The Writing Squad
@thewritingsquad.bsky.social
Creating the next generation in the north of England. www.writingsquad.com
Helen Bowell is joining the @arvonfoundation team as part-time maternity cover as Learning Manager, she’ll be programming school visits to the residency sites, and running workshops in primary schools across London.
September 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Helen Bowell is joining the @arvonfoundation team as part-time maternity cover as Learning Manager, she’ll be programming school visits to the residency sites, and running workshops in primary schools across London.
@Lydia_Marchant has co-written Never Too Late with @vertigofilmuk and @channel5_tv www.writingsquad.com/lydia-marcha...
September 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
@Lydia_Marchant has co-written Never Too Late with @vertigofilmuk and @channel5_tv www.writingsquad.com/lydia-marcha...
If you fancy a chuckle and are anywhere near Salford this Friday - book a ring side seat at Charlotte Cropper's Fight Club Comedy Showcase www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fight-club...
August 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If you fancy a chuckle and are anywhere near Salford this Friday - book a ring side seat at Charlotte Cropper's Fight Club Comedy Showcase www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fight-club...
"I’ve written for years but became self-conscious about drawing from personal experience ...I forgot that writing doesn’t have to be perfect. It’s a process that can be exploratory, messy, and fun" Subscribe to @LaurenVevers ' grief letters for free! www.writingsquad.com/griefletters/
August 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
"I’ve written for years but became self-conscious about drawing from personal experience ...I forgot that writing doesn’t have to be perfect. It’s a process that can be exploratory, messy, and fun" Subscribe to @LaurenVevers ' grief letters for free! www.writingsquad.com/griefletters/
'The Easy Way Out' by Squad 12 member Eli Yim is at Buxton Fringe from 15th - 26th July! Get your tickets for this autobiographical musical 🎟️
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July 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
'The Easy Way Out' by Squad 12 member Eli Yim is at Buxton Fringe from 15th - 26th July! Get your tickets for this autobiographical musical 🎟️
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No idea if you’re in Aarhus tomorrow but, if you happen to be, drop by at Godsbanen, Vogn 1 at 19.30 to listen to what this lot cooked up in Aalborg last April and over the last few days here, and if you can’t catch us then, we’ll be at Manchester Literature Festival in October.
June 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
No idea if you’re in Aarhus tomorrow but, if you happen to be, drop by at Godsbanen, Vogn 1 at 19.30 to listen to what this lot cooked up in Aalborg last April and over the last few days here, and if you can’t catch us then, we’ll be at Manchester Literature Festival in October.
We’ve been in Aarhus playing with language and making zines the last two days with Hazel Evans and writers from Aalborg, Aarhus and Manchester as part of ReWrite - coming to Manchester in October as part of Manchester Literature Festival.
June 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
We’ve been in Aarhus playing with language and making zines the last two days with Hazel Evans and writers from Aalborg, Aarhus and Manchester as part of ReWrite - coming to Manchester in October as part of Manchester Literature Festival.
Great to be @porticolibrary.bsky.social to hear winners and runners up in the Sadie Massey Awards two of whom will be mentored by Squad writers. No glass ceiling for this lot!!
June 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Great to be @porticolibrary.bsky.social to hear winners and runners up in the Sadie Massey Awards two of whom will be mentored by Squad writers. No glass ceiling for this lot!!
Welcome back Mr Frog! Welcome to Squad 12! Our first Workshop with new Squad recruits was in Leeds today with Core Team member Emma Adams. In How to Find Your Focus we reminded ourselves to play, sketch, is watch, listen, start stuff then do something completely different!
June 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Welcome back Mr Frog! Welcome to Squad 12! Our first Workshop with new Squad recruits was in Leeds today with Core Team member Emma Adams. In How to Find Your Focus we reminded ourselves to play, sketch, is watch, listen, start stuff then do something completely different!
Over the last two weeks we’ve been out and about meeting our new Squad in Durham, York, Lancaster, Sheffield and Manchester, introducing them to their buddy from a previous Squad and introducing how and why we do what we do!
June 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Over the last two weeks we’ve been out and about meeting our new Squad in Durham, York, Lancaster, Sheffield and Manchester, introducing them to their buddy from a previous Squad and introducing how and why we do what we do!
Ruth Awolola ran a workshop tonight as part of the Youth Takeover at Stockroom, Stockport’s beautiful new library & cultural hub.
May 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Ruth Awolola ran a workshop tonight as part of the Youth Takeover at Stockroom, Stockport’s beautiful new library & cultural hub.
Still buzzing from last night’s opening of Stockroom, Stockport’s new library & cultural hub. Ruby & Lauren shared our Writing Stockport group’s poem, which you can read engraved in Stockroom’s writing tables.
May 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Still buzzing from last night’s opening of Stockroom, Stockport’s new library & cultural hub. Ruby & Lauren shared our Writing Stockport group’s poem, which you can read engraved in Stockroom’s writing tables.
If you get one of these in your inbox - it’s not from us!!
May 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you get one of these in your inbox - it’s not from us!!
York today to induct members of Squad 12 - it was Durham Monday, Manchester last night, more in Manchester and online Sunday. Building as a verb not a noun.
May 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
York today to induct members of Squad 12 - it was Durham Monday, Manchester last night, more in Manchester and online Sunday. Building as a verb not a noun.
With Central Library shut our Writing Stockport group met in the beautiful splendour of @raremags.bsky.social in @underbanks_sk tonight - thanks Martin and Holly for hosting us - as part our rent each of our writers went away clutching a ‘free’ book!
@raremags.bsky.social
@raremags.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
With Central Library shut our Writing Stockport group met in the beautiful splendour of @raremags.bsky.social in @underbanks_sk tonight - thanks Martin and Holly for hosting us - as part our rent each of our writers went away clutching a ‘free’ book!
@raremags.bsky.social
@raremags.bsky.social
Have you ever seen so many Squad writers in the same place? Nor have we! Thanks to the brilliant @ProovePizza for hosting 40+ of us. Now for day two of our Open Weekend in Sheffield.
April 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Have you ever seen so many Squad writers in the same place? Nor have we! Thanks to the brilliant @ProovePizza for hosting 40+ of us. Now for day two of our Open Weekend in Sheffield.
Day two of our first workshop in Aalborg with Anne Mari Borchert as part of ReWrite with partners @ordkraft @LitXaarhus and @MCRCityofLit - Squad writers working with writers from Aalborg and Aarhus, Denmark.
March 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Day two of our first workshop in Aalborg with Anne Mari Borchert as part of ReWrite with partners @ordkraft @LitXaarhus and @MCRCityofLit - Squad writers working with writers from Aalborg and Aarhus, Denmark.
3 DAYS LEFT to apply to The Writing Squad! If you’re a 16-22 writer in the North of England, and you think you’d benefit from free creative support, mentoring, workshops and opportunities, we want to hear from you! Get a move on though as applications close at midnight March 31. Head to joinsq.com 🚀
March 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
3 DAYS LEFT to apply to The Writing Squad! If you’re a 16-22 writer in the North of England, and you think you’d benefit from free creative support, mentoring, workshops and opportunities, we want to hear from you! Get a move on though as applications close at midnight March 31. Head to joinsq.com 🚀
Still wondering what Squad writers get up to? In addition to our programme of workshops and mentoring, projects make up a large portion of our offering. You’ve got less than a week to apply to The Writing Squad! Head to joinsq.com - submissions close March 31 ⏰
March 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Still wondering what Squad writers get up to? In addition to our programme of workshops and mentoring, projects make up a large portion of our offering. You’ve got less than a week to apply to The Writing Squad! Head to joinsq.com - submissions close March 31 ⏰
Good to be in Hull today at #CulturalTides2025 for the launch of Hull’s Culture & Heritage Strategy and hear speakers from Rejkjavik (see our Iceland Push) and Aarhus where we’ll be going in June!
March 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Good to be in Hull today at #CulturalTides2025 for the launch of Hull’s Culture & Heritage Strategy and hear speakers from Rejkjavik (see our Iceland Push) and Aarhus where we’ll be going in June!
At Elizabeth Gaskell’s House today to plan for residencies by Squad writers to bring her writing and social concerns to a new generation of readers in MCR City of Literature
November 28, 2024 at 11:20 PM
At Elizabeth Gaskell’s House today to plan for residencies by Squad writers to bring her writing and social concerns to a new generation of readers in MCR City of Literature