Look at the writers confirmed for #baytales26 🤩 Sat 28 Feb, get tickets now! baytales.com/shop-2/ @markedwardsauthor.bsky.social @leodora.bsky.social @sarahgovett.bsky.social @alexandrakbenedict.bsky.social @drjennymorris.bsky.social @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social @transworldbooks.bsky.social

NOW PLAYING A fractured family, and a son adrift. THE SON by Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton 📅 until Saturday 🎟 Tickets available Book online at peoplestheatre.co.uk, or on the door in person from 6.30pm 📷 Paul Hood youtu.be/Jm8mZA1_2KY

Can you believe there's only 100 days to go until our #Panto starts?! We hope you can join us for all the fun in the 'wicked' and wonderful land of Oz 🌈👠🌟❤ 📅 13th - 21st December ⌚ afternoon & evenings perfs 🌟 incl a Relaxed Perf on Tues 16th 🎟 #LinkInBio

🔍 A closer look at what we've got coming up in our intimate and versatile Studio Theatre this Season! ℹ peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on

Tim Curry's memoir "Vagabond" is out in October. I see you quiver in antici- .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. -pation. - Michael bertsbooks.co.uk/product/vaga...

🔍 A closer look at what we've got coming up on the Main Stage this Season! ℹ www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on

*sharpens pencil*

We’ve Just opened our first open submissions window for working-class writers. We’re looking for stories that capture something about being working class in Britain in 2025. Can be fiction or non-fiction, & 500-3000 words long. Please pitch us. Details here: thebeemagazine.com/open-call-fo...

spotlight on @peoplestheatre.bsky.social new season and Newcastle Fringe traceysinclair.substack.com/p/the-people...

A great variety of shows as ever.

Be like this heron this Saturday and step onto Dunston Staiths! July open day, 10am to 2pm, Saturday 5 July. Entry £3 or free if you live in an NE8 or NE11 postcode. Please bring an official letter or bill with you as proof of address. www.tynederwentway.co.uk/article/2746... #TyneDerwentWay

Reviews for this week's STEEL MAGNOLIAS, playing until Saturday 14th! 🌸 ★★★★★ "wholesome and heartbreaking" - @reviewnortharts 🌸 "a cast that would bear comparison with any professional company" - Theatre Baby 🌸 "The stage is set to perfection" - Break A Leg 🎟 Link in bio 📷 Jess Williams

Review of the warm, witty production of Steel Magnolias @peoplestheatre.bsky.social prodigalgeordie.blog/2025/06/11/s...

"Laughter through tears is my favourite emotion" 👀 A first-look at STEEL MAGNOLIAS on our stage! Leg breaks and good wishes to everyone involved ahead of tonight's first performance ❤ 🎟 Tickets available. Book online #LinkInBio, or on the door from 6.30pm

It's #HiVis2025 which is Reading Sight's annual campaign to highlight the importance of accessible library services for people living with visual impairment. Calibre Audio have launched their INCLUSIVE VOICES short story competition! More details below 👇 www.calibreaudio.org.uk/news/inclusi...

Thrilled to announce that I’m shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025! The voting is now open for the winner until Thursday 10 July, for more details visit bit.ly/TheakstonsAwards #TheakstonsAwards #TheakstonsCrime

🌺 With one week to go, it's time to meet the ladies of Truvy’s beauty parlour! 💗 Every one of them will steal your heart ✂ STEEL MAGNOLIAS by Robert Harling 📅 Tue 10 - Sat 14 June 🎟 www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ste... 📷 Mark Burden 🎞 Alison Carr

Poured my heart and soul into my latest book #HerSistersKiller. Voted one of The Times best books of 2025 when it came out. You can buy the #ebook for 99 pence if you’re interested. If you’ve already read and enjoyed, would love a retweet. Thank you. @orionbooks.bsky.social #kindlebooks

"Honey. It's the eighties. If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past." 👀 A first-look at rehearsals for next month's STEEL MAGNOLIAS! ✂ STEEL MAGNOLIAS by Robert Harling 📅 10th - 14th June 🎟 www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ste... 📷 Ginny Leigh

Really enjoyed Sides @peoplestheatre.bsky.social A worthy winner of The People's Play Award. Beautifully performed. Congrats to all involved.

"Three excellent performances, in a play written with wit and warmth. The production team created a brilliant set with attention to detail - everything from the blackboard menu to the condiments bottles was spot on." spikemikeisbreakingaleg.blogspot.com/2025/05/revi...

"Alex Joynes [has] served up a sparkler"! If Cultured. North East's review for this week's SIDES was a sandwich, it'd be a footlong with all the toppings 😆😋

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

We’re launching an open call for bold monologues from writers with lived experience of homelessness & poverty. Stories that challenge stereotypes and inspire change. Selected pieces will be published by Nick Hern Books, alongside new writing from Malorie Blackman, Chris Bush & more.

🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

Are you or do you know someone aged 16-25 with experience of being in the care system who would like to attend FREE workshops to help prepare for the world of work? Join us for a 6wk prog at The Customs House South Shields on Wednesdays 6-8pm. Find out more & apply at tinyurl.com/385sp9b9

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

NEXT WEEK: love, belonging and sandwiches in our People's Play Award winner SIDES by Alex Joynes! With thanks to Dene's Deli in Jesmond for providing the perfect location for the photo shoot 🥪 📷 Paul Hood 🎶 Rhiannon Wilson 🎞 Alison Carr youtu.be/a3Vz7ejHfvU?...

Post Bank Holiday Blues? We are giving away pairs of books from this stack across our social media channels. Just share this post, like & follow. UK only, closes at 8pm on 24 May (BST).

🚨 #GIVEAWAY 🚨 Who wants to win a copy of the much anticipated #HumanRemains by @jocallaghankat.bsky.social To enter: ⭐️Follow me ⭐️Like ⭐️Retweet 🤞Good Luck! UK only, ends 24/4. Enter here & on Insta (🔗in bio) & X/Twitter for more chances! #bookgiveaway #booksky📚💙 #Giveaways

🎉🐧EASTER GIVEAWAY! 🐧🎉 Your chance to win this book & chocolate penguin. To enter please follow, repost and tag a friend who loves reading and wildlife. UK only ( sorry!). Winner picked on #worldpenguinday. Good luck! #booksky

✨GIVEAWAY✨ We are giving away 20 #eBooks and 5 copies of @rodwr.bsky.social's twisty, heart-pounding #PoliceProcedural & prequel to #ShatterCreek, #BlackReedBay. To win a copy: 👍 Like this post ➡️ Follow us 📖 Tell us, eBook or physical* * #UK only #Giveaway closes Friday 18th April! #Books

🐧😦🐧😦🐧😦🐧😦 Morning Blue Sky Thinkers. Let’s spare a thought for the #penguins inhabiting the Heard and MacDonald Is. who now face redundancy as their factories close and jobs move to the US. #trumptariffs

Authors, your work is being used to train AI without permission or payment. Meta's Zuckerberg personally approved downloading MILLIONS of pirated books (including mine!). The UK government might make this legal. Read my latest in the @brightonargus.bsky.social to see how authors are fighting back👇

This week! 🎟 www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/wha.../goodn...

NEXT: GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM As World War Two looms, a young evacuee is sent to the English countryside to stay with elderly recluse. The unlikely pairing gradually form a friendship, finding that neither are how they first seem. 🎟 www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/wha.../goodn...

I enjoyed every second!!

Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

A beautiful evening of storytelling with @ivograham.bsky.social at Northern Stage tonight. #Carousel

Review round up for this week's HANGMEN 👇 “perfectly paced, perfectly cast” – Cultured. North East “astonishingly funny … the People’s at its best” – Break A Leg ★★★★ “The attention to detail was exquisite” – Northern Arts Review “thought-provoking and entertaining” – NE Theatre 🎟 Link In Bio

“Don’t worry, I may have my quirks but I’m not an animal. Or am I?” Martin McDonagh's HANGMEN opens tonight! Wishing the team a fantastic first performance, and a great week! 🎟 Tickets available: book online #LinkInBio, or on the door in-person from 6.30pm 📷 Paul Hood

Absolutely fantastic day at Whitley Bay Playhouse for #BayTales25. Thanks to @vpeanuts.bsky.social @anncleeves.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social all the panellists, organisers, volunteers & all involved. Can't wait to read my haul of books. Roll on BayTales26!!

"a hilarious and heartfelt play that explores how we cope with the inevitable, but I particularly loved how fun, fresh and playful it was, with every single person in the crowd fully invested until the very end" beffshuff.com/2025/02/15/l...

Audience question #BayTales25. Which book would you like to be trapped in? Author Tracy Whitewell: Just chuck me in a Jilly Cooper! @baytales.bsky.social

#DeadlineProof #baytales25

#BayTales25. Best piece of advice given to Oskar Jensen by Iain Banks: "Get to the end" Sounds fair. @baytales.bsky.social