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Join our weekly flash fiction challenge, write a story, and get feedback and critique from your lovely fellow writers!
C'mon, Team. We've got to keep going even through everything is insufferable bullshit. Pep pep pep.
Join our weekly flash fiction challenge, write a story, and get feedback and critique from your lovely fellow writers!
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here's our top five comps and subs for January 2025. 
Who won at writing in December? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here's our top five comps and subs for December 2024. 
Who won at writing in November? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
Writing is not always as simple as sitting down with a paper and pen. Writer Kaia Allen-Bevan tells us about escaping racial stereotypes in the search for a meaningful creative practice.
Writing is not always as simple as sitting down with a paper and pen. Novelist Abigail Mann tells us about the challenges of writing around the strains of motherhood and childcare.
Writing is not always as simple as sitting down with a paper and pen. Writer Kathryn Vercillo talks to us about managing a creative life alongside recurring mental health struggles.
Who won at writing in October? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here's our top five comps and subs for November 2024. 
Who won at writing in August? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
A toolkit for writers who want to explore the interstitial, the liminal and the strange.
Funny, scary, exciting, heartfelt, satirical, fantastical, challenging and gripping stories grappling with climate justice.
Top tips for climate change stories with impact
Join our weekly flash fiction challenge, write a story, and get feedback and critique from your lovely fellow writers!
Who won at writing in August? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here's our top five comps and subs for September - October 2024. 
Eight of our favourite Flash Face Off stories. Whittled down from 9,000!
Who won at writing in July? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
Overwhelmed by places to send your work? We've filtered through e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g for you and to bring you our top five competitions and submissions for August and September 2024. 
Who won at writing in June? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
Eight of our favourite Flash Face Off stories. Whittled down from 9,000!

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