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Ange Harker 🦻🦇🤘🥾
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📕'Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West' publ. Cicerone - out 30th Sept '25! Farm-raised, hearing-aid wearing, neurodivergent, #RuralWritingInstitute & #OpenMountain alumni, likes the dark side. She/her. Lakes/Dales/Nidderdale
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Ange Harker 🦻🦇🤘🥾 @ange-harker.bsky.social · Jul 27
Pleased to announce that all pre-orders of my #Cicerone Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West guidebook from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social will be signed!! ✍️

You can find the Sam Read website via linktr.ee/ange_harker & at www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-...

#KCIIIECP
Photo of Sam Read Bookseller in Grasmere A wide beach shot with low waves trickling across the sand towards dunes and distant buildings A group of people walk along a wooded and grassed clifftop path above golden sands Cover of the guidebook
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literaryhub.bsky.social
@pollyrowena.bsky.social on nature writing, chronic illness, and the controversy surrounding Raynor Winn’s memoir, The Salt Path.
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 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
We're gearing up for Seafest tomorrow at St Bees beach, who's coming along? 🌊🦑🦭🐚🌞

Register to join us here (it's free!) 👇
https://bit.ly/SeaFest2025

You can also just pop along tomorrow between 10am and 4pm if you're not sure of your plans just yet!
August 1, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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npitchford.bsky.social
Oooh, a rare & precious chance to get the splendid Ange Harker's autograph! Plus apparently you get a wonderful guidebook packed with potential adventures on the newest national path, thrown in at no extra charge.
ange-harker.bsky.social Ange Harker 🦻🦇🤘🥾 @ange-harker.bsky.social · Jul 27
Pleased to announce that all pre-orders of my #Cicerone Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West guidebook from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social will be signed!! ✍️

You can find the Sam Read website via linktr.ee/ange_harker & at www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-...

#KCIIIECP
Photo of Sam Read Bookseller in Grasmere A wide beach shot with low waves trickling across the sand towards dunes and distant buildings A group of people walk along a wooded and grassed clifftop path above golden sands Cover of the guidebook
July 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ange-harker.bsky.social
25% off selected pre-orders at @waterstones.bsky.social till Thursday - inc. #WalkingTheKCIIIECPNorthWest & 2 other #Cicerone guides for the #PeakDistrict by @andrewmccloy.bsky.social & South #Devon by #HollyScrivener!

Use code SUMMER25 by end of Thursday: linktr.ee/ange_harker

#WPreorder
Waterstones graphic showing special offer details and the covers of the three books.
July 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
ange-harker.bsky.social
Pleased to announce that all pre-orders of my #Cicerone Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West guidebook from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social will be signed!! ✍️

You can find the Sam Read website via linktr.ee/ange_harker & at www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-...

#KCIIIECP
Photo of Sam Read Bookseller in Grasmere A wide beach shot with low waves trickling across the sand towards dunes and distant buildings A group of people walk along a wooded and grassed clifftop path above golden sands Cover of the guidebook
July 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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pollyrowena.bsky.social
Breaking news for Cumbria Literary Culture! @postalpathsguy.bsky.social accused of knocking off The Salt Path!

@thetimes.com - Alan Cleaver is a true original and does meticulous research on the places & people he writes about. Let's make #ThePostalPaths a bestseller instead!

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July 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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pollyrowena.bsky.social
So proud of @catmitchell17.bsky.social and @pennyauthor.bsky.social for making a #Disability focus issue of @thebookseller.com happen after 3 years hiatus. So heartening to see such brilliant books by disabled, D/deaf, neurodivergent writers being published across genres, as in my preview. #BookSky
Books Spotlight page from The Bookseller: disability focus. Preview with tag line 'changing the world through representation', and five category picks by me: these moral bodies by elspeth wilson, awakened by laura elliot, the quiet ear by Raymond antrobus, Annah, infinite by Khairani Barokka and Ramping up rights by Rachel Charlton-Dailey, with intro text: In the three years since the last Disability Category Focus publishing has begun to shift its norms in response to demand for better representation, with successful examples of disabled children’s writers like Elle McNichol showing own voices narratives can be best-sellers, and making a commercial argument for the rest of us. In fiction, from literary to romance to sci-fi and fantasy, the ground for disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent writers to tell stories with unapologetically disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent protagonists has been laid and paved, and it shows in the wealth of stories in all genres being published this year. Crime has seen a similar shift, with Chris Bridges ‘Sick To Death’ gripping readers this spring. The space for complex disability memoirs continues to grow as does the need for practical guides both to living well as a disabled person, and to anti-ableism. Hybrid memoirs combining disability and nature writing have sown the seeds for disability nature writing to thrive, reflected in growing confidence from publishers. As disabled people in the UK come under threat of unprecedented withdrawal of support, it is more pressing than ever to hear from disabled people themselves, in their own words. Each of these books might just change the world if they reach the right readers.
June 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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pollyrowena.bsky.social
Hello! Publishers! Writers! I have everything that's been submitted for this and there's c. 20 books over the entire year, not including the few I know about which didn't get submitted through @thebookseller.com, and NO poetry at all? I know there are more books by disabled writers coming than this!
pollyrowena.bsky.social Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · Apr 11
NB: I'm doing the #Disability issue preview for @thebookseller.com this yr. It covers childrens, fiction, nonfiction, poetry - 1st published between JULY 2025 and JUNE 2026 inclusive - by disabled writers (w broadest definition of disability).

Publishers, please send AI / info / etc. in by May 2nd!
May 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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disabilityarts.bsky.social
Join Disability Arts Online as we launch Towards New Worlds Digital, the pilot exhibition for our new online gallery space dis_place.

📆21 May
📍Online
💷Free

disabilityarts.online/events/towar...
A white gallery space with an artwork on the wall and two wooden structures with bells hanging from them in the foreground. Dark blue text reads: Towards New Worlds Exhibition Opening, Wednesday 21st May 2025, 2pm, Online, Free
May 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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countrywalking.bsky.social
A beginner's guide to map reading.

Click the images to find four lines on an OS Explorer map which you are legally allowed to walk on...

@ordnancesurvey.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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katymontgomerie.com
Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong!

We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science

(you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)
May 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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katiescribbles.bsky.social
I just signed off on the paperback cover for The Edge of Solitude! Going to print later this week, and out on 3rd July!
Available to pre-order from wherever you normally buy books, but especially from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social, aka my lovely local indie: www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-...
Image shows a copy of The Edge of Solitude by Katie Hale in paperback. The cover shows a turquoise iceberg in a blue-purple sea, with a pink and purple sunset sky overhead. The title text is white, with the author name in turquoise. It's stunning.
April 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
ange-harker.bsky.social
YES.
April 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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kitdewaal.com
Lots of opportunities here - including a £2k commission to create a unique piece of artwork marking 25 yrs of advocacy and support in opening up arts and culture to deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences.

Please share :)
Jobs - Disability Arts Online
disabilityarts.online
April 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
The Supreme Court sided with FWS.

But it didn’t hear from a single trans person.
This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years.

We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️
April 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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goodlawproject.org
A thread in which I try to show some of the harmful practical effects on the quality of its analysis of the Supreme Court's appalling and delegitimating decision to exclude all trans voices from a judgment with profound effects on trans people's lives.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Apr 16
Having excluded all trans people from proceedings before it, the Supreme Court decides in favour of For Some Women Scotland.
April 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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thedailytism.com
“Fuck your single-sex spaces and fuck your Supreme Court. If I see you calling the police on a trans person in a public restroom I will personally flush your phone down the bog whilst pretending it’s Wes Streeting’s head.”
Normally rule-following autistic says fuck transphobic laws
A cisgender autistic woman who is generally so law abiding she once performed a citizen’s arrest on herself for jaywalking will not acknowledge any evil transphobic legislation, it has been confirmed....
thedailytism.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
ange-harker.bsky.social
I thought I’d posted the video yesterday!🤦‍♀️

#Frogs #Whernside #YorkshireDales
April 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
ange-harker.bsky.social
FROGGOS!

At least 70, near top of #Whernside, @yorkshiredales.org.uk
Video of a high moorland pond with lots of little frog heads poking out and ribbiting away! View of the pond just over a fence with the summit of the hill behind.
April 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
Seven years today since we first introduced you to this absolute unit.
A very large Exmoor Horn sheep.
April 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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katiescribbles.bsky.social
LOOK at this absolute BEAUTY!! 💕📘❄️ The paperback cover of #TheEdgeOfSolitude is here!

I love how @canongate.co.uk have kept the essential beauty of the hardback, but modified - and how the text just pops! 👀

Out on 3rd July - preorder from your favourite bookshop! buythebook.online/the-edge-of-...
Image shows the cover of The Edge of Solitude by Katie Hale. It's pink and mauve, with a teal iceberg on it. The title text is in white, and the author name in teal.
April 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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francesryan.bsky.social
“I can’t sleep, I’m so scared.”

My report in tomorrow’s Guardian on the disability benefit cuts “domino effect”: losing PIP will see unpaid carers lose their benefits too - pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘I can’t sleep, I’m so scared’: disabled people face benefit cuts domino effect
Three people tell how knock-on impact of losing Pip on carer’s allowance and other benefits will affect their families
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Teen Vogue: remains braver than almost any other news outlet at this time.
Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth
Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.
www.teenvogue.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
ange-harker.bsky.social
Brilliant to be back in the big #fells yesterday - it’s been a while & not sure how long it’s gonna take to recover but the #VitaminD top-up is pulling me through for the moment! (That and chips.)

#Langdale #EskPike #Bowfell #LakeDistrict #Wainwrights
View up a footpath to some knobbly mountains A drystone shelter cross (literally 4 drystone walls in the shape of a cross creating sheltered rest areas for walkers in the four quarters) is nestled near the bottom of Esk Hause, a dip between mountains. Two legs from the knees downwards with trousers rolled up like shorts, standing in a small patch of remnant snow. View across slanted rock outcrops in the foreground to Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain, in the distance.
March 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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seftonnature.bsky.social
I've seen toads out and about along our coast, and now bees as well!!

Things are waking up, spring is on its way 😎❤️
March 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM