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Reader, Braille tutor, interested in assistive tech, publishing and accessible art. Trying to use this new place while totally blind so please be patient with me and add alt text to your photos Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/
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Here are a few thoughts om Orbital, 2024, by Samantha Harvey, a contemplative and poetic novella about life for astronauts on the International Space Station 💙📚 #BookReview #Storygraph #Braille https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/9d831307-3945-4836-b52e-b0c4d2a5af34

Here's another chance to get yourself some E.M. Faulds! 'A Flight of Birds' is featured in SF Caledonia Anthology One, due out on 13th March. Find out why this story was nominated for a British Fantasy Award and pre-order your copy now! @bethkesh.bsky.social @shoreinf.bsky.social

Words To Live By Number 193

If you're an unpaid #carer who writes do put your work forward and get your voice heard. You matter.

Had a busy morning as my new PA started! It’s been a chaotic few weeks getting through the recruitment process so it’s great to get going on training. I forget every time how draining this all is. Once we get to know each other better I’m sure it’ll work really well 😌 #disability #blind ♿️

Literary gold … or betrayal of trust? Joan Didion journal opens ethical minefield

So pleased to announce a publication date for the audiobook version of The Department. It will be narrated by the fantastic disabled actor Sam Jones. Ironic that publication day is 25 March, the day before the spring statement😐 Info here:

📣Teachers in Lewisham Join us at LEAN's Cultural Connectors Meeting and see how your school can get involved in our Borough of Literature campaign 🗓️Tues 25 Feb, 4.30pm 📍Catford Library 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/leans-cultural-connectors-meeting-nurturing-lewishams-young-writers-tickets-1098115616369

What’s on the BBC this morning? Oh just some Calvino short stories, dramatised by Toby Jones, available anywhere around the world for free: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

We’re doing a bit of shopping at IKEA for our son’s bedroom and I can honestly say I’ve been looking forward to my meatball lunch all week #HalfTerm

We're launching a new Audio Book Club at Orkney Library as part of Make a Noise in the North - a project about how we can help to support people with sight problems. Audio Waves Book Club is a new way to offer a book club experience to readers who prefer or require audiobooks.

Lonely women in literature, new on my blog today. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/l...

I’m on @bbcradio4.bsky.social In Touch tonight talking about the Blind George of Anstey episode and myths and legends about blindness. Listen live at 8:40pm GMT or 👇🏻 after www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We’ve tried to be open about our thought process as our relationship to Twitter has changed (including in the below thread from the end of last year), so I wanted to share that we have now left Twitter for good. Details here: canongate.co.uk/news/canonga... bsky.app/profile/cano...

Last call for entries to our #WorldBookDay creative writing competition for children age 5-12 with vision impairment! 📚 Send us your stories on ‘Friendship’ in Word, BRF, video or audio, to [email protected] by Friday 21 February. Full details: rnib.in/WorldBookDay

February half term 🤝 Deptford Literature Festival 2025 #deptfordlitfest #halfterm #lewisham #deptford #festival

Had a lovely morning at a spa to get some heat deep into my bones! It was so lovely soaking in the outdoor jacuzzi, listening to the birds, with the sun on my face while it was about 2 degrees outside! 😄

I love this diagram so much. People who've been stuck in The Inaccessibility Cycle before immediately get it, & people who haven't have an "Oh sh**" moment. #disability #accessibility #disabilityjustice

‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon

This is the clearest photo ever taken of Venus. 🔭 🧪

I’ve written some thoughts on Open Water, 2021, by Caleb Azumah Nelson, a poetic coming of age love story and an exploration of creativity, injustice and loss in south east London 💙📚 #BookReview #Braille https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4fd3842b-fcb6-44ff-9391-a0e8be300989

New on the blog today, I've written about A LITTLE LUCK by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle). I loved this quietly gripping exploration of motherhood, split-second decisions and their devastating consequences. A 5-star knockout read for me! #BlueSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/02/16/a...

Off into London to meet my brother-in-law and niece who’re sight-seein today… we’re going to the Museum of zoology at UCL which sounds cool, no idea it existed!

Artist Isobelle Ouzman carves intricate 3D illustrations into discarded books found in dumpsters, recycling bins, and local thrift shops #WomensArt

I’ve written some thoughts on Open Water, 2021, by Caleb Azumah Nelson, a poetic coming of age love story and an exploration of creativity, injustice and loss in south east London 💙📚 #BookReview #Braille https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4fd3842b-fcb6-44ff-9391-a0e8be300989

Vital Xposure are looking for a visionary and inspirational artist/s, who wants to lead the next chapter of Vital Xposure’s artistic journey. Closing - 17 Feb Location - London ££ - £49.5K-£54.6K FTE disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...

#OTD in 1898. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde was published by Leonard Smithers, under the name "C.3.3.", which stood for cell block C, landing 3, cell 3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bal... Ballad of Reading Gaol at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/301 #books #literature #poetry

For #readindies today, a new book from @oxunipress.bsky.social in their My Reading series, which takes a fascinating look at Octavia Butler - more here on the Ramblings: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/02/12/h...

Do we have anything like this in the UK? I don’t want to own a noisy / expensive embosser but it’d be great to be able to have access to one from time to time - maybe an idea for the #RNIB head office…

Especially love this for Barbara Pym ❤️

Here’s a great free online event coming up on 24/25 Feb, 1pm - 4pm UK time: Disability and Fairy Tales: Keeping the magic, confronting the stigma 💙📚 #Disability #FairyTales #folklore #publishing https://www.disabledtales.co.uk/programme.html

We are thrilled to announce the 16 books that have made the 2025 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist! With authors drawn from a wide range of professional spheres and expertise, discover some brilliant books that will inform, educate and inspire you for years to come: https://youtu.be/98OuOZs26dc

Story time had to be dramatically paused earlier to witness the replay of Exeter’s equaliser and he finally went to sleep, but the match is amazingly still going on haha! Can they win?!

New @backlisted.bsky.social special! Biographies and memoirs by Nancy Mitford, Roger Lewis, Elizabeth Jane Howard, P.D. James and Jean Rhys, with Laura Thompson and @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/233...

“It's a neat way to stumble upon interesting information randomly, learn new things, and spend spare moments of boredom without reaching for an algorithmically addictive social media” arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

New on the blog today, I've written about MR BOWLING BUYS A NEWSPAPER by Donald Henderson. A wickedly satirical portrayal of a murderer operating under the cloak of the London Blitz. Fans of Patrick Hamilton & Patricia Highsmith will likely enjoy this! 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/m...

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

Curtis Brown Creative offer a series of breakthrough scholarships, bursaries, courses and mentoring for new writers, writers of colour and writers on low income and others. Details in the link. Please share :)