Joanne Simmonds
@josimmonds.bsky.social
I’m currently rewriting my @BathSpaUni novel.
I paint, write and swim with AuDHD and hEDS.
‘Misogyny is envy with a dick.’ Edna O’Brien.
I write a Substack here: https://joannesimmonds.substack.com
I paint, write and swim with AuDHD and hEDS.
‘Misogyny is envy with a dick.’ Edna O’Brien.
I write a Substack here: https://joannesimmonds.substack.com
Pinned
Miss Marple and more rewriting
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com
Free to read.
Miss Marple and more rewriting.
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com/pub/joannesi...
Miss Marple and more rewriting.
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com/pub/joannesi...
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"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Free to read.
Miss Marple and more rewriting.
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com/pub/joannesi...
Miss Marple and more rewriting.
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com/pub/joannesi...
Miss Marple and more rewriting
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Free to read.
Miss Marple and more rewriting.
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com/pub/joannesi...
Miss Marple and more rewriting.
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com/pub/joannesi...
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Doorway of a Venetian Palace https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/doorway-of-a-venetian-palace
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Doorway of a Venetian Palace https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/doorway-of-a-venetian-palace
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⏰ 4-5pm (GMT)
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📆 Monday 24 November
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November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Support your students - book your place via SPOT today 👉 https://bit.ly/47EciWw
⏰ 4-5pm (GMT)
📆 Monday 24 November
💻 Hosted on Zoom and bookable via SPOT
🧡 FREE!
⏰ 4-5pm (GMT)
📆 Monday 24 November
💻 Hosted on Zoom and bookable via SPOT
🧡 FREE!
So, Lucy Powell’s landed then?
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So, Lucy Powell’s landed then?
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“When I spoke to him about the loneliness I didn’t mean out in the wheat fields. There is a loneliness that opens up between two people sitting in a bar, not in love with one another, not even certain they like the way they are entangled with one another.”
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“When I spoke to him about the loneliness I didn’t mean out in the wheat fields. There is a loneliness that opens up between two people sitting in a bar, not in love with one another, not even certain they like the way they are entangled with one another.”
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
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Joyce Carol Oates is an amazing human being.
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Joyce Carol Oates is an amazing human being.
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'Logan's Rock, St Levan,' (c1916) perfectly demonstrates the height of Laura Knight’s development in Cornwall, this work is part of a series of paintings she composed between 1915 and 1919 all sharing an elevated viewpoint, dramatic diagonal composition and vibrant colour.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
'Logan's Rock, St Levan,' (c1916) perfectly demonstrates the height of Laura Knight’s development in Cornwall, this work is part of a series of paintings she composed between 1915 and 1919 all sharing an elevated viewpoint, dramatic diagonal composition and vibrant colour.
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Me, extremely disappointed in you.
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Me, extremely disappointed in you.
My doctors won't let me anywhere near oestrogen. I’m on a light barely-there pill, and oestrogen cream is banned. Who is pushing to water down these labels?
NY Times article on the replacement hormone therapy for menopausal women. NBC also posted an article.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/h...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/h...
F.D.A. Will Remove Black Box Warnings From Hormone Treatments for Menopause
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
My doctors won't let me anywhere near oestrogen. I’m on a light barely-there pill, and oestrogen cream is banned. Who is pushing to water down these labels?
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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!
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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My feelings about the BBC are largely in line with my feelings about the NHS.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
My feelings about the BBC are largely in line with my feelings about the NHS.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
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In six days god created heaven and earth. On the seventh day, in the interests of BBC balance and impartiality, Laura Kuenssberg interviewed satan.
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In six days god created heaven and earth. On the seventh day, in the interests of BBC balance and impartiality, Laura Kuenssberg interviewed satan.
I had to mute someone on here because people keep posting their content into my feed, and I find their posts triggering because they're about this person's students. As previously stated, I don't like to read a teacher's negative posts about their students. I feel it's an abuse of power.
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I had to mute someone on here because people keep posting their content into my feed, and I find their posts triggering because they're about this person's students. As previously stated, I don't like to read a teacher's negative posts about their students. I feel it's an abuse of power.
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The BBC has been going downhill ever since it stopped requiring radio announcers to wear formal evening dress on the grounds that nobody could see them. And now it's so woke that nearly all BBC Radio programmes are recorded in the nude. Not a lot of people know that.
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The BBC has been going downhill ever since it stopped requiring radio announcers to wear formal evening dress on the grounds that nobody could see them. And now it's so woke that nearly all BBC Radio programmes are recorded in the nude. Not a lot of people know that.
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David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh
David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh
The judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author’s novel as the winner of the £50,000 award
Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker prize for his novel Flesh.
Szalay’s sixth work of fiction traces the life of one man, István, from his youth to midlife. The judges “had never read anything quite like it”, said panel chair Roddy Doyle, who won the prize in 1993. “It is, in many ways, a dark book, but it is a joy to read.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh
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Christine Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi, has announced she’s running for the California State Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Christine Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi, has announced she’s running for the California State Senate.
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Oh hello! It’s Not a Bloody Trend is a 99p Kindle deal if a book on ADHD sounds up your street. (And it’s available to order from your local bookshop and library) amzn.eu/d/1IFRdXy
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Oh hello! It’s Not a Bloody Trend is a 99p Kindle deal if a book on ADHD sounds up your street. (And it’s available to order from your local bookshop and library) amzn.eu/d/1IFRdXy
Free to read.
Miss Marple and more rewriting.
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com/pub/joannesi...
Miss Marple and more rewriting.
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com/pub/joannesi...
Miss Marple and more rewriting
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Free to read.
Miss Marple and more rewriting.
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com/pub/joannesi...
Miss Marple and more rewriting.
Is there an end in sight?
open.substack.com/pub/joannesi...
Reposted by Joanne Simmonds
IMPORTANT NEWS FOR WRITERS
the Frankenstein soundtrack is now available in full, prob timed w the Netflix release, and it is full of ***impeccable*** vibes
the Frankenstein soundtrack is now available in full, prob timed w the Netflix release, and it is full of ***impeccable*** vibes
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
IMPORTANT NEWS FOR WRITERS
the Frankenstein soundtrack is now available in full, prob timed w the Netflix release, and it is full of ***impeccable*** vibes
the Frankenstein soundtrack is now available in full, prob timed w the Netflix release, and it is full of ***impeccable*** vibes
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BBC Director General has always been men – all 17 of them – for more than 100 years.
Wonder whether it will change this time round.
Wonder whether it will change this time round.
November 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
BBC Director General has always been men – all 17 of them – for more than 100 years.
Wonder whether it will change this time round.
Wonder whether it will change this time round.
Sorry I've been a bit quiet. I picked up a Miss Marple on Thursday 🧶🔪
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Sorry I've been a bit quiet. I picked up a Miss Marple on Thursday 🧶🔪