Just a few photos from my journey last week to Oxford and back for the @oxfordfantasylit.bsky.social Summer School - a delight to meet and chat with fantasy enthusiasts coming from varying backgrounds in academia, publishing, writing, and education 🐉📚 Some fascinating & thought-provoking talks, too!

It’s a beautiful, chilly autumnal day in the Lothians this morning, with a stunning view across the Firth to start my journey south to Oxford! It may feel autumnal, but I’m off to speak at the Oxford Bloomsbury Fantasy Summer School & I’m looking forward to some fantastical discussions 🐉

I am so very excited to share that today I arrived at @gladlib.bsky.social to stay for a week, as I was awarded The Canon Denys Ruddy Memorial Scholarship for study in Theology, Liturgy, Spirituality, or Christianity and The Arts!

Happy thyme in the garden - improving pollinator life one plant at a time🪻

Took a walking break to put up posters around Edinburgh for our next Ali Smith Reading Through the Seasons event (25 July on Summer) 📚 Grateful to Summerhall @lighthousebks.bsky.social @natlibscot.bsky.social for taking event posters in a city that’s about to become plastered with Fringe events…!