If you attended/organised/performed/volunteered at the The 1in12 Club, we’d love to talk to you about your memories of the venue!💥

Join us for an initial co-creating session to inform a new project that will celebrate the legacy of the club.

More info - bit.ly/hom1in12

It's a wonderful thing to see so many great writers honoured in this way. Congratulations to Hanif Abdurraqib and Kathryn Scanlan (both Gordon Burn Prize winners) and the truly brilliant Jen Hadfield, a poet of exceptional talent and skill.

This will be good.

Today’s task: hanging this splendid print of Carl on Eileen’s Couch (1981) by Tish Murtha British Culture Archive. Reminds me of The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis.

Did anyone watch the Tish documentary BBC iPlayer last night? More than a few parallels with Andrea Dunbar’s life.

'Writing essays and avoiding Algerian prisons is just some of what Saoudi has been up to in the five years since the last Fat White Family album. He also co-authored a best-selling book with Adelle Stripe'

Fat White Family Interviewed

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Well I laughed…

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Thanks to the good ship ALCS who sent an unexpected payment this morning which has really brightened the corners. A spring equinox treat.

Writers of all persuasions: make sure to register if you haven’t already…

Scarbados here we come… 🔥

A fragrance so powerful it was described as an airborne toxic event. Beloved by the women of Leeds and hairdressers across the land. One for all those with 80s mothers who wore it like a badge of pride.

Ripe cowshit and Elnett hairspray are my olfactory madeleines 🖤

Could not be looking forward to this more

This is the first time I’ve ever backed a winner. Well done, Kathryn. A phenomenal book that deserves all the prizes.

On the fortieth anniversary of the miners’ strike and the twentieth anniversary of the publication of GB84, author David Peace reflects on the legacy of a seismic event.

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