Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈

Gorgeous gorgeous book - you'll be wanting to pre-order this one!

I gave up listening to Women's Hour years ago... !

I started my PhD at age 43, finished it four years later. We never stop learning, do we?

I'd say it's not a return... because we never left. The fight goes on 💪

Highly Irregular Newsletter #39 Mar 2026 Unwritten Women Zoom writing workshop and the permission... not to.

In my March newsletter you can find out about my latest Zoom writing workshop, Unwritten Women: Filling History's Gaps, on March 19th, and in Permission Corner I'm sharing some thoughts about permission... not to publish. taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...

I can't wait either - I will be slipping in some thoughts on hybrid and cross-genre writing too! Come along to MMU, Sat April 18th, it looks like a great day and it would be lovely to meet you - www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...

I love the sound of this collection!

Prof Edith Clarke, Electrical engineer Edith Clarke was an electrical engineer who was the first woman to become a professor of electrical engineering in the USA.

Edith Clarke was the first female professor of electrical engineering in the USA. She developed a method to calculate the maximum power that a power transmission line could carry and remain stable. Read more & subscribe: adalovelaceday.subst...

Submit — Banshee Press \uD83C\uDF84 The Banshee shop is now closed for the festive season! Any orders placed will be fulfilled in January 2026 \uD83C\uDF84

Submissions for issue 22 (autumn/winter 2026) are now open until 31 March! We’re looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays ✨

bansheepress.org/submit

6 hours left to enter - go for it, I'd love to read your flash story! 300 words max, that's the only guideline: fishpublishing.com/competition/...

6 hours left to enter - go for it, I'd love to read your flash story! 300 words max, that's the only guideline: fishpublishing.com/competition/...

Out on 26th February! What can fictional representations of blocked short story writers teach us about writer’s block and what causes a writer to feel blocked? In the next episode, I’ll discuss these questions with Aaron Colton, Associate Professor at Emory University in Atlanta. Stay tuned!

New Interview of @tcboudreau by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social about Timothy's new collection, published by @StanchionZine next week!

"...flash fiction is freedom; it encourages us to play, to make something short, strange, and intense..."

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Picture collage of b&w portraits of four women and the cover of my book SISTERS IN SCIENCE

Happy paperback publication day to my second book, SISTERS IN SCIENCE! Dive into the true story of how Lise Meitner, Hedwig Kohn, Hertha Sponer, and Hildegard Stücklen fought sexism to become eminent physicists, then helped each other flee the Nazis.

#nonfiction #womenshistory

Short Works - Solstice by Rachel Dawson - BBC Sounds Three friends balance coming of age with starting a cult.

If you haven't already stumbled across Short Works on BBC Sounds, do give it a whirl. Lots of new & some established writers. Beautifully read by lyrical voices. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

@loujnicholls.bsky.social @littlebear75.bsky.social @intothehinterlands.co.uk

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Congratulations to the 3
Winners of our 2026 novella in flash award! 1st prize Victoria Melekian, runners up @bsherm36.bsky.social & @joannacampbell.bsky.social & highly commended @fionajanemack.bsky.social
@fionamckay.bsky.social & Bill
Merklee
www.bathflashfictionaward.com/category/win...

Ridiculously excited to say that we have @amalelmohtar.com with us on the 9th of April in conversation with @elizachanwrites.bsky.social! "Fairytales with teeth"? Oh we are so ready. Tickets via link below!

A poster for an event at York Literature Festival. The poster reads: Let's Get Philosophical: Writing Philosophical Fiction, Friday 6th March, 2 pm, York Medical Society, Stonegate, York. Creative writing workshop led by Rachel Handley. There is a photo of the author who has short brown hair, glasses, and is wearing a green jumper. The cover of their book, Possible Worlds and Other Stories is pictured to the right of their author photo. In the background of the poster is a photo of the York shambles on a rainy but lovely day.

Come write some philosophical fiction with me in York @yorklitfest.bsky.social!

Everyone is welcome and all you'll need to bring with you is a pen and paper.

Tickets and more event info: www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/lets-ge...

#York #CreativeWriting #PhilSky @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social

A screenshot of a page from Fish Publishing. The text says: " Flash Fiction Prize Tania Hershman Tania Hershman, judge for 2026. Summary: Open Judge: Tania Hershman Word Limit: 300 Closes: 28 Feb '26 Results: 18 April '26 Anthology Published: July '26 Entry Fees: €16 / €11 subsequent entries. (Optional Critique €45) Prizes: Top ten stories will be published in the FISH ANTHOLOGY 2026. 1st: €1,000 2nd: Online Writing Course + €300 3rd: €300" And there is a black and white headshot of Tania Hershman.

Not long left to submit your 300-word gems to Fish Flash Fiction Prize. I'm judging and I'm reading ALL the entries, so you know I'll see your story. Deadline Feb 28, send your word-shapes even if you think they might be "too weird" or "not flash enough"! fishpublishing.com/competition/...

Happy to answer 2 questions posed in today's Bookseller:

Q. Where are the 'childfree-by-choice' heroines?
A. In all my books, and many others.

Q. Can autistic writers capture emotions?
A. This doesn't really deserve any answer other than a massive eyeroll but guess what? Yes we can.

Tonight - come write with me, it's going to be slightly mad & definitely fun! Still some free places left, please use them, I'd rather have you there than have you think you can't afford it. Details here, if you can't make it live, you'll get the recording after: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Hello writers and publicists, I'm programming for The Asian Writer @ 20 Festival. If you'd like to speak on a panel, host a session, or want to pitch your book for inclusion, please get in touch!

Art Sonnet Chain, 1: Sophie Herxheimer Sophie Herxheimer is an artist and poet from south London. Her work has been shown at Tate Modern, The Museum of Liverpool, and along the sea-front at Margate. Her collections include Velkom to Ink…

We’re off on running with the fourth of our #SonnetChains. This time it’s Sophie Herxheimer and Nancy Campbell on co-editing duties. Sophie starts us off with one of her trademark works of poetic appliqué. More to come every fortnight!

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This is wonderful, thanks so much for pointing me towards it! It speaks to why I read so much fantasy and SF now.

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy I have made the leap from literary fiction to fantasy – for those who think it’s mere wish-fulfilment, here’s why we need that thing with the dragons

Yes yes yes! "Fantasy...is true to the experience of the human psyche. Specifically, it’s true to what’s wild in it that the reasonable, consensual, self-restrained daylight world doesn’t easily express, but which everyone feels." Francis Spufford @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

It really does!

📢In partnership with St Andrews University, we're looking for a 'Joseph Bell Writer in Residence at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh' to pursue a writing project drawing on our archives. Stipend of up to £15,000. Closing date 6 March 2026. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Tomorrow night, come join in the fun and leave with three new drafts and a very warm writing muscle! Free and pay-what-you-can places left, and if you're not free tomorrow you'll get the recording afterwards. I hear I'm quite entertaining when I'm recorded, too 😉 www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Coordinated universal time is OUT. No more atomic clocks. No more cesium fountain. Instead, we’re calibrating our lives to the trees. Welcome to Bristlecone Time.

Artist/philosopher Jonathon Keats unveils a horological and land art project offering an alternative time standard calibrated by trees.

A screenshot of a page from Fish Publishing. The text says: " Flash Fiction Prize Tania Hershman Tania Hershman, judge for 2026. Summary: Open Judge: Tania Hershman Word Limit: 300 Closes: 28 Feb '26 Results: 18 April '26 Anthology Published: July '26 Entry Fees: €16 / €11 subsequent entries. (Optional Critique €45) Prizes: Top ten stories will be published in the FISH ANTHOLOGY 2026. 1st: €1,000 2nd: Online Writing Course + €300 3rd: €300" And there is a black and white headshot of Tania Hershman.

Not long left to submit your 300-word gems to Fish Flash Fiction Prize. I'm judging and I'm reading ALL the entries, so you know I'll see your story. Deadline Feb 28, send your word-shapes even if you think they might be "too weird" or "not flash enough"! fishpublishing.com/competition/...