substack.com/@otoolecathe... Try my roasted root veg + yogurt recipe

Gotta write now bc writing > posting and my 4th draft has waited (impatiently) long enough ;) catherineaotoole.substack.com

the world is too much with us #wordsworth #ughhh New writing at catherineaotoole.substack.com

Costuming + Cocktails = Fun catherineaotoole.substack.com Read about book launches i want to attend, Mona Awad's juggernaut and a new girlie-first era in publicity 🍸🐰📚

Short fiction writers with collections published/forthcoming: Would you share your publisher’s name to help the rest of us find one? Best if they charge no reading fees, but if they do, maybe share what writers get in return? (Quick response, great feedback, high royalties, etc)

My sister would've been 55 today. She died 10 yrs ago & her presence has inspired me to make films, write my acclaimed memoir about our utopian commune childhood, Home Is Where We Start, Penguin, my novel The Orange Notebooks @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social & more... RIP 💔

Come to this! Even sloppy latte drinkers welcome.

Read our reporting on McCann here:

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize Closing date 8 November!

Wrote a love letter to my dear future reader. Please find it on my substack #Fireworking

I'm writing on substack. Fireworking 🔥Am in a booth in the back in a corner in the dark ;)

Fireworking otoolecatherine.substack.com/subscribe?pa... Time to start sharing without cringing (i hope). See you soon,

I'll be there. Will you be there? Will RS be there ✨

A heron among sculptures #remic

Kìweckì Point

Eastern redbuds are blooming !

Serviceberries are blooming. Time to bury the dead.

Congratulations to Richard Harrison on receiving the Golden Pen Award from the Writers' Guild of Alberta for a lifetime of achievement by an Alberta writer! You can learn more about the awards here: writersguild.ca/2025-alberta...

Not minding nothin' like Niki de Saint Phalle

I have sent a copy of: Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social To Donald Trump. Tariff free. It is a book about kindness. @thebookseller.com @thetimes.com @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social

Great great info here ⭐️

Good morning. Please support writers and artists and musicians. The Tech bros don't give an algorithm for creative folk. All they're interested in is your cash. Here is a books by a very talented human.

Anna Torma's work is amazing. See the show if you can, ends March 22 at Clint Roenisch Gallery BRAVO @atorma.bsky.social 🥂

One problem with Substack is that there is no editor to stop me talking about the world-crushing evil of dick-faced fascist Jeff Bezos. open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/d...

The cherry blossoms are blooming 🌸 #photography #cherryblossoms #spring

Gisèle Pelicot has been named as The Independent’s most influential woman of 2025 – topping the Influence List to mark International Women’s Day. Full story: trib.al/Sk7g2ag

We'll be sending a newsletter tomorrow, with more details - and also some lovely words from our judges. In the meantime, please do raise a cheer for our writers - and read their stories here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Timely 😪

My cousin died seven years ago this week from alcoholism. I spent time with old essays I wrote in the early days of his death.

snowRun in a snowStorm !

Holding space for difficult emotions in my new works ✨

Listen up! @samjordison.bsky.social , co founder of @galleybeggars.bsky.social will be chatting with me, live and direct on Substack App 2pm Wednesday 12th. He's dipping his toe in the Substack waters & I'm thrilled to be his guide (*resists urge to carry metaphor to breaking point, life guard, etc)

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a... I adore Ali Smith and this podcast interview is excellent. Enjoy! @acrossthepondbooks.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/a... She will be missed 😪

The sight of one of my kids in a tree, even if they're 30 years old, tugs my heart

⭐️ TOMORROW ⭐️ (01.28.25) on the show, I'll be talking with Canadian author Heather O'Neill. Her new novel is called THE CAPITAL OF DREAMS (@harperbooks.bsky.social). 📚 Official January 2025 pick of the Otherppl Book Club. ✌🏼Stay tuned...

MONDAY — It’s #2025Pit Are you an unagented writer who has completed a manuscript? Are you in search of a literary agent? Great, on Monday I’m hosting a pitch event here on BlueSky I hope will connect authors & agents who may like to work together. How does this work? Glad you asked!

In our latest episode we discuss precarity, renting, and the reality of 21st Century life for so many of us with Holly Pester, author of the excellent new novel Lodgers: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis...

Jenna is amazing: articulate, creative and generous. Read her, see below ⭐️

Canadians in Madrid WILL FIND the outdoor corner bar with fire then proceed to discuss GRILLING TECHNIQUE 🤣💛‼️

These seminars are excellent. Deeply literary, craft-oriented. Highly recommend ⭐️

Snow ❄️ enfin

Empathy is mostly performative these days. Discuss.

www.nytimes.com/video/world/... This is what a hero looks like

Grateful to Claire Tacon for republishing our conversation about the intersection of writing and teaching on her substack. It's a topic of much importance to me these days. clairetacon.substack.com/p/parallel-c...

For anyone who might be wondering if they should plot their books, or are a bit stuck with how to approach it, I wrote an article about my plotting process a while back. I am a plotting convert! Please do share. #writingcommunity jodierobins.substack.com/p/plotting

This will be a series of posts about birds. Because we are allowed to make a series of posts about birds. Here is a story featuring a bird. It is written by @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social. It is called "Feeding the Birds." After you read it, please continue reading other posts about birds.

Congratulations to @markabowles.bsky.social on @galleybeggars.bsky.social acquiring his second novel: How Do People Stay the Same. The @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social loved his first: All My Precious Madness (the only 2024 shortlisted novel that made the judges laugh out loud).

New Critical Reading Class just up - May to Nov 2025 - and oh my goodness, just look at those writers: Percival Everett! Malcolm Lowry! Carson McCullers! More! Full details here (and a discount of 15% until 19 Dec; promotional code = CLASSEARLYBIRDS): www.galleybeggar.co.uk/school-criti...