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Back in 2016, I had a UTI -- but also a cover interview with Lewis Hamilton booked. So I drank cranberry juice and went anyway. V glad I did because he was one of the nicest interviewees ever, even giving me extra time when his publicist tried to wrap: static1.squarespace.com/static/597da2b…

An amazing opportunity from Greene & Heaton Literary and Media Agency agency for 10 writers from underrepresented backgrounds to receive feedback on their work and a chance to ask questions about the publishing industry. Closing date 22 March. greeneheaton.co.uk/the-greene-door

First, I shall get the Publishers Marketplace mug. Then this. Manifesting!

I’m running a prototype Science House this summer! It’s a great opportunity for anyone looking to do research outside academia. No application, just do some science, post it on the internet, and send me the link. adammastroianni.com/science-house

“We were wrong about us; it was a beautiful time.” I came across this lovely, bittersweet phrase, ascribed to #Goethe. But I can't find anything about it online. Does anyone know it?

Reading with my kid & thinking about why there are so many beauty & the beast variations & I think it’s because “scary guy gets sad & it’s your responsibility” was a necessary moral to teach girls

Zadie Smith on what ‘freedom’ means .. great train listening with Annie Mac “Having people who mean something to you, who you have duties towards is not unfreedom. It is freedom. It's actual existence.. To be free of meaning is not freedom.”

Marry someone you LIKE. Marry someone who can give constructive criticism. Marry someone that doesn't treat you with contempt. Marry someone who can nurture your inner child. Marry someone who can admit when they are wrong. Marry someone that believes in you. ❤️

Feels so much longer than a year ago

I will always share this poem at least once every year. —Jack Gilbert.

It's pub day for my new book, Signs of Life! Excited to see this out in the world - grateful to everyone who helped tell this story! Goose Lane Editions #bcpoli #cndpoli #endangeredspecies WWF WWF-Canada Goose Lane Editions Wilderness Committee WCS Canada Ecojustice Endangered Ecosystems AncientForestAlliance

Oh shit. Sally Field kinda went off here. “The garment you knit for yourself as a child.” Might have to read her memoir now.

Each year I feel a duty to remind people of the massacre of 3/4 June 1989 around Tiananmen Sq. And each year I get assailed by bots and others, doing the job of Chinese Communist Party propaganda, who claim it didn’t happen or was all a US-plot. Sorry: it did, and it wasn’t.

I cannot recc this course enough -- and am so grateful to still be in touch with the group of writers I met through it!

📢New fellowship alert!📢 The Narwhal is excited to offer a new art and design fellowship for early to mid-career illustrators and/or designers who are Black, Indigenous or people of colour. Deadline to apply: June 30, 2024 (11:59 p.m. PT) thenarwhal.ca/2024-bipoc-art…

poets:

🚨Work Alert 🚨 Nature writer needed to cover a short course on Nature Writing (Creative Writing). 8 flexible weeks. Online okay. DM for details… please move quickly! #naturewriting Please retweet Dara McAnulty Carl Bovis Dr Mya-Rose Craig Nicola Davies Richard Kerridge

Stormzy's #Merky Books and Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 have opened submissions for this year's New Writers' Prize. If you're 18-35, unagented and from an under-represented background, you've got till Mon 2 Sep. Send a 200-word synopsis and a 1,500-word extract. penguin.co.uk/merky-new-writ…

Milan Kundera...

Tame Impala was right. The less I know, the better