DD Johnston

Novelist & stay-at-home dad. "Bringing light to a dark world" - The FT. "One of the country's most important left-wing fiction writers"- The Morning Star.

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

Really chuffed with this book. Cover by @jasonanscomb, published by @BarbicanPress1, story by the grace of God. Out July 2022. Another world is possible👊

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

@AndrejevicSenja Thank you for coming 🙏 It was great to see you there!

[Senja Andrejevic @AndrejevicSenja]

Last night I went to a Cheltenham Lit Fest event organised by the Gloucestershire Writers Network, to hear my colleague Mike D. D. Johnston read from his new novel “Disnaeland”. Such a funny, brilliant novel. It’s a privilege to work alongside writers such as Mike!

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

@Edmund_Hurst I'm sure I will!

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

@richardmskemp @BarbicanPress1 Lovely stuff! 🙏

[Working Class Literature @workingclasslit]

Just the absolute realest

[Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸 @itranslate123]

If I must die, let it be a tale.

#FreePalestine
#Gaza

[Brunel UCU #nocompulsoryredundancies @BrunelUCU]

Another fantastic @BrunelUCU raffle prize!

Signed copy of @dd_johnston's latest novel, Disnaeland: "an uplifting story about the end of the world"

Tickets £3, don't forget to buy one here before the raffle closes 18th November! https://t.co/2SjBghotGA

@UCU #ucuRISING

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

Haunting, moving, brilliantly clever - @MartinGoodman2 's Stradivarius of a novel is here restrung. Have a listen!

[Barbican Press @BarbicanPress1]

THE CELLIST OF DACHAU OUT NOW!

This powerful historical fiction is a 'masterful' novel of music and the Holocaust. @MartinGoodman2 weaves a tale that spans generations.

https://t.co/ZfX6SXj2Ip

[Barbican Press @BarbicanPress1]

The Luckiest Thirteen by @brianlavery59 is out NEXT MONTH. Brian brings us a powerful true story of disaster and courage. Pre-order now!

https://t.co/U0Du8bN7rq

[Ben Beck 💙 @BenSE14]

@anarchy_sf Just finished @dd_johnston
's Disnaeland, which I highly recommend, and have added to https://t.co/5QGLQciRab. Also, don't miss his page on the role of anarchism in fiction - https://t.co/5klICESzVE

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

@BenSE14 @jasonanscomb @BarbicanPress1 Cheers, Ben. That's very kind and greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

Really chuffed with this book. Cover by @jasonanscomb, published by @BarbicanPress1, story by the grace of God. Out July 2022. Another world is possible👊

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

Farewell #Cheltenham and thank you. 17 years, some pain and sadness, but enough love and laughter to fill a lifetime. Thanks to everyone who has lit up my life here.

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

@MartinGoodman2 That sounds absolutely terrifying, Martin! I'm so glad you're all right and that you will soon be home. Please take good care.

PS I imagine this happening to an Iggy Pop soundtrack

https://t.co/KDodr7I28q

[Jean McNeil @jeanmcneilwrite]

Of the 36 academic jobs to be cut @uniofeastanglia 31 are in the Humanities. No discipline will be spared, we are told. We have many strengths in HUM. I run the world-famous Creative Writing programme. This is us in Sept 2022 in Zimbabwe, with new writers. @uealdc changes lives.

[Barbican Press @BarbicanPress1]

The Fisherman of Lake Tana
~ @JamesThorntonCE
From his Waymarks poetry collection

Waymarks is out in the UK now, and launches in the USA on 23rd May...

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

@workingclasslit I would dig in and fight for the functional importance of speculative writing!

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

✊️

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I hate dystopian fiction for many reasons, but primarily because it causes people to imagine a hypothetical dystopia in the future or in an alternate timeline instead of looking at our real life dystopia right here and now. Forget dystopian fiction, give me dystopian journalism.

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

@workingclasslit Aye - agreed, in so far as that's definitely what dystopian fiction *should* do. But in an ideological climate of fear and defeatism, maybe they communicate something else?

[DD Johnston @dd_johnston]

@JerryBurn Thank you! ✊️