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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

AMAZING!!! Thank you Emma and Louie xx

Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Left UK with heavy anxiety, feeling like I will never sell/write another book. Scribbling in notebooks in the sun with no expectations is how writing used to feel. Fun! Really hoping this trip is going to leave me inspired and refreshed in spite of catching a head cold. #marrakesh

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Days like these make the howling winter winds worth the move west.

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is weird, they've left the woman out of the picture again?

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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 18/02/2025

We've teamed up with Kinship and @drlisacherry.bsky.social to bring kinship carers workshops all about using stories to discuss emotions and identity - and there are free books available for attendees! 📚 Book your free spot: 📅 26 March: bit.ly/4k1JmNG 📅 27 March: bit.ly/3QkPkeY

"Using stories to discuss emotions and identity - online workshop for kinship carers - 11am-12pm, 26 March; 11am-12pm, 27 March." Plus the logos of Kinship and BookTrust and the front covers of some of the books on offer.

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I think this is going to be my book of the year. Just exquisite. I could underline every sentence. Don’t know whether to seethe with jealousy or just bow down and worship. Andrew Miller. Genius.

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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I seem to have started a Starter Pack to my surprise - please join if you wish - let me know:

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Have some sunshine in your day.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Translation is an art. Translation is creation. Translators matter. Translators deserve to be celebrated.

A stage in the British Library, with a screen projection announcing the SOA Translation Prizes.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

There’s a Turkish phrase about the upside of hitting rock bottom being that things can’t get any worse. It goes göte giren şemsiye açılmaz and it means “an umbrella up one’s ass cannot be opened”

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Clare Furniss @clarefurniss.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I’m so proud that The Things We Leave Behind is on the Carnegie longlist!! Thank you @carnegiemedals.bsky.social I’m honoured it’s there alongside a spectacular selection of books 🤩

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Wonderland Bookshop @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Children's books build empathy, compassion, and understanding. They can transport readers to whole new worlds and back again, all without leaving your sofa. They can comfort, they can delight. They are magical. #kidlituk

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Interesting re: dolphin. Ancient Greek for a grey seal is hook-nosed sea pig: Halichoerus grypus.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happy Chinese New Year! Here’s a list of translations (some loose) of Chinese words… Coyote = suburb wolf Burglar = gentleman in the rafters Penguin = tiptoe goose Diabetes = sugar piss disease Dolphin = sea pig Kangaroo = bag rat Owl = cat head eagle Potato = dirt bean Porcupine = heroic hog

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The never-ending story of memoir - and grief. Mum’s death day today. acwilsonwriter.substack.com/p/every-real...

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Every real story is a never-ending story

...even memoir

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A list of authors that have become adjectives (or should do)… Kafkaesque Dickensian Orwellian Byronic Woolfish Dickish Mannly Poetic Remarqueable Austentacious

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Editing = playing school with myself = 😍😍😍

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Have you met my family? You seem to know them well… 😂😂

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Oh yes. Totally this too! 🫣😂

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Annett Grimm @agrimm.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

“If we held a minute of silence for every Holocaust victim, we would be silent for eleven and a half years.” ― Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Today marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. #HolocaustMemorialDay | #HMD2025

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Me: “The family has read my novel and loves it!” Also me: “Yeh, but they’re family, so….”

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A moving Reading Round session this morning at Hypatia Trust in Penzance today. Doggy host seems to have thought so too.

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Ep 7 of Uncloaked is best so far. (I don’t have much going on in my life right now. 😬)

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Aha! I have not tried that … yippee! More Traitors! Thanks for the rec.

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Adding my own plea to Fleur’s. I thought Cathy had started a new account as it had photos I recognised. There is too much of this going on. Protect yourselves by checking before following and changing your own passwords frequently. And yes, report the f***ers.

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Fleur Hitchcock @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

There are many fake accounts appearing across all SM. Today I found a false Cathy Hopkins on Insta, (it's the one with the 11 in their name) and despite her best efforts, @juliesykesbooks.bsky.social is struggling with a fakester over on FB. Please check accounts before following, please report.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Hello new Blueskyers fleeing Zuckerberg - if you like books, I have a couple of starter packs for you. A quick and easy way to find your tribe. #books 💙📚 go.bsky.app/MjnUSwF

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Sharing stories last night via this novel resulted in a surprising and moving book group evening. open.substack.com/pub/acwilson...

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A little something to light up your day 🤩

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Conclave = The Traitors + Cardinals, no?

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

There is some gorgeous apricity about this morning: (17th century: warming sun on a winter’s day).

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

For my services to autocorrect, I’ve been awarded an oboe in the new years honours list.

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Storm’s a-comin’ in on NYD so we have to get the swims in while we can.

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Ooh l’Occitane is gooooodd. Have never tried Caudalie.

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I love posh hand cream. Clarins Jeunesse des Mains is my favourite. Lasts ages and helps nail growth/strength too.

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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Charles Dickens when he wrote the line “and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die”

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I'm keen to read more in-depth articles on children's books and I'd love your recommendations - there are sites like Leaf and School Library Journal that I've found great stuff on but there's so much. I'm particularly interested in fantasy, comedy, middle grade/8-12 books (any combo) #KidLitUK

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I am predicting FinLaw will bait me (again) over Xmas with, “Can writing be taught?” I teach it, so you’d think my answer would be “yes”. I think this article by Tim Pears best sums up my thoughts. I would always say reading is what teaches me most about writing. www.rlf.org.uk/posts/the-co...

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Tim Pears on the confusions of teaching Creative Writing

Or, as Philip Roth said, ‘The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.’ RLF Fellow Tim Pears on teaching creative writing.

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Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The curse has spread so that I CAN’T FIND MY COPY. Argh! 😳😳😳 I even dreamt I found it last night… but nooooo!!

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Naomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This is SUCH great advice from fellow Cornish author @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social Read the full interview with here here: naomiandjamesjones.substack.com/p/words-and-...

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