The Breakup Monologues has been shortlisted for an Independent Podcast Award 🏆🎧 🥳 🙌 🙏

Look lively, freelancers! This interview with Sonya Barber is a banger. freelancewritingjobs.substack.com/p/i-love-whe...

Calling all queer book fans in Thanet! I’ll be in conversation with @divamag.bsky.social editor Roxy Bourdillon and award-winning author Nicola Dinan for a queer women’s voices panel @margatebookie.bsky.social on 7 October #queerbooks #litfest

Lovely times giving a comedy talk about all the breakups, relationships and monogamy research I did for my two books 📚 at Camp Wildfire. What a lovely relaxed vibe! #books #writers

ICYMI this was a fun little chat with @todolistldn.bsky.social You can now hear the live podcasts that were recorded with authors Nicola Dinan and Julie Cohen at all good pod places

Intense week developing my novel @arvonfoundation.bsky.social with mind blowing 🤯 / scarily clever tutors Julia Armfield and Eliza Clark in the beautiful surrounds of @arvonfoundation.bsky.social Lumb Bank #writing

Excited that my unpublished debut novel Conversations We Should’ve Had is one of the five winners of this competition 📚 🎉 🙌 #books #queerwriters

This wonderful anthology by @katbrownwrites.com, which I was honoured to contribute to, is now out after losing its original home in the Unbound scandal. A tale of important stories always finding a way into the world, even when publishing makes it bloody hard at times. Congratulations Kat 💪 🤩

Fun times hosting a discussion all about appropriation of queer culture for Virgin Radio Pride. My guests Rosie Turner & Char Bailey unpacked some complex questions with both laugh out loud humour and real humanity. Listen out for it on Sunday at 7pm #queer #lgbt

Reviews of The Breakup Monologues have slowed down now it’s been out a little while. But this latest one is such a beauty, I hope you don’t mind me sharing. Thanks Ruth Hazel. Anyone out there in need of a post-heartbreak comforting chuckle, please do check it out: www.amazon.co.uk/Breakup-Mono...

This Lesbian Visibility Week, let’s learn a lesson from older lesbians: take the time to see and hear one another. See each other. Really hear each other.💗✨ https://diva-magazine.com/2025/04/23/rosie-wilby-conversations/

I just received copies of my first poetry book - they will be available at @latitudefestival.bsky.social and @standcomedyclub.bsky.social during @edfringe.bsky.social - here is cover, quotes and dedications

‘Boredom and an empty house are a dangerous combination’ Hey @theguyliner.bsky.social you have my attention 👀 Loving your new book… 📚 Out September, everyone! 📣

Female desire, the challenges of monogamy and whether life is over at 45. A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 @harriettsg.bsky.social is joined by filmmaker Desiree Akhavan & writer comedian @rosiewilby.bsky.social on the programme that is polyamorous for books #fiction #books www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New episode of The Breakup Monologues out now! Recorded at Meet Cute festival with author PJ Ellis 🤩 Listen at all good podcast platforms if you like queer romcoms

My debut novel is out on submission! 📚 😱 Apparently the publishing marketplace is super hard right now. So do please think positive thoughts for this queer neurodivergent writer ✍️ 🏳️‍🌈 🤞

So many great freelance roles in this week’s issue. And I get a bit personal about freelancing with chronic pain. Free for everyone to read! open.substack.com/pub/freelanc...

Ah, the lesser known B side #queer #wlw #happytobeanatheist #gaystuff #cantdancetoit

Great to meet @harriettsg.bsky.social and Desiree Akhavan to record a conversation about female sexuality, desire, Miranda July’s book All Fours and much more for Radio 4’s A Good Read. Listen out for it on July 14 📚 📻 🧠 ❤️ #books #sex #allfours

Really enjoyed joining the live stream tonight for @robinince.bsky.social chatting to @claudiahammond.bsky.social at The Conduit #neurodiversity

Would you like to write for New Scientist? We always work with freelancers, but occasionally I put out a call like this for new writers. I'm looking for 300-700 word news stories about new discoveries. Don't pitch us press releases or the big journals, we have those covered. Pay starts at 51p/word

Women can submit anything from a four-line poem to a 3,000-word lead article, from a 300-word bedtime story to a 700-word memoir performance piece – they publish over 60 women in every issue. Deadline 7th July. Details in link. Please share :)

Festival season is my favourite time of year. Excited to announce I’ll be making my Bearded Theory debut this Sunday morning in the Something Else Tea Tent

Really fabulous first @arvonfoundation.bsky.social Saturday Writing Club this morning. Guest @carolinebirduk.bsky.social had some revelatory insights about editing. ‘Don’t start pruning the tree while it’s still a sapling’. It’s okay for a 2nd draft to be messier / longer than the 1st! #WritingTips

@leedslitfest.bsky.social is back in June & we have 3 events here in the bookshop. #leeds #litfest - Investigate the psychology of heartbreak with @rosiewilby.bsky.social - #CosyCrime with debut author Mel Pennant - #Windrush Day with Howard Gardner Info & tickets: trumanbooks.co.uk/events

New episode of The Breakup Monologues podcast out now! With author @laurenbravo.bsky.social discussing ‘the ick’ Get it wherever you get your podcasts 🎧 #podcast

We're looking for pitches for four-part columns on any aspect of creative writing to fit broadly within the following categories: craft, creativity, performance, career. Please send pitches to maxine[@]mslexia.co.uk with PITCH in the subject line 💌

I wrote an article for @divamag to celebrate Lesbian Visibility Week ahead of my live Breakup Monologues podcast recording tomorrow evening. Please read 👀 here: diva-magazine.com/2025/04/23/r...

As a community, it has never been so vital that we stand with our trans siblings. DIVA has always and will always stand with the trans community. There is no LGB without the T, and no DIVA without the T. We will always stand together, united. #trans #translivesmatter #DIVAwiththeT #istandwithtrans

There is an open letter from UK writers supporting the trans community - if you are a cis ally especially, sign away. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Happy lesbian visibility week from this bisexual lesbian! That’s how I think of myself now. After identifying as a lesbian for years, I realised my sexual orientation wasn’t 100% gay. It wasn’t really an option to identify as bi or pan back then😢. However I feel socially / culturally like a lesbian

Wonderful creative time working on my novel while on an open day at The Conduit yesterday. Where are your favourite writing / coworking spaces? #WritingLife ✍️ ☀️ ☕️

Quite the array of stories of men and power and abuse in this afternoon’s news

Come to the next live recording of The Breakup Monologues! We had a blast @poodleclub.bsky.social last month. So we’re back on April 24 with @athenakugblenu.bsky.social @laurenbravo.bsky.social @ihussainwriter.bsky.social Once again we’re mixing comedy & literature 📚 wegottickets.com/event/651454

Received a payment today and wondering where the money actually comes from? This video may shed some light (no, it isn't actually magic 🧙). youtu.be/_7aleJt8Ae8?...

Many thanks to @alcs.co.uk My 2025 payment was (just about) my best yet 🥳 🙏. Now what shall I treat myself to? 🤔 Writers, make sure you join! One decision you’ll never regret

I’ll be on @BBCRadio4 Media Show later giving an author perspective on our works being used for training AI without our consent. #booksky #writers

Adolescence creators want show aired in Parliament www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Made it to BFI Flare festival for some London Southbank vibes 🎥 🖼️ 🧠

Happy anniversary to this anthology, brought to life a year ago by @katbrownwrites.com Was honoured to have my essay alongside such wonderful women @drrageshri.bsky.social @stellduffy.bsky.social and many more

I was honoured to contribute an essay to this anthology edited by @katbrownwrites.com Sad to see it’s one of many brilliant books impacted by this 😢

Bought a house 🏠 by the sea 🌊 🎉 Something I never thought I’d be able to do in my own right. Thanks for the inheritance Dad 😢. Hope I’ve invested it well ❤️ #Margate

New episode of The Breakup Monologues! Recorded live @poodleclub.bsky.social with @juliecohen.bsky.social & @hattyashdown.bsky.social Listen at all good pod platforms or via podfollow.com/breakupmonologues 🎧 With thanks to @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social - go and buy The Breakup Monologues book there 📚

Did you listen yet to the latest episode of The Breakup Monologues? Recorded live @poodleclub.bsky.social with guests @thatkatemartin.bsky.social & Nicola Dinan. Listen now at all good podcast platforms or via podfollow.com/breakupmonologues 🎧 #podcast #books #comedy

New episode of The Breakup Monologues! Recorded live @poodleclub.bsky.social with @thatkatemartin.bsky.social & Nicola Dinan Listen at all good podcast platforms or via podfollow.com/breakupmonologues 🎧 With thanks to @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social - go and buy The Breakup Monologues book there 📚 🙌

Interviewed @karenmcleod.bsky.social at Bethnal Green library about her memoir Lifting Off, life writing, identity, authenticity, creativity, inner conflict, homophobia and more #booksky #queerwriters

What a fabulous Galentine’s evening recording two live episodes of The Breakup Monologues podcast, mixing comedy and literature, with @thatkatemartin.bsky.social @hattyashdown.bsky.social @juliecohen.bsky.social and Nicola Dinan. Thanks @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social and @poodleclub.bsky.social #booksky

Happy Galentine’s Day! The Breakup Monologues begins recording a new season tonight @poodleclub.bsky.social with @thatkatemartin.bsky.social @hattyashdown.bsky.social @juliecohen.bsky.social & Nicola Dinan. Please come. Enjoy this clip from our archives in the meantime. 89 episodes avail 🎧👂

@tennispodcast.bsky.social don’t forget the important question today… Will it be a double victory for the nose strip?? 👃 🩹 #alcaraz #ruud