Chuffed to bits (of pig) to be featured in @TheLondonMag today. Here it is, loosely inspired by a summer barbecue: https://t.co/n7cIc3v6f2

#ThroughHerEyes The murder of Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei at the hands of her boyfriend, got a single line on the news this morning. Let's make more of it here. Another beautiful and talented woman's life snuffed out by violence. #VAWG

So wish I could be there for this - congrats @rachelle_ata, so excited to read this one! #TheSaltFlats

Audiobook announcement! 📚🎧 Calling all Greco-Roman myth girlies! Delighted to reveal my debut short story collection, out 1st August with @bolindaaudio and read by the amazing Sofia Engstrand. Dark Harvest is a new and twisty retelling of Ovid's Heroides.

The @caledoniaaward is such a brilliant prize and opportunity for writers! Being shortlisted for my novel in 2023 gave me a huge lift and confidence boost 😌 The judge this year is @AliceLutyens and she is lovely. Good luck to those who enter! Deadline: Oct 15th📚

10 years ago I was still stuck in the query trenches (lost & confused). Here’s a few things I’ve learned about writing/publishing in the past decade 🧵 1. Resilience. Rejection is part of the job. It gets easier. It’s not that your work isn’t good it’s that it isn’t a good fit.

We're very excited to share Life of a Book: a series of free online events designed to clarify the journey and processes of writing and publishing a book ✍️ 📚 ✨ It will run over five days, 13th–17th May, covering a variety of topics. More ℹ️ here: https://t.co/DEyhrsbxon

So thrilled and humbled to be on this longlist. Congrats to all the other longlisted authors. Thanks so much to Lucy Cavendish College for this opportunity.

As we await for the longlist for the Lucy Cavendish #fiction prize, which will be released on the 17th of April, why not give one of our previous winners a read from the past five years! Available in all bookstores near you! 📚🏆😀👀 #BookTwitter #cambridgeuniversity

Virginia Woolf took her own life 83 years ago on this day. Here is the beautiful final letter she left for her husband, my great-uncle Leonard Woolf 💜

A gentle reminder that my novel, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain, about the medieval mystics Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, will be read on Radio 4 this Saturday afternoon 2.45-4pm! 💙 #MedievalTwitter #MargeryKempe #JulianofNorwich https://t.co/fWfHQ1KIoV

Congratulations to @rachelle_ata who is the new Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow, based at @StirUni for 2024 🥳📚⭐️

I'm thrilled to announce I'll be working with the wonderful @_victoriahaslam @AmazonPub to publish my debut novel, THE SURFACING, in July 2025. Huge thanks to my fantastic agent @SarahHornsley (as well as @LucyCavColl, @BathNovelAward, @Mslexia, @cbcreative) for getting me here!

So proud of @ClaireABooks for this brilliant piece of news! 📚 I was fortunate to have read one of Claire's early drafts, and loved the setting and clever, twisty plotting. A winning combo! Readers are in for a treat. I'm sure it'll be a success! Well done, Claire. 🌟

- Unhappiest kids in Europe - Fewer children than ever reading for pleasure - School buildings crumbling - less than half the target of teacher trainees - Biggest retention crisis - Morale in the profession the lowest ever - Ofsted… The list goes on. They’re delusional

Can't wait to see @forthygreatpain in my hometown tonight, talking about her novel #ForThyGreatPain 📚 If you haven't read it yet, grab yourself a copy. It's so beautifully crafted, almost a work of art – one my favourite reads of '23 😍 #StonyWords |

#Writers! I'm opening up my books for 2024, taking on new mentees wanting to develop their short fiction, novels or poetry. I work with complete beginners, more experienced writers, those wanting to take first steps in writing, and those polishing near final drafts. 🧵1/4

Here’s to dear Benjamin Zephaniah❤️💚🌹

BABY JESUS SEVERED TOE IS JUDGING YOU.

This week we will be looking at illustrations from Lucy and Tom at Christmas starting with them stirring the enormous Christmas pudding mixture.