Peter Jordan PhD

Short story collection 'Calls To Distant Places'
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio Ulster
Fish 2nd place, Bridport Shortlist, etc
50+ stories published
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[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

Today, I got my doctorate. I started it back in 2009. Took a year out in 2010 because I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Was then diagnosed with ADHD & autism - took a further 5 years out. And now, all of 15 years later, I finally got it. Hardest thing I’ve ever done. Never give up!

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

50 great #shortstories chosen by Hilary Mantel
https://t.co/ivLhiSt9vB

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

I had a writer - that I don't know - send me his novel. He asked me to look at it. I did, free and gratis. I read it the way a literary agent would. It wasn't ready. His reply was to defend every edit: every overuse of adjective and adverb, every spelling mistake. Never again!

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

SPOOF. INJUSTICE. THE AMERICAN DECLINE.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

THE SYMBOL OF HOPE.

TRUTH. JUSTICE. THE AMERICAN WAY.

SUPERMAN TRUMP. 🇺🇸

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

@JMCoetzee Hello John, i think someone is using your name and picture for a fake account on the social media platform bluesky.

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

@Doug_D_Stuart Hello Douglas - i believe someone is impersonating you with a fake account on bluesky. The account is in your name, with a pic: @douglasstuart.bsky.social. They have offered to introduce me to a book promoter. I'm just letting you know 👍

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

@DonaldJTrumj coward

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

I'm in Anatalya on a writing retreat.

#writing #freedom

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

@ShannonSavvas Aigh! I'm sorry to hear that, Shannon. Life gets in the way of our vocation sometimes. You'll be back better and stronger. I wish you a speedy recovery from both Covid and the knee replacement. A good writer told me silence is good. But it's hell going through it.

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

I was writing almost daily for 25 years, a career writer, got Covid in January 22. My GP sent me to hospital. I stopped writing for 2 years. But I’ve started again. Baby steps. Thank you God 🙏

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

@ocallaghanac Good to hear from you, Amanda.

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

@LCramer29 Thanks Lori.

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

@polyscribe2 Cheers Mike 👍

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

@KevinSpacey The men interviewed in the C4 documentary are wholly believable — they are being themselves. You, on the other hand, appear to be acting.

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

@lapis_lazuli11 If you're sending an 'idea' then the agent has nothing to go on apart from your following. I wouldn't pitch anything until I'd completed an absolutely nailed final draft - professionally edited. If the writing and/or story is good enough then they wont even ask about a platform.

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

@FrankOnTheRadio Why the long face?

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

One of the most common ways voters spoiled their ballots was by writing Alexey Navalny’s name on them in an act of protest against his murder and a fitting tribute to his memory

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

Do something kind today. Follow this lady.

[Yulia Navalnaya @yulia_navalnaya]

Спасибо огромное вам, прекрасные, лучшие люди, которые простояли со мной сегодня с 12 дня целых 6 часов бок о бок в очереди на избирательный участок. Спасибо, что подходили - плакали, смеялись. Спасибо, что бесконечно кричали «Юля, мы с тобой» и «Навальный» и говорили мне, что я вернула вам надежду. На самом деле всё, конечно, наоборот, это не я вам, а вы мне даете надежду, что все не напрасно, что мы ещё поборемся. Спасибо всем вам, кто выходил в каждом городе по всему миру. Вы и есть моя поддержка и опора. Люблю вас всех очень.

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

The US Republican party is playing politics with the lives of the men, women, and children of Ukraine. Shame on them.

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

My writing retreat, Inishowen. Blessed.

[Peter Jordan PhD @PM_Jordan]

I found a little robin. His feet were caught up in fishing line and weed. He's fine now! What a pleasure.