Sobbed almost from the first scene in #Hamnet absolutely stunning, standout performances, a love letter to why the arts matter more than ever.

So I had this mad idea and now it’s a real life thing. So proud and excited. If you like art and you write poetry or short stories or non-fiction, please take a look and share. Thank you so much ifwisheswerehorses.org

My very clever friend Bert Wander has started this substack open.substack.com/pub/bertwand...

Parenting is really just saying ‚it’s just a phase‘ every day until you die isn’t it

At that stage of editing where I’m just writing THIS IS AWFUL on every other page

So chuffed to find this in this weeks @thebookseller.com @louisekenward.bsky.social

Off on the train to London for a day’s editing course @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social by @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social although I can’t work out if I’m more excited about the solo night in a hotel without children or the course itself… all in all very exciting

Spent a brilliant few hours at #glue book fair at the Institute for Contemporary Art today. So inspired. In that blissful place where I’ve got a million good ideas in my head and some energy to actually do them. Anyone want to start a publishing house with me?

Thinking of starting an onlyfans website but for cats. Onlycats. Lana would earn big bucks I reckon. We could sell her furballs and things she brings in to the house

Something has shifted. I’m setting up a new thing, working with artists and writers and musicians I love. I’m self publishing the novel I’ve had in my head for six years. I’m just doing all the things I’ve waited years for permission from others to do. Feels terrifying, incredible. Watch this space

Honestly don’t think I’ll ever understand parents who say they are sad the summer holidays are nearly over

Finished the first draft of my new novel just in time for the solstice. The story begins and ends and begins again at a solstice party, so that feels fitting… Litha blessings to all who live under this golden sun 🌞

Oh good. the final half hour of my six and a half hour train journey will be soundtracked by the obligatory group of pissed middle-aged men who have just got on at Exeter

Absolutely jiggered after MA summer school @lancasteruni.bsky.social, first time ever spending a few days just ‚being a writer‘. One of many highlights: hearing one of my heroes @jennashworth.bsky.social reading from her forthcoming memoir the parallel path

Happy publication day to Horatio Clare and @littletollerbooks.bsky.social book review here: felinecharpentier.com/searching-fo...

This is like a hallucinogenic trip down memory lane coupled with an almost trippy advert for my work in progress www.instagram.com/p/DHtXBSHKCR...

Thread. It is a great honour to announce the shortlist for the 2025 #Curae prize for unpaid carers POETRY CATEGORY Mistletoe. Sam Garvan Diagnosis. Elizabeth Loudon Sinkhole. Charlotte Ansell I Love Him (like salt and water). Emma Wilson The Shop at the End of a Wave. Ia Kozoboli. thecuraeprize.uk

Overdone it like a rookie. This beautiful book is keeping me company on an enforced bed day: Time for Magic, with Jamie Reid’s artwork and the eightfold wheel of the year described luminously as ever by Philip Carr Gomm. Excellent anarchic stuff.

Please sign this, if you've got a moment. It might seem like a token gesture but it's important to make our voices heard. Trans people should be able to determine their own gender and live their lives in peace. petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

With the absolutely offensive guff coming out of the UK govt today, I just want to say that, as a cis-gender middle aged woman, if you are trans and you identify as a woman, in my eyes, you are a woman.

My hobby is having a lovely time with other people and then spending two days afterwards running over everything I said and how awful I am

Starting the Osterbrot while slightly tipsy is a good omen for the year ahead right?

Ok, I’m finally going in… @jamesbluecat.bsky.social @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social

Peak me: being disappointed I didn’t get an interview for a job, then realising I never actually applied for it

Well this place wins the prize for best bookshop name

‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women

After 'Trees' comes 'Moorland' - with work from Rowan Jaines, Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social & Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social (Wanderers, Waymakers, & Pathfinding @reaktionbooks.bsky.social) - Moving Mountains is out now in paperback & due for release in the US & Canada

Hey @theguardian.com please can we stop calling this a ‘free speech’ issue… that’s just pandering to the alt-right Christian nonsense. It’s misogynistic harassment and calling it anything else is self defeating www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

REVIEWERS WE ARE SENDING PROOFS OUT TODAY FOR @horatioclare.bsky.social's compassionate and important book. Who would like one? www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l... #BookSky

Oooh how do I get my hands on an early copy of jay griffths new book??

Such a horrible thing to happen to a wonderful bookshop. Please support @littletollerbooks.bsky.social by following them - on here and on Instagram, if you have an account. And do share the word around. Thank you 😊🙏

@darshna.bsky.social whoa, your unreported world for @channel4news.bsky.social on the far right feminists in France has me speechless. Incredible reporting and journalism 🙌

The deadline for this call for papers from Scholars of the Stone @manmetuni.bsky.social is Friday, 28th March.

Finished reading and immediately emailed my local vineyard to volunteer for the harvest this summer. Poetic, practical musings from a year in a regenerative French vineyard, by Peter Hahn, coming next month from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social felinecharpentier.com/book-review-...

In a major writing slump. The worst one in years. Can’t get a word out. The downside is I’m horrible to be around. The upside is I have built three raised beds, fixed everything that needed fixing, sowed seeds, sorted out the shed, stockpiled food for the apocalypse and started baking bread again…

That time of year in the veg box calendar… just defrosted what I thought was chicken stock to make parsnip soup with all the bloody parsnips. Only to discover I’d defrosted… parsnip soup

Started this yesterday and loving it so far from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social - only trouble is it’s making me question all my life choices. Why oh why did I not become a winegrower in France?? There’s still time right? Proper review incoming, hardback due out 9th April 🍇 🍷

Really excited to be collaborating with @dadafest.bsky.social Join this online round table with 5 brilliant artists on March 17th: using creative workshops to imagine better futures of care with & for people with energy limiting conditions @livuninews.bsky.social www.dadafest.co.uk/event/ignite...

On this #WorldBookDay we're celebrating the paperback publication day for MOVING MOUNTAINS: Writing Nature Through Illness & Disability, edited by PGR @louisekenward.bsky.social - Congratulations! What book are you celebrating/reading that explores #PlaceWriting today?

I just told Speaker Hoyle to keep Trump out of Parliament - will you do the same? actionstorm.org/petitions/du... #DumpTrump

My lovely dad, who worked for peace his entire life, and at 81 has Alzheimer’s and wasn’t well enough to attend the ceremony, just won the SPD Olof Palme Peace Prize in Hamburg. I’m so sad he missed it, and so relieved he isn’t aware of how the world has changed in the last few weeks

WRITING WORLD. May I have a trad published writer, agent, publisher or some other entirely gorgeous member of our industry to mentor an older #Curae writer? Over 60, but PAH, you've only just begun. We need to ask for 1-2 hours of your time over the next year. Step forward; don't suggest someone

So proud to be a part of this wonderful book, out in paperback in a few weeks!

When you find those rare books that seem like they were written with you in mind…

The other half just given his (albeit slightly drunk) permission for me to go fight for the resistance, should one emerge.

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Who do I know on here who could tell me more about self-pub? If your ms doesn’t fit into a neat bracket is it still worth it? #writingcommunity