Kit de Waal
@kitdewaal.com
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Save the date: 7 September for this interesting conversation between @kitdewaal.com and @andrewwille.bsky.social about the ingredients of a DIY MA. #womenwriters #writingcommunity
Kit de Waal@kitdewaal.com · last mo.An MA in Creative Writing is beyond many these days for many reasons but how to find out what to study to become a better writer? Join @andrewwille.bsky.social and me on 7th September and we will give you all the ingredients of a DIY MA. Link here. Please share.
Belgian team celebrating their win in the locker room.
An MA in Creative Writing is beyond many these days for many reasons but how to find out what to study to become a better writer? Join @andrewwille.bsky.social and me on 7th September and we will give you all the ingredients of a DIY MA. Link here. Please share.
Build Your Own Creative Writing MA - Andrew Wille Writing Studio - creative writing & book development
A practical guide to training yourself as a writerZoom seminar with Kit de Waal and Andrew WilleTuesday 8 September 2026, 7-8.15pm London, £25 Book The MA and the MFA are long-established pathways …
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That @naomialderman.bsky.social is so fucking brilliant. If you've found yourself falling out the reading habit, she has created a kind of Couch-to-5K of reading open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
let's do a 'couch to 5k' for reading
we're going to work ourselves back to good 'reading fitness' over the next eight weeks. come and join us.
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An MA in Creative Writing is beyond many these days for many reasons but how to find out what to study to become a better writer? Join @andrewwille.bsky.social and me on 7th September and we will give you all the ingredients of a DIY MA. Link here. Please share.
Build Your Own Creative Writing MA - Andrew Wille Writing Studio - creative writing & book development
A practical guide to training yourself as a writerZoom seminar with Kit de Waal and Andrew WilleTuesday 8 September 2026, 7-8.15pm London, £25 Book The MA and the MFA are long-established pathways …
wille.org
New Writing Prize below - two great organisations. Please share :)
2026 Irish Writers Centre New Writing Prize in Association with The Stinging Fly - Irish Writers Centre
Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Writing courses, literary events, professional development for writers, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, playwriting.
irishwriterscentre.ie
My Name is Leon was first published 10 years ago today. I’ve written about my Decade of Joy on Substack. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/kitdewaa...
When ignorance is bliss....
or how I became a writer
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Maybe the last Friday of the month is payday for you. Maybe it isn’t. Maybe you should apply for this grant.
Kit de Waal@kitdewaal.com · 6mo ago£500 given out to a working class writer every month. Details in link. Please share :)
“Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.” ― John O’Donohue writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Listen! @lauratisdall.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the amazing "We Have Come to Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain" newbooksnetwork.com/we-have-come...
Laura Tisdall, "We Have Come to Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain" (Yale UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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There are a couple of tickets still available - get in quick! www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/memoir...
Memoir with Kit de Waal (Beginner) - Gladstone's Library
Join Kit de Waal for an inspiring day devoted to bringing your memories to life on the page.
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5 🌟 to The Best of Everything by @kitdewaal.com - thanks @helenliz.bsky.social & @biggreenbooks.bsky.social for my lovely #buyastrangerabook pressie 🥰 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Passing this along, with thanks to the OP. There are many specific courses I want to look into, as well as a lot of "electives" I have never encountered before. And, yes, it's free. #mit #onlinelearning #educateyourself
Kit de Waal@kitdewaal.com · 4mo agoCheck this out. Free courses online from MIT. ocw.mit.edu I went in and looked at Writing About Literature and it's all there, syllabus, reading list, the lot. All free. Please share.
Now this is a PROPER review from a reader, a complete stranger. Makes the graft all worth it @kitdewaal.com Independent really seems like my happy place. #workingclasswriting #memoir
"You're an author? Would I know anything you've written?" "Have you heard of the book Eat Pray Love?" "Oh wow. I have, actually!" "Well, one of my books was printed in a typeface not totally dissimilar to the one in that."
I just finished The Best of Everything by @kitdewaal.com and am raving about it. It's excellent. So much that I'll buy a copy for someone who wants it. My first 5 star read this year.
ICYMI: Nine titles from independent publishers and seven debuts have been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, including books by Wendy Erskine, Lily King, Katie Kitamura and Kit de Waal 👇 #BookSky
‘Treasure trove’ of 16 titles longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2026
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Book 26 Title: The Best of Everything Author: @kitdewaal.com Published: 2025 Rating: ***** (Yes, 5 stars! You'll have realised by now that I mark hard, so this is something of a rarity!!) Why: Something reminded me to read more of her work, so I did and it is excellent!
74. The Best of Everything by @kitdewaal.com A tender and touching novel from the #WomensPrize fiction longlist about family, loss and attachment. @womensprize.bsky.social
#LibrariesChangeLives. Let'e have some more please. @librariesconnected.bsky.social @iainmoore.bsky.social check my TL from last night and toda for more of these, let'e get it trending. #BookSky 📚📚📚📚📚
Deej Sullivan@deejsullivan.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn 2012/13 I was legally homeless, eating out of skips, and having a teeny tiny psychotic break. The library in Worcester was a literal life saver: a warm, safe space where I could just exist without pressure or fear. I wrote, I read, I figured shit out, and I survived. #LibrariesChangeLives
MIT is also a fairly open campus with a public MIT museum, a public art museum, amazing architecture and beautiful grounds. Lots of activities and fun stuff going on there.
Kit de Waal@kitdewaal.com · 4mo agoCheck this out. Free courses online from MIT. ocw.mit.edu I went in and looked at Writing About Literature and it's all there, syllabus, reading list, the lot. All free. Please share.
Oh and also Project Gutenberg - 75,000 free audio and e-books. www.gutenberg.org
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
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Kit de Waal@kitdewaal.com · 4mo agoCheck this out. Free courses online from MIT. ocw.mit.edu I went in and looked at Writing About Literature and it's all there, syllabus, reading list, the lot. All free. Please share.
Check this out. Free courses online from MIT. ocw.mit.edu I went in and looked at Writing About Literature and it's all there, syllabus, reading list, the lot. All free. Please share.
MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials
MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity
ocw.mit.edu
‘The Best of Everything’ by @kitdewaal.com follows the life of Paulette, a working-class Caribbean woman in 1970s Birmingham, in a cathartic and uplifting celebration of found families and the life-changing power of kindness and love. Learn more here: womensprize.com/in-conversat...
Novelist Kit de Waal, a leading voice for working class writers, joins Dr Dan Taylor to discuss how to challenge the class ceiling. www.mklitfest.org/online-event... @kitdewaal.com @ouliterature.bsky.social
