Very weirded out by the amount of scam emails I'm receiving trying to get me to pay for fake reviews or listings on Goodreads. The emailers give these strange summaries and hollow praise of my work as part of it. Targeting authors, with their famously deep pockets, feels desperateeeee
Truly a dream for my work to have appeared in The New Yorker...
In an exclusive submission, Charlotte Humphery, editorial director at Sceptre, has signed Two Lovers, a “deeply compelling coming-of-age story” by Ralf Webb 👇 #BookSky
Just watched my DIABETIC cat try to steal the uncaramelised sugar from a kouign amann pastry and almost had a panic attack
@npr.org's Andrew Limbong spoke with The Writer’s Room author @kdclewin.bsky.social on the Weekend Edition Sunday. Listen to their conversation here:
Rachel Reeves's budget haircut
I've been so enjoying starting off this new venture! And now I've even made some promotional material - please free to share with anyone who might be interested...
Graphic with the following text: "1. International students who do not generate provider income should be exempt - including Erasmus+ participants following the UK’s association."
"2. Students studying SHAPE subjects must be eligible for levyfunded maintenance grants. Restricting subject eligibility harms UK economic growth and signals that disadvantaged students ‘deserve’ fewer choices."
"We urge the government to reconsider the levy, engage with the sector, and pursue a sustainable funding model to safeguard higher education and research."
We are continuing to call for the government to withdraw the International Student Levy. This levy will add more financial pressure to a system under strain, threatening the UK’s research excellence, global reputation, and economic competitiveness.
Find me, nestled in amongst the absolute bonkers news, on @npr.org in a lovely conversation with Andrew Limbong about my book - Limbong goes on a little visit to Lucille Clifton's house...
The VC has planned to cut 400 jobs, close the Southend campus, demolish the Essex Pathways (foundation year) department, and decimate other departments like language & linguistics, maths & stats and business.
She met us for an all-staff meeting on Thursday. It was... fascinating! Let's fact-check.
Find me, nestled in amongst the absolute bonkers news, on @npr.org in a lovely conversation with Andrew Limbong about my book - Limbong goes on a little visit to Lucille Clifton's house...
📞 Gerald David Naughton & Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton's '"Unstable, in Chaos": Reading Ali Smith’s How to Be Both and Percival Everett’s Telephone in the Age of Cruel Optimism' is one of the articles in our latest issue
c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
An unerring instinct for taking the wrong tone. Most Labour MPs are decent people who see Reform, not the Greens, as the danger to the country. This approach - where KS blames anything but his own leadership - is going to go down like a lead balloon.
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'I was not a bad man. Nowhere near it. But they said I was anyway.'
SO enjoying this from Makenna Goodman @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Hannah Spencer's simplicity this morning: 'I think absolutely everybody should be able to get a nice life' 😢
Would be very 'curious' (pun intended) if anyone on here has done one of these/has a successful application they'd be willing to share!
Would be very 'curious' (pun intended) if anyone on here has done one of these/has a successful application they'd be willing to share!
Just got round to reading this absolutely crucial piece by @noreenmasud.bsky.social and Martin Reed in @wasafirimag.bsky.social about the work of Fossil Free Books and the attempts by the Society of Authors to stifle them
Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.
Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
So happy to have our new issue up! So much brilliant stuff in there. Well done to our amazing editors. Check it out below 👇
So happy to have our new issue up! So much brilliant stuff in there. Well done to our amazing editors. Check it out below 👇
Really happy to share this roundtable - thanks to all those who were involved and to @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social for putting it together!
A friend of mine told me about a recently published nonfic book where the writer starts off saying they didn't know what to write on; the friend told me it made her stop reading. I just started reading an essay that did the same. Do people like this strategy? Are there versions that work? V curious
Perhaps it's a way of being completely and openly transparent: the piece I'm just reading makes it very obvious the writer has been asked to write it, they want the money, they are in search of a subject, voila here you go. Kind of perfect for my current obsession with amateur/professionals!
It's strange isn't it! But it's in two very recent things (including by someone very well-known) so it seems like a kind of method that has some purchase/gets by editors! Wondering if there's some kind of amazing version of this I'm missing or that will sell me on it
A friend of mine told me about a recently published nonfic book where the writer starts off saying they didn't know what to write on; the friend told me it made her stop reading. I just started reading an essay that did the same. Do people like this strategy? Are there versions that work? V curious
Just awful
A really interesting article on Wikipedia and fiction by Kiron Ward in @c21literature.bsky.social, published by @openlibhums.org.
Complements nicely the article on Wikipedia and the Novel by Ryan Ruby in the current issue of New Left Review.
c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
