Two Women in A Garden, Eric Ravilious, 1932. Painted at Brick House, Great Bardfield in #Essex , it depicts Tirzah Garwood, Eric’s wife, and Charlotte Bawden, who was married to artist Edward Bawden. The original artwork is in the collection of FryArtGallery.

I’m very excited to share that on 20th June I’ll have a new book out!

It’s a literary memoir, published by Bloomsbury, and I’m having a launch at Wrecking Ball Music and Books on Saturday 29th June!

Event details below - be lovely to see you there 😊

wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/vicky-fo…

Is there a reason why Scarborough hospital have uprooted and destroyed these plants/hedge during nesting season? Any scarborians know anything about it?

Next up in our webinar Masterclass series is Jane Burn on 5th June 'Exploring the Lacuna: The Fascination of Shape and Space on the Page'

With a couple more to be broadcast on a fortnightly basis.
Sign up here, just £14 each: buff.ly/3PSzFE0

Who has recommendations for working class nature/landscape/memoir writers? It’s for a thing and also for my TBR pile.

From Hedgehog Poetry, pre-orders are open for 'Rescue Lines', my poems about forced adoption and the power of sibling love. #poetrycommunity

Last day to submit to the Nature Unbound issue of Spelt Magazine! Submissions close 31st May, midnight UK time.

speltmagazine.com/contact/

‘Mumpsimus’, 16th century: one who insists that they are right (or wronged) when all evidence points to the contrary.

#otd 1849 Anne Bronte was buried at St. Mary's churchyard, Scarborough - in the shadow of Scarborough Castle, the spot Anne had chosen for Edward Weston's proposal to Agnes Grey in her debut novel published two years earlier.

Looking forward to an hour of poems & conversation about the miners' strike & Orgreave with Joe Williams 2pm 20th June The Leeds Library Leeds Lit Fest Leeds Libraries leedslitfest.co.uk/whats-on/ @hpbcLeeds Orgreave Justice Stairwell Books Society of Authors

Eleven weeks to publication day for The Ghost Lake! Pre order here:

uk.bookshop.org/search?keyword…

Bad things happen when leaders are appointed just because they fit “the type” rather than being any good. Posh accent, arrogant, privately educated, all the connections, supremely confident & condescending & totally useless. God I’ve met so many like this. theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

The sheer arrogance of Wes Streeting as he indulges in a game of fantasy politics - making out he can clear waiting lists by throwing money at the private sector, when what we desperately need is a fairer tax system to invest properly in NHS staff & facilities.

So much of Scarborough’s heritage is left to rot like this.

I love to see the magic. You hear it, you spot it, and suddenly you are in a place of wonder. Excellent.

Deafness and how it shaped my Carcanet Press collections and the joys of editing Magma Poetry The Deaf Issue with 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus and 'What Meets the Eye? The Deaf Perspective' Arachne Press🕷️ with Sophie Stone 🙌❤️

I’ve read three articles this morning about ‘Mickey Mouse degrees’ and none of them name a subject or discipline.

I searched in July of 2023 when ‘rip off’ degrees were raised and couldn’t find any examples either.

Is there a list somewhere of these degrees?