Look at my happy face (with a dash of disbelief)! Second prize in @BridportPrize Flash Fiction… what a joy to celebrate today in the company of an astounding crowd of writers, readers and champions of hope. Thank you so much, team Bridport. Happy 50th birthday - now relax!

I loved reading through the titles and bios of this year's @BridportPrize winners - so many congratulations to all! Placing 2nd in last year's flash prize was an anchor point for me - and to be shortlisted again this year! The Bridport clan is a true wonder of the writing world.

RT @Leaf_Journal: 'On Writing for Young People' Conference, 24-25 Oct, Online. We will be welcoming panellist @ruthmoore on 'Writing the Mu….

It's that beautiful time of year again. @BathFlashAward x

So excited to be back at the @Leaf_Journal conference this November. I’ll be talking about the troubled wonder of writing museum stories in the 21st century - and looking forward to absorbing all the other wonder on offer!.

Curating this blog has been one of my favourite things about my second year in PhDland, not least thanks to my excellent co-editor @JoSutherst - check out our summer retrospective.

A little something from a blog I've been co-editing this year.

I am so happy to have made it across the perilous bridge from longlist to shortlist! I’m acutely aware of the calibre of work that will and won’t appear here - thank you so much @Susmitatweets for responding to my story in miniature. Write onwards, everyone.

We're in the final week before the @ExclamationAIJ deadline and getting excited to read your work: don't wait for the perfect time to write your submission - WRITE NOW!.

What an absolute delight to see my flash fiction appear on this gem of a longlist. Thanks so much @BathFlashAward and congratulations to all who entered. I'm so glad it was worth my (very) last minute club entry!

Can't wait to see what this year's @ExclamationAIJ writers have in store for us. .

So cool to see that this project (underway when I was @TORCHOxford) is out in the world! Creative research engagement of the very best kind. This will make a change from endless games of football Top Trumps. .

Yesterday I finished reading a brilliant book called 'Windrush Child' by @BZephaniah .Today, this terrible news, just as our government shuffles itself into yet more heartlessness. This man brought words and ideas and heart together to extraordinary effect. Thank you. Go well.

Well, the @Leaf_Journal conference #OnWriting2023 is complete, and it was an end-to-end delight. Children's writers leading the way in showing how research, creativity, craft and industry insight can come together. Thank you so much @ElenCaldecott @LucyCuthew

RT @David_F_Taylor: Fantastic opportunity for a fully-funded doctorate here!. - Work on the Ellen Terry and Edith Craig archives.- Supervis….

What a lovely thought: in a week we will be right in the thick of the first ever @Leaf_Journal conference! I'm still fairly new to the world of researching children's fiction as well as writing it; cannot wait to be (virtually) amongst such excellent company.

Less than two weeks to go! Can’t wait to get stuck into watching the papers then talking all things #kidslit at #onwriting2023.

Gasp! A prospective Chancellor with a ‘sound grasp of economics?’. Very tempting….

I am excited-petrified to be presenting a paper on children's time-slip fiction at this wonderful online @Leaf_Journal conference 9-10 November. You can book now to attend live or catch up after. Come join the conversation!.