shelley hastings

Writer | Producer | Arts & Dementia @resonatearts | Winner: Seán Ó Faoláin Prize & Aurora Prize | Finalist Mcr Fiction Prize | 👉

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

My story ‘Small Bad Things’ which came third in @themothmagazine short story prize published in Irish times today 😎

[Irish Times Culture @IrishTimesCultr]

Small Bad Things by Shelley Hastings https://t.co/Brk9xY0BJK via @IrishTimesCultr

[Desperate Literature @DesperateLit]

We are exceptionally proud of this year's writers and we hope you'll enjoy their work.

Eleven Stories 2025 is available for pre-order (and you can get the pdf today!):
https://t.co/7J7MRepJ3o

[Desperate Literature @DesperateLit]

THE 2025 SHORTLIST:
"Generous, soulful distillations. A tasting flight of prosaic kerosene. Each story ignited a flare in a forsaken corner of my mind. I can’t wait to experience more from these voices." —Henry Hoke, judge

Get the pdf and pre-order the book on our website!

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

We are nearly there! Every donation doubled for next three days ❤️👇👇👇

[Resonate Arts @ResonateArts]

🎶 Double the impact, double the joy!
Donations made before 12pm on 30 June will be matched — helping us hit our £5,000 goal to support Singing with Friends, our dementia-friendly choir.

Your kindness brings connection, creativity & community.

👉 Donate: https://t.co/lD9zARGH6O

[Bristol Short Story Prize @BristolPrize]

It wasn’t part of the plan. In fact, you didn’t even think it was possible… not at your age. But it happened and now an impossible decision sits before you.

📚 Catch @DebAshWat's affecting story in our 2025 anthology & meet all our shortlisted writers: https://t.co/cKokziia3E

[Resonate Arts @ResonateArts]

🎶 Double the impact, double the joy!
Donations made before 12pm on 30 June will be matched — helping us hit our £5,000 goal to support Singing with Friends, our dementia-friendly choir.

Your kindness brings connection, creativity & community.

👉 Donate: https://t.co/lD9zARGH6O

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

I love running these groups - great to write about it for the Journal of Dementia Care 😍 now available to read online 👇

[Resonate Arts @ResonateArts]

📣Our very own Shelley has written an article about the work we do in our Creative Spaces for the Journal of Dementia Care's special Arts Edition!

Read it here: https://t.co/PrJInvrigy

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

@anyawhitham @ResonateArts @Birdy_mo Thanks Anya ! See you soon I hope 😍

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

went to the last day of the Raymond Briggs exhibition at ditchling museum yesterday. All the drawings and sketches and layers of care taken. All the grief and love. The masterpiece of When the Wind Blows. Heart cracked open at the short video of him at home on his crumpled sofa.

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

@chris_power Wow amazing Chris - great panel x

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

Yes please

[Seán Hayes @seanghayes]

Very excited to announce today PATHEMATA: OR, THE STORY OF MY MOUTH – a stunning new original work by Maggie Nelson, a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss – which we are proud to publish on Fern Press in May 2025! 🔵🟠 https://t.co/Nf3CsHs1nt

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

Thank you @JDementiaCare - inspiring & thought provoking couple of days at the dementia congress so many excellent chats and presentations - & beautiful to see @ResonateArts groups front page of the journal. 😍 #UKDC2024

[Dementia Community @JDementiaCare]

It’s a wrap! Thank you to our sponsors, partners, speakers and delegates for making the 18th UK Dementia Congress such a success. Do keep an eye on our website to keep up-to-date with our work: https://t.co/hwb9C187iK

#UKDC2024 #ukdc #dementiacongress #dementia

[DebraWaters @DebAshWat]

Delighted to be one of three winners of the #LetterReview Prize for Short Fiction 2024. Congrats to the other winners and shortlisters :-)
https://t.co/W8n6eKQAe9

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

@DebAshWat Amazing Deb 🥳❤️ xx

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

Saw the preview of this last night and LOVED it - personal, political, joyful - on until the 16th November. #rhythmnation 👇👇👇

[Paula Varjack @paulavarjack]

The NINE SIXTEENTHS trailer has arrived 👀

Coming to @ThePleasance this November!

Inspired by Janet Jackson, Created by me✨

With an incredible cast @EndyMckay, @emergentp, Julianne Doko & @livia_k_alour

On Sale Now! 🎟️https://t.co/xCu2vQuO5r🎟️

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

@larapawson 🤞🤞🤞

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

@WednesdayErskin Can’t wait to read this.

[susannacrossman @crossmansusanna]

Friends, readers, writers 31/10 6.30pm Join me at excellent @OwlBookshop in London. 🎉 I’ll be talking about growing up in a 70s/80s commune, institutions, home, the story of silent witnesses & my memoir ‘Home Is Where Is Where We Start’ @FigTreePenguin

https://t.co/DLo96Me6xQ

[shelley hastings @peckhamshell]

@RebTamas I love that book so much ✨