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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · 4d

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 🎧
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First Impressions - Northern Textures - Episode 30

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Aug 3

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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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · Jul 28

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!

Prize — Galley Beggar Press

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Jul 11

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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Stuart Walker @stuartwalker.bsky.social · Jul 9

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...

Research Associate (Design for Sustainability) - (8474) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers

All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Jul 1

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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Andy N @andynartist.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · May 28

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 🇦🇷

word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · May 28

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

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · May 23

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 😻

word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Apr 16

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

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Apr 16

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.

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Apr 15

Dream sequence based on real events in Buenos Aires 🍕

word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Apr 1

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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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · Mar 13

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

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Mar 8

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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Litfest, Lancaster @litfest.bsky.social · Mar 7

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

Against a background with elements of the Litfesst cover design, a flatlaid copy of the Litfest 2025 programme.

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Mar 8

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 ❤️

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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Mar 8

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
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Adrift

Buy Adrift by Humphreys, Peter (ISBN: 9798306421377) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Feb 23

“I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”

Stephen Fry

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Adam Trilby @adamevolved.bsky.social · Feb 22

Byline Times are superb, and well worth a subscription.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Feb 22

Fearless and independent investigative journalism is needed more than ever in these times. Attempts to suppress this story on Trump and the KGB demonstrate this ⬇️

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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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word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social · Feb 19

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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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · Feb 13

This is terrific and terrifying! @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social

#GetYourLugsOnIt!

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Feb 13

🔴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

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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

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