Jo Dutton

Committing crimes to paper 📝 @wellslitfest 2nd 25, @writementor mentee 23, NID HM 22, Yeovil Children’s Book SL 22, Stafford Litfest winner 20,

[Jo Dutton @JoelyDutton]

It’s not rainy and grey - it’s the height of summer ☀️

I’m still here in Italy with my favourites and our roof hasn’t revealed a big, leaky hole the insurance company won’t cover.

Oh look, here’s Dougray Scott at my door with a biscoff cheesecake!

[Jo Dutton @JoelyDutton]

Beauty creams love advertising retinol this, hyaluronic that. Remember when they used to tout BOSWELOX? Actually seriously called it boswelox.

Which turned out to do nothing, prophetically.

[Olaf Falafel @OFalafel]

Sam Matterface’s full name is Sam Matter You Hey Gotta No Respect What-a You T'ink You Do Why You Look-a So Sad It's-a Not So Bad It's-a Nice-a Place Ah Shaddap-a You Face.

[Scholastic @Scholastic]

Looking for fun summer activities? 🏄☀️

Dav Pilkey’s Epic Comic Club is the spot where kids can get creative from June through August with new updates every week!

Check it out at https://t.co/xwTlc6DtwM 💥

@GraphixBooks @scholasticcda @ScholasticUK @ScholasticAUS

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

Minimum wage in 2005 was £5.05 an hour.

A Freddo cost 10p.

One hour of work bought you 50 Freddos.

In 2026, minimum wage is £12.71 and a Freddo is 39p.

One hour of work now buys you just 32 Freddos.

So despite minimum wage more than doubling, your Freddo buying power has fallen by 36%.

If wages had actually kept pace with Freddo inflation, minimum wage would be £19.65 an hour today.

Forget economists. Forget politicians.

The Freddo has just delivered the most depressing cost of living graph you'll ever see.

[National Literacy Trust @Literacy_Trust]

📢Good news! 📢

Our latest research shows a modest upturn in children and young people's reading engagement in 2026.

This is positive, but we must keep going to embed reading into their everyday lives.

Find out more about the work we're doing: https://t.co/iWdTYe4Xq6

[Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet]

I’m often asked for a direct link to one of your stories after it’s been published. You can now search for your story by date and it will display in a similar fashion to the daily page. Copy the complete URL from the browser to share your story to others. https://t.co/0gl8iiWECx

[goma @soigomaa]

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through a fungal network. Where octopuses dream.
Where elephants return to the bones of the deceased and stand over them in silence. Where bees use dance to communicate where to fly and where the flower is.
Where crows remember the faces of people who were cruel to them and pass this memory to their children.
Where ants build cities. Where cats purr at a frequency that accelerates the healing of bones.
Where, after a forest fire, the first thing the earth does is grow flowers.

[Jo Dutton @JoelyDutton]

The pram though? Festooned with serpents?
I have questions.

[Jo Dutton @JoelyDutton]

As did their library. Wouldn’t mind a room like this.

[Jo Dutton @JoelyDutton]

As did their library. Wouldn’t mind a room like this.

[Jo Dutton @JoelyDutton]

Chatsworth’s House of Stories has rare books on display. I’m a sucker for a spredge so these marbled edge 1850s editions of Shakespeare & Milton caught my eye.

[Jo Dutton @JoelyDutton]

Chatsworth’s House of Stories has rare books on display. I’m a sucker for a spredge so these marbled edge 1850s editions of Shakespeare & Milton caught my eye.

[I Am In Print @IAmInPrint]

The 2026 I Am Writing Competitions are OPEN! Submit your entries across 12 categories by 14 May.

Fantastic prizes - including a week’s writing retreat on a Greek island! And agent and publisher feedback.

Enter here:
https://t.co/ozf9enkGrp

#writingcommunity #writingcompetitions

[Jo Dutton @JoelyDutton]

@EyersJonathan @SapereBooks Congratulations Jonathan, I look forward to reading!

[Jonathan Eyers @EyersJonathan]

Today @SapereBooks publish the first in my salty new series of maritime adventures, Tenacious.

I may have been trying to rewrite "24" set on a ship in the 1770s...

For a limited time the ebook version is at a pretty nifty discount too: https://t.co/pgwOcswOhw

[Jo Dutton @JoelyDutton]

@AdaraWrites Love this Adara - I have desk envy! 😍The cat bed is genius. Mine here wants to sit on the keyboard or on any notepads. Writing saboteur 🐈‍⬛

[Jo Dutton @JoelyDutton]

@Joelarcanjo It’s really refreshing for all ages to be as invested - Zero disagreement for family viewing!

[Jo Dutton @JoelyDutton]

Five episodes in with my ten-year-old and we agree - Crookhaven is by far the best thing we’ve watched in ages. Absolute ‘we could just not bother sleeping and watch some more’ TV 🙌🏻

Bravo @Joelarcanjo - #Crookhaven is gripping and brilliant. We’re loving every minute!

[The Blair Partnership @TBP_agency]

Term at Crookhaven has started and you are invited…

All 8 episodes of #Crookhaven are available to stream now on BBC iPlayer!! 👀

Also available to watch on BBC One and CBBC ⭐️

#BBC #CBBC

[I Am In Print @IAmInPrint]

They’re back! For the 5th year running! The I Am Writing Competitions open on Monday 30 March - get ready! ⏰

Full details:
https://t.co/S0kVDE9T17

[The Blair Partnership @TBP_agency]

You’ve never seen a school like this… 👀

CROOKHAVEN the TV series is about to change your life 😲. Coming soon to CBBC, BBC iPlayer and BBC One.

#Crookhaven #BBC #CBBC

[Jo Dutton @JoelyDutton]

@frankcottrell_b My son can’t wait to get this with his world book day voucher!

His year 5 class are reading Cosmic together at the moment, which he loves as he has your signed copy at home and gets to re-read with his friends.

Looking forward to reading Blockbusters! 🎞️🪶🦑