Come and see me read at the Wirral Poetry Festival competition award ceremony at Gladstone Theatre in Port Sunlight, Wirral next Sunday 5 October. I'm so looking forward to this, and meeting my fellow winners. #birkenheadwriter

Entertaining the masses on a Friday with some Tim Buckley filth. Thanks Coffee and Turntables Vinyl Club and Artefact Liverpool

In conversation: #grifflynch talks to @caththewriter.bsky.social about his debut solo album Blas Melysa'r Mis (Flavour if the Month), bypassing the Welsh language music ceiling + much more! Photo credit: Carys Huws www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/09/25/i...

Having a bit of a clear-out. Looking at this 1990s poster through a 2025 lens - Oasis prepping for a Make Britain Great Again march, b/w Blur pretending to be working class.

I'm giving a talk about the moral and practical value of charity shops on the high street next Monday 29 September at 'In Our Neighbourhood' at Ignite - Little Leaf/One Fine Day, Old Hall St Liverpool igniteliverpool.com/2025/08/in-y...

Diolch o galon @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social a @caththewriter.bsky.social am enwebu 'Elan' am y Wobr Neutron - braint bod ymysg cwmni mor wych! Huge thanks @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social and @caththewriter.bsky.social for nominating 'Elan' for the #NeutronPrize - an honour to be amongst such greats!

I'm so pleased my essay 'Dying Is An Expensive Business' is in Bread Alone : What Happens When We Run Out Of Working-Class Writers , published in March 2026 by Indie Novella. In my essay for the book I talk about widowhood and class. Pre-orders: www.indienovella.co.uk/product-page...

At the Change prose poetry and art exhibition private view yesterday at Sips and Stories, Smithdown Rd Liverpool. Lovely to meet fellow contributors and enjoy some damn fine coffee. Big thanks Cosy Kreations. Exhibition open until 21 September. #flashfiction #poetry

When your husband's bully from 30 years ago who called you 'middle class shite' on meeting you for the first time looks you up on Facebook for a nosey and sends a friend request by mistake. Victory is mine.

Turning my place into a 60s /70s time capsule. With less sexism, racism, classism, homophobia though.

@gwennosaunders.bsky.social, Sage Todz, Panic Shack to perform at @welshmusicprize.bsky.social & Triskel Award winners announced - @caththewriter.bsky.social www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/09/11/g...

My feminist rants column is back. I wrote about classism and misogyny for @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/09/08/i...

Sorting out spare room. Britpop-era birthday card to Andy from family - incredible I can't remember this.

Can't sleep so googling Scott Walker fan art. What the heck.

This week has been a really good reminder to working class women of where you sit in this country

The Changes exhibition opens today at Sip & Stories, Smithdown Road Liverpool, and I'm so pleased to have a flash fiction featured! Exhibition closes 21 September.

@gruffrhys.bsky.social “I asked where this bit of film was from, and it was Quartet by Dustin Hoffman…” words @caththewriter.bsky.social photos @bevunit.bsky.social www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/09/01/i...

Congratulations, Cath @caththewriter.bsky.social #flashfiction @bevunit.bsky.social. For those of you who missed "Rush House" the first time, here's another chance. Pls. click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2018/08/03/r...

To be published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk has been on my wish list for a while. Today's the day: my flash fiction THE DAY WE GOT THE NEWS is online now. Many thanks Elontra, Kate and everyone @ IS&T inksweatandtears.co.uk/cath-holland/

In 'The Day We Got the News', Cath Holland / @caththewriter.bsky.social tracks a couple after receiving important news. Touching on themes of loss, grief, and relationships, this flash piece has some real fire. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/cath-holland/ #InkSweatandTears #Flash #Submission

Big thanks Jade Burns for featuring me again on the BBC Upload show on BBC Radio Merseyside, Manchester, Lancashire & Cumbria tonight. Interview + reading of Rush Hour, originally published by Fictive Dream I appreciate the continued support so very much! Photo @bevunit.bsky.social

Hair salon drama. The manageress is slagging off my employer big time, all guns blazing. The woman doing my hair knows where I work. The unspoken tension level = v high.

I have two new flash fictions out in the wild v shortly. THE DAY WE GOT THE NEWS is published by Ink sweat & tears on Sunday, WIDOW SURPRISES - TOP 20 THINGS THE LEAFLETS DON’T TELL YOU WHEN YOUR HUSBAND DIES is in the Changes exhibition @ Sips & Stories Liverpool 3rd - 21st Sept

My reviews will now be heavily influenced by this. I especially like the part where she grasses up Le Bon for hiding his ciggies.

The @welshmusicprize.bsky.social shortlist for 2025 has been announced and it includes nods for @adwaithmusic.bsky.social @gentlegood.bsky.social Kelly Lee Owens , KEYS, Don Leisure, Sage Todz and more. @caththewriter.bsky.social has the details. www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/08/26/w...

New interview with this one incoming... Tremendous photos: Unitpics

Interesting new art installation in my neighbourhood. Not sure what it's trying to say.

I am very pleased to have a poem in the Morecambe Poetry Festival 2025 book, along with work from Nigel Planer, John Hegley, Henry Normal, Luke Wright. The festival takes place 12-15 September. Photo: The Beatles on the MORECAMBE & Wise show, circa1963.

A new Modern Nature album is always a major event in my house, and a fine excuse for a catchup with Jack Cooper. The Heat Warps out via Bella Union out next Friday. Read all about it over at @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/08/20/m...

I've been a widow for 6 years today. Here's my husband Andy campaigning for the rights of women and girls in 2014. Something which he'd still be supporting now. Raising a glass of good whisky to him and the good men later x

Happy birthday to this horror story.

Today I heard my latest blood donation went to Doncaster to help produce platelets for cancer patients. In Andy's memory, as ever x my.blood.co.uk/sign-up/?int...

First they have a sign with a photo of Christopher Walken ('walkens welcome'), now this. Brilliant.

Gladys is six today. I forgot. She's a cat so neither knows or cares and it's a guesstimate from the cat rescue, but still. I'm very proud of her becoming more relaxed and confident as each year passes. Well done Gladys x

Further criminality

The police have been called and they are on their way.

What a pleasure to talk to Bobby Hecksher of The Warlocks about the new record The Manic Excessive Sounds Of The Warlocks - and the band's history. For @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social Photo: Piper Ferguson www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/07/28/t...

Welsh Language Album Of The Year 2025 shortlist announced @caththewriter.bsky.social @adwaithmusic.bsky.social @ynysmusic.bsky.social #donleisure #pysmelyn and more www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/07/25/w...

I join Sharena Lee Satti over at BCB 106.6fm in beautiful Bradford today at 1pm to talk poetry, prose, spoken word, writing and more bcbradio.co.uk/player/

When you give blood in your husband's memory in the morning but you're playing Welsh pop at Vinyl Club later.

Just because your name is Gladys Priscilla doesn't mean you can sleep on (some of) my Elvis stuff. Shocking behaviour

Such a weekend at the Flash Fiction Festival. Thanks to Jude, Karen + team + volunteers. Superb sessions and talks. Ate my bodyweight in choc brownies. I was delighted to read my flash Cat Napped - from Monsoon - in front of the entire festival on Sunday, thank you @scooterwriter.bsky.social!

I've always wondered whether Michael Crawford owned a copy of Scott 4 given the similarity between Angels Of Ashes and the songs Frank Spencer sang for Baby Jessica in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. youtu.be/VxJd0pkHidw?...

I am runner-up in the Wirral Prize competition at Wirral Poetry Festival! Adjudicated by Pauline Rowe. Thanks to her and congrats everyone! I'm reading my poem at the winners event at Gladstone Theatre, Wirral on 5 October. (Photo: in Liverpool, May 2025 (c) Gary Lambert)

Diolch/Thanks @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social for naming 'Elan' one of their #Albumsoftheyear so far! 🎉 www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/07/09/a... If you want to know more check out my interview with @caththewriter.bsky.social from earlier this year godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/06/09/i...

Reviewing my AirBnB stay in Bath. ‘Strongly suspect the wife, children and both dachshunds had never seen or met anyone from the north before. I could hear Robbie Williams concerts on both nights, the drums mostly. Good teabags supplied. The husband was friendly.’

Excellent day Liverpool Makefest. I so enjoyed speaking at the Ignite Liverpool 'Who owns the land' session. Great audience with challenging yet thoughtful questions. Huge thanks to the dream and dreamy team Neil, Kirsty, Dan. Got given seeds, too

I am feeling a sense of regional pride right now. www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/2528962...

@caththewriter.bsky.social Holland has news on @adwaithmusic.bsky.social Aleighcia Scott, DJ Molly Palmer celebrating Cymru’s historic UEFA Women's #EURO2025 on Saturday in Lucerne, Switzerland . 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/07/01/a...

It's our first date anniversary today. Here he is 6 months and 8 days later on our wedding day. He wasted no time putting a ring on it! Here in 2025, the world turns, turns. Home photos are clearer now, for one. Andy's hair 10/10