My publisher @BlackLawrence is opening a new series for immigrant voices 🔥Check out the requirements and send work if you have anything that explores immigration. Also, plz support by purchasing former titles from our immigrant authors, now 25% off 🌊 blacklawrencepress.com/submissions-an…

It looks like we might be moving from the Pandemic to Endemic phase of Downing St apologies, and will just have to learn to live with them on a daily basis.

That was very satisfying 👌🏽👌🏽Wordle 212 2/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

✨✨✨ SALON ✨✨✨ 🦋Writing Fiction Through a Magical Lens 🦋 Guest author Leone Ross FRSL Tue 19 July 7.30pm 🦋Teahouse Theatre SE11 #amwriting #writingtips bit.ly/3xJmScT

📣 Looking for #VSPritchett #ShortStory Prize inspiration? 🏆Past winners: Leeor Ohayon, 'Gahnun on Shabbat' bit.ly/RSLVSP21 Kate Lockwood Jefford, 'Picasso's Face' bit.ly/RSLVSP20 Ursula Brunetti, 'Beetleboy' bit.ly/RSLVSP19 📩Enter now: bit.ly/VSP_Prize

There's still time to enter the #NationalPoetryCompetition via The Poetry Society - chop chop!

Sums up a lot of happy feelings from a couple of weeks ago!

Super happy my short story Ultraviolet Dreams made 1st prize in the Oxford Review of Books as chosen by Natasha Brown. I love the artwork too!

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"A male surveyor occupies the very home of our psyche." A beautifully written must-read by sarah haque about the pervasiveness of internalised misogyny in adolescence... and beyond.

My winning story for Oxford Review of Books as chosen by Natasha Brown is now available to read - Ultraviolet Dreams -TW sexual assault the-orb.org/post/ultraviol… #shortstory #winner #writersoftwitter

Music, memory and their magnetic power to reroot, remind and reimagine our most precious recollections…definitely a book to buy this week Jude Rogers 💙

This from ⁦Ursula Brunetti⁩ in ⁦Oxford Review of Books⁩ is just thrilling. Reminds me so much of Carmen Maria Machado. Surreal, haunting, unflinchingly feminist. the-orb.org/post/ultraviol…

Excuse a tired cliché (I’m tired and a cliché) but Ursula is the real deal. Read and savour. And if you’re a literary agent, take note.

Does anyone know of any famous island-based writers? (Any island, living or dead).

The NY Public Library's wonderful Virginia Woolf exhibition can be explored online, with enthused audio commentary from me and library-office neighbour/hero Brandon! Featuring Hogarth Press books, family photo albums, manuscripts, and Woolf's own passport nypl.org/events/tours/a…

What are your favourite narrative non-fiction books?

You know it’s a man’s world when design like this gets approved. How happy would you feel on this pier walkway with young children? Wightlink Ferries The Guardian Wightlink Travel