Sarah Crown

National Director of Communication @ace_national (maternity cover). The views expressed here are personal, and not those of Arts Council England

[Xan Brooks @XanBrooks]

My second novel, The Catchers, is out today. A dark tale for dark times that just happens to be set in 1920s America. Contains moonshine, mountain music, & human oddities. Step right up 🪕https://t.co/G94xSzRDAn

[Xan Brooks @XanBrooks]

This review of The Catchers by the one & only Sandra Newman makes me wonder if I've ever had a better review for anything, like ever, in my life. Dumbstruck, disorientated, completely undone
https://t.co/AaCdRjQAAa

[Sarah Crown @Sarah_Crown]

What a poem; what an astonishing poet. RIP John Burnside - it was an honour to know you.

[Darren Henley CBE @HENLEYDARREN]

Changing lives one story at a time: @GrimmAndCo - a remarkable, awe inspiring @ace_national #NPO in #Rotherham. A privilege to look round their magical new home today. Their excellent work now leads the way, influencing other literacy organisations around the world #LetsCreate

[Arts Council England @ace_national]

📚 "Reading with a child sets off fireworks in their brains" 🎆

@BookTrust's Chief Executive, Diana Gerald MBE, took a moment to tell us about what books and stories mean to them, and why they are so important for our children’s future
👇
https://t.co/OV90oFu22R
#LetsCreate

[Sarah Crown @Sarah_Crown]

@shattenstone God, Simon, this is awful. She was great - your obit captures her perfectly. x

[Sarah Crown @Sarah_Crown]

@JohnJCrace John!! Good grief. So glad you’re on the mend. Much love xxx

[Sarah Crown @Sarah_Crown]

@DrJamesJBailey Have been thinking all day about the time our youngest dressed up as Iris Apfel in the kids’ bit of a jazz age exhibition at the @AmericanMuseum

[Sarah Crown @Sarah_Crown]

@meg_clothier I feel like Eowyn’s arc is our go-to doubleheader

[Sarah Crown @Sarah_Crown]

Good question to encounter on a day when I've spent quite a long time pondering the fact that I've been thinking about 'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening' on and off for nigh-on 30 years(!), and yet more I think about it, the stranger, wilder, and less explicable it becomes.

[Tara Skurtu @TaraSkurtu]

Which poems calm you?
(Please include links if online.)

[Sarah Crown @Sarah_Crown]

@lizmuseums I was thinking about getting this for my stepdaughter this year! Thank you!!

[SF Said @whatSFSaid]

"Reading print improves comprehension more than looking at digital text, say researchers." True! And I think that's one reason why kids still LOVE physical books. They can get totally absorbed in the world of a book, with no distractions, unlike a screen!
https://t.co/Q3lDhFzzco

[Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrell_b]

Time to revisit this masterpiece of suspense and cheer. One of the gretest ever Christmas stories.

[Sarah Crown @Sarah_Crown]

@frankcottrell_b This is just wonderful. It's caught me at a wobbly moment, and I'm now welling up on the sofa x

[Sarah Crown @Sarah_Crown]

@DrJamesJBailey oh MY

[Sarah Crown @Sarah_Crown]

@MayaCPopa Surely Advice to a Discarded Lover by Fleur Adcock? "Go away until your bones are clean"... https://t.co/VlWUnoiYKw

[Arts Council England, North @ace_thenorth]

We’re proud to support the @Literacy_Trust Connecting Stories project which transforms people’s access to literature and reading:

➡️ Read our blog with one of the Literacy Champions https://t.co/HFQHWKst27

➡️ Read the latest evaluation of the project https://t.co/NvWhYd1gNI

[Sarah Crown @Sarah_Crown]

Dream. Job.

[Arvon Totleigh Barton @TotleighBarton]

We're hiring! Arvon is recruiting for a Deputy Director to manage the day-to-day operations of Totleigh Barton, our Devon writing house. 30 hours pw, £27,725 pro rata, based in Devon. Apply by 8 November. https://t.co/mItfIC21vM

[Sarah Crown @Sarah_Crown]

Proud of @XanBrooks all the time; cranking that up a notch today

[Xan Brooks @XanBrooks]

Cover reveal for my second novel, THE CATCHERS, which contains floodwater & music & mountains & crooks. A road (& boat) trip adventure through 1920s America. Out next year with the excellent @saltpublishing

[John Self is now on Bluesky @john_self]

“You're looking for one detail that lights up the page: one line to perturb or challenge the reader, make him feel acknowledged, yet estranged.”

“Acknowledged, yet estranged”! Put that above every writer’s desk.

Me on Mantel’s “final book” (huh! I bet):

https://t.co/OrW6czWAIm