One chapter completed, one manuscript rejected - All in a day’s work.
July 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
One chapter completed, one manuscript rejected - All in a day’s work.
Great night in Nottingham @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social for Will Rees' debut book.
July 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Great night in Nottingham @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social for Will Rees' debut book.
My winning review for the Student Book Review Competition, run in collaboration between Everybody's Reviewing and the University of Leicester's Centre for New Writing: "On Agoraphobia" by Graham Caveney
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Review by Lee Wright of "On Agoraphobia" by Graham Caveney
Memoirs rarely make deliberate use of space on the page, but the large areas of emptiness in Graham Caveney’s On Agoraphobia (2022) evoke...
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June 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
My winning review for the Student Book Review Competition, run in collaboration between Everybody's Reviewing and the University of Leicester's Centre for New Writing: "On Agoraphobia" by Graham Caveney
everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...
everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...
The attendees are served their cream teas
June 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The attendees are served their cream teas
My next stop @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My next stop @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social
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“[A] moving, meditative and, at times, improbably comic series… The storytelling is first class, as is the darkly atmospheric sound design…”
@fionasturges.bsky.social @financialtimes.com review of Half-Life this morning! Cc @joedunthorne.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1a20...
@fionasturges.bsky.social @financialtimes.com review of Half-Life this morning! Cc @joedunthorne.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1a20...
Half-Life podcast is a compelling story of radioactive toothpaste and poison gas — review
Novelist Joe Dunthorne presents a series investigating his family history and his great-grandfather’s dark secret
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May 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“[A] moving, meditative and, at times, improbably comic series… The storytelling is first class, as is the darkly atmospheric sound design…”
@fionasturges.bsky.social @financialtimes.com review of Half-Life this morning! Cc @joedunthorne.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1a20...
@fionasturges.bsky.social @financialtimes.com review of Half-Life this morning! Cc @joedunthorne.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1a20...
Take some time out to consider "looking"
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Story of Looking: In Conversation with Mark Cousins - Doc/Fest 2021
YouTube video by Sheffield DocFest
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May 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Take some time out to consider "looking"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzTG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzTG...
"It is the grit in the oyster that makes the pearl. And I am that grit!" Ian Shaw playing Robert Shaw playing Quint.
May 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"It is the grit in the oyster that makes the pearl. And I am that grit!" Ian Shaw playing Robert Shaw playing Quint.
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Last night the author Corinna Edwards-Colledge and myself engaged with the difficult topic of grief and loss. It was a surprisingly upbeat conversation with some great questions from participants. We celebrated the beautiful illustrations and lessons we took from loss.
#asktheauthor #books
#asktheauthor #books
Corinna Edwards-Colledge - The Door That Shouldn't Have Been There
YouTube video by Claret Press
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May 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Last night the author Corinna Edwards-Colledge and myself engaged with the difficult topic of grief and loss. It was a surprisingly upbeat conversation with some great questions from participants. We celebrated the beautiful illustrations and lessons we took from loss.
#asktheauthor #books
#asktheauthor #books
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Eimear McBride comes to Leicester @faberbooks.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Eimear McBride comes to Leicester @faberbooks.bsky.social
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Carla Denyer accuses Labour of failing to challenge Reform UK’s net zero ‘lie’
Carla Denyer accuses Labour of failing to challenge Reform UK’s net zero ‘lie’
Greens co-leader to table private member’s bill on a worker-led green transition in attempt to seize narrative back from Nigel Farage’s party
The Labour government is standing back and letting Reform UK “sell the lie” that net zero will harm working people, Carla Denyer, the Greens’ co-leader has said as she prepares to step back from the role she has held for four years.
Denyer, who will not contest this summer’s party leadership re-election process, told the Guardian that she wanted to focus on her Bristol Central constituency, and to campaign on particular issues, including a net zero policy shaped to the needs of workers. Continue reading...
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May 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Carla Denyer accuses Labour of failing to challenge Reform UK’s net zero ‘lie’
"Walking down the street at times eclipsed by trees." Cole Swensen (2004)
April 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"Walking down the street at times eclipsed by trees." Cole Swensen (2004)
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Ben Street on a collection of essays that collapses seeing and saying
Living with illusion | TLS
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April 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Ben Street on a collection of essays that collapses seeing and saying
"The plush / red flesh the fat / sac of seeds" Katha Pollitt
April 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"The plush / red flesh the fat / sac of seeds" Katha Pollitt
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Every time I read a book of the collected letters between two writers, the book always ends the same way -- one of the writers dies and the letters stop.
April 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Every time I read a book of the collected letters between two writers, the book always ends the same way -- one of the writers dies and the letters stop.
"We shelter inside movies, at the movies. Cinema architecture as a Cold War topography: bunker, safe space, crypt." Ian Penman, 2023
April 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
"We shelter inside movies, at the movies. Cinema architecture as a Cold War topography: bunker, safe space, crypt." Ian Penman, 2023
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distressing that the only people I see writing in notebooks in public (which I do a lot) seem to have a psychiatric illness
December 11, 2024 at 1:53 PM
distressing that the only people I see writing in notebooks in public (which I do a lot) seem to have a psychiatric illness
"Old Oslo" has been published by Cigarette Fire Magazine.
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Old Oslo | CF Magazine
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December 2, 2024 at 10:26 AM
"Old Oslo" has been published by Cigarette Fire Magazine.
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Every writer knows writing is rewriting and that process only really ends when the manuscript is wrenched from their exhausted and numb hands.
November 25, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Every writer knows writing is rewriting and that process only really ends when the manuscript is wrenched from their exhausted and numb hands.
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Last night near the bar at the Writers' Trust Awards a friend said to another person, "Hey have you met Michael?" and the person said, "We talked but we never met."
November 20, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Last night near the bar at the Writers' Trust Awards a friend said to another person, "Hey have you met Michael?" and the person said, "We talked but we never met."
The research is coming together
November 20, 2024 at 10:35 AM
The research is coming together
