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Wendy Pratt
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Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine

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If you're able, please do read. A wonderful book by a brilliant writer.
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years.

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JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD
YouTube video by JAGGL113
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November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
On the back of performing at Whitby Lit Fest, some thoughts on performing as an author of a memoir.

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Now when I stand in front of an audience I feel like I am performing an autopsy on myself.
Notes from the Writer's Diary No. 4
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November 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Reading from LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS tonight at Todmorden Library with Sarah Corbett as part of their literary festival @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/roc...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Writing room view
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Anna Ancher, 
Evening sun in the artist’s studio, c.1913
Danish painter
#WomensArt
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This week in Notes from the Writer’s Diary, I’m managing energy levels, writing around my mum’s diagnosis.

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Notes from the Writer's Diary: No. 3
The present is the only life you will live: writing around my mum's diagnosis
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November 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Ooooh, a bit of hopescrolling for a change. Nice.
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Oh ... what's this that's on the radio on sunday?
BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Polly Atkin on the Tawny Owl
For writer Polly Atkin the nighttime calls of tawny owls mean company and community.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures is published in the US today. I know that we've all got a lot on our plates right now, but there's always room for biscuits/cookies. #booksky

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November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Sneaking a chapter in before work.
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Ready to start the week.
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Absolutely appalling use of ad space in the @theguardian.com app today. Do not call yourself a news channel if you place advertisements over the content. Utterly ridiculous. This ad is repeated over all the breaking story feed and when you remove it it leaves a grey square that can’t be moved.
November 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Sunday morning starting with coffee and Jane Eyre.
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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The First Frost, 1906 by Austrian impressionist painter Olga Wisinger-Florian #womensart
#November
November 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Maybe you, if you came across the real werewolf, Old Stinker:

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Ghost Lake Rising: Old Stinker - A Yorkshire Werewolf Story
A True Fiction
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October 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I’m running a poetry workshop tomorrow about the use of the self portrait poem to connect to history and landscape and oh, what a day I’ve had today: rainy weather, warm house, sitting curled up reading poems with the cat. Just perfect.
October 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The morning beginning with good coffee and ‘The Secret Letters of Mary Queen of Scots’ on BBC iplayer.
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!
October 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Not a single traitor. Amazing.
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Have you ever wondered how the other parts of your writer career portfolio enable your own creative practice? I’m exploring what I get out of facilitating workshops and writing my substack in this week’s diary post.

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Notes from My Writing Diary - Part Two
I need to get out of my office more. Facilitating workshops as part of my writing practice.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
was walking down the garden this morning and a sparrow hawk zipped over my head and through the trees in front of me. Incredible. Like being almost shot with a bird bullet.
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Calm down, Kissabel. We all are.
October 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I'm so hopeful this is going to help people in the book world ask for the accommodations they need and - more importantly - normalise everyone in the industry actually paying attention to access needs and accommodating them.
October 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM