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Cal Flyn

@calflyn

Author of the Sunday Times bestseller ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: LIFE IN THE POST-HUMAN LANDSCAPE—winner of @youngwriteryear, shortlisted for the @BGPrize.

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Callum Robinson (@callumgrobinson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Only TWO WEEKS to UK publication!! So excited (emotional, wrung-out, bleary-eyed, blissed-out etc etc). Huge thanks to all the wonderfully generous people who kindly read and said such beautiful things! Onward! Chris Packham John Lewis-Stempel Cal Flyn Keggie Carew 🦩 John Vaillant!

Only TWO WEEKS to UK publication!! So excited (emotional, wrung-out, bleary-eyed, blissed-out etc etc). Huge thanks to all the wonderfully generous people who kindly read and said such beautiful things! Onward! <a href="/ChrisGPackham/">Chris Packham</a> <a href="/JLewisStempel/">John Lewis-Stempel</a> <a href="/calflyn/">Cal Flyn</a> <a href="/KeggieC/">Keggie Carew 🦩</a> <a href="/JohnVaillant/">John Vaillant</a>!
Royal Society of Literature (@rsliterature) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📣The RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards are open for submissions! Win £10,000, £5000, or £2500 to support your first commissioned non-fiction work. Judges this year: Cal Flyn, Madhumita Murgia, and Hugh St Aubyn. Apply by 30 August! Full details & guidelines here: bit.ly/RSL_GSAAwards

📣The RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards are open for submissions! Win £10,000, £5000, or £2500 to support your first commissioned non-fiction work. 

Judges this year: <a href="/calflyn/">Cal Flyn</a>, <a href="/madhumita29/">Madhumita Murgia</a>, and Hugh St Aubyn. 

Apply by 30 August! Full details &amp; guidelines here: bit.ly/RSL_GSAAwards
Women in Journalism Scotland (@wij_scotland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Announcing the recipients of our 2024 bursary programme, in collaboration with Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Five women journalists have each received £1,500 to work on a journalism project shining a light on social / economic inequalities around Scotland

Announcing the recipients of our 2024 bursary programme, in collaboration with <a href="/jrf_uk/">Joseph Rowntree Foundation</a>. 

Five women journalists have each received £1,500 to work on a journalism project shining a light on social / economic inequalities around Scotland
Cal Flyn (@calflyn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Such an interesting piece in the New Yorker about how the gender gaps in computer programming and crossword compiling (once female dominated, now largely the realm of men) flipped in the late 20th century newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

Such an interesting piece in the New Yorker about how the gender gaps in computer programming and crossword compiling (once female dominated, now largely the realm of men) flipped in the late 20th century

newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
Charlotte Humphery (@cmiscellany) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An amazing event at Edinburgh International Book Festival! John Vaillant in conversation with Cal Flyn about FIRE WEATHER. (Paperback out 29 Aug) Fire as companion, villain and protagonist. Petro colonialism. Reckoning with change and finding hope 🔥🔥🔥

An amazing event at <a href="/edbookfest/">Edinburgh International Book Festival</a>! 

<a href="/JohnVaillant/">John Vaillant</a> in conversation with <a href="/calflyn/">Cal Flyn</a> about FIRE WEATHER. (Paperback out 29 Aug)

Fire as companion, villain and protagonist. Petro colonialism. Reckoning with change and finding hope 🔥🔥🔥
Dan Richards (@dan_zep) 's Twitter Profile Photo

And finally, Cal Flyn at Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews - St Andrews at 6:50 PM on Friday 27th September toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-andr… Do come along! #climbingdays #dorothypilley #dorothypilleyrichards #danrichards #alimillar #peggyhughes #marthasprackland #louisayates #helenmort #calflyn

And finally, <a href="/calflyn/">Cal Flyn</a> at <a href="/ToppingsStAs/">Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews</a> - St Andrews at 6:50 PM on Friday 27th September

toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-andr…

Do come along!

#climbingdays #dorothypilley #dorothypilleyrichards #danrichards #alimillar #peggyhughes #marthasprackland #louisayates #helenmort #calflyn
The TLS (@thetls) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'After long, companionable days working alongside the women, Rebanks begins to view these swaggering interlopers through female eyes: their noise, their carelessness, their arrogance.' Cal Flyn (Cal Flyn) on a woman who tends eider ducks the-tls.co.uk/lives/autobiog…

Cal Flyn (@calflyn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"The scale of recent global farmland abandonment is a staggering and still largely untold story... Globally, an area of land half the size of Australia, around a billion acres, has recently been relinquished"

Sam Knowlton (@samdknowlton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Two decades ago, researchers started an experiment that would challenge the prevailing scientific understanding of plant communities. While modern agriculture treats diversity as inefficient, the Jena Experiment proved the opposite: complexity is the key to resilience.

Two decades ago, researchers started an experiment that would challenge the prevailing scientific understanding of plant communities. 

While modern agriculture treats diversity as inefficient, the Jena Experiment proved the opposite: complexity is the key to resilience.
Capitán Swing (@capitan_swing) 's Twitter Profile Photo

«Una investigación urgente, profunda e interminablemente interesante sobre nuestro asombroso despilfarro y la crisis medioambiental que está creando delante de nuestras narices». Cal Flyn, autora de Islas del abandono, sobre Vertedero, de Oli Franklin-Wallis.

«Una investigación urgente, profunda e interminablemente interesante sobre nuestro asombroso despilfarro y la crisis medioambiental que está creando delante de nuestras narices». <a href="/calflyn/">Cal Flyn</a>, autora de Islas del abandono, sobre Vertedero, de <a href="/olifranklin/">Oli Franklin-Wallis</a>.
Oneworld Publications (@oneworldnews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'An eerie exploration of a strange and surprising element, and a plangent warning of a looming environmental crisis that needs our attention.' - Cal Flyn Available to preorder now! bit.ly/white-light-pr…

'An eerie exploration of a strange and surprising element, and a plangent warning of a looming environmental crisis that needs our attention.' - <a href="/calflyn/">Cal Flyn</a> 

Available to preorder now! bit.ly/white-light-pr…
William Collins Books (@wmcollinsbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shortlisted for the @WainwrightPrize 2025 and a Financial Times Book of the Year, BOTHY by Kat Hill is out today in paperback! 🌾 'Will have you reaching for your boots’ @CalFlyn 🌾BOTHY is a stirring, beautiful book for anyone who longs to run away to the wilds.

Shortlisted for the @WainwrightPrize 2025 and a <a href="/FT/">Financial Times</a> Book of the Year, BOTHY by <a href="/Katricianh/">Kat Hill</a> is out today in paperback!

🌾 'Will have you reaching for your boots’ @CalFlyn

🌾BOTHY is a stirring, beautiful book for anyone who longs to run away to the wilds.
Graeme Macrae Burnet (@gmacraeburnet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Delighted to say that I'll be appearing at this "sparkling" Scottish writing showcase alongside eilidh akilade, Cal Flyn, Katie Goh & Victoria MacKenzie at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August. Tickets & details below 👇 tinyurl.com/4dtbmx8n

HarperInsider at HarperCollins (@harperinsider) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Really looking forward to welcoming Cal Flyn, bestselling author of ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, and Peter Burns, author of SHADOW THIEVES, to our roadshow event at Waterstones Glasgow this evening! 📚✨

Really looking forward to welcoming <a href="/calflyn/">Cal Flyn</a>, bestselling author of ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, and <a href="/PeterEBurns/">Peter Burns</a>, author of SHADOW THIEVES, to our roadshow event at <a href="/WaterstonesGla/">Waterstones Glasgow</a> this evening! 📚✨
James Rebanks (@herdyshepherd1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I was asked to choose five modern classic books that I love for this… thanks to ⁦Cal Flyn⁩ Modern Classics - Five Books Expert Recommendations fivebooks.com/best-books/mod…