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Sobbed almost from the first scene in #Hamnet absolutely stunning, standout performances, a love letter to why the arts matter more than ever.

So I had this mad idea and now it’s a real life thing. So proud and excited. If you like art and you write poetry or short stories or non-fiction, please take a look and share. Thank you so much ifwisheswerehorses.org

My very clever friend Bert Wander has started this substack open.substack.com/pub/bertwand...

Despair, Denial… or something else?

The future depends on what we believe is possible now

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Parenting is really just saying ‚it’s just a phase‘ every day until you die isn’t it

At that stage of editing where I’m just writing THIS IS AWFUL on every other page

So chuffed to find this in this weeks @thebookseller.com @louisekenward.bsky.social

Off on the train to London for a day’s editing course @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social by @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social although I can’t work out if I’m more excited about the solo night in a hotel without children or the course itself… all in all very exciting

Spent a brilliant few hours at #glue book fair at the Institute for Contemporary Art today. So inspired. In that blissful place where I’ve got a million good ideas in my head and some energy to actually do them. Anyone want to start a publishing house with me?

Thinking of starting an onlyfans website but for cats. Onlycats. Lana would earn big bucks I reckon. We could sell her furballs and things she brings in to the house

Something has shifted. I’m setting up a new thing, working with artists and writers and musicians I love. I’m self publishing the novel I’ve had in my head for six years. I’m just doing all the things I’ve waited years for permission from others to do. Feels terrifying, incredible. Watch this space

Honestly don’t think I’ll ever understand parents who say they are sad the summer holidays are nearly over

Finished the first draft of my new novel just in time for the solstice. The story begins and ends and begins again at a solstice party, so that feels fitting… Litha blessings to all who live under this golden sun 🌞

Oh good. the final half hour of my six and a half hour train journey will be soundtracked by the obligatory group of pissed middle-aged men who have just got on at Exeter

Absolutely jiggered after MA summer school @lancasteruni.bsky.social, first time ever spending a few days just ‚being a writer‘. One of many highlights: hearing one of my heroes @jennashworth.bsky.social reading from her forthcoming memoir the parallel path

Happy publication day to Horatio Clare and @littletollerbooks.bsky.social book review here: felinecharpentier.com/searching-fo...

Searching for the best in us

As a writer one of my biggest preoccupations is the stories we tell ourselves, the narratives we invent in order to feel good about ourselves, or at least, in order to survive. The human mind is a…

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This is like a hallucinogenic trip down memory lane coupled with an almost trippy advert for my work in progress www.instagram.com/p/DHtXBSHKCR...

Thread. It is a great honour to announce the shortlist for the 2025 #Curae prize for unpaid carers POETRY CATEGORY Mistletoe. Sam Garvan Diagnosis. Elizabeth Loudon Sinkhole. Charlotte Ansell I Love Him (like salt and water). Emma Wilson The Shop at the End of a Wave. Ia Kozoboli. thecuraeprize.uk

Overdone it like a rookie. This beautiful book is keeping me company on an enforced bed day: Time for Magic, with Jamie Reid’s artwork and the eightfold wheel of the year described luminously as ever by Philip Carr Gomm. Excellent anarchic stuff.

Please sign this, if you've got a moment. It might seem like a token gesture but it's important to make our voices heard. Trans people should be able to determine their own gender and live their lives in peace. petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

With the absolutely offensive guff coming out of the UK govt today, I just want to say that, as a cis-gender middle aged woman, if you are trans and you identify as a woman, in my eyes, you are a woman.

My hobby is having a lovely time with other people and then spending two days afterwards running over everything I said and how awful I am

Starting the Osterbrot while slightly tipsy is a good omen for the year ahead right?

Ok, I’m finally going in… @jamesbluecat.bsky.social @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social

Peak me: being disappointed I didn’t get an interview for a job, then realising I never actually applied for it

Well this place wins the prize for best bookshop name

‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women

After 'Trees' comes 'Moorland' - with work from Rowan Jaines, Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social & Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social (Wanderers, Waymakers, & Pathfinding @reaktionbooks.bsky.social) - Moving Mountains is out now in paperback & due for release in the US & Canada

Hey @theguardian.com please can we stop calling this a ‘free speech’ issue… that’s just pandering to the alt-right Christian nonsense. It’s misogynistic harassment and calling it anything else is self defeating www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK business secretary denies free speech issue featured in US tariff talks

Source reportedly says ‘no free trade without free speech’ after US bureau holds meeting with anti-abortion campaigner

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