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writercrow.bsky.social
Writer of books, lecturer of creative writing, sometime Guardian/Bookseller/Stylist journalist. The Illumination of Ursula Flight + Badly Behaved Women.
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The phases of winter: - Surviving, just - nice glass of wine after a hard day's work - Distinctly rundown - lovely cocktail is spirit-raising medicine - Ill enough to need to drink / too ill to be hungover - portioning whisky carefully - Health is returning - hello, tequila

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Solidarity to all at the Gdn & Obs.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

They look like they… don’t read

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

£5000 prize + Curtis Brown representation on offer here 👇🏼

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Writing just isn’t interesting to huge swathes of people, is it? I’d say the majority of my (non-pub ind) friends & most of my family haven’t read my books… www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/17/my-wife-glazes-over-when-i-talk-about-my-writing-how-can-i-come-to-terms-with-her-indifference

submitted 92 days ago • 5 comments

Love this for her (& literary fiction in general)

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

Struggling to finish that book? Good news - you’re not useless, inept and lazy, you just haven’t tried ✨COCA WINE✨

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

This thread is stupendous 👇🏼

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

An erotic short story in three acts

submitted 193 days ago • 69 comments

Have recently moved; my first ever trip to a carpet shop. Refused to countenance *this* brand on the grounds of the shade names which (am I wrong?) make me feel violent, rageful, murderous, insane. I’m thinking of the copywriter who did this, presumably against their will, & how they are doing now

submitted 99 days ago • 14 comments

Hark! My favourite literary festival needs your guest recs! I still think fondly of the year with the frozen rosé machine (frozé???) in the green room. I drank it with Tessa Hadley in the sunshine 🌞

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment