David Lloyd
@cymrubookman.bsky.social
Welsh, Devon based writer,
Co- Curator of Word Kitchen www.wordkitchen.org.uk - promoting the spoken word in East Devon and Exeter -I write about hidden histories including queer ones - with a novel and memoir in development Faber Academy Alumni
Co- Curator of Word Kitchen www.wordkitchen.org.uk - promoting the spoken word in East Devon and Exeter -I write about hidden histories including queer ones - with a novel and memoir in development Faber Academy Alumni
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David Lloyd
@cymrubookman.bsky.social
· Jul 17
Glorious launch for the 2025 Exeter Novel Prize last night at Exeter Library more info on submitting here : www.wordkitchen.org.uk/exeter-novel...
@exetercityoflit.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org @exetercouncil.bsky.social
@exetercityoflit.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org @exetercouncil.bsky.social
Congrats to Lucy Steeds - her novel The Artist has been named @waterstones.bsky.social Book of The Year
She was shortlisted for The Exeter Novel Prize in 2020
for an earlier novel.
The Exeter Novel Prize is open for entries until JAN 1st more details here www.wordkitchen.org.uk
She was shortlisted for The Exeter Novel Prize in 2020
for an earlier novel.
The Exeter Novel Prize is open for entries until JAN 1st more details here www.wordkitchen.org.uk
Word Kitchen
www.wordkitchen.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Congrats to Lucy Steeds - her novel The Artist has been named @waterstones.bsky.social Book of The Year
She was shortlisted for The Exeter Novel Prize in 2020
for an earlier novel.
The Exeter Novel Prize is open for entries until JAN 1st more details here www.wordkitchen.org.uk
She was shortlisted for The Exeter Novel Prize in 2020
for an earlier novel.
The Exeter Novel Prize is open for entries until JAN 1st more details here www.wordkitchen.org.uk
newwriters.org.uk/competition/... We are accepting entries until New Year’s Day
Exeter Novel Prize - NewWriters.org.uk
Exeter Novel Prize information including the prize details along with the all-important deadline, terms and entry fee.
newwriters.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
newwriters.org.uk/competition/... We are accepting entries until New Year’s Day
Save the date Exeter folk 15 Dec Festive Fandango wegottickets.com/event/680763
Word Kitchen's Festive Fandango
Word Kitchen proudly present our Festive Fandango
December 15th at Exeter Phoenix
A Fandango?? It can be any of the following:
*a lively Spanish courtship dance
*a piece of music for that dance
*a ...
wegottickets.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Save the date Exeter folk 15 Dec Festive Fandango wegottickets.com/event/680763
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"Each with a name, each with a story. That strips people of dignity before it strips them of life. That forces people to risk their lives to seek food. It is a famine that we repeatedly warned of. But that the international media has not been allowed in to cover."
Remarks by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on famine in Gaza | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory
[As delivered]
Please read the IPC report, cover to cover. Read it in sorrow and in anger. Not as words and numbers but as names and lives. Be in no doubt that this is irrefutable testimony.
It is a famine. The Gaza Famine.
www.ochaopt.org
September 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Each with a name, each with a story. That strips people of dignity before it strips them of life. That forces people to risk their lives to seek food. It is a famine that we repeatedly warned of. But that the international media has not been allowed in to cover."
They’re dangerous www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought Nazi Germany
Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
They’re dangerous www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
@hedgehogpress.co.uk I’ve been trying to contact you re a poetry / publishing event at Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival on Sept 18th thanks
July 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
@hedgehogpress.co.uk I’ve been trying to contact you re a poetry / publishing event at Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival on Sept 18th thanks
Passes on sale wegottickets.com/WordKitchen
July 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Passes on sale wegottickets.com/WordKitchen
#writers take a look at the Exeter Novel Prize now open for entries www.wordkitchen.org.uk/exeter-novel...
July 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
#writers take a look at the Exeter Novel Prize now open for entries www.wordkitchen.org.uk/exeter-novel...
More pics from our event last night for The Exeter Novel Prize and launch of Cathie Hartigan’s The Luthier’s Promise
July 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
More pics from our event last night for The Exeter Novel Prize and launch of Cathie Hartigan’s The Luthier’s Promise
Glorious launch for the 2025 Exeter Novel Prize last night at Exeter Library more info on submitting here : www.wordkitchen.org.uk/exeter-novel...
@exetercityoflit.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org @exetercouncil.bsky.social
@exetercityoflit.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org @exetercouncil.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Glorious launch for the 2025 Exeter Novel Prize last night at Exeter Library more info on submitting here : www.wordkitchen.org.uk/exeter-novel...
@exetercityoflit.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org @exetercouncil.bsky.social
@exetercityoflit.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org @exetercouncil.bsky.social
Reposted by David Lloyd
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
Reposted by David Lloyd
If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.
June 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.
Entries go live July 1st at www.wordkitchen.org.uk/exeter-novel...
June 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Entries go live July 1st at www.wordkitchen.org.uk/exeter-novel...
Reposted by David Lloyd
Hello February! The days are getting longer. Topsham sunset just after 5pm ...
February 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Hello February! The days are getting longer. Topsham sunset just after 5pm ...
@nickswiftwrites.bsky.social hi Nick our paths haven’t crossed yet but we do several events in Exeter over the year including some prose night open mics -you’d be very welcome
February 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
@nickswiftwrites.bsky.social hi Nick our paths haven’t crossed yet but we do several events in Exeter over the year including some prose night open mics -you’d be very welcome
Three debut authors in conversation at Exeter Library March 15th 4pm
Tickets wegottickets.com/event/647408 with audience Q&A
Tickets wegottickets.com/event/647408 with audience Q&A
February 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Three debut authors in conversation at Exeter Library March 15th 4pm
Tickets wegottickets.com/event/647408 with audience Q&A
Tickets wegottickets.com/event/647408 with audience Q&A
Reposted by David Lloyd
NEW: Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring.
I'm very excited to introduce my new investigative podcast with @peterjukes.bsky.social & Ruth Abrahams about a Russian influence operation at the heart of the British establishment.
1/
the-citizens.com/2024/12/serg...
I'm very excited to introduce my new investigative podcast with @peterjukes.bsky.social & Ruth Abrahams about a Russian influence operation at the heart of the British establishment.
1/
the-citizens.com/2024/12/serg...
'SERGEI & THE WESTMINSTER SPY RING', NEW PODCAST TRAILER OUT! - The Citizens
From exclusive parties at the Russian Embassy to the corridors of Westminster, journalists Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes – with the help of Conservative party whistleblower Sergei Cristo – expose ...
the-citizens.com
December 28, 2024 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring.
I'm very excited to introduce my new investigative podcast with @peterjukes.bsky.social & Ruth Abrahams about a Russian influence operation at the heart of the British establishment.
1/
the-citizens.com/2024/12/serg...
I'm very excited to introduce my new investigative podcast with @peterjukes.bsky.social & Ruth Abrahams about a Russian influence operation at the heart of the British establishment.
1/
the-citizens.com/2024/12/serg...
I received The Eagle and The Hart too
December 25, 2024 at 11:06 AM
I received The Eagle and The Hart too
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Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere.
The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back.
A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year.
Fiat lux!
📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social
The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back.
A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year.
Fiat lux!
📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere.
The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back.
A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year.
Fiat lux!
📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social
The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back.
A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year.
Fiat lux!
📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social
Reposted by David Lloyd
❄️This December we've got crafts, cabaret (TODAY), poetry, storytime, and a lovely bit of festive jazz🎷
#LoveLibraries
#LoveLibraries
December 11, 2024 at 12:15 PM
❄️This December we've got crafts, cabaret (TODAY), poetry, storytime, and a lovely bit of festive jazz🎷
#LoveLibraries
#LoveLibraries
A book of the year - never more timely -lessons from history
December 11, 2024 at 7:15 AM
A book of the year - never more timely -lessons from history
@moderation.bsky.app why is booksky account run by an only fans account ?
December 10, 2024 at 6:26 AM
@moderation.bsky.app why is booksky account run by an only fans account ?
A wonderful novel -one of my books of this year
December 10, 2024 at 6:24 AM
A wonderful novel -one of my books of this year