another story finds a home💌 @yorkliteraryreview.bsky.social

writing the last quarter of anything is truly like pulling teeth

my sweet old girl survived her dental surgery!! I love her❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

The Eden Book Society 1993 is now live on Kickstarter! Featuring Grady Hendrix, John Darnielle, Alison Rumfitt, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Nina Allan, and Chikodili Emelumadu. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

Today sees the launch of @beelitmag.bsky.social — a new magazine, website and podcast for working-class writers supported by New Writing North and Michael Sheen. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

just a happy wee writer at her first book launch📘

paralysed by the curséd UPS tracking page as i await the arrival of my new journal in the post (late by 2 hours 45 mins might i add)

can’t wait for this!🌟

i must have it!!!

excitement of seeing my first published story in print pairs nicely with the dread of being perceived out with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 1st may💘

The cruelty of this keeps playing on my mind, how quickly it was implemented. We all have far more to fear from the police than we do from trans people, and this will only embolden dangerous men to assault women.

Female Manchester University students, 1900 (Manchester Evening News).

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

writing about procrastination to procrastinate writing etc. open.substack.com/pub/goingslo...

can’t wait for this! have worked many book events, but this will be my first as an author ✍️

What!!! We won the North England Regional and Country Small Press of the Year! Alongside @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social, whom it is an honour to stand beside 😘 @thebookseller.com

just finished virginia feito’s victorian psycho and (recency bias very much ignored) it may be one of my favourite books of all time 🎺

first annual leave day of the year: sitting in the sun, drinking a little flat white, admiring the latest Celia Dale from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

been a while since i cut a crisis fringe but i got some nice writing news today so maybe they do fix everything after all

hometown looking glorious today! have i mentioned i love living by the sea!💘

lots of thoughts about this, mainly that things were supposed to be getting better but instead of grants and access opportunities and arts education, we’re saddled with debt and our government has no respect for how much arts and culture matter

“I think the real problem is that working-class people look at the arts and think this isn’t something that people like me do,” said Knight. “There is a perception across the board that there is something about the arts that is unattainable.” www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

first book i’ve polished off in a day for a while — Livi Michael’s Reservoir (published by the wonderful @saltpublishing.com)

update: i have boarded The Lamb train

born to scroll on socials, forced to cringe at every new tiktok trend. this week: people having an imaginary coffee with their younger selves and thinking everyone else wants to hear what went down

god feb is a depressing month isn’t it

looking for recommendations for literary horror, uncanny delights, books that make you feel on edge but in an ambiguous and undefinable way TIA! 🪄🪄🪄 #booksky #writinghorror

Raw Content is one of the novels of the year, and this event will be fucking excellent. Terri is the best interviewer i've ever been grilled by. What a treat to see two of my fave writers + best mates in action on the same night 🖤🙏 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...

looking for recommendations for literary horror, uncanny delights, books that make you feel on edge but in an ambiguous and undefinable way TIA! 🪄🪄🪄 #booksky #writinghorror

woke up in the night with the urge to plot an entire novel in my notes app. reading back this morning and it’s truly unhinged (and not in a good way)

more!! celia!! the love of my literary life

weekend reading (re-entering my russian lit era — open to recs if anyone has any gems to share)

The best news to beat the January blues! So proud of @adamsleslie.bsky.social and this kaleidoscopic trip of a book! 🌼✨️🌻 @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 📚💙 #booksky

a good sunday evening: writing an essay about uncanny fiction while eating leftover M&S christmas chocolate

my best news of the year: i’m going to be published by Dead Ink in 2025!🖤 truly one of my favourite publishers and I can’t wait to read all of the other stories in this northern gem

the immense peace of finishing a christmas clean, baking a batch of mince pies and reading Little Women by the tree !

in my cindy lou who era

[closes book, slowly removes glasses, and thoughtfully cleans them with a small cloth] I honestly don't think Waldo is in there

i love fleetwood at this time of year specifically 🎣

looking back on 2024 and a big highlight: my first fiction publication as part of factory international’s folk horror series (to go alongside a play starring maxine peake!) plus daisy johnson said these nice things about it which obviously made my year❤️‍🩹 factoryinternational.org/factoryplus/...

ordinarily a very non-superstitious person BUT i just got the best writing news of my life to date!😭

celia dale appreciation post: queen of domestic horror; prim-and-proper evil; tea and biscuits served with a side of unease and dread. we have had a delicious love affair this year (albeit one-sided)

i need a little shred of good news, please! but until then i will continue to sit on the verge and listen to joni mitchell

MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish

some books i’ve enjoyed reading this year (and lots of cups of coffee too, apparently) - a sunny place for shady people by mariana enríquez - fen by daisy johnson - sheep’s clothing by celia dale - the borrowed hills by scott preston

gosh it’s nice to have a little scroll without weird ads, bots or fascists entering the chat isn’t it

a bit about me i guess ! doing my MA in creative writing at manchester writing school (folky horror / gothic fiction is my kinda snack), can often be found trotting by the sea with long dogs, acquiring more books than i have time to read, contending with one existential crisis after another etc.

crazy how this app is actually pretty good

book people, let us connect like we did in the Before Times! i miss it very much