Joined June 2012
1,610 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
Diary date! October 28th: online short story club featuring Patrick Ryan @BloomsburyBooks. Host @cathygalvin1: conversation & inspiration! Book:eventbrite.co.uk/e/word-fact…
1
3
2
172
Today only @Waterstones are offering 25% discount on preorders Cathy Galvin's Ethnology from @BloodaxeBooks. Go to waterstones.com, paste 9781780377728 into the search box, click PREORDER and add code OCTOBER25 for the discount. would be great if you could share.
85
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 thewordfactory.tv/cathy-galv… #Buckeye #literarywisdom #familysaga
2
384
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 tinyurl.com/yn59tksr
1
2
455
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. tinyurl.com/4cum7a3c
676
Our next short story club: Claire Carroll presented by Scratch Books publisher Tom Conaghan. May 13 7pm! tinyurl.com/3ummubdv

1
724
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: tinyurl.com/49d323ae #shortstories
1
450
The Word Factory retweeted
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
1
2
240
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 tinyurl.com/4svhtcdr
3
747
The Word Factory retweeted
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
6
7
1,102
Great story @crystalclearjt
My short story "Bubble Man" from my collection "Scablands and Other Stories" (Salt, 2023) is in @M_Star_Online here: morningstaronline.co.uk/arti… @cwaleicester @EverybodyReview @jenhemery @UoLEnglish @UoLDWL @WritingEM @NaweWriters @WordFactoryUK @LeicesterCSSAH @UoLPressOffice
1
1
1
282
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!tinyurl.com/6p8jxkt6

3
4
1,129
Live event! Launching @paul_mc_veigh latest collection March 21. With the wonderful Kit de Waal in conversation. Hsted by Cathy Galvin. @cathygalvin1 @KitdeWaal tinyurl.com/2vyv25rb

3
7
806
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: eventbrite.co.uk/e/word-fact…
4
8
1,228
The Word Factory retweeted
13 Jan 2025
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. leoneross@mac.com
5
5
494
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: tinyurl.com/uh4d9aw6 @WorksLiterature @CornwallLive
2
564