📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱

Chief Exec @writerscentre / Hon FRSL / trustee: Age UK Norwich & @openbookreading / 💜s ~ books, radio, whimsy, outdoors + himself. she/her

[📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 @HughesPeg]

I’m giving bluesky a try! 👋🏼⛅️

https://t.co/btMzxojOSh

[William Crawley @williamcrawley]

As a professional interviewer, I feel his pain.

[📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 @HughesPeg]

Just wow 💜 Dundee: you’re some place for one place ❤️‍🔥

[Waterstones Dundee @WstonesDundee]

Our wishing tree is finished for another year - our tenth!! A huge thank you to Moira and Elaine who wrapped e every gift, and to everyone who spent their time and money taking part. Every year we are blown away by your generosity 🎄🎁❤️

[National Centre for Writing @WritersCentre]

Dear friends,

We’re stepping back from Twitter/X, but the conversation continues! Join us on Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. 🌐 Find all the details here: https://t.co/Dwv2ep1bbb

#StayConnected #KeepWriting

[📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 @HughesPeg]

@beccaleigh99 @elaine_canning @britishlibrary @michaelmagee__ @beingvarious God Rebecca it’s some book

[📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 @HughesPeg]

@elaine_canning @britishlibrary @michaelmagee__ @beingvarious 😘

[Elaine Canning @elaine_canning]

Loved this session today @britishlibrary on ‘Belfast and Beyond’ - part of the #irishwritersweekend 📚📚 @michaelmagee__ @beingvarious & Aimee Walsh were all fantastic, plus gorgeous chairing from @HughesPeg 📚📚💚

[National Centre for Writing @WritersCentre]

Our popular Publishing Fair returns for Christmas! 🎄 Come along to meet publishers and writers from the region, stock up on gifts, and enjoy short talks on the publishing industry.

Sat 7 December, 10am–4pm, NCW, free & drop-in.

Find out more: https://t.co/o3fHV8gLu3

[Creative Arts East @CreativArtsEast]

Launching this week at all 47 Norfolk Libraries! 🌍 In partnership with @NorfolkLibs, we're excited to share a multi-lingual poetry project featuring acclaimed poets @george_szirtes & @marjorielotfi commissioned by @WritersCentre 📗 Find out more 👇 https://t.co/dWIpGaNmqA

[📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 @HughesPeg]

GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE!

https://t.co/BWTYLbFFeG

[Waterstones Dundee @WstonesDundee]

Our wishing tree is back in store! We are working with Dundee Carers Centre and Leisure and Culture Dundee to give customers a chance to buy a gift for a young carer in Dundee. The tree will be here until Saturday 14th December 🎄📚🎁

[📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 @HughesPeg]

@WstonesDundee @Dundee_Carers @YoungCarersDun1 @LACDundee @ElaineSLSDundee THE BEST NEWS!

[Waterstones @Waterstones]

Just announced! Samantha Harvey wins the #BookerPrize2024 for Orbital, her deeply human saga of six astronauts in space, which combines an urgent message about the state of our planet with luminous hope and a refusal to sink into despair: https://t.co/g6ay9IK84f

[Noreen Masud @NoreenMasud]

lost my purse on the Elizabeth line between Tottenham Court Road and Paddington, it looks like this, if you find it let me know, if you see someone cackling over it and rolling in a pile of my cards…pls punch them I guess

[The Museum of Curiosities @CuriosMuseum]

Woohoo!

[Norwich Book Festival @BookFestNorwich]

📣 It's your last chance to take our visitor survey and be in with a chance of winning a £50 National Book Token! 📚

What do you want to see at future Norwich Book Festivals? 🤔📖 Tell us at: https://t.co/ZLNxLqmZU1

[📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 @HughesPeg]

I realise not everyone who would like to can donate blood (& in my most recent visits I’ve not been able to) but if you can and would like to then please consider doing so. Successful trip for me today! Thanks Team Mercure ❤️

[📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 @HughesPeg]

(IMMENSE NEWS reaches me that the @WstonesDundee Wishing Tree (in which shoppers can gift a book for a young carer in Dundee to open at Christmas) is BACK for 2024 ❤️: launching on Friday 15th Nov. More news as I have it!)

[New Yorker Fiction @NYerFiction]

This week's fiction is "Heavy Snow" by Han Kang (translated, from the Korean, by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris). https://t.co/p1z1m1FP64

[📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 @HughesPeg]

Full programme thonder for @britishlibrary's Irish Writers' Weekend, 22nd-24th November. Cracking line up! So many friends + heroes in one place. You'll find me chairing Aimée Walsh, Lucy Caldwell & Michael Magee (and in the audience for everything else)

https://t.co/CtNKpmmwql

[📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 @HughesPeg]

@JackieKayPoet happy Jackie Kay Day!