Deadline Extended: Poet in Residence 2025-2027 🖌
We have extended the deadline to apply for the role of Poet in Residence 2025-2027 to Friday 31st October at 5:00 p.m.
For more details visit www.poetryireland.ie/education/ne...
Supported by @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social
Extract from the newspaper with the broadcast date, time and cast details.
Details of the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV in today's Irish Independent. It starts on Friday 17th October at 9pm on BBC One.
Do tune in!
Path in grass
Apples on the ground
Gate and field
Self behind acorns
27.09.25: Strumpshaw Fen ❤️
Peach clouds above sea
Passing through Burntisland sandy beaches
Pittenweem chimneys in the sun
Setting sun on a Fife back road
Bottled some up for a dreich teatime in late November 🌅👍🏼💛
I can
I can
Little blue and white milk jug sitting on a table
Showered in a beam of light as is proper & correct: my new Oxfam jug 🩵🤍
Wonderful to welcome you all!
National Centre for Writing at Dragon Hall from the outside
View of the inside of Dragon Hall
This is the venue for our #BCLT2025 events today, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social and @bcltuea.bsky.social
Thank you to @hughespeg.bsky.social for a backstage tour of beautiful Dragon Hall before the audiences arrived! 🐉
Yellow & orange houses
Cement seats by the sea
Step covered in green seaweed
Brambles
28.07.25: Overstrand!
Thanks for sharing, friends!
A @writerscentre.bsky.social podcast: @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks with @hughespeg.bsky.social about fusing genres, placing fantastic elements in real-world settings, & how pushing the boundaries of literary categories can enhance your writing
💙📚
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Norwich Puppet Theatre! 😍 History Festival has begun!
norwichhistoryfestival.co.uk
‘Portstewart Strand'
Hi Mat, hi Ian! We’ve got a stall at the Forum: no opportunity to read or perform but perhaps to mingle / pick up some further info? nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/ncw-a...
Total pleasure to chat with David Nicholls on Friday. Here we are in sound check and then with our lovely big audience. I really loved You Are Here: beards, walks, knitwear, lovelorn-ness, pies and pints, real talk, and big weather - emotional and otherwise: only gorgeous and funny and wise ❤️
Unexpected to see The Nolans referenced in a Japanese short story.
Sea sky clouds
Green pathway with ‘walkers’ and arrows painted on it
Path through the foliage
Several ladybirds among the leaves!
29.06.25: Cromer!
Join us for the Ro of Tralee.
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and I will be in Tralee on 5 July at 3pm.
It's pay-what-you-can but booking essential as there are only fifty seats.
Do come!
👇
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am very proud of The Benefactors audiobook. I do the main narration but over 30 others - family, friends, strangers - recorded the 50 voices that form the book’s monologues. Most had zero experience. All were BRILLIANT. Thanks to @hachetteaudio.bsky.social
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Sun in Catton Park
Sun in Catton Park
Sun through grasses
Sun through pink roses
Honestly, Norwich tonight! 😍☀️💡🍑
Self among ferns
Pink harebell type flowers
Poppies!
Pink bluebell type guys
15.06.25 Norwich (in bloom!)
A little garden-themed reading list selected by me for you up on @writerscentre.bsky.social! 🌿🌿
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Red poppies at Waterloo Park
Pink peonies at home
Pale pink roses in the rain at Dragon Hall
Orange roses at the Bishop’s Garden party on Sunday past
( it’s been a flowery week! )
Well, ditto! ❤️
Vanessa Bell in our podcast studio yesterday following a conversation about her book (the black & white one she’s holding), Monuments
Pleasure to have Québec City writer Vanessa Bell at @writerscentre.bsky.social with us this week. Here she is in our podcast studio after chatting with me about her book, Monuments. Catch as she travels on to events at Manchester’s Festival of Libraries, & in Nottingham & Exeter, cities of lit all!
Myself & Val McDermid in St Peter Mancroft church
Colleague Holly Ainley introduces Patrick Grant & Nina Nannar
Danielle Giles & Noreen Masud with Jeremy Noel-Tod!
Busy houses today for Norfolk & Norwich Festival x @writerscentre.bsky.social ❤️
‘Translated literature is a way of communicating over a border, under a wall, beyond an algorithm’s reach’
Listen to Max Porter’s wonderful speech from the International Booker Prize 2025 ceremony last night.
youtu.be/fc80efFKK6o
THE SWIFTS ARE BACK.
Navy jumper with anchors on it; small brown jug bearing words ‘1/2 cup’
Navy jumper with anchors on it label: ‘Margaret Denton knitwear: Tarbet by Arrochar’
I almost start to believe that someone is leaving stuff in my local Oxfam especially for me
‘Cream & Dairy’ ghostwriting on Smithfield
Dundee Courier building with Dundee Evening Telegraph, People’s Friend, People’s Journal & Dundee Courier on the gable
Red brick building with ‘Refreshments’ ghostwriting, King’s Cross
Postcard from London today 🌞