Thanks to the generous sponsors for my stair climb challenge, I have free spots for low-income writers on all my upcoming #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses.
Details about the courses: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/courses-work...
Sign up to the "lottery": docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Details about the courses: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/courses-work...
Sign up to the "lottery": docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Thanks to the generous sponsors for my stair climb challenge, I have free spots for low-income writers on all my upcoming #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses.
Details about the courses: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/courses-work...
Sign up to the "lottery": docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Details about the courses: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/courses-work...
Sign up to the "lottery": docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A wonderful thing. Today is the FIVE YEAR anniversary of my first ever #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb course. Can't quite believe it's been that long. So, so grateful to everyone who has taken one of the courses since then. There have been A LOT of you. Today I'm starting course number FORTY!!!!
January 11, 2026 at 11:32 AM
A wonderful thing. Today is the FIVE YEAR anniversary of my first ever #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb course. Can't quite believe it's been that long. So, so grateful to everyone who has taken one of the courses since then. There have been A LOT of you. Today I'm starting course number FORTY!!!!
Want to write with me in August? My #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb "Colourful Characters" course is open for bookings.
Online. Work-at-your-own-pace. Pay-what-you-can pricing.
Body Language | Senses | Voices | Perspective
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...
Online. Work-at-your-own-pace. Pay-what-you-can pricing.
Body Language | Senses | Voices | Perspective
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...
May 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Want to write with me in August? My #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb "Colourful Characters" course is open for bookings.
Online. Work-at-your-own-pace. Pay-what-you-can pricing.
Body Language | Senses | Voices | Perspective
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...
Online. Work-at-your-own-pace. Pay-what-you-can pricing.
Body Language | Senses | Voices | Perspective
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...
Ooh! Ooh! Just realised I've now taught 30 of my WBTL courses!
THIRTY!
Also, three hundred (and one!) writers have now taken part, so I'm celebrating two big milestones.
Thank you to everyone who has put their trust in me over the past four years ❤️
THIRTY!
Also, three hundred (and one!) writers have now taken part, so I'm celebrating two big milestones.
Thank you to everyone who has put their trust in me over the past four years ❤️
November 18, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Ooh! Ooh! Just realised I've now taught 30 of my WBTL courses!
THIRTY!
Also, three hundred (and one!) writers have now taken part, so I'm celebrating two big milestones.
Thank you to everyone who has put their trust in me over the past four years ❤️
THIRTY!
Also, three hundred (and one!) writers have now taken part, so I'm celebrating two big milestones.
Thank you to everyone who has put their trust in me over the past four years ❤️
"The hotel is beside the sea, and somehow Kate does not associate bats with the water. Pictures dark moors instead"
Wonderful to see this fantastic #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story from @fionamckay.bsky.social out in the world.
Wonderful to see this fantastic #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story from @fionamckay.bsky.social out in the world.
Thank you to @trashcatlit.bsky.social for publishing this piece to round off the year ❤️
Happy New Year, everyone!
Happy New Year, everyone!
Mammals
Fiona McKay It gets dark earlier in Italy, and Kate feels a cognitive dissonance: going out for dinner on a warm evening, the sun already long gone. They walk back to the hotel, John catching her h…
trashcatlit.com
January 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"The hotel is beside the sea, and somehow Kate does not associate bats with the water. Pictures dark moors instead"
Wonderful to see this fantastic #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story from @fionamckay.bsky.social out in the world.
Wonderful to see this fantastic #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story from @fionamckay.bsky.social out in the world.
Just updated my wall of #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb stories (www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-stories) & marvelling at the 17 #WBTL pieces published by @natflashfictionday.bsky.social in the last few years from @yallaalia.bsky.social @karenc.bsky.social @tomljanovic.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social...
WBTL Stories | MattKendrick.co.uk
Portfolio of stories that started life on one of Matt Kendrick's Write Beyond The Lightbulb courses
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
June 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Just updated my wall of #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb stories (www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-stories) & marvelling at the 17 #WBTL pieces published by @natflashfictionday.bsky.social in the last few years from @yallaalia.bsky.social @karenc.bsky.social @tomljanovic.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social...
Think I've caught up with everyone's lovely messages. Apologies if I've missed anyone - my brain resembles mush today 🤪.
So grateful to those who've sponsored me. If anyone else would like to do so, here's my Just Giving page - any amount is greatly appreciated 🙏
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
So grateful to those who've sponsored me. If anyone else would like to do so, here's my Just Giving page - any amount is greatly appreciated 🙏
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
May 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Think I've caught up with everyone's lovely messages. Apologies if I've missed anyone - my brain resembles mush today 🤪.
So grateful to those who've sponsored me. If anyone else would like to do so, here's my Just Giving page - any amount is greatly appreciated 🙏
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
So grateful to those who've sponsored me. If anyone else would like to do so, here's my Just Giving page - any amount is greatly appreciated 🙏
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
@mattkendrick.bsky.social completed an amazing challenge to raise funds for course bursaries and the charity Anno’s Africa. Donate if you can!!
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Help raise £1034 to fund free places on my #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses and support the work of Anno's Africa – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to fund free places on my #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses and support the work of Anno's Africa. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
www.justgiving.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
@mattkendrick.bsky.social completed an amazing challenge to raise funds for course bursaries and the charity Anno’s Africa. Donate if you can!!
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world. Congrats, Malina!
This story was written during Matt Kendrick's course Go with the Flow. Now it's found the perfect home. Thanks to Matt for an excellent course where my imagination could run wild!
@mattkendrick.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/hurling-pell...
@mattkendrick.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/hurling-pell...
Hurling Pellets into the Pond to Feed the Eels, Lucille Reflects on the Inevitability of Loneliness
by Malina Douglas
and the likelihood of finding someone who loathes eels far outweighs someone who doesn’t—such squirmy things, her mother says, why don’t you get a cat? but her mother cannot sit sti...
www.nightshadesmag.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world. Congrats, Malina!
"We are strangers, connected by the peace of this tiny city square, the surprise of the afternoon sun"
A brilliant piece by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social that builds from beginning to end so well.
Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world.
A brilliant piece by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social that builds from beginning to end so well.
Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world.
Read "The World Goes Round" written by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and illustrated by Kaylan Stedman Friedman.
"A ball is in his hands, blue as innocence, round as the world."
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"A ball is in his hands, blue as innocence, round as the world."
tinyurl.com/y6x4zdj8
The World Goes Round — Ghost Parachute
We are among the autumn roses. Autumn roses and sycamore trees. We are strangers, connected by the peace of this tiny city square, the surprise of the afternoon sun. On the path to the square, stands ...
tinyurl.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"We are strangers, connected by the peace of this tiny city square, the surprise of the afternoon sun"
A brilliant piece by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social that builds from beginning to end so well.
Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world.
A brilliant piece by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social that builds from beginning to end so well.
Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world.
Just been updating my wall of #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb stories - now 115 brilliant pieces that started life on one of my courses. If I've missed anything, please let me know. Amazed at all the superstar writers I get to write with on a regular basis 🤩
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-stories
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-stories
WBTL Stories | MattKendrick.co.uk
Portfolio of stories that started life on one of Matt Kendrick's Write Beyond The Lightbulb courses
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Just been updating my wall of #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb stories - now 115 brilliant pieces that started life on one of my courses. If I've missed anything, please let me know. Amazed at all the superstar writers I get to write with on a regular basis 🤩
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-stories
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-stories
Wonderful list piece from @orli-bee.bsky.social
Always brilliant to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
Always brilliant to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
so thrilled to share this cnf piece that’s just been published in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social 🥹 i wrote it in @mattkendrick.bsky.social’s Glorious Words course. with Matt’s feedback, it was by far the least daunting editing process i’ve ever experienced! 😎
turningleafjournal.com/2025/12/15/o...
turningleafjournal.com/2025/12/15/o...
“Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday Party,” Orli Baumgart
Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday PartyBy Orli Baumgart A jumble of jackets and bags strewn about my friend’s bedroom near the entryway. A staircase that stretches up to the main floor wit…
turningleafjournal.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Wonderful list piece from @orli-bee.bsky.social
Always brilliant to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
Always brilliant to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
I'm so grateful that my slightly-better-than-expected health has allowed me to keep teaching my #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses. For anyone who'd like to write with me, the next one I've got scheduled is "Go With The Flow" in May: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-go-with...
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February 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I'm so grateful that my slightly-better-than-expected health has allowed me to keep teaching my #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses. For anyone who'd like to write with me, the next one I've got scheduled is "Go With The Flow" in May: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-go-with...
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"Feel Jane’s hands on a chain; Jack’s hands are on Jane.
Hear Jane’s breath a refrain to Jack huffing in strain."
Great use of rhyme and motif in this micro from @tomljanovic.bsky.social. Wonderful to see this #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
Hear Jane’s breath a refrain to Jack huffing in strain."
Great use of rhyme and motif in this micro from @tomljanovic.bsky.social. Wonderful to see this #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
Ready for a ribald poem to set the party in motion? Well put your keys in the basket and let’s read “Septuagenarian Swing Set” by @tomljanovic.bsky.social. It’s in our 98th edition. Check over your shoulder and click this link!
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/septuag...
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/septuag...
July 31, 2026 at 10:22 AM
"Feel Jane’s hands on a chain; Jack’s hands are on Jane.
Hear Jane’s breath a refrain to Jack huffing in strain."
Great use of rhyme and motif in this micro from @tomljanovic.bsky.social. Wonderful to see this #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
Hear Jane’s breath a refrain to Jack huffing in strain."
Great use of rhyme and motif in this micro from @tomljanovic.bsky.social. Wonderful to see this #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
Matt's courses are sublime, @mattkendrick.bsky.social look what I wrote on #Writebeyondthelightbulb
"Ye need tae git the pan roastin to scald fish skin, crisp it up"
Wonderful mastery of tone and flow in this richly creative story from @joycebingham.bsky.social
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
Wonderful mastery of tone and flow in this richly creative story from @joycebingham.bsky.social
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
Thrilled that my story, 'He casts his line' has won second place in the WestWord prize 2025. With special thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social, for his encouragement when I wrote the beginings of this story on one of his wonderful courses. open.substack.com/pub/westword...
July 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Matt's courses are sublime, @mattkendrick.bsky.social look what I wrote on #Writebeyondthelightbulb
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb #flashfiction out in the world - "driving through rain and wind, wine still wet on her lips, she smiles at the road jumbled with broken branches, garbage can lids, cheeseburger wrappers, orange peels" - great piece by @tcboudreau.bsky.social
Grateful to appear in @fivesouth.bsky.social w/"Hurricane Penelope," which was born in a @mattkendrick.bsky.social workshop. I hope you'll give it a read! 🧡
https://www.fivesouth.net/post/hurricane-penelope-by-timothy-boudreau
https://www.fivesouth.net/post/hurricane-penelope-by-timothy-boudreau
Hurricane Penelope by Timothy Boudreau
“It’s not coming anywhere near us; we’re too far north,” Penelope’s kids call to tell her. But driving through rain and wind, wine still wet on her lips, she smiles at the road jumbled with ...
www.fivesouth.net
September 26, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb #flashfiction out in the world - "driving through rain and wind, wine still wet on her lips, she smiles at the road jumbled with broken branches, garbage can lids, cheeseburger wrappers, orange peels" - great piece by @tcboudreau.bsky.social
Four years ago today, I was setting out on my first ever #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb course with an intrepid group of writers. Who was there with me?
Tomorrow, I'm teaching course THIRTY-ONE!!!
AND, even though I thought I might have to stop the courses after Feb, a SMALL announcement...
Tomorrow, I'm teaching course THIRTY-ONE!!!
AND, even though I thought I might have to stop the courses after Feb, a SMALL announcement...
January 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Four years ago today, I was setting out on my first ever #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb course with an intrepid group of writers. Who was there with me?
Tomorrow, I'm teaching course THIRTY-ONE!!!
AND, even though I thought I might have to stop the courses after Feb, a SMALL announcement...
Tomorrow, I'm teaching course THIRTY-ONE!!!
AND, even though I thought I might have to stop the courses after Feb, a SMALL announcement...
"When my mother called his name, he turned grey as gravel, or neon green as the plastic sea grass she’d purchased to jazz up the tank"
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world. This one from @bsherm36.bsky.social is a brilliant extended metaphor - give it a read!
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world. This one from @bsherm36.bsky.social is a brilliant extended metaphor - give it a read!
So happy to see my story, "My Father was a Cuttlefish" in dream journal, Gone Lawn's Cold Moon issue. Thanks to @owenwyke.bsky.social @amygcb.bsky.social and @mattkendrick.bsky.social whose WBTL course is where it originated. gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 58 : Beth Sherman
gonelawn.net
December 18, 2024 at 11:08 AM
"When my mother called his name, he turned grey as gravel, or neon green as the plastic sea grass she’d purchased to jazz up the tank"
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world. This one from @bsherm36.bsky.social is a brilliant extended metaphor - give it a read!
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world. This one from @bsherm36.bsky.social is a brilliant extended metaphor - give it a read!
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world. Love what you've done with this one.
April 23, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world. Love what you've done with this one.
Having a rubbish health day today, but it would definitely make me feel better to get a few more sign-ups for my 2024 courses. 😃
#WritingCourse #WritingCraft #FlashFiction
All the details and links to book below.
Very grateful for reposts and general spreading of the word 🙏
#WritingCourse #WritingCraft #FlashFiction
All the details and links to book below.
Very grateful for reposts and general spreading of the word 🙏
Write Beyond The Lightbulb 2024
I’m excited to announce my schedule of #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb courses for 2024. While my illness struggles are very much continuing, I’ve decided that busy-ill is better than listless/mopey-ill ...
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com
October 27, 2023 at 2:10 PM
Having a rubbish health day today, but it would definitely make me feel better to get a few more sign-ups for my 2024 courses. 😃
#WritingCourse #WritingCraft #FlashFiction
All the details and links to book below.
Very grateful for reposts and general spreading of the word 🙏
#WritingCourse #WritingCraft #FlashFiction
All the details and links to book below.
Very grateful for reposts and general spreading of the word 🙏
"I wasn’t remotely prepared for Oliver to rebel full bore and fast. I was a stupid mother, so trusting, so optimistic"
Great piece from @angelajoynes.bsky.social
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world 🤩
Great piece from @angelajoynes.bsky.social
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world 🤩
“Dying to See Oliver” was born in @mattkendrick.bsky.social GO WITH THE FLOW writing course, a stream of consciousness exercise. Thanks Matt!! rawlit.weebly.com/9_8.html
9_8
“ We are always running out of time… ”
rawlit.weebly.com
July 5, 2026 at 8:42 AM
"I wasn’t remotely prepared for Oliver to rebel full bore and fast. I was a stupid mother, so trusting, so optimistic"
Great piece from @angelajoynes.bsky.social
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world 🤩
Great piece from @angelajoynes.bsky.social
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world 🤩
"Tattooed forearms flexing, he ploughs through the pebbles and onto the tarmac before anyone can stop him"
A piece full of brilliant details from @yallaalia.bsky.social. Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world!
A piece full of brilliant details from @yallaalia.bsky.social. Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world!
“Tonight is fish and chips on the beach, serenaded by the whizz-bang ka-ching from the amusement arcade.” Read my piece “Feeding Time” in the latest @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social
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thewoolfx.com/feeding-time...
Feeding Time by Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch | The Woolf
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thewoolfx.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"Tattooed forearms flexing, he ploughs through the pebbles and onto the tarmac before anyone can stop him"
A piece full of brilliant details from @yallaalia.bsky.social. Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world!
A piece full of brilliant details from @yallaalia.bsky.social. Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb story out in the world!
"Jazz was a supernova, shimmering darkly at the edges with
something flammable and spectacular"
Wonderful evocation of character and a real richness of imagery in this #FlashFiction from @cake-girl.bsky.social
Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
something flammable and spectacular"
Wonderful evocation of character and a real richness of imagery in this #FlashFiction from @cake-girl.bsky.social
Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
Super excited to have a flash in Issue III of Blue Daisies Journal! This one was drafted during the Glorious Words course taught by @mattkendrick.bsky.social 💗
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Matt Kendrick (@mattkendrick.bsky.social)
Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsle...
mattkendrick.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
"Jazz was a supernova, shimmering darkly at the edges with
something flammable and spectacular"
Wonderful evocation of character and a real richness of imagery in this #FlashFiction from @cake-girl.bsky.social
Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
something flammable and spectacular"
Wonderful evocation of character and a real richness of imagery in this #FlashFiction from @cake-girl.bsky.social
Always great to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world - this is great - thank you so much for flagging it!
May 20, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Always wonderful to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world - this is great - thank you so much for flagging it!
Who wants to come and write with me in January?
Only TWO place left on my #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb "Colourful Characters" course.
Will be a wonderful way to start 2024!
#FlashFiction #WritingCourse #WritingCraft #AmWriting
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...
Only TWO place left on my #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb "Colourful Characters" course.
Will be a wonderful way to start 2024!
#FlashFiction #WritingCourse #WritingCraft #AmWriting
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...
November 25, 2023 at 2:49 PM
Who wants to come and write with me in January?
Only TWO place left on my #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb "Colourful Characters" course.
Will be a wonderful way to start 2024!
#FlashFiction #WritingCourse #WritingCraft #AmWriting
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...
Only TWO place left on my #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb "Colourful Characters" course.
Will be a wonderful way to start 2024!
#FlashFiction #WritingCourse #WritingCraft #AmWriting
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...