Flash Face Off: the free weekly writing challenge
Flash Face Off Prompts – Encourage vs Discourage
Join our weekly flash fiction challenge, write a story, and get feedback and critique from your lovely fellow writers!
Flash Face Off Prompts – Forwards vs Backwards
Join our weekly flash fiction challenge, write a story, and get feedback and critique from your lovely fellow writers!
Flash Face Off Prompts – Wet vs Dry
Join our weekly flash fiction challenge, write a story, and get feedback and critique from your lovely fellow writers!
Toots and highlights
November 2025 Toot Your Flute
Who won at writing in November? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins.
October 2025 Toot Your Flute
Who won at writing in October? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins.
September 2025 Toot Your Flute
Who won at writing in September? The VERY long list of WHQers and their writerly wins this month.
Our top five fave comps and subs for the month
5 Competitions and Submissions! December
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here’s our top five comps and subs for December 2025.
5 Competitions and Submissions! November
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here’s our top five comps and subs for November 2025.
5 Competitions and Submissions! October
Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here’s our top five comps and subs for October 2025.
Essays and blogs and pep and interesting writing-based things
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
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.