Will Conway - Writeacher
@willconway.bsky.social
Writer and teacher. Creative Writing at UEA. Stories, comics, zines, film reviews http://www.willconway.co.uk/blog/a-life-in-film/ I write Steak with Marc Olivent #1-2 available now https://www.steakcomic.co.uk #3 coming soon
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Busy About the Tree of Life - Pamela Zoline. Wise and weird collection of science fiction from all sorts of strange angles. Formally experimental in a way that bewildered but never bored me
Busy About the Tree of Life - Pamela Zoline. Wise and weird collection of science fiction from all sorts of strange angles. Formally experimental in a way that bewildered but never bored me
December 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Busy About the Tree of Life - Pamela Zoline. Wise and weird collection of science fiction from all sorts of strange angles. Formally experimental in a way that bewildered but never bored me
Busy About the Tree of Life - Pamela Zoline. Wise and weird collection of science fiction from all sorts of strange angles. Formally experimental in a way that bewildered but never bored me
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Confucius in Silicon Valley - Zumak. Gripping, well-detailed tech thriller about a social media company using Chinese Social Credit surveillance data to build a frighteningly accurate AI.
Confucius in Silicon Valley - Zumak. Gripping, well-detailed tech thriller about a social media company using Chinese Social Credit surveillance data to build a frighteningly accurate AI.
December 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Confucius in Silicon Valley - Zumak. Gripping, well-detailed tech thriller about a social media company using Chinese Social Credit surveillance data to build a frighteningly accurate AI.
Confucius in Silicon Valley - Zumak. Gripping, well-detailed tech thriller about a social media company using Chinese Social Credit surveillance data to build a frighteningly accurate AI.
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Everything You Ever Wanted - Luiza Sauma. Reading like a hybrid of two projects I’m currently writing, I had to grab this from the library. A lucky number of people are given the chance to start again on a new, unpopulated planet but what will they leave behind?
Everything You Ever Wanted - Luiza Sauma. Reading like a hybrid of two projects I’m currently writing, I had to grab this from the library. A lucky number of people are given the chance to start again on a new, unpopulated planet but what will they leave behind?
December 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Everything You Ever Wanted - Luiza Sauma. Reading like a hybrid of two projects I’m currently writing, I had to grab this from the library. A lucky number of people are given the chance to start again on a new, unpopulated planet but what will they leave behind?
Everything You Ever Wanted - Luiza Sauma. Reading like a hybrid of two projects I’m currently writing, I had to grab this from the library. A lucky number of people are given the chance to start again on a new, unpopulated planet but what will they leave behind?
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Becoming a Writer - Dorothea Brande. Considering this is nearly a hundred years old, it was actually quite enjoyable and certainly encouraging advice on the writer’s life, if a bit dated.
Becoming a Writer - Dorothea Brande. Considering this is nearly a hundred years old, it was actually quite enjoyable and certainly encouraging advice on the writer’s life, if a bit dated.
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Becoming a Writer - Dorothea Brande. Considering this is nearly a hundred years old, it was actually quite enjoyable and certainly encouraging advice on the writer’s life, if a bit dated.
Becoming a Writer - Dorothea Brande. Considering this is nearly a hundred years old, it was actually quite enjoyable and certainly encouraging advice on the writer’s life, if a bit dated.
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Flesh & Blood - Chris Geary & Simon Lewis. Graphic novel of minimalist art and a grim tone, mixing the supernatural with realism in a taut crime thriller of a paramedic’s search for her husband’s killer.
Flesh & Blood - Chris Geary & Simon Lewis. Graphic novel of minimalist art and a grim tone, mixing the supernatural with realism in a taut crime thriller of a paramedic’s search for her husband’s killer.
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Flesh & Blood - Chris Geary & Simon Lewis. Graphic novel of minimalist art and a grim tone, mixing the supernatural with realism in a taut crime thriller of a paramedic’s search for her husband’s killer.
Flesh & Blood - Chris Geary & Simon Lewis. Graphic novel of minimalist art and a grim tone, mixing the supernatural with realism in a taut crime thriller of a paramedic’s search for her husband’s killer.
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Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates. Finally got round to reading this important work and noticed halfway through Equalizer 2 that Denzel was reading it so I’m in good company
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates. Finally got round to reading this important work and noticed halfway through Equalizer 2 that Denzel was reading it so I’m in good company
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates. Finally got round to reading this important work and noticed halfway through Equalizer 2 that Denzel was reading it so I’m in good company
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates. Finally got round to reading this important work and noticed halfway through Equalizer 2 that Denzel was reading it so I’m in good company
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Vue Westfield Stratford
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One Battle After Another (2025)
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Should have called this shopping centre Eastfield, but I braved it to tick off a new cinema to watch this movie and I’m glad I did. An absolute ride of a film, from start to end.
Vue Westfield Stratford
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One Battle After Another (2025)
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Should have called this shopping centre Eastfield, but I braved it to tick off a new cinema to watch this movie and I’m glad I did. An absolute ride of a film, from start to end.
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Vue Westfield Stratford
🎥🎥🎥
One Battle After Another (2025)
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
Should have called this shopping centre Eastfield, but I braved it to tick off a new cinema to watch this movie and I’m glad I did. An absolute ride of a film, from start to end.
Vue Westfield Stratford
🎥🎥🎥
One Battle After Another (2025)
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
Should have called this shopping centre Eastfield, but I braved it to tick off a new cinema to watch this movie and I’m glad I did. An absolute ride of a film, from start to end.
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Lanny - Max Porter. A village is turned upside down when an eccentric local boy goes missing. Kind of like a broken mirror reflecting different views of England
Lanny - Max Porter. A village is turned upside down when an eccentric local boy goes missing. Kind of like a broken mirror reflecting different views of England
October 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Lanny - Max Porter. A village is turned upside down when an eccentric local boy goes missing. Kind of like a broken mirror reflecting different views of England
Lanny - Max Porter. A village is turned upside down when an eccentric local boy goes missing. Kind of like a broken mirror reflecting different views of England
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Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. The story of a neurodivergent woman who finds herself working a routine retail job. Deadpan and very relatable the way she struggles to relate
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. The story of a neurodivergent woman who finds herself working a routine retail job. Deadpan and very relatable the way she struggles to relate
October 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. The story of a neurodivergent woman who finds herself working a routine retail job. Deadpan and very relatable the way she struggles to relate
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. The story of a neurodivergent woman who finds herself working a routine retail job. Deadpan and very relatable the way she struggles to relate
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The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett. Wise post-apocalyptic old-west sci-fi about a finding a hidden city that retains the banned scientific knowledge after a nuclear war, written by the screenwriter from Empire Strikes Back.
The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett. Wise post-apocalyptic old-west sci-fi about a finding a hidden city that retains the banned scientific knowledge after a nuclear war, written by the screenwriter from Empire Strikes Back.
October 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett. Wise post-apocalyptic old-west sci-fi about a finding a hidden city that retains the banned scientific knowledge after a nuclear war, written by the screenwriter from Empire Strikes Back.
The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett. Wise post-apocalyptic old-west sci-fi about a finding a hidden city that retains the banned scientific knowledge after a nuclear war, written by the screenwriter from Empire Strikes Back.
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The Passion of GH - Clarice Lispector. A wild book that pulls apart every moment despite its fabula being short and sweet: a woman finds a cockroach in her maid’s room…
The Passion of GH - Clarice Lispector. A wild book that pulls apart every moment despite its fabula being short and sweet: a woman finds a cockroach in her maid’s room…
October 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The Passion of GH - Clarice Lispector. A wild book that pulls apart every moment despite its fabula being short and sweet: a woman finds a cockroach in her maid’s room…
The Passion of GH - Clarice Lispector. A wild book that pulls apart every moment despite its fabula being short and sweet: a woman finds a cockroach in her maid’s room…
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Memoirs found in a Bathtub - Stanislaw Lem. In a society without paper, these mysterious notes are found which may reveal the truth of what happened to the paranoid bureaucratic world before. Perplexing and circuitous but amusing and clever
Memoirs found in a Bathtub - Stanislaw Lem. In a society without paper, these mysterious notes are found which may reveal the truth of what happened to the paranoid bureaucratic world before. Perplexing and circuitous but amusing and clever
October 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Memoirs found in a Bathtub - Stanislaw Lem. In a society without paper, these mysterious notes are found which may reveal the truth of what happened to the paranoid bureaucratic world before. Perplexing and circuitous but amusing and clever
Memoirs found in a Bathtub - Stanislaw Lem. In a society without paper, these mysterious notes are found which may reveal the truth of what happened to the paranoid bureaucratic world before. Perplexing and circuitous but amusing and clever
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The Transition - @lukekennard.bsky.social Social satire on a near-future prison alternative that offers to rebuild the lives of middle class crims. Well-observed, surprisingly tender and of course very funny
The Transition - @lukekennard.bsky.social Social satire on a near-future prison alternative that offers to rebuild the lives of middle class crims. Well-observed, surprisingly tender and of course very funny
October 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The Transition - @lukekennard.bsky.social Social satire on a near-future prison alternative that offers to rebuild the lives of middle class crims. Well-observed, surprisingly tender and of course very funny
The Transition - @lukekennard.bsky.social Social satire on a near-future prison alternative that offers to rebuild the lives of middle class crims. Well-observed, surprisingly tender and of course very funny
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Royal Festival Hall
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The Mastermind (2025)
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Slow-burning beautifully-shot turn on a bungled art heist including a brief Q&A with Kelly Reichardt and Josh O’Connor beforehand.
Royal Festival Hall
🎥🎥🎥🎥
The Mastermind (2025)
🍿🍿🍿🍿
Slow-burning beautifully-shot turn on a bungled art heist including a brief Q&A with Kelly Reichardt and Josh O’Connor beforehand.
October 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Royal Festival Hall
🎥🎥🎥🎥
The Mastermind (2025)
🍿🍿🍿🍿
Slow-burning beautifully-shot turn on a bungled art heist including a brief Q&A with Kelly Reichardt and Josh O’Connor beforehand.
Royal Festival Hall
🎥🎥🎥🎥
The Mastermind (2025)
🍿🍿🍿🍿
Slow-burning beautifully-shot turn on a bungled art heist including a brief Q&A with Kelly Reichardt and Josh O’Connor beforehand.
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Everyman Barnet
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Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
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Birthday treat with this fun Kurosawa remake in a glorious old cinema they’ve done up. The Puerto Rican festival action sequence was beautifully hectic
Everyman Barnet
🎥🎥🎥
Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
🍿🍿🍿
Birthday treat with this fun Kurosawa remake in a glorious old cinema they’ve done up. The Puerto Rican festival action sequence was beautifully hectic
October 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Everyman Barnet
🎥🎥🎥
Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
🍿🍿🍿
Birthday treat with this fun Kurosawa remake in a glorious old cinema they’ve done up. The Puerto Rican festival action sequence was beautifully hectic
Everyman Barnet
🎥🎥🎥
Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
🍿🍿🍿
Birthday treat with this fun Kurosawa remake in a glorious old cinema they’ve done up. The Puerto Rican festival action sequence was beautifully hectic
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In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan. Another holiday read; murky shorts with an undercurrent of the dark and carnal. The stories still have punch all these years on
In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan. Another holiday read; murky shorts with an undercurrent of the dark and carnal. The stories still have punch all these years on
October 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan. Another holiday read; murky shorts with an undercurrent of the dark and carnal. The stories still have punch all these years on
In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan. Another holiday read; murky shorts with an undercurrent of the dark and carnal. The stories still have punch all these years on
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The Little Disturbances of Men - Grace Paley. Smart and funny in places, read these short stories on Jewish NY women as I’d finished all my other holiday books
The Little Disturbances of Men - Grace Paley. Smart and funny in places, read these short stories on Jewish NY women as I’d finished all my other holiday books
October 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The Little Disturbances of Men - Grace Paley. Smart and funny in places, read these short stories on Jewish NY women as I’d finished all my other holiday books
The Little Disturbances of Men - Grace Paley. Smart and funny in places, read these short stories on Jewish NY women as I’d finished all my other holiday books
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Kallocain - Karin Boye. Swedish dystopian scifi from 1940 about suspicion and surveillance when a doctor creates a drug that makes users tell the truth. Shades of Brave New World and We. Drab terror that’s strangely intimate
Kallocain - Karin Boye. Swedish dystopian scifi from 1940 about suspicion and surveillance when a doctor creates a drug that makes users tell the truth. Shades of Brave New World and We. Drab terror that’s strangely intimate
October 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Kallocain - Karin Boye. Swedish dystopian scifi from 1940 about suspicion and surveillance when a doctor creates a drug that makes users tell the truth. Shades of Brave New World and We. Drab terror that’s strangely intimate
Kallocain - Karin Boye. Swedish dystopian scifi from 1940 about suspicion and surveillance when a doctor creates a drug that makes users tell the truth. Shades of Brave New World and We. Drab terror that’s strangely intimate
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Custard Heart - Dorothy Parker. These fun shorts are perfect for the back pocket if you’re on the move. Safe to assume I was the only person with a Dorothy Parker book in the football stadium.
Custard Heart - Dorothy Parker. These fun shorts are perfect for the back pocket if you’re on the move. Safe to assume I was the only person with a Dorothy Parker book in the football stadium.
October 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Custard Heart - Dorothy Parker. These fun shorts are perfect for the back pocket if you’re on the move. Safe to assume I was the only person with a Dorothy Parker book in the football stadium.
Custard Heart - Dorothy Parker. These fun shorts are perfect for the back pocket if you’re on the move. Safe to assume I was the only person with a Dorothy Parker book in the football stadium.
54. Jungle House - Julianne Pachico. Speculative tale of a girl growing up in an AI holiday home in S America. Sinister, smart and sensitive. Met the author during my MA interview and she’s great
September 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
54. Jungle House - Julianne Pachico. Speculative tale of a girl growing up in an AI holiday home in S America. Sinister, smart and sensitive. Met the author during my MA interview and she’s great
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There is no antimimetics division - qntm. Sci-fi horror about malevolent self-censoring ‘antimemes’ which attack memory and reality itself. The dept must fight an enemy no one knows exists @qntm.org
There is no antimimetics division - qntm. Sci-fi horror about malevolent self-censoring ‘antimemes’ which attack memory and reality itself. The dept must fight an enemy no one knows exists @qntm.org
September 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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There is no antimimetics division - qntm. Sci-fi horror about malevolent self-censoring ‘antimemes’ which attack memory and reality itself. The dept must fight an enemy no one knows exists @qntm.org
There is no antimimetics division - qntm. Sci-fi horror about malevolent self-censoring ‘antimemes’ which attack memory and reality itself. The dept must fight an enemy no one knows exists @qntm.org
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Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald. Psychogeographic walking tour of East Anglia that transports us across the world and back. Puzzling and delightful
Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald. Psychogeographic walking tour of East Anglia that transports us across the world and back. Puzzling and delightful
September 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald. Psychogeographic walking tour of East Anglia that transports us across the world and back. Puzzling and delightful
Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald. Psychogeographic walking tour of East Anglia that transports us across the world and back. Puzzling and delightful
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Tales from Two Pockets - Karel Čapek. After inventing the word Robot, Čapek wrote this selection of semi-satirical mystery stories, mostly about crime. Some more interesting than other but some absolute gems in here almost fable-like.
Tales from Two Pockets - Karel Čapek. After inventing the word Robot, Čapek wrote this selection of semi-satirical mystery stories, mostly about crime. Some more interesting than other but some absolute gems in here almost fable-like.
August 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Tales from Two Pockets - Karel Čapek. After inventing the word Robot, Čapek wrote this selection of semi-satirical mystery stories, mostly about crime. Some more interesting than other but some absolute gems in here almost fable-like.
Tales from Two Pockets - Karel Čapek. After inventing the word Robot, Čapek wrote this selection of semi-satirical mystery stories, mostly about crime. Some more interesting than other but some absolute gems in here almost fable-like.
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One day everyone will have always been against this - Omar El Akkad. With a title so powerful it almost saves you reading the book, this painful and surprising exploration of Western failure to practice the values it preaches is an urgent read
One day everyone will have always been against this - Omar El Akkad. With a title so powerful it almost saves you reading the book, this painful and surprising exploration of Western failure to practice the values it preaches is an urgent read
August 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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One day everyone will have always been against this - Omar El Akkad. With a title so powerful it almost saves you reading the book, this painful and surprising exploration of Western failure to practice the values it preaches is an urgent read
One day everyone will have always been against this - Omar El Akkad. With a title so powerful it almost saves you reading the book, this painful and surprising exploration of Western failure to practice the values it preaches is an urgent read
…that was when I finally spoke out. Free Palestzine
August 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
…that was when I finally spoke out. Free Palestzine