How can a woman write? Nearly a 100 years later this question still feels urgent & vital. My adaptation of #aroomofonesown will go live at the London Library, June 10-13. Come join us & find out how much has changed. #virginiawoolf #booksky #writingcommunity #authors #Writing #Writesky #reading

Jacques-Louis David #portraits at the @louvrelens.bsky.social blew my mind as did the spectacular building itself #paris dreaming. #painters #art #painting

Anyone know what this is - washed up on Brighton beach, incredible teeth, dog remained unimpressed. #brighton #sea #ocean #fish

@shakespeareandcompany.com - extraordinary selection of books, originally launched by a woman, Sylvia Beach who published #Ulysses when no-one else would. A lush library upstairs where I would sit most afternoons if I lived in this extraordinary city of #Paris. #writing #books #booksky #writers

Wow, Paris looked spectacular in the spring sunshine - jumped on & off a boat on the Seine, got lost in the Louvre, Montmartre in starlight, people dancing to jazz on the street, books at Shakespeare & Co, walked 20 miles, so clean, the most elegant city. Sensational 36 hours! #paris #writing #city

#London town looking pretty fine today on a grey January day. Love the bones of a tree down on Southbank - feels very #hamnet This is where he would have walked. Love this city! #writingcommunity #photography #shakespeare #sky #amwriting #bluesky

Well this is very excellent - my contemporary adaptation, Saint Joan of the Anthropocene is Finalist for Best Adaptation at BBC Awards 2026, yea! Still there on @bbcsounds.bsky.social if you want to catch a listen! #writingcommunity #amwriting #podcasts #fiction #climatechange #booksky #greensky

I feel like I gotta go for an electronic notebook - this is only last years stash. Writing sci-fi I got lists all over, my cross-ref sucks, even resorted to phone just so I can find stuff. Anyone got hot tip? Gotta feel like writing, keyboard, plug into mac? #writesky #writingcommunity #amwriting

Dipping into the diaries of Helen Garner - love her words, conjuring of place, merciless take on self, full of stuff for writers: funny, brutal, profound on women - dive in once a day. #booksky #bookchallenge #writingcommunity #books #writers #bookprompt #readers #author @wnbooks.bsky.social

#woolf works this extraordinary #ballet with incredible music @maxrichtermusic.bsky.social Profound, devastating, choreography #wayncgregor illuminates her utter genius & loss My words aren’t good enough @royaloperahouse.bsky.social Don’t miss it #writingcommunity #dance #amwriting #virginiawoolf

What an extraordinary writer - continuing to discover the amazing worlds & fiction of #octaviabutler - nothing like it. Startling words! New worlds! @headlinebooks.bsky.social #sci-fi #fantasy #afrofuturism #dystopia #equality #feminism #writingcommunity #booksky #authors #blackbooksky #racism

This poem made me laugh so much - my dog, Charlie, this morning rolled so elegantly in wet fox-poo & this helped me forgive him. By #billycollins Thanks #bryonylavery for sharing! #writingcommunity #poetry #booksky #dogs #cockerpoo #poems

Sentence of the day for me - loving easing myself fragment by fragment into this extraordinary book ‘In the Dream House’ by Carmen Maria Machado. Check it out! #book-sky #mustread #writingcommunity @serpents-tail.bsky.social

I find it really hard to read stuff when I’m writing so coming up for air have had the utter joy/awe to find the extraordinary worlds of #octaviaebutler (all in the wrong order!) what amazing ideas & elegant words - so potent! Check her out! #booksky #writingcommunity #mustread #dystopian #literary

This is what @teamlabouruk.bsky.social #climatechange promises are looking like (apologies to the magnificent Brighton West Pier). The science hasn’t change just the pedalling of #climatedenial by those invested in big oil. That against our kids & millions of species future. Worth it? #greensky

The carve up (scuz the pun) of @realgdt.bsky.social sentimental #frankenstein seems almost as an afterthought to credit #maryshelley the creator of that masterpiece & to quote Byron at the end & not her?! Another woman writer thrown under the bus or in this case grave-robbed! Gotta do better!

Yesterday this beautiful sea in Brighton had sewage dumped in it care of Southern Water. Before you pay your shareholders bring your kids down to swim here. Fix your sewage infrastructure! @sascampaigns.bsky.social #sea #pollution #greensky #ocean #seaswimming #loveswimming #coast #nature #surfers

Then the red-flag at Brighton beach. The sea wasn't joking - this was about two hours after I swam when it was still 'safe' and the waves spun me and spat me out pretty quick. I love this wild beach - sky, stones and all. #brighton #ocean #wildswimming #nature #sky #photography #writingcommunity

Writing at dusk. Sometimes leaning into the night with something I’m writing takes me into whole new places. The sunsets even out the back of Brighton are magical. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writing #writesky #brighton #photography

What if AI was female? A radical reimagining of Frankenstein. Headphones are necessary. Hope is essential. #ai #amwriting #sciencefiction #podcast #writingcommunity #frankenstein #booksky #maryshelley #writesky #bigtech #wollstonecraft #virtualreality #consciousness www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Love this book for its brilliant story mapping. Find it really helpful and have become slightly obsessed with multiple story lines! Highly recommend - mine is battered now! #amwriting #booksky #tv #pilot #writingcommunitu #writesky #tvdrama

Back at #charleston - #vanessabell studio with a sculpture of #virginiawoolf & just the most beautiful space. I know #bloomsbury were hyper privileged but she had huge heartbreak too - Bell’s bare walled bedroom after the death of her son is devastating. #amwriting #writingcommunity #booksky

This massive old oak in a park in Bromley split in half last year when its branch collapsed. It was hit by lightening years ago & we used to sit in that crack when we were kids & yet still, greying as it is - it lives magnificently. #trees #fortheloveoftrees #nature #writesky #photography

#brightonfestival off with a bang! The amazing #anoushkashankar & these inspirational women! @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social profound words on the life of rivers! Young people #climatechange #earthteeth - #brighton rocks! Next up #gummybeargreatwar What’s not to love! #booksky #theatre #music #joy

Delighted my first speculative novel, The Sky is the First Thing was shortlisted and received Honourable Mention for the 2024/25 Andromeda Prize. As a playwright jumping into fiction it’s really exciting to get on that list! #booksky #amwritiny #writingcommunity #writesky #writing #bluesky

So if every time we search on ChatGPT we use a 500ml bottle of water. Then in an hour maybe a bathtub full, a week a swimming pool? That’s the rough usage of water needed to cool the AI machine. So what were our brains for again? #climatechange #ai #amwriting #greensky #chatgpt #writesky

Always feel like an iced finger is necessary on a Thursday afternoon. It goes somewhere to helping the brain-rot at this point in the week with a very strong cup of tea! My dad used to slice it & add butter! More words now! #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #art #writers #cake #booksky #peace

This is just about the most amazing thing you’re gonna see on British TV at the moment. There’s also an episode with the mighty Welshman #michaelsheen on BBC. Moving, funny, profound. And very human. Love #dannydyer #neurodiversity #autism #joy #TheAssembly #itv m.youtube.com/watch?v=EamW...

Trafalgar Square looking pretty glam today and the fountain so inviting on a very hot spring day. Love this city. Keep thinking I might see my teenage self before I ever left - gives me a bit of a shiver. What would I tell her? #london #writing #photography #blueskyartshow #blueskyrelay #photo

Been watching #stationeleven again. If you missed it & need a break from #thelastofus this is sublime TV. One episode at a time - another version of the future. Arresting images & making Hamlet raw. #greensky #booksky #amwriting #photography #writingcommunity #scifi #speculative #shakespeare

Couldn’t we use these huge amounts of money being spent on AI to change our cities & countryside’s to a sustainable future living - new research shows that 89% of people globally want change. Who TF wants #ai ? #climatechange #resist #writesky #nature #writer www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Went to #charleston yesterday. So many stories, so much incredible work. Always making something new & the slowness of time was really inspiring. #vanessabell what an amazing woman! #brighton #blueskyartshow #writingcommunity #artists #nature #books

Swam in the sea today in Brighton! Yorkshire rules - get in, swim until your organs start shutting down, fire up - then it’s lovely! Had to run home hyperventilating cos it was so bloody cold afterwards! Love it here #brighton #wildswimming #nature #photography #writingcommunity #blueskyartshow

My tree of trees. This extraordinary oak hiding in Yorkshire so huge & over 500 years - I really miss it. Inspired the ancient tree in my podcast series No Place but the Water. Anyone else got a #treeoftrees ? #fortheloveoftrees #amwriting #nature #trees #writingcommunity #photography #writesky

This is what ChatGPT does to our brains. Why do we use something dead to imagine living? #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #ai #chatgpt #booksky #photography #writing #reading

Things I walk by everyday in #brighton #murals #artsky #art #nature #photography #ocean #dolphins #ourplanet #brightonpubs #brightonlife #climatechange #kemptown

Thinking about #Chinatown so relevant right now. Maybe it’s the only way to tell #climatechange stories - show how the rich win. “What can you buy that you can’t already afford?” “The future.” That’s what we’re fighting for. #writingcommunity #writesky #writingprompt #elonmusk #screenwriting

Love a dog walk that ends here. #thereadingroom Brighton. Coffee, cinnamon buns & sea. Down Kemptown end if you are ever in town. Love this city. Grew up in #VeniceBeach, CA - same beautiful vibes. #brighton #BookSky #writingcommunity #booklovers #nature #sunrise #booklovers #ocean #writesky

I adapted this beautiful book. Adaptation is always a kind of violence, you got to choose your way through - mine was the incredible women. Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... & Audible #annakarenina #booksky #booklovers #writinglife #writesky #fictionwriting #writingcommunity #podcasts

Monday morning what to do if I can’t get started? Get out of the house go write somewhere else. Bookshop, coffee shop, library is my favourite. Just some place you can’t run away from that white scary page/screen. #writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting #booksky #writingprompt #writingtip #bookshop

If you are writing climate stories this is a brilliant book. Explores plays & sparks ideas about the possibilities. Telling stories that breakthrough is no easy thing & we gotta do better. #amwriting #writingcommunity #playwriting #kidlit #climatechange #WriteSky #screenwriting #nature #booksky

I don’t know if it’s distraction but I love colour pens when I’m starting a new project - different storylines, different questions - it’s just bliss! Anyone else feeling it? #writingcommunity #WriteSky #amwriting #screenwriting #writingtip #booksky #pilot #writinglife

#foxoftheday #fox #foxes This gang in London

#sunset Brighton Beach, UK If you need a place to run away to where it don’t matter who you are - this is your kind of city. #nature #kindness #lgbtq #climatechange #dogfriendly #dragqueen #blacklivesmatter #seniors #genz #foxes #seaswimming #lindyhop #quadrophenia #pride #bsl #greenpeace And on…

These are all the phones I ever owned - forget #doomscrolling jump into the beautiful work! #writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting #author #playwright #booksky #writinglife

When it feels like we can’t win I think that’s when everything can shift! Starting off April dipping back into The Climate Book created by Greta Thunberg. #booksky #WomenWriters #books #TheWriteWoman #ReaderSky #Ireadbannedbooks

This amazing book took me ages to read cos both my kids nicked it - I had to buy a second copy, and it got battered too! I am inspired and in awe of the writing. It shows why books, plays and art are urgent & necessary in an impossible future! #booksky #WomenWriters #TheWriteWomen

Can never look away from this and marvel that it still stands. The iconic West Pier, Brighton built in 1866, closed 1975, destroyed by fire 2003. How did they build it and how does it still stand? Its resilience in the face of ruin and its beauty inspires me to keep on! #brighton #architecture

Halfway between nothingness and being. In the guts of #tatemodern how Sartre describes this Giacometti but wow, the shadows! #art #giacometti #sculpture #artists

The main reason I write climate stories - flooding close up makes #climatechange real. My book today for #TheWriteWomen is This Changes Everything by @naomiaklein.bsky.social how capitalism ate all #BookSky #bookchallenge #Ireadbannedbooks Hope is still necessary.