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Craft Chat Poetry anthology submission
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Dan Faulkner
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Thought for the Day Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about ...
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Sedayne
Pamela Jo
Craft Chat Climate Fiction?
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Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day Always make the audience suffer ...
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Thought for the Day You don't have to hold onto the pain to ...
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Aethalope
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Event Writers Huddle June 13th- 5.00pm UK time — Sat 13 Jun
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anaximander
Pamela Jo
Dandelion Break Shock! Audiences want original stories
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Paul Whybrow
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Hannah Faoileán
One Perfect Sentence The Marvellous May Results. Plus an excellent Prize!
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Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day When we were small children, we all ...
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Paul Whybrow
Pamela Jo
Craft Chat Thread for Interesting competitions
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Craft Chat First Chapter comp-Jun28
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Paul Whybrow
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Paul Whybrow
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Event Writers Huddle June 6th- 5.00pm UK time — Sat 6 Jun
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Paul Whybrow
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Service Update You Have A New Menu…
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Pamela Jo
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Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are ...
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Paul Whybrow
Paul Whybrow
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Fanfare! Huddle South Wednesday June 3rd - 8.00am UK time (BST)
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Jonny
Please Comment: Interesting 30 minutes of radio about class and the publishing industry.
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Thought for the Day “It’s when you have friends that you can afford to be ...
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Paul Whybrow
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Paul Whybrow
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Paul Whybrow
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Paul Whybrow
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Fanfare! Join Our Weekly Huddle May 30th - 5.00pm UK time
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Thought for the Day The idea that audiobooks don’t “count” angers me — as a reader ...
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Sedayne
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Fanfare! Writers' Huddle May 23rd - 5.00pm UK time
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Paul Whybrow
Sedayne
Fanfare! Essay accepted by Indirect Books for publication in Virginia Woolf anthology.
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Jonny
Paul Whybrow
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Paul Whybrow
Highwayman
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Highwayman
Sarit
Self-Publishing Cover Reveal for "The 12 Coins"
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Aethalope
Craft Chat Write Club South - Cover Story
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Paul Whybrow
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Paul Whybrow
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Pamela Jo
Dandelion Break Children's Publishing has changed
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RK Wallis
Paul Whybrow
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Paul Whybrow
anaximander
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RK Wallis
RK Wallis
BrianY
Help Please! Proposal Question v2
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BrianY
Paul Whybrow
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Pamela Jo
Aethalope
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Pamela Jo
Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day "The trick is to be grateful when your ...
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Paul Whybrow
AgentPete
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Fanfare! Weekly Writers' Huddle May 16th - 5.00pm UK time
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Paul Whybrow
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Paul Whybrow
BrianY
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Pamela Jo
Craft Chat Essay on whyAI makes you dumber
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Event The Weekly Writers’ Huddle – May 16th – 5.00pm UK time
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RK Wallis
Craft Chat A discussion on voice
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Sedayne
Paul Whybrow
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Claire G
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Stephen Giles
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Craft Chat List of Writing Competitions Poetry, FF Storie, Novels and nonfiction
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News All About Blogging…
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Pamela Jo
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Paul Whybrow
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Pamela Jo
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