Laura Stephens writer.bsky.social
@laurastephens.bsky.social
Writer, reader, literary hopeful 🤓
Cheshire Novel Prize LL. Friday Night Live LL. Plaza 1st Ch SL. Writing District Short Story ‘SL
Cheshire Novel Prize LL. Friday Night Live LL. Plaza 1st Ch SL. Writing District Short Story ‘SL
Rye Lane, Peckham. Written by an author out on sub I’m guessing 😂
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Rye Lane, Peckham. Written by an author out on sub I’m guessing 😂
Imagine living here … Bodiam Castle, Sussex in August.
September 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Imagine living here … Bodiam Castle, Sussex in August.
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Disgraceful. Absurd. As with the Kimmel situation, politicians across the world want to suppress protest and creative resistance. They hate opposition. They hate protest. They hate satire. They hate art. Soon we will wake up and find our mouths gagged, our hands tied, our pens and laptops taken away
Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat
The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, according to a statement read out by her publisher at the prize ceremony
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Disgraceful. Absurd. As with the Kimmel situation, politicians across the world want to suppress protest and creative resistance. They hate opposition. They hate protest. They hate satire. They hate art. Soon we will wake up and find our mouths gagged, our hands tied, our pens and laptops taken away
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Happy Birthday to #TheNightLagoon by @JoMoreyWriter our 2023 shortlisted writer. May you fly! 🎉🥳👏
July 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Happy Birthday to #TheNightLagoon by @JoMoreyWriter our 2023 shortlisted writer. May you fly! 🎉🥳👏
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Congratulations to Andrew Miller, tutor on our Ultimate Novel Writing Programme, whose latest work 'The Land In Winter' has just been long-listed for the 2025 Booker Prize! 🎉🥳💫 (1/3)
July 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Congratulations to Andrew Miller, tutor on our Ultimate Novel Writing Programme, whose latest work 'The Land In Winter' has just been long-listed for the 2025 Booker Prize! 🎉🥳💫 (1/3)
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The ✨spectacular✨ cover reveal for THE SHOW WOMAN, my debut novel about the first all-female circus act. Set in Edwardian Scotland it’s a story about unconventional women and family secrets, for fans of The Whalebone Theatre & The Greatest Showman. Available for preorder, and to request on NetGalley
December 2, 2024 at 8:14 PM
The ✨spectacular✨ cover reveal for THE SHOW WOMAN, my debut novel about the first all-female circus act. Set in Edwardian Scotland it’s a story about unconventional women and family secrets, for fans of The Whalebone Theatre & The Greatest Showman. Available for preorder, and to request on NetGalley
On VE Day my father-in-law tells me he was 15 and went to the Red Lion in Valindre, Cardiganshire. He had a lot to drink. Remembers it clearly … Everyone was going mad!
May 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
On VE Day my father-in-law tells me he was 15 and went to the Red Lion in Valindre, Cardiganshire. He had a lot to drink. Remembers it clearly … Everyone was going mad!
Ightham Mote, Kent. Beautiful day out there today, clearing mind for writing! 🌳 🥾
April 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ightham Mote, Kent. Beautiful day out there today, clearing mind for writing! 🌳 🥾
Blood moon at Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire.
March 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Blood moon at Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire.
Happy International Women’s Day!
Marie Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice. In 1906, she was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.
Women’s History Month
Women’s History Month
March 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Happy International Women’s Day!
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Yes yes yes! One of Birmingham’s finest headline a new festival. We love to see it @kitdewaal.bsky.social ! 📚
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Kit de Waal to headline new festival celebrating women writers over 50
Forthwrite, which takes place over two days this month, aims to dispel stereotypes around older women
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Yes yes yes! One of Birmingham’s finest headline a new festival. We love to see it @kitdewaal.bsky.social ! 📚
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
BREAKING: Jimmy Carter arrives at US Capitol … at last 🥱
January 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
BREAKING: Jimmy Carter arrives at US Capitol … at last 🥱
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@willhaycardiff.bsky.social this is a great piece of writing. Blwyddyn Newydd Dda butt!
A brimming biscuit tin and a warm welcome – this is how an Englishman found his home in Wales | Will Hayward
A brimming biscuit tin and a warm welcome – this is how an Englishman found his home in Wales | Will Hayward
I’d moved around many places but never found the place that spoke to my heart. In Wales, I felt I’d met a friend
* In our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at home
I remember pushing open…
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2024 at 7:12 AM
@willhaycardiff.bsky.social this is a great piece of writing. Blwyddyn Newydd Dda butt!
Hever Castle, where Anne Boleyn lived & Henry VIII courted her, looking festive!
December 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Hever Castle, where Anne Boleyn lived & Henry VIII courted her, looking festive!
dictionary.com word of the year is demure! I loved this sign spotted recently in the World Trade Center mall.
November 26, 2024 at 5:43 PM
dictionary.com word of the year is demure! I loved this sign spotted recently in the World Trade Center mall.
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Words To Live By Number 134
November 24, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Words To Live By Number 134
Fascinating - Tracy Chevalier talking about inspiration for The Glassmaker yesterday in Edenbridge. Tempting Murano beads too 🤩
November 15, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Fascinating - Tracy Chevalier talking about inspiration for The Glassmaker yesterday in Edenbridge. Tempting Murano beads too 🤩
Tribeca, Manhattan
October 30, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Tribeca, Manhattan
Arcachon, France 🍷
September 14, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Arcachon, France 🍷
Excited about this!
September 11, 2024 at 6:32 AM
Excited about this!
That moment when you need to lift your dressing gown off the peg … Hello autumn 🍂
September 9, 2024 at 6:01 AM
That moment when you need to lift your dressing gown off the peg … Hello autumn 🍂
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Hello Bluesky (please share)! As we approach the 5th anniversary of @kitdewaal.bsky.social's Common People and the completion of the Common People research study, I was interviewed for Saturday's Yorkshire Post on the perennial problems of class and regional diversity in literature and publishing
April 22, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Hello Bluesky (please share)! As we approach the 5th anniversary of @kitdewaal.bsky.social's Common People and the completion of the Common People research study, I was interviewed for Saturday's Yorkshire Post on the perennial problems of class and regional diversity in literature and publishing
The old Severn Bridge. It’s not raining in Wales 🥳
March 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM
The old Severn Bridge. It’s not raining in Wales 🥳
