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Eight of our favourite Flash Face Off stories. Whittled down from 9,000!
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See how The History of Love by Nicole Krauss squares up against Plotstormers and the Magical Sixteen Point Plan Of Your Dreams.
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In this Anatomy of a Story, we’re looking at Letters from the Sea, by Liana Badr, deconstructing a specific scene and asking how we can apply those lessons to our own writing.
Short fiction
Four short stories exploring borders, walls, and the human cost of othering.
Blog
Have a listen to Sarah nattering about creating a lovely online writing community and working on ‘the novel’ whilst trying to do life.
Novel writing
What happens if you take a more magical, more wild approach to drafting your novel?
Productivity
Got no time, money, energy or or confidence? Here’s what you need to do to get writing.
General
Who won at writing in March? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
Short fiction
Five brilliant short stories that make us go oooh and aaaah and weeeeeee and do that thing to our guts like *whomp*. So. Go read. Get your heart ripped out. Yeah!
General
Who won at writing in February? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
Productivity
Fitting writing in your life can be tricky, but there will never be a perfect time. So you might as well just crack on among the chaos.

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