@saloneurope.bsky.social
Travelling salon and writing community - connecting writers across Europe and beyond. Posts by @royakhatiblou.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/europeanwriterssalon
11th Feb 😆
09.12.2025 13:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photograph of the author Graham Mort
I’ll be running a new online creative writing workshop – 'The Dreaming Machine' – for @saloneurope.bsky.social on February 9th #creativewriting #shortfiction #poetry
See here for details:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dreami...
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Email just went out to our Supporters and will come to everyone else tomorrow.
Please consider becoming a Supporter of EWS. We use the money for:
✨️ Paying workshop leaders
✨️ To provide bursaries
✨️ Volunteer expenses
✨️ Venue hire
It makes a massive difference.
Just a few spots left for our session on Musicality and The Vilanelle this Sunday evening at 7pm CET.
Sign up for just one or for the whole course. We are all learning together!
Newly announced, Arvon's programme of day time online retreats - a whole month worth of Thursday's in March will bring @mailbykite.bsky.social & I into your writing room - bringing support, guidance & workshops for your wip or something new @arvonfoundation.bsky.social www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
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Writing what can't be said poster
Our next workshop series led by @markabowles.bsky.social explores how we express on the page what can't be said.
RAGE * TRAUMA * MADNESS * *SILENCE*
Join the whole course or individual sessions.
Oh fantastic! How lovely to see this 😍
06.12.2025 10:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Really looking forward to this!
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The University of Galway and Literature Ireland are delighted to announce the 2026 Translator Fellowship.
🗓️ Deadline: 6:00 p.m. (Irish time) on Tuesday, 6th January 2026.
🖋 For more information on eligibility and how to apply, please visit our website: www.literatureireland.com/latest/liter...
Join a friendly group of international writers exploring these matters together.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-wh...
Writing what can't be said poster
Our next workshop series led by @markabowles.bsky.social explores how we express on the page what can't be said.
RAGE * TRAUMA * MADNESS * *SILENCE*
Join the whole course or individual sessions.
Start the new year with an open mic!
Tickets 🎟️ available on the link:
5 mins per reader in a suppprtive and encouraging environment🎙️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975125745...
Led by poet Julie Irigaray
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
Poster for workshop with same info
Join us on December 14th for the next in our poetry workshop series.
This time we are focusing on Musicality and The Vilanelle.
In these friendly sessions we explore the form and write our own.
It is! ❤️
29.11.2025 09:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Whereabouts Jhumpa Lahiri
Enjoying my first Jhumpa Lahiri this weekend.
What are you reading, friends? 📚
It was all perfection itself
27.11.2025 14:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes. How dare you not attend one of our events?!
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"This way of looking is first of all attentive.The soul empties itself of all its own contents in order to receive the being it is looking at, just as he is, in all his truth. Only he who is capable of attention can do this.”
Simone Weil on paying attention.
Coffee of the gods
Co-writing
This morning, we are co-writing in Soho at Bar Termini and drinking the absolute best coffee ever (no dispute)
27.11.2025 10:52 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1Was so great seeing everyone! Such good readings tonight - what a span of topics and styles.
These are the links to the stories- forgot to say they've both been nominated for the @monarch.gay award.
The summer of the corn goddess @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/murals
Every time I do an @saloneurope.bsky.social event, my heart feels so full ❤️
26.11.2025 22:33 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0You could not say a nicer thing 😭
26.11.2025 22:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She did indeed rock it, we can't lie
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Mark!
Delighted to have @markabowles.bsky.social read now.
Always a pleasure
Me and eleonora
Brian from Insurgent press
What would life be without collaborators? Grateful for mine, especially @norami.bsky.social ❤️
26.11.2025 20:48 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Kleopatra reading
Next up we have @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social
Delighted to have her read her escapist fantasy for us!
James reading
We are delighted to welcome @jamesleeauthor.bsky.social for his first visit to the salon!
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