A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”
Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
Just got the "first pass" of my novel through! Whoop! (That's the typeset manuscript, not yet proofread, but otherwise looking like a REAL book) 📚 Feel madly emotional! 😭(I had thought it would be less intense the second time. Nope). #EachLeafEachCurveOfStem #JohnRuskin
‘Do you know what else can go? Brass rubbings, that’s what. Nobody’s interested. Not me, anyway. Oh, and let’s get rid of people playing the spoons while we’re at it’
Timothée Chalamet
‘It’s International Women’s Day. Why aren’t you smiling?’
The sharp, dark, dazzling fiction of Beryl Bainbridge is being reissued by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social, starting with ‘The Bottle Factory Outing’ & ‘An Awfully Big Adventure’ intros by Yiyun Li & A.K. Blakemore. @mcnallyeditions.com in US. Two of my faves ‘The Dressmaker’ & ‘Harriet Said’ to follow.
Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West.
I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down.
I'd welcome help building a strong application.
Thank you 💙🙏
I’ve just seen an early cover design for my second novel and I am very excited! #EachLeafEachCurveOfStem #JohnRuskin🍃📚
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'He had changed everything in her life and solved nothing: the first rush of the excitement of discovery, and then the failure of love, contempt changing to self-contempt and final destruction, its futile ashes left in her own hands.' #BookSky 💙📚
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Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly, longlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction.
We are so excited that Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly has been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Congratulations to Rozie and all the longlisted authors!
Visit the @womensprize.bsky.social website to read more 📚
womensprize.com/revealing-th...
#Booksky #WomensPrize
My new novel BLACK BAG comes out next week and here are some readings I’m doing from it.
Submissions for issue 22 (autumn/winter 2026) are now open until 31 March! We’re looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays ✨
bansheepress.org/submit
My March Substack newsletter is now live, featuring two new writing workshops (one FREE to paid Substack subscribers) as well as waffling about my first book being discussed on Corrie! open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
Oh, it's beautiful! 🐴❤️
My March Substack newsletter is now live, featuring two new writing workshops (one FREE to paid Substack subscribers) as well as waffling about my first book being discussed on Corrie! open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
Congratulations to my mentee Faith Cotter who has been shortlisted for the Historical Novel Society First Chapters Competition for her brilliant novel NO COWARD SOUL! So brilliant to see her writing recognised like this - and so deserved! hns2026.com/competition
We'll consider some of the key aspects of historical fiction: how and when to do research, what it’s okay to invent, and how to create convincing historical characters and dialogue. We’ll look at published examples and have some relaxed, lively discussions, as well as time for your own writing. 2/2
I'm running a one-day online workshop on Writing Historical Fiction on Sat 16th May, 10.00am-4.00pm. More details on my website. Fee: £150, and writers at all levels welcome! Let me know if you've any questions. 1/2
victoriamackenzie.net/teaching/
Really looking forward to this! 📚💙 #HistFic #CreativeWriting
(And now I get to say - I'll be discussing my novel FOR THY GREAT PAIN - "as recommended on #CoronationStreet! "😂)
Woo hoo! Lovely news! 🥳
This sounds absolutely amazing!
Calling #poetry friends in #Cambridge
You're invited to Poetry of Care - readings from BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social
Rock Road Library, CB1 7UG
Wednesday 25th February at 7.15pm
Book your free place here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-of-...
When is Peter Mandelson's birthday?
I'd say he's sweating now
Still from Coronation Street Tuesday 17th Feb 2026 showing two women discussing FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN.
The most surreal experience. FOR THY GREAT PAIN was recommended in the women's prison library on Coronation Street tonight! 📚😍
A life goal achieved - one I didn't know I had! 😂
Still from Coronation Street Tuesday 17th Feb 2026 showing two women discussing FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN.
The most surreal experience. FOR THY GREAT PAIN was recommended in the women's prison library on Coronation Street tonight! 📚😍
Copy of my book with the White Horse symbol of the Richard Jefferies Prize above it.
Absolutely thrilled to be Shortlisted for @rjaward.bsky.social! And in brilliant company. Lovely to have that white horse sticker on #GhostsoftheFarm. My farming women & their workers & families of all those decades ago, would be so proud! (As would younger me.) @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social
NEW: Mandelson just sent a memo to UK newspapers via the press watchdog demanding they stop publishing his links to Epstein.
He cited clauses in the Editors code, designed to protect grieving families.
The memo was NOT to be published.
The National just said ‘fuck that’ & published it in full 👏
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
