It's here! Check out our "Top 10 Reads Of 2025" in @NoemaMag, and read these amazing pieces or listen to our playlist. Enjoy! www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...

AI has scraped my second book and produced this shitty comic. Firstly, the winds are in all the wrong places. Secondly, what the hell is happening in that second panel? Thirdly, this is plagiarism and totally unlicensed. Have any other authors had this done 'for free' to their books?

@nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social offers a spectacular essay about the importance of fully understanding one’s journey from beginning to end. This essay was so good that I read it twice in one night.

There are still a couple of places left on this residential writing retreat being led by Nick Hunt & myself at @hawkwoodcft.bsky.social Students will read, write, walk, workshop & write some more... all in a supportive & creative environment. From Oct 17-19: www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programm...

Well this is pretty exciting www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/books-and-au...

Morning-coffee reading, entering the Uzbek desert with its vanishing saline inland sea from the Southern California desert, not far from our own. Missed this from @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social & @noemamag.com back in January (when I might not have sweated so much while reading, as the sun rises).

My essay for @noemamag.com, about the act of *not* walking home from Istanbul in 2012, has been selected for the Best Sports Writing of 2025. I am now officially a sports writer, much to my surprise!

Have any small publishers/ indie booksellers out there been affected by this? Would be interested in hearing from you www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups

The former Attorney General of Israel, Michael Benyair is now calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide. "To eternal shame. Jews, who suffered a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza. Shame, rage, and sorrow"

First draft editing day two, with hound. @johnmurrays.bsky.social

Pope Leo slams 'barbarity' of Gaza war as civil defence says Israeli gunfire kills 44

It's utterly mad. These people are the opposite of terrorists. THEY WANT PEACE. The police know they're not terrorists. The government knows they're not terrorists. Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

BREAKING: Palestine Action are on a roof above Elbit's Israeli drone maker in Shenstone, Staffordshire. From here, actionists are able to dismantle the factory and halt the production of weaponry.

Free Palestine. Shut Elbit down.

"The result is a book of anthropology as much as ornithology..." Lovely to see 'The Parakeeting of London' referenced in the latest installment of Michael Kerr's memoir/travelogue 'Lighting out of Lockdown'... deskboundtraveller.com/lighting-loc...

The word is "massacres"

Red Line For Gaza is a movement bringing together all of our voices to end the killing and suffering of children in Gaza: redlineforgaza.org.uk Together, we will use our voice to demand action every week. Until the UK Government acts, we will not stop. 1/4

I just voted against proscribing Palestine Action, a civil disobedience group, as a terrorist organisation. But I'm furious that in doing so, the government forced me and others to vote against proscribing two other clearly terrorist groups. Cynical and dangerous from govt.

Starving Palestinians are being mowed down every day, simply for queuing for food. That is the real crime. My speech against the government's proscription of Palestine Action.

If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences? This is where we show them how solidarity works. My latest with the great @doubledown.news

I wrote a book about the named winds of Europe. Now the Met Office are inviting the public to name upcoming storms, made likelier by fossil-fuel-driven climate change. A campaign is underway to name the next five BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell. Do so here... www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq. Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes. Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same. The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.

"Visceral, bleak, nauseating, efficient. It's a story crafted by its negative space, the things unsaid. Powerful." Wonderful comment by Sage M on Substack

Israel is being portrayed as the victim as it launches a war of aggression against Iran. It's committing genocide, invading its neighbours, committing every war crime under the sun. Feel like you're losing your mind? Well, you're not. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On Dark Mountain's Substack today, here's an old story from me: the troubling tale of a mythical creature dragged from a Welsh mountain lake, a fable about the violence humans enact on what they do not understand... Read (or listen) for free here: darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/to-the-bone

#booksky recommended for #literaryfiction 🖋️📚💙 Essay-appreciation: On Nobel Prizewinner William Golding's novel The Inheritors. By Nick Hunt, travel author and novelist. foxedquarterly.com/nick-hunt-wi...

2018 #8 Another personal favourite. The author chases four of Europe's named winds, the Bora of the Adriatic coast, the Foehn in the Alps, the Mistral of Provence and the Helm in Northern England. Thoroughly engaging and informative and an immensely enjoyable read. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💙📚 #booksky #books

Sitting in the yard with Nick Hunt's WHERE THE WILD WINDS ARE, about following Europe's regional winds, I aptly had to stop reading to track down the source of mysterious creaks and cracks every time the wind stiffened.

My latest for @perspectivemedia.bsky.social: how ecocide and the end of history led to paranormal sightings on a (now former) island in the vanishing Aral Sea www.perspectivemedia.com/the-place-of...

Several months of travelling; two years of agonised head-banging; a moment of genuine giving up; three months of words falling into place. I think I've just finished a book.

It's in the wild! I've been thinking about this book for 6 years, and today, at last, it's out. It's a story about change, and how we cope with change, and how we think about our future. There's a lot of hope in it, and really, at heart, it's a love story. I hope you enjoy it 🐺 tinyurl.com/yu7y5jn4

(1/5) 🔥 In Uzbekistan’s ghostlands, where the Aral Sea once breathed, pilgrims still stack bricks to delay the end. Nick Hunt’s journey through ruins and rebirth asks: Can life return after ecological death? 🧱🌊🦐 www.noemamag.com/signs-of-lif... @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social @noemamag.com

“Once upon a time giants sculpted the sand, but now it is us who are the giants. The question we must ask now is how we use our power.” — @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social Read this week’s essay from Volume 5: Time, “In the Wake of the Sandbound.” buff.ly/RWAooT0

Traversing the Curonian Spit, home to vast sands that move, rise, and may disappear entirely due to human activity, @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social journeys through the landscape’s buried past to understand how we have altered geological time. Read “In the Wake of the Sandbound.” buff.ly/VldxZZf

Hello, I am a researcher of mixtures: early modern literature, big feelings, writing, the natural world, love— those sorts of things. I have a little substack to put my most casual mixtures on: ofsmith.substack.com

"I now have two chapters of a novel and several ideas for other novels, a huge amount of inspiration and insight, and I am so excited about what lies ahead.” This could be you! Join me for a six-week online course in writing speculative fiction nickhuntscrutiny.com/writing-sci-...

Writers wanting to try their hand at writing speculative fiction, look no further! @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social is running a 6-week online writing course. He is brilliant and there are still places available! nickhuntscrutiny.com/writing-sci-... #fantasy #scifi #clifi #speculativefiction #writing

My dear clever friend is running this course, which will be fantastic. Literally.

There are still some places available on what's going to be a brilliant course - details below...

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

The end of the first productive writing week I've had in months, making progress with my next book. Finally some of this nonsense is making sense!

Join me for a six-week course in writing imaginative and speculative fiction – from sci-fi and fantasy to alternate history – whether you are a published author or a curious beginner. Online on Wednesdays from 30th April-4th June. More info here: nickhuntscrutiny.com/writing-sci-...

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

A terrific chapter in a terrific book — one of my reading highlights last year, and wow did it make me itch to get into the woods.

Six years ago I went to Białowieża, Europe's largest remaining remnant of primeval wildwood, to research my book Outlandish. It was a journey into an ecosystem constantly balanced between living and dying – a place of rot and ooze that felt astonishingly alive. #internationaldayofforests

Join me for a six-week course in writing imaginative and speculative fiction – from sci-fi and fantasy to alternate history – whether you are a published author or a curious beginner. Online on Wednesdays from 30th April-4th June. More info here: nickhuntscrutiny.com/writing-sci-...

I came to the sacrifice zone expecting to find a story of loss, but I also found stories I didn’t expect: the burial place of the first human, the birthplace of apocalypse, and a clock counting down to the end of days. My photo essay on Dark Mountain today dark-mountain.net/after-the-ap...

There are still places available for this at the end of March. It's going to be a great week!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... I was on the radio talking about the new book for the first time today - just a couple more months till it’s out! It’s a great programme - lots of space with a longer format - and Erica Fudge is brilliant on the importance of wolves to culture.