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THE WRITERS' HQ FIVE DAYS OF FLASH CHALLENGE

This flash-flinging five-day writing challenge will give you the inspiration, prompts and tools to write five fantastic pieces of short fiction and hone your flashy skills.

Starts Monday 7 February 2022

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Thoroughly excellent course. A guided tour of the first draft you thought you knew, with myriad exercises to ensure you end up knowing it better. Help to recognise its strengths, and strategies to deal with its weaknesses. Advice, support, and plain good sense. A variety of approaches, to suit different kinds of writers. By the end of the course, I was raring to go, and what’s more, I knew what I had to do to make my draft into the best book it could be.

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Writers’ HQ is run by Sarah and Jo and a badass team of hand-baked writers who believe that all stories – your stories – are important and need to be told.

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A Writers’ HQ Manifesto On Bad Language

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The Writers' HQ Five Days of Flash Challenge starts Monday 7 February 2022. And it's FREE! Get deets here >>

Get
writing

Keep
writing

Tell your story

We’re writers too.
We understand how it works.

Get help from
writers who get it

Got Questions?

More resources than you can shake a writing stick at

What To Write When There’s Nothing To Write

Writing Horror – What Are You Afraid Of?

Flash Face Off – 15th January

A Writers’ HQ Manifesto On Bad Language

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The Writers' HQ Five Days of Flash Challenge starts Monday 7 February 2022. And it's FREE! Get deets here >>

Get writing

Keep writing

Tell your story

We’re writers too. We understand how it works.

Get help from writers who get it

Got Questions?

More resources than you can shake a writing stick at

What To Write When There’s Nothing To Write

Writing Horror – What Are You Afraid Of?

Flash Face Off – 15th January

**A Writers’ HQ Manifesto On Bad Language**

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A Writers’ HQ Manifesto On Bad Language