Had a look on my way past earlier. Very cool collages (is that the right word?)

✨ TONIGHT! Join Bristol Poetry Institute as they welcome Sir Ben Okri to deliver their annual reading Ben is a #BookerPrize winning novelist who has written celebrated collections of poetry, including Grenfell Tower, June 2017 ⏰ 6-7.30pm 📌 Wills Memorial 🔗 bit.ly/4e4PccU (free!)

I’m in the Guardian talking about my cultural highlights - feat. Mosab Abu Toha Ikon Mahmoud Muna Matthew Teller and others theguardian.com/culture/2024/n…

The brilliant Dan Rebellato is on Bluesky has done an adaptation of Dickens's Out Mutual Friend BBC Radio 4. Really looking forward to starting it: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

The next online seminar hosted by Drinking Studies Network Identities and Diversity research cluster is on Weds 4th December. Contact Dr Samantha Wilkinson for details on joining the cluster/attending the talks. Speakers: Steven Taylor, UCD, Dr Victoria Ellis-Vowles, Uniof Lincoln

🚏 "It makes sense to invest in public transport..." Carla Denyer speaks to PoliticsJOE about Rachel Reeves' disappointing decision to penalise bus users in the Autumn Budget.

These should be really interesting - happening this afternoon. British attendees - don't forget this is French time....

Ooh that looks like a great book and an exciting series!

Keep this cheat sheet in mind during hosting season... 🍷⁠ ⁠ (By the way, we know that some of these are not always considered faults. 😉)⁠ Learn more about them here 👉 enth.to/4hTuKz5

Running a lovely retreat for the Cabot Institute for the Environment🏳️‍🌈✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 Institute at Uni of Bristol today. We have a little room called 'The Garden Room', overlooking one of the parks owned by the University & we are all sitting cosily writing together as the sun goes down over the trees. Perfect!

Day two of #SSAConf2024 is off to a fantastic start

Running another writers' retreat today, this time for some CDTs in Engineering here at Bristol uni. Took a lovely walk in the winter sunshine up to the tower on Brandon Hill at lunch and watched some squirrels. Perfect inspiration and rest ready for more writing this afternoon.

I’m now on Bluesky Phil Mellows if anyone would like to follow me.

New article from our Narodowe Centrum Nauki founded womenandalcohol project in “Addiction”. Congrats Pam Lock and Iain Smith. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

It's amazing that 2 years after publication our article is still in the top 5 most read in Jnl.VictorianCulture! Congrats Pam Lock academic.oup.com/jvc/article/28… (1/3)

This article is a part of womenandalcohol Project founded by Narodowe Centrum Nauki, as well as Society for the Study of Addiction paper on spontaneous human combustion among drinking women by Pam Lock and Iain Smith onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad… (2/3).

Now it's available for pre-order, I can announce Phantoms of Kernow: Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall will be released by the British Library Tales of the Weird series in June! The sequel to Cornish Horrors will include a whole new set of terrifying Cornish tales.

New article by my brilliant colleagues on the womenandalcohol project, Dorota Dias-Lewandowska Craig Stafford on policing women's drinking in 19th Century Britain and Poland. One for drinkingstudies colleagues.