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News! Our next Story Sunday is on Oct 7th. See you there!
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Writers Unchained and in the wild
A round-up of our summer adventures – and it’s only July! Heather Child: ‘Uplit’ at Edgelit As well as an appearance at the Dark Societies dystopian book club in London, Heather was in Derby last week running a workshop and speaking on a panel at the popular sci-fi, fantasy and horror event EdgeLit 2018. …
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Submissions closed – next stop Story Sunday!
Our judging hats are well and truly on and we are haggling over who to include from a very strong entry. If you submitted you will be hearing from us soon. Meanwhile here’s a reminder of the event details.
Story Sunday – Submissions Open
Stop all the clocks! We’re having ‘A Moment In Time’ After something of a lull at WU Towers we’re delighted to be open for submissions once more for our first 2018 Story Sunday event on Sunday April 29th with the theme of A Moment in Time when around ten writers will be invited to take to the Southbank stage…
News and events update
Though we say it ourselves, our Crime Night Story Sunday went particularly well and we are grateful to all of our readers and the enthusiastic audience who made it such a friendly and entertaining evening ( pictures at the bottom of the page!) We still have to decide on next year’s programme but will keep…
A Night of Crime awaits at Story Sunday
Phew, we made it! As ever is was tres difficile to decide which stories to feature in our Story Sunday line-up but we got there in the end. We’re looking forward to some fabulous writing and reading so all we need now is you to come along and give them as big an audience as we…
Submissions closed
Thanks to all those who submitted. Participants will be announced by October 15th. You are invited to submit stories from 500 – 1500 words on the theme of Crime for our Story Sunday on October 22nd. Deadline October 1st. Check out how to do it on our submissions page.
Summer news: publishing deals for Heather and Ali
Hello fellow writers and readers and apologies for being off the scene for a while. However we have some excellent news to report and can also give you the heads-up for our next event in October, part of the annual Bristol Litfest extravaganza. First, the good news. In between all that short story action last year,…
Review – and recommendation! Story Sunday through the eyes of a first-time reader
Thanks to Suzanne McConnaghy for summing up her first experience of reading with us at Southbank on March 19th. Writers Unchained impressed me so much at the Festival of Literature, back in October 2016, that I decided I would enter their next event. They’d finally got me to see that writing a short story was…
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Another Country – nearly there!
The programme is nearly done for our next event on Sunday March 19th when ten local writers will read their interpretations of our chosen theme ‘Another Country’ The venue is Southbank Club, Dean Lane, Bedminster, Bristol BS3 1DB 7-9 pm Entry £5 on the door. We’re delighted our line-up is confirmed. Come along and hear new work from old friends and familiar…