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Great post on how to help Minnesota by the incomparable @naomikritzer.bsky.social: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
We're coming off 5 full days of discussions, connections, revelations, and new friends. Our first ever Wholehearted Writers Week was marvelous!
And it couldn't have been without our brilliant speakers and attendees.
Thank you, writers, for joining us.
New events and more reflections coming soon.
Can you believe it?
Wholehearted Writers Week starts on Monday! We're only a few days away from our inaugural online conference. We've got amazing speakers and a fabulous group of writers joining us.
We can't wait!
A mythical wooden door closing, its bright light disappearing. Above it, text: Wholehearted Writers Week, January 12-16, 2026. Last chance to join! Sign-ups close Friday, December 12. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
TODAY is your last chance to join us!
We've got the full schedule with all our amazing speakers, writing sprints, office hours, and more here:
wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/schedule.html
#writer #conference #newyear #writinggoals
TOMORROW, December 12, is the very last day to sign up and join us for a week absolutely stuffed with opportunities to write, learn, reflect, ask questions, and find your writing community.
Will you be there? wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/apply.html
Wholehearted Writers Week, January 12-16, 2026. Writers! Start your New Year with 5 days of: speakers writing sprints community professional advice. Sign-ups close on December 12. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com Background image of fireworks with a rainbow hue over the top, and picture of a notebook New year goals 2026 with a pen.
You've got one week left to join us for our friendly and inspiring week full of writerly awesomeness!
Find out more here: wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
Wholehearted Writers Week, January 12-16, 2026. Come as yourself. Leave as community. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com - Image is of a beautiful garden with a couch in the middle, covered in notebooks, a comfy blanket, a cup of tea and pillows.
Our sign-up period will soon be coming to a close!
If you want to join a warm, silly, welcoming and passionate group of publishing professionals and writers for a week of learning and community building, come join us!
wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
NEW YEAR WRITING GOALS: We're going to have 5 whole days of speakers, writing prompts, publishing professional office hours, community building, and more.
Sign up before December 12 for a spot - and find out all about our programming here: wholeheartedwriters.beehiiv.com/p/programmin...
If you're in the USA, you're coming up on Thanksgiving this week.
What are you thankful for in your writing life?
A supportive friend, a saucy character, a beautiful notebook, a favorite author who keeps you inspired?
Let's talk about some of those warm and fuzzy feelings!
Photo of a white woman in her forties with orange hair against an orange-white graffiti. The photo is overlapping an image of a rainbow background and an audience turning their backs on us. The banner next to the photos says "I am speaking at Wholehearted Writers Week! January 12-16, 2026"
Friends! Applications for the Wholehearted Writers Week are open until December 12!
This is an intentionally inclusive, neurodiverse and queer-led online event based on building community that welcomes writers to bring their whole selves. I hope to see you there! wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
Wholehearted Writers Week, January 12-16, 2026. Come as you are. Leave feeling inspired. Applications new open until December 12 or we reach maximum enrollment. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com. Graphic shows: Minimum enrollment, check. First ever event, go. Deadline, extended. In the background multi-colored fireworks are going off.
That's right - we've gathered a great group of writers for our week of speakers, #writer inspiration and community!
We've decided to extend our deadline until we reach our max number. Come join us!
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#conference #newyear
Like I said, I'm still reading, but these are at the tippy top of my brain going into November. I'll post more as the months pass.
And I'd also like to drop a note about one of my own stories, "Six People to Revise You," from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...
A promo graphic for the Editors Canada webinar Beyond the Gender Binary: Editing for More Inclusive Fiction with Tanya Gold and Eliot West. The graphic has two flags in the background, one trans flag and one nonbinary flag.
Want to learn more about editing fiction with nonbinary characters?
Join me and @eliotedits.bsky.social for our @editorscanada.bsky.social webinar on November 12!
webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
#AmEditing #QueerEditors #Editors 🌈📚
Happy Halloween from all of us! Wholehearted Writers Week, January 12-16, 2026. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com Image of a ghost sitting and leaning against a stack of books, while reading a book, with a book on their head. A smaller ghost is wandering in the corner, a friendly bat is flying nearby, and more tiny bats and streamers are in the background.
We hope everyone out there is having a spookily delightful Halloween!
Hey #writers, what is your ideal reader reaction to your work? What do you want them to think, feel, learn, discover?
And is that for one single piece, or all of your writing?
Just over two weeks left (!!!) to get your applications in for our first ever Wholehearted Writers Week.
Come bring your whole self to write, learn, and build community just in time to kick off the new year. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
Meet our speakers... and creators! Wholehearted Writers Week, January 12-16, 2026. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com There are four headshots of Eliot West, Alex Crawley, Laura Burge, and Beth Wright in front of a swirl of rainbow light. They're labeled as editors and writing coaches. "Let's talk about revision and next steps!"
The creators behind Wholehearted Writers Week, @eliotedits.bsky.social, @eacrawley.bsky.social, @literarylaura.bsky.social and Beth Wright will be speaking about some of the spookiest parts of #writing:
How do you revise and what happens when the draft is done?
wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
Way to go, Nerys' bodyguard!
Hux holds a laptop up to their face. The screen reads: To all the autistic authors who came before and helped me find the words, and to all my autistic readers still searching for their own. Also, this one's for me too. Well done, kid. Hux wears a white knitted cardigan, green glasses and black headphones over their light brown hair.
Just finishing up proof reading Reality Check today and thought it might be a good time to share the dedication.
It’s also the last day you can get Reality Check for twenty five percenties less than usual at big @waterstones.bsky.social with their OCTOBER25 dealio.
Hey, friends new and old!
This seems like a good time to let you know about / remind you of my editor starter packs, and for you to let me know if you'd like to be in one of 'em.
There are two general editor starter packs. Here's the first:
go.bsky.app/2kVHe2i
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Text says: Wholehearted Writers Week January 12-16, 2026 You belong at a writers week if you: Are a writer; Want to be a writer; Secretly like to write; Dabble a bit; Write because it brings you joy; Haven’t finished ‘that’ project. No one else gets to say you’re not a real writer. Not even the mean gremlins in your head. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com The background is yellow with diffuse rainbow light. Next to the comment about gremlins, there is one cartoon of a grumpy purple blob gremlin with two buck teeth and sprouts of green hair. There's also an excited green gremlin with horns, glasses, and spit inside its open mouth with its arms up.
So many people who love to write, who want to learn more, who want to quietly share their excitements and frustrations - just don't.
They think they don't qualify as a #writer. But no one gets to determine that but you.
What 'rules' about #writing have you found to be... less than true?
Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.
The paperback cover for Reality Check by Lizzie Huxley-Jones which shows two women in bridal dresses, facing forward but smirking at each other. One is tall blonde and fat, and the other is small and ginger haired. The background is a bisexual fade with confetti and film camera patterns.
Tadaa, here’s the cover for my next romcom, Reality Check out April 9th (and available to preorder now!)
On reality tv, what’s behind the scenes will always filter through. It’s f/f, lovers to enemies to lovers, chaotic nonsense with hot disabled babes. 👰🏼♀️💓📚🎥✨
A sly brown is in the tunnel of her cat tree, front paws crossed and chewing on impromptu cat tree floss. She's looking at the camera and sees into your soul.
Is it really Monday again? Okay, time for some more cuteness...
Millie here is looking fierce as she navigates the twists and turns of helping us create an inclusive writers conference.
#writers #conference #cats #behindthescenes
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The text on an abstract purple background reads: Clarion West logo with "2026 Novel Writing Workshop" Apply now through November 13, 2025 2026 Instructor Karen Lord with image of the author. March 9-November 23, 2026 Virtual Workshop
Applications are now open for the 2026 Novel Writing Workshop with @drkarenlord.bsky.social!
Read more & apply before November 13! Link in bio.
#novelwritingworkshop #clarionwest
www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
$50 off through tomorrow (October 12)!
Laugh & think & write in community, with guidance & information from 4 professional editors & 8 extremely smart, kind writers, for 5 days this January!
Online, inclusive, full of heart.
wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
It's not too late to support and participate in #BannedBooksWeek!
Watch this terrific interview with the Banned Books Week honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social & consider going to your indie bookstore to pick up a few banned books.
Hey #writers, what does “success” as a writer look like to you?
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Are you going to #take10toread today? Organised by the National Literacy Trust which is encouraging us all to take 10 minutes at 10 o’clock on the 10th to stop the world for a moment and just pick up a good book. I’m in! #booksky