Riley Rockford

Not here: on Bluesky instead now!! Common People anthology • Essay at n+1• Runner Up Boulevard 2023 Nonfic Contest • Rep:@AbiRFellows • Insta: rileyrockford

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

@ihussainwriter @dawn_com @unbounders Wonderful! 😍

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

@louise__powell @bookishelise @NewWritingNorth Ahh thank you Louise - I’m a huge fan of you as a person and as a writer - and can’t wait to see what happens with the novel!! 🙏🏼✨

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

“Still, but ever-changing; natural, but human-made; new, but as it once was.” A salt marsh created by nature + human ingenuity combined, conservationists + locals together.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

A "giant science experiment" to combat flooding in southwestern England might offer a blueprint for how some parts of Britain — and the rest of the world — could adapt to the reality of climate change. https://t.co/x2UNgjmdgw

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

@knightjennyk @akan_books @HarperCollinsUK @HQstories Ah Jenny this is just wonderful, so so happy for you. Beautiful title for your debut, can’t wait to see it out in the world 😍 I’m so pleased to hear of your full heart and wish you a fabulous experience ahead! Massively well done 🥂🥂🥂🙋🏻‍♀️❤️ You did it!!!! xxx

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

“Normal People and Kairos are told from perspectives that maintain a clear voice even when they shift to other characters, building intense, closed worlds that appear to open for love.”

[The London Magazine @TheLondonMag]

'Focusing on speech marks alone overlooks what novels can do in their absence. What if ambiguity is the point?'

@mcpherk on Sally Rooney and speech marks, or lack thereof.

Read here: https://t.co/kM1KhUS7Vs

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

@ihussainwriter OMG I love this!!! Wonderful, so happy for you ❤️

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

@ihussainwriter My friend actually bought a DVD! But I think it’s on Amazon / Disney+ also though I don’t have those

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

It’s giving Sontag.
So I’ve just used the link to preorder the issue 🙏🏼

[Kira McPherson @mcpherk]

I wrote an essay on speech marks that will be in the next issue of @TheLondonMag 🌞

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

@mcpherk @TheLondonMag I AM SEATED

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

@ihussainwriter @NationalTheatre @LawrencePatrice @unbounders 😮🥳💐

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Letter from Félix González-Torres to Ross Laycock, his partner. The two met at Boy Bar in the East Village. González-Torres' figurated love-time in relation to Laycock's HIV diagnosis. The AIDS crisis killed both. Homophobic public health is part of PRIDE's history.

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

@ihussainwriter @rcaskie1 @unbounders @m_constantinoux @aliyagulamani ❤️🩷🩵💚💐💐💐💐 So wonderful! xx

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

“Now there’s this culture … without nuance— “it’s all or nothing” thinking. The same judgment evangelicals show the world is also being shown to religious people. There’s no understanding or nuance” @anna_gazmarian on writing “from a place of kindness instead of condemnation.”

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

@AbiRFellows That sounds so good!!

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

@TangledRoots1 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

Brilliant piece of writing - finely-crafted language, and movement between front and interiority, plus skilful dialect, energy, character and vivid realness 👇🏻

[Granta @GrantaMag]

‘A know a can hit someone in a boxen scenario an a know a can fight when it’s self-defence, but a’ve had fuck all experience wid an unsuspecten target. An that’s what a need te prepare for.’

New fiction from Shaun Wilson.
https://t.co/rUzfzzke3N

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

@smw_writing @lukeneima @NorthumbriaUni @nbcdtp @Andrew__Crumey @ProfKatyShaw @SemiotextePress Oh I LOVE to see it! Massive congratulations, so exciting ✨👏🏼❤️

[Riley Rockford @RockfordRiley]

@EmmaPurshouse @fuscowriting 🙋🏻‍♀️ xx