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Who are @womenwritersnet.bsky.social anyway? We’re an international team dedicated to supporting our fellow #WomenWriters through our social media presence.
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Today's writing group prompt was to write a story about an Advent calendar...Each day there's another message behind the door - then the denouement on the 24th...
We've had #romance #crime #magic What would your story be?? #womenwriters #writingprompts
We've had #romance #crime #magic What would your story be?? #womenwriters #writingprompts
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Today's writing group prompt was to write a story about an Advent calendar...Each day there's another message behind the door - then the denouement on the 24th...
We've had #romance #crime #magic What would your story be?? #womenwriters #writingprompts
We've had #romance #crime #magic What would your story be?? #womenwriters #writingprompts
Great opportunity for all #womenwriters to polish the fabulous pitches you've definitely scribbled down over the year...
Good morning! I'm looking for pitches on any aspect of creative writing for Mslexia (@mslexia.bsky.social) Issue 109. Particularly interested in hearing from writers from diverse backgrounds :)! Please email maxine[@]mslexia.co.uk – by the end of the week would be great! ✨
December 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Great opportunity for all #womenwriters to polish the fabulous pitches you've definitely scribbled down over the year...
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SEASON'S GREETINGS! SEASON 5 continues in December with award-winning author Anna Monardo and a special holiday episode. Look for the new episodes on 12/10 and 12/24. www.shortstorytoday.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
SEASON'S GREETINGS! SEASON 5 continues in December with award-winning author Anna Monardo and a special holiday episode. Look for the new episodes on 12/10 and 12/24. www.shortstorytoday.com
Hello #womenwriters 😊 Anne, here, hosting this week from Scotland/Ireland.
Where are you all following from?
And what are your writing (etc) plans for the week?
#writingcommunity #writinggoals
Where are you all following from?
And what are your writing (etc) plans for the week?
#writingcommunity #writinggoals
December 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Hello #womenwriters 😊 Anne, here, hosting this week from Scotland/Ireland.
Where are you all following from?
And what are your writing (etc) plans for the week?
#writingcommunity #writinggoals
Where are you all following from?
And what are your writing (etc) plans for the week?
#writingcommunity #writinggoals
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❛ I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion, born #OTD in 1934.
Joan Didion, born #OTD in 1934.
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
❛ I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion, born #OTD in 1934.
Joan Didion, born #OTD in 1934.
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My poem "Jagged Pink Carvings" appears in this issue of @doorisajarmag.bsky.social, out today! Thanks to Door Is a Jar and Editor-in-Chief @maxwellbauman.bsky.social for publishing more of my work!
The magazine is available in print and digital formats.
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/winte...
The magazine is available in print and digital formats.
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/winte...
Winter 2025
Door is a Jar is a print and digital literary magazine of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama and artwork. Our publication focuses on writing that is accessible for all readers.
www.doorisajarmagazine.net
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
My poem "Jagged Pink Carvings" appears in this issue of @doorisajarmag.bsky.social, out today! Thanks to Door Is a Jar and Editor-in-Chief @maxwellbauman.bsky.social for publishing more of my work!
The magazine is available in print and digital formats.
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/winte...
The magazine is available in print and digital formats.
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/winte...
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This year, I'm especially thankful for other writers and creatives in my life. They give me such motivation, and I'm thrilled when they say I do the same for them. Here's more about my Writing Showcase which fellow writer Lou featured. #BookSky #WritingCommunity nastasyaparker.com/the-writing-...
Writing Showcase
This week Lou Wilford, a fellow writer I know through reviewing and critiquing groups, has featured me on her blog as November’s Showcased Writer. Lou writes with wit and humour, so her own m…
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November 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This year, I'm especially thankful for other writers and creatives in my life. They give me such motivation, and I'm thrilled when they say I do the same for them. Here's more about my Writing Showcase which fellow writer Lou featured. #BookSky #WritingCommunity nastasyaparker.com/the-writing-...
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Why we need indie presses. “There is too strong a need for books to be easily definable, to make marketing them as easy as possible, and I find that in itself makes me turn away. It creates a climate of dumbing down and patronizing readers.” lithub.com/life-giving-... #booksky #WritingCommunity
Life-Giving, Imaginative and Underfunded: Small Press Publishers in Crisis
A recent letter co-written and signed by small press publishers has highlighted the significant pressures they face, threatening them with closure and potentially damaging the literary ecosystem ir…
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December 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Why we need indie presses. “There is too strong a need for books to be easily definable, to make marketing them as easy as possible, and I find that in itself makes me turn away. It creates a climate of dumbing down and patronizing readers.” lithub.com/life-giving-... #booksky #WritingCommunity
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Sarah Hawley coming in with some excellent advice for romantasy and fantasy writers. Word count is important! Paper is expensive! Perseverance is a skill that is just as important as writing craft. Keep going. It’ll be worth it 💕 #booksky #romancelandia #romancebooks #podcast #authorinterview
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Sarah Hawley coming in with some excellent advice for romantasy and fantasy writers. Word count is important! Paper is expensive! Perseverance is a skill that is just as important as writing craft. Keep going. It’ll be worth it 💕 #booksky #romancelandia #romancebooks #podcast #authorinterview
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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🎼 All I want for Christmas is…BOOKS! 🎵🎶
Books make great gifts! All year long!
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#Christmas2025 #amreading #Christmasgift #amreading #lovetoread #ChristmasStockings #books #romancestory #lovestory #JoannesBooks
Books make great gifts! All year long!
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#Christmas2025 #amreading #Christmasgift #amreading #lovetoread #ChristmasStockings #books #romancestory #lovestory #JoannesBooks
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🎼 All I want for Christmas is…BOOKS! 🎵🎶
Books make great gifts! All year long!
bit.ly/2bvW6ja
#Christmas2025 #amreading #Christmasgift #amreading #lovetoread #ChristmasStockings #books #romancestory #lovestory #JoannesBooks
Books make great gifts! All year long!
bit.ly/2bvW6ja
#Christmas2025 #amreading #Christmasgift #amreading #lovetoread #ChristmasStockings #books #romancestory #lovestory #JoannesBooks
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I really enjoyed this readable speculative fiction, set in a recognisable near-future city.
Surveillance is ubiquitous; nature is depleted; Hums are intelligent robots. May is struggling to raise her family in a difficult economy.
Exciting, thoughtful, and Black Mirror-esque.
#books
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Surveillance is ubiquitous; nature is depleted; Hums are intelligent robots. May is struggling to raise her family in a difficult economy.
Exciting, thoughtful, and Black Mirror-esque.
#books
💙📚🪐
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I really enjoyed this readable speculative fiction, set in a recognisable near-future city.
Surveillance is ubiquitous; nature is depleted; Hums are intelligent robots. May is struggling to raise her family in a difficult economy.
Exciting, thoughtful, and Black Mirror-esque.
#books
💙📚🪐
Surveillance is ubiquitous; nature is depleted; Hums are intelligent robots. May is struggling to raise her family in a difficult economy.
Exciting, thoughtful, and Black Mirror-esque.
#books
💙📚🪐
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Scotland's Climate Stories invite people from Scotland to write a story (up to 1,000 words) about climate change. They want to hear from a wide range of people with different feelings & experiences of Scotland’s changing climate climatestories.co.uk
Home - Scotland's Climate Stories
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December 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Scotland's Climate Stories invite people from Scotland to write a story (up to 1,000 words) about climate change. They want to hear from a wide range of people with different feelings & experiences of Scotland’s changing climate climatestories.co.uk
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Tune in to @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena this evening (Wed 3rd) at 7pm for chats about our new anthology An Alternative Irish Christmas 🎄
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Tune in to @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena this evening (Wed 3rd) at 7pm for chats about our new anthology An Alternative Irish Christmas 🎄
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'This is a book of love, in its most courageous and bare form.'
Read Maria Farsoon's 5⭐️ review of Palestine - 1 in @theskinnymag.bsky.social ❤️👇
📜 www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
Read Maria Farsoon's 5⭐️ review of Palestine - 1 in @theskinnymag.bsky.social ❤️👇
📜 www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
Palestine -1 book review - The Skinny
In Comma Press's latest anthology, 12 writers imagine the year leading up to the Palestinian Nakba.
www.theskinny.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
'This is a book of love, in its most courageous and bare form.'
Read Maria Farsoon's 5⭐️ review of Palestine - 1 in @theskinnymag.bsky.social ❤️👇
📜 www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
Read Maria Farsoon's 5⭐️ review of Palestine - 1 in @theskinnymag.bsky.social ❤️👇
📜 www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
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Looking for a #writingretreat? I’m holding three in the Alps in 2026: in March, June and September. To learn more and to book: valeriavescina.com/teaching/wri... #writing #WritingCommunity #writingworkshop #holidays #writingcourse #writersretreat #writingadvice #writingtips #writerslife
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Looking for a #writingretreat? I’m holding three in the Alps in 2026: in March, June and September. To learn more and to book: valeriavescina.com/teaching/wri... #writing #WritingCommunity #writingworkshop #holidays #writingcourse #writersretreat #writingadvice #writingtips #writerslife
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Yearning for a #writingretreat to kickstart your #writing or to breathe new energy into a work in progress? Here's a glimpse into my retreats, in participants’ own words. Come and join me in March, June or September 2026! valeriavescina.com/2025/01/27/a... #WritingCommunity #writingworkshop
A writing retreat in the Swiss Alps
Here’s a post to give you a flavour of the writing retreats in the Bernese Oberland. I’ve run several retreats in this spectacular corner of the world, and it’s where I’ll be hosting future ones. T…
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December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Yearning for a #writingretreat to kickstart your #writing or to breathe new energy into a work in progress? Here's a glimpse into my retreats, in participants’ own words. Come and join me in March, June or September 2026! valeriavescina.com/2025/01/27/a... #WritingCommunity #writingworkshop
Evening all,
It’s @lizchampion.bsky.social on deck this week.
How are you? What are your writing plans this week? I’d love to hear.
#writing #writingcommunity
It’s @lizchampion.bsky.social on deck this week.
How are you? What are your writing plans this week? I’d love to hear.
#writing #writingcommunity
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Evening all,
It’s @lizchampion.bsky.social on deck this week.
How are you? What are your writing plans this week? I’d love to hear.
#writing #writingcommunity
It’s @lizchampion.bsky.social on deck this week.
How are you? What are your writing plans this week? I’d love to hear.
#writing #writingcommunity
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today's a perfect day to gift someone my comics!
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book 2—
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December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
today's a perfect day to gift someone my comics!
book 1—
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book 2—
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book 1—
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book 2—
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I'm delighted to have an article in the newest issue of The Use of English, the journal of @englishassociation.bsky.social: 'Portals, Time Travel and Radical Empathy: #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems and the Case for Close Reading'. The issue theme is 'Intelligence: Human and Artificial': I argue... 1/4
December 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I'm delighted to have an article in the newest issue of The Use of English, the journal of @englishassociation.bsky.social: 'Portals, Time Travel and Radical Empathy: #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems and the Case for Close Reading'. The issue theme is 'Intelligence: Human and Artificial': I argue... 1/4
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My Bookish Month of November 2025 frombelgiumwithbooklove.com/my-bookish-m... - via @kellyvandamme.bsky.social 💙📚
My Bookish Month of November 2025
Hi and welcome to another monthly overview! After a rough September and an even rougher October, I really needed November to be kind to me, and fortunately, it was. My dad received the best news re…
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December 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
My Bookish Month of November 2025 frombelgiumwithbooklove.com/my-bookish-m... - via @kellyvandamme.bsky.social 💙📚
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"Totally unputdownable!"
B-17 pilot John Mackenzie faces loss with every mission, edging closer to the brink. Then he meets Stella. Can love pull him through, or will war tear them apart?
mybook.to/thebeautyshop
#histfic #readingcommunity #HistoricalRomance #WW2
B-17 pilot John Mackenzie faces loss with every mission, edging closer to the brink. Then he meets Stella. Can love pull him through, or will war tear them apart?
mybook.to/thebeautyshop
#histfic #readingcommunity #HistoricalRomance #WW2
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"Totally unputdownable!"
B-17 pilot John Mackenzie faces loss with every mission, edging closer to the brink. Then he meets Stella. Can love pull him through, or will war tear them apart?
mybook.to/thebeautyshop
#histfic #readingcommunity #HistoricalRomance #WW2
B-17 pilot John Mackenzie faces loss with every mission, edging closer to the brink. Then he meets Stella. Can love pull him through, or will war tear them apart?
mybook.to/thebeautyshop
#histfic #readingcommunity #HistoricalRomance #WW2