W&A Community

The W&A Community contains a host of brilliant features: take part in discussions, join or start groups with like-minded writers, and share extracts of your work to receive objective feedback.

Community engagement also means reward points added to your profile, so expect us to be in regular contact to make you aware of exclusive discounts across W&A events, editing services, and more.

Finally, our free Writing Calendar gives you the chance to make all W&A Community members aware of a writing or publishing event you’re involved in.

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Connect with other users and benefit from the following:

  • Receive objective feedback on extracts of your work
  • Ask questions, offer insight and help others
  • Build a network of writers and/or illustrators you can call on
  • Earn discounts on events and services for regular Community interaction
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Form and join groups on W&A and benefit from the following:

  • Search for others at a similar stage of the writing process
  • Base groups around fiction/non-fiction genres you love
  • Find others inspired by particular writers, artists or creative movements
  • Start your own writing group with other members of the W&A community
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Recently started discussions

Recently shared works

The Frozen Shed
by Keenan Challinor
4th January 2025

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Unlocking Story Potential: How Writer Coaching can unlock story potential.
by Tom Harvey
2nd January 2025

The Story Industry focusses on story, plot and character.  This is both understandable and helpful. But this structural obsession has taken...

Cyberfiction
by Marc Rasskazow
28th December 2024

Virtual Paradise

 

In one of the countless skyscrapers of the...

Writing Calendar Competitions

Discoveries
Deadline -
Discoveries is the Women’s Prize’s writer development programme designed to address the specific challenges that women face as writers.
Marlowe and Christie Christmas Flash Fiction Prize
Submit a 250 word story inspired by Christmas.
Marlowe and Christie Novel Prize
Deadline -
Submit the opening 3000 words of your novel. Conventionally published novelists are not eligible to enter.  First Prize £1,100 See www.marloweandchristie.com