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Anakana Schofield

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🚨LIBRARY OF BROTHEL🚨 MAY 2026 Award winning author of novels Bina (NYRB, Knopf Canada, Fleet), Martin John and Malarky (Biblioasis) www.anakanaschofield.com Agent: Wylie Words in Book Post, Guardian, Globe Buy my books for everlasting life Hoops

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · Aug 9

My recent essay on owls 🦉 in the Globe and Mail

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 9h

@ronanhession.bsky.social you watch the game?

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20h

Happy pub day! The World After Rain. Canisia Lubrin.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF CODE NOIR
THE
WORLD
AFTER
RAIN
CANISIA LUBRIN

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 22h

I love the idea of inviting someone back to yours after a blind date, this is your living room, and you say nothing at all

Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 23h

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 19h

Finally a goal

Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 19h

Who is watching the Ireland game?

Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 13d

One of my favourite Muriel Spark documentaries "I just thought in scenes"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGC0...

Muriel Spark - The ELUSIVE SPARK BBC Ex-S & BBC Bookmark Film

YouTube video by LEMAN PRODUCTIONS ARCHIVE

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 13d

Up Portland ❤️🌸

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 16d

Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
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Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House

Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravn’s new book, which creates something uncannil...

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 13d

@bansheepress.bsky.social open for book submissions from 1-15 Oct 👇

(Pl read the sub guidelines.)

bansheepress.org/read/banshee...

Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October — Banshee Press

Banshee Press is open for book-length submissions of fiction, poetry and memoir from 1-15 October 2025 . All submitted manuscripts will be considered for our 2027 and 2028 lists (and perhaps beyond)....

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 14d

Very wet and windy weather is forecast to hit Ireland at the weekend as Storm Amy is set to bring heavy rainfall on Friday.

Storm Amy to bring heavy rain, strong winds over weekend

Very wet and windy weather is forecast to hit Ireland at the weekend as Storm Amy is set to bring heavy rainfall on Friday.

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 15d

An Indian man in Ireland: ‘As I was turning back to my friend I was punched in the head’

Gaurav Garg moved from New Delhi to Ireland in 2019

www.irishtimes.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 16d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 15d

Manchester!

badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 15d

tonight!!!

Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social · Aug 29

30/9: Joanna Walsh in conversation with Kaye Mitchell for AMATEURS: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amateurs-j...

Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 15d

www.sadlerswells.com/digital-stag...

Dancing through time - Returning to Pina Bausch's Kontakthof - Sadler's Wells Digital Stage

Dancing through time - Sadler's Wells Digital Stage

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 16d

Lots of helpful things to learn from this woman’s experience. How she controlled her fear on the ground all alone, with broken bones & a collapsed lung.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC World Service - Lives Less Ordinary, Sole survivor: Eight days in the jungle after my plane crashed

Annette Herfkens's romantic getaway ended in disaster

www.bbc.co.uk

Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 16d

Eisenstein comparing Kabuki to football in his film theory book of essays. He also manages to get snacks in below in the footnote. I have to think more on his “grand total provocation“ observation given how obsessed we are with tracking and measuring metrics these days.

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 16d

This quote.

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 16d

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · Jul 25

My life is very uneventful compared to cats.

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 21d

Simone Weil recited this poem to tame her headaches

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44367/...

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 21d

As the old women in Barbados used to say “wat ah ting”: The much vaunted Information Age has morphed into the Era of Ignorance.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21d

For my newsletter I wrote about Tricia Lockwood's big beautiful brain as well as what's actually truly giving me hope right now. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

The Maris Review, vol 73

"'It's like Joyce Carol Oates is trying to start a feud with me,' I say. 'Does everyone have this feeling?'" – Patricia Lockwood What I read this week Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Loc...

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 22d

So impressed with what @mrdavebyrne.bsky.social is doing at Royal Court Theatre centring writers, creating community and the new initiative for playwriting in schools. Do any UK based teachers follow me? Would love to share info on the schools initiative. 🚨❤️