'National organisation supporting excellence in short fiction' - The Guardian. News & events + Awards: https://xitter.cf/t.co/wmMu4O38qR
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The short story as a precocious, rebellious form: join me exploring the rebel child of fiction in a @WordFactoryUK masterclass with Tom Vowler, May 7; Booking here: tinyurl.com/49d323ae #shortstories
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Here’s a short story of mine that was used as the basis of an Easter sermon by an English vicar! I’m reading it here after I wrote it 2014 @WordFactoryUK introduced by @cathygalvin1. It’s the first story in collection ‘I Hear You’ youtu.be/SPQlS1d4BN0
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Ready to Make a New Commitment To Your Writing? You can work with author/editor/educator Leone Ross.
1: THE PUSH YOU NEED. An intensive 4-session/daily practice to kickstart your process. Feb 16.
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My debut collection of short stories that have been on @BBCRadio4 collected as ‘I hear You’ out with the brilliant @saltpublishing next March. Some of these written while funded by @ArtsCouncilNI and some thanks to @artscouncil_ie - thanks to @WordFactoryUK & @cathygalvin1 too
.@saltpublishing has announced I Hear You, a debut short story collection set in Belfast by @paul_mc_veigh
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If you need another reason to come celebrate The Book of Coventry with us this Thursday @FargoVillage, check out these Cov music bookmarks we’ll be giving out with copies 👀🎶
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Check out my latest article: Unlocking Story Potential: How Creative Story Coaching Enriches the Writing Process linkedin.com/pulse/unlocking… via @LinkedIn @WordFactoryUK @scratch_books @NewWritingNorth @bbcwritersroom @TheWritersGuild @CloreLeadership
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THE BOOK OF COVENTRY LAUNCH 🎉
📍@FargoVillage🗓️26 September
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Join editor Raef Boylan with authors Cathy Galvin, Holly Watson, Nirmal Puwar & House of Cards Screenwriter Andrew Davies as we celebrate Cov lit!
Book your tickets here👆
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'An absolute belter of a book' Anne Enright
'A dazzling tale’ Guardian
‘A violent, extravagant adventure’ The Times
‘A bloody brilliant little symphony’ Max Porter
Escape to the badlands this summer with Kevin Barry's new novel.
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📣 3 days to go! 📣
The next @WordFactoryUK short story club is this coming Monday, 20th May, @ 19:00 - 20:00 BST! Join hosts @DevaneEmily and me, where we'll be discussing Naomi Wood's ‘Comorbidities’, winner of the 2023 BBC national short story award. All welcome! 😊
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Honoured to be reading at the @WordFactoryUK Spring Salon on the 5th of June, 7-8:30 pm at @BurleyFisher, with Courttia Newland and Anne Elicaño-Shields, as a tribute to Uschi Gatward and celebrate the winner of the inaugural political short story award.
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CALLING ALL LINEN PRESS LOVERS🔊🔊💜🪻
Please share amongst all UK female authors
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Translating your ideas into writing action: a new @WordFactory course you might enjoy. tinyurl.com/wt7jxvkp
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We are thrilled to announce a celebratory salon at Burley Fisher Bookshop, London. Enjoy readings from Courttia Newland, Susmita Bhattacharya and the winner of the inaugural political short story award, Anne Elicãno-Shields. @WordFactoryUK @GalleyBeggars
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Another fab event coming to London's @BurleyFisher on 5 June in honour of late Uschi Gatward, with @courttianewland @Susmitatweets @AElicano Presented by @BHwritinglegacy @WordFactoryUK @GalleyBeggars & supported by @ace_national
Super excited for this😍
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Only one month to go until the astounding The Unreliable Nature Writer by @C_CRRLL is published!
Pre-order your copy here - to arrive satisfyingly on publication date (and also keep a small press pressing on)
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Congratulations to the wonderful @beingvarious on publication day.
‘I still sometimes wonder if one could draw a window in the wall, or in the air, and step through it together. To somewhere else, entirely new.’
Openings, the new collection from @beingvarious, is out today.
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Only the last few days of our Reverse Engineering sale! Get 30% off here!
Read how Tessa Hadley, Yiyun Li, Sarah Hall, Jon McGregor, Wendy Erskine and other brilliant people write their short stories… it’s revelatory!
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I can't quite believe that my lurid little book is almost here! The Unreliable Nature Writer is now available for pre-order over on the @scratch_books website. Release day is 6/6/24 🌡️🌱
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If you're a writer, or a reader, of short stories - these books are just perfect.
Now We Are Two!
Reverse Engineering came out this month 2022. We’ve done a number of print runs and had some lovely feedback.
*And here’s 30% off in March!*
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Last week for sending out books before Christmas! – at Islington, London
The perfect gift for all friends and family interested in writing, the Reverse Engineering series is down to just £6.99 throughout December in our online shop!
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