My debut pamphlet, The First Thirty Years EP, is out now. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... 'Barrett writes with formal agility and emotional charge, drawing lines between private collapse and public failure without sacrificing lyrical control.'

I’ve abandoned this for a while. This week my debut poetry pamphlet comes out with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. Please buy, read it, take a photo of it and post it, whatever you can to support writers and small presses.

Can't wait to see this develop. Shout out @newwritingnorth.bsky.social

I love you Durham but fuck me. We could have kept Darren Grimes in his ma’s basement.

📢 Every working class writer belongs in their union! 📚 In a survey by The Bookseller a staggering 78% of working-class authors said their background had hindered their career. [1] www.thebookseller.com/news/survey-...

Hi you lovely muggy boneheads. I've joined Bluesky.

Isn't this wonderful! @thebookseller.com @waterstones.bsky.social @bookcornerhx.bsky.social #BritishBookAwards

Holding a sign or refusing to clap as Trump walks past isn’t resistance. It’s a pathetic attempt to get your face on social media, especially when many of those ‘resisting’ are appalled by the treatment of Ukraine but are more than happy to see Israel kill children.

People who aren't fans of wrestling have woken up today thinking it was a normal weekend, blissfully unaware that John Cena is a horrible man.

CM Punk wearing a teachers’ union tee on WWE on Netflix… voice of the voiceless.

30% of arts leaders in England were privately educated, compared with 7% national average. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures

Insane longlist. Great to see Northern writers getting some well-deserved love for their work! www.walterscottprize.co.uk/the-2025-wal...

Nothing punk about anything this man does. He's like the kid at a house party when you're 16 who shows up when you did everything to avoid them finding out about it.

Read this in two sittings. A harrowing exploration of how people can descend into unspeakable evil and one I’ll be recommending from now on. @northodoxpress.bsky.social

WE WON'T BE HOME FOR TEA

And also… For #ReadIndies @andotherstories.bsky.social @cipherpress.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com @honfordstar.bsky.social @commapress.bsky.social @deadinkbooks.bsky.social @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social @peepaltreepress.bsky.social @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social #BookSky

February is #ReadIndies month - read books from small independent publishers. So… here’s a few to follow: @renardpress.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social @charcopress.com @northodoxpress.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

And as well as being a supporter of Indie Presses for years. I might just have my own book out with an indie press in February. Saltburn. Book your visit now. It’s a place you’ll never forget. renardpress.com/books/saltbu...

Well this is minging.

Wow, look, they all seem to have a certain look, dont they? Maybe it's cultural. WE NEED A NATIONAL INQUIRY ANYTHING LESS IS A COVER-UP.

There's no debate -- this argument has one side / Humanity over bigotry every single time / Why do they care how other people choose to live? / I yearn to know, but I have zero fucks left to give. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1zk...

‘Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.’ ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. Tomorrow’s #BookWormSat is Woolf’s birthday ~ we’ll be celebrating her work and that of her female contemporaries.

Novels that offer a reminder that new beginnings are always possible, even in the most challenging of circumstances ⤵️ thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

not a great day for the 'you call everyone you disagree with a nazi' crowd is it

This is actually real. Fucking Hell.

Trump won the election, and I'm sure people have their reasons for voting for him, but it's hard not to think they're all just stupid bastards.

Look, if you have to come out and say shit like, 'Nah nah, it wasn't a Nazi salute because... [insert some bullshit reason about X degrees to the left etc. etc.]', then it probably came across like a Nazi salute...

This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.

Can't imagine the anger and fear that trans people in the US are experiencing today.

ANGER IS A GIFT m.youtube.com/watch?v=H_vQ...

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

Cut down on the expensive coffees and Netflix subs. It's easy.

Now that the West is hurtling towards the Right, it is even more essential to celebrate art from marginalised and oppressed groups.

BREAKING 🚨 A ceasefire agreement between the Israeli government and Hamas has been reached. The deal secures the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, the release of Palestinian detainees held by Israel, and the withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza.

WWE is killing it right now.

On this day in 1963, The Bell Jar was published for the first time under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. This copy of the book from our archive was the first edition to bear Sylvia Plath's own name, with a cover by Faber designer Shirley Tucker.

Gotta love ppl who work in book shops

To whom are you beholden?

Hello lovely people! Great news! There's a @northodoxpress.bsky.social Starter Pack! I'm on here, along with some stonkingly amazing authors! Hooray! go.bsky.app/Cfe3BXc

Congratulations on getting to this point! It's a tremendous achievement. I agree that handing your work over is terrifying, but if it helps, in December I had two people sing your novel's praises to me within two days! There's a lot of belief in your work & I'm very excited for it :)

Handing your work over is terrifying. Especially for working-class writers who haven't had a leg-up. Those writers who have no connections or hundreds to spend on professional editing. Without the Northern Writers' Awards, I'd have had no assistance AT ALL on this wip. And now, it's done.

Spending some time with books I 'should' have read by now. Finished The English Patient and now onto Demon Copperhead. Just stunning.

Musk is just a billionaire version of Jay from the inbetweeners.

Bunch of new followers over the last 24hrs. I'll get back to following people, but welcome! Hopefully people have found me on working-class writers lists and found a load of other similar writers.

2025 and still not ejecting things from my laptop properly. Fuck the law.

✅️ sledging ✅️ helped a stuck driver ✅️ snowball fight ✅️ shovelled loads