Jacci Gooding
Founder South Warwickshire Literary Festival, writer, reader, fun-lover and optimist. That'll do donkey, that'll do.
- Woohoo! Chuffed to bits to have been longlisted in the @newwritersuk.bsky.social Historical Flash Fiction Competition. Really made my day! Congratulations to everyone else - what a clever bunch we are! Watch out 2026 - here we come! #authors #writers #writingcompetition
- Just got my hooves on a copy of #theapprovalofsheep by writer friend and colleague, @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social and really looking forward to getting stuck in! Who’s reading what this December?
- So many to choose from! Zoom meet-ups I mean! This morning I’ll be hitching up with the @societyofauthors.bsky.social #Oxford branch for a two hour writing session. I can feel the focus and support already! Here’s to the next 1000 words.. #writingcommunity #authors #writers
- Beautiful day in #hampshire yesterday, and this fantastic #autumn display fed the imagination. Look at those colours! Back at the desk now, tippity-tapping away. Half way through! Yeah! How are you getting on? Drop me a note in the comments 👍🏻⭐️ #writers #writing #writingcommunity #words #novel
- Just an average day in the #library Why work on my novel when I can chat with Whateverhisnameis ?! #writingcommunity #authors
- Received my copy of #brokenground from @uncertainstories.com recently and it’s packed with great writing. I love this full story on a postcard. It really is brilliant - perfect 1 minute read for this time of year with a creepy supernatural edge! Dim the lights, sit back & draw back the veil…
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- Reposted by Jacci GoodingThree weeks to go!
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingHi there - a little late to the party - it's beens so busy! But a huge Thank You to everyone who came to the festival, worked the festival, volunteered at the festival It was an absolute blast! @gwynethbox.bsky.social @pageturning.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social
- Hahahaha! Thought I’d send myself a few emails just for lols. Got to have that PMA haven’t we, #authors & #writers!
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingI'm not sure which came first, the artistic or the literary vignette, but here we have a photographic vignette of Watson, the writer’s cat, asleep on top of the antique writing desk I inherited from my mother. #writingcommunity #caturday
- Just started this and loving it. Perfect for thenightsaredrawingin reading!
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingSubmissions to the current @presshenshaw.bsky.social quarterly #shortstory competition close in four days!
- Yep - I'm all over this one! Actually am. Time to get writing! #writers #writingcommunity #authors #shortstories #shortstory Thank you @thefictiondesk.com No excuses!
- Just spent a lovely hour+ with amazing and inspiring author @sophiehannah.bsky.social & #poet Nic Arbury @ #LeamingtonSpa #library courtesy of Warks Libraries talking all things Lambert (if you know, you know!) and hearing some of Nic’s stupendous poetry. #author #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
- Deadline 31st August fellow #writers Plenty of time. (heard that before) #writingcommunity @shortstorycomps.bsky.social
- The Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025 is now open! One story. 1,000 words. One shot at glory. This year, we’re going big: one annual competition to celebrate the best in flash fiction. Enter now! 👉 oxfordflashfictionprize.com #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #OxfordFlashFictionPrize
- Love it! Oh the things we could but mustn’t write… that list surely is endless!
- Oh! One of my #favourite things! My little ol’ rucksack stuffed with my trusty laptop on our way to a quiet #writing spot somewhere. Will I get to the end of the chapter? Will it all make sense? Twitching to start #editing but NO! I must wait until the end.How’s your writing going #writingcommunity?
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingHi Readers! We’ve been away doing Stuff, most recently the @writingwestmids.bsky.social conference which of course was excellent. Here’s a snap of what you missed! @leenanorms.bsky.social @riotcommons.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social @gwynethbox.bsky.social #authors #writingcommunity #books 📚📝
- Some interesting #books here methinks! Not all mine I hasten to add. Quite alarming really, seeing your #reading material on display like this! Who has what on their shelves? (you should see the other shelf not in this picture!)🤣 #writers #reading #books #libraries #writingcommunity #writing
- A great @societyofauthors.bsky.social event last night organised by #author @franhill123.bsky.social talking local #literary festivals Reading from my notes it’s good to see how far @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social has come so quickly The team must be doing something right! @gwynethbox.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingHello There #writers ICYMI only 3 days left to our #deadline #fiction #poetry #creativenonfiction and #flash A big #thankyou to everyone who has entered so far - we're loving your work! Special thanks to the CNF #authors many of whom have shared some beautiful stories with us 🧡✍️📖 #writingcommunity
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingThis flash fiction piece by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social plays with the Final Girl trope in a really compelling and new way: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/02/27/s... #FlashFiction #FlashLit #Writing #Writer #WritingCommunity
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingJust under a week left to enter the @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social writing competition. I'm looking forward to reading all the #poetry entries :-) Fiction, CNF & Flash categories, too. Full details & guidelines on the #SWLitFest website: www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com #writingcommunity
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingGood Morning from the #UK! Who’s reading what today? We’re in for some unseasonally good weather this w/e so will you #read or will you #write?! Hmmmm! #writingcommunity #authors #poets
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingGood morning evening wherever you are in #theworld A few weeks left to enter our #writingcompetition #writers! #fiction #flash #poetry and #creativenonfiction Pls help us reach 300 entries & support our little #litfest - we’re nearly there! 🙏✒️
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingNorthern Gravy have published some wonderful work over the last few years-all available in their brand new anthologies! Delighted to have a story in both the fiction and the children and young readers anthologies! Pre-order here! 👇👇👇 northerngravy.substack.com/p/pre-order-...
- Spent last night in fevered #editing mode for a comp I thought closed in March. Turned out it was midnight last night. Managed to get it done though - quite liked the pressure tbh! Anyone else love a #deadline? #writingcommunity #authors #fiction
- Pinch punch #writingcommunity ! 28 days to go… @shortstorycomps.bsky.social
- Good luck with it - will like to see the end result 👍🏻
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingHi #writingcommunity Thank you for all the re-posts about our #writingcompetition. Makes a huge difference especially as this landscape is relatively new and we’re still looking for some of our previous followers from youknowwhere 😜 #authors #poets #writers 🙏
- That’s fantastic Caroline! Congratulations! @gwynethbox.bsky.social @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingI heard someone talking on the radio this morning about leaving #dog hair out for #birds to use in their nests *If pets have been treated with certain flea treatments, this could kill the chicks* Now seems a good time to repost this article 👇 #neonicotinods www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Thank you @societyofauthors.bsky.social #westmidlands branch for the opportunity to host a meeting for our members talking about #literaryfestivals and how to create one. Looking forward to it! @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social @franhill123.bsky.social @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingThe Global Online Stanza - online poetry discussion twice a month. (Stanza run in association with @poetrysociety.bsky.social) Check website: globalonlinestanza.com Email to be added to mailing list: globalonlinestanza@gmail.com #GlobalOnlineStanza #Poetry #Poems #Stanza #WritingGroup #Writing
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingThanks go to #stratford observer #newspaper for highlighting our #writingcompetition. Every post helps! They’re not on here yet but hopefully our message will get through! 😄 @stratforduponavon.bsky.social @magicalley.bsky.social @stratforddc.bsky.social 🙏🤗
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingGabriel Byrne reads "Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tn2...
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingAbsolutely. Positivity grows and grows and grows…😄
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- Reposted by Jacci GoodingGood evening #writers Just a little post to let you know our #writingcompetition is open ✒️ #flash #poetry #creativenonfiction and good ol’ #fiction 📑 Let’s see your work! Details on the website 👍🏻 @simonwhaley.bsky.social @gwynethbox.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social
- Hey! Good news to see @franhill123.bsky.social 's new book getting some airplay! #writingcommunity #books #sequel #writers Congrats Fran!
- You know that thing where a sequel is as good if not better than the first book? Home Bird is just brilliant and I absolutely loved it - read my full review below! @franhill123.bsky.social #BookSky bookaholicbex.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/h...
- And good luck with it! Sounds fascinating. Lots of research to do I bet (my favourite bit!)
- The view from Bleak House, Broadstairs, Dickens' favourite holiday home, rented in the 1850s & where he finished David Copperfield - the novel I'm working on is set here in 1857 when a servant girl is hired to go undercover and discovers the private life of a very public man 🎩 #broadstairs #dickens
- Good morning Blueskyers. Damp and foggy here in the #WestMidlands but halfway through #January already! Who’s doing what today? Good stuff?
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingA really informative and interesting evening , thank you so much!
- This is looking good #authors! #creativenonfiction #poetry #fiction #flash So much to choose from! £75 top prize thank you very much! @gwynethbox.bsky.social @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social @franhill123.bsky.social #authorcommunity #writingcommunity #poets #books #reading #shortstories
- Oooh the #Poets are busy! Lots of entries from them - who'll be the first to send us some #fiction?! Subs are open! #swlitfest #writingcompetition £3.90 entry£75/£25 up for grabs @ShortStoryComps @authorgabrielle @JacciGooding @davemusson @simonwhaley.bsky.social #creativenonfiction #poetry #flash 😎
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingThe South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing competitions are now open. One for poets, one for fiction writers, one for flash fiction writers, and one for creative non-fiction writers (I'm judging that one!). More details here: www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com/competition-...
- A fine beast
- I'm a British author who writes in several genres. I've lived in Malaysia, Egypt and Indonesia. Many of my stories are influenced by my travels. I have two cats, but only Bertie makes us dread putting the Christmas tree up each year. #introduction #writers #writing #cats #catsintrees
- Yay! Here we go.....! Back in the saddle at last... @franhill123.bsky.social @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social @davemusson.bsky.social @gwynethbox.bsky.social #Leamingtonspa #Warwickshire #authors #writers #poets #fiction #poetry #creativenonfictiono #lifewriting #literaryfestival #2025
- Like Sleeping Beauty we have awoken! Like many, our Twitter twitterings have tailed off somewhat since it became X but we are alive and well here on BS and plotting our 2025 festival plus creative writing comp which goes live on Jan 13th. Glad we're here. Let's get talking!😀 @gwynethbox.bsky.social
- Thanks for the re-post!
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingDid you know? Festival Tickets on sale! Yes they are! We have some wonderful authors this year including the uber-talented Alison May who’ll be running a workshop AND giving a talk AND being on our author Q&A panel. Details on the website!
- That's not a problem! That's Sunday afternoon sorted!!
- Got six books to read to complete my Goodreads challenge 2023 and got a list a mile long. Anyone else have this problem? #amreading #Book #crimefiction #bookstoread #ReadingCommunity
- If you like nature poetry and ekphrastic poetry in particular try Beth Brooke's new work, Transformations. It's fabulous! I've done a little blog.. jaccigoodingauthor.co.uk/2023/11/27/t... @storeytellerk.bsky.social @bethbpoet.bsky.social @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social @franhill123.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingHedgehogs? Wind turbines? Short story inspiration? Option 3 we reckon. Whatever you decide, time to start thinking about entering our next writing competition, going live in January. We know! More exciting than Christmas!
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingMORNING TEAM! Here's what's coming up this week at ye olde WHQ. Links in thread 👇👇👇
- Warming up to write my review of poet Beth Brooke's most recent collection of poems 'Transformations.' No spoilers but there's some great stuff in here! Review on my website soon - hope you can make it! And in case you're wondering, that's an image of The Green Man
- That's cats for you. So demanding
- My cat’s free monthly newsletter about what goes on in my writing room is getting more attention than my short stories! 😱 I’ve given in & am allowing a GIVE AWAY. These fab cat shaped chocolates go to one lucky subscriber on 30th November!😊❤️ Subscribe link is here: karenstoreyauthor.com/subscribe
- Fancy a little prompt anyone? Got a comp to enter but running low on fuel? Try this @nivenaudrey.bsky.social @storeytellerk.bsky.social @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social @shortstorycomps.bsky.social Sea where it takes you. See what I did there?!
- The dream!!
- A typical day in my house.... #writing #HistoricalFiction
- Still a good picture though
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingNew submission opportunity with WestWord! Send us your 1000 word stories inspired by the photo! Win cash prizes and publication in the special edition in February 2024. Please share to let all your writing friends know! #flashfiction #writingcommunity #writingcompetition
- Consider it enjoyed
- Reposted by Jacci Gooding*NEW* Just uploaded a 1-minute video on how to create a Public List in Bluesky from scratch. For more, see my Bluesky How-To video playlist. FYI, here's list of KidLit Illustrators who work with PAL publishers, used in the video example.
- That's a damn fine list! #writers #authors #poets #competitions I'd tag them all but none are on here yet!
- Writers of Blue Sky, check out our writing competitions list for the best short story, poetry, flash and novel competitions around: newwriters.org.uk/writing-comp... We hope you are having a fine day. #writingcompetitions #writers #authors
- Go you! That's more than I did. But I did make some very lovely nice tasty thank you soup instead. It's full of onions and carrots and garlic and autumn. Now I'm a big fat teddy bear
- @bethbpoet.bsky.social Thank you for the book - and you are excused - it was a bit wet, wasn't it!!
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingHere we go! Delighted to be at Rugby library as the next Warwickshire Young Poet Laureate for 2024 is chosen. I bet they’ll be brilliant/amazing/insightful #poets #authors #writing #poetry
- @storeytellerk.bsky.social Great chat over coffee with Karen today, talking lit fests, anthologies and why You Know Where is so dire now. Thanks Karen!
- Reposted by Jacci GoodingStormy poem for a stormy time
- Wouldn't expect anything less Fran *sound of afternoon chocolate snaffling* It is Friday after all
- Yes yes yes yes yes!! Got a copy after many years of not! This is it readers, this is the future!! That damned wip is gonna get finished! This desk aint big enough for the both of us...
