Katie da Cunha Lewin
@kdclewin.bsky.social
Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
Sharing again, just in case!
Anyone any recommendations for food/drink/child-friendly activities in Hastings?
December 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Sharing again, just in case!
Anyone any recommendations for food/drink/child-friendly activities in Hastings?
December 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Anyone any recommendations for food/drink/child-friendly activities in Hastings?
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Just received a message from a reader telling me that they are enjoying my book: the loveliest little Christmas gift for a writer! We should all be doing this for each other I reckon
December 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Just received a message from a reader telling me that they are enjoying my book: the loveliest little Christmas gift for a writer! We should all be doing this for each other I reckon
Just received a message from a reader telling me that they are enjoying my book: the loveliest little Christmas gift for a writer! We should all be doing this for each other I reckon
December 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Just received a message from a reader telling me that they are enjoying my book: the loveliest little Christmas gift for a writer! We should all be doing this for each other I reckon
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An interview with @randongenerator.bsky.social and @sandropology.bsky.social, the guest editors of our latest issue 'Novel Media / Media Novel' 👩🏽💻🧑🏽💻👨🏽💻
c21.openlibhums.org/news/873/
c21.openlibhums.org/news/873/
‘Swiping right on the media novel’ – Interview with Dong Xia and Sandro Eich, Guest Editors of ‘Novel Media/Media Novel’ for <em>C21 Literature</em>
During their shared time as doctoral candidates at the University of St Andrews, Dr Dong Xia and Dr Sandro Eich came up with the idea of a collection of essays …
c21.openlibhums.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
An interview with @randongenerator.bsky.social and @sandropology.bsky.social, the guest editors of our latest issue 'Novel Media / Media Novel' 👩🏽💻🧑🏽💻👨🏽💻
c21.openlibhums.org/news/873/
c21.openlibhums.org/news/873/
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I challenge you to think of one thing you would less like to do
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I challenge you to think of one thing you would less like to do
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When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
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In collaboration with UK Small Press Futures – a collective of UK independent publishers – Wasafiri is hosting an afternoon of panels dedicated to the future of independent presses.
When: Wed, 21 January, 2-6pm GMT
Where: BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London
Tickets: £15
buff.ly/YJJorHv
When: Wed, 21 January, 2-6pm GMT
Where: BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London
Tickets: £15
buff.ly/YJJorHv
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In collaboration with UK Small Press Futures – a collective of UK independent publishers – Wasafiri is hosting an afternoon of panels dedicated to the future of independent presses.
When: Wed, 21 January, 2-6pm GMT
Where: BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London
Tickets: £15
buff.ly/YJJorHv
When: Wed, 21 January, 2-6pm GMT
Where: BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London
Tickets: £15
buff.ly/YJJorHv
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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The perfect gift for your bookish friends this Christmas…
‘The Writer’s Room is a delightful book, brimming with warmth and insight.’ Review31
Order from @waterstones.bsky.social here: bit.ly/48NdbN0
@kdclewin.bsky.social #Christmas #literary #creative #ChristmasGifts #Xmas #BooksForChristmas
‘The Writer’s Room is a delightful book, brimming with warmth and insight.’ Review31
Order from @waterstones.bsky.social here: bit.ly/48NdbN0
@kdclewin.bsky.social #Christmas #literary #creative #ChristmasGifts #Xmas #BooksForChristmas
December 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The perfect gift for your bookish friends this Christmas…
‘The Writer’s Room is a delightful book, brimming with warmth and insight.’ Review31
Order from @waterstones.bsky.social here: bit.ly/48NdbN0
@kdclewin.bsky.social #Christmas #literary #creative #ChristmasGifts #Xmas #BooksForChristmas
‘The Writer’s Room is a delightful book, brimming with warmth and insight.’ Review31
Order from @waterstones.bsky.social here: bit.ly/48NdbN0
@kdclewin.bsky.social #Christmas #literary #creative #ChristmasGifts #Xmas #BooksForChristmas
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‘“People need to pay their bills,” one of the pickets told me. Some are forced to work several jobs. Many talked of the effect of the 2023 cyberattack on their workload.’
Anna Aslanyan on the strike at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan on the strike at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
‘“People need to pay their bills,” one of the pickets told me. Some are forced to work several jobs. Many talked of the effect of the 2023 cyberattack on their workload.’
Anna Aslanyan on the strike at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan on the strike at the British Library, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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My impression is that the most rapid and really brutal university cuts are now revving up. Each of the threefold tumblers of White Paper, Budget and strike ballot failure have turned and made the situation much worse. In some places the cynicism and speed is frightening. (1/2)
December 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
My impression is that the most rapid and really brutal university cuts are now revving up. Each of the threefold tumblers of White Paper, Budget and strike ballot failure have turned and made the situation much worse. In some places the cynicism and speed is frightening. (1/2)
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a new monograph by one of our fabulous advisory board ☺️
Books are like children in one important way - both take a village to raise.
Thank you to my village, all over the world, who have helped me along the way. None of this could have happened without you.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
Thank you to my village, all over the world, who have helped me along the way. None of this could have happened without you.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
A Cultural History of Vertigo
The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary a…
www.bloomsbury.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
a new monograph by one of our fabulous advisory board ☺️
Very happy to receive my copy of The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel edited by Loic Bourdeau and @cilloyd.bsky.social. I'm in there talking about (what else) writers and writing work. Great to see the contribution from my @c21literature.bsky.social colleague @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Very happy to receive my copy of The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel edited by Loic Bourdeau and @cilloyd.bsky.social. I'm in there talking about (what else) writers and writing work. Great to see the contribution from my @c21literature.bsky.social colleague @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social
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Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.
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Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
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Solidarity, once more, with the staff at the British Library. The people who keep it going and who make it what it is should not be on poverty wages and living in fear of abuse from angry users. Something needs to change!
Due to ongoing strike action, all St Pancras Reading Rooms will be closed today (8 December). We are also likely to have to close our Reading Rooms for the rest of the week and will update if this is the case. Please make sure you check our service updates before you visit: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
Planned strike action in St Pancras
We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 8 and Friday 12 December 2025.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Solidarity, once more, with the staff at the British Library. The people who keep it going and who make it what it is should not be on poverty wages and living in fear of abuse from angry users. Something needs to change!
Solidarity, once more, with the staff at the British Library. The people who keep it going and who make it what it is should not be on poverty wages and living in fear of abuse from angry users. Something needs to change!
Due to ongoing strike action, all St Pancras Reading Rooms will be closed today (8 December). We are also likely to have to close our Reading Rooms for the rest of the week and will update if this is the case. Please make sure you check our service updates before you visit: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
Planned strike action in St Pancras
We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 8 and Friday 12 December 2025.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Solidarity, once more, with the staff at the British Library. The people who keep it going and who make it what it is should not be on poverty wages and living in fear of abuse from angry users. Something needs to change!
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In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
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⏱️FOUR MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson for their upcoming 8-9 June 'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' conference, a research project funded by the UCD Humanities Institute's Seed Funding Scheme.
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
⏱️FOUR MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson for their upcoming 8-9 June 'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' conference, a research project funded by the UCD Humanities Institute's Seed Funding Scheme.
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Up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social; an in-depth interview with small press publishers on what they do and how they do it, how they differ from commercial publishing in content & form, on funding, their impact on literary communities, & some excellent book recommends🎄
lithub.com/life-giving-...
lithub.com/life-giving-...
Life-Giving, Imaginative and Underfunded: Small Press Publishers in Crisis
A recent letter co-written and signed by small press publishers has highlighted the significant pressures they face, threatening them with closure and potentially damaging the literary ecosystem ir…
lithub.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social; an in-depth interview with small press publishers on what they do and how they do it, how they differ from commercial publishing in content & form, on funding, their impact on literary communities, & some excellent book recommends🎄
lithub.com/life-giving-...
lithub.com/life-giving-...
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This is disastrous. And the news are mostly hidden- not at all prioritised by the BBC as breaking news across their channels/platforms. I had to dig deep to find this link. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What do we know about University of Essex's Southend campus closure?
The university says it will be moving students from its Southend campus to Colchester.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is disastrous. And the news are mostly hidden- not at all prioritised by the BBC as breaking news across their channels/platforms. I had to dig deep to find this link. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I’m so sorry to bring your day to a screeching halt but think about if this was your own child. Your little first grader. Just think about it.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I’m so sorry to bring your day to a screeching halt but think about if this was your own child. Your little first grader. Just think about it.
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Job titles of writer jobs currently advertised on LinkedIn: Conversion Copywriter Trainee; Junior Technical Writer; Freelance AI Insights Writer; Generative AI Prompt Writer; Content Evaluator; Human in the Loop intern; Human Perspective Writer
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Job titles of writer jobs currently advertised on LinkedIn: Conversion Copywriter Trainee; Junior Technical Writer; Freelance AI Insights Writer; Generative AI Prompt Writer; Content Evaluator; Human in the Loop intern; Human Perspective Writer