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🏆Prize Announcement 🏆 The winners of the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize 2024 are: 🥇All Eyes on Me by Melanie Carvalho 🥈The Maw by Liz Allan 🥉Molly by Robyn Jefferson Huge congratulations all 👏 Read our announcement and judges' report: leicesterwrites.co.uk/2024/09/01/202…

And again ! 🙏🏽 Will stop revelling now!

This year's Leicester Writes Short Story Prize ceremony takes place online on Saturday 28th September at 4pm. Join us and raise a glass to celebrate this year's longlist. Send me a message or an email to f.shaikh at dahliapublishing.co.uk and I'll send over the Zoom link.

A lovely afternoon celebrating this year's longlist with readings and some behind the scenes insight from this year's judges. Congratulations again everyone. Those readings were incredible 👏👏👏

Leicester Writes A fabulous celebratory event! Congratulations Melanie Carvalho and all the brilliant writers who read their work 👏

Abi Hynes Leicester Writes Aw! Thank you Abi Hynes and all involved with Leicester Writes especially Farhana Shaikh 🍉 What a fabulous competition. I loved hearing the other stories - can’t wait to see them in print! And congrats on your amazing news! X

she’s here and she’s beautiful! 💜 get yours here: dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/leices…

Lovely to see 'Gigi and Me' in the Leicester Writes anthology. Thanks to Leo for helping to model 😺

Thank you Farhana Shaikh 🍉 Dahlia Books for my copy of this beautiful anthology! It was such a privilege to read and judge this year's Leicester Writes short story competition with Iqbal Hussain #NorthernBoy and Laura Coleman 💜

I'll be performing at this event in May at Leicester Guildhall Everybody'sReviewing Creative Writing at Leicester University of Leicester NAWE Writing East Midlands BBC Leicester College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Leicester Writes Literary Leicester

For the evening crowd... Join us at this year's Platform Conference for Writers of Colour. The coolest lit party in town and nourishment for the soul. Book your ticket for just £50: middlewaymentoring.co.uk/platform-confe… (Bursaries available for low income and students)

Leicester, come to this!

Registrations are now open for this year's States of Independence festival which takes place on Saturday 22nd March at dmuleicester. Join us! Book your free ticket: eventbrite.co.uk/e/states-of-in…

Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester: the brilliant Drew 🧂🔥Gummerson and his new book "Saltburn" Renard Press Read about the book and an excerpt from it here: …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2025/03/drew-g… Everybody'sReviewing Jonathan Taylor Leicester Writes Writing East Midlands Creative Writing DMU

We will be officially launching this year's prize at States and there'll be massive discounts on our previous anthologies. Come, it will be fun!

📣 With less than 10 days to go until the Platform Conference for Writers of Colour, it's time to tell you more about the programme. Before we dive in, here's the key info: 📅 Saturday 5 April ⏳️10 am - 5pm 🎭 Curve Theatre (Curve) middlewaymentoring.co.uk/platform-confe…

Laura Pearson visits Leicester Writer's Club on Thursday 10 April 7-9pm. Hybrid event: in person at Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG, online via Zoom (please contact the club via the website by 8 April). £5 for visitors. leicesterwritersclub.com/2025/03/17/lau…

60 people are coming... will you be one of them?

Some exciting news... we're back! Submit your short story by 25 July. leicesterwrites.co.uk