Essays and blogs and pep and interesting things
Some shit. Some whimsy. Some useful things about writing.

Six Short Stories About Queer Lives
A bunch of wonderful short stories by gay, lesbian and trans/non-binary writers.

Where do story ideas come from? Plus a FREE writing exercise
Where do story ideas come from? And how do you grab hold of those raw ideas and turn them into something more… story-ish?

Why Your Writing Matters in 2025
C’mon, Team. We’ve got to keep going even through everything is insufferable bullshit. Pep pep pep.

Interview: Kaia Allen-Bevan
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.

Interview: Kathryn Vercillo
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.

Interview: Abigail Mann
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.

Weirding the Edgelands
A toolkit for writers who want to explore the interstitial, the liminal and the strange.

Eight Stories to Inspire Writing as Resistance
Funny, scary, exciting, heartfelt, satirical, fantastical, challenging and gripping stories grappling with climate justice.

How to write flash fiction about climate change
Top tips for climate change stories with impact

7 Short Stories About Summer
Eight of our favourite Flash Face Off stories. Whittled down from 9,000!

5 Competitions and Submissions! August – September
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.

8 of the Best Flash Face Off Stories of 2024 (so far)
Eight of our favourite Flash Face Off stories. Whittled down from 9,000!

Plotstormers Breakdown: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
See how The History of Love by Nicole Krauss squares up against Plotstormers and the Magical Sixteen Point Plan Of Your Dreams.

Anatomy of a Story: Letters from the Sea, by Liana Badr
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.

Four stories of walls and borders
Four short stories exploring borders, walls, and the human cost of othering.