BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught
@bookwormvaught.bsky.social
Author of many books, teacher, mentor, #Curae, campaigner, doctored, mum of 3. Wilts, Wales, Southern US https://linktr.ee/bookwormvaught?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=00043ddf-6cad-43e1-8c8a-d89 rep. Clare Coombes at Liverpool Literary Agency
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Boom
News.
I have a new home and I’m delighted!
News.
I have a new home and I’m delighted!
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Launching tomorrow night
Free and online - do come! #curae #carers 💙📚
Launching tomorrow night
Free and online - do come! #curae #carers 💙📚
The Curae – Anthology launch
Join us for the online launch of the second Curae anthology, celebrating the work of writers who are carers.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Launching tomorrow night
Free and online - do come! #curae #carers 💙📚
Launching tomorrow night
Free and online - do come! #curae #carers 💙📚
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
I have no idea why Quincy sits like this or raises his paw. Jedi cat
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I have no idea why Quincy sits like this or raises his paw. Jedi cat
Three mirrors at Bookworm Towers.
I love shadows and angles
I love shadows and angles
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Three mirrors at Bookworm Towers.
I love shadows and angles
I love shadows and angles
Snap
Wild hair. Wild week!
Wild hair. Wild week!
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Snap
Wild hair. Wild week!
Wild hair. Wild week!
Huge thank you Imago for unpaid carers in Lewisham for featuring this and @judygor.bsky.social - well done again. Judy won our fiction category.
Launching this Weds
Published on 15th
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Launching this Weds
Published on 15th
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November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Huge thank you Imago for unpaid carers in Lewisham for featuring this and @judygor.bsky.social - well done again. Judy won our fiction category.
Launching this Weds
Published on 15th
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Launching this Weds
Published on 15th
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I sent the new novel to my new agent and felt jubilant. There is no redemptive arc. Lessons are not learned. You know that and go backwards into the book. It’s sad and necessary, I think. Not all stories can end with a sort of hospitable uplift at the end and that can be clear from first lines
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I sent the new novel to my new agent and felt jubilant. There is no redemptive arc. Lessons are not learned. You know that and go backwards into the book. It’s sad and necessary, I think. Not all stories can end with a sort of hospitable uplift at the end and that can be clear from first lines
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 50:
Not all dialogue has to be verbal. What a character does (or not) matters as much as what they say. Rather than fill up your dialogue with descriptions of *how* your characters say their lines, try including some actions too. Looking away; fidgeting; being silent.
Not all dialogue has to be verbal. What a character does (or not) matters as much as what they say. Rather than fill up your dialogue with descriptions of *how* your characters say their lines, try including some actions too. Looking away; fidgeting; being silent.
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 50:
Not all dialogue has to be verbal. What a character does (or not) matters as much as what they say. Rather than fill up your dialogue with descriptions of *how* your characters say their lines, try including some actions too. Looking away; fidgeting; being silent.
Not all dialogue has to be verbal. What a character does (or not) matters as much as what they say. Rather than fill up your dialogue with descriptions of *how* your characters say their lines, try including some actions too. Looking away; fidgeting; being silent.
Launch this week.
Do come!
Do come!
An anthology of beautiful work - all by unpaid carers who are also writers - is published next week, 15/11. renardpress.com/books/the-cu... All profits go to carers’ charities.
On the 12th at 6, we launch. Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-curae-... It’s online and free
#Curae @renardpress.com
On the 12th at 6, we launch. Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-curae-... It’s online and free
#Curae @renardpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Launch this week.
Do come!
Do come!
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In 2022 I wrote a teaching guide drawing on a few things I could do. It couldn’t be sent out on general submission because I did not have a relevant platform from which to bound. That is I did not have a public profile in this area although I was knowledgeable. I’d like to unpick this for you
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In 2022 I wrote a teaching guide drawing on a few things I could do. It couldn’t be sent out on general submission because I did not have a relevant platform from which to bound. That is I did not have a public profile in this area although I was knowledgeable. I’d like to unpick this for you
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PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
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If you’re in Derby then head along to the Derby Book Festival in the Market Hall. Buy some books, have a browse, eat at one of the great food places.
And book a stay at the Flamingo Hotel. 😆
And book a stay at the Flamingo Hotel. 😆
All set up Derby Book Festival with our own books and a carefully curated selection from across the indie presses and some writers I absolutely love!!
@drewgum.bsky.social is popping by to sign a few copies of 🦩🏩 as well - so looking forward to catching up with him!!
Here until 4pm!! #booksky
@drewgum.bsky.social is popping by to sign a few copies of 🦩🏩 as well - so looking forward to catching up with him!!
Here until 4pm!! #booksky
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
If you’re in Derby then head along to the Derby Book Festival in the Market Hall. Buy some books, have a browse, eat at one of the great food places.
And book a stay at the Flamingo Hotel. 😆
And book a stay at the Flamingo Hotel. 😆
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🚨🚨🚨LOS ANGELES- This is a call for ALL HANDS ON DECK! Organize your neighborhood, patrol your block, & defend your neighbors!
Feds are targeting LA more aggressively than ever. THREAD with updates from @latenantsunion.bsky.social on feds escalating + changing tactics & how we fight back:
Feds are targeting LA more aggressively than ever. THREAD with updates from @latenantsunion.bsky.social on feds escalating + changing tactics & how we fight back:
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🚨🚨🚨LOS ANGELES- This is a call for ALL HANDS ON DECK! Organize your neighborhood, patrol your block, & defend your neighbors!
Feds are targeting LA more aggressively than ever. THREAD with updates from @latenantsunion.bsky.social on feds escalating + changing tactics & how we fight back:
Feds are targeting LA more aggressively than ever. THREAD with updates from @latenantsunion.bsky.social on feds escalating + changing tactics & how we fight back:
In 2022 I wrote a teaching guide drawing on a few things I could do. It couldn’t be sent out on general submission because I did not have a relevant platform from which to bound. That is I did not have a public profile in this area although I was knowledgeable. I’d like to unpick this for you
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In 2022 I wrote a teaching guide drawing on a few things I could do. It couldn’t be sent out on general submission because I did not have a relevant platform from which to bound. That is I did not have a public profile in this area although I was knowledgeable. I’d like to unpick this for you
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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The utter pleasure at rereading a Tessa Hadley short story, in anticipation of teaching it to MA students, and seeing some of the mechanics surface, and sensing too how much remains submerged.
She’s just so good. And she works in layers.
She’s just so good. And she works in layers.
Two brilliant uses of comma splice in Tessa Hadley’s short story Funny Little Snake, showing in its slapdash punctuation narrator Valerie’s instructive dismissal of her awful professor husband Gil’s self-serving tales.
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The utter pleasure at rereading a Tessa Hadley short story, in anticipation of teaching it to MA students, and seeing some of the mechanics surface, and sensing too how much remains submerged.
She’s just so good. And she works in layers.
She’s just so good. And she works in layers.
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An anthology of beautiful work - all by unpaid carers who are also writers - is published next week, 15/11. renardpress.com/books/the-cu... All profits go to carers’ charities.
On the 12th at 6, we launch. Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-curae-... It’s online and free
#Curae @renardpress.com
On the 12th at 6, we launch. Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-curae-... It’s online and free
#Curae @renardpress.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
An anthology of beautiful work - all by unpaid carers who are also writers - is published next week, 15/11. renardpress.com/books/the-cu... All profits go to carers’ charities.
On the 12th at 6, we launch. Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-curae-... It’s online and free
#Curae @renardpress.com
On the 12th at 6, we launch. Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-curae-... It’s online and free
#Curae @renardpress.com
An anthology of beautiful work - all by unpaid carers who are also writers - is published next week, 15/11. renardpress.com/books/the-cu... All profits go to carers’ charities.
On the 12th at 6, we launch. Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-curae-... It’s online and free
#Curae @renardpress.com
On the 12th at 6, we launch. Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-curae-... It’s online and free
#Curae @renardpress.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
An anthology of beautiful work - all by unpaid carers who are also writers - is published next week, 15/11. renardpress.com/books/the-cu... All profits go to carers’ charities.
On the 12th at 6, we launch. Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-curae-... It’s online and free
#Curae @renardpress.com
On the 12th at 6, we launch. Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-curae-... It’s online and free
#Curae @renardpress.com
Also. Stay safe my darlings. And don’t go on twitter. I’m going to share something with you. Four years ago, I wrote openly and in as calm a manner as I could, but bigotries are intersectional and to uproot them requires very painful introspection. I understand that but owe it no apology
The apology and podcast re K Cl*****. I stand by what i said. I have a background in education and my focus - although I’m partly in publishing - was always what it’s okay to say about minors in your care. There was transgression here; I’d suggest there were safeguarding issues. THAT is the locus
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Also. Stay safe my darlings. And don’t go on twitter. I’m going to share something with you. Four years ago, I wrote openly and in as calm a manner as I could, but bigotries are intersectional and to uproot them requires very painful introspection. I understand that but owe it no apology
Hooray!
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Hooray!
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The apology and podcast re K Cl*****. I stand by what i said. I have a background in education and my focus - although I’m partly in publishing - was always what it’s okay to say about minors in your care. There was transgression here; I’d suggest there were safeguarding issues. THAT is the locus
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The apology and podcast re K Cl*****. I stand by what i said. I have a background in education and my focus - although I’m partly in publishing - was always what it’s okay to say about minors in your care. There was transgression here; I’d suggest there were safeguarding issues. THAT is the locus
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ICYMI: Independent children’s bookshop Round Table Books is hoping to crowdfund £50,000 to support their move to a bigger shop two steps away from their current location in Brixton Village, South London.
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Round Table Books launches crowdfunder to move into bigger shop
Independent children’s bookshop Round Table Books is hoping to crowdfund £50,000 to support their move to a bigger shop two steps away from their current location in Brixton Village, South London.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ICYMI: Independent children’s bookshop Round Table Books is hoping to crowdfund £50,000 to support their move to a bigger shop two steps away from their current location in Brixton Village, South London.
Read more 👇
Read more 👇
The apology and podcast re K Cl*****. I stand by what i said. I have a background in education and my focus - although I’m partly in publishing - was always what it’s okay to say about minors in your care. There was transgression here; I’d suggest there were safeguarding issues. THAT is the locus
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The apology and podcast re K Cl*****. I stand by what i said. I have a background in education and my focus - although I’m partly in publishing - was always what it’s okay to say about minors in your care. There was transgression here; I’d suggest there were safeguarding issues. THAT is the locus
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Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge.
As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.
Tomorrow, we win it together.
As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.
Tomorrow, we win it together.
November 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge.
As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.
Tomorrow, we win it together.
As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.
Tomorrow, we win it together.