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Essayistic novelist (and vice versa). Creative Fellow @beckettcentre. The Future of the Novel (2025) forthcoming from @melvillehouse | Rep. @AEAkinwumi
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Joined February 2012
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‘As a detective you have to watch your step, in order that your operations remain clandestine, and no detectives in literature have ever watched their steps as literally as Okotie’s two detectives.’ Blake Morrison on Simon Okotie: https://t.co/7mUiK9TiqT
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@SimonOkotie's 'In Search of The Lost Ones – Part 4: In which, yes, I finally found The Lost Ones' is finally available. 🔎 Read Simon's reflections on Beckett, The Lost Ones, and much more here: https://t.co/hqnFS187ka
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In Search of The Lost Ones By Simon Okotie (Creative Fellow, 2022-2023) I first started searching for The Lost Ones on 30 March 1999 in Oaxaca’s English language lending library. This was...Read...
I wrote about language and locomotion in Beckett's novels: 'In Search of the Lost Ones, Part 3 – On His Last Legs.' https://t.co/1i15XCZ4Vv And if you want to spend the weekend walking around like Watt, then here's how: https://t.co/SsV7CshbfV
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Issue 20 of Cõnfingō Magazine is guest edited by @nicholasroyle with fiction by @SeanBirnie, @JosephineGalvi1, @SimonOkotie, Georgina Parfitt, Geeta Roopnarine & David Rose, poetry by Sean Ashton & @wordsnfixtures, & artwork by Laura Scott. Preorder here… https://t.co/c7Wl7T9eFm
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The time has come to firm up the galley list for AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS my 3rd novel Out Feb / Mar 2024 via @Dalkey_Archive & @OneworldNews If you would like to write about a surrealist oral history of Latin American deportees Let me know 😊
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En route to Reading, a year (tomorrow) after my first visit to @beckettcentre as a Creative Fellow. Full of gratitude to all involved (particularly @cdcarv), sad it is coming to an end but excited to be plotting a way of continuing the connection, potentially, by other means.
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Foolishly, perhaps, @Confingo invited me to guest-edit issue 20 of their brilliant magazine. It’s available to pre-order.
🧵 Issue 20 of Cõnfingō Magazine is now available to preorder from our online bookstore… https://t.co/c7Wl7T9eFm
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🧵 Issue 20 of Cõnfingō Magazine is guest edited by @nicholasroyle with fiction by @SeanBirnie, @JosephineGalvi1, @SimonOkotie, Georgina Parfitt, Geeta Roopnarine & David Rose, poetry by Sean Ashton & @wordsnfixtures,and artwork by Laura Scott.
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Starting TOMORROW, this amazing exhibition of James Joyce materials, plus new items available to research.
📢 One week to go! On 26th September, our new ‘James Joyce: Love of Language’ exhibition opens! Published items from the Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection will also be available to researchers from this date, so feel free to pop by the Reading Room during your visit 📚
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RTE news : Samuel Beckett season comes to RTÉ Drama On One https://t.co/G6lpQXOwiO
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This October, RTÉ Drama On One will present a season of author Samuel Beckett's writings.
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Really enjoyed my first day as @royallitfund Fellow @CityUniLondon today! Do come and find me if you’re at City this year and want help with your writing. https://t.co/dL3YMifsoN
Delighted to announce I'll be the @royallitfund Fellow @CityUniLondon for 2023-24. Students and staff: please come and visit me for free, confidential and independent advice on all aspects of your writing:
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Super excited to have a new @nightjarpress chapbook in the pipeline! Meanwhile, take a look at these two beauties, "Styx" by @WillEaves & "Two Degrees of Freedom" by @SimonOkotie, both highly recommended: https://t.co/rO4rIT9T3E
We have great stories by @alimooreauthor @jg_lynas @troutiemcfish @cooketim2 @RobertJStone2 @CharlieRatpig @GiselleKLeeb @iancritchley4 @vilmastuttle @kirstennorrie & others waiting to appear, but we need to clear space & raise funds. We would be very grateful for your help.
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This includes my 'Chapter from an abandoned collaborative novel'.
COMING SOON! Issue 20 of Cõnfingō Magazine is out in October and guest editor @nicholasroyle has selected fiction by @SeanBirnie, @JosephineGalvi1, @SimonOkotie, Georgina Parfitt, Geeta Roopnarine & David Rose, poetry by Sean Ashton & @wordsnfixtures, and artwork by Laura Scott.
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Step behind the curtain and into the restless, illusory world of Claire-Louise Bennett’s Nightflowers, an immersive installation at MoLI created by the internationally acclaimed author of Pond and Checkout 19. No booking necessary!
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The city looks like a watercolour this morning.
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I wrote about language and locomotion in Beckett's novels: 'In Search of the Lost Ones, Part 3 – On His Last Legs.' https://t.co/1i15XCZ4Vv And if you want to spend the weekend walking around like Watt, then here's how: https://t.co/SsV7CshbfV
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🗞️We’re delighted to say that our new Joyce exhibition opens on 26th September! An updated timetable regarding the on the Solange and Stephen Joyce Archive at the University of Reading is now available: https://t.co/zsSdj9N0jg
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We have great stories by @alimooreauthor @jg_lynas @troutiemcfish @cooketim2 @RobertJStone2 @CharlieRatpig @GiselleKLeeb @iancritchley4 @vilmastuttle @kirstennorrie & others waiting to appear, but we need to clear space & raise funds. We would be very grateful for your help.
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It's Thursday! Which means: Please join us in wishing our author Adam Biles a VERY HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY for his brilliant new novel, Beasts of England. (Hooray, Adam, hooray!) "A timely and worthy successor to Animal Farm" --The Observer @Shakespeare_Co @turnarounduk
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Sad to hear of the death of Tobias Hill, who was the guest author on the first writing retreat I ever did.
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