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Less than two weeks left for the amazing Creative Future competition for underrepresented writers. It's FREE to enter, and has fantastic cash and development prizes. This year's theme is "Wild". Send your poetry, fiction or creative non-fic. Closes 18 May.

Looking for a book festival then do check out these recommendations for Prima Magazine LoveStoriesEtc, Meetcute Book Fest, Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival Capital Crime Bloody Scotland St Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend

The "Use AI or you'll get left behind" crowd always makes me laugh with how obtuse they are. Get left behind on what? Being unable to think for yourself? Do things for yourself? Have meaningful human interractions? The techs goal is to simplify & automate not gatekeep future use.

"Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent." - Virginia Woolf

Cannot emphasize just how many people I encounter who are like this now.

I wasn’t thinking about Pamela Anderson but let’s talk about her. Pamela is a once-in-a-lifetime beauty. So striking she was offered a modeling contract after being spotted for a moment at a football game. That kind of beauty doesn’t come around often. She’s now 57. About to

Do you think there’s an amount of money the Vatican would accept to let you use the Conclave chimney to do a gender reveal

Time once again for my occasional series "Women with great hair fleeing gothic houses!" No, I hadn't forgotten about them...

Bring back bookish gargoyles and grotesques

"..You have the right to be angry sometimes" - Little My, character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson who first appeared in 1950. She is small, determined, mischievous and fiercely independent and partly based on the author herself. #WomensArt #Monday

Last chance to submit questions for Lee Child #JackReacher fans! #WritingCommunity #BookTwitter #Authors #interview

Your password must contain two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man

Some great opportunities to join the script and story teams on Hollyoaks. They are currently looking for a Story Editor, Storyliner, Script Editor and Assistant Script Editor. Full details of all available roles here: limepictures.com/careers/

I’ve never been in a book club, but I have spent many hours contemplating potential names for one. This is a thread of the leading contenders, starting with these five:   5. Page Against the Machine 4. Philip K. Dick Picks 3. Orwell-endowed 2. The Full Brontë 1. Prose Before Hoes

Colours of today's sea #Shetland

How to get a literary agent - why you need one, what a good author-agent relationship looks like, and some practical tips… Join The Honest Editor and read for free: honesteditor.substack.com/p/how-to-get-a…

my dog is always trying to run away like... good luck on the road dude who's gonna fix your ear when it gets turned inside out

My latest cartoon for Guardian Books