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Full programme thonder for British Library's Irish Writers' Weekend, 22nd-24th November. Cracking line up! So many friends + heroes in one place. You'll find me chairing Aimée Walsh, Lucy Caldwell & Michael Magee (and in the audience for everything else) …hlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/irish-wr…

First edition! Mine now ❤️❤️❤️

This week's fiction is "Heavy Snow" by Han Kang (translated, from the Korean, by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris). newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

👋Arts organisations - What's the best idea you never found funding for? Figurative is looking to develop new funding programmes for the sector. They want to understand what great ideas you couldn't realise due to lack of funds. Tell your story👇 artsprofessional.co.uk/?nltr=MTMwOzk3…

(IMMENSE NEWS reaches me that the Waterstones Dundee Wishing Tree (in which shoppers can gift a book for a young carer in Dundee to open at Christmas) is BACK for 2024 ❤️: launching on Friday 15th Nov. More news as I have it!)

I realise not everyone who would like to can donate blood (& in my most recent visits I’ve not been able to) but if you can and would like to then please consider doing so. Successful trip for me today! Thanks Team Mercure ❤️

📣 It's your last chance to take our visitor survey and be in with a chance of winning a £50 National Book Token! 📚 What do you want to see at future Norwich Book Festivals? 🤔📖 Tell us at: surveymonkey.com/r/NBF24

lost my purse on the Elizabeth line between Tottenham Court Road and Paddington, it looks like this, if you find it let me know, if you see someone cackling over it and rolling in a pile of my cards…pls punch them I guess

Just announced! Samantha Harvey wins the #BookerPrize2024 for Orbital, her deeply human saga of six astronauts in space, which combines an urgent message about the state of our planet with luminous hope and a refusal to sink into despair: waterstones.com/category/cultu…

This panel aims to answer the question that all emerging translators have when starting out, ‘How do I speak to a publisher?’ Join our panel as they explore explore how publishers interact with literary translators. Register here: buff.ly/3UCzD4u

GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE! x.com/WstonesDundee/…

Launching this week at all 47 Norfolk Libraries! 🌍 In partnership with Norfolk Libraries - Norfolk County Council, we're excited to share a multi-lingual poetry project featuring acclaimed poets George Szirtes & Marjorie Lotfi commissioned by National Centre for Writing 📗 Find out more 👇 tinyurl.com/nhdz6vkm

Our popular Publishing Fair returns for Christmas! 🎄 Come along to meet publishers and writers from the region, stock up on gifts, and enjoy short talks on the publishing industry. Sat 7 December, 10am–4pm, NCW, free & drop-in. Find out more: buff.ly/3YXRNQz

Loved this session today British Library on ‘Belfast and Beyond’ - part of the #irishwritersweekend 📚📚 Michael Magee Lucy Caldwell & Aimee Walsh were all fantastic, plus gorgeous chairing from 📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 📚📚💚

Dear friends, We’re stepping back from Twitter/X, but the conversation continues! Join us on Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. 🌐 Find all the details here: buff.ly/4fMEklA #StayConnected #KeepWriting

Just wow 💜 Dundee: you’re some place for one place ❤️‍🔥

As a professional interviewer, I feel his pain.