The perfect week Arvon Arvon Totleigh Barton with brilliant poets/tutors/people. Thank you Apples and Snakes for selecting me to be part of the Writing Room 2022. I've learnt so much and had the best time! ❤

Incredibly honoured to be included in such an eclectic shortlist for the BBC Young Writers' Award with my story 'Little Acorns', (link in my bio to Sophie McShera's amazing performance of it on Radio 1). Good luck everybody ❤️ #BBCYWA

Exciting times at Radio Sheffield about to discuss 'Little Acorns' and BBC Young Writers' Award live - eek! 🙂 #BBCYWA

Thank you so much for the heartfelt write-up of my euphoric ramblings! I had such a wonderful time doing this interview! The warm response Little Acorns has received and the meanings people derive from it have been unbelievably encouraging as a young writer 🙂

One of the biggest prizes in the literary world will be announced on Monday night. Join BBC Front Row on BBC Radio 4 from 9:15pm for coverage of the The Booker Prizes ceremony. Read @RebeccaJonesBBC's round-up of the shortlisted novels for BBC News Entertainment here: bbc.in/3Sa3sGA

I held him together as long as I could, she says. He stopped working, stopped coming upstairs. He was like tissue paper coming apart in water. Like smoke in my hands. It had nothing to do with you, baby. You left when you had to. Edgar Kunz newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

So happy to be Apples and Snakes ninth day of Christmas! I learned so much as part of Writing Room 2022 and had a blast filming this performance on local turf in #Barnsley! 🙂

Honoured to have been selected in such an important competition. This means so much to me ❤️

I highly recommend entering 😁 I had the most amazing experience last year 🙂❤️

So lovely to have been involved in such an important project with my hometown library - I've been a member since I was six weeks old and have borrowed countless books from there! 😊

'Ordinary People' is now free to borrow on Libby ❤️❤️❤️

Honoured to attend the launch of Northern Dreaming last week at Armley Library and to give the first reading of my story 'Rosa and George'. Huge thanks to British Library and 이동섭. It has been wonderful to be part of such a special project.

This beautiful book arrives, a gift for every child born in Leeds during 2023 - a lovely LEEDS 2023 initiative including work by Writing Squad writers Elena Barham emily Lauren C. Maltas & Jay (they/he) 🚩🏳️‍⚧️

I've been dreaming of being in the Squad directory since I was 12 🥰

Forever a Hamlet girlie 🖤🖤🖤

Novara Media spoke to residents of Barnsley who called out rioters scapegoating immigrants: “Your problems are from the top-down people making us feel small because we’re working class. But I'm proud to be working class, and I'm proud to be anti-racist working class as well."

Super excited for this essay to be published, it's a topic I'm really passionate about ❤️