DLC Hanson

New Writers Historical Flash Fiction Competition 2025

Writers of historical fiction, check out our new comp: newwriters.org.uk/historical-f...

Deadline: Wednesday, 5th November 2025
Top Prize: £500
Word Limit: 300 words
Charity: 10% of proceeds to First Story & the Funzi & Bodo Trust

Get involved!

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Goldfinch Novel Award 2025 - Runner-Up

Goldfinch Novel Award 2025

Thank you Goldfinch Novel Award 2025 & James Mustelier for picking my novel as a runner-up.

Congrats to the winner Anna Kemp, & @dorit-dscarlett.bsky.social & Jess Fitch.

Thanks also to my writer buddies @delgeo14.bsky.social & @juliusolofsson.bsky.social for your brilliant thoughts & advice.

Thanks, Delphine! (And big thanks for lending your excellent beta reading skills!)

We're delighted to present the inaugural New Writers Anthology: newwriters.org.uk/anthology-is...

It features a selection of prize-winning and shortlisted stories, poems and book reviews from the competitions we ran between 2022 and 2024.

We hope you enjoy it!

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Nice work!

Pushcart Prize Nomination 2024

Massive thanks to @thecoloredlens.bsky.social for nominating my kooky story for the @pushcartprize.bsky.social - much appreciated! And big congrats to the other nominees.

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They sound great!

Melin Melyn Psychedelic country pop from these London/Cardiff creatures. Enjoy their vintage-country-surf-twang tunes packed with a cast of curious characters.

Band of the day for me: melinmelyn.bandcamp.com

Check 'em out.

THE PASSIONLESS AND THE DAMNED By DLC HansonBedraggled and spent, the passionless and the damnedscrambled south through febrile grume,hemmed and steered by sleight of hand. Burnished brambles mocked atrophic blancheas busted guts g...

Here's a dark little villanelle I wrote that's gained an honourable mention in the recent Dark Poets Prize: www.darkpoets.club/post/the-pas...

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They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.

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Thank you.

New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2025

The New Writing Flash Fiction Competition 2025 is open for entries: newwriters.org.uk/flash-fictio...

- Top prize: £1,100
- Head Judge: Shreya Sen-Handley (@shreyasenhan on Insta)
- Donating £1 from each entry to the brilliant creative writing charity First Story

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Pink flower

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
― Oscar Wilde

Love it. I can imagine a whole world of stories behind the characters in the image. Nice work.

Fancy a free writer's retreat in Dorset with a fee plus travel? The Bridport Prize have got 2 on offer for working class and/
or LGBTQIA+ writers, unpublished & self published authors or published writers of individual stories. Please share - closing date is 13th!! More details on their website.

We're pleased to announce the winner of our free-to-enter Autumn Micro-fiction Comp:

'The Thing About Bonfires Is' by Heather Haigh

Check out the winning entry and a couple of the honourable mentions here: newwriters.org.uk/autumn-micro...

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Highly recommended.
As well as 'big', it's rather enlightening and very funny!

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issue3_8 Dr. Vass Geo is an untroubled, non-traumatised artist who loves colours.

Here's a poem I wrote in response to Larkin's 'This Be The Verse': rawlit.weebly.com/issue3_8.html published in the third issue of Raw Lit - rawlit.weebly.com/issues.html

(Accompanied by artwork from Dr. Vass Geo.)

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Thanks!

Exciting news about your novel, I'll keep an eye out.

Thanks for reading. Yeah, there have been far too many appalling (and probably avoidable) similar situations in recent years.

Powerful and hopeful, great work!

issue2_16 “Life thrives in the midst of boundless, sea-like difficulties, scorched by the sweltering heat of pain, agonies—sailing on with indomitable spirit, perseverance, and gaining strength along the...

A little poem I wrote a while ago (accompanied by a photograph by Sreelekha Chatterjee): rawlit.weebly.com/issue2_16.html

#poetry #nationalpoetryday

I like them a lot, especially In These Dark Places, Hang My Head, Long Time Dead and Bowhead Saint.
Thanks for the recommendation!

Sounds like my cup of tea, off to check them out. I wonder if they're anything like The Amazing Snakeheads? Bloody loved them.

Good point! We certainly need some heads of government to stand up and be counted (instead of standing up for those who donate the most cash!).

Sadly our ludicrous UK government is going the other way, issuing new licenses for fossil fuel extraction/exploration and talking about bringing back fracking. Utter numpties.

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
― George Carlin

issue3_8 Dr. Vass Geo is an untroubled, non-traumatised artist who loves colours.

Here's a sweary poem of mine that's been published in the brilliant online mag, Raw Lit:
t.co/6v5IDRH2MI

There are loads of beautiful poems, stories, artworks and hybrids that are worth checking out.

#writingcommunity #authors

Excellent!
Yep, I can relate to that :-) It's those inconsistencies that really get me - how did I not realise?!
But yeah, it's fun! Good luck.

Tree with Blue Sky

Hello Blue Sky.
I'm hoping to connect with other writers. Anyone else working on their first novel? (I'm in the fun-and-not-at-all-arduous editing stage.)

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