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Flash Face Off: the free weekly writing challenge
Flash Face Off Prompts – Spectre vs Rector
Join our weekly flash fiction challenge, write a story, and get feedback and critique from your lovely fellow writers!
Flash Face Off Prompts – Grow vs Shrink
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Flash Face Off Prompts – Same vs Different
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Toots and highlights
February 2026 Toot Your Flute
Who won at writing in January? The monthly list of WHQers and their writerly wins.
January 2026 Toot Your Flute
Who won at writing in January? The monthly list of WHQers and their writerly wins.
December 2025 Toot Your Flute
Who won at writing in December? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins.
Our top five fave comps and subs for the month
5 Competitions and Submissions! March
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here’s our top five comps and subs for February 2026.
5 Competitions and Submissions! February
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here’s our top five comps and subs for February 2026.
5 Competitions and Submissions! January
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here’s our top five comps and subs for January 2026.
Essays and blogs and pep and interesting writing-based things
How To Find Time To Write When Everything Is Chaos And You’re Too Busy To Breathe
We’ve got a shocking secret to tell you about how you can find time to write. Warning: existential crisis inside.
No, we’re not using AI thanks 🤖
In which Sarah is accused of using AI and explains yet another reason why Writers’ HQ is against using thinking machines for creating art.
Writing In The Stars: Lessons on Conflict from the Star Trek Universe
An extremely niche blog about what the Star Trek utopia can teach us about how to handle conflict, and why New Trek gets it so
The 2026 Writers’ HQ Programme sneak preview
There is A LOT coming up in 2026 and here is a sneaky peaky preview before we launch the whole shebang. It’s a full year
Writers’ Survival Guide: Keep Writing Over The Summer Holidays
How to keep writing over the summer holidays: a whole load of incredible writers tell us their secrets
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
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
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