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This week we will be looking at illustrations from Lucy and Tom at Christmas starting with them stirring the enormous Christmas pudding mixture.

BABY JESUS SEVERED TOE IS JUDGING YOU.

#Writers! I'm opening up my books for 2024, taking on new mentees wanting to develop their short fiction, novels or poetry. I work with complete beginners, more experienced writers, those wanting to take first steps in writing, and those polishing near final drafts. 🧵1/4

Here’s to dear Benjamin Zephaniah❤️💚🌹 inews.co.uk/culture/arts/b…

For 100+ days this remarkable young journalist has reported from inside Gaza, under circumstances of immense risk & hardship. Today, he evacuates. He, like other journalists there, have become eyes & ears to the world. 83 journalists & media workers killed so far in the conflict.

Can't wait to see Victoria MacKenzie in my hometown tonight, talking about her novel #ForThyGreatPain 📚 If you haven't read it yet, grab yourself a copy. It's so beautifully crafted, almost a work of art – one my favourite reads of '23 😍 #StonyWords | stonywords.org.uk

- Unhappiest kids in Europe - Fewer children than ever reading for pleasure - School buildings crumbling - less than half the target of teacher trainees - Biggest retention crisis - Morale in the profession the lowest ever - Ofsted… The list goes on. They’re delusional

I'm thrilled to announce I'll be working with the wonderful Victoria Haslam Amazon Publishing to publish my debut novel, THE SURFACING, in July 2025. Huge thanks to my fantastic agent Sarah Hornsley (as well as Lucy Cavendish College, Bath Novel Awards, Mslexia ✨, Curtis Brown Creative) for getting me here!

So proud of Claire Ackroyd for this brilliant piece of news! 📚 I was fortunate to have read one of Claire's early drafts, and loved the setting and clever, twisty plotting. A winning combo! Readers are in for a treat. I'm sure it'll be a success! Well done, Claire. 🌟

Congratulations to @rachelle_ata who is the new Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow, based at University of Stirling for 2024 🥳📚⭐️

A gentle reminder that my novel, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain, about the medieval mystics Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, will be read on Radio 4 this Saturday afternoon 2.45-4pm! 💙 #MedievalTwitter #MargeryKempe #JulianofNorwich bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Virginia Woolf took her own life 83 years ago on this day. Here is the beautiful final letter she left for her husband, my great-uncle Leonard Woolf 💜

As we await for the longlist for the Lucy Cavendish #fiction prize, which will be released on the 17th of April, why not give one of our previous winners a read from the past five years! Available in all bookstores near you! 📚🏆😀👀 #BookTwitter #cambridgeuniversity

We're very excited to share Life of a Book: a series of free online events designed to clarify the journey and processes of writing and publishing a book ✍️ 📚 ✨ It will run over five days, 13th–17th May, covering a variety of topics. More ℹ️ here: buff.ly/4aWmWYG

So thrilled and humbled to be on this longlist. Congrats to all the other longlisted authors. Thanks so much to Lucy Cavendish College for this opportunity.

10 years ago I was still stuck in the query trenches (lost & confused). Here’s a few things I’ve learned about writing/publishing in the past decade 🧵 1. Resilience. Rejection is part of the job. It gets easier. It’s not that your work isn’t good it’s that it isn’t a good fit.

Audiobook announcement! 📚🎧 Calling all Greco-Roman myth girlies! Delighted to reveal my debut short story collection, out 1st August with @bolindaaudio and read by the amazing Sofia Engstrand. Dark Harvest is a new and twisty retelling of Ovid's Heroides.

The CaledoniaNovelAward is such a brilliant prize and opportunity for writers! Being shortlisted for my novel in 2023 gave me a huge lift and confidence boost 😌 The judge this year is Alice Lutyens and she is lovely. Good luck to those who enter! Deadline: Oct 15th📚

So wish I could be there for this - congrats @rachelle_ata, so excited to read this one! #TheSaltFlats

#ThroughHerEyes The murder of Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei at the hands of her boyfriend, got a single line on the news this morning. Let's make more of it here. Another beautiful and talented woman's life snuffed out by violence. #VAWG