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Richard Beard @richbeard.bsky.social · 1d

This will be really good.

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 1d

Coming up next week at Cheltenham Literature Festival on 13th Oct, authors @lilydunn.bsky.social & @carosanderson.bsky.social discuss the art of memoir, drawing on their own experience, and reflect on how memoirists are reinventing the form in bold ways:

Into Being: Writing Memoir | Cheltenham Festivals

Lily Dunn and Caroline Sanderson discuss the art of memoir, drawing on their experience as both readers and writers of the genre to reflect on how memory i

www.cheltenhamfestivals.org

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Richard Beard @richbeard.bsky.social · 2d

For all UTM questions, see contact details at www.universalturingmachine.org. Not envisaging illustrations at this stage.

UTM Guide

www.universalturingmachine.org

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 3d

Publishing today!

Memoirist and teacher @lilydunn.bsky.social shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir. Inspired by her own experience, as well as interviews with fellow memoirists, she shows how you can turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery. ✍🏼 #booksky

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Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · 9d

There are a few of these floating around out there. Please be careful.

Advance review copy of my novel Dooneen, out from Fitzcarraldo Editions next year.

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Richard Beard @richbeard.bsky.social · 9d

Start with trying to fill in a few memories, seeing which years attract and which not so much. And you can join over here for fuller discussions:

Redirecting...

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Richard Beard @richbeard.bsky.social · 11d

This was a brilliant event and some special editions of The Breaking Wave by @mrmarchant.bsky.social are still available. Follow the link, catch the wave.

Seven days later

Last Sunday’s event in Presteigne’s Assembly Rooms was the first time in almost three months that I was allowed out from hospital.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 15d

INTO BEING: A reading list

We asked author @lilydunn.bsky.social to compile a list of books by the authors she interviewed for her new book, 'Into being'.

Full list on our Blog now, and you can also shop the full list on @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social' @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page now.

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Richard Beard @richbeard.bsky.social · 15d

Looked up 'expansion pack'. You're right!

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Richard Beard @richbeard.bsky.social · 16d

In this piece there's an excellent summary of The Universal Turing Machine, and what it's for.

‘A resistance to AI’: The author inviting readers to contribute to a mass memoir

Richard Beard says he’s got ‘better at telling the truth’ by arranging his life story on a grid – and invites others to do the same

www.theguardian.com

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 16d

Cannot recommend these two books highly enough. Absolutely fascinating for anyone interested in politics, literature, art, resisting fascism, etc etc. Beautifully done.

Two books by Uwe Wittstock, translated by Daniel Bowles:

FEBRUARY 1933: The Winter of Literature
&
MARSEILLE 1940: The Flight of Literature

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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 18d

The first results of my FIFA-funded project are out in the world!

⚽ Why the FA's takeover of women's football from the WFA in 1993 was a "Hobson's Choice" for the WFA, & a moment of disempowerment for #womensfootball

⚽ It's open access & available here:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Football Association’s 1993 takeover of women’s football – A Hobson’s Choice

In 1993 the Women's Football Association (WFA), the organisation which had run women's football in England for 24 years, ceded control of the sport to the Football Association (FA). This has often ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 21d

Lily Dunn's 'Into Being' is a milestone text in the art of life writing. I'm looking forward to chairing a discussion with her at @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social next month. It will be a great evening about how we raise raw personal material and make it powerfully universal.

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 21d

Join us next month as @lilydunn.bsky.social hits the road next month to launch her new book, 'Into being', sharing the secrets of writing memoir.

Coming to a bookshop, festival or university near you, visit our Events page for more info and tickets: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events #booksky

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Universal Turing Machine @universalturing.bsky.social · 25d

Welcome! A home for anyone who wants to write a memoir and isn’t sure where to start. Full details of how to get involved:
www.universalturingmachine.org

UTM Guide

www.universalturingmachine.org

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 25d

Reminder that my new poetry collection (my SEVENTH because I apparently cannot take a hint) is available from Picador www.panmacmillan.com/authors/luke...

A big superimposed copy of Luke’s book, The Book of Jonah, “emerges” from the sea.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 29d

In @thebookseller.com today, author @lilydunn.bsky.social on how writing memoir can be exposing, but Substack is a good place to experiment.
Read it here: www.thebookseller.com/comment/a-sa...
Lily's new book 'Into being: The radical craft of memoir and its power to transform' is out next month.

A safe space

Writing memoir can be exposing, but Substack is a good place to experiment, says Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My Father.

www.thebookseller.com

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Aug 29

Novelist and memoirist Richard Beard (‪ @richbeard.bsky.social‬ ) is launching “the first-ever mass participation online memoir” on 8th September 👇 #BookSky

Author opens online memoir platform for submissions

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Richard Beard @richbeard.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ian Marchant's final novel The Breaking Wave exists now as a pre-publication special edition, for reasons too miserable to mention. Except by Ian himself, of course.

imarchant.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

Breaking Wave No. 1

Montgomery Infirmary Blues

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Richard Beard @richbeard.bsky.social · Aug 28

A most discerning reader. Thank you Steve, happy travels!

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · Aug 28

Drinking tea, reading @richbeard.bsky.social’s interactive memoir The Universal Turing Machine (@universalturing.bsky.social), which can be found here; all of it, the whole damn thing.

Making more tea.

UTM – Richard Beard

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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · Aug 27

Certainly a more unusual photo ... the beautifully designed and constructed toilets at the Nursery End at Lord's were built in the late 1890s and demolished to make way for the new Edrich Stand in 2019. They were considered to be classic examples of Victorian enamelware

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Aug 26

In her latest book, acclaimed memoirist, teacher and mentor @lilydunn.bsky.social shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir.

'Into being' shows readers how to turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery - one that can be shared with the whole world. #booksky #memoir

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · Aug 23

“Journalist writes novel” is about as interesting a headline as “Dog bites man”, but Richard Lloyd Parry’s debut novel In the Green Heart is a good, nasty, thought-provoking entertainment.

My review:

Chased by a black helicopter — a jungle adventure story

In the Green Heart, Richard Lloyd Parry’s debut literary thriller, plunges a young family into peril in a foreign land

www.thetimes.com

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Richard Beard @richbeard.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks Lynn, and thanks Matt ... 'a collaborative work of collective autobiography, which, well, is just fcuking great' ... can't say fairer than that.

Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · Aug 10

Matt @mattmuir.bsky.social's Web Curios from Friday has some interesting internet writing things in it, especially the Universal Turing Machine bio narrative: universalturingmachine.co.uk. Read Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-08...

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Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 18

Very happy to tell you that my novel Dooneen will be published next June by Fitzcarraldo Editions (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to Jacques and Barbara - both of whom say lovely things here - and to superagent @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social.

Fitzcarraldo Editions to publish Keith Ridgway's DOONEEN | Fitzcarraldo Editions

Fitzcarraldo Editions publisher Jacques Testard has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights excluding Canada, with exclusivity in Europe, to Keith Ridgway’s novel Dooneen from Laurence Laluyaux at RCW. Ridg...

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · Aug 2

“It’s almost taboo among writers to say, ‘I am interested in finding out what a person could do with this technology.’”

I spoke to @naomialderman.bsky.social, @richbeard.bsky.social and Sarah Hall about what AI means for novelists, in this week’s @ftweekend.com Books Essay:

Will AI put fiction writers out of work?

Authors Naomi Alderman, Curtis Sittenfeld and more on why artificial intelligence is stirring fears for the future of book publishing

on.ft.com

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<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · Aug 5

NEW HAL HARTLEY

WHERE TO LAND - Official Trailer

YouTube video by Hal Hartley

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