Perhaps he's "not right for our times..." www.timeshighereducation.com/news/starmer...

Honey, Don't! had a lot of great scenes, elements, and performances, and for me was enjoyable overall, but it was very poorly plotted. Many plot points are abandoned, unconnected, don't make sense, or only make sense if you infer a lot from very little. Pretty good, could've been much better.

No big deal but BRUISE has more reviews than the new Dan Brown!!!* *(seconds after publication)

I think "have a nice life" might be the sentence with the biggest gap between positive intention and negative reaction. I.e. why people get grumpy with me while im travelling.

Fuck this is annoyingly clever

My first PhD student is just about to finish her VIVA!

Reading through my first batch of submissions as the new fiction editor for Aethlon, the journal for the Sport Literature Association. Some great stuff already!

If you’re a Canadian like myself who grew up watching PBS cross-border style, then you likely remember that their fund-raising events frequently got a lot of calls from north of the border. We can still do this online. Check this link for Canadian sign-up & usage : help.pbs.org/support/solu...

@petermcallister.bsky.social will be leading a discussion with Jackie Taylor, Rob Magnuson Smith, @amarkle.bsky.social & @emmatimpany.bsky.social at Penzance Litfest, & they’ll be reading from our Holyer an Gof Publishers' Awards-shortlisted anthology, Cornwall In Short! Book here: buff.ly/H8AWToG

This is bleak reading

Whether or not you voted Labour, this column from Byline Times is relevant.

I might never be able to completely give up on Doctor Who while I live in the UK, but it increasingly seems like it was written by this guy:

UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers

If I was being a snarky bitch, I might say something about the BBC spending money on dead computer generated writers whilst sacking actual living and breathing ones. But I’m not, so I won’t.

The answer is write more, unfortunately

Then fail them. There needs to be zero tolerance for this. news.sky.com/story/andrew...

never forget

These smug heroes have lost touch with regular humans like us. Who thinks I should lead the Fantastic Four?

BRUISE is written by a Canadian author, published by a Canadian-owned publisher, and printed in Canada. Elbows up. #buycanadian linktr.ee/adrianmarkle

Thought I would take a look at the new PULP track but turned it off the second they announced they'd used AI for the video. If they don't care about the quality of their output, why should I?

What if for the one year anniversary of BRUISE I announced I was changing my name to Adrian R. R. Markle. What about that? Would that be anything?

Possibly the best Gamechanger episode ever? Already rewatching. Wow. Vic Michaelis is the best kind of insane.

A treat to go back up to Cambridge to do a session for their PGCert in Teaching Creative Writing. Love chatting with so many different teachers about their work. Location was pretty nice as well.

Bold of Duke to make a public statement saying they fundamentally don't understand fiction or art.

We, we??

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Suikoden x Critical Role! The best games of my childhood combined with the media that helped me get through my PhD. I don't know what part of me is most excited for this, but it's definitely something. I am overwhelmed.

We're thrilled that Inkfish editor and founder, Peter McAllister, has just become Writer in Residence at the Morrab Library in Penzance bit.ly/4bebF7A

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"Well well well, if it isnt the consequences of my own actions" says Haines, Alaska, which depends on Canada for it economy and infrastructure but voted for the losers trying to destroy it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

CSG Senator PJ Prosper: The Indigenous Peoples Economic Trade Cooperation Arrangement, launched in 2021, should be a key part of the Canadian response to American trade threats.

I was excited for the Sport Literature Association conference in New York this summer. Great people. Great week of scholarship and fun. I reccomend people go! But given the recent American hostilities against Canada I will not be spending any of my money traveling to the US this year. Shame.

Still working my way through all the amazing #CWWA25 #WomensWriting abstracts. If you haven't heard from me, I will be getting back to you soon. We are still accepting late abstracts so do ship us something - you haven't missed your chance! thecwwa.org/conference-2...

buy Canadian. Noble idea. an one I will pursue. But I think we need to really consider applying this tactic to perhaps the most important industry. Media. A thread... 1/

My my, how the tables have turned. I'm having a hard time generating sympathy for these thieves.

Saunders talks about plot as being an overlapping series of questions and answers. "Who killed that guy?" is a pretty good question.

Sad to see Downtown coming to an end, at least in this iteration. It was a pleasure to join them to talk about BRUISE this summer. Great show.

Our beautiful anthology Cornwall in Short is on sale shorturl.at/eFigw featuring brilliant work by @timhannigan.bsky.social @emmatimpany.bsky.social @amarkle.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social @shelleytrower.bsky.social @stasiawrites.bsky.social @tomvowler.bsky.social @kstansfield.bsky.social

The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight. The class wars.

People in the UK aren't big on pumpkin pie. Around this time of the year I always think of making little pumpkin tarts but just never get around to it, as I don't know who I'd share them with.

🔴Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson and Junk Stats: Is This the Best the Anti-Inheritance Tax Farming Lobby Has to Offer? How millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government’s inheritance tax reforms bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/j...

Important context here: ● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares) ● "a big farm" is 217 acres. Now let's see who's angry: ● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres ● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres ● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres ● Dyson owns 36,000 acres

Let's be fair, Blackberry used to have two co-CEOS and.... oh

There's a certain dread about getting to work in the morning and turning on your laptop to see an empty "new email" window open and having no idea why. What was I going to say yesterday? To who? What have I just forgotten, and how much trouble will I get in?

Sam Harvey won the booker! So pleased. Great teacher. Great friend. And now officially the *greatest* writer.

I really like the idea of leaving twitter, which gets shittier every day, but I still feel like Bluesky is too full of people's freaky little drawings.

this is like taking a big bite out of a truck stop urinal cake and then putting on airs about how disappointed you are it doesn’t taste like cake

Incredible that the Harris-Walz campaign is just basically this now, and it's working.

We're still rebuilding subscriptions (since Amazon abandoned them) and pushing back against the generated submissions on a daily basis. We'd like to keep doing so. The path forward requires us to keep shouting from the rooftops, so... clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ Thank you!