Bloody brilliant!!!! Congratulations Matilda!!!!

Congrats to this shortlist! Things are about to get a whole lot crazy-awesome for you.

Genuinely shocked that the Society of Authors resolution to support a ceasefire in Gaza did not pass. Is this unending brutality really what writers in the U.K. stand for?

Drumroll please… the 2024 #Discoveries longlist is here!

Huge congratulations to all 16 writers, as yet unpublished, who wowed the judges with their novels-in-progress. Find out more about them: bit.ly/Discoveries24

FREELANCERS PUT YOUR RATES UP TODAY. It is a new tax year! Consider inflation, your experience, your business costs! No one is going to pay you more out of the goodness of their hearts!

These are the MINIMUM recommended rates for editing work by CIEP.

ciep.uk/resources/sugg…

I swore off twitter a year ago but...

The righteous outrage around the cancellation of the Aye Write festival is not merely a conversation about the merit of literary festivals, or whether Scotland’s first city deserves one. It is much, much bigger than that...

Screw writing advice, we need a panel w/ an accountant to teach writers how to write off all our expenses on our taxes

Next up are two amazing workshops from Victoria Bennett 🌼🐝🐺🧙🏼‍♀️ and Emily Kate Utter, drawing on nature and personal experience to inspire writing

Jasmin Paris Jasmin Paris finished loop five of the #BM100 in 59:58:21.

I have written three novels, one of which was longlisted for the women's prize, the rsl ondaatje prize and a british book award. I can't quit my day job. I can't even go part time right now.

being a novelist without wealth to support you sucks sometimes

Delighted and honoured to be the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow for 2024! Excited for the year ahead and
looking forward to working with University of Stirling as I write & research my 4th novel set in Grangemouth.
Thank you to all 🙏

Congrats to Kate Foster for her her brilliant debut novel The Maiden being long listed for Women's Prize (my favourite literary prize)
I’m especially proud of my colleague Viola Hayden for her brilliant agenting. Curtis Brown Books

HUGE congrats to fellow Canadian Alicia Elliott - AND THEN SHE FELL out now! for her Women's Prize for Fiction longlisting!! 💚 🇨🇦 #womensprize #longlist

There’s nothing ‘positive’ about offloading a statutory public service to volunteers, it’s a tragic betrayal.
#savebirmingham
#savelibraries

Our programme leaflets are here and they’re looking good! Keep an eye out for them around Helensburgh 👀

'some news', as the kids say

CARRION CROW will be landing via Doubleday Books in Feb 2025, with an unhinged short story collection to follow in 2026

thebookseller.com/rights/doubled…

As University of Aberdeen reels from modern language cuts chaos, Scotland's other ancient universities appear to have taken notice.

Several positions in Spanish, French, and German have opened up at The University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow over the last six weeks...