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Alys Cummings
@alyseliza.bsky.social
Makes documentaries 🎥 loves crosswords 🖊️ reads novels 📚 writes ✍️ Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect 2024 🥇New Writing North Emerging Creative Associate ⬆️

Debut novel Murder Most Cryptic published October 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph 🐧

Lives North East 🌊🌅
Morning!
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I’ll just pop out quickly before it starts snowing again…. ⛄️
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Well, that trip to Sunderland Empire definitely brightened up a wet Wednesday afternoon in November 🎶 🎩 💃🏻

‘Heaven, I'm in heaven. And the cares that hung around me through the week, seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak…’
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Hanging out in Sherwood this afternoon, having a right old laugh
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Awesome night at Uncanny: Fear of the Dark with @dannyrobins.bsky.social 👻

The Newcastle audience’s own ghost stories were definitely some of the most head scratching…even if I was the lone soul to change my opinion 😬

And a new book to boot 😊
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Woke up, and saw this by @holliemcnish.bsky.social 💪🏻

‘Sisters pontificating crossword clues’ ♥️✏️
November 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Double Teddy post for Halloween. He arrived from the shelter two years ago today so especially thankful for my black cat today 🎃 🐈‍⬛
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Teddy and I making some tweaks to the crosswords for Murder Most Cryptic 😊
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Morning wave jumping 🌊 👋🏻 🌊
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day 🐈‍⬛

(Even if the sun does give Teddy a rusty red ruff)
October 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Thanks postman, thanks @unchcrosswords.com - very much looking forward to this! It looks fantastic 🙌🏻🙌🏻
October 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Mid-week morning over the North Sea.

Light in sight.
October 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Up to the top of the fell, overlooking the lake, across and down through the woods (without falling and breaking my leg 🙌🏻) to catch the steamer back…steamer not running, two hour wait for a bus…and a National Trust shelf of second hand books delivered this to while away the time ❤️✍️
September 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Home ❤️
March 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Have loved being part of this New Writing North audio drama programme - going to miss our workshops and brilliant fellow writers and tutor…but thrilled to have finished my pilot MAY DAY and excited to develop more work this summer 😊 📻 🎤 ✍️ 🙌🏻🙌🏻

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March 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Having a ball at #baytales25 crime
fest - last panel before lunch had a crime solving medium, art theft and the ordered mind of a house packer… with Tracy Whitwell, Ellery Lloyd and Sarah Hilary…
plus a sneak peek of @stephmcgovern.bsky.social ‘s new thriller set live on air…

#Deadlineproof
March 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
How very lucky I am to have friends like who send me wonderful bookish gifts!

Love this vase and bookmark ❤️

And here’s me and said friend aged 14, taking a brief respite from Manics/Suede/Ash gigs to look presentable for a production of Little Women and me to give my ‘Jo’ 😊❤️ 📖
February 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Lovely! This was the view this morning from a bit further south, on the coast in North Tyneside 🌅
January 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
St Mary’s Island today. No causeway visible just a late afternoon glitter path to the lighthouse ⛅️ 🌊
January 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Taking my secret Santa gift to NYE drinks - it promises a game of ‘skill, laughter & interest’….so we’ll see how that pans out…
December 31, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Happy midwinter/starting date of this year’s Radio Times to all who celebrate 🥳
December 21, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Christmas books ❤️ 📚 what have I missed??
December 17, 2024 at 6:13 PM
RNLI carols down on the bay ❤️🎶 🌊
December 16, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Wow. The reading room at the British Museum is like something in Lyra’s Oxford. Never seen it before til I saw the door open today and wandered in
December 13, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Newcastle Noir was just brilliant - I finished with
@viperbooks.bsky.social proof party last night for #themidnightking which I’ll be starting as soon as I’ve tackled only the ENTIRE history of crime writing by Martin Edwards that I couldn’t resist after his talk with @anncleeves.bsky.social 😍🙌🏻🙌🏻
December 7, 2024 at 4:52 PM