Honoured to be apart of this panel for Channel 4 News working class people being involved in the arts is so so crucial for a fair sector that represents everyone

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Here she is...

Yes! She taught us all so much but this most of all.

I was so pleased to be asked onto AntiSocial on BBC Radio 4 to debate school discipline, which came off the back of this piece I wrote for The Lead thelead.uk/rise-authorita…

‘Violet was standing in the middle of the room, rooted there, like a big bark stump, with scraps of fiery paper flying all around her.’

Part two of ‘A Queer Streak’, which appeared in Granta 18: The Snap Revolution.

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‘She would never know why she had done it. She was sleepless and strung-up and her better judgement had deserted her.’

Part one of Alice Munro’s story ‘A Queer Streak’, published in Granta 17: While Waiting for a War.

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‘A woman goes to her doctor to have a prescription renewed. But the doctor is not there. It’s her day off. In fact the woman has got the day wrong, she has mixed up Monday with Tuesday.’

Fiction by Alice Munro, from Granta 118: Exit Strategies.

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‘When I was young, there seemed to be never a childbirth, or a burst appendix, or any other drastic physical event that did not occur simultaneously with a snowstorm.’

A short story from Nobel Laureate Alice Munro, from Granta 120: Medicine.

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We both know one day she’ll eat me. / But, for now, we dance: a little game / of catch me if you can.

We’re so sorry to hear news of the death of Kathryn Bevis. We were proud to publish her wonderful poem My Cancer as a Ring-Tailed Lemur in The Poetry Review, 2022. Read below

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Honoured and thrilled to have been awarded second place in the Dinesh Allirajah Prize 2024 😁

Congratulations to Jaqués Tsaintar and Amy Lord. Thank you Comma, the students at UCLan and the judging panel!

I’m really looking forward to reading all of the shortlisted stories

GOOOOOO JESS!!!

My book “Into the Same Sound Twice”, Seren is a year old today! serenbooks.com/book/into-the-…

Thank you to everyone who has read it, shared it, reviewed it, interviewed me, invited me to readings, ordered books for your library or store, said kind and encouraging things. 💫✨

A big thank you to @polygon and a whole bunch of local Waterstones booksellers who helped me get my head round the fact Weak Teeth gets to be Scottish Book of the Month until the end of May! Pure beaming. Waterstones Fort K Waterstones Edinburgh West End Waterstones Cameron Toll Waterstones Edinburgh Gyle

Eeeeek!
So happy Rural is on the longlist for the Lakeland Book of the Year along with Victoria and Polly!

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Double cover reveal for my debut novel My Hummingbird Father SALT · Independent trade publisher, est. 1999 out Sept, with heartfelt thanks to early readers & their beautiful words warsan shire 💕 Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 💕below in pic.
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