On my way to the third The Night Alphabet staged reading in Norwich Arts Centre this eve, before heading to Cambridge, then Bristol, Stamford Arts Centre & finally ending the tour with 2 nights here, in the home of the butch, Brighton. Let’s pack Brighton Dome with strange family

Rishi's stooopid scheme will cost £541 MILLION to send 300 asylum seekers to east Africa (the government’s official auditors have concluded).
That's 1.8 MILLION pounds per person, who is in need of help??
Rishi Sunak - what on earth are you doing?

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Coming up next week Jonathan Main - really looking forward to this 😍

#BookTwitter #booktwt #authorevent

Tickets are now on sale for Polari Literary Salon at Leeds Lit Fest on June 20 at Leeds Libraries Central Library with Julie (Mae) Cohen, Adam Lowe, AKA Beyonce Holes, Karen McLeod 👩‍✈️✈️🏳️‍🌈 and yours truly.

Part of the Polari Prize National Showcase, supported by Arts Council England.
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Tonight Polari is at Queer Britain for a panel discussion about the Polari Prize with Jodie Lancet-Grant aka Jodie Mullish, 2023 prize winner Jon Ransom Muswell Press and yours truly.

An Evening in the Ethical Quagmire
This Thurs 18 April, join Andy Stanton with 'Benny the Blue Whale' - his new book - which is a joyful, FUNNY, anarchic meditation on AI and why we write 🎟️ booksellercrow.co.uk/event/andy-sta…

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Thurs MAY 9th I'm at The Cockpit in LONDON tackling environmental change via POETRY (Judi's U-Bend) plus menopausal ballads from my unticking womb (OH-MEN-PAUSE)
Tickets NOW thecockpit.org.uk/show/re-enchan…

#poem #poets #menopause #cockpittheatre #judionline #Judi #environmental

Chuck Dalldorf Orla Owen Jonathan Main Thank you so much for being part of such a fabulous, generous, and engaged audience. I really enjoyed the whole evening. Karen McLeod 👩‍✈️✈️🏳️‍🌈 really set the tone as chair with her open, friendly, and often very funny remarks, as well as great questions. Thank you all so much.

At a fab event at Jonathan Main chaired by my wonderful friend @lKarenMcLeod_ featuring Orla Owen and Lara Pawson — can’t wait to read these books in full! #crystalpalace #books

Thank you SO much Jonathan Main for such a fun night & great event hosted by Karen McLeod 👩‍✈️✈️🏳️‍🌈 What a fantastic audience & loved meeting you all & Lara Pawson in person. Your shop is amazing! 💙📚💙

#ChristOnABike #coab #SpentLight #books #BookTwitter #booktwt

Tonight a new piece of life writing will be published from the 'Today I...' prompt described in 'How To Write when in Mid-air' on Substack & is illustrated by Jane Dinmore, one of the best UK artists & friends.
Join my letter here:
karenmcleod.substack.com/p/how-to-write…

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Really looking forward to chatting with these two clever Indy writers Orla Owen and Lara Pawson next Thursday 11 April at Jonathan Main.
Tickets here: booksellercrow.co.uk/event/orla-owe…

#bookshop #Indy #writerscommunity

The incredible invisible man has been spotted near Kent House station!

Amazing feedback and love, thank you, for my latest (practical) free Substack Short Tall Letter, 'How To Write when in Mid-air.'
Join me here: karenmcleod.substack.com/p/how-to-write…

Costa First Book Award winner Ingrid Persaud 🇹🇹🇧🇧🇬🇧
will be with us Thurs 25th April to mark the publication of The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh. In conversation with Sarah Shaffi do join us for what will be a brilliant event. Tickets here booksellercrow.co.uk/event/costa-no……
#bookshop #author

Only three places left on our online Polari Literary Salon creative writing course. It's cheap at £60 for six sessions, but that's the only thing cheap about it.
Get writing with me and Paul Burston 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚡️🏳️‍🌈 - for all levels of writer 🖊️Arts Council England, London

My next Short Tall Letter, 'How To Write when in Mid-air', goes out today via my Substack. It's about the prompt I devised for myself for times during grief, illness or uncertainty and I'm sharing it with you 📨
Join me: substack.com/@KarenMcLeod #writingcommunity #writingprompt

One place left for the April #creativewriting course Jonathan Main. Starts 9th April - 14th May, 7.30-9.30pm, this will get your words flowing...📷
If you can't make that, next course starts Tuesday 18th June – 23rd July, 7.30 – 9.30pm.
More info here: booksellercrow.co.uk/about/creative…

One place left for the April #creativewriting course Jonathan Main. Starts 9th April - 14th May, 7.30-9.30pm, this will get your words flowing...📷
If you can't make that, next course starts Tuesday 18th June – 23rd July, 7.30 – 9.30pm.
More info here: booksellercrow.co.uk/about/creative…

Only a few places left on the next Polari Literary Salon online Creative Writing Course with ⁦Karen McLeod 👩‍✈️✈️🏳️‍🌈⁩ and yours truly.
We’ll be exploring the relationship between truth and fiction and much more.
Six weeks for £60.
Funded by ⁦Arts Council England⁩ outsavvy.com/event/18794/cr…