Michelle Hodgson

The full brochure for our HuddLitFest 20th anniversary Festival is now available to download from our website - tickets already flying out! www.huddlitfest.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Lots more @huddlitfest.bsky.social events up for booking - early bird tickets are flying out (excuse the pun), so grab 'em while you can! www.huddlitfest.org.uk/events/

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

I have a new FB page for my writing - currently mostly filled with everything #Monet and Blanche Hoschedé Monet. If you'd like to give me a follow, you can find it here www.facebook.com/michellehodg...

Delighted to announce I am now represented by Laura Macdougall at United Agents for my novel, More and More Beautiful Things, inspired by the life of Monet's stepdaughter, the painter Blanche Hoschedé Monet
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New professional profile pics

Our first @huddlitfest.bsky.social events are now up for booking with savings on Early Bird tickets - more info at: www.huddlitfest.org.uk/events/

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Very excited for our first few Huddersfield Literature Festival events going on sale this coming Tuesday. Newsletter subscribers get early info! www.huddlitfest.org.uk/sign-up-to-o...

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While I'm here, how good was #TheTraitors this week! Fiona made good telly but engineered her own demise

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Yoga this morning, I've discovered a new small group class after a 5 year break and absolutely loving getting back into it. Not quite at this stage yet 😂

Pleasure! I've been playing the songs to my fella who's coming along but more into dance music - he only knew the club remix of Wide Open Space!

March. Leeds. Looking forward to this brudenellsocialclub.seetickets.com/event/paul-d...

Barcelona mini-break

Huddersfield Literature Festival is a seriously fun event but it needs our support more than ever - Huddersfield Hub It’s a festival that’s put Huddersfield on the literary map - but it’s getting harder to organise and sell tickets

For anyone who shares my funding pain! huddersfieldhub.co.uk/huddersfield... @huddlitfest.bsky.social

NEWS: I’ve set up an independent anti-racist reporting and monitoring organisation. We’ll document racist attacks, support victims, pressure authorities to act, and amplify the voices of smaller, more isolated Black and Asian communities across Britain.🧵

‘You are living with a difficult person who is waiting to die’: my harrowing time as Patricia Highsmith’s assistant The long read: I worked for the author of The Talented Mr Ripley in her final months. She was so mean and secretive, I imagined she wanted to kill me

What a fascinating story www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Good morning.

It is Independent Bookshop Week.

If you are able please do support your local bookshop.

They pay their taxes and support the community!

@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@sevenoaksbookshop.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
@drakebookshop.bsky.social
@grovebookshop.bsky.social

Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writers' Prize now open for horror writers from underrepresented backgrounds. The winner will receive a publishing contract with a £10,000 advance, and representation by an agent

Link here www.penguin.co.uk/about/publis...

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Festival Director Michelle Hodgson interviewing Rachel Joyce in front of an audience with banners behind.

Peter Rabbit character with Festival Director Michelle Hodgson in front of a Festival banner.

Authors Russ Thomas and AA Dhand with Festival Director Michelle Hodgson in front of Festival banners.

Alan Johnson, Hugh Goulbourne and Festival Director Michelle Hodgson in front of a banner.

Enjoyed so many events at this year's @huddlitfest.bsky.social including lots of presenting with some amazing authors. Now to regroup and plan next year

The Guardian view on the Moomins at 80: in search of a home | Editorial Editorial: Tove Jansson’s magical stories provide a message of tolerance, inclusivity and hope for today’s refugee crisis

I've always loved the Moomin stories and their message www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jane Gardam, author of Old Filth and The Hollow Land, dies aged 96 Described by Ian McEwan as ‘a treasure of English contemporary writing’, the Yorkshire-born novelist’s career spanned 50 years

In some strange synchronicity, I was just thinking about Jane Gardam last night. An incredible talent, so smart but also one of the nicest authors I had the pleasure to work with - she took the trouble to send me the gift of a scarf when I left Little Brown. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

🧵/ Ahead of Earth Day next week, here's a round up of Britons' attitudes to the environment

67% of Britons believe the scientific consensus that the climate is changing due to human activity

Climate changing, due to humans: 67%
Climate changing, not due to humans: 17%
Climate not changing: 4%

PRE-ORDER Raven Scholar - SIGNED Collector's Edition - out 17/4 | Fox Lane Books SIGNED EDITION + GOLD FOIL HIDDEN COVER DESIGN The Raven Scholar: the masterfully woven and breathtaking epic adult fantasy of cutthroat competition and imperial deceit (hardcover) by Antonia Hodgson ...

My sister Antonia Hodgson's epic fantasy novel The Raven Scholar is out today - and it's brilliant!
'It's thrilling, romantic, often tragic, and always funny' ALIX E. HARROW
'Simply glorious!' GEORGIA SUMMERS
'Fiendishly charming and clever' TASHA SURI
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Hi.

Books are incredibly important.

Please let them be.

Just bought a mattress from a nearby independent store - we're in a house but the manager wouldn't take our money until we were sure his delivery guys could get it up our stairs. Ended up sending a video demonstrating the route!

I’m joining Trussell in calling on the Gov’t to rethink its cruel & shameful plan to cut benefits YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the government to rethink its cruel, shameful & completely irresponsible plan to cut benefits which will plunge 250,000 people, including 50,000 children into poverty - on its own impact analysis

This is how you can help

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We Can Make an Impact. Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

UK Authors, sign this open letter to the government.

Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

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What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers – from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate and more I asked some well-known names for their thoughts on the ultimate existential question. Their answers were fascinating, funny – and could help us frame our days on Earth

Fascinating www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

These cruel benefit cuts will rob security from so many – but Labour will lose something crucial too | Frances Ryan The worst reforms since George Osborne will teach voters that politicians really are all the same. Is it worth it? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

It's both the actions and the rhetoric that are so appalling www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...