word diver
@theworddiver.bsky.social
Writer, editor and podcaster. Design for Sustainability @MMU. Latest novel: Adrift (Pine Goat).
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· Oct 27
First Impressions - Northern Textures - Episode 30
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New 30-min soundscape episode of my podcast First Impressions. Feat. spoken word, found sound, and music from Bonbon Experiment & Ocean in a Bottle, the title was inspired by a photo-poetry collab from Brad Cheek, launched earlier in '25. Best listened to through 🎧
open.spotify.com/episode/2JXH...
open.spotify.com/episode/2JXH...
New 30-min soundscape episode of my podcast First Impressions. Feat. spoken word, found sound, and music from Bonbon Experiment & Ocean in a Bottle, the title was inspired by a photo-poetry collab from Brad Cheek, launched earlier in '25. Best listened to through 🎧
open.spotify.com/episode/2JXH...
open.spotify.com/episode/2JXH...
First Impressions - Northern Textures - Episode 30
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October 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
New 30-min soundscape episode of my podcast First Impressions. Feat. spoken word, found sound, and music from Bonbon Experiment & Ocean in a Bottle, the title was inspired by a photo-poetry collab from Brad Cheek, launched earlier in '25. Best listened to through 🎧
open.spotify.com/episode/2JXH...
open.spotify.com/episode/2JXH...
ADRIFT LAUNCH PARTY Massive nice one to all who came along to the Gregson in Lancaster on 18th July. Slides were shown, scones consumed, extracts read, books signed, drinks drunk and heartfelt thanks passed on. DM me to get a signed copy of Adrift for £7.50 + P&P, or find it on Amazon for £7.99 x
August 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
ADRIFT LAUNCH PARTY Massive nice one to all who came along to the Gregson in Lancaster on 18th July. Slides were shown, scones consumed, extracts read, books signed, drinks drunk and heartfelt thanks passed on. DM me to get a signed copy of Adrift for £7.50 + P&P, or find it on Amazon for £7.99 x
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Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Closing date 8 November!
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Closing date 8 November!
Prize — Galley Beggar Press
www.galleybeggar.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Closing date 8 November!
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Closing date 8 November!
It’s 1984 and the Egyptian deity Anubis has taken refuge in a lamppost on the Wirral. Who knew? For more tall tales from the ‘80s, darkly comic satire set during Covid, and the murderous plot that binds them together, uncover my new novel Adrift, out now. #adrift #peterhumphreys #speakeasy #chorlton
July 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It’s 1984 and the Egyptian deity Anubis has taken refuge in a lamppost on the Wirral. Who knew? For more tall tales from the ‘80s, darkly comic satire set during Covid, and the murderous plot that binds them together, uncover my new novel Adrift, out now. #adrift #peterhumphreys #speakeasy #chorlton
SPOKE EASY Great to be back in excellent company at Speak Easy in Chorlton, Manchester reading from my new novel, Adrift, alongside Maria Roberts, artist-organisers @andynartist.bsky.social, Amanda Nicholson & others. You can find Adrift on (the dreaded) Amazon or DM me and I’ll get a copy to you x
July 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
SPOKE EASY Great to be back in excellent company at Speak Easy in Chorlton, Manchester reading from my new novel, Adrift, alongside Maria Roberts, artist-organisers @andynartist.bsky.social, Amanda Nicholson & others. You can find Adrift on (the dreaded) Amazon or DM me and I’ll get a copy to you x
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VACANCY - DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY
We're looking for a Senior #Research Associate in #Design for #Sustainability to work alongside experienced professors with a well-established research portfolio.
Location: #Manchester All Saints Campus
More details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
We're looking for a Senior #Research Associate in #Design for #Sustainability to work alongside experienced professors with a well-established research portfolio.
Location: #Manchester All Saints Campus
More details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
Research Associate (Design for Sustainability) - (8474) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers
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July 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
VACANCY - DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY
We're looking for a Senior #Research Associate in #Design for #Sustainability to work alongside experienced professors with a well-established research portfolio.
Location: #Manchester All Saints Campus
More details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
We're looking for a Senior #Research Associate in #Design for #Sustainability to work alongside experienced professors with a well-established research portfolio.
Location: #Manchester All Saints Campus
More details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
My new novel has a new cover - come to the book launch party for Adrift on Friday 18 July at The Gregson centre in Lancaster to learn more about the book's design and our nascent publisher, Pine Goat. There will also be (brief) readings, book sales (cash only), scones, drinks, music & nattering x
July 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
My new novel has a new cover - come to the book launch party for Adrift on Friday 18 July at The Gregson centre in Lancaster to learn more about the book's design and our nascent publisher, Pine Goat. There will also be (brief) readings, book sales (cash only), scones, drinks, music & nattering x
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Speak Easy (Our spoken word night) is at Chorlton's wonderful Dulcimer Bar on 03/07/25.
Full details here: onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2025/06/spea...
Subs list: [email protected]
#poetryopenmic #spokenwordopenmic #spokenword #poetry #chorltonopenmic #chorltonpoetry
Full details here: onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2025/06/spea...
Subs list: [email protected]
#poetryopenmic #spokenwordopenmic #spokenword #poetry #chorltonopenmic #chorltonpoetry
Speak Easy readers July 2025
Below is the lineup for Speak Easy (Our Spoken Word / Poetry Open Mic) this Thursday, 03 July 2025, hosted as always at Chorlton's wonderf...
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June 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Speak Easy (Our spoken word night) is at Chorlton's wonderful Dulcimer Bar on 03/07/25.
Full details here: onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2025/06/spea...
Subs list: [email protected]
#poetryopenmic #spokenwordopenmic #spokenword #poetry #chorltonopenmic #chorltonpoetry
Full details here: onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2025/06/spea...
Subs list: [email protected]
#poetryopenmic #spokenwordopenmic #spokenword #poetry #chorltonopenmic #chorltonpoetry
Looking forward to returning to Speak Easy at Dulcimer this week where I'll be reading from my new novel Adrift & seeing what's afoot in the Chorlton lit scene. Best practise me enunciating x #speakeasy #chorlton #manchester #literature #reading #adrift #novel #peterhumphreys
July 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Looking forward to returning to Speak Easy at Dulcimer this week where I'll be reading from my new novel Adrift & seeing what's afoot in the Chorlton lit scene. Best practise me enunciating x #speakeasy #chorlton #manchester #literature #reading #adrift #novel #peterhumphreys
New from Pine Goat
My BBC-longlisted, Buenos Aires-set s/story
Justice for one, or Justice for all?
Released as an e-book/paperback on 2 June
Available to pre-order now 🇦🇷
My BBC-longlisted, Buenos Aires-set s/story
Justice for one, or Justice for all?
Released as an e-book/paperback on 2 June
Available to pre-order now 🇦🇷
May 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
New from Pine Goat
My BBC-longlisted, Buenos Aires-set s/story
Justice for one, or Justice for all?
Released as an e-book/paperback on 2 June
Available to pre-order now 🇦🇷
My BBC-longlisted, Buenos Aires-set s/story
Justice for one, or Justice for all?
Released as an e-book/paperback on 2 June
Available to pre-order now 🇦🇷
Justice, my Buenos Aires-based thriller, set during Covid and longlisted for the BBC Short Story Award is now available to pre-order. Yours for a quid from 2 June! If you enjoy it, please rate and review on Amazon and/or Goodreads to help support my work. Gracias! www.amazon.co.uk/Justice-Pete...
Justice eBook : Humphreys, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Justice eBook : Humphreys, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Justice, my Buenos Aires-based thriller, set during Covid and longlisted for the BBC Short Story Award is now available to pre-order. Yours for a quid from 2 June! If you enjoy it, please rate and review on Amazon and/or Goodreads to help support my work. Gracias! www.amazon.co.uk/Justice-Pete...
ONE YEAR OF PET PROJECTS! x10 episodes in the bag/pet carrier, each of them unique & charming–like our guests and their special animals. Here’s the first in a series of short promo films for the show. If you’re enjoying the pod, don’t forget to rate it on Spotify, iTunes or wherever you listen 😻
May 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
ONE YEAR OF PET PROJECTS! x10 episodes in the bag/pet carrier, each of them unique & charming–like our guests and their special animals. Here’s the first in a series of short promo films for the show. If you’re enjoying the pod, don’t forget to rate it on Spotify, iTunes or wherever you listen 😻
Guillermo Kuitca’s atmospheric canvases feat. toppled chairs, flooded stage sets and vast rooms of grief to reflect the grim subject matter: the lost, lonely and disappeared. Began young, transcribing numbers 1-30,000 to reflect the victims of the dictatorship with a steady hand. #MALBA #buenosaires
April 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Guillermo Kuitca’s atmospheric canvases feat. toppled chairs, flooded stage sets and vast rooms of grief to reflect the grim subject matter: the lost, lonely and disappeared. Began young, transcribing numbers 1-30,000 to reflect the victims of the dictatorship with a steady hand. #MALBA #buenosaires
Biblioteca Nacional in Recoleta, Buenos Aires & guardians #borges and #cortazar. Designed ‘61, completed ‘92. Remembered my ID (passport) this time so could go in, see insightful exhibitions (on prisoners/the disappeared & Argentine film) and drink coffee on a brutal balcony.
April 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Dream sequence based on real events in Buenos Aires 🍕
April 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Dream sequence based on real events in Buenos Aires 🍕
NEW PET PROJECTS pod with HK-based author Stewart McKay who talks about life with his 😻 and his debut novella, the wonderful Ballad of Billy Lopez (out now) Spoiler alert: ONE of us rashly attempts a US accent to relay a vaguely pet-related passage from said book.. open.spotify.com/episode/6tLK...
Pet Projects - Episode 10 - Stewart McKay
Pet Projects · Episode
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April 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
NEW PET PROJECTS pod with HK-based author Stewart McKay who talks about life with his 😻 and his debut novella, the wonderful Ballad of Billy Lopez (out now) Spoiler alert: ONE of us rashly attempts a US accent to relay a vaguely pet-related passage from said book.. open.spotify.com/episode/6tLK...
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Anyone who tells you “we need to run government like a business” is secretly calculating how much your organs will sell for after they repossess your house
March 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Anyone who tells you “we need to run government like a business” is secretly calculating how much your organs will sell for after they repossess your house
LANCASTER TEXTURES Now available after a launch party where some of us featured poets read. Inspired by Brad Cheek's insightful photos, chuffed to have some new work in this visceral collection Buy a copy from Assembly Arts until 15 March/bradverts.co.uk & support a homeless charity too. #BookSky
March 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
LANCASTER TEXTURES Now available after a launch party where some of us featured poets read. Inspired by Brad Cheek's insightful photos, chuffed to have some new work in this visceral collection Buy a copy from Assembly Arts until 15 March/bradverts.co.uk & support a homeless charity too. #BookSky
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TONIGHT, Litfest comes back to Lancaster with over 50 ways to get involved (in person or online). It's not too late to book your tickets, we'd love for you to join us: geni.us/Litfest2025
March 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
TONIGHT, Litfest comes back to Lancaster with over 50 ways to get involved (in person or online). It's not too late to book your tickets, we'd love for you to join us: geni.us/Litfest2025
A few pics of the paperback edition of the new novel, Adrift (Pine Goat, 2025) With massive thanks to everyone who helped me realise this new project ❤️
March 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
A few pics of the paperback edition of the new novel, Adrift (Pine Goat, 2025) With massive thanks to everyone who helped me realise this new project ❤️
ADRIFT: my new 100% AI-free literary thriller spans x3 time periods over alternating chapter cycles (cargo ship to South America; intrigue in Manchester during Covid; murder mysteries on the Wirral in the 80s) as it hurtles toward a dramatic conclusion. #BookSky
www.amazon.co.uk/Adrift-Peter...
www.amazon.co.uk/Adrift-Peter...
Adrift
Buy Adrift by Humphreys, Peter (ISBN: 9798306421377) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk
March 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
ADRIFT: my new 100% AI-free literary thriller spans x3 time periods over alternating chapter cycles (cargo ship to South America; intrigue in Manchester during Covid; murder mysteries on the Wirral in the 80s) as it hurtles toward a dramatic conclusion. #BookSky
www.amazon.co.uk/Adrift-Peter...
www.amazon.co.uk/Adrift-Peter...
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“I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
February 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
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Byline Times are superb, and well worth a subscription.
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Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman
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February 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Byline Times are superb, and well worth a subscription.
An important story about 'mysterious' payments being made to wayward individuals to vandalise mosques and set fire to police cars in the UK. Fairly likely this has been happening across Europe to feed someone's agenda...follow the money etc. Divided we fall. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/18/r...
Revealed: The Tommy Robinson Supporters Network With Links to Neo-Nazi Groups and a Library of Terrorism Manuals
A Byline Times investigation finds members have access to an online library of bomb-making manuals, and instructions for assembling home-made firearms
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February 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
An important story about 'mysterious' payments being made to wayward individuals to vandalise mosques and set fire to police cars in the UK. Fairly likely this has been happening across Europe to feed someone's agenda...follow the money etc. Divided we fall. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/18/r...
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This is terrific and terrifying! @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social
#GetYourLugsOnIt!
#GetYourLugsOnIt!
🔴The Truth About Russia’s Campaign of Interference in British Democracy
The British people have been lied to and manipulated for years. It’s time we learnt the whole truth, writes whistleblower Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/13/r...
The British people have been lied to and manipulated for years. It’s time we learnt the whole truth, writes whistleblower Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/13/r...
The Truth About Russia's Campaign of Interference in British Democracy
The British people have been lied to and manipulated for years. It's time we learnt the whole truth, writes whistleblower Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This is terrific and terrifying! @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social
#GetYourLugsOnIt!
#GetYourLugsOnIt!