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.
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
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
Popular discussions
A cooperative novel? (Writing game for any number of participants)
The default setting in Q&As is "Recent". However, by clicking on "Popular", I came across this (the most popular thread ever on this forum, with 88 replies):
Writing Calendar Competitions

Granta: Non-fiction, fiction and poetry submissions window
Granta is committed to championing new voices and is open to unsolicited submissions of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Their next submissions window is 1 January until 31 January 2021.
They are...
Northern Writers Award
There are a number of available awards, which you can find listed on the Northern Writers Award site.
The winners of the 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards will be announced during the week of 21...
Penguin Michael Joseph Christmas Love Story Competition
Do you have an idea for a magical festive love story? Would you like the chance to write a bestselling novel? Well, Penguin Michael Joseph’s Christmas Love Story competition might be for you...
Spread the Word Life Writing Prize
Launched in 2016 in association with Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre, Spread the Word’s Life Writing Prize was established to celebrate and develop Life Writing in the UK. Free to enter, the Prize is open...