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Katie Hale - writer

@katiescribbles.bsky.social

❄️ THE EDGE OF SOLITUDE ❄️ / WHITE GHOSTS (2023) / MY NAME IS MONSTER (2019) / Northern Writers' Award 21 & 22 / Aesthetica Prize 23

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@silviaalexandra.bsky.social · last yr.

Currently reading this and dreaming of Antarctica (even in the depths of winter). I also don't iron the duvet.

Katie Hale - writer@katiescribbles.bsky.social · last yr.

The Edge of Solitude is out in paperback today!!! 💫 Penguin the cat says you should grab your copy now, and hold on tight to this hot (ice-cold) commodity! ❄️ (I know, we don’t iron our duvet covers. Life’s too short when there are books to be written & read.) www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-...

A black and white cat hugging a copy of The Edge of Solitude in paperback
Canongate@canongate.co.uk · last yr.

Set in a time of acute climate crisis, The Edge of Solitude is a powerful story about the collision of ambition and principle and its devastating repercussions, set aboard a lone vessel bound south 'Beautifully written and exquisitely tense' C.J. COOKE 'A masterwork of vision and power' MANDA SCOTT

a paperback copy of The Edge of Solitude by Katie Hale, floating on top of a stack of books against a grey background
Mslexia@mslexia.bsky.social · last yr.

'It’s an important reminder that quality and integrity remain unmistakably human. In an era of machine-made content, those values are more crucial than ever.' 👇 #writers #amwriting #writingcommunity

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · last yr.

An AI-related definition of the word ’slop’ has entered the Cambridge Dictionary for the first time, ’reflecting growing concerns about increasing amounts of low-quality content created by AI’ 👇 #BookSky

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · last yr.

🚨 Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data) • about 350,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,010,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,590,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,150,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between May and August by looking at the decadal average line positions.
Katie Hale - writer@katiescribbles.bsky.social · last yr.

I had the loveliest day on Saturday, cosplaying as a bookseller for the afternoon at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social, to celebrate #IndieBookshopWeek! Chatted to some lovely people about my book, and met an excellent dog called Pretzel.

Sam Read Bookseller@samreadbookseller.bsky.social · last yr.

We thoroughly enjoyed training up Cumbrian novelist and poet @katiescribbles.bsky.social as an #IndieBookshopWeek guest bookseller today. She's left us some recommended reads which we'll share in the week, and some early signed copies of the paper of her brilliant 2nd novel #TheEdgeOfSolitude.

Katie, a white woman with long brown hair wearing a denim jacket, leans on the window of Sam Read, smiling, and holding a paperback book 'the edge of solitude'. The window is full of colourful new hardbacks, with rainbows, raindrops and a smiling sun hanging above them.
Katie Hale - writer@katiescribbles.bsky.social · last yr.

What’s that, you say? An online book launch? AND a quiz?? With prizes??? And pictures of penguins???? On 2nd July, help me send the paperback of The Edge of Solitude out into the world! (And maybe win a copy, too…?) Proceeds to @antarcticheritage.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-edge-o...

The Edge of Solitude: book launch & polar quiz!

Love books? Fascinated by Antarctica? Just think penguins are cute? If the answer to any of these is YES! then this event is for you!

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Polly Atkin@pollyrowena.bsky.social · last yr.

Inspired by the behind-the-scenes photos @katiescribbles.bsky.social took of me taking photos of the newly arrived paperback of her brilliant novel #TheEdgeOfSolitude, I've written my 1st blog post in an era or two. pollyatkin.com/2025/06/01/o...

On books in the landscape

Some time in the mid twenty-teens, when twitter was still twitter, and still a place to make connections and jokes, my partner Will stepped out of the bookshop where he had been working part-time f…

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Katie Hale - writer@katiescribbles.bsky.social · last yr.

I've been reading a lot of poems lately. Like, a lot a lot. Reading them, and judging them. Here are some of my findings on what makes a poem more likely to be discarded - and some red flag words that could be indicators of deeper problems within a poem. halekatie.substack.com/p/3-words-th...

3 words that could be red flags for your poems

I’ve been sifting for a major poetry prize. Here are 3 words that often appear in poems that don’t make it to the shortlist.

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Katie Hale - writer@katiescribbles.bsky.social · last yr.

Good morning from the writing desk! What’s everyone working on this week? ✍️ I’m hoping to make some notes for poems (poems! back to my first love!) and then planning to give some much-needed love and attention to novel number 3.

Photo shows a notebook and pen and coffee on a blue table overlooking an overgrown garden
Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · last yr.

Fucking hell. I know nobody’s in greasy overalls for you to fetishise, Labour, but this is still an industry full of working people on marginal incomes that you are voluntarily destroying, you dumb tech-fetishising goons. You just sold us for corporate strip-mining. Up the workers.

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · last yr.

ICYMI: An amendment backed by creatives that would ensure AI models obey copyright law has been defeated in parliament as the contentious Data Bill proceeds towards its final stages 👇 #BookSky