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Writing tip: be born into immense privilege.

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coming to Newcastle soon!!!!!! www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla/events/...

The paperback of my latest book is out on Thursday, so I'm sharing the meme again. #booksky harpercollins.co.uk/products/bro...

Board of Peace - Season 1

Hotel breakfast buffets are the best. We're eating bacon and fruit and little muffins and cheese and have orange juice, coffee and smoothies on the go. Anything goes. Give me this over any other dining experience.

Have eaten like a queen today. Eggs Benedict on soda bread for breakfast. M&S Lasagna for dinner. Coffee and carrot cake for writing chat break. Hotel burger and chips with a cheeky glass of wine for tea. Also wrote some words. Success.

SCHOOLS! Would you like £500 of FREE books?! I do a thing called "The Big Green Books 500 Club" Lovely people donate £1 each week & when I get £500, I send a school a load of books. We're close to £500, so if you'd like some books, get in touch! www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

Beyond excited that the world’s best bookstore, No Alibis is offering a special edition signed copy of #FewAndFarBetween with fancy endpapers, an extra essay and a bespoke print of the Lough Neagh archipelago. Pre-order the hell out of these beauties, when they’re gone, they’re gone.

Writing pals, I'm in #Belfast Mon-Thurs next week for a little writing retreat. Will be working mainly out of Crescent Arts Centre and would love to have a cuppa and chat writing with anyone who's around 😀

Writing pals, I'm in #Belfast Mon-Thurs next week for a little writing retreat. Will be working mainly out of Crescent Arts Centre and would love to have a cuppa and chat writing with anyone who's around 😀

Sitting up in bed because my nose is so blocked from latest lurgy kind of night. Doubt sleep will happen so time to start on this one. Obsessed with this series.

Please accept a late entry in the shape of my Indian runner duck tattoo. #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 6: Real agents don't seek out authors to represent. Real publishers don't seek out authors to publish. Neither agents nor publishers should ask authors for money. Publishers pay authors an advance plus royalties: agents take their cut from the deals they make for you.

Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the land The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine

David Walliams dropped by publisher over alleged inappropriate behaviour

Well. Unexpected.

Over 150 calls for literary competitions and submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in December 2025. Please share & best of luck! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

First the Guides and now the WI - two institutions with a history of welcoming trans folk. Each of them forced to now exclude people they have welcomed. This is bullying, pure and simple. Well-funded, systematic and relentless bullying. It is disgusting. Who is next?

Washing says 20 minutes left. HMRC say 20 minutes wait on phone. Who will buckle first...

Saw a bloke on the West Road with what I thought was a nice scarf but was actually a magnificent beard blowing in the wind.

✍️ We’re hiring! Link to apply in our stories and the link in our bio. For the first time in over two years we are looking for an individual (maybe you!) to join our team as a bookseller and social media manager. Apply: forms.gle/UUKUjuis1ZSum9gT7 (1/3)

Final few hours of our short story competition! You can still enter here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

First ever sighting of my writing in an actual bookshop. Absolute scenes.

I'm excited to share my debut novel Communion will be released in April 2026 via @atlanticbooks.bsky.social.

First ever sighting of my writing in an actual bookshop. Absolute scenes.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

[putting up halloween decorations] spider who lives is my hallway: THIS IS GENTRIFICATION

Spook Night in town and some very....interesting hosting from a local dignitary. Scenes straight out of Alan Partridge. Wholesome family fun 🫠

If the onset of winter gets you down, take solace in the fact that it’s just 15,000,000 seconds* till the swifts get back. *give or take

Can you recommend a really good video editor? (Someone who is willing (for smallish but regular amounts of money) to edit videos and also post them to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc?)

Anyone want to give me £2.5million to save Rydal Mount from the inevitable development any private buyer with that much cash to spare will subject it to? So awful to see this important piece of literary history being sold way. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Out on the road with an author today. A lovely reminder why I spend so much time sending emails and wrangling people and schools and books. Belly laughs. Books in hands. Storytelling. Proper magic.

As I live and breathe, a full-time gig as a 'book gifting assistant'?! Imagine telling people this is your job! It's unbelievably cool.

Bit of chat after a comedy gig last night with lots of connections and think that the Northern version of seven degrees of Kevin Bacon is seven degrees of Ann Cleeves....

Call for Submissions: The New Material Ecopoetics! How do you write with nature? We're seeking unpublished experimental eco-poetry (lyric, visual, material & sound) for Fall 2025. Send your big swings by May 15! Check out our submission guidelines at buff.ly/3EUtM6m

A busy work week but also a satisfying one. New tattoo, crocuses for days and had a hand in getting the 2025 programme ready for launch. I will be taking to my bed for the next two days.

A busy work week but also a satisfying one. New tattoo, crocuses for days and had a hand in getting the 2025 programme ready for launch. I will be taking to my bed for the next two days.

Writers looking for opportunities! ✍️ Last week's Five Things Friday post is now available to free subscribers! Opportunities from @mslexia.bsky.social @gladlib.bsky.social @northerngravy.bsky.social & more! 👀 halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...

Want to rant about some awfully behaved kids on the bus and how it makes me sad about humans but everything is bad enough so here's a lovely still light sky and I'm allowed to start walking without my moon boot now so slowly slowly things get brighter.

Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures will be published in one week. Please pre-order it, come and see me on my tour and spread the word. I am so proud of this book and, honestly, I think you’ll like it. #booksky linktr.ee/adamjfarrer

Eagerly awaiting the local news report on how our local town is the happiest place to live when they had to set up a separate FB group prefixed 'lovely' as the main page is such a cesspit of negativity and whataboutery.

Latest newsletter is out, packed with writing opportunities to help you get your words out into the world....please share with your writing friends (or even your writing enemies) #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/sarahdav...

Plan for the day: Breakfast De-pyjama Write & send newsletter Catch up on a few bits of work Stare out of the window Check list of my enemies Play Stardew Valley Watch Gladiators & eat tiramisu

Sending out my semi-regular newsletter packed with writing opportunities tomorrow...been a bigger gap than usual but hopefully something for everyone. Sign up for it here... sarahdavywrites.substack.com