@_Jake_Riley_

Author signed to The Liverpool Literary Agency.

 Liverpool, England
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Joined May 2018
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I never thought I'd be writing essays again after finishing university but here I am, back at it. It has a bibliography and everything: open.substack.com/pub/whyist…
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My Google Home speaker, totally unprompted, said: 'If I slept, I definitely wouldn't sleep in a coffin. And if I ate, I definitely wouldn't eat blood. I think you're safe.' Thanks Google
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Paul Stanbridge is an incredible modern writer. I really hope this book gets the attention it deserves @GalleyBeggars
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A good free opportunity to get some face-to-face advice about the often confusing world of writing, editing and publishing. I'll be there from 1-4 to give editorial advice and to fulfil my lifelong dream of working in a library.
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Adrianne Lenker's songs just seem to pour out of her as naturally as water instagram.com/tv/CLcLUyYnmwt…

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These two lines of poetry hurt so nicely I had to draw a tiny heart next to them. Apparently I can't draw hearts, but the poetry still stands.
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'You sing your first song for the wrong hearer, and the look on their face can be enough to send you inside forever' I'm glad Phil found his hearers, his words (and music) deserve to be heard.
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The full text of the thing I wrote about "Fire Dream" by Adrian Orange is here.
Best description I’ve read so far of the way Johnson works. He has decimated the UK.
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Has there ever been a more dystopianYA sentence
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“Your tier is not your destiny – every area has the means of escape” UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says “the allocation of tiers will be reviewed every 14 days, starting on the 16th December” bbc.in/3fP65Mt
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Seconding the thanks to the @publishing_post for the mention! Exciting times ahead for @LiverpoolLit
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Aisha's A Level English has been downgraded to a D, but it's okay as she has unconditional offer for uni because of her poetry portfolio.
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Very proud to be one of the new voices signed by @LiverpoolLit. The Boat would probably still be nothing more than an opening chapter without their support 👍
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The systematic issues that are being protested against are absolutely bloodied in violent history, to expect retaliation to be entirely peaceful is alien to human nature. It's never good to see violence on such a mass scale, and I hope it ends soon... (4)
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but you can't condemn the violence of the oppressed without acknowledgeding the violence of the oppressors. The pendulum swings, it never truly settles.
Feeling like the Rothko of cheese on toast
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Philip Larkin making me feel sorry for my couch.
It's a listening to Dawn by Mount Eerie with a leaf that I found stuck to my shoe kind of day.
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