Kathy Hoyle

It's tonight folks!!!! come and join me for an hour of fabulous live readingsnand flashy fun - we start at 8pm and it's all FREE! 😀

Flash Face Off - a free weekly writing challenge For people with a head and heart full of stories. The fastest, most fun way to develop your writing.

I'll be hosting Flash Face Off for WHQ next Friday (28th Nov) - come and join us at 8 pm - Wonderful flashy readings, and it's not too late to join in. Write 300 from the prompts and I could pick you for the live readings! All FREE! 😃😊😃😊

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With the opening of our second round of Submissions, we thought we'd post a little blog about our experience of starting the magazine, launching our first mag, and the planning of our second issue!

Link is in our bio!

#blogpost #literarymagazine #BookSky #WritingCommunity

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Tysm! 🩷😊😊

Little Uncertainties Little Uncertainties are very short books, each containing just a single story.

This is quite exciting. Over the next year, we’re going to be giving away 12,000 of these little books to help spread the love of short stories:

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vintagebooks on Instagram: "Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voi…" Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voices.Uncanny and unsettling, wild and wyrd, the ten stories in this collection showcase the best of folk horror. Set in and across England, they celebrate working-class culture and history, and, sharp as a guillotine blade, reveal the real monsters that stalk our green and pleasant land.Edited by @folkhorrormagpie, Bog People is out today!

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How absolutely gorgeous is my book post! The new print anthology from @uncertainstories.com complete with little uncertainties booklets and postcards, not to mention some fantastic strange and surreal writing from a brilliant array of talented writers. Get your copy today!

Flash Face Off Live: Halloween Special with Kathy Hoyle - Writers' HQ You are cordially invited to an evening of spiritual communion at the Flash Face Off Live Halloween Special 👻

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October 31st at 8pm! On All Hallows Eve I'll be hosting the annual Flash Face Off open mic night over @writershq.bsky.social alongside renowned Victorian Spiritualist ,Madame Morte! Invitations in the link. join us! It's free and all who dare are welcome!💀

Online writing retreats Super-productive, super-friendly, super-free online writing retreats. Write thousands of words from the comfort of your own pyjamas.

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I’m hosting today’s retreat. It’s free and we start at 10am! Come and join me… you can wear yr jammies all day and get GOLD STARS for writing a bazillion words! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #perfectsaturday

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The Braag Presents We were established in October 2020 in a moment of dazzling common sense and against government advice to retrain as something practical—such as an umbrella, or an exceptionally short lamp post.

Hello, friends! The Braag is a Newcastle based small press and journal. We sell amazing speculative fiction and poetry - our vibe is weird, wild and beautifully presented! You can shop our books at thebraag.co, we also run the micro-journal Carmen et Error and work with writers across the world.

My writing is all powered by spite and rage so i'm into this idea; and if anyone can teach you how to channel it it's Mark. For the uninitiated, All My Precious Madness is one of the best novels of the last coupla years, packed with splenetic vituperation. Had me howling. Check it out 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Lol it would probably be a whole lot better 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Still thinkin! Maybe time to do the doin? #stopdithering

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Spooky season is upon us & I'll be hosting the Writers' HQ annual Halloween Flash Face Off open mic event. Bring your creepiest tale of up to 300 words and take part in Madame Morte's Victorian Séance! It's Free to attend! Follow the link for more details!

Adam Barrett - The First Thirty Years EP | Broken Sleep Books Adam Barrett’s The First Thirty Years EP is a taut, propulsive collection that fuses poetic memoir with political indictment, navigating masculinity, class, and grief through the lens of North East En...

My debut pamphlet, The First Thirty Years EP, is out now. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

'Barrett writes with formal agility and emotional charge, drawing lines between private collapse and public failure without sacrificing lyrical control.'

@terryholland.bsky.social I feel like you would love this!

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Phew! Survived my third year progress review!! Celebrating with cold beer and chocolate! 🎉🎉🎉 #PhDlife

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🤣🤣🤣🤣 it’s a sure-fire recipe for disaster!!

Guys something weird is going on. @kathyhoyle.bsky.social not only has SLIDES for her workshop tonight but she's sent them to us AHEAD OF TIME. What in the worldy world world is this timeline?!

Stereotypical Tropes in Working Class Writing with Kathy Hoyle - Writers' HQ Explore working-class stereotypes and how we can subvert the traditional tropes of poverty, misery and hopeless characters and instead write rich, vibrant stories that cover the vast breadth of the wo...

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I’m running a workshop on subverting stereotypical working-class tropes over @writershq.bsky.social this Thursday (18th September) - come and join me!

The Writing as Resistance Festival starts today with a FREE creative writing workshop.

Join us for Writing Through The Apocalypse where we're going to explore why stories are important, how can we get deeper into our own writing practice to find deeper...

How I Made Literary Magazine Rejections Into a Game - Sage Tyrtle About a year ago I was at the best sushi restaurant in Toronto. It was my birthday. I was there with my family, and the unagi was so good my […]

How did I make literary magazine rejections into a game? You can read about it here, with awesome contributions from @electrarhodes.bsky.social, @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social and @aniking.bsky.social and a cameo from @lindzmcleod.bsky.social:

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Good luck!! 🍀🍀🍀

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Sent some writing subs out today -I’m a sucker for punishment!! 😜😜

Back from holidays to find these two beauties waiting for me. Thank you Northern Gravy for featuring my stories in your gorgeous anthologies. If you’d like a copy you can order here : northerngravy.com/shop/?fbclid...

Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic a book by Stu Hennigan. "When Covid struck in early 2020, librarian Stu Hennigan volunteered to deliver food parcels to vulnerable people in Leeds who were self-isolating and had no other access to food during the savage day...

152 copies of Ghost Signs sold last year and only ONE e-book. Total royalties for 2024/5, eighty three quid 😭 anyone wants to help feed my kids and pay the mortgage, both of which are killing me, you can get it from all the usual bookshops and online outlets.

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Our annual short story contest is open NOW through October 31st. Send us your best!

Find all guidelines here: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown