Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈
taniahershman.bsky.social
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
In this month's Unbox Your Words writing prompt & exercise, we're celebrating... aunts! If you're not a subscriber and £3.50/month is a struggle, you can subscribe for free - so why not try it & inject some auntie energy in your writing! taniahershman.substack.com/p/unbox-your... #amwriting
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 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...
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Being at the Lionesses v Brazil match last night inspired me today to write the scene in my alt-history novel where one of my main characters & her friends go to their first women's football match in 1917 & have their minds blown. It's not what my novel's about, but I think it might play a big part!
October 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I'm about to give a talk on Zoom to an undergraduate narrative non-fiction class - I am not a fan of genres and labels, so will be encouraging them to get "naughty" and write what they want in the way they want to write it, showing them what I did in several of my own books, including It's Time!
October 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
One of my favourite books of the past few years is 'Interdependence' by ecologist & philosopher Kriti Sharma:

"So much has to come together to bring a body into being at every moment—as much in this moment as in the moment of conception or the moment of birth. The body is always being created."
October 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Might I highly recommend the Quiet Posters feed here on BlueSky with posts from those who don't raise their voices much? It's my source of serenity, art, poetry and more, it's what I love about social media. Yes, my other feeds include Cats! *and* Cat Pics, what of it??
October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Love this (I have a weakness for pieces with bullet points), by @corinnaboard.bsky.social, in the new issue of @perversemag.bsky.social! #cacti

"I visit the cacti in the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew. I stay there for a long time and stand very still. The air around me prickles."
October 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Do you have "Fear of Physics"? Let me cure you at my Zoom writing workshop, When Physics & Fairy Tales Collide, Mon Oct 20 7-9pm UK! We'll play with weird & wonderful physics words, celebrate female physicists and invent particles! Pay-what-you-can available: app.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
October 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
In my Newsletter I talk about the FUEL ebook, 2 new Zoom workshops, do more cheering in the Palace of Cheering & Celebration, and muse about the gift economy, The Commons & the “counter-intuitive” mystery of free workshop tickets in Permission Corner! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...
October 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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...
October 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Wonderful @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Zoom launch tonight for three brilliant books by @emiliejelinek.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social and @poetclare.bsky.social - can’t wait to get hold of the new collections! Cc @mslexia.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:33 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
September 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Very much looking forward to my first in-person reading from my new book, 'It's Time: A Chronomemoir', next Thurs 4pm at the Manchester Poetry Library alongside my brilliant @guillemotpress.bsky.social stablemates @susiecampbell.bsky.social and Prerana Kumar! No booking necessary, come say hello!
September 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Last few places left for my Zoom writing workshop 'The Art of the Swerve' this Sun Sep 21, 7-8.30pm UK. With a mix of playful writing exercises & discussion of swervy pieces, we’ll see how swerving might help us out of ruts & habits. Free & pay-what-you-can available: www.tickettailor.com/events/
September 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Unbox Your Words is a year old! The first post, which I sent out in Sep 2024, wasn’t a writing exercise but a provocation, so in celebration, this month‘s is too - an invitation to do something most workshops would tell you not to. Go on, try it! taniahershman.substack.com/p/unbox-your... #AmWriting
September 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
In my Sep newsletter, I talk about joy, more joy, and whether I'm not only a queer writer of odd things but also a queer potter of odd things (with pics)! Letting go of ideas of form & utility in pottery leads me to interesting places, as it has in writing! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...
September 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
After raising £4k for fuel poverty charities from the print anthology, the FUEL flash ebook—with 12 bonus flash stories—is on its way! That’s 87 brilliant, surprising prizewinning flash stories by writers worldwide, exploding the myth that there's a formula for a “winning” story. www.fuelflash.net
September 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Last few spots on my fast & fun Zoom 1-hr Writing Muscle Workout, Tues Sept 2, 7-8pm UK. Open to anyone at any stage of your writing journey and whatever word-shapes you write, free & pay-what-you-can places, all ticket-holders get the recording after. Join us! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
August 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
So grateful to anyone who takes time to say lovely things about something I’ve written—especially my newest odd thing in which I’ve done odd things I’ve never done before! Thank you to all those of you who have got in touch with your thoughts on It’s Time, every single comment means the world to me.
August 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Listened to my first episode of Search Engine podcast because I was bewildered by this "Dubai chocolate" thing. And they've just explained EVERYTHING I've never understood involving TikTok, Gen Z - and people who get sent food to film themselves eating online. www.searchengine.show/a-dubai-choc...
August 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A joyous week co-tutoring a residential course at magical Totleigh Barton on short fic, non-fic, poetry & hybrids with a group of thoughtful, generous, curious, talented writers! Thank you to my co-tutor, @hollycorfieldcarr.bsky.social and the @arvonfoundation.bsky.social team. I needed that 😊✨
August 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I never want cost to keep anyone from joining my zoom writing workshops so there are always free, concessionary and pay-what-you-can options. Find out more about my Sept Writing Muscle & Art of the Swerve workshops here - join us, whatever word-shapes you write! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
August 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
"I realize I'm interested not in just playfulness & permission to play but messiness." In my August writing newsletter—as well as two new Zoom writing workshops and links to my book launch recording—I riff on permission not just to play but to get 'messy'! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...
August 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Wow, what a match!!! I don't know about the players, but I'm exhausted. Go, Lionesses! I never imagined when I was a kid that I'd be watching scenes like this. Magic!
July 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Just took a load of signed copies of my new hybrid book, 'It's Time: A Chronomemoir', published by @guillemotpress.bsky.social, to the Post Office! If you'd like one, my online shop is set up for worldwide postage (I hope): taniahershman.com/product/new-.... www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction/h...
July 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM