What with it being World Mental Health Day, and being someone who used to circle back on A roads to check for non existent injured cyclists, I'd just like to thank Catherine Fox for writing a character who checks a skip for unnoticed bodies. First OCD rep I've read, and very good.

'Les courants (the currents)' series by Montreal artist Dominique Fortin #WomensArt

Durham, Evening from Dreams in Stone at Masham Gallery. See all the pictures here mashamgallery.co.uk/dreams-in-ston… or follow the link in the bio.

Prep for next Monday’s session of Reading Novels 1 Manchester Writing School #creativewriting #amwriting

⚡ The FRESHERS Issue 23/24 is out now! ⚡

We're looking forward to celebrating with you at the aAh! Magazine The FRESHERS Issue Social, Thu 5 Oct @ 5:30PM Manchester Poetry Library

Come along, meet the team + get involved with your student magazine: aah-magazine.co.uk/the-freshers-i…

Trying to toughen up before our sabbatical in Australia early next year
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Gorgeous moon over Durham tonight…

🎶Easy like Sunday morning🎶 playing in the pub where we’re having lunch. Not a song you generally hear vicars humming.

Sunday

Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungarrayi Granites, Seven Sisters Dreaming, 2016 #WomensArt

Thursday

Publication Day ! #StickWithLove

My book, the Dark Matter of Children’s Fantastika is published today by Bloomsbury Academic - can’t wait to see the physical copy in m my hands. Years of work finally out in the wild! Big thanks to English at Manchester Met MCYS and the series editor, Lisa Sainsbury, for their support.

September bonfire smoke

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘September’
Shell Nature Studies, 1956
Artist: Rowland Hilder and Maurice Wilson

Tuesday

The umbrella, 1883 by Ukrainian born painter Marie Bashkirtseff. #WomensArt

Lapped up Catherine Fox’s latest.Moving to watch her established characters react to the COVID context of 2021/2 which we all lived through.Humour and spirituality are lightly worn and generous. As a Durham theology grad, I’m know I’m target audience,
but I really love it!

So delighted that Lydia won book of the year! With thanks to all those fabulous independent Christian bookshops up and down the country who work so hard to sell our books every day