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20 months touring with UNDERCURRENT and it's time to drop the mic and pick up a well earned beer, MASSIVE thanks to all the incredible festivals, event organisers and hardworking Bookshop/Library folk who made it such a success, fucking love you all, Cheers n see you next year x

When you grow up in poverty the books you read are often determined by how close you live to a library or how often you get to visit a charity shop & how much spare change your Mum has to buy you old books, on this #WorldBookDay for the love of kids everywhere, never forget this

If you’re a student from a low-income background looking to get into TV, the RTS bursary scheme is for you. Perks include £1,500 in funding per academic year and a personal industry mentor. Applications are open until 24 June: rts.org.uk/education-and-…

I'm a Hachette UK gal by trade (Undercurrent, All Rivers Run Free, Hag) but couldn't resist being a part of #BogPeople, a #WorkingClass classic in the making from Penguin Books UK - publishing in the Autumn: penguin.co.uk/books/463379/b…

St Patrick's weekend don't @ me tomorrow folks it's a bank holiday here in Ireland and I'm well on the black stuff x #StPatricksDay

When are you planning to pay me for my stolen books stolen copyright stolen livelihood?

I set up the Nature Writing Prize for #WorkingClass Writers 6 years ago to burst the stereotype of what it means to be a Nature Writer (white, male, posh) & reclaim the wild places that belong to us all - ENDS MIDNIGHT 25th April & free to enter! Details: octopusbooks.co.uk/landing-page/n…

"Middle-class tourists wash in and out of their second homes with bags of premium cocaine — and then bugger off again. Those left behind are not so lucky." Natasha Carthew on drugs in Cornwall: dispatch-media.com/cornwalls-perf…

Cornwall's perfect storm - stoked to have been asked to write this article for Dispatch - an incredibly sad but important story that needs to be told #Cornwall

We grew up in poverty, my dad left when I was 6 & my mum worked 4 jobs to put food on the table & pay rent on our tiny 1 bed flat; everything was borrowed including books from the mobile library, without those lifeline books I wouldn't be the writer I am today #SupportLibraries

Stoked to be a contributor to this kickass collection of #workingclass folk horror stories, love it when some muscle is put behind a project in order to help raise awareness of our forgotten corner of diversity, good on @chattobooks & @folkhorrormagpie Cover Reveal tomorrow x

PITCHFORKS AT THE READY! Of course your favourite #workingclass gritlit/nature writer is in this beauty from Chatto&Windus Penguin Books UK Publishes Oct 16th - Preorder here: penguin.co.uk/books/463379/b…

Only doing one gig in the motherland this year but it's a good one - Lost Gardens of Heligan #Cornwall 14th June - tickets are selling out fast - details: heligan.com/events/events-…

Stoked to be a guest speaker at this event, belonging, resilience and the power of nature + readings from UNDERCURRENT - tickets ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cornw…

JOIN ME IN SMASHING THE CLASS CEILING I have written articles on poverty and socioeconomic disparity for The guardian, BBC, Booker Prize, The Bookseller, Dispatch Media amongst others and have written books that deal with the subject for Bloomsbury, Hodder and Quercus plus

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The best thing about writing is having a book coming out the worse thing about writing is waiting for the book to come out - can't talk about it can't mention the publisher can't even give a clue to the title (ahem)

"If you believe that what a satirical band who play characters on stage do is more outrageous than the murdering of innocent Palestinians, then you need to give your head a fucking wobble.” We did a wee feature interview ahead of Glastonbury with the Guardian...

One more gig in #Cornwall and I'll be dropping the mic on UNDERCURRENT for good - two and a half years touring, gotta be some kind of record