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Accessible Submissions for All: An Interview with Chill Subs

Industry insights from the coolest submissions manager in town: Chill Subs

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Accessible Submissions For All: An Interview With Creative Future

As part of our Accessible Submissions For All campaign we’ve been interviewing literary journal editors and writing competition administrators to see the different ways fair,…

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Editing Humanity: Writing A Better Future

The stories we tell are failing us. It's time to up our game.

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If Women Wrote About Their Bodies The Way Men Write About Women’s Bodies

Lads. Lads. LADS. You know what we’re talking about. And yeah, #NotAllMen yada yada yada, but #YesSomeMen. Some published men. Some men who seem to…

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A Pocket Guide to Resistance Writing from a Place of Privilege

In a time when headlines of injustice are more constant than ever, there is simply no shortage of social issues to resist through your writing.…

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Where Are The Working Class Writers?

I read my first Roald Dahl book, The BFG, to my daughter at the age of twenty-seven. Although I was a keen reader from the…

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A writer’s place is in the resistance

I came here to drink my milk and overthrow the capitalist patriarchal hegemony. And I've nearly finished my milk.

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On Anger and How to Write Through It

There is no path to change that doesn’t come through some form of anger. Despite its taboo perception as a ‘negative’ emotion, anger is a…

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A Writers’ HQ Manifesto On Bad Language

At Writers' HQ, we often get angry messages telling us that we can't possibly be 'real' writers, or that we must not be very clever, because we swear, use slang and text speak, use bad grammar, and love puns. We've thought very long about this issue and have come to this conclusion:

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New Beginnings: Creative Women and the Curse of Silence

Recently, I’ve been waking up with this feeling in my gut. “I’m done,” I say to myself. “I’m done. I’m finished. I’m over it.” I…

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Why You Must Keep Writing Even When The World Is Crumbling Around You

Writing and telling stories is more important than ever. We can't allow the distractions of politics to let us forget ourselves.

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7 tips for writing fiction about mental health

You wanna write about mental health but also not be a dick while doing it? Step right in, have we got the guide for you...

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Reading Trans Writers: A Primer

In a nutshell: we have a dearth of traditionally published fiction from trans authors in the UK, so here’s a reading list of books that are both affordable and available.

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Revolutionary Books for People who #Resist

Whilst pulling together some platitudes to introduce this rather self-explanatory list, I Googled “synonyms for ‘up the shitter’”...

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My Favourite Novel Apocalypse: Trump and Brexit Edition

Well. End of Times, eh? I mean, we were all braced for it sometime between 2050 and 2080, what with climate change, Skynet and the oncoming zombies, but hey ho, 2016 it is. So in honour of humanity’s rapid descent into crazy land, here are the finest apocalyptic novels, as chosen by you.

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🎄The Writers' HQ Christmas hamper is HERE! Order by 15th December for Xmas delivery 🎄

Accessible Submissions for All: An Interview with Chill Subs

Accessible Submissions For All: An Interview With Creative Future

Editing Humanity: Writing A Better Future

If Women Wrote About Their Bodies The Way Men Write About Women’s Bodies

A Pocket Guide to Resistance Writing from a Place of Privilege

Where Are The Working Class Writers?

A writer’s place is in the resistance

On Anger and How to Write Through It

A Writers’ HQ Manifesto On Bad Language

New Beginnings: Creative Women and the Curse of Silence

Why You Must Keep Writing Even When The World Is Crumbling Around You

7 tips for writing fiction about mental health

Reading Trans Writers: A Primer

Revolutionary Books for People who #Resist

My Favourite Novel Apocalypse: Trump and Brexit Edition

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misc others

We’re all over your gorram internet

JOIN US FOR THE WRITERS' HQ WRITING ADVENT OF INSPIRATIONAL AWESOMENESS 2023

Gift a free Writers' HQ membership

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🎄The Writers' HQ Christmas hamper is HERE! Order by 15th December for Xmas delivery 🎄

Accessible Submissions for All: An Interview with Chill Subs

Accessible Submissions For All: An Interview With Creative Future

Editing Humanity: Writing A Better Future

If Women Wrote About Their Bodies The Way Men Write About Women’s Bodies

A Pocket Guide to Resistance Writing from a Place of Privilege

Where Are The Working Class Writers?

A writer’s place is in the resistance

On Anger and How to Write Through It

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

New Beginnings: Creative Women and the Curse of Silence

Why You Must Keep Writing Even When The World Is Crumbling Around You

7 tips for writing fiction about mental health

Reading Trans Writers: A Primer

Revolutionary Books for People who #Resist

My Favourite Novel Apocalypse: Trump and Brexit Edition

bits n bobs

misc others

We’re all over your gorram internet

JOIN US FOR THE WRITERS' HQ WRITING ADVENT OF INSPIRATIONAL AWESOMENESS 2023

Gift a free Writers' HQ membership

Gift a free Writers' HQ membership!

A Writers’ HQ Manifesto On Bad Language