Matthew Wake

Owner @Bookscubed, bamboo botherer, bookseller, budgie fancier
'The sun rises inspite of everything'

[Matthew Wake @_MattWake]

@guardian Do you see why you're part of the problem?

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@TheBookerPrizes Prophet Song!

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@SReadBooks Followed by, "I'm so glad to see you're still in business!"

[EastLondonLines @eastlondonlines]

This small press publishes Nobel laureates, but still has two feet in Deptford.

@FitzcarraldoEds talk about the Deptford Literature Festival, winning the Goldsmiths Prize and the problem with UK publishing

https://t.co/tOJedpZx7C

[Farhana Shaikh 🍉 @farhanashaikh]

✍📚 After reading 230+ short stories (up to 4k) as a first reader for a national UK comp here's what I learnt about what seems to work and what doesn't in #shortstory writing (just some thoughts not set rules):

[Matthew Wake @_MattWake]

Where I am in the submission process.

[Matthew Wake @_MattWake]

Finished the wonderful Once Upon a Tome by @Sotherans @deathbybadger. Bookselling at its eccentric best; wry, knowing, ultimately accepting. He reminds you it's a privilege to walk into a bookshop in the morning and turn on the lights. The office that admits anyone.

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@Sotherans has a book out! Ordered it from my local independent bookseller (i.e. myself). Speed towards me little book.

[Patrick Walsh @Walsh_e_Patrick]

“Beneath the bemusement and occasionally explosive irritation, there is a very kindly book here, about unlikely friendships and little epiphanies”

Stuart Kelly in Scotsman on Oliver Darkshire’s ONCE UPON A TOME, a fond portrait of working at Sotherans

https://t.co/fuJL00mKr1

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@ShoalsFest @bandcalledwanda I think you've got the wrong @_MattWake, but best of luck to @bandcalledwanda anyway x

[Alice White @poetalicewhite]

It took me until this year, age 41, to work up the brazenness it takes to submit to the Poetry Review, the brazenness I had in spades as a little girl. Thank you forever @AndreBagoo @iamrichardscott @PoetrySociety

[Matthew Wake @_MattWake]

@oniacler Hi Caroline. I've just sent you a message. Reply here if you haven't got it! Matt

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@oniacler Cool! Drop me a line when you're passing!

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Printed and complete for the first time. One. Last. Read through.

[Matthew Wake @_MattWake]

@ClareODeaZ I went through this too. Life was much easier when, after a long time thinking about it, I defined for myself the meaning of 'wealth'.