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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 9d

Variable damp September dawns
(none blue sky)
#lostwithiel

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 21d

@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social just found you here too - looking forward to catching up x

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 21d

Looking forward to Helen Scales's ocean talk, & also to joining @petermcallister.bsky.social & other contributors to *Cornwall In Short* at North Cornwall Book Festival in just over a week. 10-11am 27 Sept - Free! Foxgloves!

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Sep 3

evading the usual back-to-school blues with news of this new author tour in SW libraries to kick off in Jan 2026 - excited to start planning...

South Western Regional Library Services @swrls.bsky.social · Sep 3

We're excited to be working with @literatureworks.bsky.social on this new author tour in SW libraries, to kick off in Jan 2026, to include writing & reading workshops... thank you to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social National Lottery Projects funding #NationalYearOfReading

Literature Works @literatureworks.bsky.social · Sep 3

We're pleased to share some news of a forthcoming project, once again partnering with @swrls.bsky.social.

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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · Aug 19

More than 100 women's rights groups have warned that "racist" attempts to link sexual violence with immigration are putting victims at increased risk. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Linking sex attacks to migration is 'dangerous racist diversion' warning

In a letter to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper, organisations including Rape Crisis England and Wales, the End Violence Against Women Coalition and Refuge called on ministers to stand up to the 'danger...

www.mirror.co.uk

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Jul 14

Beetroot and roses

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Jul 10

"Poor us", and aren't we so very resilient and brave, we have all over again. Moth is not just upset but emotionally devastated; it's not just traumatising but 'absolutely traumatising', and 'heart breaking', and 'unbearable', and yet she seems to bear it so well. #TheSaltPath

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Jul 4

fantastic workshop, thanks Scott, and glad your book sales made room for your fermented stuff!

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Jun 23

Yes, absolutely

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Jun 21

solstice sea swim at Lansallos

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · May 12

Bluebells bluebells bluebells

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · May 8

wish I was in Cambridge!

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · May 8

pleased to be embarking on a new role as Research Community Facilitator for Survivors' Voices, alongside my writing and library work with @swrls.bsky.social

Survivors Voices : Turning pain into power

Survivors Voices is a survivor-led organisation that turns the pain of abuse into power to improve responses to trauma, through peer support, research, education and activism.

survivorsvoices.org

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Apr 30

at this midway point of a busy week (currently thinking about reading on the platform at Reading) I've another urge to share my life in categories

Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Apr 23

3 events that prompted me to reflect/naval gaze on my messy career and tidy things into categories... new blog post! #soundstudies #oralhistory #readingstudies #memorystudies #traumastudies #gothicstudies #literatureandscience etc

categorising things

I have a week of events coming up: • Monday 28 April: giving a guest lecture at Bath Spa University for an English Literature module called ‘Reading Communities’ • Wednesday 30 April: heading to Londo...

shelleytrower.wixsite.com

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Apr 30

This was brilliant yesterday and wish I could join today too - journeying to London - hope to catch up again soon!

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thank you 🙏

Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Apr 26

So many lives lost, directly and indirectly - most entirely unreported - over decades... not sure anything much is changing.

I find the repeated language of 'accuser' frustrating too, as though nothing was proven. Reality is doubted again and again and again.

Virginia Giuffre, Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein accuser, dies by suicide

Giuffre alleged she was trafficked to the Duke of York when she was 17, which he has strenuously denied.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Apr 23

3 events that prompted me to reflect/naval gaze on my messy career and tidy things into categories... new blog post! #soundstudies #oralhistory #readingstudies #memorystudies #traumastudies #gothicstudies #literatureandscience etc

categorising things

I have a week of events coming up: • Monday 28 April: giving a guest lecture at Bath Spa University for an English Literature module called ‘Reading Communities’ • Wednesday 30 April: heading to Londo...

shelleytrower.wixsite.com

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Apr 23

next week my things to do include a guest lecture for 'Reading Communities' module at @bathspauni.bsky.social, a 2-day @recovery-histories.bsky.social event at Birkbeck (on an advisory grp), then part of a panel @tatestives.bsky.social for the #ithelcolquhoun conference :-)

Ithell Colquhoun: The spaces between | Tate St Ives

www.tate.org.uk

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Apr 17

glad to put this job on the SWRLS website before signing off for the long weekend 📚 would love to see such jobs in every library everywhere forever

#libraries #climateaction

South Western Regional Library Services @swrls.bsky.social · Apr 17

new job post: Climate Action Development Manager @ Exeter Library - in recognition of how "libraries play an important role in empowering communities to take steps in climate action" 👍

Jobs (All) | Swrls

www.swrls.org.uk

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Apr 8

Great - sure happy to add you :-)

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Mar 25

Same!

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Mar 20

Hope to make it- thank you Peter!

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Mar 20

aha - found it!

Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · Mar 20

I'd love to come and may be able to later in the day - is there a programme with timings or something?

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