!
October 30, 2023 at 5:28 PM
Perfection in a spider's web! Thanks @gladlib.bsky.social - many of our Writing Room writers are hoping to visit you one day, minibeasts or no minibeasts! #WritingCommunity #Writers #CreativeWriting