The Parallel Paths one of our favourite memoirs of 2025 so far, from and it's from a one this county's top-notch working-class writers.

I’m at Helmsley Literature Festival this weekend talking about walking, writing, mourning and the north with Wendy Pratt. Come! helmsleyarts.co.uk/whats-on/hel...

15/10: Nikolai Duffy in conversation with @jennashworth.bsky.social for COMMON. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/common-nik...

‘I’ve decided this is my mid-life crisis. Shirley Valentine in a North Face jacket.’ Read an extract from @jennashworth.bsky.social’s ‘The Parallel Path: Love, Grit and Walking the North’, our August Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/jenn...

"You don’t really ever walk 192 miles, you just take one step, then another, and that’s how books are written too. I type a sentence, I follow the line, and a book unfurls behind me." @jennashworth.bsky.social interviewed for @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/the-...

'There’s a joy that comes after submitting to what’s bigger than you. It took me a while to find it.' @jennashworth.bsky.social speaks to Karen Lloyd about anti-heroics, tethered beetles, and walking with Wainwright and Wordsworth breathing down her neck www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/the-...

Watch this space for our interview with @jennashworth.bsky.social next week 🥾

Wonderful to see my excellent colleague's new book in my timeline 👇 @jennashworth.bsky.social "The Parallel Paths"

So delighted by this personal review of Notes Made While Falling by Scott Manley Hadley. It's been a while since this book came out and I am always so pleased to know that now and again people are still finding it.

A brief author interview for @hinterlandnf.bsky.social in which I namecheck Beyonce, @jennashworth.bsky.social and @christinamartin.bsky.social's incredible Ashes to Admin. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I think that one of the fundamental questions one faces as an artist is: what do you do when you don't know what to do? Living with this, testing it, is at the heart of everything, and it is what Gen AI wants to deprive us of, the privilege of uncertainty.

What a privilege to hear @jennashworth.bsky.social and Clive Parkinson in conversation with Zoe Lambert this evening discussing Jenn’s new book #TheParallelPath @litfest.bsky.social @billswainson.bsky.social . It was beautiful & emotional event and it was a full house !

You should read. @jennashworth.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

In S2 E13, recorded in 2021, I was joined by the brilliant @jennashworth.bsky.social and we discussed 'The Signal-Man' by Charles Dickens. Is there a ghost in this story or not...? 🚂 🥊 Listen & subscribe to The Ghost Story Book Club wherever you get your pods 👻

A very productive day yesterday with #trustees @litfest.bsky.social discussing ideas and plans for the future. Our next event is this month and will be a celebration of @jennashworth.bsky.social new book - The Parallel Path. Tickets are still available. www.linkedin.com/posts/litfes...

A total pleasure to interview @jennashworth.bsky.social for this week's @thebookseller.com about her forthcoming "The Parallel Path: Love, Grit and Walking the North" @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

My @thebookseller.com #nonfiction Book of the Month by July is this marvellous multi-layered north country odyssey by @jennashworth.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

Let's make Northern #Booksky grow! We've put together a list of Manchester & Northern writers we could find here, so check it out and give everyone a follow. This is, by all means, not an exhaustive list, so please tag who we've missed👇 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Loved the many layers of this northern odyssey by @jennashworth.bsky.social. Out in July @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

Pairing cakes with my reading. Cinnamon buns go great with @jennashworth.bsky.social’s forthcoming The Parallel Path.

ICYMI @outspokenacademy.bsky.social four-week online Creative Non-Fiction course with @amykey.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social is open for registration. Course dates: 3–28 March 2025 Find out more & register now > www.outspokenldn.com/academy-crea...

We are opening submissions on the theme of GRIEF tomorrow! We are looking for poems and short CNF about grief. By this we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, 🧵

OPEN for registration: our new Out-Spoken Academy online Creative Non-Fiction Course led by @amykey.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social ! Dates: 3-28 March 2025 Workshops: Monday & Friday, 7-9pm UK Feedback 121 with each tutor Find out more & register > www.outspokenldn.com/academy-crea...

NEW! We're excited to announce that our Creative Non-Fiction 4-week online course with @jennashworth.bsky.social & @amykey.bsky.social is open for registration! Dates: 3–28 March 2025 Classes: 7–9pm UK, Mon & Fri +individual tutorial with each tutor Learn more: www.outspokenldn.com/academy-crea...

Now seems like a good time to share this series I made about how writers construct 'truth'. I look at memoir, novels and autofiction and talk to a host of incredible people including Olivia Laing, @sathnam.bsky.social and @jennashworth.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I was going to do an unboxing video but I struggled to get into the plastic shrink wrap and had to go off and find some scissors, so here are some photos instead starring my absolute delight and also my completely uninterested dog. Pre-order it now (please). #booksky linktr.ee/adamjfarrer

A good book & a special dog = bliss for the latest guest on the Pet Projects pod. Dip into a fascinating chat with author @jennashworth.bsky.social about her life, work and pet love by following the link in bio. Brand-new episode coming soon. As ever, best listened to through 🎧 #podcast #petprojects

Because an essay collection isn’t the easiest thing to convey in a single post, here's a thread outlining each of the essays, which are 'by turns tender, disarmingly honest and achingly funny' (@tawseefkhan.bsky.social) Pre-order it now if you like. linktr.ee/adamjfarrer

2025 report so far: wrote all afternoon, did some research into what former textile mills in my hometown of Preston are currently being used for, had a good tea and watched Crocodile Dundee. I am extremely happy.

thecuraeprize.uk The 2025 #Curae prize for writer-carers opens on New Year’s Day (GMT!) Unpaid carers UK and ROI - this one’s just for you. Everything you need is on the site and it’s free to enter - for fun and focus, or maybe for steps into industry. Prizes are amazing Please share

Just started @jennashworth.bsky.social ‘s Notes Made While Falling - worth my time from the outset newwritingnorth.com/journal/inte...

I have been writing all morning and I can now confidently announce that a Bad Sex Award is somewhere in my future.

Are people still making New Year’s resolutions?

Good morning good morning

Happy Christmas! Suggested festive listening: the Pet Projects bumper Christmas special - with acclaimed author and Professor of Creative Writing @jennashworth.bsky.social & her beloved dog, Brodie. Enjoy! 🎄❄️⛄️😺🐶🐭🐰https://open.spotify.com/episode/3XV8qE8QA2kzPOoeiADH7b?si=5965c8e81b2d4271

🚨NEW EPISODE - OUT NOW🚨 Join me, Jenn Ashworth (@jennashworth.bsky.social) and Andrew Michael Hurley as we discuss three Christmas ghost stories. Out wherever you get your podcasts! Just search: The Ghost Story Book Club.

Weds 18 December LIVE-STREAMED episode of my podcast The Ghost Story Book Club with the fantastic @jennashworth.bsky.social and Andrew Michael Hurley Pay whatever you like for your ticket! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1074490382...

Something about this is warming my heart. Real effort has been made...

Second, on Weds 18 Dec, my guests will be authors @jennashworth.bsky.social & Andrew Michael Hurley. You can book a place and tickets are pay whatever you like, any amount is welcome. I hope some of you can make it! Adam www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ghost-...

Have passed this thread on to my Masters students - a nicely-curated (ie short, but every link is useful) list of resources for writers looking to get published, and keep the wolf from the door in the current chilly climate.

Here's quite a good basic briefing on the university crisis which is now shifting from the chronic to the acute stage. Basically, central government has to do something now, or regret it for a very long time. theweek.com/education/uk...

JOIN US for a live-streamed episode of the podcast on Weds 18 December. One of my guests is the brilliant @jennashworth.bsky.social, author of Fell and Ghosted. Tickets are Pay What You Decide. Don't miss it! Book now...

I have a research related request. Do you know of any stories or novels where dead bodies are narrators? Not ghosts (love ghost stories, but not this time) but actual corpses. Not zombies or vampires. Just people - who are dead. Like Faulker, in As I Lay Dying.

Would you like to join me, my pals @adamzed.bsky.social and Andrew Michael Hurley as we discuss Christmas ghost stories on the @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social LIVESTREAMED CHRISTMAS SPECIAL? (Yes! The answer is YES YOU DO.) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ghost-...

This one is loads better… m.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Dy... #totp

Oh there he is wafting about his bloody gladioli. #totp

and here’s Mark Owen singing a song with no words and no music. Never been so pleased to be mainly deaf.

I’m so tired Top of the Pops 2 is on the telly and I’m having to watch it as the alternative is standing up and finding the remote. It has been a week, ending with egg fried rice and East17.

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

An excellent gaggle of colleagues put together by my pal and colleague @elencaldecott.bsky.social - reply to her post if you want to be included.