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Lia Jashanmal
@liaj-writer.bsky.social
✒️ Writer, reader, compost keeper, early morning waker, cake baker.
📚 Curtis Brown Creative alumna
💻 Currently editing first novel
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Our #CBCWinterStory25 writing competition is now open for entries on Instagram! Enter by Mon 15 Dec.

Write a flash fiction story inspired by one of the writing prompts set by our tutors to be in with a chance of winning a course.

Find out how to enter: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/blog/how-to-...
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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#WriteCBC task from @jessicabull.bsky.social: Write an exchange in which a character says one thing but communicates something else entirely. Allow your narrator to draw their own conclusions as to what is really being said. Extra points if you make it festive!
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#WriteCBC task from @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social: Halloween is coming, so let’s introduce a spooky setting! The house lights dim, and the curtain rises on your location: where are we? What small details intrigue us in the opening lines? And why does it make us feel subtly uneasy?
October 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Tanja Goossens from Curtis Brown tells us (@gillianmauthor.bsky.social and @holly.bsky.social) everything we wanted to know about foreign rights! Episode now available wherever you get your podcasts. www.spreaker.com/episode/s8e0...
June 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Not long left to join our Novel-Writing Summer School! ✏️

15 talented writers will be taught by popular tutor and award-winning author Jake Arnott. Plus, you'll practise pitching to Curtis Brown agents Lucy Morris and Jess Molloy!

Apply now: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/novel...
June 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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#WriteCBC task from @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social: Start with your character opening the door to a stranger. Use specific details to introduce this stranger and to hint at how their relationship might unfold. Do they trust each other? Will they fall in love? Or is disaster in their future?
June 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Thanks @cbcreative.bsky.social and @clotimms.bsky.social (I love your podcast!) for such a fun writing challenge! It was really inspiring to see so much great writing and originality. Great examples of how action drives story. I'm also happy to start connecting with the Bluesky #WritingCommunity 💙
December 16, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Now having a think for Act II... 💭
Please post your Act II response as a reply to our pinned post by 10am, 11 Dec (UK time). Remember to include #5ActFestiveStory. #WritingCommunity

For more information on how to participate, check out this blog full of info and tips: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/blog/5-act-f...
December 10, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Congratulations to @thoughtworms.bsky.social! I'm over the moon to have got a shout out! 🤗
And looking forward to seeing how the story unfolds this week during the @cbcreative.bsky.social #5ActFestiveStory!
December 10, 2024 at 1:15 PM