TONIGHT Serenity Booksellers w/Chris McDonald / Chris Frost 🎄 Last few tickets. Everyone gets a biscuit directly relating to the title essay of my book. If you write a book, do consider naming it after a food you like. Promoting this book has been a gift to my sweet tooth. ticketsource.co.uk/serenity-books…

This poem is brutal. 🖤

Fab evening at Serenity Booksellers listening to Adam Farrer (JUST BOOK POSTS NOW) ‘s wonderfully funny irreverent new book featuring dodgy shaped biscuits! Grab a copy!

Fantastic tips from ten agents on how to write compelling first pages. Great advice, and they almost all advocate against info-dumping, too much scene setting, and not starting late enough: bathnovelaward.co.uk/opening-pages-… Bath Novel Awards

Today's Poetry Thread: MOTHERS This one moves me deeply. Feel free to add poems.

Happy Mother's Day! 💞 We'd like to share this beautiful poem 'Mother' by Enda Wyley from Poetry Ireland Review Issue 54. 🌸 Enda Wyley Thank you to the mothers, grandmothers, and mother figures who shape our world with love, patience, and care. #MothersDay #IrishPoetry

So cool to see all 12 stories from The Book of Manchester on Commonword's Digital Lit Map of the city! 🐝📚 📍Click the Comma pins to read excerpts from each story pinned to their real-world location 📘The Book of Manchester commapress.co.uk/books/the-book… 🗺️google.com/maps/d/viewer?…

Had a dream event last night with Danielle Giles for the launch of MERE and we’ve loads more exciting events coming up throughout the rest of April! Particularly excited for Naomi Booth and Louise Hegarty who have written two absolutely incredible books. JOIN US!

It’s official! #Bookclubs❤️

Fresh #bookpost from our distributor - proving hard to keep these on the shelves!

#TheMargaretCode is out today in the UK! 🍾 Margaret’s already been spotted out in the wild at Waterstones Manchester Deansgate & Waterstones Manchester Arndale Thanks so much to everyone who’s supported me in achieving this moment & to my publishers Sphere Books & Little, Brown UK

—Victoria Chang

Join me at the Lyra Festival of Poetry in Bristol for a lively discussion around the legacy of two giants of the Romantic poetry movement -Wordsworth and Coleridge This panel event will include discussions of the text and its socio-environmental relevance lyrafest.com/#e126198

Submissions are open! Please send your novel, novella, short story collection or memoir to CONDUIT BOOKS via our website below. Subs close May 31st 2025. Looking forward to reading. Please RT to spread the word. conduitbooks.co.uk

On the 80th anniversary of #VEDay, let's remember the 2.5 m Indian soldiers who volunteered to fight. It was the biggest volunteer army in history. They fought on different fronts Africa, Europe and the Far East. #ElAlamein, #MonteCassino #Kohima in some of the toughest battles

Join us Khushwant Singh Literary Festival London Indian & South Asian authors, poets, thinkers. 31May SOAS University of London London, 3June Somerville College: Devika Rege Rishi Dastidar 🔱🌊 Imtiaz Dharker Priyanka.Basu Faiqa Mansab Saba Karim Keshava Guha Radhika Howarth Matt Ridley Tariq Ali Dr Reshma Ruia via kslitfestlondon.com

Join me on May 17th at Burnley Words Festival where I'll be running a creative writing workshop to set your stories free Limited places available burnleywordsfestival.co.uk/events/reflect… #writing #burnley #manchester #creativewriting

Yessssss! Deepa Bhasthi and Banu Mushtaq win the 2025 International Booker Prize 2022 as translator and writer, respectively, of 'Heart Lamp', a collection of stories originally written in Kannada. The Booker Prizes Kanishka Gupta And Other Stories Penguin India

I'll be in conversation with Devika Rege and Shueyb Gandapur at the Kushwant Singh Lit Fest on Sat. 31st May at SOAS in London. We'll be talking about Politics, Privilege and Purpose in Fiction. Free but need to register kslitfestlondon.com #literaturefestival

Worst customer service ever from Aer Lingus . Can’t locate a suitcase that’s been in Dublin Airport for 48 hours.