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Chief Wordwrangler at Caversham Writers -
https://cavershamwriters.substack.com/
www.maptap.gg
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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The Jase
14 days ago
Russell Brand searches for a Bible passage - with the addition of the Countdown clock music.
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Curtis Brown Creative
about 1 month ago
Join award-winning author
@juliecohen.bsky.social
on our nine-week Zoom course: Writing Romance – Advanced Learn to write... 💘 A heart-warming novel with emotional depth 💘 Characters to fall in love with 💘 A page-turning plot 💌 Apply now:
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Writing Romance – Advanced | Online Course | Curtis Brown Creative
Learn how to take readers on an emotional journey and write an uplifting novel with characters your readers will invest in. This nine-week online course comprises interactive Zoom teaching, workshops…
https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/writing-romance-advanced
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How do you write a play? I don't know, but why let that stop me? Anyone have any tips on how to get started?
#BookSky
#Playwriting
cavershamwriters.substack.com/p/dont-know-...
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Don't know how to write a play? Write one anyway...
WriteFest 20 is open for submissions
https://cavershamwriters.substack.com/p/dont-know-how-to-write-a-play-write
about 1 month ago
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Robin Ince
2 months ago
READING TODAY 2pm
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Robin Ince
3 months ago
I have two solo shows this week LINLITHGOW on Thursday 7pm
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READING on Saturday 2pm
www.fourbearsbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
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Further From Festival 2026: Robin Ince, Thursday 26th February, 7.00pm
ROBIN INCE THURSDAY 26TH FEBRUARY, 7.00PM ST PETER'S CHURCH, 153 HIGH STREET, LINLITHGOW We kick off the Further From Festival with one of our absolute favourite human beings: Robin Ince is heading ba...
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Humanists UK
3 months ago
How to recognise fascism when you see it, by the the Italian humanist and author Umberto Eco. This 14-point guide is taken from Eco's 1995 essay 'Ur-Fascism' – informed by his own experiences of Nazism in the 20th century. Umberto Eco died
#OnThisDay
2016.
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Mar Hicks
3 months ago
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00254-z
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This took my breath away. Outstanding.
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3 months ago
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Damian Barr
3 months ago
Tell me again how nobody cares about theatre, how the arts are elitist, how Shakespeare belongs in the past…
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Share. Share. Share.
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Jon Cooper
3 months ago
Please share. 💔
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Katie Mack
3 months ago
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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I already have my tickets to see
@robinince.bsky.social
,
@aptshadow.bsky.social
and
@mjarlidge.bsky.social
at this year's Fourbears Fest Literary Festival in Reading. See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix.
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#BookSky
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Fourbears Fest 26
The Reading and Caversham Literary Festival returns
https://open.substack.com/pub/cavershamwriters/p/fourbears-fest-26?r=38qpg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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I already have my tickets to see
@robinince.bsky.social
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@aptshadow.bsky.social
and
@mjarlidge.bsky.social
at this year's Fourbears Fest Literary Festival in Reading. See my Caversham Writers latest newsletter for more details and where to get tix.
open.substack.com/pub/caversha...
#BookSky
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Fourbears Fest 26
The Reading and Caversham Literary Festival returns
https://open.substack.com/pub/cavershamwriters/p/fourbears-fest-26?r=38qpg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
4 months ago
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
4 months ago
Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.
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Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/
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IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH FREEDOM IS SLAVERY WAR IS PEACE BOARD OF PEACE
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Dorian Lynskey
4 months ago
Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable
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Jack Bernhardt
4 months ago
TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
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Postcard From The Past
4 months ago
I've had enough.
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Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "Trump has committed these crimes in plain sight and confessed to some of them, like obstruction, on television."
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4 months ago
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Today is an auspicious day. It marks the beginning of my campaign to get George Saunders to present me with the Booker Prize he won for Lincoln in the Bardo. I will be taking no further questions at this point.
4 months ago
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Stephanie Bretherton
4 months ago
Thrilled to get further recognition for The Fire In Their Eyes, and this time for “Visionary Fiction” - thanks to The Independent Press Awards for a “Distinguished Favourite” badge! Maybe all that daydreaming hasn’t been a waste?
@breakthroughbook.bsky.social
#booksky
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Christopher Webb
4 months ago
So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation. This is madness.
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Casey
4 months ago
Also we could have just believed 1000 women instead of going to war with Venezuela. That was an option.
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Andrea Junker
4 months ago
Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.
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Matilda Battersby
5 months ago
My latest for
@thebookseller.com
Thanks to everyone who helped with this one!
www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...
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Authors hit with 'deluge' of scam emails from fake marketers offering paid promotion
Authors are being hit with a "deluge" of scam emails, some of which appear to impersonate industry professionals, marketing agencies and famous authors.
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/authors-hit-with-deluge-of-scam-emails-from-fake-marketers-offering-paid-promotion
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Stephanie Bretherton
5 months ago
Starting to think, or even panic about, the Christmas shopping? Don’t forget books make wonderful presents! And for a thought-provoking, award-winning, fictional thrill-ride for the bookworms in your life, look no further…
#booksky
#giftsforbookworms
@breakthroughbook.bsky.social
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Sarah Churchwell
5 months ago
Reupping this as BBC journalists now can’t even quote the censored statement of fact. This is appalling. Facts matter! Evidence matters! This isn’t even an opinion!
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Rutger Bregman
5 months ago
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Dan Snow
6 months ago
'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them' Winston Churchill, 1936
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Menotti Minutillo
6 months ago
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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Joanne Harris
6 months ago
Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”
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Otto English
6 months ago
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
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Matthew Noe 🔜 TCAF
6 months ago
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Stephanie Bretherton
7 months ago
Happy
#AdaLovelaceday
! And here’s to all the brilliant women who broke the mould and made it important and vital (if often overlooked ) contributions to the worlds of STEM ! If not from a scientist then from a punter who is in awe and has women scientist driving her novels…
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Just bought a couple of cracking reads for
#BookshopDay
from Alex at
@fourbearsbooks.bsky.social
in Caversham, Berkshire.
@booksaremybag.bsky.social
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7 months ago
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Stephanie Bretherton
7 months ago
Happy
#bookshopday
! Some of my happiest moments have been during launches or events in bookshops. And there’s still such a thrill from seeing your books rubbing shoulders with other wonderful authors on the shelves… or even better, in a window, table or till display!
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My local bookshop did a magnificent thing on Christmas Day in 2023 and they're doing it again this year.
@fourbearsbooks.bsky.social
are such an important part of our community, as are all indie shops to theirs, which is why we have
#BookshopDay
today to support them. Support yours!
#BookSky
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Ride over to Henley with me on your 1970s Raleigh Chopper and hear all about memoir writing, Alan Davies’s White Male Stand-Up and Mick Herron on what plot is just an excuse for.
#BookSky
#WritingCommunity
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My Week at Henley Literary Festival
Plus how to support your local bookshop on Bookshop Day.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cavershamwriters/p/my-week-at-henley-literary-festival?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=38qpg
7 months ago
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Keith W. Dickinson
7 months ago
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Curtis Chin 🐵✍️🏳️🌈🇺🇸🎥
8 months ago
#London
, it's
#ESEA
Heritage Month. Join us for a reading from my memoir "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" @guanghwabookshop on Thursday (tomorrow) at 6:00 with my friend @hsienc
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Susie Dent
8 months ago
To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.
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Julia Carrie Wong
8 months ago
this exists it is called thinking
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Alice Roberts
8 months ago
We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
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Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
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Something to look out for,
@louisaguiseauthor.bsky.social
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8 months ago
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No heating, no hot water… but I’m writing on gas 🔥 Read my new short story, plus reflections on Orwell, Didion, and the meaning (or meaninglessness) of words. Also: the four-letter word we need to reclaim…
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#AmWriting
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Plumbing the Depths of Language
A short story on the 'F' word, George Orwell on the decline of the English language, and our members enjoy our latest prompted writing session.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cavershamwriters/p/plumbing-the-depths-of-language?r=38qpg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
8 months ago
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Stephanie Bretherton
8 months ago
Well, I’m a bit speechless! But also absolutely thrilled, grateful and honoured, to have won an
#NYCBigBookAward
for The Fire In Their Eyes! Makes me wonder if I might actually be doing something right and all love, sweat, tears and years are properly worthwhile?
#bookaward
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What's the worst writing advice you ever heard?
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#WritingCommunity
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The Worst Writing Advice Ever
Don't do this.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cavershamwriters/p/the-worst-writing-advice-ever?r=38qpg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
8 months ago
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There seems to be a degree of apathy on the subject of book piracy. Is this because it just isn't that much of a problem, or is it too difficult to fix?
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#WritingCommunity
#Authors
#Writers
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