Have I mentioned I’m chairing this fantastic twosome? Because I’M CHAIRING THIS FANTASTIC TWOSOME

🗨️ The Sunlit Lands with Eliza Chan & Natasha Pulley
📅 Saturday, 1 June at 1.30pm

Eliza Chan - FATHOMFOLK out now (updates only) Natasha Pulley

Reserve your tickets and find the full #Cymera2024 programme on our website: cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera2024-eve…

🤩 'Stunning' Lianne Dillsworth
🤩 'Marvellous' Naomi Kelsey

Readers are LOVING #ThePuzzleWood , Rosie Andrews's incredible new novel, filled with creepy forests, echoing myths and the eerie sense of being watched... 👀

Out in hardback, ebook and audio on 9th May!

Where’s the best place to get a piercing in/near Glasgow? (It’s not for me before you ask!)

👑 Daughter of an ousted king.
💫 Descendant of powerful druids.
📕 Destined to take her place in history.

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Every (deeply human) word of this. Read this full story.

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I am at Charles De Gaule airport. They are preventing me from entering France. I am supposed to speak at the French Senate today. They say the Germans put a 1 year ban on my entry to Europe.

If you haven'tread this book, please do get yourself a copy. .

Shooting an unarmed 8 year old child in the back of the head is not a 'possible' war crime. It is as war crime as it gets.

“Packed with mystery, dastardly characters and a hint of magic & mythology” 🏴‍☠️
Love these reviews of Finding Treasure Island from Lily & Holly

Friends, can you help me with flash/other writing that features or is told from the POV of a kid? I’d prefer stories of moments of connection in a wider context of difficulties if possible. Please link your own, or others’. Thank you

I can't believe it's been a year since the publication of the hardcover of my debut novel The Funeral Cryer in the UK. Thanks to everyone who made it possible! May the 'Fourth' be with you.
Kemi Ogunsanwo Atlantic Books Allen & Unwin UK 👏❤️

🚨 Stunning book alert 🚨

We're in love with the finished copies of #ThePuzzleWood , the mesmerising new novel from Rosie Andrews's, author of The Leviathan!

Just look at that shiny foil 😍

The Puzzle Wood is out in hardback on 9th May, hurry and pre-order your copy today!

There's a signed, dedicated and annotated copy of Girl, Goddess, Queen available at the Gaza Evacuation Fund book auction! Bid here 32auctions.com/organizations/…

You have ONE WEEKEND REMAINING to submit work to Fierce Salvage, the follow-up to We Were Always Here.

No themes, no genre expectations, just unbridled queer fiction, poetry and memoir. We are on TENTERHOOKS to start putting it together - don't miss out!

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Remember today & always: all writing is political, all art forms are political, all creative dreaming is political.

How we witness the world & write towards or against it is political. The characters we magic = political.

A union that supports writers is therefore political.

Brilliant, humane article from Luce here

Writers have been saying this for at least the last 15 years theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In Autumn 2024 I’ll be running an 8-week online personal essay writing course, ‘What Can An Essay Do?’ Each week we’ll read a contemporary essay and discuss it, followed by writing exercises and prompts. 1/3