Sometimes she's up there for hours, in her beautiful, still silence, before I even notice that she's been watching me the whole time. Cats are poets and mystics and philosophers, I'm convinced of it.

I'll keep re-reading this novel over and over again until I die. First read 10 years ago. Read again last weekend, and it felt as exquisite as the first time. I'm not sure any novelist writing today makes the ordinary as remarkable as Jon McGregor. #favouritebook #rereading

It’s #WorldBookDay and the teachers are on strike so the kids section in Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop is filled with little wizards and Harry Potters and Peter Pans running around the shelves. It’s pretty magical.🌟

🐈‍⬛Happy #WorldBookDay from our very own #SixDinnerSid. 🐈‍⬛

Airports have the right idea. If you’re gonna stress people out, at least give them bookstores, coffee, cocktails, and let them wear sweatpants. It’s only fair.

The awesomely talented Jon McGregor has done it again with #leanfallstand: one of the most moving explorations of marriage and the failure of language and the painful and beautiful recovery of love and body and mind and words. I loved the final third, especially. 4th Estate Books

Monday #bookhaul from Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop: possibly the best way to start the week! Have you read any of these? They've been on my #tbr pile for a while - can't wait to dive in.

A clever, tender book about a child who doesn't fit in and the grief following the death of a mother. A beautiful look a father-son relationship and the power of the natural world to heal - and how we need to save it before it's too late. Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 #bewilderment #BookReview

INTRODUCTION: WRITING FROM FICTION @virginiamacgregor5781 youtu.be/yg0A--7JJAg?si… via YouTube

In 2024 I want to STRENGTHEN my writing practice, my mothering, being a partner, a friend, my health, the way I show up in the world - not by powering through, but by building up the fabric of who I am. Do you have a word for the year? I’d love to know.🤍 #NewYear2024

Following my keynote at the Derry Author Festival, I'm releasing a series on my Substack, THE WRITING CAFÉ: 7 Tips for Creative Growth. I hope you'll follow along.🌱 shorturl.at/EOWY0 #writing #writingcommunity #writingadvice #creativity derrylibrary

In celebration of eclipse week here in the USA (which was mindblowingly beautiful), here's my second YA, all about young love under that big starry sky of ours. HarperCollins HarperCollins 360 #asfarasthestars #eclipse2024 #yafictiond

To kick off my Substack series on Creative Growth, I explore how cherishing your inimitability is the key to finding joy as an artist. #MondayMotivation #creativity open.substack.com/pub/virginiama…

Do you feel lucky? Or unlucky? And do you think you have any control over your answer? In my newsletter this week I look at what it means to be lucky, successful and generous, especially as an artist. #creativity #WritingCommmunity #thewritingcafeé shorturl.at/rszIK

If you love a book, don’t forget to tell everyone about it on social media & leave a review on Amazon & other book review websites. It’s the only way that the books you love will find new readers. And it’s the only way that authors will continue to thrive & write more books.

On behalf of the cat community, who have been slighted for too long: could we please stop calling it down "dog"! 😆🧘‍♀️ #yoga #CatsOnTwitter #cats

My brave, talented friend, the writer and mental health activist, Irene Buchine, is talking at the Bookery Manchester about her beautiful and important book #celiaandthelittleboy. Come along if you're in the area - but regardless, buy and share this book about children and mental health

In this week's newsletter I share my 5th Tip for Creative Growth: Collaborate with Nature. I dive deep into those gorgeous writers, like Robin Wall Kimmerer, who remind us how deeply connected we and our creativity are to the natural world.🌿 #creativity open.substack.com/pub/virginiama…

First time this year writing on the covered porch. Spot Otto🐈‍⬛… #amwriting

🇺🇸I dare to dream…I know, I know, you’ll give me all the sensible reasons for why it can’t and won’t be. But still, for me, America has always been about aspiration, and this feels like a time to aim high, so I dare to dream…#HarrisButtigieg2024 Kamala Harris Pete Buttigieg