New Writing Prize below - two great organisations. Please share :)

"Breakthrough are searching for their next cohort of campaigners for their accelerator programme. The programme is a year-long support package including help with advocacy, digital, media and all other types of support a campaign needs to win. And it’s all free!"

My Name is Leon was first published 10 years ago today. I’ve written about my Decade of Joy on Substack. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/kitdewaa...

Congrats to @helencphillips.bsky.social for winning the @climate-fiction.bsky.social prize for Hum. @frediotto.bsky.social @kitdewaal.com @atlanticbooks.bsky.social #climatefiction #clifi #climatechange #environment #fiction

Maybe the last Friday of the month is payday for you. Maybe it isn’t. Maybe you should apply for this grant.

“Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.” ― John O’Donohue writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

Listen! @lauratisdall.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the amazing "We Have Come to Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain" newbooksnetwork.com/we-have-come...

There are a couple of tickets still available - get in quick! www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/memoir...

5 🌟 to The Best of Everything by @kitdewaal.com - thanks @helenliz.bsky.social & @biggreenbooks.bsky.social for my lovely #buyastrangerabook pressie 🥰 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Passing this along, with thanks to the OP. There are many specific courses I want to look into, as well as a lot of "electives" I have never encountered before. And, yes, it's free. #mit #onlinelearning #educateyourself

Now this is a PROPER review from a reader, a complete stranger. Makes the graft all worth it @kitdewaal.com Independent really seems like my happy place. #workingclasswriting #memoir

"You're an author? Would I know anything you've written?" "Have you heard of the book Eat Pray Love?" "Oh wow. I have, actually!" "Well, one of my books was printed in a typeface not totally dissimilar to the one in that."

I just finished The Best of Everything by @kitdewaal.com and am raving about it. It's excellent. So much that I'll buy a copy for someone who wants it. My first 5 star read this year.

ICYMI: 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

Book 26 Title: The Best of Everything Author: @kitdewaal.com Published: 2025 Rating: ***** (Yes, 5 stars! You'll have realised by now that I mark hard, so this is something of a rarity!!) Why: Something reminded me to read more of her work, so I did and it is excellent!

74. The Best of Everything by @kitdewaal.com A tender and touching novel from the #WomensPrize fiction longlist about family, loss and attachment. @womensprize.bsky.social

#LibrariesChangeLives. Let'e have some more please. @librariesconnected.bsky.social @iainmoore.bsky.social check my TL from last night and toda for more of these, let'e get it trending. #BookSky 📚📚📚📚📚

MIT is also a fairly open campus with a public MIT museum, a public art museum, amazing architecture and beautiful grounds. Lots of activities and fun stuff going on there.

Oh and also Project Gutenberg - 75,000 free audio and e-books. www.gutenberg.org

Check this out. Free courses online from MIT. ocw.mit.edu I went in and looked at Writing About Literature and it's all there, syllabus, reading list, the lot. All free. Please share.

‘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...