One week to go: online short story event!

✨ Useful tips on character, plot, structure and conflict
✨ Featuring 3 former Bridport Prize short story winners
✨ Tickets/more info here: bit.ly/shortstory-eve…

Sean.Lusk Elaine Chiew Ben Hinshaw #ShortStory

Just switched BBC 6 Music on after several weeks and New Radicals was playing. This station is truly dead to me. 😭

She's here! Thank you Sean.Lusk for this glorious proof copy of #AWomanOfOpinion ! I look forward to becoming obsessed with Mary Wortley Montagu - poet, traveller and reformer 🖋🌟📚❤️ Published July 2024 by Doubleday Books

Would you look at this! It's a blue book Bloomsbury Books UK takeover Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop! #ForThyGreatPain and #Cuddy looking resplendent 💙💙

London Tonight ♥️🇵🇸

Israel went from claiming it doesn’t target hospitals to literally dropping bombs and obliterating every single one of the 36 hospitals in Gaza.

And not a peep from mainstream media.

Early hawthorn flowers. Not long now!

Yes! All this.

Only needs about 10k signatures - that’s really just most of Partick

Please sign.

Create a Palestinian Family Visa Scheme for Palestinian people affected by war - Petitions petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

Help! Advice! Writing Contracts!

Hellooo, I am currently trying to negotiate my own contract for a play commission & this is my first time, no experience, no writing rep so: does anyone know anyone who offers advice/ support/anyone who could take a look? Thank you! ☀️

We enjoyed The Bear Behind Sam Copeland & now can find out what happens when Ivor's best friend plays with someone else.
Is that a little green-eyed bear?
#TheTeenyTinyBearBehind is out now Riverside Shopping Centre
#waterstones #picturebooks
#halftermreads
waterstones.com/book/the-bear-…

Writers have never been more active. Especially those in
Fossil Free Books If you are a member of Society Of Authors Society of Authors please vote for the planet and for Palestine at the EGM on 2 May.

#ClimateActionNow #Gaza_Genocide

Meet the cast of Bluets:

Emma D’Arcy
‘This production of Bluets combines some of my all-time favourite artists with my all-time favourite colour. I’m a huge fan of Maggie Nelson. If anyone can translate her work to the stage, it’s Katie Mitchell and Margaret Perry.’

“... deer in their generations come and go / with their rituals of sedge / and dwarf-willow”

~ ʻBen Dorain: a conversation with a mountainʼ by Garry MacKenzie 🍃

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We're very excited to share that entries for the annual Moth Short Story Prize are now OPEN...

And to announce this year's incredible judge – McKitterick Prize, British Book Award and An Post Irish Book Award winner, Louise Kennedy.

Save the date!
⏰ bit.ly/mssp24

The Bone Cave: A Journey Through Myth and Memory by Dougie Strang, published by Birlinn, is a vivid account of a month-long journey in the Scottish Highlands.

Read a short excerpt from The Bone Cave here: highlandbookprize.org.uk/2023-longlist-…

First Eid without my beloved family. May they rest in peace and power, and may their murderers find retribution.

This picture was taken last Eid.

Tesco has announced pre-tax profits of £2.3bn.

Working people pay through the roof at the supermarket so that mostly rich shareholders can receive bumper dividend payments.

A responsible government would have a plan to combat excessive profiteering.

Fridge magnets you say? Get yours here from
Charles Boyle, with a book thrown in:
cbeditions.com/clark.html

#bookmerch

Discussing Vulture Capitalism on Where We Go Next podcast - check out the full episode: wherewegonext.com/episodes/grace…