Beth Barker
@bethrdb.bsky.social
writer by the sea🌀
— blackpool, uk
— blackpool, uk
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Beth Barker
@bethrdb.bsky.social
· Dec 24
MOTIVES UNKNOWN 🔎 is up for pre-order now!
Featuring 12 thrilling stories from the freshest voices in crime fiction and Northern writing. There's nowt quite like it.
Read all about it (and pre-order) here! deadinkbooks.com/product/moti...
Featuring 12 thrilling stories from the freshest voices in crime fiction and Northern writing. There's nowt quite like it.
Read all about it (and pre-order) here! deadinkbooks.com/product/moti...
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
truly one of my favourite publishers and I can’t wait to read all of the other stories in this northern gem
another story finds a home💌 @yorkliteraryreview.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
another story finds a home💌 @yorkliteraryreview.bsky.social
writing the last quarter of anything is truly like pulling teeth
June 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
writing the last quarter of anything is truly like pulling teeth
my sweet old girl survived her dental surgery!! I love her❤️🩹❤️🩹
May 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
my sweet old girl survived her dental surgery!! I love her❤️🩹❤️🩹
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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...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
May 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
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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...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers
New Writing North’s literary venture The Bee includes magazine and podcast, and is supported by Michael Sheen
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
just a happy wee writer at her first book launch📘
May 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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)
April 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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!🌟
Very excited to be welcoming the mighty @deadinkbooks.bsky.social to Stockport next week when we’ll be helping launch their brilliant new anthology MOTIVES UNKNOWN: NEW NORTHERN CRIME! Reading on the night will be contributors Lauren Archer, Beth Barker, Pete Hardy, Dan Howarth and Abby Walker.
🎫👇🏻
🎫👇🏻
April 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
can’t wait for this!🌟
i must have it!!!
We're giving away this VANISHING WORLD goodie bag to a lucky winner on both Bluesky and Instagram 🍎
To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is:
- Follow @grantabooks.bsky.social
- Repost
- Leave a comment tagging a friend (more tags = more entries)
- Enter by 2 May
See below for T+Cs.
To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is:
- Follow @grantabooks.bsky.social
- Repost
- Leave a comment tagging a friend (more tags = more entries)
- Enter by 2 May
See below for T+Cs.
April 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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💘
out with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 1st may💘
April 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
excitement of seeing my first published story in print pairs nicely with the dread of being perceived
out with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 1st may💘
out with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 1st may💘
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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.
I hope the people who campaigned for this are proud of themselves.
Trans women arrested on Britain’s railways to be strip-searched by male officers
British Transport Police amends policy in light of supreme court’s landmark ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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.
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Female Manchester University students, 1900 (Manchester Evening News).
April 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Female Manchester University students, 1900 (Manchester Evening News).
writing about procrastination to procrastinate writing etc.
open.substack.com/pub/goingslo...
open.substack.com/pub/goingslo...
doing everything but writing
can I finish this novel?
open.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
writing about procrastination to procrastinate writing etc.
open.substack.com/pub/goingslo...
open.substack.com/pub/goingslo...
can’t wait for this! have worked many book events, but this will be my first as an author ✍️
NEW EVENT!
Join us in Stockport on Tuesday 6th May for the launch of @deadinkbooks.bsky.social’s stunning new anthology MOTIVES UNKNOWN: NEW NORTHERN CRIME. Reading on the night will be contributors Lauren Archer, Beth Barker, Pete Hardy, Dan Howarth and Abby Walker.
#BookSky 📚💜
🎫👇🏻
Join us in Stockport on Tuesday 6th May for the launch of @deadinkbooks.bsky.social’s stunning new anthology MOTIVES UNKNOWN: NEW NORTHERN CRIME. Reading on the night will be contributors Lauren Archer, Beth Barker, Pete Hardy, Dan Howarth and Abby Walker.
#BookSky 📚💜
🎫👇🏻
April 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
can’t wait for this! have worked many book events, but this will be my first as an author ✍️
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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
@thebookseller.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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
@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 🎺
March 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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
March 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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
March 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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!💘
February 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“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...
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)
February 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
February 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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
February 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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