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Becca Allen

@beccalikesbooks.bsky.social

She/her. Freelance editor & proofreader, CIEP Professional Member. Also likes cats, cake and crafting. beccaalleneditorial.co.uk

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Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 9mo ago

@sandyernestallen.bsky.social reckons with Harry Potter as a trans person: “I’d often look at that Harry Potter blockade and wonder why I was clinging to them, especially if their author thought so little of my humanity.”

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person

During the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Michael Rosen’s guide to having a happier day: listen to music, get a good night’s sleep ... and add raisins to ice-cream

Michael Rosen’s guide to having a happier day: listen to music, get a good night’s sleep ... and add raisins to ice-cream

Philip Larkin wrote that ‘days are where we live’. Even in the bleakest of times, there are things you can do to improve yours. Former children’s laureate Rosen has some suggestions …

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Saraband Books@saraband-books.bsky.social · last yr.

Following the announcement of 404 Ink's closure, we're delighted to announce that we'll be taking forward a significant portion of the Inklings series! Read more here: saraband.net/news-events #Booksky 📚💙

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · last yr.

The co-founders and publishers of 404 Ink, the reigning British Book Awards’ Small Press of the Year winner for Scotland, have exclusively revealed to us their decision to close the business as it reaches its 10th anniversary in July 2026 👇 #BookSky

Becca Allen@beccalikesbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

I felt honoured to see the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt yesterday - this article explains how important it is www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘People weep in its presence’: how the UK Aids Memorial Quilt became one of our great works of art

It began as a simple act of remembrance, dedicated to those who lost their lives to AIDS. Now this ever-growing patchwork of gravestone-sized panels has taken on new meaning as one of the most signifi...

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Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · last yr.

B. Pietras considers the works of Sylvia Townsend Warner: “They are, in short, queer historical fictions—albeit ones written before the genre had a name.”

A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

Queer historical fiction is having a moment. Acclaimed recent novels have imagined queer lives in settings as varied as Puritan New England, antebellum Mississippi, and England during the first Wor…

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The Marginalian [Unofficial]@themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy · last yr.

Introducing Marginalian Editions: Extraordinary Forgotten Books Brought Back to Life

I have become a person on the pages and in the margins of books. In nearly two decades of reckoning with my reading in writing, it has been my ongoing lamentation to see works of enduring beauty and substance perish out of print — because the ideas they conduct are not the easiest and most marketable, because amid a culture that reduces literature to a commodity and binds readers in a moral paradox they ask us to think more widely and feel more deeply. Having always believed that the most valiant way to complain is to create, I have joined… read article

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Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · last yr.

“I did not yet know the difference between English and Arabic, or how some words might become—borders, weapons, traps.” Sarah Aziza on what it means to be a Palestinian writer today.

Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

Q: What is it like to be a Palestinian writer at this time? A: Once, I had no name. I rose each day as if it were the first morning on earth. I moved sturdy and permeable, translucent with a wonder…

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Manilla Press@manillapress.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s here! Ordinary Saints, the unforgettable debut by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, is out now! Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Discoveries award and selected as a Radio 2 Book Club pick, Ordinary Saints explores grief, family, queer identity, and the lasting impact of the Catholic Church in Ireland.