Marie-Anne McQuay
@m-amcq.bsky.social
Curator, other things. she/her
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Guest curating solo exhibition by Welsh artist, founder of g39 and award winning debut novelist (#Granta ‘A Room Above a Shop’) @anthonyshapland.bsky.social for Tŷ Pawb summer 2026 is such a treat www.typawb.wales/ty-pawb-anno...
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Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
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Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
November 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
M(12 since November) just had her first ever ‘I haven’t revised yet I’m sitting a test’ dream. Welcome to the rest of your life 🫂
November 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
M(12 since November) just had her first ever ‘I haven’t revised yet I’m sitting a test’ dream. Welcome to the rest of your life 🫂
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Your yearly reminder that it’s almost time to prepare the prune Krampus
Forget cheese and pineapple hedgehog, every party needs an edible Krampus. Especially knowing how much children love prunes.
(From a 1970s edition of Child Education magazine)
(From a 1970s edition of Child Education magazine)
November 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Your yearly reminder that it’s almost time to prepare the prune Krampus
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This is a BRILLIANT offering for non fic writers! #Creatives4Sudan
Check out the #Creatives4Sudan auction to raise £££ for Sudan Solidarity Collective through skills-sharing & gorgeous arts!
I'm offering 2 x 1/2 hr mentoring sessions on creative non-fiction – article, essay, book proposal! Let's develop your big idea! Bid now👇
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I'm offering 2 x 1/2 hr mentoring sessions on creative non-fiction – article, essay, book proposal! Let's develop your big idea! Bid now👇
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This is a BRILLIANT offering for non fic writers! #Creatives4Sudan
Bless LJMU IT for getting me into my new email. I had failed to set up the Two Factor Authentication Riddle.
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Bless LJMU IT for getting me into my new email. I had failed to set up the Two Factor Authentication Riddle.
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Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!
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join us for this water-themed poetry reading in London this evening !
I’m reading with Elfie Shiosaki and Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal in this water-themed poetry evening in London 6-9pm 26 November. Free, with food after: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-river-w...
my river will carve a starward path
Join us for an evening of poetry & performance on water with Elfie Shiosaki, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, & J. R. Carpenter
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
join us for this water-themed poetry reading in London this evening !
Guest curating solo exhibition by Welsh artist, founder of g39 and award winning debut novelist (#Granta ‘A Room Above a Shop’) @anthonyshapland.bsky.social for Tŷ Pawb summer 2026 is such a treat www.typawb.wales/ty-pawb-anno...
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Guest curating solo exhibition by Welsh artist, founder of g39 and award winning debut novelist (#Granta ‘A Room Above a Shop’) @anthonyshapland.bsky.social for Tŷ Pawb summer 2026 is such a treat www.typawb.wales/ty-pawb-anno...
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Such an amazing concise review, thanks Dua Lipa 💚💚 -
great to be alongside #yaelvanderwouden
#alicewinn #chinelookparanta & @angelotijssens.bsky.social tijssens.bsky.social (and thanks Angelo for the heads up!)
www.service95.com/best-queer-l...
great to be alongside #yaelvanderwouden
#alicewinn #chinelookparanta & @angelotijssens.bsky.social tijssens.bsky.social (and thanks Angelo for the heads up!)
www.service95.com/best-queer-l...
The Most Beautiful Queer Love Stories That Will Stay With You Forever
Calling all romantics and yearning hearts! Ready to sink your teeth into stories steeped in longing and unexpected love? We’ve handpicked these <a href="https://www.service95.com/tag/lgbtqia" targ
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June 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Such an amazing concise review, thanks Dua Lipa 💚💚 -
great to be alongside #yaelvanderwouden
#alicewinn #chinelookparanta & @angelotijssens.bsky.social tijssens.bsky.social (and thanks Angelo for the heads up!)
www.service95.com/best-queer-l...
great to be alongside #yaelvanderwouden
#alicewinn #chinelookparanta & @angelotijssens.bsky.social tijssens.bsky.social (and thanks Angelo for the heads up!)
www.service95.com/best-queer-l...
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Me in November 2024: I really think 2025 will be my year.
Me in November 2025:
Me in November 2025:
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Me in November 2024: I really think 2025 will be my year.
Me in November 2025:
Me in November 2025:
If I ever say “Oh hi! So how’s everything going?” what I’m actually saying is, “Please for the love of god tell me who you are and why I know you”.
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If I ever say “Oh hi! So how’s everything going?” what I’m actually saying is, “Please for the love of god tell me who you are and why I know you”.
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Nothing like discussing with a Trump supporter who forgot that I have a master’s in journalism and have been a reporter. “I don’t believe what’s reported. Have YOU ever worked for Reuters? Huh? Huh? You don’t know how they…”
“Actually, I have.”
Heh, that conversation ended abruptly, lol.
“Actually, I have.”
Heh, that conversation ended abruptly, lol.
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Nothing like discussing with a Trump supporter who forgot that I have a master’s in journalism and have been a reporter. “I don’t believe what’s reported. Have YOU ever worked for Reuters? Huh? Huh? You don’t know how they…”
“Actually, I have.”
Heh, that conversation ended abruptly, lol.
“Actually, I have.”
Heh, that conversation ended abruptly, lol.
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If you are U.K. based and angered by Shabana Mahmood's latest efforts to make migrants lives even more difficult (and I know some of you will be), please do take the time to submit a response to the Home Office consultation.
Dan's advice below is excellent as a guide on how to respond.
Dan's advice below is excellent as a guide on how to respond.
I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
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assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
If you are U.K. based and angered by Shabana Mahmood's latest efforts to make migrants lives even more difficult (and I know some of you will be), please do take the time to submit a response to the Home Office consultation.
Dan's advice below is excellent as a guide on how to respond.
Dan's advice below is excellent as a guide on how to respond.
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ICYMI: Writers including David Nicholls, Katherine Rundell, Katherine Webber and Monisha Rajesh are among those donating pledges for the Creatives4Sudan auction, co-organised by Louie Stowell 👇 #BookSky
David Nicholls and Katherine Rundell offer prizes for Creatives4Sudan auction
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November 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
ICYMI: Writers including David Nicholls, Katherine Rundell, Katherine Webber and Monisha Rajesh are among those donating pledges for the Creatives4Sudan auction, co-organised by Louie Stowell 👇 #BookSky
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Because too many trains were trying to get in and out of Manchester tonight they were all delayed. It’s almost like their should be some kind of timetable of trains. Maybe a…train timetable?
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Because too many trains were trying to get in and out of Manchester tonight they were all delayed. It’s almost like their should be some kind of timetable of trains. Maybe a…train timetable?
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Hari Kumar, Ultimate Superstar is in The Bookseller’s list of 10 Titles Not to Miss in February 2026! 🎉 The new Editor’s Choices. So happy! Art by Mamta Singh.
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Hari Kumar, Ultimate Superstar is in The Bookseller’s list of 10 Titles Not to Miss in February 2026! 🎉 The new Editor’s Choices. So happy! Art by Mamta Singh.
Too many trains are apparently trying to get into Manchester at once so we’re just…going nowhere.
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Too many trains are apparently trying to get into Manchester at once so we’re just…going nowhere.
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Plaudits to whoever put this poster up next to the Park Road Tesco in Toxteth.
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Plaudits to whoever put this poster up next to the Park Road Tesco in Toxteth.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
My Dad through the fog of dementia suddenly back in the room “Looks like you’ve lost a bit of weight since I last saw you”.
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My Dad through the fog of dementia suddenly back in the room “Looks like you’ve lost a bit of weight since I last saw you”.
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Confession time: The main reason for my trip wasn't to visit Blackpool. It was a pilgrimage to Preston for a visit to the brutalist bus station. It didn't disappoint.
#architecture
#architecture
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Confession time: The main reason for my trip wasn't to visit Blackpool. It was a pilgrimage to Preston for a visit to the brutalist bus station. It didn't disappoint.
#architecture
#architecture
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Your assignment for today: Go to your local Tesco, try to find the word "Christmas" anywhere in the shop, and report back to Allison Pearson, the... *checks notes*... "award-winning journalist".
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Your assignment for today: Go to your local Tesco, try to find the word "Christmas" anywhere in the shop, and report back to Allison Pearson, the... *checks notes*... "award-winning journalist".