‘The Best of Everything’ by @kitdewaal.com follows the life of Paulette, a working-class Caribbean woman in 1970s Birmingham, in a cathartic and uplifting celebration of found families and the life-changing power of kindness and love. Learn more here: womensprize.com/in-conversat...

Novelist Kit de Waal, a leading voice for working class writers, joins Dr Dan Taylor to discuss how to challenge the class ceiling. www.mklitfest.org/online-event... @kitdewaal.com @ouliterature.bsky.social

#FictionSunday @litfest.bsky.social and what a lineup we had today ! More #fiction on Tuesday evening with @kitdewaal.com and more events to follow right through until next Sunday evening 📚

Join us online with author @kitdewaal.com on Mon evening for the second episode of our Borders in Literature series with @ouliterature.bsky.social looking at the class ceiling and ways of breaking through it. Free event, all welcome. www.mklitfest.org/borders #books #socialclass #literature

This is lowkey magnificent. What a positive and ongoing reaction to a personal tragedy.

Happy publication day, @liznugent.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉

Job!

Wooooo!

Love this so much

Great explanation and not one I’ve heard put so succinctly before

Five woman authors who I've read five books of... Anne Tyler Flannery O'Connor @kitdewaal.com Enid Blyton Claire Keegan

After an excellent discussion yesterday with Tim Marshall @mklitfest.bsky.social we are looking forward to next week's talk with @kitdewaal.com and Dr Dan Taylor Routes and Roots - Breaking Through the Class Ceiling. Monday 16 March 7pm, on Zoom Tcikets here: www.mklitfest.org/borders

Novelist Kit de Waal, a leading voice for working class writers, joins Dr Dan Taylor to discuss how to challenge the class ceiling. www.mklitfest.org/online-event... @kitdewaal.com @ouliterature.bsky.social #literature #politics #borders #geography

Congratulations @kitdewaal.com: #TheBestOfEverything on @womensprize.bsky.social 2026 fiction long list 🤞 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Book 17 Title: Becoming Dinah Author: @kitdewaal.com Rating: ***1/2 Why: it made for a good plane book, not too heavy, but engaging. It grew on me.

“When I look at the list of titles that we are looking forward to in 2026, it is remarkable how almost all are Irish,” @kennysbookshop.bsky.social says “...how remarkable it is that an island as small as ours can generate so much talent over so many diverse genres" www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Irish Authors Longlisted for 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine have been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Kit de Waal's The Best of Everything is a tender and unforgettable story of found family and the long way back from heartbreak. The Benefactors by…

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Nine titles from independent publishers and seven debuts have been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, including books by Wendy Erskine, Lily King, Katie Kitamura and Kit de Waal 👇 #BookSky

Two Irish authors on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine nominated for award worth £30,000 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

With thanks for support and inspiration @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social @disabilityarts.bsky.social @sistersofrida.bsky.social @together2012cic.bsky.social @kitdewaal.com @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @abirfellows.bsky.social

Delighted to see @kitdewaal.com and @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social amongst the sixteen incredible authors on the @womensprize.bsky.social for Fiction longlist

Novelist Kit de Waal, a leading voice for working class writers, joins Dr Dan Taylor to discuss how to challenge the class ceiling. www.mklitfest.org/online-event... @kitdewaal.com @ouliterature.bsky.social

What a joy to be included with such wonderful women! Thank you @womensprize.bsky.social

Thrilled!

Novelist Kit de Waal, a leading voice for working class writers, joins Dr Dan Taylor to discuss how to challenge the class ceiling. www.mklitfest.org/online-event... @kitdewaal.com @ouliterature.bsky.social

Some of the men of the 369th (Harlem Hellfighters) who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action during World War One (1919) www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Massie goes full beast mode today. Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.

📣 Due to a last minute cancellation there is one space available on my Six Month Writing Course starting this weekend @gladlib.bsky.social To snap it up contact [email protected] www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/the-si... Please share far and wide 🙏🏽

If you haven't already stumbled across Short Works on BBC Sounds, do give it a whirl. Lots of new & some established writers. Beautifully read by lyrical voices. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @loujnicholls.bsky.social @littlebear75.bsky.social @intothehinterlands.co.uk

📣 Due to a last minute cancellation there is one space available on my Six Month Writing Course starting this weekend @gladlib.bsky.social To snap it up contact [email protected] www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/the-si... Please share far and wide 🙏🏽

What a great idea, to encourage older writers!

The fucking Philistines that schedule a Febreeze advert in the most emotional scene of Manchester By The Sea. 3 minutes no less. Fuck! I even have time to type this.

This one hits hard.

Wow.

I think the public needs to stop calling it the "Epstein" files and rename it to the "Monsters Among Us" and start hunting each and everyone of them down. Naming it after one man, makes it seem as the now dead man was responsible for all these atrocities. No, they walk among us still

Don’t forget the Never Too Late Award from the Bridport Prize which recognises entries from writers over 60 across all categories of prizes. Link below Please share :)

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Greatly enjoyed this memoir. @kitdewaal.com #savedbybooks

On Tuesday 17th March at 7pm, we'll be welcoming @kitdewaal.com to Lancaster to discuss her latest novel - THE BEST OF EVERYTHING - with @lancasteruni.bsky.social's Zoe Lambert! 'Takes an ordinary life and renders it extraordinary' Monica Ali Tickets £8, book now: geni.us/LFSpring26

'A more vibrant arts sector brought myriad benefits such as greater economic activity, improved mental wellbeing, critical thinking and innovation...' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

It was such a wonderful time from start to finish - thank you for having me :)

#jobs #books #charity Bookbanks is a wonderful idea and the wonderful @renardpress.com has a great scheme ‘Read it Forward’ who partners with them. Take a look here - renardpress.com/play-it-forw...

I love a bit of sop

Books and food for children, who wouldn't want this job? 🧒👧🏾🧕📚♥️ (I too am an Ambassador/Volunteer/part-time Employee for a book bank in my hometown, and highly endorse this work!) #Literacy #Books #KidsBooks #Read

I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia. Link below. Please share far and wide :)

I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia. Link below. Please share far and wide :)

Brilliant

This is great. Spread far and wide

£500 given out to a working class writer every month. Details in link. Please share :)