Lizzie Golds

3. You're Writing a Short Story, Not a Sitcom Let's talk about my Silly Little Stories.

March Substack is up! ✍🏻
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Let's Bring Back the Creative Writing A Level! If you support bringing back the Creative Writing A Level, please complete the form. Any questions, please contact Dr Carrie Etter at carrie.etter@bristol.ac.uk. Let's go!

Come on, folks--I know a lot of you believe in restoring the A Level in Creative Writing in England--sign and share now!

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@poetrysociety.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social @kitdewaal.bsky.social

Lovely start to a Monday to discover I’ve been short and longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize!

2. Why Don't You Just Give Up? This Is Why I Write

February’s Substack is live ✍🏻 it’s about the time I had a meltdown while writing a story and also why I write and other bits: open.substack.com/pub/lizziego...

Let's bring back the Creative Writing A Level! Expression of Interest in Restoring the Creative Writing A Level in the UK with NAWE

Some of you know I've been on the HE Committee of the National Association for Writers in Education since 2010. I'm now spearheading with NAWE and @kitdewaal.bsky.social a movement to bring back the Creative Writing A Level. Interested? Just fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Emerged from my sick bed to find this waiting in the post! So excited to have a story in this delightful issue of @gutter.bsky.social 🥳

500 words down before 9am. Who does she think she is?! 💁🏼‍♀️✍🏻

Not even at the end of January yet and already have 10,000 words worth of notes for a potential novel 👀 Notes, mind you, not actual prose - but it’s a promising start!

Finally got around to joining the 8am Writer’s Hour a few times over the last week. Loving it! Although quite annoying that getting up early and writing first thing does actually work. 😴

Bath Short Story Award is up to 2,200!

Thanks Carrie! 🤞🏻

Is This Any Good? | Lizzie Golds | Substack 'Is This Any Good?' is an honest, relatable and (hopefully) funny newsletter about the reality of being a fiction writer—embracing the rejections, self-doubt, and frustrations that fuel the creative j...

And you can sign up to my Substack here: lizziegoldswriter.substack.com

Hello #writingcommunity! I’m new here so let’s start with an intro 👋🏻 I’m a fiction writer living in Bristol, currently querying my debut short story collection about womanhood. You can read some stories from it at the link in my bio 📖🔗