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Anna C Wilson

@acwilsonwriter.bsky.social

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Writer, swimmer, reader, music-maker. Cornwall-based. Proper job. Here for fun & games & booknookery. Royal Literary Fund Fellow. London Writers’ Salon Coach. @acwilsonwriter.substack.com

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · Aug 20

AMAZING!!! Thank you Emma and Louie xx

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · Mar 19

Left UK with heavy anxiety, feeling like I will never sell/write another book. Scribbling in notebooks in the sun with no expectations is how writing used to feel. Fun! Really hoping this trip is going to leave me inspired and refreshed in spite of catching a head cold. #marrakesh

Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · Mar 2

Days like these make the howling winter winds worth the move west.

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · Feb 18

This is weird, they've left the woman out of the picture again?

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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · Feb 18

We've teamed up with Kinship and @drlisacherry.bsky.social to bring kinship carers workshops all about using stories to discuss emotions and identity - and there are free books available for attendees! 📚

Book your free spot:

📅 26 March: bit.ly/4k1JmNG
📅 27 March: bit.ly/3QkPkeY

"Using stories to discuss emotions and identity - online workshop for kinship carers - 11am-12pm, 26 March; 11am-12pm, 27 March." Plus the logos of Kinship and BookTrust and the front covers of some of the books on offer.

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · Feb 18

I think this is going to be my book of the year. Just exquisite. I could underline every sentence. Don’t know whether to seethe with jealousy or just bow down and worship. Andrew Miller. Genius.

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Feb 17

I seem to have started a Starter Pack to my surprise - please join if you wish - let me know:

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Feb 18

Have some sunshine in your day.

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · Feb 18

Scotland, please produce 17 trillion more David Tennants, please.

H/T @falconesse.bsky.social

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David Tennant performs 500 Miles by The Proclaimers with the help of a few famous faces... | BAFTA

YouTube video by BAFTA

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · Feb 18

Thank you!

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · Feb 12

Translation is an art.
Translation is creation.
Translators matter.
Translators deserve to be celebrated.

A stage in the British Library, with a screen projection announcing the SOA Translation Prizes.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Feb 10

There’s a Turkish phrase about the upside of hitting rock bottom being that things can’t get any worse. It goes göte giren şemsiye açılmaz and it means “an umbrella up one’s ass cannot be opened”

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Clare Furniss @clarefurniss.bsky.social · Feb 12

I’m so proud that The Things We Leave Behind is on the Carnegie longlist!! Thank you @carnegiemedals.bsky.social I’m honoured it’s there alongside a spectacular selection of books 🤩

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Wonderland Bookshop @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social · Jan 30

Children's books build empathy, compassion, and understanding. They can transport readers to whole new worlds and back again, all without leaving your sofa. They can comfort, they can delight.

They are magical.

#kidlituk

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · Jan 29

Interesting re: dolphin. Ancient Greek for a grey seal is hook-nosed sea pig: Halichoerus grypus.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Jan 29

Happy Chinese New Year! Here’s a list of translations (some loose) of Chinese words…

Coyote = suburb wolf
Burglar = gentleman in the rafters
Penguin = tiptoe goose
Diabetes = sugar piss disease
Dolphin = sea pig
Kangaroo = bag rat
Owl = cat head eagle
Potato = dirt bean
Porcupine = heroic hog

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · Jan 28

The never-ending story of memoir - and grief. Mum’s death day today. acwilsonwriter.substack.com/p/every-real...

Every real story is a never-ending story

...even memoir

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Jan 24

A list of authors that have become adjectives (or should do)…

Kafkaesque
Dickensian
Orwellian
Byronic
Woolfish
Dickish
Mannly
Poetic
Remarqueable
Austentacious

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Abie Longstaff @abielongstaff.bsky.social · Jan 27

AI & Your Copyright..
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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · Jan 27

Spot on then! 🤣

Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · Jan 27

Editing = playing school with myself = 😍😍😍

Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · Jan 27

Have you met my family? You seem to know them well… 😂😂

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · Jan 27

Oh yes. Totally this too! 🫣😂

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Annett Grimm @agrimm.bsky.social · Jan 27

“If we held a minute of silence for every Holocaust victim, we would be silent for eleven and a half years.”

― Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Today marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

#HolocaustMemorialDay | #HMD2025

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · Jan 27

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · Jan 27

Me: “The family has read my novel and loves it!”
Also me: “Yeh, but they’re family, so….”

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