v excited to have a story published by @factoryintl this week as part of a folk horror series from emerging northern writers. (it’s me! i am emerging!)🪄
here it is:
https://t.co/f8O6y2JlZm
Manchester Metropolitan University Creative Writing Masters students Beth Barker and Abby Walker have had short stories published in @DeadInkBooks’ “Motives Unknown” crime writing anthology. They will be reading at an event in Stockport on 6 May: https://t.co/epZWVfjXML
An airstrike in Gaza hit a hospital courtyard on Monday, burning tents where people were sleeping.
Strikes also hit an @UNRWA school where families were sheltering. The location was meant to be used as a polio vaccination site.
A ceasefire is urgently needed to stop the devastation.
00:32 on a friday night and just reached the episode of waterloo road where tom clarkson dies. a northern hero, a working class socialist, a dreamy book reader.
i’m now staring at the ceiling, officially dead inside.
perfect friday morning reading: this essay on celia dale, queen of domestic horror and mundane nastiness❤️🔥
v excited for another celia banger from @DauntBooksPub this sept
https://t.co/4ITB6LKJmG
it is sooo interesting how in a decade YA fiction has gone from being a space for young people to navigate the experience and pressures of being a t(w)een to like...a lazy comfort blanket for fully grown adults who have convinced themselves of their moral superiority.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer's Cabinet has the lowest percentage of privately educated members ever, with just 1 person (4%) compared to 63% in Rishi Sunak's Cabinet