Still a few places left on this fantastic #Arvon residential week, The Power of Place, with myself and @jadeafitton.bsky.social www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Residential Writing Course: Memoir/Place (Fiction and Non-fiction) | Arvon

The stories we tell – be they fiction, journalistic non-fiction, memoir, or a hybrid form – all take place somewhere. A work may not be about a place, but a work is brought to life when the reader has...

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SO PROUD of my talented sister – one of 10 commended finalists in this prestigious poetry competition, which had more than 21,000 entries! Many, many congratulations, @jadeafitton.bsky.social xx

The Poetry Society@poetrysociety.org.uk · 4mo ago

Jade Angeles Fitton is a Commended prize winner of the National Poetry Competition 2025 for 'SAMO'.

A rather nice surprise when you wake up to find one of your poems highly commended in the National Poetry Competition!

Truly rather heartbroken I can’t make it tonight for this masterpiece with the legendary, whip-smart @stuhennigan.bsky.social and @judecook.bsky.social. If you’re free and in town: go! You will not be disappointed, I promise. www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

Night is the vault of moths, moons and meteors, and I’ve been spending a lot of time there recently putting together a new book with @batsfordbooks.bsky.social exploring how shooting stars have shaped our understanding of the universe and our place in it! www.waterstones.com/book/when-th...

Sneak peak!

Stu Hennigan@stuhennigan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Train reading, hot off the press, advance copy of the new one from @jadeafitton.bsky.social, whose first one, Hermit, is a real fave of mine and one of the best books of 2023. Looking forward to this. #BookSky get her on your radar for some lush, meditative, narrative non-fic. Out in September.

I wrote about the coolest cafe no longer in existence (and spoke to Petula Clark about it) for The Fence www.the-fence.com/short-arsein...

Short-Arseing Around the Picasso

Venturing to the King’s Road in 2025 is to enjoy the kind of ambience one might experience from a 3D render of Godalming High Street. But this lacuna of good taste was once a heady stretch of…

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Before the year is out two non-fic books I loved this year but haven’t posted about. One a dive into another world entirely, the other an entirely original, whip-smart road trip across America…

For the greatest book ever published about pubs—brought to you by The Fence— I wrote about (arguably) the greatest pub - the Duke of York in Devon has seen some heavyweights through its doors. The Pub has some fun and fascinating pieces… www.penguin.co.uk/books/462310...

A couple of pages from my travelogue from my time in Cuba back in 2022 and everything I saw, heard and learned for Lunate journal, which has now closed shop. But if you’d like a copy, let me know.

If you’re anything like us and Radio 4 is the background soundtrack to your existence, listen in at 3.45 today. I wrote a short story for Short Works about a wild boar release, rural ideologies and searching for balance in an environment that is intrinsically off-kilter www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, The Sounder by Jade Angeles Fitton

An original short work for Radio 4 by Jade Angeles Fitton

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Best time to read about England is when you’re not there

I was delighted to write about the circuit I walk every night and what it means to me for @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/of-owning-...

Of owning and being owned

Jade Angeles Fitton writes about Devon as part of our series 'There's a street in my neighbourhood', which has taken us so far from Suffolk to Minneapolis

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If anything were to make me believe in a god, it would be watching a heron fly over.

I didn’t see them but I heard them. The swallows are back.

I finally sorted out my ALCS profile last year and…if you haven’t…do. You might get a very nice little surprise in your bank! www.alcs.co.uk

At this point I’m wondering if anyone who’s ever had a book published has not found theirs on the LibGen search?

Trying here now: I’m going back to Rome, this time with my husband. Last time, I remember wandering into a church, (sand/lime) stone, pretty spartan, no murals or frescos, with a domed ceiling with a hole to the sky. It wasn’t the Pantheon, does anyone know what it is?

Blue morning. Working on the bedroom windowsill today, accompanied by the quarrel of sparrows in the eves. Dawn gun shots from one of the farms in the distance. Skylarks singing in the cow field.

Listened to this Short Works while driving yesterday and it was such a fantastic piece of writing (brilliantly delivered by Carl Prekopp) I couldn’t wait to find out who’s written it. Only to discover it’s my mate @tomvowler.bsky.social! It’s so worth a listen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Your England by Tom Vowler

An original short story for radio, written by Tom Vowler and read by Carl Prekopp.

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A good 200 or so ravens kawing over the field a tractor’s running through, then kawing back to their roost in the graveyard. The first Dutch-spotted lambs in the fields . Snowdrops, crocuses and the accidental daff. A tuft of fox fur on the verge. It’s grey out, but I like it.

Can anyone recommend good essay comps to keep eyes peeled for (other than Fitzcorraldo—not eligible)? Have some not-pitchable bits I’d like a reason to turn into things…

BIG NEWS. Absolutely delighted to announce that my debut novel, Keshed, is going to be publishing in the autumn with @ortacpress.bsky.social one of the freshest, most interesting and eclectic indies on the scene. What a delight to have two books on the way with such a great press 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Stu Hennigan@stuhennigan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Also today, and not entirely unrelated to previous tweets, anyone waiting on news of Keshed, my debut novel, keep em peeled cos had a seismic mtg on that front today 👀👀👀👀 @the-bookseller.bsky.social

Amazingly, just shy of 1000 of you loaned Hermit out from the library over the past year!! Also spotted in @heffersbookshop by my sister @cctranslates and my friend in @Tate - thank you so much!

#BookSky Just finished reading this part memoir part exploration of solitude & those who choose to live alone. Really enjoyed it & highly recommended! @jadeafitton.bsky.social

No sunset. No wind. Only late-in-the-day sounds of heavy machinery and cackling jays beneath a lid of grey.

Feeling simultaneously blessed and frustrated that who we are seen as as/become as writers depends so much on what others will commission. Obvious, I know. Merciful in many cases. Still, wish there were more ways to get our (better) weirder stuff out there. I want more weird.

Calvino’s ‘If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller’ discussed on this week’s In Our Time. In 2019 I wrote about the novel—written before Gibson uttered the words ‘cyber space’—and how it inadvertently anticipated the advent of the AI author themillions.com/2019/02/if-o...

If on a Winter’s Night a Computer

We are now witnessing the glittering inception of the AI author, and computers are taking their first clumsy steps towards literature.

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For autumn hibernation, I'll recommend this beauty by @jadeafitton.bsky.social, one of the very best books of 2023. A stirring and evocative meditation on the human urge for solitude across the centuries, told with a journalists precision thru the eyes of a poet 💖💖 www.penguin.co.uk/books/445504...

Hermit

'I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation I have never experienced... There is never anything out here but my shadow, that no one treads on any more' When Jade's part...

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Laura Marie Brown@laurambrown.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you are looking for a book of escapism and just good storytelling while you are off the news cycle I can heartily recommend Precipice. Going to have a Robert Harris Autumn and just go all in on dark evenings and sherry by the fire with a book