Kerri Andrews
@kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social
Writer & academic at University College Cork, where I am also Director of Creative Writing. Author of Pathfinding and Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherd’s letters. Walker, reader and single mum. Signed copies of all books: kerriandrews.co.uk
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Looking forward to reading from Ghost Mountain and taking part in a Q&A at 7pm on 6th November at the Dublin Book Fesitval
I'll be with Elaine Feeney & Lisa Harding. Live music from I Have a Tribe. Hosted by Derek Hand.
Free but booking required 👇
dublinbookfestival.com/event/class-...
I'll be with Elaine Feeney & Lisa Harding. Live music from I Have a Tribe. Hosted by Derek Hand.
Free but booking required 👇
dublinbookfestival.com/event/class-...
Class Acts: Equality, Connection and Belonging - Dublin Book Festival
Curated in partnership with DCU Cultural Arts Officer Marcella Bannon and Arts Council Writer in Residence Sarah Gilmartin. A day-long event that highlights writers who illuminate often underrepresen...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Looking forward to reading from Ghost Mountain and taking part in a Q&A at 7pm on 6th November at the Dublin Book Fesitval
I'll be with Elaine Feeney & Lisa Harding. Live music from I Have a Tribe. Hosted by Derek Hand.
Free but booking required 👇
dublinbookfestival.com/event/class-...
I'll be with Elaine Feeney & Lisa Harding. Live music from I Have a Tribe. Hosted by Derek Hand.
Free but booking required 👇
dublinbookfestival.com/event/class-...
If one was, say, a woman in her early(ish) forties and clueless about makeup, where might one start? Is there a catch-up class for introverted nerds who hid inside books throughout their teenage years?
November 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
If one was, say, a woman in her early(ish) forties and clueless about makeup, where might one start? Is there a catch-up class for introverted nerds who hid inside books throughout their teenage years?
Delighted to see this.
Love the cover of the latest @bansheepress.bsky.social issue, their 20th! A fantastic achievement🥂
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Delighted to see this.
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Wanderers by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social is an uplifting account of women through history for whom walking was important: defying gendered conventions, walking mountains alone, often writing as they went.
Inspiring, courageous, & passionate #NatureWriting!
Buy here:
uk.bookshop.org/a/2456/97817...
Inspiring, courageous, & passionate #NatureWriting!
Buy here:
uk.bookshop.org/a/2456/97817...
November 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Wanderers by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social is an uplifting account of women through history for whom walking was important: defying gendered conventions, walking mountains alone, often writing as they went.
Inspiring, courageous, & passionate #NatureWriting!
Buy here:
uk.bookshop.org/a/2456/97817...
Inspiring, courageous, & passionate #NatureWriting!
Buy here:
uk.bookshop.org/a/2456/97817...
And check this out. If you’re in the Bristol area come come come!
On 8&15 Nov we're running "A Herstorical Walking Tour of Georgian Bristol" as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @engagebristol.bsky.social. Led by an actor it tells the stories of Bristol's women writers.
Find out more & sign up for free: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/a-her...
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Find out more & sign up for free: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/a-her...
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A Herstorical Walking Tour of Georgian Bristol
Join Hannah More on an interactive walking tour through the streets of Bristol in 1807. Hannah, one of the most successful writers of the Georgian period, will bring to life the rich history of women ...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
And check this out. If you’re in the Bristol area come come come!
We’re on Bluesky! Come join us 18th century nerds.
Welcome! We're a digital project @bristolunienglish.bsky.social bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
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October 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
We’re on Bluesky! Come join us 18th century nerds.
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Today's #IrishBookWeek prompt is: Share an Irish Language book📚☘️
Cheating slightly going with the Eoinín series by Muireann Ní Chíobháin & Róisín Hahessy, *adorable* board books with the most delightful illustrations
Cheating slightly going with the Eoinín series by Muireann Ní Chíobháin & Róisín Hahessy, *adorable* board books with the most delightful illustrations
October 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Today's #IrishBookWeek prompt is: Share an Irish Language book📚☘️
Cheating slightly going with the Eoinín series by Muireann Ní Chíobháin & Róisín Hahessy, *adorable* board books with the most delightful illustrations
Cheating slightly going with the Eoinín series by Muireann Ní Chíobháin & Róisín Hahessy, *adorable* board books with the most delightful illustrations
Placing bets now for how large a percentage of my appearance fee gets dropped at the festival bookshop tomorrow. There’s a dedicated children’s bookshop, too. Not ruling out 100% tbh
October 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Placing bets now for how large a percentage of my appearance fee gets dropped at the festival bookshop tomorrow. There’s a dedicated children’s bookshop, too. Not ruling out 100% tbh
Coping with the ongoing nightmare that is my son’s behaviour at bedtime by saying softly to myself ‘that’s one more done’ whenever I’ve bribed or caved sufficiently to get him to stop bouncing (literally) round his room. Figure he’ll grow out of it, but will that be before or after I turn 90? 🤔 💀
October 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Coping with the ongoing nightmare that is my son’s behaviour at bedtime by saying softly to myself ‘that’s one more done’ whenever I’ve bribed or caved sufficiently to get him to stop bouncing (literally) round his room. Figure he’ll grow out of it, but will that be before or after I turn 90? 🤔 💀
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Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October! 📚
Guidelines are at the link below. We look forward to reading your work!
bansheepress.org/read/banshee...
Guidelines are at the link below. We look forward to reading your work!
bansheepress.org/read/banshee...
Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October — Banshee Press
Banshee Press is open for book-length submissions of fiction, poetry and memoir from 1-15 October 2025 . All submitted manuscripts will be considered for our 2027 and 2028 lists (and perhaps…
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October 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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This would be a wonderful role for the lucky person. It’s a great degree with lovely colleagues and wonderful students and you won’t regret applying.
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Part Time Senior Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction (Fixed Term)
Job Opening: Part Time Senior Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction (Fixed Term) at Bath Spa University in Bath, Somerset - Newton Park.
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October 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This would be a wonderful role for the lucky person. It’s a great degree with lovely colleagues and wonderful students and you won’t regret applying.
bathspa.pinpointhq.com/postings/fe9...
bathspa.pinpointhq.com/postings/fe9...
Horrified to learn it’s spider season again already by watching the biggest fecking Beelzebub scoot across my bedroom floor like it owns the bloody place.
October 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Horrified to learn it’s spider season again already by watching the biggest fecking Beelzebub scoot across my bedroom floor like it owns the bloody place.
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Just heard that tickets for this workshop are selling well already.
Do come and join us in Dingle in November. It's a brilliant festival in a stunning place.
dinglelit.ie/news/event/h...
#Spéirgorm #writingcommunity #Ireland #Dingle #Books @dinglelit.bsky.social @gaiabanks.bsky.social
Do come and join us in Dingle in November. It's a brilliant festival in a stunning place.
dinglelit.ie/news/event/h...
#Spéirgorm #writingcommunity #Ireland #Dingle #Books @dinglelit.bsky.social @gaiabanks.bsky.social
How to Shape a Story with Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Finding the right form can make or break even the best writing. Explore new creative directions in this relaxed and practical workshop.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Just heard that tickets for this workshop are selling well already.
Do come and join us in Dingle in November. It's a brilliant festival in a stunning place.
dinglelit.ie/news/event/h...
#Spéirgorm #writingcommunity #Ireland #Dingle #Books @dinglelit.bsky.social @gaiabanks.bsky.social
Do come and join us in Dingle in November. It's a brilliant festival in a stunning place.
dinglelit.ie/news/event/h...
#Spéirgorm #writingcommunity #Ireland #Dingle #Books @dinglelit.bsky.social @gaiabanks.bsky.social
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Our opening event this year will see Eimear McBride in conversation with Nicole Flattery in WAVE Dingle on Friday, November 21st at 7:30pm 📚🙌
Book your tickets here: bit.ly/4grdK2C 🎟
#DingleLit2025
Book your tickets here: bit.ly/4grdK2C 🎟
#DingleLit2025
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Our opening event this year will see Eimear McBride in conversation with Nicole Flattery in WAVE Dingle on Friday, November 21st at 7:30pm 📚🙌
Book your tickets here: bit.ly/4grdK2C 🎟
#DingleLit2025
Book your tickets here: bit.ly/4grdK2C 🎟
#DingleLit2025
Well, I knew 2025 was going to be tough but I’d no idea how tough. It’s time though, at last, for new beginnings. I’m so glad to be working at Cork. So glad to have two beautiful, mad children. So glad to have a circle of dear, dear friends who uplift me. Here’s to starting over.
October 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Well, I knew 2025 was going to be tough but I’d no idea how tough. It’s time though, at last, for new beginnings. I’m so glad to be working at Cork. So glad to have two beautiful, mad children. So glad to have a circle of dear, dear friends who uplift me. Here’s to starting over.
Apparently I’m going to be in ITV border life this evening at 7pm. It was lovely to record, down by the Tweed and Neidpath Castle. What isn’t on camera is my little 4yo daughter having a tantrum because Rich, interviewed with me, dared to be interviewed when he’d been playing with her 🙃
September 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Apparently I’m going to be in ITV border life this evening at 7pm. It was lovely to record, down by the Tweed and Neidpath Castle. What isn’t on camera is my little 4yo daughter having a tantrum because Rich, interviewed with me, dared to be interviewed when he’d been playing with her 🙃
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Delighted to share that the Department of #DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie will host a digital artist as part of the first @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Digital Artist in Residence pilot programme.
Applications are now open!
Enquiries to @stephenroddy.bsky.social
artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...
Applications are now open!
Enquiries to @stephenroddy.bsky.social
artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...
Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence at University College Cork (Pilot) - The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
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September 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Delighted to share that the Department of #DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie will host a digital artist as part of the first @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Digital Artist in Residence pilot programme.
Applications are now open!
Enquiries to @stephenroddy.bsky.social
artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...
Applications are now open!
Enquiries to @stephenroddy.bsky.social
artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...
This was one of the main reasons why I wrote Wanderers, and why I continued with Way Makers. There is *so* much evidence of women active in all sorts of spheres, including the outdoors. Some evidence is so ludicrously easy to find, not seeing it has to have been a choice. Time for better histories.
Please be prepared for this to become my entire personality (yes, it always has been, but now I will have stats to back up my tenacity) #historyteacher #EndSexismInSchools #women observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Girls just want to be in our history textbooks
Women are still largely missing from the history we teach in classrooms. If we want a fairer future, we must stop erasing half the past
observer.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This was one of the main reasons why I wrote Wanderers, and why I continued with Way Makers. There is *so* much evidence of women active in all sorts of spheres, including the outdoors. Some evidence is so ludicrously easy to find, not seeing it has to have been a choice. Time for better histories.
It’s been a week. But yesterday I led an adult nature writing/walking class that involved five grown women rolling down a hill (literally), lying in heaps giggling; a kingfisher; an encounter with bull rushes; a meeting with a juvenile mistle thrush; and three mergensers plus heron. So that was ace.
September 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It’s been a week. But yesterday I led an adult nature writing/walking class that involved five grown women rolling down a hill (literally), lying in heaps giggling; a kingfisher; an encounter with bull rushes; a meeting with a juvenile mistle thrush; and three mergensers plus heron. So that was ace.
Well, I guess it speaks to the effective advocacy against medical misogyny that @pollyrowena.bsky.social and others are embarked upon that, in the middle of an agonising invasive procedure this afternoon, when I got told off for wailing, I felt able to shout back *and* I got the extra drugs I needed
September 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Well, I guess it speaks to the effective advocacy against medical misogyny that @pollyrowena.bsky.social and others are embarked upon that, in the middle of an agonising invasive procedure this afternoon, when I got told off for wailing, I felt able to shout back *and* I got the extra drugs I needed
It’s official at last: I am now Senior Lecturer at University College, Cork, with the snazzy job title of Director of Creative Writing. I’m thrilled by the opportunity to work with such a dynamic group of colleagues. I’ve been made so welcome. Given how my last 18 months have been, some thoughts 1/n
September 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It’s official at last: I am now Senior Lecturer at University College, Cork, with the snazzy job title of Director of Creative Writing. I’m thrilled by the opportunity to work with such a dynamic group of colleagues. I’ve been made so welcome. Given how my last 18 months have been, some thoughts 1/n
Hello lovely folks. I’m looking for top tips/tricks/techniques for working with rookie nature writers. What has worked well for you? And anything I should avoid doing 👀???
Cheers, oh mighty #BookSky
Cheers, oh mighty #BookSky
September 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hello lovely folks. I’m looking for top tips/tricks/techniques for working with rookie nature writers. What has worked well for you? And anything I should avoid doing 👀???
Cheers, oh mighty #BookSky
Cheers, oh mighty #BookSky
One good thing about being made redundant has been, by necessity, making much more of being based in the Tweed valley. It’s led to some wonderful opportunities, such as being commissioned to write for a new literary trail. And then this: findraclothing.com/blogs/journa...
Wandering Woman, Kerri Andrews
Friend of FINDRA, writer and teacher Kerri Andrews, shares her journey from academic writing to uncovering forgotten stories of women who walk.
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September 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
One good thing about being made redundant has been, by necessity, making much more of being based in the Tweed valley. It’s led to some wonderful opportunities, such as being commissioned to write for a new literary trail. And then this: findraclothing.com/blogs/journa...
Lovely skeeters, what would be on your must-read list for nature and travel writing past and present? And what about professional resources for newbie writers? I’ve got my thoughts but would love to hear your thoughts/recs/shameless promotion
Hailing the mighty #BookSky on this one.
Hailing the mighty #BookSky on this one.
September 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Lovely skeeters, what would be on your must-read list for nature and travel writing past and present? And what about professional resources for newbie writers? I’ve got my thoughts but would love to hear your thoughts/recs/shameless promotion
Hailing the mighty #BookSky on this one.
Hailing the mighty #BookSky on this one.
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Confronting the barriers that stand between mothers and walking the land. My review of the inspirational Pathfinding: On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom, by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social in @resurgencetrust.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Confronting the barriers that stand between mothers and walking the land. My review of the inspirational Pathfinding: On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom, by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social in @resurgencetrust.bsky.social