Guest Blog: A summer of submissions

2022 was the year of putting my work out in the world. I’m a member of The Writers Workshop, a brilliant writing collective in Sheffield led by the brilliant Beverley Ward, and over the summer along with other members I committed to sending my work out into the world in a way that I never had before.

In the end, I ended up sharing my work to over 50 different places. I’m quite proud of the success I had, and also proud of the way I learnt to handle rejections, because I have had many of those.

Over on The Writer’s Workshop blog, I wrote about what I learnt, and what comes next for submitting my work. You can read my reflections here: 40 Days, 50 Subs, 25 New Poems — The Writers Workshop

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Harley E. Ryley is a memoir writer, poet & accidental novelist. She is currently studying for her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield and is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council via the White Rose College of Arts & Humanities. Her thesis will develop an innovative approach to memoir which plays with language, truth and rules, writing a meta-memoir on language-constructed selfhood. Sounds fun right?

Harley also uses her ‘proper job’ skills from her previous life as a Civil Servant to provide Business Development services to creative organisations. Check out ‘writing services’ to find out more.

Harley is a white 30-something woman with red wavy hair and wearing a white jumper. A red and blue block of flats is visible behind her.

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