With only two weeks to go until the live sessions of our online conference, the pre-recorded panel papers are live today. Including those on 'Centring the Reader' www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

What I especially love about the Carnegies is seeing so many small presses repped, with books the big five wouldn’t risk. Go @fireflypress.bsky.social and @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social as well as Everything with Words, Guppy, Old Barn Books @theemmapress.bsky.social @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social

With less than three weeks to go before the conference returns, check out the programme! Including a workshop on creating your characters with Alyssa Hollingsworth www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing...

The 2026 Carnegies nominations are live! 🎉 Join us in celebrating the exceptional storytelling and illustration recognised this year. 🏆 Get ready for an inspiring awards season! Congrats to all nominees! 📖❤️ https://carnegies.co.uk/nominations-announced-2026 #Carnegies2026

It's November! Which means the conference is THIS MONTH! Join us to hear panels like 'Writing Non-Dominant Voices' 20-21 Nov. Online. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing...

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A timeline cleanse bright to you by some very good boys.

We're so excited to be joined by the wonderful @clarefurniss.bsky.social and @sambeckbessinger.bsky.social for 'Practical Process' as part of On Writing for Young People, the online conference, 20-21 Nov. Last few tickets left: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing... #ukkidlit #academicsky #booksky

I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

'Getting the Most from Your Publisher' is just one of the great workshops running as part of 'On Writing for Young People' the online conference. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

In more signs the industry is going backwards. Not surprised, but still sad.

This is an utterly nonsensical way to report the really relieving news that Plaid Cymru, a party which espouses all sorts of liberal values including trans rights, etc. (and which isn't even mentioned in this headline!!!) won the election by a 47% landslide, well ahead of Reform as well as Labour.

Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result: PC: 47.4% (+19.0) REF: 36.0% (+34.2) LAB: 11.0% (-34.9) CON: 2.0% (-15.3) GRN: 1.5% (+1.5) LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2) GWL: 0.3% (+0.3) UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2) Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.

Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

'Ethical Time Travel' is just one of our brilliant panels at 'On Writing for Young People'. The online conference is just 28 days away! Full details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing...

Let's say you were a person who might soon be walking in an academic procession. And you have a choice of two robes. One looked a bit shower-curtain-y and one looked a bit Chrismas-elf-y. Which do you go for? (With MASSIVE apols to the people in the photos - you look amazing!)

'On Writing for Young People' conference has panels - and workshops! Like 'Writing in No-Person's Land' with Ruth Moore, looking at practical ways to age-up or age-down a work-in-progress. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing... #UKKidLit #AcademicSky

I wonder if Trump thought coprophilia meant 'really into the police' when the AI prompt was suggested?

We are so looking forward to welcoming our wonderful keynote speaker to 'On Writing for Young People' this year. Abie Longstaff is a beloved writer for children & advocates for writers in her role on the management committee of the Society of Authors www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing...

I think the good yeomen of York should get to sit on the interview panel and decide for themselves who gets to match them up and down hills.

On Writing for Young People, the online conference, is just around the corner. Featuring joys like Panel 2 'Young Adult, Not Adult'. Full details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing...

This audio book. ❤️ It's really sweet and tender, but also HILARIOUS. 'Rabbits are proper beta animals' 'You should steal something really random like a dehumidifier' 'you look like a puppet who wished to be an accountant' 'https://www.bonnierbooks.co.uk/books/hot-key-books/king-of-nothing/

Just felt a big surge of protective love for two 11 year old girls on the bus, sharing headphones, belting out 'hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, I said hey! What's going on?'. Timeless.

We have only a handful of tickets left for our online conference 'On Writing for Young People', including treats like 'Panel 1: Books, Boys and Building Empathy'. Full programme and tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing...

With the IBC Excluded Voices report making for sober reading this week, let’s use #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate brilliant books from global majority writers. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit www.inclusivebooksforchildren.org/excluded-voi...

I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

Whatever that praying means for you, get it done. That includes scientifically cheering for her wellbeing. Don’t fuss about it, just make good thoughts for a good woman.

The murder and attempted murder of Jews in Manchester today is horrific. My heart goes out to everyone there and to the wider community. Just terrible news.

We used to get videos and images from people who liked making videos and images. AI means we can now get them from people who dislike making videos and images. This doesn’t feel like an improvement.

Last night, at Goldsmiths University of London, we launched my book that introduces students (or anyone else) to the study of Children's Literature: @GoldUnivMACL @GoldsmithsUoL

I am going to repeat today that 1 in 6 residents in the UK was born abroad. If your plan to "give communities back control" does not include us as part of those communities, I don't want to hear about it.

There'll be scenes like this (and much worse) up and down the UK if Reform get into government and start acting out their Send Them Back fantasies. A thousand acts of sadism carried out by malevolent racist thugs employed and empowered by the state. Some of you will be safe. Many of us won't.

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There’s so much wrong here, it’s hard to know where to begin. But you can start by reading Angie’s brilliant book and giving it to every teen you know. Nothing like a fragile middle aged white man to point you inadvertently to quality literature.

OH: the board is enormous when it comes to reasons the UK is a shithole, and he still managed to miss.

I think the rapture happened ages ago and David Bowie was the only one taken. The rest of us are in hell.

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

This is outrageous. All people with an ounce of empathy in them must oppose it. Families will be torn apart, people will be plunged into poverty, and the state will be in chaos.

Today I learned Katie Couric and Katie Puckrik are not the same person. I had blended them together as a person with a misspent youth and an establishment middle age.

Tickets are on sale now for 'On Writing for Young People'. A two-day, online conference sharing ideas & insights from the academic field of creative writing for children and young adults. 20-21 Nov 2025 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing...

A plea to academic publishers: please stop publishing articles formatted in columns. It’s a pain for people using screen readers and is generally more difficult to read on a screen, which is likely how the majority of articles are read these days.

Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

Lancasterian doric columns hit different in the rain. This is a niche brooding northern architecture post.

Where is the time saved? Lecturer A still only has two weeks to read and evaluate 100 essays. And now - additionally - make crib notes for an AI and approve the AI's copy, instead of just giving the student their opinion directly.

I've got twelve minutes to make a connection at Birmingham New Street today. The station designed and built by Daedalus. I'm taking odds on the chance I'll make it.