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Simon Richardson

@sighrichardson

Arts & media producer @BBCRadio4
Co-Chair @STWevents London's literature development agency
Steering Group @CoastIQlitfest
Judge #BritishBookAwards

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Listen to the latest BBC Radio 4/BBC Sounds episode of The Media Show, with Birkbeck Film, Media & Journalism' Rob Topinka speaking on conspiracy theories and bogus 'crisis actors' being used by both sides in the Israel-Gaza conflict bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

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We're OPEN to applications for Deptford Literature Festival 2024 commissions from London-based deaf & disabled writers aged 18+ 🌟 If you write poetry, fiction, narrative non-fiction or writing for performance - we want to hear from you! Apply by 7 Nov: spreadtheword.org.uk/open-call-deaf…

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Another amazing The Coast Is Queer Festival done and dusted, my favourite event of the year. Congratulations @NewWritingSouth & @MarlboroughProd, thank you @Ace_National for investing in its future & most importantly thank you to everyone, artists and audiences, who came & made it so special

Another amazing @CoastIQlitfest done and dusted, my favourite event of the year. Congratulations @NewWritingSouth & @MarlboroughProd, thank you @Ace_National for investing in its future & most importantly thank you to everyone, artists and audiences, who came & made it so special
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Sadly hearing that talks to end the actors strike have been suspended.

We talked to Jennifer Lee about its impacts (plus writing Frozen). Full 30 minute interiew coming soon on The Media Show.

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Was a great pleasure to interview warm, witty and hugely talented Tom Crewe yesterday at our local Hastings Book Festival about his debut novel The New Life, Victorian attitudes to sex, Oscar Wilde and Pro Wrestling.

Was a great pleasure to interview warm, witty and hugely talented @TomCrewe1 yesterday at our local @HastingsbookFes about his debut novel The New Life, Victorian attitudes to sex, Oscar Wilde and Pro Wrestling.
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The Disabled Poets Prize Prize is now open for deaf & disabled UK poets with awards in best single poem, best unpublished pamphlet, & best poem performed in BSL and offers prize money plus exceptional opportunities. Free entry.
For more info visit: disabledpoetsprize.org.uk
D/L 31 Oct

The @DisabledPoets Prize is now open for deaf & disabled UK poets with awards in best single poem, best unpublished pamphlet, & best poem performed in BSL and offers prize money plus exceptional opportunities. Free entry. For more info visit: disabledpoetsprize.org.uk D/L 31 Oct
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I've had lovely feedback for this prog on what AI means for all kinds of jobs that involve writing. Check it out & be very afraid - or not, depending on your disposition.

Presented by Katie Razzall & thanks to Madhumita Murgia, jack ryan πŸ’€, Tom Clarke, Eliz Mizon bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

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A month today till Hastings Book Festival begins! I'm really looking fwd to interviewing one of the most garlanded novelists of the year, Tom Crewe about his novel The New Life, a fictionalised account of the grandparents of the gay rights movement, 23 Sept hastingsbookfest.org/events/tom-cre…

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Our scheme with The Literary Consultancy is BACK! Open to London writers on a low income, apply for the opportunity to get professional feedback:
- on your manuscript
- on your submissions package (new!)
- with an editor 1-2-1 (new!)
D/L 2 October - info here πŸ‘‰
spreadtheword.org.uk/free-reads-202…

Our #FreeReads scheme with @TLCUK is BACK! Open to London writers on a low income, apply for the opportunity to get professional feedback: - on your manuscript - on your submissions package (new!) - with an editor 1-2-1 (new!) D/L 2 October - info here πŸ‘‰ spreadtheword.org.uk/free-reads-202…
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Time Shelter, written by novelist and poet Georgi Gospodinov and translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel, is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2023.

Time Shelter, written by novelist and poet Georgi Gospodinov and translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel, is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2023.
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I worked with Amis in the aughts. He was the first famous person I ever met. Enthusiastic mimic and a big hugger surprisingly.

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The day after I filed this piece my timeline was full of pics of parts of the progress pride flag being destroyed. So it bears repeating: in a year of growing anti-LGBTQIA sentiment and legislation, we need to keep these books in schools and libraries πŸ’ͺ🏻 thebookseller.com/comment/publis…

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'I usually start with the last line...'

@Onwuemezi explains her short story writing method to @AnnaWoodyes, both in conversation with Charlene Teo at 's Fitzcarraldo Editions panel. The first event I've attended as Spread the Word co-chair and such an inspiring one.

'I usually start with the last line...' @Onwuemezi explains her short story writing method to @AnnaWoodyes, both in conversation with Charlene Teo at #DeptfordLitFest's @FitzcarraldoEds panel. The first event I've attended as @STWevents co-chair and such an inspiring one.
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