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A K Blakemore

@akblakemore.bsky.social
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drinking spider, author of peasantcore

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The Polari Prize last week longlisted John Boyne, who only recently wrote a piece saying how much he admired JK R*owling and is a 'proud terf' - book pals: there's an open letter here that you can read + sign to show your solidarity with our trans community #booksky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Author statement on the Polari Prize longlist
We are writers, editors, publishers and booksellers who stand in solidarity with the trans community. We are profoundly disappointed by the Polari Prize’s decision to include John Boyne on the longlis...
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Mercury Theatre Colchester @mercurytheatre.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Tickets now on general sale! 🔥 The Manningtree Witches A Mercury Original Sat 28 Feb - Sat 14 Mar 2026 Adapted by Ava Pickett Based on the novel by A. K. Blakemore Directed by Natasha Rickman 🎟 mercurytheatre.co.uk/event/the-manningtree-witches/ #MercuyTheatre #Essex #TheManningtreeWitches
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
My new big TERFism explainer is now online and unpaywalled at Lux magazine, and the physical version in the print issue (#11-12) looks incredible. I do recommend buying it or subscribing. Thanks to Sarah Leonard & all the Lux comrades for wonderful editing. lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
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A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
'In the UK, FFB has been viewed in a vacuum, anomalous and bafflingly disconnected from similar movements around the world. Last year 1000 American writers boycotted all PEN America programming... for failing Palestinian colleagues.' www.thebookseller.com/comment/on-s...
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On sponsorship and conscience
Last year's activism against Baillie Gifford is part of a long and valuable tradition of literary protest.
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Will Hermes @willhermes.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The great David Johansen of the NY DOLLS has been battling stage 4 cancer for the past few years, unable to work. This being America, he is having a hard times paying for medical care. A fundraiser has been set up through Sweet Relief; more info below. www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohanse...
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Sweet Relief
Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-rela...
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 21/01/2025
Once more with feeling: the govt does not do this out of goodwill. PLR was organised, agitated for & activated by Maureen Duffy and Brigid Brophy. Borrow their books, especially Maureen's, and give them their 💐
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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
one of the weird violences of literary culture - the way we are (a) vilified for doing/writing about the things which might make a broken world better (b) SIMULTANEOUSLY: constantly asked, by the same people, to gesture to/perform hope, in what we write and say
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A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
cute feature in the guardian this morning about one of my favourite bands of all time: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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‘They were inventing a new definition of sexy’: stars and scenesters on the New York Dolls’ riotous rock
Fifty years on from their dissolution, admirers from Joan Jett to Dave Vanian explain the appeal of a band who ripped up rock’n’roll in high heels – and pointed towards punk
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A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
if i was a wilting victorian lady, i simply would not summon an eldritch erotic entity with my thwarted yearnings
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A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
livin' life
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Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
📣 In 2022, the UK publishing industry made RECORD revenues of £7bn+ 📣 Richard Osman’s last advance was £10m, enough to fund all 9 BG festivals for a DECADE 📣 BG are investing in arms companies supplying Israel 📣 FFB are not the reason writers are poor!
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Can’t put enough emphasis on what the words “last medical facility” mean in the context of this genocide. It’s pretty simple to understand what happens when there’s no hospital available.
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
‘Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods. It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves.’
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A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
'Patriarchy does not mean that men cannot act decently, and kindly, indeed that the men in our lives may not sometimes be better and more reliable than the women. But it does mean that there are no men, no people, who can ever claim to be entirely beyond its reach.' www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
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A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
RIP Richard II you would've loved chewing gum loudly
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A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
it's sort of like a sexual harrassment advent calendar, isn't it?
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A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
i'll be running an online workshop on writing historical horror for @writersandartists.bsky.social & Book Aid in january. tickets here, if that sounds like a you thing; www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...
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Writing Historical Horror | Writers & Artists
Do you want to bring horror into your historical fiction?
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A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
look i love emily, i love her so much, but this is very big chat for a trailblazing bedrotter
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Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Today is publication day for 'this too is a glistening' (Bitter Melon Press) by me, Pratyusha, Nina Mingya Powles & @jessicajlee.bsky.social 💜 Thanks to @jaygao.bsky.social for this amazing blurb! Last copies of our first print run are avail at bookstores & bittermelon.weebly.com/store/p13/th...
The cover of this too is a glistening on a blue-purple-pink gradient background. The cover is a cyanotype of two leaves. The cover is printed in bright pink. These fieldnotes burst through with vivid and slow time. Gleamingly suffused with an architecture - an ecotecture - of small details, this accretion of textures and feelings meditatively render what it means to sense oneself and to sense the other in a world made different. - Jay Gao
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A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
in which i am confused by murakami www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a labour of love
On his third attempt, the author finally sets down a story that has haunted him for decades
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A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
loool
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