AI capabilities - a threat to the future of art and culture?

WORRIED ABOUT AI?
I thought I would ask AI to help me create a post about how I'm mentally preparing for another round of querying...

It is our pleasure to announce the winners of the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025!!

A huge thank you to our wonderful team of readers & the judges María Fernanda Ampuero and Shome Dasgupta

Read the winning entries: oxfordflashfictionprize.com/2025-winners/

I might have to add this to my Spotify library! I love a good podcast, I spend my life with my eyes on a book or my ears glued to a podcast :)

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#WednesdayNetflix
#Horror
#DarkComedy
#HorrorComedy
#SpookyVibes
#darkfiction
#ghoststories

And thank you to the wonderful @philippaeast.bsky.social for your insightful feedback on my first two chapters. Really useful and encouraging. Your session on the psychology of characters rocked 🤘 BTW👍

Hi Nylaa. Thank you. Were you there on Saturday? I didn't manage to speak with everyone. It was really useful and encouraging. I just need to think about how to implement the changes Philippa suggested. How about you?

Kelly Jackson winning the First 500 prize for debut novel Through Despair at Leeds Writing Festival 2025

Mock up book cover: Through Despair - Some art moves you. Some never lets you go.

Still buzzing after a wonderful Saturday at the #leedswritingfestival when 'Through Despair' won the 'First 500' comp. First prize a one-to-one with Laura Williams @greeneandheaton.bsky.social 🎊🥳
Keep writing - keep swinging! #writing thebookhatch.com/kjackson/

Whitby Lit Fest - Inspired by and Celebrating Whitby Whitby Lit Fest launches November 2025. Inspired by and celebrating Whitby's literary history, and heralding the region's emerging writers.

NEW Literature Event this year! Introducing The Whitby Literature Festival. 6th - 9th Nov. Guests include the great Sir Alan Ayckburn, Lee Child and many more. whitbylitfest.org.uk

Writers up North - join me at 'Writers of the North' in September. We need more events like this north of the border. See you there, writers! #writers #writing leedswritingfestival.co.uk

I felt the need to share this beautiful simile. Enjoying this read. @anareyeswriter.bsky.social #ReadingCommunity

Just finished 'The House of Ashes' by
Irish author Stuart Neville. A beautifully bleak tale with enchanting prose, 'said she.' #booksky

Deepfake makes Elon Musk and Keanu Reeves debate AI — and internet buys it 'Will a machine ever know what it feels like to miss something,' says Reeves

I was sucked in by the deep fake Reeves V Musk TV interview. Keanu's (alleged) words still resonate with people who feel the threat of AI.
“Creativity does not arise from calculation but from experience, pain, love, and hope. ”

Fake or not, it is bang on and I love it.

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Bluesky Is Amazing For Writers Another Place To Build Your Empire

My first post on BlueSky. Thank you @viam.bsky.social for the nudge with your Medium article (Below) Hope to meet other writers here :) medium.com/behind-the-w...