Michael Donkor
@MichaelDonkor
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✊🏿🌈 🖋Writer, reader, reviewer, teacher, south Londoner. Second novel ‘Grow Where They Fall’ out March ‘24 @FigTreePenguin Represented by @julietpickering.
London
Joined May 2009
Teaching Hamlet? Bookings are open for our free online CPD with the fabulous Professor Emma Smith, and teacher and author @MichaelDonkor. Join us on 12 November for a rich discussion and new resources, exploring ideas of theatricality and performance. https://t.co/BAVVeklW8y
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✨ We’re thrilled to announce that International Dylan Thomas Prize and Desmond Elliott Prize finalist Michael Donkor (@MichaelDonkor) will be joining us for the 2025 Geneva Writers conference. 📚✍️Will you be there too? Registration opens soon: https://t.co/uI3HSPkUON
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Our deadline for this opp is next week! LGBTQ+ writers can send us a short excerpt of writing for the chance to win FREE professional feedback from novelist Michael Langan. ALL applicants will also be invited to a writing masterclass with @MichaelDonkor
https://t.co/lHzLpUCkz8
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Calling all LGBTQ+ writers! Less than 2 weeks to send us a short excerpt of writing for the chance to win FREE professional feedback from novelist Michael Langan. ALL applicants will also be invited to a writing masterclass with @MichaelDonkor
https://t.co/lHzLpUCSoG
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The @TLCUK LGBTQ+ Free Reads scheme is OPEN for applications. UK-based LGBTQ+ writers, send a synopsis + 2k words and be in with a chance to win free professional feedback. All applicants will also get access to a writing masterclass with @MichaelDonkor. This could be YOU!! 👇
I encourage everyone who qualifies to enter this. Being selected as a winner for this last year provided invaluable feedback from Michael Langan which led to completing the book which landed me an agent.
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Have you booked your free place yet? English teachers! Join us on 25 June for a livestreamed CPD on Macbeth in context, with the wonderful Professor Emma Smith, and teacher & author @MichaelDonkor. We're delving into ideas of agency & blame. Book here: https://t.co/iTq32TTaDS
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English teachers! Bookings are open for our next free online CPD - exploring Macbeth in context on 25 June. Join Professor Emma Smith, & teacher and author @MichaelDonkor for fresh perspectives, tips & resources. We'll delve into ideas of agency & blame. https://t.co/CYwvDa5Wp2
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A late but large happy publication day to @MichaelDonkor for the just superb Grow Where They Fall. Thanks to Yazmeen at @FigTreePenguin @VikingBooksUK for sending me a copy, it’s a lovely tale of finding your place in the world with great witty writing.
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"Told in a voice that is both bracing and embracing." – @MichaelDonkor This stunning debut by Michael Amherst arrives on shelves in ~1 month! 💙 Don't miss THE BOYHOOD OF CAIN, out February 25th, 2025: https://t.co/Ll9P8wSFqE
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Engish teachers! Bookings are open for our free online CPD on Romantic poetry in context, on March 11. Get fresh ideas and resources, with our fabulous panel of writers and teachers - @MichaelDonkor, @HelenMort, Iain Sinclair & Alexander Fairbairn-Dixon. https://t.co/Umakz6SpiF
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Some superbly nerdy recommendations here. Mine include the beautiful and funny Grow Where They Fall by @MichaelDonkor and how Conservatism won the war - otherwise known as Blue Jerusalem by @KitKowol
Prepare for a feast of festive reading with CapX's books of 2024 https://t.co/JTY8kvNaq9 ✍️@marcsidwell @jcdinnage @David_Goodhart Bruce Anderson, @sam_bidwell @alysdenby @WTMAtkinson @EliotWilson2 @93vintagejones @maxwell_marlow @seatradelaw & @Pbp19Philip
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Rather extraordinary news: Sylvia Townsend Warner is going to have a statue in Dorchester. On a bench, with a cat. Permission has been granted, but the campaign needs support. Here's its charming little film (complete with an animated cigarette): https://t.co/BpxPVigDaB
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Last chance to apply! The #LondonWritersAwards close at 5pm on 31 October (tomorrow!) It's free to participate and there are bursaries and an access fund available. So what are you waiting for?! https://t.co/AD8V0CDk8g
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Ekow Eshun’s THE STRANGERS is without doubt one of the most incredible books I have ever read. If you haven’t already, get a ticket to hear him discuss it with me tomorrow in Manchester:
manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
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Counting down the days!
First copies of new DEBORAH LEVY just in — ‘Literature offers us the chance, if we want it, to create ourselves again’ Out next month!
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Our Evenings cements Alan Hollinghurst as one of Britain's best novelists
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This superlative retelling of a gay thespian's life is both effortless and richly humane
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English teachers! Cia is a wonderfully thoughtful, funny, encouraging and imaginative writer & facilitator. Book her for a workshop to help your students think about their own writing with a fresh perspective.
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Introducing the cover for The Boyhood of Cain, a poignant debut novel about a boy on the precipice of adulthood, struggling to understand how he might give and deserve love. The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst is out in February 2025. Pre-order now: https://t.co/HtsE2yAMv9
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Thrilled to announce our latest free CPD for KS4-5 English teachers! https://t.co/uXd3gDZVyb Join us on 23 Oct to explore Othello in context with Prof Emma Smith, teacher & author @MichaelDonkor, and teacher & founder of Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy, Dr Wendy Lennon @writerlennon
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