Today is the last day of #LongCovidAwarenessMonth. Four years ago, after a mild infection, I became one of the 400 million people worldwide who live with Long COVID. #LongCOVID is NOT RARE and there is NO CURE for it. Until there is, everyone remains at risk of developing it. Why does no one care?

The new Writing School Summer Festival has been announced! Open to all (& free for current English/creative writing students at MMU) 4 days of writing events 15–19 June from @manmetuni.bsky.social School of English, 2 days online & 2 days in person. mmu.estore.flywire.com/products/202...

here's the "module 2" report of the inquiry

This week over 100,000 ALCS members will receive their share of £34m. Let's celebrate the value of human creativity, something that isn't going anywhere 💡📖🌳

ICYMI: Around 10,000 authors have come together to publish Don’t Steal This Book, an empty book protesting the government’s proposed "commercial research exception" to copyright law 👇 #BookSky

Almost 10,000 of us have co-authored this book, launched at London book fair today, in protest at copyright theft by tech companies to train AI. All pages are blank except for our names. “DON’T STEAL THIS BOOK” also protests government failure to act. www.dontstealthisbook.com #DontStealThisBook

#Chronicillness #invisibleillness #mecfs #ME/CFS #writing #Chronicpain

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

Morolake Dairo & Sharon Nunoo feature in Dressing Through Pandemics: a special issue launch for Intellect @intellectbooks.bsky.social - how clothing & dress became central technologies of care, identity, politics & resilience during a period of global disruption. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dressing-t...

Speakers include Christopher Armstrong, Chris Ponting @cgatist.bsky.social , Oystein Fluge, David Putrino @putrinolab.bsky.social , Carmen Scheibenbogen @scheibenbogen.bsky.social , and many other ME/CFS experts. #MEcfs #LongCovid

First time I've seen the paperback of #MovingMountains in the wild! 😁 @louisekenward.bsky.social uk.bookshop.org/p/books/movi...

Online poetry workshops with Helen Mort? Yes please! Poems that make things happen. One off or book the whole series - 1 hour sessions of creativity. @helenmort.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poems-that...

Last call for entries @anthonyburgess.bsky.social Prize for Arts Journalism. www.anthonyburgess.org/observeranth...

As poster says, ignore the seemingly homophobic heading, this is a good read, particularly on her disability and challenges of access to public spaces. I still think she was foolish, voting Tory at one point, but her convictions seem generally sound.

About a month ago, I made a FOIA request to the NHS England Learning Hub about their new learning modules on ME/CFS... 🧵 1/n

I've updates my website with details of my TWO books - yes that's TWO books - out this year: 1. My 3rd poetry collection #EmergencyDream out with @serenbooks.bsky.social March 16th 2. #SwimmingTheSeasons: A freshwater Almanac, out with @saraband-books.bsky.social May 7th #BookSky #BookNews

👀 well this is good news!

The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS. You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir https://goodlaw.social/658abc

Huge thanks to all the US indie booksellers who've taken #TheCompanyOfOwls to heart and to their shelves, meaning it's squeezed into the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Indie Top 40 pre official pub date. My 1st time on a bestseller list other our own shop's. As a writer and bookseller it means so much.

I also listened to a coastal themed essay by @louisekenward.bsky.social on BBC Sounds. Yes please, to have art accessible like this so I can enjoy it from home or wherever I might be ✨️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This in person (UK) and online! A reading and discussion of Annah, Infinite, an experimental work of creative non-fiction that challenges #ArtHistory, confronts colonial #ableism, and reclaims a stolen spirit… the young girl in Annah la Javanaise (1893-94), Gauguin’s famous painting. #Lit #ArtSky

And a great post from @chronicliving123.bsky.social I think I missed at the end of last year - an update on the BPS guidelines for psychologists working with #pwME - essential work that is being co-produced w @actionforme.bsky.social & @meassociation.org.uk chroniclivingtherapy.com/bps-guidelin...

What a lovely list to be a part of, thank you Tom! #BookSky #CreativitySky

Wild Women Writers. We will be talking about portals, edgelands, peatbogs & other marginal places. Here's the link for tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-women...

And a great post from @chronicliving123.bsky.social I think I missed at the end of last year - an update on the BPS guidelines for psychologists working with #pwME - essential work that is being co-produced w @actionforme.bsky.social & @meassociation.org.uk chroniclivingtherapy.com/bps-guidelin...

2/ - Jeremy Jeffs, Photography project @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social - ‘I would be there if I could’ – Alison Larkman’s Mirrorbox project - Moving Mountains, edited by @louisekenward.bsky.social - Crafting a Path Through Illness – by @germainehypher.bsky.social #chroniclife #PwME #mirrorbox #CFS

What a lovely list to be a part of, thank you Tom! #BookSky #CreativitySky

Writers w. #disabilities & chronic #illnesses explore perspectives on #nature & #environment in a unique anthology, “Moving Mountains.” Editor @louisekenward.bsky.social discusses the recent volume in a new #SEJournalBookShelf Q&A: www.sej.org/publications... @sejorg.bsky.social

While compelled to live at Netherne Hospital for thirty years, Gwyneth Rowlands created many hundreds of work on flints & other found objects retrieved from the surrounding fields. Believing she had no imagination or aptitude for art, she was initially reluctant to attend the art therapy studio

Thrilled to see this in (virtual) print at last - many thanks to the wonderful Bill Allen & the Society of Environmental Journalism for this close attention to Moving Mountains. #Disability #NatureWriting #EnvironmentSky #BookSky @portyliterary.bsky.social Read in full: www.sej.org/publications...

Thrilled to see this in (virtual) print at last - many thanks to the wonderful Bill Allen & the Society of Environmental Journalism for this close attention to Moving Mountains. #Disability #NatureWriting #EnvironmentSky #BookSky @portyliterary.bsky.social Read in full: www.sej.org/publications...

Last day to send these in to us. You'll have an interesting surprise when you receive it back at the end of 2026. And you might even win a prize!

Carrying radical hope and radical love into the coming year. May we all be able to channel our rage into meaningful action.

Looking back at 2025 - Centre for Place Writing books published this year. Including The Roads to Rome @cathfletcher.bsky.social Stowaway @joeshute.bsky.social A Shorter Ulysses @anthonyburgess.bsky.social & Moving Mountains @louisekenward.bsky.social #BookSky

🤍🙏🏼✨ Tx for spotlighting books by Moving Mountains contributors—ANNAH, INFINITE is in such great company. Wishing everyone a time of rest&love, whatever faith-based/spirituality-based/non-faith sources of belief in kindness and justice you may have. Let’s keep trying to protect each other. #CripLit

A final post for the year - Books of 2025 - from contributors of Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness & Disability, along with friends & allies. #DisabilitySky #NatureWriting #BookSky open.substack.com/pub/louiseke...

A final post for the year - Books of 2025 - from contributors of Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness & Disability, along with friends & allies. #DisabilitySky #NatureWriting #BookSky open.substack.com/pub/louiseke...

I'm really pleased to be working with Jo Greer, and many other brilliant people, on the British Psychological Society's good practice guidelines. This is an article about what motivates Jo: #LongCovid #MECFS #ThreRedTreeandME @drjogreer.bsky.social giving.ed.ac.uk/fundraise-yo...

TODAY! 9am and 9pm on Radio 4 - Jean Sprackland on Start the Week discussing the dark.

Reminder that #MEAction has crisis resources here: www.meaction.net/crisis-resou... This is not meant to substitute for an ethical healthcare system but just as a reminder that we keep this list up to date for whoever, whenever they may want or need it.

Theoretically, everyone deserves the right to do what they want to their own bodies. But in practice, these laws lead to further devaluation of disabled lives. They invariably lead to people choosing MAID because they can't afford healthcare, cajoled into this cheaper choice by an uncaring system.

🌍New in Geo🌍 'Place-based sustainability transformations for just futures: A systematic review' by Katie Keddie et al. This paper presents a review of research on sustainability transformations, revealing significant variation in how justice & equity are addressed. doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

Last creative offering of 2025. Resting fox. Hoping to get some giclee prints made of this, eventually, but in the meantime I've listed it on Redbubble prints etc. in case anybody wanted something resty and foxy for Christmas. www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/... #chronicIllness #GiftIdeas #ArtSky

Applications are invited for three fully-funded Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLA). Deadline is 9th February 2026. Proposed projects must be arts & humanities-led #PhD @findaphd.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social More details: #PhD www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres. Get in quick. Details in link. Please share :)

Didn't think we were publishing non-fiction.

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

This is sad news.

As a skint single parent to two teens with additional needs, online is the only type of writing retreat within my reach. Comments like this prove that the attitude that writing isn't for the likes of me is still depressingly prevalent within literary circles. Ableist bullshit, & classist too.

I've been reading about the remarkably well-preserved St Bees Man and wondered if anyone could shed some light of the hair (not his own) arranged around his neck in the coffin. Was that something people did in the 1300s? (There are autopsy photos in the link) stbees.org.uk/home/village...