another story finds a home💌 @yorkliteraryreview.bsky.social

my sweet old girl survived her dental surgery!! I love her❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

just a happy wee writer at her first book launch📘

excitement of seeing my first published story in print pairs nicely with the dread of being perceived

out with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 1st may💘

first annual leave day of the year: sitting in the sun, drinking a little flat white, admiring the latest Celia Dale from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

been a while since i cut a crisis fringe but i got some nice writing news today so maybe they do fix everything after all

hometown looking glorious today! have i mentioned i love living by the sea!💘

first book i’ve polished off in a day for a while — Livi Michael’s Reservoir (published by the wonderful @saltpublishing.com)

update: i have boarded The Lamb train

looking for recommendations for literary horror, uncanny delights, books that make you feel on edge but in an ambiguous and undefinable way

TIA! 🪄🪄🪄

#booksky #writinghorror

weekend reading (re-entering my russian lit era — open to recs if anyone has any gems to share)

in my cindy lou who era

i love fleetwood at this time of year specifically 🎣

looking back on 2024 and a big highlight: my first fiction publication as part of factory international’s folk horror series (to go alongside a play starring maxine peake!)

plus daisy johnson said these nice things about it which obviously made my year❤️‍🩹

factoryinternational.org/factoryplus/...

celia dale appreciation post: queen of domestic horror; prim-and-proper evil; tea and biscuits served with a side of unease and dread. we have had a delicious love affair this year (albeit one-sided)

some books i’ve enjoyed reading this year (and lots of cups of coffee too, apparently)

- a sunny place for shady people by mariana enríquez
- fen by daisy johnson
- sheep’s clothing by celia dale
- the borrowed hills by scott preston

a note found in a very old russian edition of pushkin’s poetry❤️‍🩹

a bit about me i guess !

doing my MA in creative writing at manchester writing school (folky horror / gothic fiction is my kinda snack), can often be found trotting by the sea with long dogs, acquiring more books than i have time to read, contending with one existential crisis after another etc.