To celebrate #NationalWritingDay with @FirstStory, sit down with your favourite poem, let it sound in your head, and write a version of it. You are allowed to do this:it's how most poems get started, one way or another. More ideas here. https://t.co/tYVt2KonVZ
Our thanks also to Naomi Foyle for this detailed and excellent review of Iraq + 100, comparing some of the stories to Margaret Atwood and H.G. Wells! Read over on THRESHOLDS: Alive and Dreaming Wide Awake | https://t.co/W5U8A8ul1L
For everyone that enjoyed My Name is Leon. Here is a charity that exists solely to keep Siblings Together. They're looking for funds for a residential writing week. Can anyone help? https://t.co/5Q5PtrqzcC
Now open: our free exhibition, Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land. 70 years since the Empire Windrush carried hundreds of migrants to London, hear the voices behind the headlines. Why did people come? What did they leave behind? How did they shape Britain? https://t.co/3dwEqcPdrX
For #Windrush70 a new set of Poems on the Underground has been released to remember and celebrate poets from the Caribbean and nearby: find out more at https://t.co/YpKISW6n4V #poemsontheunderground@TfL@WindrushDay
"It’s wholly unexpected and unsettling... eighteen stories that lead you into the dark to see the horrors lurking there."
New review of Sean O'Brien's story collection "Quartier Perdu", published by @commapress, now online!
https://t.co/uHGfbjNYiS
Families belong together.
Families belong together.
Families belong together.
Trauma & damage caused by splitting up families at the border between #US & #Mexico is nothing short of torture. Send a message to @realDonaldTrump now → https://t.co/UMZ7Dn4vN3
Revulsion and anger about child incarceration is filling my timeline. It’s felt by people from across the political spectrum, from people of faith and without. Here’s a list of ways to help fight family separation at the border: https://t.co/RpMLp9eb9B via @slate
I know - so sad to leave Glasgow this morning and see the fire engines still making their way towards Rose Street. A four year labour of love. It is heartbreaking https://t.co/OOORZOnBM3
We have one free place for a writer who needs it on our June course, Write & Edit a Story in a Weekend. Please apply or pass on to writers who could not otherwise afford to come. More detail of the course and applications here: https://t.co/Qlqf0d2nzh
Huge congrats to all the shortlisted writers and thank you to everyone who submitted and helped make this inaugural year such a success! Submissions open Monday for next year’s prize, you could be our next winner 🏆