‘I put down the whole truth, my own truths as I saw them’ — Buchi Emecheta // drafting ❤️‍🩹

‘read instead the redactions and the absences, the elisions and the lies as a kind of negative evidence, as myriad signs of erasure and eclipse’ — this book is incredible on class identity, grief, anger ❤️‍🔥

went to Seville for a week and — in what I believe to be true Ann Quin fashion — I had a fever, completely lost my voice, and sought comfort in various lucky symbols 🕊️

“The story is about the ordinariness of ordinary people – and that in itself can be an extraordinary thing.”

happy birthday to the inimitable, uncompromising, fiercely funny Shelagh Delaney.

“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”

Happy Birthday, Georgia O’Keeffe.

Ghost Ranch Portal, New Mexico (c. 1960s). Photo by Todd Webb.

The New North is a brand new programme supporting emerging writers from Blackpool, Rochdale and Middlesbrough.

I'll be helping three writers with an absolute dream commission: create a ghost story set in/inspired by a landmark brutalist building in the UK.

www.confingopublishing.uk/thenewnorth

moving the most important thing over from The Other App: I’m writing my dream book! it’s called ORDINARY TREASURE, and it’s about the intersections of class, work, and literature — and how to make art without the luxury of wealth, time, or a room of one’s own