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This starts on Thursday! I’m really excited! 🎉🎉♥️♥️💥💥👇🏼👇🏼

If you can't be in Bristol for Bristol Poetry Festival check out the online pass for 🥳🥳🥳 £15 🥳🥳 Includes entry to all live streamed events; Raise the Bar, Beyond Poetry, Forward Prize, Grand Slam Finals, Poetry Film Screening, City of Words Joelle Taylor and more.
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Sat 20 April 15.00 Watershed @BathSpaUn Bristol Poetry Festival Haus für Poesie presents the best films from the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, on “Poetry and Technology”. The poetry films are technically extremely sophisticated or deal with AL and algorithms.
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Great to see two of our excellent Bath Spa University colleagues involved!

Who broke Meta?

Rip your mentions, Nathan Filer & Amol Rajan. #WeNeedJungleImAfraid

Everyday on edu twitter. So many diagrams. So much time taken to recreate the same shallow representations of teaching & learning. So many corporate posters on behaviour & compliance. So little depth. So little nuance. It does feel reductive.

You know, I think it's perfectly possibly to criticise Israel in universal moral terms without resorting to swastikas and Nazi comparisons. There are very good reasons not to do the latter however angry or justified you may feel.

‘Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause - the cause of liberation.’ Paulo Freire

The inaugural Fay Weldon Lecture ⁦Bath Spa University⁩ tonight 7pm. Live streaming available if you can’t be there in person ♥️♥️♥️ speaker is ⁦Kate Mosse⁩ 🎉🎉🎉 ⁦BSU Creative Writing⁩ ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bath/…

I saw Dali’s painting at Kelvingrove about 35 years ago. I was 16 - had never seen anything like it.

'The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour.'

'Beautiful in every aspect' SARAH MOSS
'Awe-inspiring' MAX PORTER

The happiest publication day to ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey, a short book of wonder set on the International Space Station.

Whether you're just starting out in the world of copywriting or simply need to brush-up we have the course for you. journalism.co.uk/vocational-ski…

I wrote a piece for Literary Hub about the aftermath of publishing my #memoir , and the dilemma of exposing the sins of our fathers, when we are taught to revere patriarchy. I reference memoirs I love, by Safiya Sinclair and Noreen Masud. You can read it here: lithub.com/on-safyia-sinc…

Happy US publication to #WritingBlackBeauty ! Pegasus Books PEW Literary

The Fay Weldon lecture is at Bath Spa University Tues 7 Nov 7pm BSU Creative Writing Kate Mosse founder of the Women's Prize is the speaker ♥️ book tickets here ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bath/…

It's Halloween soon, and chilly weather is coming, and so is The Winter Spirits! It's a collection of ghost stories by a whole bunch of writers, including me, and I am SO PLEASED WITH MINE. And look at the precious. I mean. Really. Why haven't you preordered it yet.

Yesterday I wrote 2k of a new 5-8 funny series. Today I wrote 2k of an academic article on the influence of political rhetoric. One pays okay. One pays no pence. And yet I’m the same fizzy electric grinning from both. You HAVE to love the process. It’s all we can control