Marcia Hutchinson
@mhut25.bsky.social
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Novelist and fitness instructor. I live for Zumba
https://Linktr.ee/marciathewriter
Looking forward to taking part in the Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival where I'll be interviewed by the wonderful Lisa Smith (author of Jamaica Road) on 12th May 2026. Tickets available on eventbrite.
#LamLitFest
#WomensPrizeForFiction
www.eventbrite.com/e/1985794726...
about 2 months ago
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I hate Bulgarian Split Squats, but needs must! Getting in shape for The Mercy Step Paperback Tour.
#debutnovel
#WomensPrizeforfiction
#paperbacktour
#TheMercyStep
#BooksellerDiscoverAward
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2 months ago
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The Mercy Step Paperback tour starts in exactly one month. If you're in on near any of these cities please come along, and tell your friends rellies and random strangers. Mercy rides again!
#TheMercyStep
#paperbacktour
#WomensPrizeforfiction
#BooksellerDiscoveryAward
#debutnovel
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2 months ago
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Suns out guns out. What a lovely day today. I feel like one of those superheroes; novelist by day fitness instructor by night. 63, never been fitter or happier in my entire life. Debut novel is up for two major awards Never too late!
#TheMercyStep
#Debutnovel
#WomensPrize
#BooksellerDiscoveryAward
3 months ago
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Not going to lie. I screamed out loud when I saw this video. Obviously I've known for some time that I've been long listed but seeing such a beautifully produced little video summing up my debut novel made me well up.
#womensprizeforfiction
#TheMercyStep
#debutnovel
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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On my way to the Forthwrite festival in Brighton. Nominated this week for The Women's Prize for Fiction fiction (longlist) and the Nibbies - Discovery award category (shortlist). I'll be dancing my way on to the podium 💃🏾
#Forthwrite
#Nibbies2026
#TheMercyStep
#WomensPrize2026
#DebutWriters
3 months ago
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Women's Prize
3 months ago
Congratulations to Lucy Apps, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Elaine Castillo, Susan Choi, Addie E. Citchens, Wendy Erskine, Virginia Evans,
@mhut25.bsky.social
, Sheena Kalayil, Rozie Kelly,
@lilyking.bsky.social
, Katie Kitamura, Megha Majumdar, Charlotte McConaghy,
@kitdewaal.com
, Alice Evelyn Yang.
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Carolyn Morgan
6 months ago
My December
#TBR
so far 📚💙 Blackbirds of St Giles by Lila Cain (Black Georgian London)
@kateagriffin.bsky.social
@mhut25.bsky.social
Pelican Girls by Julia Mayle (Frenchwomen shipped to New Orleans) Dance of the Earth by
@annamholmes.bsky.social
(Ballets Russes to WW1) Reviews in the New Year ⏳📚
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I'll be speaking on post 50 success at the Forthwrite festival of Women's writing, Brighton 7th March.
forthwrite.uk/forthwrite-f...
#TheMercyStep
5 months ago
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Delighted to have been invited to write book recommendations for the Guardian this month
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
#ActNormal
#Fyneshade
#Thebestofeverything
#Jamaicaroad
#TheMercyStep
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What we’re reading: Geoff Dyer, Andrew Michael Hurley, Marcia Hutchinson and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in November
Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/01/what-were-reading-geoff-dyer-andrew-michael-hurley-marcia-hutchinson-and-guardian-readers-on-the-books-they-enjoyed-in-november
6 months ago
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I'm in Brontë-land test for tonight's gig at Wave of Nostalgia in Howarth. can't wait!
#BlackHistoryMonth
#booktour
#TheMercyStep
#Debutauthors
#writersoftiktok
@Cassava Republic Press @Waveofnostalgiahaworth
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7 months ago
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Worth the money?
open.substack.com/pub/couchton...
7 months ago
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I'll be at Afrori Books in Brighton on Tuesday 21st October. If you're nearby do come along. It not please share among your networks 🙏🏾
afroribooks.co.uk/products/in-...
#aforibooks
#TheMercyStep
#DebutAuthor
#BlackHistoryMonth
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8 months ago
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The Mercy Step will be on tour at Brixton Library 7pm on Saturday 18th of October. I'll be in conversation with Lisa Smith. The event is free but you do need to book. Albion conversation with @LisaSmith author of Jamaica Road.
www.eventbrite.com/e/1616603226...
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8 months ago
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On my way to the Lincoln Book Festival. Carriage full of football fans, one just spilled his beer, almost went all over me - and it's not even 9am yet. Pray for me! 🙏🏾
#TheMercyStep
#LincolnBookFestival
#debutauthor
#Debutnovel
#adventuresofawriter
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8 months ago
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The Blackbirds of Saint Giles by Lila Cain comes out in paperback today, grab yourself a riproaring historical read.
#TheBlackbirdsofSaintGiles
www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/The-Bl...
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8 months ago
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The truly fabulous event at Charlton library yesterday as part of the Charlton book festival. Over 50 people turned up and we had a wonderful evening.
#TheMercyStep
#debutauthor
#blackauthors
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8 months ago
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I'll be at Chorlton library 7pm tonight as part of the wonderful Charlton book festival, still a few tickets left!
www.eventbrite.com/cc/chorlton-...
#themercystep
#chorltonbookfestival
#debutauthor
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9 months ago
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Great night at
@housmansbookshop.bsky.social
Huge thanks to Mel Pennant for being in conversation with me. I'm so glad that so many old friends were able to join us.
#debutauthor
#TheMercyStep
#booktok
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9 months ago
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Looking forward to being in conversation with the fabulous Mel Pennant at Housmans Bookshop tomorrow!
@housmansbookshop.bsky.social
housmans.com/events/
9 months ago
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This Thursday (11th Sept) at 7pm I'll be in conversation with Brasenose College's own professor of English, Sos Eltis at Daunts Bookshop in Summertown. It's going to be a good one. Still a few tickets left...
dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...
9 months ago
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Delighted to be taking part in this year's Black British Book Festival!
#bbbf
#debutauthor
#debutnovelist
#TheMercyStep
10 months ago
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Well it's been a week since publication day and The Mercy Step book tour is well and truly underway. Next stop The Union mashup in Hull, home of my mentor Russ Litten. Thursday 31st July 7:30pm at The Union Mashup - free entry!
#TheMercyStep
#booktour
#hull
#debutauthor
10 months ago
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You know that feeling when you go back to your childhood library to read a chapter of your debut novel which is set in the very same place... Utterly surreal
#debutnovel
#themercystep
#blackauthors
#litetaryfiction
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10 months ago
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It's publication day for my debut solo novel, The Mercy Step. Kicking things off is a wonderful interview with Nadine Matheson for 'The Conversation" podcast
#TheMercyStep
#debutfiction
#windrush
#blackauthors
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11 months ago
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Off to a great start!
#debutauthor
#TheMercyStep
#bookstagram
11 months ago
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Just 4 days to go before my novel The Mercy Step is published but today you can hear excerpts on the Forthwrite podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/4STy...
#TheMercyStep
#Forthwritepodcast
#Debutnovel
11 months ago
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Five days to go...
#TheMercyStep
is out on Tuesday
11 months ago
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The audio book (narrated by none other than yours truly) lands on 22nd July. Get yourself in The Mercy Step mood by listening to my Mercy Spotify playlist.
rb.gy/xomn39
#TheMercyStep
#blackwriters
#Debutfiction
#northernwriters
#audiobooks
11 months ago
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I am reliably informed that they are sitting on plumped velvet cushions at the @bradfordlitfest Festival Hub Waterstones Shop ready for signing after the Writing The North Event.
www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/writin...
#BookTour
#TheMercyStep
#Debutnovel
11 months ago
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How I feel after my interview with Nadine mathison for the conversation podcast. Going out on publication dayv22nd July 2025.
cassavarepublic.biz/product/the-...
#blackbooks
#bookstagram
#TheMercyStep
#Debutauthors
12 months ago
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And The Mercy Step book tour is finally on. Hopefully you'll find a stop near you - if not tell me where your local bookshop is and I'll get in touch. Can't wait to see old friends, or meet new ones for the first time.
about 1 year ago
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reposted by
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Kate Griffin
about 1 year ago
Look! 👀 👇🏻👇🏽 Many thanks to Angela Cobbinah whose brilliant review /feature on
#TheBlackbirdsofStGiles
is the lead story in this week’s review section of London’s superb independent newspaper The Camden New Journal @camdennewjournal.bsky.social We’re preening our feathers 🐦⬛💚🐦⬛
@mhut25.bsky.social
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Reminded me of a piece I wrote for the Guardian almost thirty years ago about growing up with a serial killer on the loose. It never really leaves you. 'CouchToNovel' on Substack
shorturl.at/hsQlx
#yorkshire
#yorkshirewriters
#debutfiction
#reading
#fiction
about 1 year ago
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Not long now to get the 99p Kindle daily deal on The Blackbirds of Saint Giles
amzn.eu/d/899cfwa
#BlackbirdsofSaintGiles
#BHM
#BlackHistoryMonth
about 1 year ago
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"It also aimed to highlight the disproportionate impact of police killings on black people, and key themes explored included torture, terror, state cover-ups and black resistance."
#BHM
#PoliceBrutality
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Dozens of families join plan for class action over UK police contact deaths
Lawsuit would be first of its kind against police officers, police chiefs and government departments
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/06/dozens-of-families-join-plan-for-class-action-over-uk-police-contact-deaths
about 1 year ago
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Marcia Hutchinson
Irish Literary Times
about 1 year ago
After making the International Booker Prize longlist earlier in the year, Sligo based, Bullaun Press wins Republic of Consciousness prize for small presses with There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, transl by Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Louber
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Bullaun Press wins Republic of Consciousness prize for ‘rollicking picaresque’ novel
Irish publisher receives award for small presses for Gaëlle Bélem’s There’s a Monster Behind the Door
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/01/bullaun-press-wins-republic-of-consciousness-prize-theres-a-monster-behind-the-door-gaelle-belem
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@KayeKoonce.bsky.social.
about 1 year ago
Thurmond read a phone book while trying to stop the Civil Rights Act. Ted Cruz read Dr. Seuss while trying to stop the ACA.
@corybooker.com
focused on our Constitution & basic American values. Let’s join him in
#goodtrouble
however & whenever we can, in all the ways we can, for as long as we can.
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Eid Mubarak to all my friends
#Eidmubarak
about 1 year ago
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Newsletter drops on 1st April, no joke 🤣 Sign up to the mailing list at
www.marciahutchinson.co.uk
Short story and a competition!
#bookstagram
#bhm
#blackhistory
about 1 year ago
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Just back from a wonderful event organized by Lindum books in Lincoln.
#TheBlackbirdsofSaintGiles
@kateagriffin.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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My Substack in response to today's article in the Guardian about the post-Floyd decline for Black authors.
open.substack.com/pub/marciahu...
about 1 year ago
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Behold new leaf!
#Monstera
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about 1 year ago
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Russlitten.co.uk/books
loved 'The Crime Writer'
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about 1 year ago
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Great to listen to
#IrenosonOkojie's
process on writing her new novel
#Cuarandera
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about 1 year ago
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Finally got my chance to put names to faces and meet my editor Layla Mohamed and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf (centre) of Cassava Republic at the London Book Fair yesterday. The highlight of a great day at the fair. We're all working to make The Mercy Step a massive success.
#TheMercyStep
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about 1 year ago
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It's like Christmas morning for authors at the a London Book Fair, Great to meet Selina Brown, founder of the Black British Book Festival.
about 1 year ago
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Write? Aged 16-22? Live work or study in the north of England. The Writing Squad is recruiting! Details here!
www.writingsquad.com/join-the-squ...
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Join the Squad - The Writing Squad
https://www.writingsquad.com/join-the-squad/
about 1 year ago
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Right up my street!
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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Happy international women's day from my Zumba crew at Whalley Range Leisure Centre. ♀️♥️♀️♥️♀️♥️
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about 1 year ago
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