Susan Barker
@SusanKBarker
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Writer and @RLFwriters fellow at @OfficialUoM. Lecturer at @McrWritingSchl. Author of The Incarnations.
Manchester
Joined November 2013
Join us on 13/2 for the launch of @SusanKBarker's OLD SOUL, about a mysterious woman who never grows old and the bodies she leaves in her wake... Utterly gripping and a bookseller favourite; we're so excited for Sue's conversation with Zoe Li! https://t.co/E3o7Ow4w9O
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“Ambiguous signs in horror are so unnerving because it’s the stuff we encounter in our everyday lives.” @SusanKBarker on the power and fear in ambiguity. | https://t.co/XxD5mEQ0M4
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. One night, when I was twelve, I was walking home from a school concert with my mum and younger sister when thirty metres o…
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I was riveted and unsettled by @SusanKBarker’s upcoming literary horror Old Soul, which is one of my editor’s choices and out with @FigTreePenguin on 6th Feb
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Old Soul cover reveal by @putnambooks
https://t.co/WUvtrKxaOA Out in January 2025!
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🔔 Cover reveal 🔔 In June we will be publishing Mother Naked by Orwell Prize–shortlisted writer Glen James Brown 🃏🃏🃏 Set against the traumatic shadow of the Black Death and the Peasant’s Revolt, Mother Naked speaks back from the margins in a fury of imaginative recuperation
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Loved contributing my Shelf Life to this fantastic literary journal, edited by two of the very best people (and @McrWritingSchl alumni)! If you haven’t already, do check @lunatejournal out.
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.@FigTreePenguin has scooped Old Soul, a "propulsive, beautifully written literary horror novel" from The Incarnations (Black Swan) author @SusanKBarker.
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Fig Tree has scooped Old Soul, a "propulsive, beautifully written literary horror novel" from The Incarnations (Black Swan) author Susan Barker.
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Excited for the launch of @PlaceCentre at @ManMetUni. Do check out the amazing poetry, essays and short film contributed to the ongoing #Place2020 project by some of the most brilliant minds in place writing. https://t.co/pf7hp6qAoO
placewriting.co.uk
PLACE 2020 is a collaboration between the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and some of the most acclaimed, distinctive and emergent thinkers, writers, artists and...
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Started this elegantly-written, moving, honest & insightful memoir this afternoon and completely and utterly engrossed. Many congratulations @sammillsauthor!
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Thank you so much @NewWritingNorth, @krisjdoyle & @amy_may! And massive congratulations to @Ruqayalzzidien & @RebeccaMuddiman. Really fantastic to be included here.
This morning we are thrilled to make three awards in the Northern Writers’ Awards for Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction category. Thank you to judges @krisjdoyle and @amy_may and congratulations to our winners @RuqayaIzzidien @SusanKBarker @RebeccaMuddiman #NorthernWritersAwards
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Here's the cover for my forthcoming memoir. What do you think...? It's out from @4thEstateBooks on July 2nd (gulp).
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Fab event tonight chatting to @BenMyers1, @adellestripe, @jessicacandrews, @Glen_J_Brown and #GrahamCaveney who all read brilliantly from their @ThePortico Prize shortlisted books (#RayRobinson was much missed!) We have SUCH a tough job tomorrow. Pic stolen from @amberjanereads.
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Brilliant to see #ThePorticoPrize shortlisted authors interviewed in @ObsNewReview this morning. I've nearly finished reading the exceptional shortlist and am so impressed by every book. Read as many as you can: https://t.co/X2fH0g6U9X
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Do northern writers have to work harder to get published? We talk to the six authors shortlisted for the Portico prize – AKA the ‘Booker of the north’
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What a Sunday morning treat! @Glen_J_Brown, @adellestripe, @BenMyers1, @jessicacandrews, Graham Caveney and Ray Robinson talk to @anitasethi in the @ObsNewReview about #ThePorticoPrize and what it means to to be a writer in northern England.
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❤️this lovely news.
Ho-ho-holy crap. IRONOPOLIS has made the #PorticoPrize shortlist. This is a real honour, especially as the other books are already some of my favourites. Going to have a sit down now...
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This powerful memoir by @jennashworth captures so viscerally how trauma can immobilize and derail the present, and is so innovative and expansive in its exploration of all that fiction can’t convey.
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Testament by @kimtsherwood has left me moved and impressed and covetous of her exquisite prose. Such a nuanced and intelligent excavation of generational trauma. Will resonate in my thoughts for a while to come.
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'Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness.' Public lecture I gave on the themes of my new book at @trivago HQ in Dusseldorf. Published Aug 15, pre-order now. #consciousness #panpsychism
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Loved #BlackCarBurning by @HelenMort. Such stunning evocation of the urban & natural landscapes around Sheffield, and compassionate insight into the complexities of human relationships, trauma and trust.
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