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Billie Collins has been chosen for the Little Chick Emerging Writers Scheme - an opportunity for early-career writers to develop their TV screenwriting with BAFTA & Emmy award winning writer Abi Morgan and Sue Gibbs, Head of Development at Heyday Television UK.
Congrats!
For the milestone 50th episode of Gregory Kearns’ podcast, The Poems We Made Along the Way, he speaks to Carl Phillips about the eroticism of line breaks, developing titles of poems, and poetry as a place to explore uncertainty.
Opening today - the DIRT Plantable Poetry Competition, an opportunity to publish a collaborative Earth-positive pamphlet! Submissions close on the 14th of June.
After our afternoon with Hachette in Sheffield yesterday, all lines lead to York today for a Squad classic, Ten Things Every Story Needs with Mark Catley.
A free workshop next Wednesday in Hartlepool with Theodore Forcer!
If you’re in the capital this Sunday afternoon, swim into Fish Island Books while Francesca Pigeon of Dilettantes shares her favourite reads and some of her own most recent music www.writingsquad.com/event/off-th...
Congratulations to Kym Deyn, whose collection 'Folkish' has been named by the Poetry Book Society as a Summer Recommendation for 2026.
Libby Maeve's debut short story, Sticky, out now, Squad writers featuring in And Other Poems, and a bumper anthology by Hive Young Writer's Network
All lines lead to Leeds and a mic stand today for our Stand Up comedy workshop with Squad writer Charlotte Cropper.
"What makes the Writing Squad so special is having 50% of our Board made up of Squad grads"... Welcoming Tayiba Sulaiman, Rory Thorp and Beth Westbrook to the Board and OnBoard Experience! Learn more about them here
