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ekpey.bsky.social
Writer, Teacher - University of Essex, ACL Essex, Primary. Projects Essex Book Festival. Founder/Curator Colchester WriteNight. Also early literacy specialism - Reading Recovery/Phonics etc linktr.ee/ekpey ekpey.com
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submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Explore Carcanet’s archive online! 🐈‍⬛ The @official-uom.bsky.social Library has held the Carcanet archive since the 1970s - this digital showcase centres the destruction of Carcanet's offices in the 1996 IRA bombing of the Manchester Exchange. www.digitalexhibitions.manchester.ac.uk/s/carcanet/p...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The Laurel Prize is Open for Submissions! 📢 The Laurel Prize 2025 is now open until 1 May 2025 for collections published 1 June 2024 – 1 May 2025. Judges: @kathleenjamie.bsky.social (Chair), Daljit Nagra & @carolinelucas.bsky.social. Find out more & submit here: laurelprize.com

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

As the #musichall contingent has gone a bit quiet, how about #musichallmonday ? Here’s an offering from my camera roll - the remodelled Oxford Music Hall (Oxford St, later site of Branson’s Virgin megastore) of 1893 from the Building News

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Post PhD (I hope!) splurge at the cosy @redlionbooks.bsky.social Colchester. Kate Atkinson short fiction, duets @scratchbooks.bsky.social (exciting!) and Ocean Vuong poetry. Perfect👌 #bookhaul #booksky

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Took my books back to @essexuni.bsky.social library today. I didn’t want to let them go as checking daily for an updated PhD result after corrections! #academicsky #booksky #phdlife

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

We have lots of free original Poetry Society workshop resources on our website, like this one from Mandy Coe. Take a look!

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Local author Vicky Ball visited our creative writing class at ACL Essex yesterday. She attended the class herself a while back. It was great to interview her about her writing journey so far #writingcommunity #booksky #writer #colchester

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Attention all teachers—we’re thrilled to invite primary and secondary educators to our FREE Professional Development Day! Dive into a day filled with enriching insights and practical tips for creating a culturally diverse curriculum.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

#WasteLand by Robert D. Kaplan is out today! 📚🎉 One of the @financialtimes.com’s Books to Read in 2025
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submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks so much to Neil Jones and Patrick Martin from Castle Park Theatre for entertaining us at Colchester WriteNight last night! A great way to start the new writing year. We’ll all be writing park bench theatre and hoping to see some of it performed in the park 🌳☀️🎭🤗 (Next session 24 Feb)

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

submitted 31 days ago • 84 comments

Hello #BookSky If you're thinking about reading more books that have been challenged/banned, consider joining the #BannedBookSkyClub Discussions ongoing. The link to feed in replies to quoted post.

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

“a concise and easy-to-read guide to writing, publishing, and promoting a book” Review of Write Now by @barrowmember.bsky.social ciadish.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/w...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Orford Ness digital art and writing workshop today for Essex Book Festival and the Beach of Dreams Project. So many stories, such an intriguing place of military history, managed decline & contrasting natural landscape with hares, seals and birds. Of course it inspired lots of original writing!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Film expert @drdanobrien.bsky.social reviews the multi-Oscar nominated Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. Does this ballad of a thin man live up to the hype or is it tangled up in blue? Read the full review in the @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/a-complete-u...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Trainers and wrapped up for playground duty today. I teach in school on Friday - PE (football skills), reading comprehension, geography, art, music, spellings, story. Ran out of time for golden time but it was all pretty golden! Kids loved music and having a go at their own version of Starry Night ✨

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Getting some lovely endorsement quotes about my new book out in February from @elsewhen.press thanks to @amandaearl.bsky.social and Rhys Hughes for quotes

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

Hello! My first post here 🙂 Our monthly writing event Colchester WriteNight is back on Monday. I’m just kind of loving the balloon advert I made 😆 What do you think?

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments