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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️
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We're a creative writing research centre based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, organising and posting both research and community writing events. We repost lit subs calls! https://creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/research/cambridge-writing-centre/
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · Nov 15
Hello Bluesky! We're a writing research centre based out of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge -- a group of writers and academics aiming to make writing research vibrant and accessible, working together with local writing groups on events, seminars and workshops!
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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 2d
Lauren Berlant reading group 📚

Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras

From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
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Autumnal trees near the Alison Richard Building.
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 3d
Join CWC's Tory Young for an interview with novelist Tessa Hadley at Waterstones, Cambridge this Wednesday, 8th October. Tickets here:

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An Evening with Tessa Hadley | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Tessa Hadley today.
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 13d
On the 15th October, we're hosting a special performance by poets Christina Thatcher and Alice Willitts -- full details here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silence-sp...
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 5d
Pan MacMillan are currently recruiting for a Communications Assistant to work in their Bluebird and Picador imprints.

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Communications Assistant, Bluebird and Picador - Pan Macmillan
This is an exceptional opportunity to join the communications teams of two of the most exciting imprints in publishing: Picador, a literary powerhouse and home to great prize-winning authors, and B...
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 5d
Kim Moore is judging this year's Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Submit 20 pages of poetry by 2nd November -- two winning entries will be selected for publication by Smith|Doorstop Books.

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The International Book & Pamphlet Competition - The Poetry Business
The 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition is open from 1st OCTOBER 2025 The UK’s most prestigious collection competition – […]
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 5d
Curtis Brown's Discoveries 2026 Prize for women writers is free to enter, and you only have to submit the first 10,000 words of a novel. Deadline 12th January!

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Discoveries 2026
Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown literary agency and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development prog...
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 5d
The Hilary Mantel Prize for adult longform fiction is open till the end of the year! More details: amheath.com/hilary-mante...
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 17d
A new prize for emerging talents in memory of Hilary Mantel
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Hilary Mantel championed emerging writers - a new prize in her memory will help them get published
Judged by Maggie O’Farrell, Ben Miles and Chigozie Obioma, the Hilary Mantel prize will recognise emerging talent, and pay tribute to the Wolf Hall author’s legacy
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 10d
Reminder, especially to #Cambridge residents! Brand new poems and stories on the Major Arcana of the Tarot this Wednesday, at ARU's Recital Hall. @angliaruskin.bsky.social @anglialt.bsky.social

More info/free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...
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Henshaw Press @presshenshaw.bsky.social · 10d
We're getting close now...!

The Henshaw Press Writing Competition closes at midnight TOMORROW.

Now is the time to send us your most brilliant 2k-word stories - we can't wait to read them!

#writing #WritingCommunity
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 10d
🧪 Open to Science Poetry Submissions 🖋️

The Consilience journal is now open for submissions of science-themed poetry and artwork! Issue 23 explores the topic of ‘Tension’.

Submit your work for free here:

www.consilience-journal.com/submit

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submit — Consilience
For each issue of Consilience we invite submissions of poetry or artwork. All submissions must have a link to science, fit the theme of the upcoming issue, and also be in line with our inclusivity sta...
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Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social · 10d
FLASH WRITERS! I'm judging the Allingham Flash Fiction Comp and it's been extended!

The deadline extended to Sunday, 12 Oct at 23:59 / 11:59 pm. Applies to both on-line and postal submissions. All other competition rules and guidelines remain in effect; see www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...
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Brandon Nadeau @bnadeauwriter.bsky.social · 10d
Winners of this short fiction contest receive cash and a physical copy of the anthology they are published in! Simultaneous and multiple submissions of all genres are accepted.

Follow: @mgliterary.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #LitMag #5amWritersClub #WritersLift
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 13d
On the 15th October, we're hosting a special performance by poets Christina Thatcher and Alice Willitts -- full details here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silence-sp...
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 24d
Quite right! The correct link is www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...
Future Karaoke: The Major Arcana
New poems and stories inspired by the Tarot deck, performed live at ARU in Cambridge
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · 28d
Aaaaand we're back! Tickets for the 13th Future Karaoke are available FOR FREE here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=...

Poems and stories inspired by the Major Arcana. Wednesday 1st October from 6.30pm at ARU's Recital Hall in Cambridge. Attend in-person or online!
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · Aug 6
Our friends at @writerscentre.bsky.social Norwich are running a FREE online drop-in next week for anyone who's interested in applying for Escalator New Writing Fellowships. A great opportunity to get advice on applying!

More details here:

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Escalator Meet the Mentor: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Discover more about the Escalator New Writing Fellowships at our friendly Q&A session with mentor Ayanna Lloyd Banwo!
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · Jul 23
All of these combos are technically wrong, and yet something new emerges from them!
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · Jul 23
The D. H. Lawrence board is filling up ...
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · Jul 23
Cambridge #Poetry Festival have a stall outside #Cambridge station this afternoon, as part of Summer in the Square! Here's our poetry dice game.
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · Jul 12
This is happening tonight: #Cambridge #Poetry Festival 50th anniversary reading!
50 Years of Poetry. Cambridge Poetry Festival, Pembroke Auditorium 12th July, 18:30, £5. Celebrate 50 years since the first festival with a night of readings rom across the festival's history, featuring work by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg and many more.
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · Jun 10
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Readings 2025 | Cambridge Poetry Festival
A exhibition of poetry and visual art in the heart of Cambridge. 19th-21st June in The Grand Arcade, Cambridge. The inaugaural project from the Cambridge Poetry Festival in collaboration with the Camb...
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · Jun 10
Regular Poetry Evenings (cont’d): MILL ROAD POETRY @ Hot Numbers, Gwydir Street Returning in September Poetry Thursdays at Hot Numbers is all about the atmosphere – spoken word poetry in a fabulous neighbourhood café, for a small, respectful audience. Come and experience something special! Autumn 2025 dates: Thursday 25 September / Thursday 30 October / Thursday 27 November Contact millroadpoetrygroup@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list. CB1 POETRY @ The Town & Gown First Sunday of every month, 6.30-9.00pm Live open mic poetry in the heart of Cambridge, featuring guest readers. Contact info@cb1poetry.org.uk to be added to the mailing list.
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · Jun 10
Wednesday 23rd July Poetry @ Summer in the Square @ Station Square 4.30–6.30pm Free entry We’re running a relaxed, hands-on workshop full of writing games, prompts and playful exercises to get you thinking (and writing) in ways you might not expect. Come along and have a go! Regular Poetry Evenings: WORD SALAD @ Thrive, Norfolk Street July 5th, then monthly An open-hearted open mic, bringing you live poetry from plant-based cafe Thrive. Hosted by Daisy Thurston-Gent and Wes Freeman-Smith. Sign up to read in advance via Instagram: @CollidingLines
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · Jun 10
Saturday 12th July CAMBRIDGE POETRY FESTIVAL 50th ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCE @ Pembroke College Auditorium 6.30–8.30pm Free entry It’s been half a century since the first Cambridge Poetry Festival was launched, organised with the express aim of being “diverse, innovative and international”. More than 100 poets, artists, musicians and literary critics contributed, including Miroslav Holub, John Ashbery, Ted Hughes, Charles Tomlinson, Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Roy Fisher. This one-off anniversary performance features readings of poems old and new, with a focus on revisiting the work of those poets who performed at the original run of festivals from 1975 to 1985.
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · Jun 10
Thursday 19th – Sunday 21st June READINGS: An exhibition of poetry and visual art @ The Grand Arcade 10am–6pm Free entry Live readings and sale of artworks: Saturday 21st June 6pm–9pm Book: bit.ly/ReadingsCambridge Readings is the first collaboration between the Cambridge Poetry Festival and the Cambridge School of Art. It is an exhibition of students’ work produced in response to poems, made in collaboration with the poets who wrote them. The exhibition will be running from 19th-21st June open 10am-6pm daily. Join us for a one-night-only celebration once the exhibition has closed to the public for live reading, a chance to meet the student artists, sale of the artworks and souvenir postcards and prints.
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