✨🏆 I won an award. 🤯 Every year for 4yrs, I’ve submitted something to the @creativefutureuk writing competition, and usually my piece gets ignored. This year, I won the Bronze Award for Creative Non-Fiction.

My first proper commission - I actually got paid to write something 🤯 I wrote a little piece for @beelitmag.bsky.social about why I can't wear tracksuit anymore. Class has a uniform - prove me wrong.

Statistics don’t capture our stories. #Careleavers in the creative industries remain undocumented. Invisible. I suppose this isn’t surprising, as this is how we are in society. Invisible. People only keep stats on things they care about. People don’t care enough about care leavers doing well.

A band I'm in, Isaac Neilson, has been shortlisted to play this year's #YNOTFestival. Isaac and I are both council estate kids, & opportunities like this don't show up often. Do #Samfender proud and give us a vote. 🙏 Type Isaac Neilson into the search box and vote. 🗳️

The music industry is not for #careexperience people like me. This week #samfender highlighted the struggle of working-class people in the industry. I sat down with my written off 15yr old self for coffee to see what he would make of me now smashing it. #CEP #careleaver

I’m always blown away when people like my writing enough to share it. Thanks @iandunt.bsky.social Obtaining photos for care leavers is a big issue that is never talked about. We don’t get them because you can’t redact a photograph.

I learn from @matt-taylor.bsky.social that a) on the Isle of Man you can't say "rat"; b) there's a "fairy bridge" where you have to thank the fairies or taxi drivers will literally stop? Matt wrote about it here. What, I ask, the hell

Over the past year, I've been part of a development programme for working-class writers, called A Writing Chance. I've been partnered with @jonnelledge.bsky.social to develop a Substack Newsletter. Check it out here. #writers #substack