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Hello Deal, Dover, Walmer! Do you want to write about your life and memories and don’t know where, or how to start? I'm running a free Life Stories Workshop 14:00–16:00 on 7th September as part of Heritage Open Days To book a place DM me 🎯 #creativewriting #workshop #DEAL #Dover

Calling my BRIGHTON and cabin crew community! Sunday 29th Sep LIFTING OFF is flying in to Ironworks Studios Brighton with a special Gatwick themed performance from me. Top Polari Literary Salon line up too - joelle taylor Neil Bartlett & Paul Burston 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚡️🏳️‍🌈 See you there: eventbrite.co.uk/e/polari-liter… #booktwt

I’m 🏃🏽‍♀️ this 10k to raise £ for the tiny charity I work for Resonate Arts - we run multi artform projects - improvisation, singing, film making, poetry +✨for those living with dementia & their family & carers. It’s special, careful, magic work. Pls help if u can. Link below 👇👇

September is still my favourite. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'Women of Punk' 1980 London. (Back row L-R) Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, (front) Poly Styrene & Pauline Black (photo by M.Putland) #WomensArt

Tonight I publish my next free memoir piece, The Bromley Acupuncturist, from my Substack The Short Tall Letter. Join up below to read 👇 open.substack.com/pub/karenmcleo… #substack #writingcommunity #liftingoff #booktwt

📚NO SMALL THING Coming up next week is our event with top debut novelist, Orlaine McDonald, interviewed by Keiran Goddard. Please RT uto show us your support, or even better, buy a ticket 🎫: booksellercrow.co.uk/event/author-e… #booktwt #SE19 #writerscommunity #writersoftwitter

'I don't want to hear it, it's awful. I feel angry and sad, I feel sangry about it' Author Michael Rosen spoke to #BBCBreakfast after BBC analysis found more than 180 council-run libraries have either closed or been handed over to volunteer groups in the UK since 2016

Deadline approaching! There are two (!) bursary places for this month's course. 54 courses, 633 #SelfEditAlumni and a phenomenal success rate. Pls apply and let me and Emma Darwin help you to edit your novel. RTs appreciated.

Watch this top Drama/Documentary BBCFOUR about the writer Barbara Pym, depicting one day in her life - 23 Nov 1977 - when she travelled to London to attend the Booker Prize ceremony. Patricia Routledge plays Barbara Pym. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

The summer reading continues! Thanks to Loz Roberts who began reading 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗳𝗳 on an actual British Airways flight. Check out the pristine condition of the cover compared to the beach-worn one in the 2nd shot😍- keep sending them! #LiftingOff #cabincrew #holidayread

📍Stanfords Event 📅26 Sept 🕖7pm Table Talks with Karen McLeod 👩‍✈️✈️🏳️‍🌈 & Travis Elborough. Join us for wine, nibbles and conversation around the table, talking about all things books, travel & life journeys. 🎟️ stanfords.co.uk/event-table-ta…

Calling people of Deal! 📍Sat 7th September, 2pm - 4pm at the Landmark Centre. FREE Life Story Creative Writing Workshop - Personal histories of living or moving to Deal - only 3 places left. DM me for a place #Deal #dover #creativewriting #workshop #WritingCommunity

Fascinating chat about cabin crew life @notjustcrew with the inimitable Karen McLeod 👩‍✈️✈️🏳️‍🌈 NJC Chat to Author & Artist Karen McLeod about her new book. 'Lifting Off' youtu.be/_ZiP17CSbBs?si… via YouTube

Stop The Arts have been unmasked! And you’ll never guess who it was. stopthearts Sky Arts Awards

About to lift off with Karen McLeod 👩‍✈️✈️🏳️‍🌈! It was great to meet Karen at Polari Literary Salon, and I'm looking forward to our reunion at The Coast Is Queer in Brighton next month! coastisqueer.com

What could be better than an evening with social historian Travis Elborough at Stanfords, London? Wine, delicious nibbles and fab conversation around the table, we'll talk Lifting off, travel, cabin crew, drag, and life journeys✈️ Do come🎟️ stanfords.co.uk/event-table-ta… #travel

Now then, if you live in #Blackpool are visiting VisitBlackpool get along to Polari Literary Salon on Sat 21st Sept @ THE OLD ELECTRIC! With Rosie Garland Paul Burston 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚡️🏳️‍🌈 Christie J. Newport - Author & myself! Blackpoollgbt #LGBTQ+ Tickets from a fiver: outsavvy.com/event/22063/po…

This week at Jonathan Main! Don't miss Orlaine McDonald in conversation with Keiran Goddard on Thursday, where the two authors will be discussing Orlaine's brilliant Serpent's Tail debut 'No Small Thing', and much else. Tickets available here: booksellercrow.co.uk/event/author-e…

Come and join us, meet wonderful writers, and celebrate a fantastic selection of fiction and non-fiction published by small presses this year. Karen McLeod 👩‍✈️✈️🏳️‍🌈 Heidi Amsinck Avi Ben-Zeev Isabel Costello Small Press Alliance PGUK Tix here tinyurl.com/3bvzey8w