ND writer | SL Caledonia Novel Award '23 | SL Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize '22; SL Emerging Writer Award '20 @moniackmhor
Ampthill, England
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Chuffed to bits (of pig) to be featured in @TheLondonMag today. Here it is, loosely inspired by a summer barbecue:
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New fiction by @NatabakeWriter, Pig in the Sky.
Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/fictio…
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#ThroughHerEyes
The murder of Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei at the hands of her boyfriend, got a single line on the news this morning.
Let's make more of it here. Another beautiful and talented woman's life snuffed out by violence.
#VAWG
So wish I could be there for this - congrats @rachelle_ata, so excited to read this one! #TheSaltFlats
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Audiobook announcement! 📚🎧
Calling all Greco-Roman myth girlies! Delighted to reveal my debut short story collection, out 1st August with @bolindaaudio and read by the amazing Sofia Engstrand.
Dark Harvest is a new and twisty retelling of Ovid's Heroides.
The @caledoniaaward is such a brilliant prize and opportunity for writers!
Being shortlisted for my novel in 2023 gave me a huge lift and confidence boost 😌 The judge this year is @AliceLutyens and she is lovely.
Good luck to those who enter! Deadline: Oct 15th📚
Here's a midweek shoutout to our @caledoniaaward 2025 sponsors @TheCBG_, who are very generously offering 20 funded places for writers on a low income! Do check out the details here 👇, and follow the links on our Rules & Entry page!! #WritingCommunity
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10 years ago I was still stuck in the query trenches (lost & confused). Here’s a few things I’ve learned about writing/publishing in the past decade 🧵
1. Resilience. Rejection is part of the job. It gets easier. It’s not that your work isn’t good it’s that it isn’t a good fit.
ALT An old battered copy of Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2010 (red cover). Wood table backdrop.
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We're very excited to share Life of a Book: a series of free online events designed to clarify the journey and processes of writing and publishing a book ✍️ 📚 ✨
It will run over five days, 13th–17th May, covering a variety of topics.
More ℹ️ here: buff.ly/4aWmWYG
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So thrilled and humbled to be on this longlist. Congrats to all the other longlisted authors. Thanks so much to Lucy Cavendish College for this opportunity.
📢 Exciting news! Lucy Cavendish College's 2024 #FictionPrize longlist is here! 📚
16 brilliant debut #novels – could your next favourite read be on the list?
Congratulations to the authors! Find out more ⬇️
lucy.cam.ac.uk/news/fiction-…
@PFDAgents
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As we await for the longlist for the Lucy Cavendish #fiction prize, which will be released on the 17th of April, why not give one of our previous winners a read from the past five years!
Available in all bookstores near you!
📚🏆😀👀
#BookTwitter #cambridgeuniversity #BooksWorthReading
ALT Available to buy here: https://megandavis.co.uk/
ALT Available to preoder now: https://thecleevebookshop.co.uk/products/9781399607537?_pos=1&_sid=b51fd27bf&_ss=r
ALT Available to buy here: https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/aoife-fitzpatrick/the-red-bird-sings/9780349016665/
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Virginia Woolf took her own life 83 years ago on this day. Here is the beautiful final letter she left for her husband, my great-uncle Leonard Woolf 💜
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A gentle reminder that my novel, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain, about the medieval mystics Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, will be read on Radio 4 this Saturday afternoon 2.45-4pm! 💙
#MedievalTwitter #MargeryKempe #JulianofNorwich
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Congratulations to @rachelle_ata who is the new Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow, based at @StirUni for 2024 🥳📚⭐️
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I'm thrilled to announce I'll be working with the wonderful @_victoriahaslam @AmazonPub to publish my debut novel, THE SURFACING, in July 2025. Huge thanks to my fantastic agent @SarahHornsley (as well as @LucyCavColl, @BathNovelAward, @Mslexia, @cbcreative) for getting me here!
Claire Ackroyd is making her debut at Lake Union at @AmazonPub in The Surfacing, 'a breathlessly pacey and brilliantly written tale of family tensions and long-buried secrets coming to a head'
bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
So proud of @ClaireABooks for this brilliant piece of news! 📚
I was fortunate to have read one of Claire's early drafts, and loved the setting and clever, twisty plotting. A winning combo! Readers are in for a treat.
I'm sure it'll be a success! Well done, Claire. 🌟
I'm thrilled to announce I'll be working with the wonderful @_victoriahaslam @AmazonPub to publish my debut novel, THE SURFACING, in July 2025. Huge thanks to my fantastic agent @SarahHornsley (as well as @LucyCavColl, @BathNovelAward, @Mslexia, @cbcreative) for getting me here!
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- Unhappiest kids in Europe
- Fewer children than ever reading for pleasure
- School buildings crumbling
- less than half the target of teacher trainees
- Biggest retention crisis
- Morale in the profession the lowest ever
- Ofsted…
The list goes on.
They’re delusional
📈 89% of schools are rated good or outstanding, up from 68% under Labour.
📚 Our primary school children are now the best readers in the western world.
⬆️ Our secondary school children have risen from 27th to 11th in maths & 25th to 13th in reading.
Well said @RishiSunak 👏
Can't wait to see @forthygreatpain in my hometown tonight, talking about her novel #ForThyGreatPain 📚
If you haven't read it yet, grab yourself a copy. It's so beautifully crafted, almost a work of art – one my favourite reads of '23 😍
#StonyWords | stonywords.org.uk/
Delighted to be reading from #ForThyGreatPain at #StonyWords Festival in Stony Stratford tomorrow evening at 7pm, as well as leading a workshop on writing Historical Fiction at 4pm. Hope to see some folks there! 📚✒️💜 stonywords.org.uk/maria-sobo…
#JulianofNorwich #MargeryKempe
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#Writers! I'm opening up my books for 2024, taking on new mentees wanting to develop their short fiction, novels or poetry. I work with complete beginners, more experienced writers, those wanting to take first steps in writing, and those polishing near final drafts. 🧵1/4
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Here’s to dear Benjamin Zephaniah❤️💚🌹 inews.co.uk/culture/arts/ben…
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This week we will be looking at illustrations from Lucy and Tom at Christmas starting with them stirring the enormous Christmas pudding mixture.
Have ten minutes to read a little thing I wrote in @TheLondonMag?
So thrilled with the feedback so far 🐷
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Congratulations, @NatabakeWriter - I love the hilarious, nuanced character portraits and stultifying summer atmosphere you've created in this.