Writer, reader, gamer. Still mostly bogling to Aswad. https://wouldyouliketochangethedifficultysetting.wordpress.com/ Any pronouns. No alt text? No follow, no matter how cool & interesting you are. There will be swears.
It’s coming ! The Nottingham Book Festival! Book sales, top authors, workshops, panels, readings, not to mention the Broadway bar open all day for lunch and dinners ! www.gigantic.com/nottingham-b...
Nottingham Book Festival TicketsBuy tickets and see event information for Nottingham Book Festival.www.gigantic.com
the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
🎉PUBLICATION DAY!🥳 NAMING THE SNAKES New Writing Scotland 44 Eds: Chris Powici, Allan Radcliffe & Anna C. Frater The best new short fiction & poetry from forty-three writers who are Scottish by birth, residence, or inclination. Available now from all good bookshops! 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...
New Writing Scotland 44Edited by Chris Powici, Allan Radcliffe & Anna C. Frater Published in: Paperback, 244 pages By: Association for Scottish Literature, Glasgow, August 2026 Price: £10.95 ISBN: 9781906841683 Cover image…asls.org.uk
Interesting (depressing) stat about world book day: "Jonathan Douglas told us that a quarter of children on free school meals said that the first book they owned came as a result of the World Book Day £1 book tokens" - but shows it's worth doing!
Get on this!
Scottish Book TrustThere are just two days left to apply for our New Writers Awards 2027! We have five categories: - Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction - Poetry - Children's and Young Adult Fiction - Spoken Word - Scots Make sure you apply by noon on Wed 29 July. www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
Hey @artsemergency.bsky.social has their call open for mentors again! You get paired with a young person approx. 16-17 and talk to them once a month, it's great and not very much work at all and the organisation is ALWAYS short of mentors who work in games
Very important, and a call for evidence to which UK SHAPE (Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences) researchers are very well placed to contribute. Some good guidance on how to do so effectively here: www.ucl.ac.uk/public-polic...
www.ucl.ac.ukDavid AndersonThe House of Lords Constitution Committee is starting a wide-ranging inquiry into strengthening our constitutional safeguards - as proposed by (Lord) Peter Hennessy. Look East, look West, and see the urgency. Written evidence requested by 28th of September. committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
I'm going to use this as an excuse to re-up my own little Medieval-ish Welsh-ish Odyssey-ish story www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, A Whole Giant's Daughter Quest Thing by Jo LloydAn original short work for radio by Jo Lloyd. Read by Alexander Vlahos.www.bbc.co.ukRhys Kaminski-JonesIntro card to Nolan's Odyssey: "In an age of apparent magic" Intro card to the ideal medieval Welsh/Irish adaptation: "Look, this is going to get really weird, deal with it"
good job, but i think, with a little work, we can get it lower 😎
The BooksellerThe publishing industry has reported the lowest uptake of AI usage at only 6%, reflecting ongoing concerns around copyright and authorship, the Creative Access 2026 Thrive report has revealed. 👇