*TCB Spring Fiction Series!* Day #7 of 10 - 'The More Things Change' by Shelley Hastings (shelley hastings) Read this here: thecommonbreath.com/blog62.html And stay tuned for more tomorrow! Hannah Scott ExtraT Joshua Jones | Local Fires @AckerBlacky

🎉🎉 Yes!! Delighted my story ‘When All This Is Over’ will be published as part of this excellent series. I can’t wait for you to read it - dead proud of this one - thanks The Common Breath ❤️

Claire Keegan’s ‘Small Things Like These’ is a beautifully written, finely balanced, powerful short novel. A moral tale that is unsentimental and deeply affecting. One I’ll be rereading and thinking about for some time. Due out later this year.

'I Can’t Sleep for Thinking About You' by Shelley Hastings dlvr.it/S2VXM5 #nffd2021

💌Love Letters returns! Join the dynamic duo that are Uninvited Guests online for an evening of laughs and love in this intimate participatory piece of theatre and raise a glass to loved ones past and present. 16-19 August online with Traverse Theatre buff.ly/3iVJbVo

2021 O'Faoláin Short Story Prize winners, shortlisted, highly commended and judge's statement at munsterlit.ie/SOF%20Previous… 1st Prize: Am I Helping? by Shelley Hastings 2nd Prize (shared) Requiem for a Strip Club by Neil Cawley At Sea, Two Graces by Jay Kelly

So impressed by the brilliant students & head Forest Hill School open morning. Excellent facilities, knowledgable staff, broad creative curriculum. A genuinely inclusive & progressive comprehensive. Lewisham Council 👍

Watch Shelley Hastings shelley hastings read the first prize story, Am I Helping? at #CorkStoryFest21 on October 16th - tickets at eventbrite.ie/e/sean-ofaolai… and subscribe to Southword, which will feature the winning and shortlisted short stories in issue 42 munsterlit.ie/Southword/issu…

Huge congratulations to @Julie_Farrell_ (poetry) & shelley hastings (short fiction) for winning the Aurora Prize for Writing 2021! Thank you to everyone who submitted, read, won & came to the ceremony, and to our amazing judges. The stories will be published on our website v soon.

Read my 2021 Aurora Prize winning story 'When The Recovery Comes' & the other great shortlist below.👇Thanks to Jon McGregor, The Society of Authors Writing East Midlands 😍

It's official! Lewisham parks have been rated top out of 32 boroughs by Parks for London 🤩👏🎉 Our fantastic parks team work in partnership with Glendale to give us the best parks in London! 🌳✨ Thank you as well to our many community volunteers! 💚 lewisham.gov.uk/articles/news/…

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Harvey Parker is missing. If you know anything, or if you have seen him, please get in touch with Lanbeth Police. #harveyparker

So much talent, power & grace on display from students in the dance showcase Sydenham School this eve. Always impressed with the dedicated staff too. Despite everything still delivering a creative, progressive, comprehensive education in heart of lewisham. ❤️

Very proud and excited. It’s a brilliant story.

Here it is! TheAntiCharityShop.com A catalogue of Deaf, disabled, learning disabled, autistic and neurodivergent-made products. Happy shopping and please share far and wide!

Very happy to have made this list 😍

Our Arts Council England Chair Sir Nicholas Serota writes for today’s The Guardian on the clear messages we heard from audiences, visitors and participants across England that informed the development of the #LetsCreate strategy behind our investment decisions: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I’ve been producing projects for Resonate this last couple of years - inc 2 big parties, a gorgeous choir, improvisation & movement classes, arts & animation, 121 poetry sessions ++ it is a community bound by joy, laughter & love in the most challenging circumstances. Donate 👇👇

Been off Twitter. But doing London to Brighton bike ride on 16th June and raising a bit of money for cancer research in memory of my dad who died a couple of months ago. So thought it was worth spreading the word in case anyone fancies helping out. justgiving.com/page/richard-d…