Had a great morning working with talented young writers and so looking forward to running this workshop on finding your writing purpose and writing what really matters to you! If you're 13-17 years old, I'd love to see you there! 😊🙌

This book is like an art gallery - filled with pieces you could dedicate your life to, but with Olga as tour guide, sheparding you gently forward & saying, Come, there is so much more to see. Feels sometimes like literally everything. (My copy, appropriately well traveled.)

In a recent workshop, a few participants asked me how I approached using the work of others as a creative prompt so I thought I'd share an example using the wonderful Miracle Fish by Ada Limon :) Check out the Mural board for more! app.mural.co/t/sessionlab09…

Read Second Place in a fever on two long train journeys, then, after watching Sunset Boulevard, Lily and I discussed the similarities and resonances between them - the entrapment, the out of favourness, the delusion - and I can’t get the pairing out of my mind.

Me: writes an experimental, hybrid novel accepting it will be hard for agents and publishers to place it in the market Agents and publishers: we love it, but don’t know how to place it in the market Also me:

Vital reading

Our young people's writing workshop is fully booked for tomorrow! BUT we still have places available for next week - book quickly to avoid disappointment. buff.ly/39ftt4o

Faces and poems on a Friday. Finding Oculus to be strange, tendrilled, often exhilarating and beautiful. Also contains anime. Recommend.

🔥SOMEWHERE SOMETHING IS BURNING🔥 just landed on my doorstep! Lucky to have been reading Alice Frecknall's poetry for ~10(!) years, since undergradding University of Hull. This is a special book & you should let it into your life. 😊🙌 Order Out-Spoken Press - outspokenldn.com/shop/somewhere

The Employees by Olga Ravn (translated by Martin Aitken) - a strange seed that will not leave my brain. Science fiction in the art gallery; a sensorial database with glowing pages. Inhale in an afternoon, chew for days. Also pictured: resulting collage (small)

“Susceptible to the possibility of future projects” - Sara Baume, I feel you. Handiwork is everything I need right now; a reminder to use my hands and heart as much as my head, and to be connected to materials both physical and not, present and missing. ❤️

Want to come work with me at SessionLab? We're looking for a content writer with facilitation experience to join our fully remote team. €40-65K & we're open to part-time applications too 😊 Questions? Let me know! sessionlab.com/jobs/content-w…

I know how hard it is for facilitators, workshop leaders, and those working in the arts to find a job that helps you keep up your passions while also paying the bills. Part-time, full-time (~£33k-£54k pro-rata) I'd love to hear from you if this feels a good fit! Pls RT too 🙌

Can you deliver workshops to primary aged children? NCW is recruiting two freelance Creative Facilitators to work on our The National Lottery Heritage Fund project, 'Stories from the Quarter'. Deadline: 28 Feb,. Find out more: buff.ly/3GK8Vhx

Last week, I had the pleasure to work with a talented & wonderful bunch of young people at National Centre for Writing. We’re going to be together for 8 sessions over the next few months, working on stories, confidence and much more, and I get to facilitate from this room! Feeling blessed 😊

I keep a book of poetry on my desk as a reminder to take a moment with something beautiful & outside myself during the day, however grey or heavy my todo list. This one is special. Thanks too, (((David Naimon))) & Kaveh for the chat on BTC. Such a treat! 🙌 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bet…

Wanted! New writers, untried writers, yes, you there! Write an essay of 2-3 thousand words on any aspect of living in poverty now. It's for an anthology with @RoadsideMum and it's important. If you think you can't do it, you are exactly the person to try. (1/2)

Join me for the workshop ⁦National Centre for Writing⁩ on May 27th to explore and rethink Chinese mythology and its narrative artistry. The suspense: will I be able to refrain myself from gushing over CLAMP manga when mentioning Nezha/哪吒? nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/whats-on/adven…

Norwich! Coming soon for you to pick up around the city - our National Centre for Writing x Norfolk & Norwich Festival City of Literature 2022 programme in one lovely lil dear green place!

“Can the withness of the body undo isolation?” Rosmarie Waldrop knows. Another book bought because of a wonderful conversation from (((David Naimon))) on Between The Covers. I recommend both.