National Director of Communication @ace_national (maternity cover). The views expressed here are personal, and not those of Arts Council England
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My second novel, The Catchers, is out today. A dark tale for dark times that just happens to be set in 1920s America. Contains moonshine, mountain music, & human oddities. Step right up 🪕saltpublishing.com/products/…
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This review of The Catchers by the one & only Sandra Newman makes me wonder if I've ever had a better review for anything, like ever, in my life. Dumbstruck, disorientated, completely undone
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Sarah Crown retweeted
Changing lives one story at a time: @GrimmAndCo - a remarkable, awe inspiring @ace_national #NPO in #Rotherham. A privilege to look round their magical new home today. Their excellent work now leads the way, influencing other literacy organisations around the world #LetsCreate
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📚 "Reading with a child sets off fireworks in their brains" 🎆
@BookTrust's Chief Executive, Diana Gerald MBE, took a moment to tell us about what books and stories mean to them, and why they are so important for our children’s future
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#LetsCreate
Good question to encounter on a day when I've spent quite a long time pondering the fact that I've been thinking about 'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening' on and off for nigh-on 30 years(!), and yet more I think about it, the stranger, wilder, and less explicable it becomes.
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"Reading print improves comprehension more than looking at digital text, say researchers." True! And I think that's one reason why kids still LOVE physical books. They can get totally absorbed in the world of a book, with no distractions, unlike a screen!
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Sarah Crown retweeted
Time to revisit this masterpiece of suspense and cheer. One of the gretest ever Christmas stories.
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We’re proud to support the @Literacy_Trust Connecting Stories project which transforms people’s access to literature and reading:
➡️ Read our blog with one of the Literacy Champions artscouncil.org.uk/blog/five…
➡️ Read the latest evaluation of the project literacytrust.org.uk/researc…
Dream. Job.
We're hiring! Arvon is recruiting for a Deputy Director to manage the day-to-day operations of Totleigh Barton, our Devon writing house. 30 hours pw, £27,725 pro rata, based in Devon. Apply by 8 November. arvon.org/careers/
Proud of @XanBrooks all the time; cranking that up a notch today
Cover reveal for my second novel, THE CATCHERS, which contains floodwater & music & mountains & crooks. A road (& boat) trip adventure through 1920s America. Out next year with the excellent @saltpublishing
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Sarah Crown retweeted
“You're looking for one detail that lights up the page: one line to perturb or challenge the reader, make him feel acknowledged, yet estranged.”
“Acknowledged, yet estranged”! Put that above every writer’s desk.
Me on Mantel’s “final book” (huh! I bet):
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Sarah Crown retweeted
Great to attend the Magic Swindon event at @create_studios and hear about the amazing work being done in the creative and arts sectors in the town. Huge thanks to @ace_southwest for their support and input.
They've only gone and done it again. WELL DONE @FitzcarraldoEds (and congratulations, Jon Fosse)
🎉 WOW 🎉 We are utterly thrilled to discover that Jon Fosse has won the @NobelPrize in Literature! 🎉
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Sarah Crown retweeted
Should just be called the Fitzcarraldo Prize for Literature at this stage. Phenomenal.
Too sad and sickened to post anything more about yesterday, but the only hopeful response, it seems to me this morning, is to plant a forest in the sycamore's memory. I've no doubt the @WoodlandTrust will be thinking about this already. Some good has to come out of this.
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Fantastic to be at the launch of @bbccslfest tonight - live on @BBCFrontRow. All poetry, all the time… #ACEsupported @ace_national
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1000 TIMES YES. Fire & Hemlock fully blew my mind as a kid. Also the first time I consciously paid attention to language in a book: still remember the descrip of Polly’s feet on frosty grass making “wheezing munches, like someone chewing an ice cube”. DWJ: storyteller nonpareil
‘A true original’: Katherine Rundell on the genius of Diana Wynne Jones theguardian.com/books/2023/s…
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