Will Tosh
@will_tosh
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INACTIVE ACCOUNT. Author of STRAIGHT ACTING @SceptreBooks @SealPress https://t.co/32AvNWG5am Dir of Education @The_Globe. Rep’d by @rcwlitagency.
London
Joined October 2013
Happy to announce I've founded a new prize for UK writers - the RSL Scriptorium Awards - which offers my pension-investment cottage on the Kent coast to writers for free for up to a month each. Applications open Spring 2025. A jury will choose the writers & I will have zero
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@will_tosh delves into the significance of Shakespeare's focus on queerness in this wonderful piece featured in @TIME! STRAIGHT ACTING is available now! Read the entire @TIME piece here ↴
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Shakespeare’s culture and society made much more space for the articulation of same-sex desire than we might expect.
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What a privilege to be talking to these brilliant artists and community builders @The_Globe. Do join us as for what l am sure is bound to be an important conversation! Plus, it's free to attend!
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Join the experts as they explore the heritage and future of South Asian Shakespeares in Britain. Part of Shakespeare and Race Festival.
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Nonsense. We have wonderful tradition of charming, classic celebrity children's books. Who can ever forget Just So Hot Right Now Stories The VIP Garden The Lion, the Witch and the NDA Five On Love Island Harry Potter and the Influencer's Stone
‘It’s quite galling’: children’s authors frustrated by rise in celebrity-penned titles
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.@will_tosh's STRAIGHT ACTING is a "bold and fearless book.” Read more on @HistoryToday ⤵️
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What a brilliant week about to unspool @The_Globe - our fourth Shakespeare and Race festival on 'Who Owns Shakespeare?' We've got stellar poetry, powerful talks, behind-the-curtain Q&As, an A Level study boost and a two-day symposium #shakerace
https://t.co/9XFuW4oYPH
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No one needs to read this. Please support proper books by people who have something to say. Like this one! https://t.co/ZBfNDyFVgV (Other proper books are available.)
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What can I add, but to say it’s his best yet and everyone must instantly buy it.
Grinning with vampiric glee that @kittyempire666 has selected #Midnight Treasure as an @ObsNewReview Chapter Book of the Month! 🧛♂️🐺🙏
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In which I start a casting call for the queer chorus line of history… #StraightActing
https://t.co/ZBfNDyFVgV
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Listen to content by Will Tosh.
"My standout queer hero is William Shakespeare," writes @will_tosh
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I bring glad tidings! You can get good seats for a bargainous £25 to see the great @anneodeke ’s PRINCESS ESSEX @The_Globe - do not miss the latest new play with huge heart from an eye-popping talent:
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‘Large lime and soda please’, or ‘tell me you’re using this pub as a waiting room without telling me you’re using this pub as a waiting room’.
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📚Book giveaway!📚 @FolgerLibrary and @SealPress have got three signed copies of #StraightActing to hand out FOR FREE to some lucky US residents!
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🎙️@FolgerLibrary very wisely don’t post much on here anymore, but I was super bucked to be interviewed on their brilliant Shakespeare Unlimited podcast about #StraightActing 🎙️ https://t.co/QkEXQ8sFfN
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Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore....
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*JOB KLAXON* The @V_and_A is currently recruiting for a Curator of Theatre to join the Theatre & Performance Curatorial Team. Deadline: 3 Nov 2024. Full details: https://t.co/c5alDx9E9e
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In 1952 my grandfather William Clarke started work as a turbine operator at Bankside Power Station. So it’s a special honour to see this view from my desk as I begin a new job as interim Director of Education (Higher Education & Research) at the glorious @The_Globe ❤️⭕️
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Full house at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse for the summit on English GCSE reform hosted by @The_Globe and @EnglishAssoc
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Delighted for my phenomenal agent @eleanorbirne as she joins @rcwlitagency after a wonderful time with @pew_literary
https://t.co/cJd2SVtt2F
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RCW Literary Agency has announced that Eleanor Birne has joined the company as a literary agent.
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And the TLS would like it known my book is a ‘feat of public scholarship’ not - as is also fair enough, let’s be honest - a ‘fear’!
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