Cannot believe my time with The London Library’s Emerging Writers program has come to an end. What an extraordinary experience and what an honour to meet so many talented writers / human beings.

This is definitely worth 5 minutes of your time. Great work! 💙📚🩸📚

A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews

Happy (nearly) Halloween! My story “An Eater” is now out on Tales from the Moonlit Path.

talesmoonlitpath.com/fiction-3/an...

"Of course it is difficult. You are creating a creature with a soul."
- Jenny Offill, Department of Speculation.

From “Meeting the Devil” by Hilary Mantel.

"The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know.... Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough....” - John Adams

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Spent last night making a reading list from Sigrid Nunez's 'The Friend' and all the authors mentioned:

Ozymandias

"I’ve seen other worlds in me, alternate histories
in which the marriage has already ended."

New gem from @emilyapoetry.bsky.social

The audiobook is so good, I had to order a copy just to see those sentences for myself.

A Gaelic festival to mark the coming of spring, Imbolc is celebrated at the start of February and looks forward to the warmth that is yet to arrive. In honour of the festival, we shared Pip Osmond-Williams’ poem, Imbolc, from our sold-out April / May 2024 issue.

Weekly round-up incoming...🧵

New on our mainpage: “Francine,” by Sharon Wahl: wigleaf.com

Someone left a sales pitch for this book in the local book swap box.