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Hi! I write & illustrate PBs/poems/MG & work for @thebookery.bsky.social 📚 Pub'd: The Toy, PaperBound, The Dirigible Balloon, Little Thoughts Press & Tyger Tyger. Debut PB:The Go Away Rain Dance, Feb 26, HB Publishing
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Senior correspondent at New York magazine. Author of forthcoming book UNBEARABLE: FIVE WOMEN AND THE PERILS OF PREGNANCY IN AMERICA (2025). Two kids and not a night of decent sleep since 2020. Here for that old magic time suck.
In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
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I write novels, I host the You’re Booked podcast, I love Jilly Cooper and custard.
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Crime fiction publishing guy at Bonnier Books UK.
Writer of many things.
YA: The Other Girl, is coming from Penguin in May 2025.
Sci fi in the US as Evie Green
Backpack, The Sleeper and various others, back in the day (and working on more)
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Novelist and maker of misshapen cakes. ‘Murder on the Menu’ coming January 2025.
Words, pictures and plants. Author of Knitbone Pepper series, Picklewitch and Jack series. Hettie Nettle’s Handbook for Hedgewitches out now. Rep’d by Julia Churchill at AM Heath. https://linktr.ee/clairebarker
Academic specialising in children's and YA literature. Head of the MA Children's Literature programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. General Editor of The International Journal of Young Adult Literature.
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MG/YA author (Bigg School, The Art of Being Normal etc). Books, whippets, dessert.
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Writes books. Likes sunflowers. Thinks too much.
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Chief Executive at @writerscentre.bsky.social. Feat. books, whimsy, radio, outdoors, running, walking, looking. NIrish via Scotland in Norwich
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Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
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Bangs on about Taylor Swift and books a lot. Was events manager for Blackwell’s Manchester, now with @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Nero Book Awards Fiction Judge 2023. He/him
Writer
Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way (2025)
Nominated for Booker Prize
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Latest book: IN THE MOVIE OF HER LIFE (short stories, Doire Press, 2025).
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The Magazine of New Writing.
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High-impact fiction and brand-led non-fiction.
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Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
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Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
