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January 13, 2026March 3, 2026Past Events

Developing Your Craft with SBWN – On Fiction with Foday Mannah

Join us for this online craft workshop on fiction writing. Part of our Developing Your Craft programme.

January 12, 2026March 3, 2026Blog, Past Events

Developing Your Craft with SBWN – 5th-27th February

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This series focuses on thinking more deeply and deliberately about the craft techniques in your writing.

November 27, 2025September 1, 2026Blog

Author Q&A: Yasmin Hanif

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Our Q&A with author Yasmin Hanif about her children’s book Abdullah’s Bear Needs a Name!

November 26, 2025September 1, 2026Blog

Author Q&A: Michael Fellowes

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Our Q&A with author Michael Fellowes about his self-published novel Scarlet and the White.

March 24, 2022March 25, 2022On Demand

SBWN 2021 Conference – Keynote

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Watch Leila Aboulela’s brilliant keynote speech from our 2021 conference here!

November 2, 2021November 30, 2021Past Events

SBWN Networking Conference: Staying Connected – 27 November 2021

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Our annual networking conference is back – and open for registration!

September 16, 2021October 27, 2021Past Events

Settings as Characters with Lorraine Wilson – 5th October 2021

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Create environments that reflect your characters’ inner journeys and immerse the reader in a fully realised world.

August 27, 2021September 15, 2021Past Events

Masterclass: Erotica in Short Fiction with Leone Ross – 11th September 2021

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Learn to take the craft of writing erotica in fiction seriously…and begin to write sex gloriously.

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Featured Events + Opportunities

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Sandra George Exhibition Writing Workshop with Hannah Lavery - 10 July 2026

Floris Books x SBWN: Children's Book Submissions

On Demand

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Telling Tales: Tradition/Transition - a new audio series

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Creative Balance Commissions: SBWN x WAHS

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Futures and Freedom: Writing Hope in a Dystopia – Book Week Scotland 2024

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Our Time Is A Garden Series

Scottish BPOC Writers Network Survey Report 2022. Perceptions and experiences of writers of colour in Scotland's literary sector. "What are we, as a sector, doing to support and inspire current and future generations of Scottish and Scotland-based Black and POC writers?"

SBWN and EDI Scotland Publish Literary Sector Survey Results 2022

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2021 Networking Conference: Keynote - Leila Aboulela – Watch on our YouTube channel

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2021 Networking Conference: Closing Reading - Andrés N. Ordorica – Watch on our YouTube channel

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Afrofuturism: Present Realities, Possible Futures – Watch online

Anthologies

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2022 Mixtape: Writers of Colour

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2021 Mixtape: Writers of Colour

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Metaphors for a Black Future Zine

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2020 Mixtape: Writers of Colour

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