Chief Exec @writerscentre / Hon FRSL / trustee: Age UK Norwich & @openbookreading / 💜s ~ books, radio, whimsy, outdoors + himself. she/her
Norwich / Scotland / NI
Joined October 2011
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Dear friends,
We’re stepping back from Twitter/X, but the conversation continues! Join us on Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. 🌐 Find all the details here: buff.ly/4fMEklA
#StayConnected #KeepWriting
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Loved this session today @britishlibrary on ‘Belfast and Beyond’ - part of the #irishwritersweekend 📚📚 @michaelmagee__ @beingvarious & Aimee Walsh were all fantastic, plus gorgeous chairing from @HughesPeg 📚📚💚 – at London, England
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Our popular Publishing Fair returns for Christmas! 🎄 Come along to meet publishers and writers from the region, stock up on gifts, and enjoy short talks on the publishing industry.
Sat 7 December, 10am–4pm, NCW, free & drop-in.
Find out more: buff.ly/3YXRNQz
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Launching this week at all 47 Norfolk Libraries! 🌍 In partnership with @NorfolkLibs, we're excited to share a multi-lingual poetry project featuring acclaimed poets @george_szirtes & @marjorielotfi commissioned by @WritersCentre 📗 Find out more 👇 tinyurl.com/nhdz6vkm
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GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE!
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Just announced! Samantha Harvey wins the #BookerPrize2024 for Orbital, her deeply human saga of six astronauts in space, which combines an urgent message about the state of our planet with luminous hope and a refusal to sink into despair: waterstones.com/category/cul…
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lost my purse on the Elizabeth line between Tottenham Court Road and Paddington, it looks like this, if you find it let me know, if you see someone cackling over it and rolling in a pile of my cards…pls punch them I guess
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📣 It's your last chance to take our visitor survey and be in with a chance of winning a £50 National Book Token! 📚
What do you want to see at future Norwich Book Festivals? 🤔📖 Tell us at: surveymonkey.com/r/NBF24
I realise not everyone who would like to can donate blood (& in my most recent visits I’ve not been able to) but if you can and would like to then please consider doing so. Successful trip for me today! Thanks Team Mercure ❤️
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(IMMENSE NEWS reaches me that the @WstonesDundee Wishing Tree (in which shoppers can gift a book for a young carer in Dundee to open at Christmas) is BACK for 2024 ❤️: launching on Friday 15th Nov. More news as I have it!)
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This week's fiction is "Heavy Snow" by Han Kang (translated, from the Korean, by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris). newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
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Full programme thonder for @britishlibrary's Irish Writers' Weekend, 22nd-24th November. Cracking line up! So many friends + heroes in one place. You'll find me chairing Aimée Walsh, Lucy Caldwell & Michael Magee (and in the audience for everything else)
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27th October: Cromer / Norwich
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We are pleased to host a review of the past 12 months in photography by Emily Noakes and Caroline MacDonald, skilfully capturing the beauty of the East Neuk and their adventures beyond. This free exhibition runs from 6th November to 21st December in our Merchant's Room gallery
