The Word Factory

'National organisation supporting excellence in short fiction' - The Guardian.
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Diary date! October 28th: online short story club featuring Patrick Ryan @BloomsburyBooks. Host @cathygalvin1: conversation & inspiration! Book:https://t.co/9S3thJ9zAO

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Today only @Waterstones are offering 25% discount on preorders Cathy Galvin's Ethnology from @BloodaxeBooks. Go to https://t.co/HbTKMTd43o, paste 9781780377728 into the search box, click PREORDER and add code OCTOBER25 for the discount. would be great if you could share.

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Forgiveness, family, war, aliens & writerly wisdom in this great interview with superb novelist & short story writer Patrick Ryan as Buckeye is launched by @BloomsburyBooks Interviewer, Word Factory's @cathygalvin1
https://t.co/7e4bxzFwgW
#Buckeye #literarywisdom #familysaga

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The train is ready to leave! Join @SophieHaydock for her brilliant AS Byatt focussed Word Factory online masterclass on Wednesday July 16th. Hosted by @cathygalvin1 https://t.co/HahrRnhvc5

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Don't miss our next Small Like A Bullet masterclass with the award-winning Jonathan Taylor @crystalclearjt - an intense one and half hour online insight into the short story form.
https://t.co/JYjaqF4Ch0

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Our next short story club: Claire Carroll presented by Scratch Books publisher Tom Conaghan. May 13 7pm!
https://t.co/aFjcGWa2mj

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The short story as a precocious, rebellious form: join us exploring the rebel child of fiction in a
@WordFactoryUK
masterclass with Tom Vowler hosted by @cathygalvin1
May 7 Booking here: https://t.co/HrnFOmzy9P #shortstories

[Cathy Galvin @cathygalvin1]

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: https://t.co/ncu5KIZt5N #shortstories

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Short Story Club alert! Join us in a discussion of Carys Davies's classic short story, The Coat on April 30th online, presented by Tom Harvey
https://t.co/C6tfeacXuN

[Paul McVeigh Writer @paul_mc_veigh]

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’ https://t.co/jtJ4mEFE97

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Great story @crystalclearjt

[Jonathan Taylor @crystalclearjt]

My short story "Bubble Man" from my collection "Scablands and Other Stories" (Salt, 2023) is in @M_Star_Online here: https://t.co/JdDiIHvrs7 @cwaleicester @EverybodyReview @jenhemery @UoLEnglish @UoLDWL @WritingEM @NaweWriters @WordFactoryUK @LeicesterCSSAH @UoLPressOffice

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Our March short story club is here! Wed 26th: Giselle Leeb introduces George Saunders' Jon: https://t.co/GGwDNOKgms

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Announcing our new series of exclusive online masterclasses. Five distinguished writers will take one of their own stories as a springboard for insights into writing and editing starting with the wonderful Lucy Caldwell on April 9th. Selling fast!https://t.co/FFI8dUGcjb

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Don't miss our February 27 short story club focused on Saba Sams' Blue4Eva & hosted by the wonderful @DevaneEmily #Sabasams @cathygalvin1
https://t.co/3UAqfUemNB

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Live event! Launching @paul_mc_veigh latest collection March 21. With the wonderful Kit de Waal in conversation. Hsted by Cathy Galvin. @cathygalvin1 @KitdeWaal
https://t.co/0Bbuz1YTOL

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Kickstarting 2025 with our short story club focus on Yan Ge: join us online on January 23 at 7pm with @HanaKhalique and @cathygalvin1
More here: https://t.co/cklf7oNKF7

[Leone Ross @leoneross]

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.
2: THE NOVEL SURGERY. 5 weeks to assess your novel in progress. [email protected]

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And so from Cornwall: our next short story club (Nov 21) focuses on Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now hosted from the edge of Bodmin Moor by @cathygalvin1 : Tickets & more: https://t.co/fRJkoWY0Wq @WorksLiterature @CornwallLive