Reposted by A K BlakemoreElizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · 08/08/2025The 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...docs.google.comAuthor statement on the Polari Prize longlistWe 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... 2197
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 05/08/2025'Zeitgeist' would actually be a stellar weird millenial babyname in and of itself, i now realise 120
Reposted by A K BlakemoreMercury Theatre Colchester @mercurytheatre.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Tickets 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 043
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 19/06/2025very tiny wittle baby eugencist charwotte pewkins giwman 🫦 010
Reposted by A K BlakemoreSophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 21/10/2024My 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... 10280125
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 10/03/2025i always just assumed it was some combination of the subconscious influence of his being the handwriting i saw most often in childhood - shopping lists on the fridge etc - and possibly a similar/learned relationship btwn motor function/thought patterns. it's so odd! 010
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 10/03/2025my handwriting - very bad and cramped - is nearly identical to my dad's & it's always intrigued me! 110
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...thebookseller.comOn sponsorship and conscienceLast year's activism against Baillie Gifford is part of a long and valuable tradition of literary protest. 050
Reposted by A K BlakemoreWill Hermes @willhermes.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The 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...sweetrelief.orgSweet ReliefSweet 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... 23624
Reposted by A K BlakemoreSo Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 21/01/2025Once 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 💐 13011
Reposted by A K BlakemoreNoreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 16/01/2025one 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 312720
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 10/01/2025cute feature in the guardian this morning about one of my favourite bands of all time: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...theguardian.com‘They were inventing a new definition of sexy’: stars and scenesters on the New York Dolls’ riotous rockFifty 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 020
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 09/01/2025if i was a wilting victorian lady, i simply would not summon an eldritch erotic entity with my thwarted yearnings 110
Reposted by A K BlakemoreYara 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! 0186
Reposted by A K BlakemoreWilliam C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Can’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. 5526324
Reposted by A K BlakemoreNesrine 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.’ 341162660
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...lrb.co.ukSophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trialGisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations... 001
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 19/12/2024RIP Richard II you would've loved chewing gum loudly 020
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 08/12/2024i've been enjoying the tiktok murder ballads. folk legends wrought in real time 110
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 03/12/2024it's sort of like a sexual harrassment advent calendar, isn't it? 140
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 02/12/2024i'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...writersandartists.co.ukWriting Historical Horror | Writers & ArtistsDo you want to bring horror into your historical fiction? 083
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 27/11/2024look i love emily, i love her so much, but this is very big chat for a trailblazing bedrotter 150
Reposted by A K BlakemoreAlycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Today 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... 78123
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social · 27/11/2024in which i am confused by murakami www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...theguardian.comThe City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a labour of loveOn his third attempt, the author finally sets down a story that has haunted him for decades 010
