Sharpen your pencils this summer and enter @mslexia's fiction competition by 23 September. Three categories: Children & YA novel, short story, and flash fiction. #womenwriters #WritingCommunity

We are heartbroken to be saying farewell to our beloved friend and colleague @SarahTinsleyUK. Sarah was such a lovely person, full of life and with varied interests, a talented author and a generous teacher. Our hearts are with her family. We will miss her terribly.

You guys! I'm having an online launch for my first full poetry collection, Once I Carried Three Crows, published by Tapsalteerie and I would love it so much if you could be there! eventbrite.co.uk/e/once-i-carri…

Are you in #Edinburgh this Saturday? Fancy joining me on a #WomensHistory walking tour? I have two to choose from - easy to fit in around shows! 10am New Town (2hrs £15pp) eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-histo… 2pm Canongate (1.5hrs £12.50) eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-histo…

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s cultural landscape is at risk of collapse, due to continued inaction and backtracking from the Scottish Government. Please join me in signing the Campaign for the Arts petition to urge ministers to deliver on their arts funding pledges now. campaignforthearts.org/petitions/scot…

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s cultural landscape is at risk of collapse, due to continued inaction and backtracking from the Scottish Government. Please join me in signing the Campaign for the Arts petition to urge ministers to deliver on their arts funding pledges now. campaignforthearts.org/petitions/scot…

It gives us great pleasure to announce that we have nominated The Cabbage Tree by Sherry Morris for 2025 Best of the Net. If you missed this story the first time, then here's another chance... Sherry Morris 💙🇺🇦💛 #flashfiction #BestoftheNet (pls. follow the link) fictivedream.com/2024/02/16/the…….

'Pencil in hand, my brain lit up.' Lovely insight into the physical art of writing in this essay. I'm very much a pencil person, too. What do you think? #WritingCommunity #amwriting writersdigest.com/be-inspired/i-…

I'm so proud of this story and I'm so amazed by this BotN nomination from Fictive Dream. (OMG!!) Thanks so much for your support, Laura. I've always admired & aspired to have my work in this lit mag so recognition like this is just 🤯 And here's to all Cabbage Trees.❤️💙🇺🇦💛❤️

A big thank you to Nastasya Parker who did an extra long stint hosting WWN this week so I (Sandy Bennett-Haber) could concentrate on my Life in the UK test. It's all done now, thank goodness. Here is my post test selfi. Now I can get back to all things writing!

Come and join us! #authortalk #fiction #novels #CuckoointheNest #libraries

Ive spent 2 years campaigning to try to ensure birds who share our 🏡 have a future. All the govt has to do is mandate swift bricks to counter national scale loss of nesting habitat. Easy Urgent Essential Help birds: email [email protected] for 2 minute instructions.

What if... 👁️ ads played directly in retinas 🧠 implants censored our emotions 🌐 tech could bring us back from the dead 🤖 AI found loopholes to stop following orders 🐝 nature could be decommissioned and resurrected Find out in Limelight and Other Stories, out now...! ✨

This afternoon I bumped into a friend who said 'Oh I was reading something recently and came across your story.' And I asked them which book it was... which was a lovely reminder to myself that I have actual words out in the world in more than one actual book. Easy to forget!

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." Anaïs Nin Reflect on a fragment of time in your life. Enter our Memoir Award by 30 September! bit.ly/memoir-award #Memoir #AnaisNin #AmWriting

Just in case you need it this is your kindly reminder that YOU ARE A WRITER! - no matter where you are on your journey of putting words on paper. So put that #impostersyndrome aside, stop comparing yourself to anyone else and BELIEVE IT. #womenwriters #amwriting

Spent a splendid morning at Craigmiller Castle Park for the first walk of ‘five trees and five poems: an Autumn almanac’. We were spoilt by the weather and the company, as well as Sarah leading us in connecting to the space through art and Jonathan’s meditations.

A woman in her 60s told me yesterday 'I never read books. But I picked up yours and couldn't stop. Now I'm back to regular reading and it's Cuckoo that did it.' It's this kind of response that makes it all worth it. Go, Cuckoo!! amazon.co.uk/Cuckoo-Nest-Da…

All of us at WWN are delighted to see the endorsements coming out for our very own Dr Helen Murray Taylor. Her memoir #LoveLayDown is a fully funded on Unbound and we know it will be an unforgettable read. #womenwriters

How is your Friday afternoon going? I’m in a park waiting for my son’s rugby training to finish. I have fingerless gloves, a book and a flask of coffee, so I’m pleased to report that this little corner of the world is Ok. Hoping yours is as well. #GabrielleZevin #womanwriters