Fascinating interviews about writing collaboratively in @NewFlashFicRev – I've loved reading stories by Cole cole beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 and Sumitra Sumitra Singam (she/her/Baginda) and learning about their process newflashfiction.com/trust-and-play/

As autumn sets in, here's my single, 'Seasons Fall' Do subscribe to my YouTube channel for more news! 'Seasons Fall' by Esther Clare | Singer Songwriter York, UK youtu.be/NXFIbJSqqAU?si… via YouTube

Last night we celebrated the first birthday of Rise Up! And who better to blow out the birthday candles than Malika Booker Rachel Bower & Lillian Akampurira Aujo! A brilliant night, with brilliant voices. Thanks to all who came, read and made it special. Onwards, @Chadpie! 💫

Last chance to grab signed books, manuscript critiques, or even your name in a book - in the #charity auction to raise money for the East Yorkshire #Foodbank.  Get unique Xmas presents and support a good cause at the same time! auctionofpromises.com/EYFBBookAuctio…

I tidied up scraps of paper after class Converge with alice baxter and found a tiny dragon

This is such a brilliant, moving story which stays fresh with every rereading - I'm already casting the film of it in my head. Huge congrats @kazbarwrites - v well-deserved!

It was so brilliant to have Kathryn Tann join us at ecotherapy book club - Seaglass is a beautiful book which we highly recommend

This is so good - highly recommend

I love this story with its beautiful details, and the future tense revealing the truth of the past

This week we found paper cranes after class - very small but made us very happy

I have been sitting on this news for a while. ELMET is going to be a play, adapted by total genius, Javaad Alipoor, for Bradford 2025 City of Culture. I couldn’t be more excited.

A brilliant workshop last night with Real Writers Circle at York Literature Festival 📚 where Naomi Wood taught us so much about the short story - a v generous writer. Highly rec This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

I love Raw Content by Naomi Booth - beautifully set in York and launched last night York Literature Festival 📚

Here I am talking about my new book, THE LAVENDER BRIDE. Expect Old Hollywood Glamour, secrets, betrayal and a spot of romance

CALMING THE CHAOS💥💥 To celebrate our next performance Chaos we asked some amazing students at Converge if they could write us a poem on ‘Chaos’ and here is the next one…👏🏼👏🏼 Tickets are available🎟️ ticketsource.co.uk/ridinglights/e… __________________________________ #York #Theatre

Happy paperback publication day ⁦Naomi Wood⁩! I can’t recommend these fierce, furious and terrifically funny stories enough 💙 ‘Excellent’ Irish Times ‘Witty and biting and brilliant’ i Paper ‘Humane and very funny’ Jessie Burton ‘Read it and riot’ Marianne Levy

So thrilled to be published here 💜🙏

What a Rise Up! Rachel Long ioney smallhorne & Minal Sukumar were absolutely captivating. Thank you, poets! 🩵✨ Next up…. Nafeesa Hamid is headlining! Join us on Weds 21st May for what will be an extraordinary night. Tix on sale now… eventbrite.com/e/rise-up-a-ce…

It's running season & I know lots of my followers will have goals, often to do with improving pace, distance or time. My article this week (link in bio) is about running 'failure', my first DNF, & finding other, perhaps kinder, goals in running, beyond relentless improvement.

V well deserved