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Develop Your Craft, Realise your Potential.

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We are an online, creative platform here to support you on your writing journey. With a real focus on life-long learning and professional development related to your writing practice, we’re here to help you develop your craft and realise your potential.

Through publication and showcasing, online workshops, and key tools and resources, we provide you with an immersive experience and the interactive support that you need to strengthen your portfolio, build your confidence, and share your writing widely within and beyond our unique Wordsmith community.

Wordsmith_HQ is representative of you, written in honesty and driven by passion.

everyone is welcome.

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publish with us

Submit for the chance to be published in print in our unique, creative writing journal, The Purple Breakfast Review, or showcase your work online in our brand-new webzine, Freckled Ink.

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Workshops and support

We support individual writers and school groups through a wide-range of submission calls, competitions professional development services and bespoke workshops, both online and offline.

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the writer’s nook

With hints and tips, ‘how-to’ posts and writing exercises, The Writer’s Nook is our online blog and the new home for our key resources and articles that are designed for you to read in your own time.

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“A big thank you to Sophie and her team for helping me pull the final strands of my first novel together. [They] offered me an honest, impartial appraisal and constructive solutions for resolving my outstanding concerns. They rallied me to keep going, encouraged me not to overbend to the views of others (including their own), but to have the confidence to stay true to my own voice and my original concept.”
— Kathryn Adams
“It has been a real thrill to have my poem accepted for publication in The Purple Breakfast Review!”
— Shirley Coughlin
“It’s always a positive experience working with the Wordsmith team!”
— Sarah Hindmarsh
Did you know that it's #WorldCopyrightDay? ✍️ . Because of this, I wanted to ask you what you know or have learnt about Copyright while on your writing journey? . Do you have questions about Copyright that you'd like answering? . Or do you have suggestions for other writers in our community relating to Copyright? . If so, I'd love to hear from you. Simply share your questions or suggestions in the comments below. ❤️ . To highlight the significance of Copyright to us as writers and publishers, I want to tell you about two organisations that are on-hand to support you in areas connecting to your work and others' use of it... . 1) ALCS_UK (Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society) supports writers' creativity and rights by helping you to access money owed to you for secondary uses of your work: https://www.alcs.co.uk/ . 2) The Society of Authors advises and supports individual writers, illustrators and literary translators. Speaking up for the profession, we've reached out to them thanks to the lovely Gail Aldwin to talk contracts and ensure these were fair to all involved! . Their website features blog posts about Copyright, too! . If you've not heard of one or either of these before, why not check them out and see if and how they might be of use to you... . And remember to share your questions or suggestions here, too! 🙂 . Sophie and Wordsmith_HQ team x . . . #WorldCopyrightDay #CopyrightforAuthors #protectyourwork #writing #writingtips #writingcommunity #writers #tipsforwriters #writingmotivation #publishing #publishers #publishingtips #copyright #writersofinstagram #publishersofinstagram #knowyourrights #writingjourney #publishingjourney #intellectualproperty #creativework #creatives #supportforyou
RG: @fit_endo_warrior with this today... HAPPY EARTH DAY! 🌎 . Do you write to make a change? . Is your writing inspired by key, topical issues? . If so, you might like to know a little more about the latest competition that we're shouting about courtesy of our lovely friend and published Wordsmith writer @isabellekenyonpoetry and @flyonthewall_poetry! 😍 . Isabelle's poem, Tick Tock, on the topic of Brexit, was published in PBR7 on the theme of 'Waiting' back in Feb. . Now, she's turned her hand to this very special anthology that will combine 'beautiful photography of endangered species, delicate ecosystems' and 'poetry designed to increase public awareness of the complex issues surrounding climate change' - what a fantastic idea! 👏🏻 . There are only 6 days left to submit your writing and photographs to this competition, so we're calling on all Wordsmith writers and creatives who might be interested to submit today! 🎉 . https://www.flyonthewallpoetry.co.uk/planet-in-peril DEADLINE: 28th April 2019 . Best of luck everyone! Sophie and the team x . . . #EarthDay #happyearthday #happyeaster #easterweekend #bankholidayweekend #bankholidaymonday #writers #writingcommunity #writingcompetition #writinginspiration #writingprompts #writingmotivation #poetry #poetrycommunity #PoetryCompetition #PlanetinPeril #climatechange #environment #ecosystem #ourplanet #poetsofinstagram
What are you up to this Easter weekend? 🐣 . We’re celebrating because, just like that: . • Wordsmith is SIX! 🎂 • PBR8 submissions are now closed. • We’ve two new pieces live on Freckled Ink, • Plus, the sun is shining and it’s a LONG weekend! ☀️🐰🎉 . If you’re after something to read this weekend while eating ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE 🍫, Georgia and Liam explore travel in Berlin and important topics of self and identity as they share their writing with us as part of our online zine and showcase: https://wordsmithhq.co.uk/freckled-ink (Link in bio). . How are you spending your extra days off this weekend? . However you’re spending them, have a good one and HAPPY EASTER from me and the Wordsmith team! ☺️🎉 . Sophie x . . . #happybirthday #happybirthdaytous #celebrations #sixyearsold #april #easter #easterweekend #longweekend #bankholiday #bankholidayweekend #freckledink #newwriting #sunsout #submissions #submissionsclosed #pbr8 #writing #writingcommunity #writers #writersofinstagram #creativewriting #creativebiz #poetry #poems #saturdayvibes #weekendvibes
Today's big news is twofold!⠀ .⠀ There are only two days left until submissions close for the 8th issue of The Purple Breakfast Review, themed around 'Nightmares and Daydreams'. We've had so many amazing submissions thus far, but there's still time until we close our gates at 11pm on Friday 19th! Get your writing in!⠀ .⠀ Go to our website (link in bio) and to our 'Submit' page to find out more.⠀ .⠀ Also... IT'S OUR 6TH BIRTHDAY! 🎉 🎁 🎂From beginning as a humble poetry blog, to becoming a writing and publishing platform as The Student Wordsmith, and now to the full package as Wordsmith_HQ! It's been a wonderful journey!⠀ .⠀ However, we're keeping the celebrations a little quiet today, as we've got some exciting plans in the pipeline - more on that later this month!⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #writing #amwriting #submissions #writer #poet #poetry #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #creative #creativity #birthday #celebrate #nightmare #nightmares #daydream #daydreams #PBR

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