Fantastic news Sophie Haydock CONGRATS!!

Writers….stop paying for contests and enter ours instead! • It’s free free freeeeee • Submit your favorite unpublished poems or prose • Potentially get published and/or earn $100 + swag This year’s judge is the wonderful Lisa Low. Deadline August 18, 2024

Honoring fathers everywhere, including my two sons, who are wonderful fathers!

"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it." — Hannah Arendt

Congrats to Prof Diane Watt for this excellent review from Irina Dumitrescu in The TLS Another title to add to my list!

Would love to see this exhibition; my novel, Cities of Women, features #ChristinedePizan and her #illuminatedmanuscript workshop. Medieval Manuscripts

This is great advice from Mateo Askaripour that arrived in my inbox in the nick of time! On the Perks of Genre Agnosticism lithub.com/mateo-askaripo… via Literary Hub Thanks Mateo Askaripour

Congrats to Jane Fraser for making this longlist!

Happy Birthday, Artemesia! And what a wonderful book about her from Elizabeth Fremantle 💙🧡 #Disobedient #Firebrand

Been limiting my posts to writing-related. But the times are a-changing. Couldn't resist reposting. Thanks ♿️ MIKE ♿️

😱 When Kamala Harris is elected President, Inauguration Day falls on MLK Jr Day in 2025 & she’ll be sworn in by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. So the 1st Black woman Supreme Court justice will swear in the 1st Black woman President on MLK day?! 🫨🥲💙🔥🇺🇸

If I can make it across the pond for this, I will Medieval Manuscripts

Medieval women be representing!!! Christine de Pizan at the #Olympics

Wowza! #medievaltwitter lights up for #christinedepizan Prof Janina Ramirez Dr Laura Varnam thanks for sharing! Go #citiesofwomen Turner Publishing

I'm attending The Democratic National Committee's event, “UPDATED: Women for Harris National Organizing Call” - sign up now to join me! events.democrats.org/event/653900/?…

Right on, Hannah Arendt.

Thanks British Library for the update!

It’s here! The Medieval Scriptorium gets the all important feline inspection Reaktion Books Institute of Historical Research IES #medievalscriptorium #medievalmanuscripts

Hilary Mantel’s Paris Review interview is free to read this week and full of pearls. Thank you Historia – the HWA for the heads up. theparisreview.org/interviews/636…

Becuase I love his writing I decided to subscribe to Story Club with George Saunders georgesaunders.substack.com/?r=2giet1&utm_…