Samantha Ellis
@samanthaellis.bsky.social
Writer of books (How to be a Heroine, Take Courage & Chopping Onions on my Heart) & plays (How to Date a Feminist)
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From the Einstein of sex to letters by Oliver Sacks: meet the authors on the 2026 Wingate Prize longlist
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From the Einstein of sex to letters by Oliver Sacks: meet the authors on the 2026 Wingate Prize longlist - The Jewish Chronicle
The shortlist will be announced in mid-December and the winner early next year
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November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
From the Einstein of sex to letters by Oliver Sacks: meet the authors on the 2026 Wingate Prize longlist
www.thejc.com/life/books/e...
www.thejc.com/life/books/e...
Thank you @thewingateprize.bsky.social!
We're delighted to announce the longlist for this year's prize. Congratulations to all of the authors and their publishers
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Thank you @thewingateprize.bsky.social!
I’ve made a list of books I read while writing mine on @bookshop.org - for all your Chanukah / other gifting needs!
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November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I’ve made a list of books I read while writing mine on @bookshop.org - for all your Chanukah / other gifting needs!
uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...
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“Don’t forget that the worst thing you can be is a girl”
New newsletter is out! with stuff on “feminisation”, Latvia, Russian post-feminism, the deepfake ecosystem and motherhood and writing, with links to stuff by @samanthaellis.bsky.social and others
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New newsletter is out! with stuff on “feminisation”, Latvia, Russian post-feminism, the deepfake ecosystem and motherhood and writing, with links to stuff by @samanthaellis.bsky.social and others
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The worst thing you can be (and four other reads)
Five things on gender inequality and the backlash against feminism
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November 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“Don’t forget that the worst thing you can be is a girl”
New newsletter is out! with stuff on “feminisation”, Latvia, Russian post-feminism, the deepfake ecosystem and motherhood and writing, with links to stuff by @samanthaellis.bsky.social and others
thebacklash.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
New newsletter is out! with stuff on “feminisation”, Latvia, Russian post-feminism, the deepfake ecosystem and motherhood and writing, with links to stuff by @samanthaellis.bsky.social and others
thebacklash.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
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This has only ever happened once before but my first grown up novel, the now iconic* Unsticky is currently 99p for Kindle. amzn.to/4pQV4O7 (*Other people have said this, it's not just me tooting my own horn.)
Unsticky
Unsticky
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October 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This has only ever happened once before but my first grown up novel, the now iconic* Unsticky is currently 99p for Kindle. amzn.to/4pQV4O7 (*Other people have said this, it's not just me tooting my own horn.)
First proper post on my substack - free by the way. Thank you everyone who subscribed.
Let’s talk about Beowulf
(And also about Iraqi Jews)
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October 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
First proper post on my substack - free by the way. Thank you everyone who subscribed.
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'It is amazing to read a young writer loudly, exultingly, exploring her ideas on the page.'
Samantha Ellis on the precocious poetry of Charlotte Brontë
Samantha Ellis on the precocious poetry of Charlotte Brontë
Printed by herself
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October 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
'It is amazing to read a young writer loudly, exultingly, exploring her ideas on the page.'
Samantha Ellis on the precocious poetry of Charlotte Brontë
Samantha Ellis on the precocious poetry of Charlotte Brontë
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Samantha Ellis: Rewriting welcome at Britain's threshold
Heart-swelling headlines
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October 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Samantha Ellis: Rewriting welcome at Britain's threshold
Two reviews from me for @thetls.bsky.social this week. The first is Charlotte Brontë’s messy, misspelled, gorgeous teenage poetry.
Printed by herself
Although the Brontë sisters’ lives have been thoroughly pawed over by biographers and scholars, new discoveries are still being made. It feels extraordinary to be reviewing now, in 2025, a new book of...
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October 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Two reviews from me for @thetls.bsky.social this week. The first is Charlotte Brontë’s messy, misspelled, gorgeous teenage poetry.
Extremely late to substack…
Samantha Ellis's substack
Hello! I’m Samantha.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Extremely late to substack…
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As #Shabbat ends, Jews around the world prepare for Rosh Hashanah, there is a LOT we are all hoping for in the year ahead. Above all, Peace.
Join @samanthaellis.bsky.social reflecting on a community that survived an existential threat, and on preserving culture.
Listen now - link in bio
#jewsky
Join @samanthaellis.bsky.social reflecting on a community that survived an existential threat, and on preserving culture.
Listen now - link in bio
#jewsky
September 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As #Shabbat ends, Jews around the world prepare for Rosh Hashanah, there is a LOT we are all hoping for in the year ahead. Above all, Peace.
Join @samanthaellis.bsky.social reflecting on a community that survived an existential threat, and on preserving culture.
Listen now - link in bio
#jewsky
Join @samanthaellis.bsky.social reflecting on a community that survived an existential threat, and on preserving culture.
Listen now - link in bio
#jewsky
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Excited to say that, ahead of #RoshHashanah, our new episode is with author @samanthaellis.bsky.social - talking about Judeo Arabic and Amba
Check your podcatcher to listen now, or subscribe to join us in our exploration of the Jewniverse.
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Check your podcatcher to listen now, or subscribe to join us in our exploration of the Jewniverse.
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Endangered, Not Erased - Samantha Ellis | Who Jew Think You Are
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September 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Excited to say that, ahead of #RoshHashanah, our new episode is with author @samanthaellis.bsky.social - talking about Judeo Arabic and Amba
Check your podcatcher to listen now, or subscribe to join us in our exploration of the Jewniverse.
shows.acast.com/who-jew-thin...
Check your podcatcher to listen now, or subscribe to join us in our exploration of the Jewniverse.
shows.acast.com/who-jew-thin...
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🙏 it has been a soul-warning experience reading @samanthaellis.bsky.social’s account of her ongoing relationship with her language and culture as an Iraqi Jew.
👏 For such a brisk read it covers enough ground in such rich detail that you will feel, as I did, deepened and delightfully surprised.
👏 For such a brisk read it covers enough ground in such rich detail that you will feel, as I did, deepened and delightfully surprised.
September 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🙏 it has been a soul-warning experience reading @samanthaellis.bsky.social’s account of her ongoing relationship with her language and culture as an Iraqi Jew.
👏 For such a brisk read it covers enough ground in such rich detail that you will feel, as I did, deepened and delightfully surprised.
👏 For such a brisk read it covers enough ground in such rich detail that you will feel, as I did, deepened and delightfully surprised.
Saturday! RSL BookSlam with me & five (five!) other authors: Sabrina Mahfouz, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Karrie Fransman, Felicity Ward & Theon Cross. The theme is Reanimate. It’s free. Come along!
September 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Saturday! RSL BookSlam with me & five (five!) other authors: Sabrina Mahfouz, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Karrie Fransman, Felicity Ward & Theon Cross. The theme is Reanimate. It’s free. Come along!
Can’t stop thinking about this haunting piece by @ericawgnr.bsky.social.
St Paul’s Pool on Pitcairn Island. I wrote about my strange visit there for @theobserveruk.bsky.social — observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Follow me…
Follow me…
September 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Can’t stop thinking about this haunting piece by @ericawgnr.bsky.social.
US readers! My new book is available for preorder now & if you do it in the next 3 days it’s 25% off at @barnesandnoble.com with the code PREORDER25 so please do!
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September 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
US readers! My new book is available for preorder now & if you do it in the next 3 days it’s 25% off at @barnesandnoble.com with the code PREORDER25 so please do!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/always-car...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/always-car...
Aaaaand it made Pick of the Week! Thank you @nikkibedi.bsky.social & thank you to everyone who’s listened & everyone who’s written to me about it.
September 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Aaaaand it made Pick of the Week! Thank you @nikkibedi.bsky.social & thank you to everyone who’s listened & everyone who’s written to me about it.
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Not enough media about Judeo-Arabic imo
August 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Not enough media about Judeo-Arabic imo
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August 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Today! (And afterwards on BBC Sounds). I had the best time talking to the very erudite & joy-giving @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social.
August 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Today! (And afterwards on BBC Sounds). I had the best time talking to the very erudite & joy-giving @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social.
It would be amazing if this led to more resistance of these narratives & in general more willingness to have loose ends & open questions & conflict in books. (Hugely grateful that my publishers have never asked me to provide any sort of healing or happy ending in mine.)
I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
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August 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It would be amazing if this led to more resistance of these narratives & in general more willingness to have loose ends & open questions & conflict in books. (Hugely grateful that my publishers have never asked me to provide any sort of healing or happy ending in mine.)
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Really nice interview with @samanthaellis.bsky.social on books about endangered languages, starting with Ross Perlin’s brilliant Language City:
"I grew up listening to and trying to speak Judaeo-Iraqi Arabic, the language of my community, the Iraqi Jews. And I’ve always been drawn to learning about other endangered languages as a result."
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Endangered Languages
We asked Samantha Ellis—whose mother tongue, Judaeo-Iraqi Arabic, is on the verge of dying out—to recommend books on endangered languages
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August 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Really nice interview with @samanthaellis.bsky.social on books about endangered languages, starting with Ross Perlin’s brilliant Language City: