Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK.
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition
08.12.2025 18:23 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK.
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
07.12.2025 18:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. Submit a piece by 17 Nov and you could also be taking part!
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
06.12.2025 22:22 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK.
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition
04.12.2025 19:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Our MinK2026 Creative Writing Competition is now open! Welcoming poems, short stories and creative non-fiction on the theme of 'The Trees'
www.mklitfest.org/mink2026
#creativewriting
#poetry
#shortstories
#flashfiction
#creativenonfiction
#writingcompetition
02.12.2025 21:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK.
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition
01.12.2025 21:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Only a few days left to submit your entry to the @writersandartists.bsky.social Working Class Writers' Prize.
Deadline Monday the 1st of December! Find out more here: www.writersandartists.co.uk/competitions...
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27.11.2025 17:01 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK.
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition
27.11.2025 20:29 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We're wincing - and giggling - at memories of recent times at
Waterstones Milton Keynes as welcome back Russell Jones with his trilogy-closing Tories: The End of an Error
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social #theendofanerror #thedecadeintory
26.11.2025 19:54 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Our MinK2026 Creative Writing Competition is now open! Welcoming poems, short stories and creative non-fiction on the theme of 'The Trees'
www.mklitfest.org/mink2026
#creativewriting
#poetry
#shortstories
#flashfiction
#creativenonfiction
#writingcompetition
26.11.2025 19:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. Submit a piece by 17 Nov and you could also be taking part!
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
24.11.2025 21:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Tories: The End of an Error is the final volume in Russell Jonesβ satirical trilogy tracing 14 years of the Torygeddon circus. Join us in-person/online, 26/11 to hear more: www.mklitfest.org/endofanerror
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
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#endofanerror
23.11.2025 20:19 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
It's #NationalTreeWeek - in a city of 22 million specimens there's plenty to inspire.
Our Creative #WritingCompetition is looking for #poetry #shortstories or #creativenonfictionfiction on the theme of 'The Trees': entries open till 18 Jan 2026.
Info: www.mklitfest.org/mink2026
#creativewriting
22.11.2025 10:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...
Our August Digging in the Dirt #ecopoetry masterclass with @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social raised Β£800 for Give Peat A Chance. A special ebook of the #poems it inspired is now available for Β£2 (all profits to Give Peat A Chance).
www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...
#poetry #anthology #GivePeataChance
20.11.2025 10:51 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Only a few days left to enter the @writersandartists.bsky.social Working Class Writers' Prize! Please share.
www.writersandartists.co.uk/competitions...
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19.11.2025 15:05 β π 3 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
Tories: The End of an Error is the final volume in Russell Jonesβ satirical trilogy tracing 14 years of the Torygeddon circus. Join us in-person/online, 26/11 to hear more: www.mklitfest.org/endofanerror
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
@russincheshire.bsky.social
#endofanerror
19.11.2025 23:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. Submit a piece by 17 Nov and you could also be taking part!
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
18.11.2025 22:12 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Tories: The End of an Error is the final volume in Russell Jonesβ satirical trilogy tracing 14 years of the Torygeddon circus. Join us in-person/online, 26/11 to hear more: www.mklitfest.org/endofanerror
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
@russincheshire.bsky.social
#endofanerror
17.11.2025 21:33 β π 12 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
The Raising Voices StoryMap Launch Party | MK Lit Fest 2025
Join us in-person or online for a special end of year celebration event, as we officially launch the Raising Voices StoryMap - an interactive, online audio-visual map of poems and stories inspired by ...
Today is the last day to submit your writing if you'd like to potentially be part of our Raising Voices StoryMap launch. Send us your writing about places in #miltonkeynes.
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #CreativeNonfiction #writingcompetition
17.11.2025 09:15 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Our MinK2026 Creative Writing Competition is now open! Welcoming poems, short stories and creative non-fiction on the theme of 'The Trees'
www.mklitfest.org/mink2026
#creativewriting
#poetry
#shortstories
#flashfiction
#creativenonfiction
#writingcompetition
14.11.2025 22:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. Submit a piece by 17 Nov and you could also be taking part!
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
13.11.2025 22:21 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Tories: The End of an Error is the final volume in Russell Jonesβ satirical trilogy tracing 14 years of the Torygeddon circus. Join us in-person/online, 26/11 to hear more: www.mklitfest.org/endofanerror
@bylinetimes
@RussInCheshire #theweekintory
12.11.2025 21:12 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Driving forces behind Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Zoe Brooks and Anna Saunders read for us, along with Leo Boix, Julia Webb and Lesley Sharpe www.mklitfest.org/poetryspotli...
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@lesleysharpe.bsky.social
@zoebrooks.bsky.social
@annasaund.bsky.social
@cheltpoetfest.bsky.social
11.11.2025 17:06 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. Submit a piece by 17 Nov and you could also be taking part!
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
10.11.2025 18:42 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Driving forces behind Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Zoe Brooks and Anna Saunders read for us and more.
www.mklitfest.org/poetryspotli...
@julwe1.bsky.social
@lesleysharpe.bsky.social
@zoebrooks.bsky.social
@annasaund.bsky.social
#poetry
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07.11.2025 21:43 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 2
Visit our friends at Waterstones Milton Keynes t 4pm on Tues 25 Nov to meet #AlexanderArmstrong as he signs copies of his new book, Evenfall. Book ahead to secure a place in the queue and a copy of the book, to be collected on the day.
Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/meet-...
#miltonkeynes
05.11.2025 14:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. Submit a piece by 17 Nov and you could also be taking part!
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
04.11.2025 19:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Sigrid Nunez, one of the USAβs most esteemed authors, talks to Open University novelist Emma Claire Sweeney about the letters of Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag.
mklitfest.org/sigridnunez
#openuniversity
#creativewriting
#lettersandliterature
#sigridnunez
@emmaclairesweeney
03.11.2025 21:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Let local writers show you Central Milton Keynes from ten new angles, as they read original poems and short stories inspired by places along the way.
mklitfest.org/citylitwalk
@culturemk
#poetry
#shortstories
#miltonkeynes
#literarywalk
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