shortlisted Costa First Novel 2016. Privilege: 12th May 2022 @tworoadsbooks. MacDowell Fellow. RLF Fellow. Assoc Lecturer @BirkbeckUoL Rep'd @veroniquebaxter
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I'm just back from Egmond aan den Hoef, where I took part in a documentary about #Descartes. I was there to discuss the significance his relationship with Dutch maid, Helena Jans. My first novel 'The Words in My Hand' is built around the facts that exist in the historical record>
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I finished reading this on holiday today and was so sad it had to end. What a wonderful cast of characters— and such great stories all bound together by the one summer. ♥️ Beautiful prose.
My take on why writing is a luxury I cannot afford: rlf.org.uk/showcase/guinever…
& with thanks to @royallitfund -- the RLF fellowship was, for all too brief a period, a lifesaver.
You're invited: Sat, 9th Sept 10a.m.-11 a.m. launch of 'The Last Word' a soundscape of local memories at Waterbeach Barracks, Cambs, with accompanying images. Funded by @ace_national, 'Developing Your Creative Practice' funding stream. Follow local signs to exhibition space.
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Do you need a writing mentor? We are small and selective, the secret of our success, but we have places, starting September, with mentors @katepullinger @GuinGlasfurd @RomeshG @shelleyweiner @SarahMayWriter @LesleyGlaister @stephaniedawncross Tim Pears, Andrew Miller....
I'm very much looking forward to interviewing @DoughtyLouise this Sunday, 3pm, and discussing her brilliant new novel, A Bird in Winter. Info and tickets: norfolkhospice.org.uk/Event/…
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If you'd like a writing mentor, apply now. We still have places with amazing mentors @SarahMayWriter @andrewwilsonaw @GuinGlasfurd @katepullinger @LesleyGlaister @oliverharris Jane Rogers, Tim Pears, @StephanieDCross @MidgeGillies @shelleyweiner @thewaterclock @RomeshG
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Scout is delighted to announce the paperback of #Piccadilly :The circus at the heart of London is out today with the same lovely #Lowry dogs on the cover @TwoRoadsBooks @johnmurrays available from all good kennels & bookshops
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We have exciting news. We are proud to say that we are adding Guinevere to our team of amazing mentors for new writers and she has places available now. But hurry, as they will be snapped up quickly...gold-dust.org.uk/guinevere-g…
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Happy paperback publication day @GuinGlasfurd! Privilege is out today from @TwoRoadsBooks.
On Europe day: Russia has become a permanent war society, wrapping itself in the regalia of the CCCP. Even as it attempts to project strength it exhibits extraordinary fragility. War is the only logical place for its nationalism to end up. Putin's war on Ukraine must be defeated.
I was at King's Lynn Fiction Festival this week: a rare chance to meet other writers & explore how our work intersects. The chance to draw across very different works to find meaning is one of the things I value most about these events. It's endlessly re-energising & rewarding.
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The conversations on literary biography, craft, metafiction, were nuanced & generative. A privilege to be in such wonderful company at the very special last fiction festival @kingslynnfestival @mirandajseymour
@GuinGlasfurd #jeanrhys #virginiawoolf #diderot #daisyandwoolf 📚🤍
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Delighted, on the eve of publication of Windsors at War, that a very comprehensive selection of author copies has just appeared courtesy of @wnbooks.
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Norfolk readers! Looking forward to the event for my novel The Bewitching @SceptreBooks with @GuinGlasfurd at Swaffham at 3pm on Sunday March 5th and hope to see some of you there. (Venue has been changed to nearby venue of swaffham community centre, camping land. )
'We will not take our foot off the pedal . . .' but pausing strike action does *exactly* that @DrJoGrady @ucu
I use twitter so little these days that half of it no longer makes sense.
>>only half? I hear the hardened among you say . . . 😂
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