Wendy Pratt
@wendypratt.bsky.social
Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
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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.
The excellent Jonathan Crain interviewed me about my novel The Orange Notebooks (@pressassembly.bsky.social & @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social). We talked about reclaiming the lost language of mourning, my hospital work, bees, the colour orange, lost libraries & more.
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Writing Against Silence: Susanna Crossman and the Radical Honesty of "The Orange Notebooks"
When Susanna Crossman speaks about her new novel The Orange Notebooks, she talks about process, practice, and experimentation—terms that suggest not a tidy narrative but a living, breathing act of cre...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
If you're able, please do read. A wonderful book by a brilliant writer.
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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
On the back of performing at Whitby Lit Fest, some thoughts on performing as an author of a memoir.
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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
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...
Writing room view
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Writing room view
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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
This week in Notes from the Writer’s Diary, I’m managing energy levels, writing around my mum’s diagnosis.
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Ooooh, a bit of hopescrolling for a change. Nice.
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Ooooh, a bit of hopescrolling for a change. Nice.
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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
Oh ... what's this that's on the radio on sunday?
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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
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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Sneaking a chapter in before work.
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Sneaking a chapter in before work.
Ready to start the week.
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Ready to start the week.
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
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.
Sunday morning starting with coffee and Jane Eyre.
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Sunday morning starting with coffee and Jane Eyre.
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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
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Maybe you, if you came across the real werewolf, Old Stinker:
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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
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.
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
The morning beginning with good coffee and ‘The Secret Letters of Mary Queen of Scots’ on BBC iplayer.
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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!
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
'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!
Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!
Not a single traitor. Amazing.
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Not a single traitor. Amazing.
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
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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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
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.
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Calm down, Kissabel. We all are.
October 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Calm down, Kissabel. We all are.
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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.
To celebrate the launch of the SoA’s Access Form template, ADCI is hosting a panel discussion on what an Access Form is and how it can help authors, agents, publishers, event organisers, and anyone else in the sector to work together more effectively.
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Industry Insider - Understanding Access Forms and Riders - Tools for Disabled, Chronically Ill and Neurodivergent Authors - The Society of Authors
To celebrate the launch of the SoA’s Access Form template, ADCI is hosting a panel discussion on what an Access Form is and how it can help authors, agents, publishers, event organisers, and anyone el...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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.