Sheereen Khan
@sheereenk.bsky.social
Writer
2nd Place - Bridport Memoir Prize 2023
Belonging, Biryani and Bacon
L/L Indian Takeaway - Write by the Sea Lit Fest, 2025
Liverpool Uni Pandemic Anthology 2021
2nd Place - Bridport Memoir Prize 2023
Belonging, Biryani and Bacon
L/L Indian Takeaway - Write by the Sea Lit Fest, 2025
Liverpool Uni Pandemic Anthology 2021
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Fact
"Working class people around the world have no innate desire to go to war with each other. They have to be conned into it by the sociopaths who will profit from it." - John Lennon #quote
July 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Fact
@danielharris.bsky.social
Extraordinary reporting by you of the French Open Tennis final this afternoon. You wrote mesmerising words to describe the scene, how you felt and what I missed by not watching it somewhere, somehow. Congrats, now go lie down.
Extraordinary reporting by you of the French Open Tennis final this afternoon. You wrote mesmerising words to describe the scene, how you felt and what I missed by not watching it somewhere, somehow. Congrats, now go lie down.
June 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
@danielharris.bsky.social
Extraordinary reporting by you of the French Open Tennis final this afternoon. You wrote mesmerising words to describe the scene, how you felt and what I missed by not watching it somewhere, somehow. Congrats, now go lie down.
Extraordinary reporting by you of the French Open Tennis final this afternoon. You wrote mesmerising words to describe the scene, how you felt and what I missed by not watching it somewhere, somehow. Congrats, now go lie down.
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What are the four books that inspired me to write Topsy’s story? The female Asian elephant who was electrocuted to death on Coney Island, NY, in 1903. Read for free on my Substack. kimstallwood.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
What are the four books that inspired me to write Topsy’s story? The female Asian elephant who was electrocuted to death on Coney Island, NY, in 1903. Read for free on my Substack. kimstallwood.substack.com
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In the days of lovely Twitter I often put out a call for help with research in writing my books. So here goes, Bluskiers.
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
May 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
In the days of lovely Twitter I often put out a call for help with research in writing my books. So here goes, Bluskiers.
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
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What a brilliant Sunday: great audience & such a buzz! Huge thanks to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social -and of course all of the writers including @dorothykoomson.bsky.social & @kitdewaal.bsky.social @debialper.bsky.social @eveainsworth.bsky.social #UmiSinha
March 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
What a brilliant Sunday: great audience & such a buzz! Huge thanks to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social -and of course all of the writers including @dorothykoomson.bsky.social & @kitdewaal.bsky.social @debialper.bsky.social @eveainsworth.bsky.social #UmiSinha
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ICYMI: Kit de Waal will headline a new literary festival taking place in East and West Sussex, spotlighting the work of female writers over the age of 50 👇
Kit de Waal to headline new literary festival celebrating female writers over 50
Kit de Waal will headline a new literary festival taking place in East and West Sussex, spotlighting the work of female writers over the age of 50.
www.thebookseller.com
March 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
ICYMI: Kit de Waal will headline a new literary festival taking place in East and West Sussex, spotlighting the work of female writers over the age of 50 👇
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This a great competition, dear to my heart (got an honorary mention many years ago) run by lovely people.
Polish off those bits of flash and enter.
Please share :)
Polish off those bits of flash and enter.
Please share :)
The Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Prize is open for entries until 28 February and will be judged by @taniahershman.bsky.social. The top ten will be published in the Fish Anthology which will be launched at WCLF this July
www.fishpublishing.com/competition/...
www.fishpublishing.com/competition/...
Flash Fiction Prize - Fish Publishing
Flash Fiction Contest online from Fish Publishing. 10 flash stories (300 words max) will be published in the annual Fish Anthology
www.fishpublishing.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This a great competition, dear to my heart (got an honorary mention many years ago) run by lovely people.
Polish off those bits of flash and enter.
Please share :)
Polish off those bits of flash and enter.
Please share :)
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Please share :)
I’m judging the Plough Poetry Prize this year, deadline 28 March, first prize is £1,000. Send us your best poems!
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/poetry-prize...
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/poetry-prize...
The Plough Prize - 2025
International Poetry Competition Now in its twenty second year, the Plough Poetry Prize is an international open competition for poems in English up to 40 lines on any subject. The competition this ye...
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk
February 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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I loved my time as a write in residence @gladlib.bsky.social in February 2018, where I had a revelation about what I was doing and thinking about what would become #SomeOfUsJustFall as well as the poetry I intended to focus on there. Apply, apply apply! www.gladstoneslibrary.org/news/volume/...
February 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I loved my time as a write in residence @gladlib.bsky.social in February 2018, where I had a revelation about what I was doing and thinking about what would become #SomeOfUsJustFall as well as the poetry I intended to focus on there. Apply, apply apply! www.gladstoneslibrary.org/news/volume/...
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Want to learn more about animals and the climate emergency but don't know where to start? Try my book recommendations here with my free Substack article. kimstallwood.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Want to learn more about animals and the climate emergency but don't know where to start? Try my book recommendations here with my free Substack article. kimstallwood.substack.com
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Words To Live By Number 180
February 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Words To Live By Number 180
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Writing residency for older writers!
Please share!
Please share!
NEW Dorset Writing Residencies!
📝 For 2 UK writers based in The Midlands or North West who are working class and/or 60+
📝 Sun 22 June to Frid 27 June
📝 Supported by Kit de Waal, our honorary patron
📝 Apply at bridportprize.org.uk/news/residencies-2025/
📝 Application deadline 23:59pm 28 February
📝 For 2 UK writers based in The Midlands or North West who are working class and/or 60+
📝 Sun 22 June to Frid 27 June
📝 Supported by Kit de Waal, our honorary patron
📝 Apply at bridportprize.org.uk/news/residencies-2025/
📝 Application deadline 23:59pm 28 February
January 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Writing residency for older writers!
Please share!
Please share!
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www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...
Hooray #curae prize!
Thank you to @bookbrunch.bsky.social
for being so supportive and unpaid #carers: we see you 💙📚 #booksky
Hooray #curae prize!
Thank you to @bookbrunch.bsky.social
for being so supportive and unpaid #carers: we see you 💙📚 #booksky
January 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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London Lit Lab: How to Plot a Page Turner.
Explore effective methods of plotting and storytelling to help you to turn your passion project into a page-turner.
Dates: 17th February – 30th March 2025 Online £220 for six weeks
Details here www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/plot-...
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Explore effective methods of plotting and storytelling to help you to turn your passion project into a page-turner.
Dates: 17th February – 30th March 2025 Online £220 for six weeks
Details here www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/plot-...
Please share :)
January 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
London Lit Lab: How to Plot a Page Turner.
Explore effective methods of plotting and storytelling to help you to turn your passion project into a page-turner.
Dates: 17th February – 30th March 2025 Online £220 for six weeks
Details here www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/plot-...
Please share :)
Explore effective methods of plotting and storytelling to help you to turn your passion project into a page-turner.
Dates: 17th February – 30th March 2025 Online £220 for six weeks
Details here www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/plot-...
Please share :)
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Another great course from Arvon to provide you with life writing skills including description, scene building, character development and dialogue and a clear sense of the shape of your project, plus a writing plan for the months ahead.
Details below. Please share :)
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Details below. Please share :)
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Residential Writing Course: Writing Family History | Arvon
Writing about family can be both exciting and intimidating. Maybe you have a family story to tell but you don’t quite know where to start? Or perhaps you are halfway through a family-related life writ...
www.arvon.org
January 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Another great course from Arvon to provide you with life writing skills including description, scene building, character development and dialogue and a clear sense of the shape of your project, plus a writing plan for the months ahead.
Details below. Please share :)
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Details below. Please share :)
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
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A prize for Fiction or Non-Fiction (1,500 - 3,000 words). for a writer that reflects the sensibility of the prize - not aimed at the action-adventure genre nor limited to the idea of physical adventure. Writers can grapple with the spirit of adventure in any way they interpret.
Please share :)
Please share :)
Tom Grass Prize
The Tom Grass Spirit of Adventure Literary Prize is a writing prize dedicated to celebrating the spirit of our friend Tom Grass, a multi-talented writer, avid reader, and fearless traveller.
www.tomgrassprize.com
December 28, 2024 at 5:38 PM
A prize for Fiction or Non-Fiction (1,500 - 3,000 words). for a writer that reflects the sensibility of the prize - not aimed at the action-adventure genre nor limited to the idea of physical adventure. Writers can grapple with the spirit of adventure in any way they interpret.
Please share :)
Please share :)
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New Writing Prize here with some fabulous judges - includes writers from UK & Ireland and is for novel, play or screenwriting.
Please share :)
Please share :)
Launch of Oxford/42 New Writing Prize: now open for submissions
www.english.ox.ac.uk
December 28, 2024 at 5:40 PM
New Writing Prize here with some fabulous judges - includes writers from UK & Ireland and is for novel, play or screenwriting.
Please share :)
Please share :)
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Writing Topsy the Elephant, interviewing vegan / animal rights authors, preserving history, writing articles, giving interviews, making presentations—read on Substack about my achievements in 2024 and aspirations for 2025. kimstallwood.substack.com #animalrights #vegan #topsytheelephant #elephant
December 19, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Writing Topsy the Elephant, interviewing vegan / animal rights authors, preserving history, writing articles, giving interviews, making presentations—read on Substack about my achievements in 2024 and aspirations for 2025. kimstallwood.substack.com #animalrights #vegan #topsytheelephant #elephant
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You can read my interview with Carol Adams for free on Substack to learn about the sequence of events that led her to become a vegan and why she wrote The Sexual Politics of Meat 35 years ago. kimstallwood.substack.com
December 16, 2024 at 9:51 AM
You can read my interview with Carol Adams for free on Substack to learn about the sequence of events that led her to become a vegan and why she wrote The Sexual Politics of Meat 35 years ago. kimstallwood.substack.com
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Meant to say please share (or re-skeet or whatever it is here....). Many thanks
At the launch of the new writing opportunity for new writers from the Black Country and West Midlands backed by the BBC with Lenny Henry & Tim Davie - al details here www.bbc.co.uk/writers/oppo...
February 11, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Meant to say please share (or re-skeet or whatever it is here....). Many thanks
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Words To Live By Number 50
Block and move on. Block and move on. Block on a whim, Block weird replies. We are not here to "win" the internet, we are here to read cool posts from experts and artists we would never ordinarily be able to interact with, and occasionally promote our own cool stuff to like-minded weirdos.
Bluesky is officially “open” now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybody’s timelines. So block and give no oxygen.
February 10, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Words To Live By Number 50