We did it!!! 🏅We made it round Vitality London 10,000, taking in the fabulous sights, helped along by the cheers from supporters. A real buzz! THANK YOU so much everyone who has supported us, please share with friends/family and help us with a final push! 🙏 justgiving.com/page/shelley-s…

📣We won an award at the National Dementia Care Awards for our Creative Befriender programme!! And we were finalists in the Inclusive Care in our Diverse Society Category! A huge shout out to all our incredible volunteer befrienders, the work you do is very special!

YES! Spent Light! I loved this book. Congratulations @larapawson 🥳

Made the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize shortlist. Feels bloody great. Congrats to the other shortlisters

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted, particularly (my pal) @larapawson for SPENT LIGHT. I was lucky enough to get to include an excerpt from it in ‘well I just kind of like it.’ SPENT LIGHT is a fantastic book. Charles Boyle PVA Books

Crofton Park Station #lewisham #mushrooms

Book of the week: Spent Light by @larapawson

Friends, readers, writers 31/10 6.30pm Join me at excellent Owl Bookshop in London. 🎉 I’ll be talking about growing up in a 70s/80s commune, institutions, home, the story of silent witnesses & my memoir ‘Home Is Where Is Where We Start’ Fig Tree dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/books/sus…

Saw the preview of this last night and LOVED it - personal, political, joyful - on until the 16th November. #rhythmnation 👇👇👇

Delighted to be one of three winners of the #LetterReview Prize for Short Fiction 2024. Congrats to the other winners and shortlisters :-) letterreview.com/the-letter-rev…

Thank you Dementia Community - inspiring & thought provoking couple of days at the dementia congress so many excellent chats and presentations - & beautiful to see Resonate Arts groups front page of the journal. 😍 #UKDC2024

Yes please

went to the last day of the Raymond Briggs exhibition at ditchling museum yesterday. All the drawings and sketches and layers of care taken. All the grief and love. The masterpiece of When the Wind Blows. Heart cracked open at the short video of him at home on his crumpled sofa.

I love running these groups - great to write about it for the Journal of Dementia Care 😍 now available to read online 👇

🎶 Double the impact, double the joy! Donations made before 12pm on 30 June will be matched — helping us hit our £5,000 goal to support Singing with Friends, our dementia-friendly choir. Your kindness brings connection, creativity & community. 👉 Donate: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS…

It wasn’t part of the plan. In fact, you didn’t even think it was possible… not at your age. But it happened and now an impossible decision sits before you. 📚 Catch DebraWaters's affecting story in our 2025 anthology & meet all our shortlisted writers: bit.ly/4dZRhIB

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THE 2025 SHORTLIST: "Generous, soulful distillations. A tasting flight of prosaic kerosene. Each story ignited a flare in a forsaken corner of my mind. I can’t wait to experience more from these voices." —Henry Hoke, judge Get the pdf and pre-order the book on our website!

We are exceptionally proud of this year's writers and we hope you'll enjoy their work. Eleven Stories 2025 is available for pre-order (and you can get the pdf today!): desperateliterature.com/product/eleven…