Suad runs Qalb Writers Collective, a hands-on network and community helping Muslim writers complete their manuscripts and navigate the publishing world.
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Her young adult novel won the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2022 and her adult novel was shortlisted for Stylist Prize for Feminist Fiction 2021. Her writing has appeared in Rowayat, Sapelo Square, Bad Form Review and The Unheard Stories Anthology.
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Suad Kamardeen is an award-winning writer and editor. A graduate of the MSt Creative Writing program at the University of Oxford, her work bears witness to the lives, histories and cultures of Black Muslim women.
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Mentoring writers is one of the most rewarding parts of Extra Teeth. We caught up with the fantastic Suad Kamardeen about her experience being mentored by our fiction editor and founder Heather Parry over the past six months!
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πThe Glass Delusion π by @kybettie.bsky.social
When a famous actress falls ill, Winnie starts to exhibit similar symptoms. Are the symptoms real, or has she fallen under the same delusion?
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Sign up for our workshop on exactly this, and much much more! On November 11th at 7pm our resident nonfiction editor and author of Foreign Fruit Katie Goh will lead a 90-minute workshop on how to write a nonfiction book proposal!
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Who gets to be a 'Scottish writer'?
on division and exclusion in a dangerous time
'The concept of national pride has a chequered history. For all that it can foster a sense of belonging & an appreciation of both landscape and people, it can just as easily be used to exclude, to marginalise, to restrict.' @extrateethmag.bsky.social
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Our free Q&A sessions are always popular, so please send your questions ahead of time if possible, to hello@extrateeth.co.uk. This will help us group questions together and ensure we answer all of your queries.
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Join Extra Teeth for a free session where we'll answer all of these questions and more to demystify the often challenging process of finding a literary agent. This will be held on Zoom, which has a captioning feature for those who need it.
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What is the etiquette around approaching literary agents? How should you find them? Can you really only approach a few at once? What happens if you get several agents interested? And what happens if you find yourself ghosted?
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π A Doll in the Hand πby Beina Xu
Mei is beginning to suspect her surroundings are not what they seem. Who is the Hand that moves her?
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Head over to With Bite to read more!
Charlotte Tierneyβs debut novel The Cat Bride (Salt) was published in summer 2025. She has otherwise (also as Charlotte Turnbull) been published in Best British Short Stories 2024, Conjunctions, New England Review, ...
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We caught up with With Bite alum @charlieratpig.bsky.social about her excellent debut novel, The Cat Bride!
Charlotte spoke to us about writing long versus short fiction, the emotional journey of publishing and who she'd have at her dream literary party.
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Got mine! Just been reading The Swallows by @nazaretranea.bsky.social and what a beautiful piece of writing! πͺΆ
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π¨ Winter White π¨ by Vanessa Santos
In her painterβs house, Martha eats pink food, sleeps in his warm bed, bathes. Steals things to bring home. But something else is lurking β¦
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She is also an artist and researcher, and recently completed a funded PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, supervised by ecocritic Richard Kerridge and Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey.
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Janina Diller writes experimental fiction and essays on the unexpected change from being a daughter to being a mother, places to hide and places to hike, relationships with other humans and non-humans.
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π NEW NONFICTION ALERT π
Island Dreams by Janina Diller is now up on With Bite!
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π¦ Hartshorn by @spacedolphin93.bsky.social π¦
Her twin sister is marrying Greg, who is shit. She refuses the title of hen do and instead organises a stag, replete with antler crowns and a bag of coke. Greg, perhaps unwisely, decided to follow them on their night out.
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Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Trade distributor and online bookstore representing more than 160 independent literary publishers from around the world!
Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
Zoologist, author, natural historian Dr Darren Naish | Dinosaurs animals evolution | Books: DinosaursHTLE - DINOPEDIA - AncientSeaReptiles. PREHISTORIC PLANET lead consultant AppleTV+ | DINOCON leader | Mesozoic Art II out now
https://linktr.ee/tetzoo
Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde. Interested in Victorian literature, literature and science, and museum studies.
Writer and teacher. Literature and science, dinosaurs, fantasy/sci-fi, alternate history, worldbuilding, periodicals, museums, etc. Fiction as W. J. Tattersdill. He/him.
I write things. phd in progress on 18th-century women's life writing. debut novel THIRST TRAP is out 12 June 2025 with Picador β¨οΈ
Poet. Scotlandβs Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! πͺπΈπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
nazaretranea.com
The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
βοΈ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 βοΈ
www.thereaderberlin.com
Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
Literary journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction.
Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow.
Supported by the Arts Council.
tolkajournal.org
New Writing from Wales and Beyond.
A bold magazine for writers and readers of the best creative prose | Issue 001: Roots out now | Eds. @kathryntann.bsky.social & @rjph91.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/foldingrock
Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher, critic, academic. Nonbinary (they/them)π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ. Columnist, Vector: #SFFResistance. Blogs on SFF at Prospective Cultures - current topics: #ScottishSFF #CriticismForInterestingTimes. https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
Literary blog packed with author interviews, short stories, film & TV adaptations, extracts, features, and discussion about books from around the world ππ
https://bookanista.com/
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Independent Cultural Journalism from Scotland. Free monthly magazine, website, podcasts, and more. DMs not monitored.
theskinny.co.uk
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press π THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social π³ Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Writer β’ It Lasts Forever & Then Itβs Over β’ The Accident: An Account β’ Editor/publisher @the3rdthing.press β’ Website https://annedemarcken.com
Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*)
Queer publishing and design studio. Not affiliated with any other Polari-named things.
polari.press | polari.com
