Writing query - can you help? With an overarching theme of chronic illness/disability in nature/place writing I'm looking at national prizes e.g. Wainwright as examples of bias/representation in the pub industry for my PhD. What has been said/written on diversity? #NatureWriting

as a single puzling data point, it's still extraordinary to me that Noreen Masud didn't get any major awards for A Flat Place

There was a piece on the problematic ‘nature cure’ by @nicwilson.bsky.social in The Bookseller. www.thebookseller.com/comment/trus...

The Salt Path scandal: questions raised about the veracity of memoir

The Salt Path scandal shows how problematic "the nature cure" narrative can be.

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Writing query - can you help? With an overarching theme of chronic illness/disability in nature/place writing I'm looking at national prizes e.g. Wainwright as examples of bias/representation in the pub industry for my PhD. What has been said/written on diversity? #NatureWriting

Live from Crossed Wires Festival, Sheffield, today - @helenmort.bsky.social on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. From the fairytale ‘wicked queen’ to the put-upon parent of the modern blended family. Helen talks to Anita Rani about writing her new collection, Stepmother. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Woman's Hour - Woman's Hour live from the Crossed Wires Podcast Festival in Sheffield - BBC Sounds

Anita Rani and Nuala McGovern from the Montgomery Theatre in front of a live audience.

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A piece I wrote for the @isrfoundation.bsky.social blog series on the current state of HE. In it I reflect on ableism and a sector running on exhaustion. Based on research with @alisonallam.bsky.social and @equihealthfutures.bsky.social Illustrations by @stacybias.bsky.social

Independent Social Research Foundation@isrfoundation.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What is the human impact of the current crisis in UK higher education? Bethan Evans draws from the experiences of academics with energy limiting conditions to show how universities function as an 'exhaustion economy' Check out the latest from our Dispatches series

Looking forward to this!

Nine Arches Press@ninearchespress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us for our next Triple Online Launch with #poetry by Daniel Sluman, Dillon Jaxx @jaxxi.bsky.social & Shagufta K Iqbal. TUESDAY 14 JULY 7-8pm BST Join us to celebrate these new books. Recording link also sent to ticket-holders. Pay what you can: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

From our friends at @solveme.bsky.social! Take action today by submitting a comment and contacting Congress. Thanks to Solve M.E. for organizing this response on this critical issue.

Solve M.E.@solveme.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/ A proposed federal rule could let the government cancel active ME/CFS research mid-study when political priorities change. The public comment window closes July 13. Here's what you can do 🧵

"Creativity and chronic illness" from Chronic Living Therapy @chronicliving123.bsky.social chroniclivingtherapy.com/creativity-c... Screenshot from AMMES May 2026 Newsletter #chronicillness #MEcfs #LongCovid @anilvanderzee.bsky.social @drjogreer.bsky.social @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social

David Cooper, has a new book out this autumn! Reading Place Writing: Geography, Form, Immersion, 2010–2020 will be published on 11th September. English Association Monographs: English at the Interface. #BookSky @livunipress.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Reading Place Writing | Home

David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is the founding co-director of the Centre for Place Writing.

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These works are being developed through Creative and Heartfelt Tactics, a residency programme exploring art practice as activism, led by myself and Caroline Cardus.⁠ ⁠ ⁠Join us for a joyful, subversive evening of performance by disabled artists.⁠ whatson.chisenhaledancespace.co.uk/events/chise...

This week I wrote about illness, art, the Romney Marshes and Fay Godwin. Part of my PhD research - beachcombing the rising tide. On how ongoing illness can influence and impact on creative practice. #NatureWriting

Louise Kenward@louisekenward.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I have a new essay up at @unibirmingham.bsky.social Arts of Place site. 'Art of the Marsh' considers how creative practice changes through illness. Here I visit the beach at Pett and sit on the bench dedicated to Fay Godwin. #FayGodwin more.bham.ac.uk/artsofplace/...

Beautiful piece: "I am curious about how illness can affect writers and artists, beyond the immediacy of our bodies and levels of functioning. I’m wondering about how it impacts on creative process and practice."

Louise Kenward@louisekenward.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I have a new essay up at @unibirmingham.bsky.social Arts of Place site. 'Art of the Marsh' considers how creative practice changes through illness. Here I visit the beach at Pett and sit on the bench dedicated to Fay Godwin. #FayGodwin more.bham.ac.uk/artsofplace/...

Terrifying. And who will be subpoenaed when this goes wrong and someone dies from a medical error made by AI? These executives are going to find themselves on the pointed end of some mega lawsuits in the future.

Eedeedee@edyieeiyde.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pharmaceutical companies are already replacing teams of medical writers with Claude bc Claude can review a massive amt of data from drug trials in hours that would take humans months to review and validate. Now pharma can roll out new drugs faster and not pay a pesky salary and benefits to people.🙄

This week I wrote about illness, art, the Romney Marshes and Fay Godwin. Part of my PhD research - beachcombing the rising tide. On how ongoing illness can influence and impact on creative practice. #NatureWriting

Louise Kenward@louisekenward.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I have a new essay up at @unibirmingham.bsky.social Arts of Place site. 'Art of the Marsh' considers how creative practice changes through illness. Here I visit the beach at Pett and sit on the bench dedicated to Fay Godwin. #FayGodwin more.bham.ac.uk/artsofplace/...

I bring together my experience of the menopause with ME in this piece for @the-polyphony.bsky.social. Many thanks to @alyfixit.bsky.social for supporting this work. #pwME #menopause #cyanotype #writing thepolyphony.org/2026/05/29/c...

‘Mrs Average of the UK’ Makes Something of Her Menopause

Arlene Jackson’s reflective cyanotype prints allow the sun’s rays to transform a body dehumanised by sexist medical disbelief into ‘something extraordinary’.

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I have a new essay up at @unibirmingham.bsky.social Arts of Place site. 'Art of the Marsh' considers how creative practice changes through illness. Here I visit the beach at Pett and sit on the bench dedicated to Fay Godwin. #FayGodwin more.bham.ac.uk/artsofplace/...

'One of society’s great collective denials is of disability and chronic illness. It is the one marginalised group we are all likely to join at one time or another during our lives.'

Louise Kenward@louisekenward.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I have a new essay up at @unibirmingham.bsky.social Arts of Place site. 'Art of the Marsh' considers how creative practice changes through illness. Here I visit the beach at Pett and sit on the bench dedicated to Fay Godwin. #FayGodwin more.bham.ac.uk/artsofplace/...

I have a new essay up at @unibirmingham.bsky.social Arts of Place site. 'Art of the Marsh' considers how creative practice changes through illness. Here I visit the beach at Pett and sit on the bench dedicated to Fay Godwin. #FayGodwin more.bham.ac.uk/artsofplace/...

🗓️ TOMORROW at 7pm we will be livestreaming with feminist cultural historian Dr Elinor Cleghorn!! 💙📚 In convo about her acclaimed book 'Unwell Women', medical misogyny & more... 🎙️Recording & transcript will be available. All our previous podcasts are on Spotify, Apple & YouTube.

Another year has passed and another ME Awareness Day/Week/Month is needed - revisiting a past series of events Moving Mountains ran with @meactionuk.bsky.social - short readings from some of the contributors will be linked below: #BookSky #MillionsMissing www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiBN...

Louise Kenward Introduces Moving Mountains - Writing Nature through Illness and Disability

YouTube video by MEActionUK

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A link with all 8 videos - featuring Louisa Adjoa Parker, @nicwilson.bsky.social @jaxxi.bsky.social @felinecharpentier.bsky.social @alecfinlay.bsky.social and me #MEAwarenessDay In celebration of the brilliant writers & creatives who live with ME/CFS, Long Covid & many other poorly treated illness.

Louise Kenward@louisekenward.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Another year has passed and another ME Awareness Day/Week/Month is needed - revisiting a past series of events Moving Mountains ran with @meactionuk.bsky.social - short readings from some of the contributors will be linked below: #BookSky #MillionsMissing www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiBN...

Government announces £4.75 million funding for Sequence ME research project Building on the findings from DecodeME, the new SequenceME study should provide a deeper understanding of the underlying disease process.    Find out more: https://meassociation.org.uk/xa0z   #pwME #MEAwareness #MECFS

Government announces £4.75 million funding for Sequence ME research project - The ME Association

For more than 45 years, The ME Association has been […]

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M.E. Kills Wow, this work is incredible!! I haven't been able to read everything yet, but it's already an emotional roller-coaster. Make sure to check out the beautiful, emotional & intimate art works!! www.aquietstorm.me/myalgic-ence... #pwme #myalgicE #millionsmissing #severeME #art2cureME

#InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives

Louise Kenward@louisekenward.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Another year has passed and another ME Awareness Day/Week/Month is needed - revisiting a past series of events Moving Mountains ran with @meactionuk.bsky.social - short readings from some of the contributors will be linked below: #BookSky #MillionsMissing www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiBN...

The The Neurological Alliance of Scotland has asked us to share a survey being undertaken by The Migraine Trust to find out about people's experience of accessing migraine treatments. The survey should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

Access to migraine treatment survey

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𝗡𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗻𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱, 𝗻𝗼 𝗡𝗛𝗦 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗘 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼. #MillionsMissing 2026 read our article & our templates to contact your MP shorturl.at/uSfz6. #VerySevereME

We are supporting @longcovidadvoc.com on #MEAwarenessDay on behalf of the #MillionsMissing & have signed their letter to @rcpsych.bsky.social You can add your signature using the link in the post below.

Long Covid Advocacy@longcovidadvoc.com · 4mo ago

🩵On #MEAwarenessDay we are sending an open letter to @rcpsych.bsky.social calling for alignment with current evidence. Supported by 20 organisations. +35 advocates, clinicians & academics! In democratic spirit we are offering a public sign-on opportunity 🔗👇️ #RCPsychIC #Garner

✉️ Anyone is welcome to sign the open letter. The form is open for 2 weeks & then will be sent to President-Elect Prof Subodh Dave on May 26th. With collective effort we hope for change from the Royal College that will benefit all people with ME & Long Covid. forms.gle/UCNpAs2d43yd...

Public Sign-On: Open Letter to the Royal College of Psychiatrists

This form is to support the public sign-on of an open letter addressed to Professor Subodh Dave, President-Elect of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, concerning the framing of Long Covid within…

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🩵On #MEAwarenessDay we are sending an open letter to @rcpsych.bsky.social calling for alignment with current evidence. Supported by 20 organisations. +35 advocates, clinicians & academics! In democratic spirit we are offering a public sign-on opportunity 🔗👇️ #RCPsychIC #Garner