@racheldawsonwrites
Welsh arty dyke. Wrote 'Neon Roses'. Comms @ Common/Wealth Theatre. Trustee @ Seren Books. Mentor @ Literature Wales. Writer & teacher (&Mam!) other places too. Email hello@racheldawson.cymru.
Newport locals, I'm running a couple of workshops with The Place on LGBTQ+ literature this month...no no pre-reading necessary, just come along and talk Queer stories!
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Thank you EVERYONE who has purchased a book or shared our meme – we have now raised just under one hundred pounds!
Our fundraising sale closes on May 31st, but you can still buy any Salt title at 20% off the RRP. Simply use discount code TheBigSaltSale in the checkout. #BookSky #Publishing
It’s @serenbooks.bsky.social bank holiday half price sale until Wednesday 28 May. You can buy The Zoo Father, The Huntress, The Treekeeper’s Tale from my Seren titles for half price with code may25 on checkout, that’s only a fiver for The Zoo Father!
www.serenbooks.com/book/the-zoo...
I feel that every time!
We're delighted to be a finalist for Small Press of the Year alongside our Welsh colleagues! #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards
Thank you so much to Mair, Alisha from Glitter Cymru, Richard from Leathermen Cymru and moderator, @racheldawsonwrites.bsky.social, for taking part in our first oral histories event, 'Tales of This City'! It was informative, heartwarming and lovely and thank you everyone who took part and attended!
Day 12 of LGBTQ+ blogs/articles you may have missed. John Gibson and Penry Williams: queer Welsh artists in Rome #LGBTQhistorymonth artuk.org/discover/sto...
Booksellers, writers, publishers, teachers, anyone in the world of books and education... please sign this open letter about what Israeli soldiers did at the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This month’s film of the month is an excerpt from BBC Northern Ireland programme Ulster in Focus: The Loughsiders in which the poet Seamus Heaney explores an ancient and mysterious stone statue on Boa Island 🌿❤️ 🗿
stoneclub.rocks/film-club
I wrote a book about why fascists hate queer & trans people and our art, and why we will always survive them (because art): A NAZI WORD FOR A NAZI THING
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BEYOND / TU HWNT✨
We're proud to share a short film we co-produced with @lucentdreaming.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of the brand new anthology by Deaf and Disabled writers!
🎬Ffion Pritchard
Watch the film and get your copy!
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Breaking the Box Logo: a colourful arrow head shape pointing forwards, made up of different coloured squares and parallelograms can also be viewed as a 3d box moving forward, leading and breaking away from the other shapes. The words we're recruiting are written in English and Welsh
We are looking for two Deaf/disabled or Neurodivergent change makers ‘Provocateurs’ to amplify access within their matched venue and to give access issues a place at the table and to provoke and challenge usual ways of working. https://www.takingflighttheatre.org.uk/venue-provocateurs/
Still got some spaces on a free ANGRY WRITING workshop that I'm doing with Common/Wealth Theatre (where I also work...)
I'm hoping that it will let people get some stuff off their chests!
12:20 - 2:30 on Thursday 13th Feb, at Llanrumney Hall.
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The Greene Door project from @greeneandheaton.bsky.social is accepting applications for underrepresented unagented writers - deadline 21 March. This is how I got connected with my agent! greeneheaton.co.uk/the-greene-d...
Not sure if I have anything to pitch to it, but if u write first-person in particular, a friend recommends AFM, a new magazine by Feeld (yep the dating app):
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Very excited to be featured in the first edition of Folding Rock magazine!
I've never been more grateful for books. No reels, no hot takes, no algorithm, no AI claptrap, no rules changing while I read. Just paper and the author's words.
Hello! Dipping my toe in - mainly so I can tell work what it's like!
