Sarah Davy
@sarahdavywrites.bsky.social
Writer, Mentor, Facilitator. Wrangler of authors for book festivals.
Usually writing short stories & scripts or watching telly.
Winner Finchale Prize #NorthernWritersAwards 2023
https://linktr.ee/sarahdavywrites
Usually writing short stories & scripts or watching telly.
Winner Finchale Prize #NorthernWritersAwards 2023
https://linktr.ee/sarahdavywrites
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ICYMI...my short story Shepherd, which was awarded the Finchale Prize for Short fiction, is available to read on @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social
Washing says 20 minutes left.
HMRC say 20 minutes wait on phone.
Who will buckle first...
HMRC say 20 minutes wait on phone.
Who will buckle first...
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Washing says 20 minutes left.
HMRC say 20 minutes wait on phone.
Who will buckle first...
HMRC say 20 minutes wait on phone.
Who will buckle first...
Saw a bloke on the West Road with what I thought was a nice scarf but was actually a magnificent beard blowing in the wind.
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Saw a bloke on the West Road with what I thought was a nice scarf but was actually a magnificent beard blowing in the wind.
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✍️ We’re hiring! Link to apply in our stories and the link in our bio.
For the first time in over two years we are looking for an individual (maybe you!) to join our team as a bookseller and social media manager.
Apply: forms.gle/UUKUjuis1ZSum9gT7
(1/3)
For the first time in over two years we are looking for an individual (maybe you!) to join our team as a bookseller and social media manager.
Apply: forms.gle/UUKUjuis1ZSum9gT7
(1/3)
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
✍️ We’re hiring! Link to apply in our stories and the link in our bio.
For the first time in over two years we are looking for an individual (maybe you!) to join our team as a bookseller and social media manager.
Apply: forms.gle/UUKUjuis1ZSum9gT7
(1/3)
For the first time in over two years we are looking for an individual (maybe you!) to join our team as a bookseller and social media manager.
Apply: forms.gle/UUKUjuis1ZSum9gT7
(1/3)
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Final few hours of our short story competition! You can still enter here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Prize — Galley Beggar Press
www.galleybeggar.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Final few hours of our short story competition! You can still enter here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
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First ever sighting of my writing in an actual bookshop. Absolute scenes.
October 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
First ever sighting of my writing in an actual bookshop. Absolute scenes.
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I'm excited to share my debut novel Communion will be released in April 2026 via @atlanticbooks.bsky.social.
November 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm excited to share my debut novel Communion will be released in April 2026 via @atlanticbooks.bsky.social.
First ever sighting of my writing in an actual bookshop. Absolute scenes.
October 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
First ever sighting of my writing in an actual bookshop. Absolute scenes.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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[putting up halloween decorations]
spider who lives is my hallway: THIS IS GENTRIFICATION
spider who lives is my hallway: THIS IS GENTRIFICATION
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
[putting up halloween decorations]
spider who lives is my hallway: THIS IS GENTRIFICATION
spider who lives is my hallway: THIS IS GENTRIFICATION
Spook Night in town and some very....interesting hosting from a local dignitary. Scenes straight out of Alan Partridge. Wholesome family fun 🫠
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Spook Night in town and some very....interesting hosting from a local dignitary. Scenes straight out of Alan Partridge. Wholesome family fun 🫠
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If the onset of winter gets you down, take solace in the fact that it’s just 15,000,000 seconds* till the swifts get back.
*give or take
*give or take
October 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If the onset of winter gets you down, take solace in the fact that it’s just 15,000,000 seconds* till the swifts get back.
*give or take
*give or take
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Can you recommend a really good video editor?
(Someone who is willing (for smallish but regular amounts of money) to edit videos and also post them to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc?)
(Someone who is willing (for smallish but regular amounts of money) to edit videos and also post them to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc?)
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Can you recommend a really good video editor?
(Someone who is willing (for smallish but regular amounts of money) to edit videos and also post them to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc?)
(Someone who is willing (for smallish but regular amounts of money) to edit videos and also post them to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc?)
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Anyone want to give me £2.5million to save Rydal Mount from the inevitable development any private buyer with that much cash to spare will subject it to? So awful to see this important piece of literary history being sold way.
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 7 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
7 bedroom detached house for sale in Rydal Mount, Rydal, Ambleside, LA22 9LU, LA22 for £2,500,000. Marketed by AshdownJones, The Lakes and Lune Valley
www.rightmove.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Anyone want to give me £2.5million to save Rydal Mount from the inevitable development any private buyer with that much cash to spare will subject it to? So awful to see this important piece of literary history being sold way.
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Out on the road with an author today. A lovely reminder why I spend so much time sending emails and wrangling people and schools and books. Belly laughs. Books in hands. Storytelling. Proper magic.
March 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Out on the road with an author today. A lovely reminder why I spend so much time sending emails and wrangling people and schools and books. Belly laughs. Books in hands. Storytelling. Proper magic.
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Robin Ince – Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal | Queen's Hall Arts Centre
www.queenshall.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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As I live and breathe, a full-time gig as a 'book gifting assistant'?! Imagine telling people this is your job! It's unbelievably cool.
Interested in children's books?
Fabulous opportunity here with an excellent organisation!
RTs appreciated ❤️
@childrensbooksireland.ie @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social #jobfairy
booksirelandmagazine.com/childrens-bo...
Fabulous opportunity here with an excellent organisation!
RTs appreciated ❤️
@childrensbooksireland.ie @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social #jobfairy
booksirelandmagazine.com/childrens-bo...
Children's Books Ireland seek Book Gifting Assistant - Books Ireland
Children's Books Ireland seek a full time Book Gifting Assistant.
booksirelandmagazine.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
As I live and breathe, a full-time gig as a 'book gifting assistant'?! Imagine telling people this is your job! It's unbelievably cool.
Bit of chat after a comedy gig last night with lots of connections and think that the Northern version of seven degrees of Kevin Bacon is seven degrees of Ann Cleeves....
March 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Bit of chat after a comedy gig last night with lots of connections and think that the Northern version of seven degrees of Kevin Bacon is seven degrees of Ann Cleeves....
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Call for Submissions: The New Material Ecopoetics! How do you write with nature? We're seeking unpublished experimental eco-poetry (lyric, visual, material & sound) for Fall 2025. Send your big swings by May 15! Check out our submission guidelines at buff.ly/3EUtM6m
March 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Call for Submissions: The New Material Ecopoetics! How do you write with nature? We're seeking unpublished experimental eco-poetry (lyric, visual, material & sound) for Fall 2025. Send your big swings by May 15! Check out our submission guidelines at buff.ly/3EUtM6m
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A busy work week but also a satisfying one. New tattoo, crocuses for days and had a hand in getting the 2025 programme ready for launch. I will be taking to my bed for the next two days.
March 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A busy work week but also a satisfying one. New tattoo, crocuses for days and had a hand in getting the 2025 programme ready for launch. I will be taking to my bed for the next two days.
A busy work week but also a satisfying one. New tattoo, crocuses for days and had a hand in getting the 2025 programme ready for launch. I will be taking to my bed for the next two days.
March 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A busy work week but also a satisfying one. New tattoo, crocuses for days and had a hand in getting the 2025 programme ready for launch. I will be taking to my bed for the next two days.
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Writers looking for opportunities! ✍️
Last week's Five Things Friday post is now available to free subscribers! Opportunities from @mslexia.bsky.social @gladlib.bsky.social @northerngravy.bsky.social & more! 👀
halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...
Last week's Five Things Friday post is now available to free subscribers! Opportunities from @mslexia.bsky.social @gladlib.bsky.social @northerngravy.bsky.social & more! 👀
halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...
Five Things Friday: issue 14
3 residencies + 2 submissions = 5 exciting writing opportunities!
halekatie.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Writers looking for opportunities! ✍️
Last week's Five Things Friday post is now available to free subscribers! Opportunities from @mslexia.bsky.social @gladlib.bsky.social @northerngravy.bsky.social & more! 👀
halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...
Last week's Five Things Friday post is now available to free subscribers! Opportunities from @mslexia.bsky.social @gladlib.bsky.social @northerngravy.bsky.social & more! 👀
halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...
Want to rant about some awfully behaved kids on the bus and how it makes me sad about humans but everything is bad enough so here's a lovely still light sky and I'm allowed to start walking without my moon boot now so slowly slowly things get brighter.
February 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Want to rant about some awfully behaved kids on the bus and how it makes me sad about humans but everything is bad enough so here's a lovely still light sky and I'm allowed to start walking without my moon boot now so slowly slowly things get brighter.