Alison Jean Lester

Novelist, memoirist

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

@DaveGreen1963 @IMcMillan You possess genius.

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

A helpful gift shopping algorithm that I made for @GuardianBooks a couple of years ago.

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

#memoir openings expressing a strong sense of place, one by Karen Blixen, one by @catrinawriter. Follow me for more! Better yet, attend my workshop!
@writingwestmids #memoirwriting #writingworkshop #onlineworkshop

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

A second pair of #memoir openings for you!
@writingwestmids #memoirwriting #writingworkshop @gracedent #richardflanaganquestionseven #bedhead

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

@writingwestmids Currently listening to Middlemarch, wonderfully read by Juliet Stevenson.

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

@IgniteBooks @GlynBrwn_Period Great interview. Just mentioned her in my own post!

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

Workshop klaxon! I'll be running a memoir-writing adventure for five weeks beginning 19 Jan, organised by @writingwestmids. Bring YOUR story and let's figure out the various ways you might tell it!
#memoir #memoirwriting @GlynBrwn_Period @IgniteBooks

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

TFW your book feels relevant to someone you greatly admire.
#endoflifechoices

[Carolyn Robb @Carolynxmorris]

Supremely well written, touching, loving and frank: now we’re all thinking more about death, what we don’t say, and what we wish to say and be: this book is a marvellous, thought provoking account by ⁦@A_J_Lester⁩

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

@Carolynxmorris Thank you so much for reading and posting, Carolyn!

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

@writingwestmids How characters, above all narrators, justify things to themselves, is eternally fascinating to me.

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

@Pevalwen thought of you yesterday in the Scents corner of the @BarberInstitute. Press one for a meadow...

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

@cmillerartlife @RCPhysicians Thank you so much of raising my awareness so regularly! 🙏

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

@ShaunHandAuthor You can have a look on Eventbrite for similar course and see how they are organised. Also look at what Jericho Writers and Writing West Midlands are offering, and see where you have something different to offer?

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

@ruth_millington

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

TFW you get to read alongside writers you've only known on Twitter. Another very interesting evening thanks to @LinenPressBooks. (Thanks @Heatherika1 for documenting
!)

[Heather Child @Heatherika1]

Fabulous Bristol launch of @LinenPressBooks anthology SKEINS with @AliBacon @A_J_Lester @Dash2Mona @CathBarton1 & more #shortfiction https://t.co/rUByPrV3ic

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

Missed the northern launch of Skeins, fiction by women? Get to Bristol this evening for the southwest gig! Can't wait to listen to more of the 24 authors included, and to read from 'Siren' again! 7pm at The Robin Hood.

[Linen Press @LinenPressBooks]

Missed out on our Sheffield launch? Fear not!

Watch the brilliant @A_J_Lester read an excerpt from 'Siren', one of the fantastic short stories included in our anthology SKEINS 💜💜💜

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

Very excited for this! I love reading to readers and reading with writers. @HelenSheppard7 might you be able to attend?

[Linen Press @LinenPressBooks]

Mark your calendars... one more week ...

We will have copies of SKEINS at the launch and I'm sure the lovely authors in attendance would love to sign your copy. 💜💜💜

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

@halekatie @agent_luck @CWAgencyUK Other people's coping mechanisms are unlikely to be yours, so how about I ask you this: what do you know, deep down, is the solution for you? You're asking us this question from high up in your chest. Ask it to your deep, rich gut. ❤️

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

Reading an excerpt from my #shortstory 'Siren', included in the new anthology of women's writing from @LinenPressBooks. You can buy SKEINS from their website now!
#shortstorycollection #indiepress

[Alison Jean Lester @A_J_Lester]

Getting ready for the Sheffield launch of SKEINS, a short story anthology from @LinenPressBooks, with Sally Jay Morgan, @susanclegg, @RocheJacques, and Jess Richards.
#shortstories #womensfiction