Letty McHugh
@lettymchugh.bsky.social
Artist and writer. Won the Barbellion Prize. Lives in Haworth. Has a cat.
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Idly looking online about literary prizes & found a new post on the Barbellion Prize!
Sorry if I'm very slow to find this, I couldn't see a date but after a bit of a hiatus (following brilliant @lettymchugh.bsky.social winning with Book of Hours) whoop for more news soon!
www.thebarbellionprize.com
Sorry if I'm very slow to find this, I couldn't see a date but after a bit of a hiatus (following brilliant @lettymchugh.bsky.social winning with Book of Hours) whoop for more news soon!
www.thebarbellionprize.com
The Barbellion Prize
The Barbellion Prize is dedicated to the futherance of ill and disabled voices in writing.
www.thebarbellionprize.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Idly looking online about literary prizes & found a new post on the Barbellion Prize!
Sorry if I'm very slow to find this, I couldn't see a date but after a bit of a hiatus (following brilliant @lettymchugh.bsky.social winning with Book of Hours) whoop for more news soon!
www.thebarbellionprize.com
Sorry if I'm very slow to find this, I couldn't see a date but after a bit of a hiatus (following brilliant @lettymchugh.bsky.social winning with Book of Hours) whoop for more news soon!
www.thebarbellionprize.com
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This month artist Lydia Catterall presented a curated selection titled ‘The Ones that Fizz'. Included in this selection is 'Anchorage', 2022 by Letty McHugh.
Explore the selected works here: buff.ly/j5wA4xZ, and see more of Letty's work here: buff.ly/C0JoQ3u
Explore the selected works here: buff.ly/j5wA4xZ, and see more of Letty's work here: buff.ly/C0JoQ3u
March 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This month artist Lydia Catterall presented a curated selection titled ‘The Ones that Fizz'. Included in this selection is 'Anchorage', 2022 by Letty McHugh.
Explore the selected works here: buff.ly/j5wA4xZ, and see more of Letty's work here: buff.ly/C0JoQ3u
Explore the selected works here: buff.ly/j5wA4xZ, and see more of Letty's work here: buff.ly/C0JoQ3u
March 20th is the feast day of Saint Cuthbert and there’s no better way to celebrate than reading about why I just can’t stop writing about him. open.substack.com/pub/lettymch...
Here You Come Again
Inspiration, Creative Doubt, and Why I'll Never Escape Saint Cuthbert
open.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
March 20th is the feast day of Saint Cuthbert and there’s no better way to celebrate than reading about why I just can’t stop writing about him. open.substack.com/pub/lettymch...
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Two weeks today! (Out in the US at the end of April)
Meet Emma. Emma is sick.
Just not in the way you think.
Available to pre-order here and on Amazon/Waterstones etc.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sick...
Meet Emma. Emma is sick.
Just not in the way you think.
Available to pre-order here and on Amazon/Waterstones etc.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sick...
Sick to Death a book by Chris Bridges.
'A twist to rival Gone Girl left me gasping' KATY BRENT
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Meet Emma. Emma is sick.
She can’t work because of a neurological conditio...
uk.bookshop.org
March 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Two weeks today! (Out in the US at the end of April)
Meet Emma. Emma is sick.
Just not in the way you think.
Available to pre-order here and on Amazon/Waterstones etc.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sick...
Meet Emma. Emma is sick.
Just not in the way you think.
Available to pre-order here and on Amazon/Waterstones etc.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sick...
I don’t want AI suggestions to ‘help’ me draft this poem thanks word document.
March 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I don’t want AI suggestions to ‘help’ me draft this poem thanks word document.
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It’s high time we start being honest about what’s behind a lot of the push towards “wellness”.
It’s ableism and eugenics. Its scared people who can’t face the fact that they could lose their health at any moment.
It’s people who desperately need to cling to control. 🧵
It’s ableism and eugenics. Its scared people who can’t face the fact that they could lose their health at any moment.
It’s people who desperately need to cling to control. 🧵
February 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
It’s high time we start being honest about what’s behind a lot of the push towards “wellness”.
It’s ableism and eugenics. Its scared people who can’t face the fact that they could lose their health at any moment.
It’s people who desperately need to cling to control. 🧵
It’s ableism and eugenics. Its scared people who can’t face the fact that they could lose their health at any moment.
It’s people who desperately need to cling to control. 🧵
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I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too.
Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.
Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.
February 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too.
Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.
Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.
For someone who rarely cooks, I spend way too much time thinking about what I would make if I were challenged to create a round-the-world tasting menu while working as a luxury yacht chef on the reality TV classic Below Deck.
February 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
For someone who rarely cooks, I spend way too much time thinking about what I would make if I were challenged to create a round-the-world tasting menu while working as a luxury yacht chef on the reality TV classic Below Deck.
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We all know GB News is fash nonsense but that doesn't mean they should get away with it. You don't need to watch the video (it's vile) - what he says is as stated in the description below. Please sign and share to pressure Ofcom into action.
On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...
Ofcom, stop GB News broadcasting hate
*CW: Homophobia, hate speech GB News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies. They take pride in it, and pretend the rules don’t matter. But they do. And they must be enforced. On 22 January,...
action.goodlawproject.org
February 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We all know GB News is fash nonsense but that doesn't mean they should get away with it. You don't need to watch the video (it's vile) - what he says is as stated in the description below. Please sign and share to pressure Ofcom into action.
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Fantastic piece of writing from @lettymchugh.bsky.social.
I'm officially on substack. My first post is about radiator paint, but also MS, ADHD, and making art when you feel like your brain is broken substack.com/@lettymchugh...
Sky Blue Radiator Paint
My artistic process, or why I never really felt like I have one.
substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Fantastic piece of writing from @lettymchugh.bsky.social.
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I feel like my brain is broken right now, though not for reasons related to my illness. Nevertheless, I think I shall head over to read this to try and fill a small moment of my day with something about creativity vs destruction.
I'm officially on substack. My first post is about radiator paint, but also MS, ADHD, and making art when you feel like your brain is broken substack.com/@lettymchugh...
Sky Blue Radiator Paint
My artistic process, or why I never really felt like I have one.
substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I feel like my brain is broken right now, though not for reasons related to my illness. Nevertheless, I think I shall head over to read this to try and fill a small moment of my day with something about creativity vs destruction.
I'm officially on substack. My first post is about radiator paint, but also MS, ADHD, and making art when you feel like your brain is broken substack.com/@lettymchugh...
Sky Blue Radiator Paint
My artistic process, or why I never really felt like I have one.
substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I'm officially on substack. My first post is about radiator paint, but also MS, ADHD, and making art when you feel like your brain is broken substack.com/@lettymchugh...
I would really like someone to write a book called ‘A history of the apocalypse’ and it would be about how and why as humans we have so often been convinced the world is about to end. (I realise I’m a writer and could write that book, but I want to read it tonight)
January 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I would really like someone to write a book called ‘A history of the apocalypse’ and it would be about how and why as humans we have so often been convinced the world is about to end. (I realise I’m a writer and could write that book, but I want to read it tonight)
Conversations can be so weird when you are chronically ill, because you so often end up feeling like you have nothing to say in response to standard polite questions. I’m experimenting with just telling the truth like ‘I’m pretty sick, but also enjoying my hyper focus on the towers of Bologna.’
January 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Conversations can be so weird when you are chronically ill, because you so often end up feeling like you have nothing to say in response to standard polite questions. I’m experimenting with just telling the truth like ‘I’m pretty sick, but also enjoying my hyper focus on the towers of Bologna.’
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CW!!!
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
CW!!!
I never got to use one, but often think fondly of fax machines, noisy enigma of my childhood. The mystery, the glamour, the unnecessary size. Just one time I would have liked to say ‘sure I’ll have someone fax that right over’ and then have someone fax that right over.
what’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?
January 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I never got to use one, but often think fondly of fax machines, noisy enigma of my childhood. The mystery, the glamour, the unnecessary size. Just one time I would have liked to say ‘sure I’ll have someone fax that right over’ and then have someone fax that right over.
Every time I see millennial grey discourse I remember my Grandma E getting a new carpet a few years a go, which she described as ‘a lovely grey colour, right modern, just like something off Homes Under the Hammer’
January 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Every time I see millennial grey discourse I remember my Grandma E getting a new carpet a few years a go, which she described as ‘a lovely grey colour, right modern, just like something off Homes Under the Hammer’
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December 30, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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20 year old Letty: I never want to move back to West Yorkshire. I will endanger my physical and mental health to avoid it.
30 year old Letty: West Yorkshire is the greatest place on earth. I will never leave. When I die burry me here so my bones can feed the scientifically significant moss.
30 year old Letty: West Yorkshire is the greatest place on earth. I will never leave. When I die burry me here so my bones can feed the scientifically significant moss.
December 15, 2024 at 4:02 PM
20 year old Letty: I never want to move back to West Yorkshire. I will endanger my physical and mental health to avoid it.
30 year old Letty: West Yorkshire is the greatest place on earth. I will never leave. When I die burry me here so my bones can feed the scientifically significant moss.
30 year old Letty: West Yorkshire is the greatest place on earth. I will never leave. When I die burry me here so my bones can feed the scientifically significant moss.
My WiFi has been down for 2 days and I’m nearly out of data on my phone. I don’t know what will happen to me if I can’t stream trashy reality TV and/ or Christmas movies for another day. This is why I wouldn’t want to survive the apocalypse.
December 13, 2024 at 12:46 PM
My WiFi has been down for 2 days and I’m nearly out of data on my phone. I don’t know what will happen to me if I can’t stream trashy reality TV and/ or Christmas movies for another day. This is why I wouldn’t want to survive the apocalypse.
I take some meds every month by injection that make me feel pretty rough for a few days. As I was getting the dose out of the fridge I imagined the thing in horror films where they mange to get the bad guy with a syringe and how ineffective it would be and I can’t explain how funny that is to me.
December 10, 2024 at 3:03 PM
I take some meds every month by injection that make me feel pretty rough for a few days. As I was getting the dose out of the fridge I imagined the thing in horror films where they mange to get the bad guy with a syringe and how ineffective it would be and I can’t explain how funny that is to me.
I keep looking at starter packs, thinking, ‘I won't follow everyone, I want to make deliberate choices in this new place’ then getting distracted, putting my phone down and losing the list. 70% of the people I follow have names in the first five letters of the alphabet.
December 4, 2024 at 2:27 AM
I keep looking at starter packs, thinking, ‘I won't follow everyone, I want to make deliberate choices in this new place’ then getting distracted, putting my phone down and losing the list. 70% of the people I follow have names in the first five letters of the alphabet.
POV: Mary Oliver wrote Wild Geese about how much she loves cheese as a musical genre.
December 1, 2024 at 1:18 PM
POV: Mary Oliver wrote Wild Geese about how much she loves cheese as a musical genre.
When Lucy Steele sends her brake-up letter to Edward in Sense and Sensibility and asks him to ‘destroy my scribbles’ - that's the Jane Austen equivalent of asking him to delete her nudes, isn't it?
November 27, 2024 at 2:00 PM
When Lucy Steele sends her brake-up letter to Edward in Sense and Sensibility and asks him to ‘destroy my scribbles’ - that's the Jane Austen equivalent of asking him to delete her nudes, isn't it?
MS fatigue is unexpectedly high today*. Can I add be kind and patient please my brain has been replaced with soup to my email signature?
*unexpected in the sense this happens every winter like clockwork but in still shocked every year.
*unexpected in the sense this happens every winter like clockwork but in still shocked every year.
November 25, 2024 at 5:39 PM
MS fatigue is unexpectedly high today*. Can I add be kind and patient please my brain has been replaced with soup to my email signature?
*unexpected in the sense this happens every winter like clockwork but in still shocked every year.
*unexpected in the sense this happens every winter like clockwork but in still shocked every year.