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Paula Lennon
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🇯🇲🇬🇧🇪🇺 Author, MONTEGO BAY MURDER trilogy Joffe Books, Comedy Women In Print 🏆winner THE BOOK OF WITTY WOMEN, MIDSUMMER MYSTERIES anthology. THE CASE OF THE MAD DOCTOR #c18th #18thc paulalennon.com THE CASE OF THE UNKNOWN WOMAN (Sept 2026)
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Paula Lennon @pauladlennon.bsky.social · Jul 1
I'm absolutely thrilled that Mad Doctor is The CWA Read of the Month! Historical fiction with a dose of magical realism and Jamaican folklore. Publication day is 10 July. Pre-order now - ebook, paperback, audiobook! @iaminprint.bsky.social @historia-hwa.bsky.social @thecwa.bsky.social
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The Crime Writers' Association @thecwa.bsky.social · Jul 1
The CWA's Read of the Month for July is 'The Case of the Mad Doctor' by PD Lennon, a historical thriller inspired by the first Jamaican serial killer! Read more at: buff.ly/MNMHhqc #crimefiction #crimewriter #historical #Jamaica
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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 9d
We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:
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Paula Lennon @pauladlennon.bsky.social · 18h
Hah! Thank you Janet🤩
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Paula Lennon @pauladlennon.bsky.social · 18h
Still can't believe I wrote a trilogy. Pick up a copy today!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai wins
Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins
Follow along as the next winner of the world’s most prestigious literature prize is announced in Stockholm
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 2d
A small press going out of business without paying its authors...inexcusible. I wish I could say it rarely happens, but I would be lying.
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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 2d
Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.
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Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social · 3d
The 2026 Christopher Bland Prize is now open for entry 🏆

Closing 5pm on Friday 5 December 2025: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-christopher-bland-prize/
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 3d
Our board member @venusbushfires is here to remind you to post your SoA ballot papers, if you haven't already.

Ballots must be returned by 22 October, so make sure you've posted them by Friday 17.

There are 4 places available, so 4 votes to cast.
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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 8d
🚨Internship Alert!

An opportunity is available for a @chase-dtp.bsky.social-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement, providing invaluable experience within an academic and literary journal.

DEADLINE: Midnight, Sunday, 2 November 2025
Internship Opportunity: CHASE Editorial Placement at Wasafiri
An opportunity is available for a CHASE-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d
Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down
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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 8d
Submissions for our next unthemed issue are now OPEN 📣
Tell a friend! Everything you need to know is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 13d
The repatriation of an extinct Jamaican giant galliwasp specimen from Scotland to Jamaica underscores how natural history objects, like cultural artefacts, are bound up in histories of colonisation, identity and restitution.

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · 5d
Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 5d
“The presence of Black seamen was especially important for stowaways. Sailors were known to stack the heavy bales of cotton in a way that created spaces where slaves could fit and to provide them with food and water during the voyage.” —Eric Foner
The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner
The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom below deck were better than over land.
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Paula Lennon @pauladlennon.bsky.social · 5d
Historical fact, fiction, and folklore combine in this tale of greed, injustice, bravery, and murder... inspired by a true story. #TrueCrime #HistFic #MagicalRealism
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Spread the Word @spread-the-word.bsky.social · 7d
👀 ✨ Mouth Mek Fi Nyam Anthology is out – get a sneak peak of Sharon Marshall’s poem ‘Everyting Have Its Use, after Jacob Sam-La Rose.’

The anthology is available to collect from all Lewisham borough Libraries in mid October, and a digital version here: www.spreadtheword.org.uk/read-the-mou...
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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 7d
Victoria Ajoku is a maker, teacher of fans, the UK Ambassador for Fan Making & founder of Fan The Glory W/ Tori. She works passionately to revive & diversify the concept of the craft of fan making. Hear from her on Oct 22 in our conference Modern Makers & Antiquaries www.sal.org.uk/event/modern...
Photo of Victoria Ajoku, fan-maker and performer
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 9d
80 years ago, Gloria Carpenter arrived from Jamaica to begin her Law degree. Gloria would become Cambridge's first black female graduate in 1948.

Hear her story and how her legacy lives on, this #BlackHistoryMonth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG3CKuTQdEA
Meet Cambridge's first black female graduate | #WeAreCambridge
YouTube video by Cambridge University
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 8d
Today marks the history of Black History Month.

This year, racism is on the rise and diversity, equity and inclusion policies are under attack.

But Black History is British History.

And there is so much more for all of us to learn. This month and every month.
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 7d
A searchable works list has been released to identify the authors’ works that were stolen by US Corporation Anthropic, to train its AI models. It includes UK authors whose works were copied without their permission or payment.
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Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · 8d
#BlackHistoryMonth #HistNursing

We often think of black nurses in Britain as being post-Windrush, but researchers are identifying earlier #women

Like this amazing story of Sarah Woodbine #Victorian born #BuenosAires Trained Nurse #Croydon & #HitherGreen 💙

www.historycalroots.com/sarah-woodbi...
Sarah Woodbine: A Black Nurse in Victorian Britain
You can read the full story of Sarah Woodbine (so far as it is known at the moment) in our recent book Sarah Woodbine - A Black Nurse in Victorian Britain. Co-authored by David Gleave, Neasa Roughan a...
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Paula Lennon @pauladlennon.bsky.social · 8d
No, this isn't Bridgerton. It's muskets, murder and mermaids, too.
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Paula Lennon @pauladlennon.bsky.social · 8d
Time for a coffee ☕️ and a good book 📖...
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 10d
Today is the last day to get your ticket at early bird prices!
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 24d
Book your tickets before prices go up on 1st October! britishfantasysociety.org/events-calen...
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The Poetry Society @handle.invalid · 10d
Our next Members’ Competition will be on the theme of ‘A nose loses its face...’, chosen by our judge Fred D'Aguiar!

The deadline for entries is 11:59 pm Friday 24 October 2025.
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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 10d
We have extended the deadline for our Short Story Prize by two weeks to give any last minute writers a chance to submit.

Entries close midnight on Sunday October 12th.

Further details and link to submit here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 - The London Magazine
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. We are looking for unpublished short fiction, no longer than 4000 words.
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