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Writing Room Org UK @WritingRoomOrg

We help people write fiction, memoir & poetry. Get writing & keep writing with us! Friendly courses, small groups live online. Patron of Writing @hannahlowepoet

Joined November 2013
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Writing Room Org UK@WritingRoomOrg
30 Jan 2023
If you'd like help with your writing, at any stage, a warm welcome awaits. Live online. Join from anywhere. Bursary places available! #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritingCommunity #Novelist #Poet #Memoirist #ShortFiction #Flash #YA
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Festive flash? Go for it and send your 350 words to @failingwriters so that Emily (who is teaching again for us in February btw) can consider it for the cash prize! #FlashFiction #Writers #WritingCourses #WritingCommunity
Emily Devane@DevaneEmily
4 Nov 2024
Win yourself £500 with a 350-word festive flash! The fine folk at @failingwriters have asked me to judge this year's competition. Listen to the episode to hear what I'm looking for, and the *special phrase* you need to include... 👀 👇
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Gearing up for the 2nd half of our Autumn term! A few spaces left on FICTION options! Flash Fiction, Tues ams for all levels Fiction Workshop Course, Weds eves for those with WIPs. 6 x 2.5 hr productive sessions live on Zoom. Will be SO worth it! DM ✏️ #WritingCourses #Fiction
Photo by Kate Pemberton taken at Alexandra Palace, London. Path of brown leaves leads through yellow trees.

ALT Photo by Kate Pemberton taken at Alexandra Palace, London. Path of brown leaves leads through yellow trees.
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If you can, do seize this opportunity to see the wonderous Liz Berry @MissLizBerry this Sunday! You'll be so glad you did. #Poets #WritingCourses #OnlineWritingCourses #Poetry #WritingCommunity #Writers
Poetry London@Poetry_London
4 Oct 2024
One month until our Autumn Launch at the @southbankcentre (Sunday 3/11) - with @ianduhig, @MissLizBerry, @rachelnalong, and @donovanmcabee. Tickets are on sale. We hope to see you there! southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-…
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Now this is PERFECT for halloween tomorrow, Writing Roomers. How beautiful do those volumes look? But looking at the titles (shudder...) SCARY!👻🪦🎃☠️🐈‍⬛ #WritingCommunity #Writers #Books #Poets #WritingCourses #OnlineWritingCourses
Galley Beggar Press@GalleyBeggars
29 Oct 2024
Our new annual Pocket Ghosts range has arrived!
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Anyone able to get to central London this weekend? The Small Publishers Fair at Conway Hall beckons... Just a peek at the array of gorgeous books on sale will tempt you! #WritingCommunity #Writers #Poets #Novelists #AmWriting #AmQuerying #OnlineWritingCourses #CreativeWriting
Small Publishers Fair@SmallPublishers
23 Oct 2024
Two days to go! Join us for #smallpublishersfair24: 63 UK and international publishers, special exhibition, readings and talks. Admission FREE Friday 25 & Saturday 26 October (11am-7pm) @ConwayHall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube) smallpublishersfair.co.uk
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Looks interesting, Writing Room poets! #WritingCommunity #Poets #OnlineWritingCourses
Propel Magazine@propelmagazine
21 Oct 2024
After a busy summer hiatus, launching the Propel Anthology and Membership, we're excited to be back 🔵Propel Magazine Issue 13, out January 2025, edited by the brilliant @HelenMort🔵 Submissions open 1-30 November – we can't wait to read your poems👀 propelmagazine.co.uk/
Propel Issue Thirteen, January 2025 - Edited by Helen Mort. Submissions open 1-30 November

ALT Propel Issue Thirteen, January 2025 - Edited by Helen Mort. Submissions open 1-30 November
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Yes @halekatie we host our Thursday Writing Hour on Zoom, 9.30am to 10.30am. Get in touch to join - you don't have to be studying with us. Great for staying focused and enjoying a bit of camaraderie. #WritingCommunity #OnlineWritingCourses
Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈@halekatie
21 Oct 2024
Writers! Writing folk! I'm looking for online write-ins / write-alongs / writing hours - whatever we want to call them. Who's still running them? Do you know of any good ones? Thanks in advance!

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See Writing Roomers - it happens! We love Sara - she used to teach for us, and now she pops in every now and again to speak about agenting. Exciting news @ChloeTellsTales! #WritingCommunity #OnlineWritingCourses
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Here's a poetry comp you might not have come across with an extended deadline (now 27 Sept) and a £1000 prize! Check it out Writing Roomers... westival.ie/pages/westival-p… #PoetryComp #Poets #WritingCommunity #OnlineWritingCourses #CreativeWriting
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Don't miss this one if you're anywhere near North London, or even if you're not! Tickets will sell fast! #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Livepoetry
Paul Lyalls@PaulLyalls
11 Sep 2024
Poetry & Poppadums Fri 27th Sept Featuring National treasure @SIMONMUNNERY, Forward Prize nominee @JasmineCooray Francesca Plumari show 8pm ( dining 6.30) tickets musicglue.com host is meeeeeee ♡ @FirstStory @WritingRoomOrg @Karamel_London @haringey
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Back from summer break & brim full of writers ready to start one of our 8 friendly courses in the first part of Autumn term! Space on Editing on Prioritise Your Writing. Space in Nov-Dec too! Can't wait to welcome everyone and get writing again! ✏️💙📙 #OnlineWritingCourses
Photo of yellow maple leaves by Kaye Hanson from Unsplash. Turning a new leaf, leaves of paper, pages of books - all come to mind as we begin our Autumn term!

ALT Photo of yellow maple leaves by Kaye Hanson from Unsplash. Turning a new leaf, leaves of paper, pages of books - all come to mind as we begin our Autumn term!
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The deadline for Aesthetica's poetry & fiction awards is close! 31 Aug aestheticamagazine.com/creat… If you're not at a stage to enter this year, at Writing Room we offer all kinds of support to help you develop your writing ready for next year! #OnlineWritingCourses #WritingCommunity

Aesthetica Magazine - Creative Writing Award

Aesthetica is a worldwide destination for art and culture. In-depth features foreground today’s most innovative practitioners across art, design, photography, architecture, music and film.

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The first of our immersive summer schools is underway today, live & interactive on Zoom. Four sessions with four different tutors, writing to the theme HOME. If you're taking part, let us know how it's going! One space left on next week's school. #WritingCommunity #WritingCourses
Writing Room Org UK@WritingRoomOrg
9 Jul 2024
What does HOME mean to you? Explore this via prose & poetry, live & interactive online at our two-day immersive summer school, with @SitaBrahmachari, @AlisonHunting, @PaulLyalls and Nightshift author Kiare Ladner. TWO PLACES LEFT! writingroom.org.uk/coursesan…
Thanks to LeeAnn Cline on Unsplash for the photograph of this welcome mat which reads All Are Welcome Here, with autumn leaves and a basket of crisp green apples!

ALT Thanks to LeeAnn Cline on Unsplash for the photograph of this welcome mat which reads All Are Welcome Here, with autumn leaves and a basket of crisp green apples!
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Thanks so much for looking after our writers so well @DevaneEmily! Many happy flash converts, ready to go! #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #OnlineWritingCourses
Emily Devane@DevaneEmily
9 Jul 2024
What a joy it's been teaching for @WritingRoomOrg these past 6 weeks. Thanks so much for inviting me to guest tutor the 'Flash Fiction Workout' course. What's next? Well, watch out, flash world - there are some amazing stories from my talented group coming your way... ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Emily Devane@DevaneEmily
9 Jul 2024
Replying to @WritingRoomOrg
Thanks so much! We just finished our last session and *I* will miss it. What a wonderful group. I was sorry to press 'end meeting'. I also have a feeling there's going to be some amazing flash emerging from those talented writers...
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What does HOME mean to you? Explore this via prose & poetry, live & interactive online at our two-day immersive summer school, with @SitaBrahmachari, @AlisonHunting, @PaulLyalls and Nightshift author Kiare Ladner. TWO PLACES LEFT! writingroom.org.uk/coursesan…
Thanks to LeeAnn Cline on Unsplash for the photograph of this welcome mat which reads All Are Welcome Here, with autumn leaves and a basket of crisp green apples!

ALT Thanks to LeeAnn Cline on Unsplash for the photograph of this welcome mat which reads All Are Welcome Here, with autumn leaves and a basket of crisp green apples!
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Great news @DevaneEmily! 🎉 Emily studied with us in the early days & has gone on to become such a powerhouse in the world of short fiction & flash! She's currently teaching our Flash Fiction course - last class tonight, rave reviews - the students are going to MISS it!! #Writer
Emily Devane@DevaneEmily
8 Jul 2024
Happy news! I have a story on the longlist of one of my favourite competitions. Thanks to the @BathStoryAward team, and congratulations to everyone on there with me 🙏.
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Emily Devane@DevaneEmily
5 Jul 2024
Replying to @WritingRoomOrg @gioiozzi @BathFlashAward
The interview with judge Matt Kendrick is excellent - well worth a read 👌.
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And now here's one for @gioiozzi's & @DevaneEmily's flash fiction students! Go for it and enter @BathFlashAward! Btw our next Flash course live & interactive online will run in Oct-Nov this year. Max 12 students, lots of great reading & writing! #flashfiction #OnineWritingCourses
Bath Flash Fiction@BathFlashAward
3 Jul 2024
Our 28th £1460 prize fund Award is open for entries now. Closes 6th Oct.. Judge Matt Kendrick, judge writer, editor, tutor & all round supporter of writers @MkenWrites. Read his very interesting interview bathflashfictionaward.com/20…
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To our fantastic students who did @gioiozzi's Nature Writing Workshop - why not enter @themothmagazine's Nature Writing Prize? 💚🌿Btw Gio will run her course again in March-April 2025. themothmagazine.com/a1-page.… #WritingComps #WritingCommunity #NatureWriting #OnlineWritingCourses
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