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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
🎉🎉🎉LET'S CELEBRATE! One of our Purple Breakfast Review writers has been published!🎉🎉🎉⠀ .⠀ Clare Stevens - who had a prose piece, 'The Longest Night', published in Issue 7 - has a book coming out! It's called 'Blue Tide Rising', and is coming out from Inspired Quill.⠀ .⠀ It's always so great to see our writers flourish! At Wordsmith_HQ, we're all about development and continual learning, and what better evidence is there than to hold a book like this in your hands? We love to shout about our writers' success! 😆⠀ .⠀ "Jay is different. You can almost feel him listening.⠀ When Amy Blue wakes to find a stranger in her bedroom, she’s not particularly alarmed. This is beautiful, calm, androgynous Jay, who listens to her story and appears to want to help, with no hidden agenda."⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #writer #writers #writingcommunity #writing #book #published #amwriting #bluetiderising #success #celebrate
3/3 pamphlets - the last (but not least) is 'adversaries/comrades' by Gail Aldwin!⠀ .⠀ This poetry pamphlet was another in response to our 'Siblings' competition last year! It explores the relationship between siblings, from the games, jokes and confusions of childhood, to the rivalries and tensions of growing up and the secrets and confidences shared between adults. Gail's writing is clever and touching, and we're so excited to share it with you all 😊⠀ .⠀ We'll be celebrating the launch of 'adversaries/comrades' on Wednesday 27 March, 7-9pm, at Books Beyond Words in Dorchester. More info at: https://buff.ly/2u5RkO6⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #writer #writers #writing #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #poet #poets #poetry #poetsofinstagram #celebrate #celebration #launch #poetrypamphlet
NEWSFLASH: @wordsmith_hq is GOING ON TOUR! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 . There’s just one week to go until I’m down @poetrycafelondon to launch this with the team! 🎉 . If you’re in #London, join us for poetry readings, performances, refreshments, signed copies and more! . With special guests Phoebe Power, Eloise Stevens and, of course, the brilliant @imperfectly_poeted! ✍🏻 . Want to come along? Last tickets available at link in bio! ☺️ . I hope you can join us! Sophie x . . . #writing #writingcommunity #writinginspiration #writingmotivation #writer #writersofinstagram #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrybooks #poetryofinstagram #poems #poetrypublication #wordsmiths #weekend #weekendvibes #weekendmood #celebration #booklaunch #books #poetrybooks #comingsoon #siblingscompetition
How do you celebrate when you reach the weekend? Will you be writing?! 😎 . Here at Wordsmith_HQ, I like to celebrate getting to the weekend by shouting about YOU and your fantastic writing (YAY!) 🙌🙌🙌 . This week, I'm shouting about two wonderful writers following our call for submissions for PBR7: 'Waiting' last year... . I received short stories from both Anson and Rachael and, although they didn't quite fit with what we were after for PBR7, they were great reads and I wanted to support them further. . So, today, as part of FRECKLED INK FRIDAY, I'm sharing not one, but both stories with you as our wonderful writing community (you deserve it for being so awesome!) ❤️ . You can check them out here: https://wordsmithhq.co.uk/freckled-ink . You can follow Rachael and connect with her as part of the Wordsmith community via her social channels, too. https://www.facebook.com/rachael.j.llewellyn https://twitter.com/FumigatedSpace . Finally, Rachael, Anson and I would welcome your thoughts on their writing today as part of Freckled Ink. . Thinking about submitting? Details of the opportunities available are here: https://wordsmithhq.co.uk/submit . Have a great weekend, Wordsmiths! Sophie x . . . #writing #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinginspiration #writingmotivation #writer #writersofinsta #writersofinstagram #writerslife #writersshowcase #shortstories #shortstoriesofinstagram #shortstory #shortstorywriter #friday #fridaymood #fridayfiction #fridayvibes #fiction #fictionfriday #freckledink #freckledinkfridays

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