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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

My son had been tasked with writing a poem for school, so we had sat down and written together. It is a poem against cynicism and the mess we are in. It is about love (and doughnuts in ice cream).

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

For Christmas I got a puzzle where I had to move a cube around until it formed a cheeky fat baby. It was a Cherubic’s Cube.

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Devotional for a Hill - From 55 Devotionals (Against Erasure), Broken Sleep Books www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Today’s fave bit of lit: Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au. Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough. A Malcolm Bradbury bursary of 7.5k is available for an applicant living in a PE postcode. www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ #Clearing 2025

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Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough

Start a degree or university-level qualification at University Centre Peterborough this September through Clearing 2025.

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Thomas Lytch from the poem Village by Alice Oswald in Falling Awake (Jonathan Cape) Clearing open at University Centre Peterborough for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing degree: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough #clearing #poetry #Alevelresults

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Farewell Loch Thom by WS Graham Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature and Creative Writing degree at University Centre Peterborough: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough #poetry #books #clearing #poems

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

At The Parrot Sanctuary - from The Silence Living in Houses by Esther Morgan (Bloodaxe) Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough #creativewriting #poetry #clearing

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Hear me talk about why Creative Writing is for everyone and how to develop your craft on BBC Radio Cambs (starts at 14:40 after Bowie) and the free two-day course I’m running this week at University Centre Peterborough: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Day one of the Fenland Literature symposium at UEA today organised by Rebecca Pinner and it was Fen female saints, kings and hermits plus how the fens are inspiring poems, novels and radio plays. Tomorrow I am presenting on the Fens as an uncanny space in literature:

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

First year Creative Writing student & Malcolm Bradbury Trust bursary recipient Helen Cross recounts her action packed year at University Centre Peterborough. Read about how the bursary has supported her. helencrosswriting.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/m... My first year at University – Helen Cross

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My first year at University

Since I started my BA Hons in English Literature and Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough in September, it’s been a wild ride. After submitting my essay to the Malcolm Bradbury …

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

First year Creative Writing student and Malcolm Bradbury Trust bursary recipient Helen Cross recounts her action packed year at University Centre Peterborough (UCP). Read about how the bursary has supported her. 👇 lnkd.in/duVpQ98A My first year at University – Helen Cross Writing

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

‘You know the rain comes down, the sun shines, grass grows. Children grow old and die. That’s the holy all of it. We know it full well, but can’t even whisper it.’ Give this haunting & elegiac film, an adaptation of a John Gahern novel, a few hours of your life: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC One - That They May Face the Rising Sun

That They May Face the Rising Sun is a cinematic elegy to a lost Ireland.

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

What does the mythical hellhound, Black Shuck have in common with the wetlands of East Anglia? Find out at this free poetry event, 23/04 at University Centre Peterborough - Matt Howard and Cat Woodward with Alex Tyler on compere duties, plus ten open mic slots: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/university...

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

My nine year old wrote a speech as Boudicca and it’s the sweetest call to arms I have ever read.

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

@robinince.bsky.social Hi Robin, I know you have done a show on simulation theory, but any chance of an IMS with Nick Vopson on Information Physics? Would love to hear a show about linguistics and creative writing too. The cognitive world building writers and readers create is more simulation!

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Remembering my late father who died eight years ago today. Here he is on a heritage line in 2011.

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Why do all the #Canadianelection favourites look like AI generated images of business executives?

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Greater Anglia roll out their state of the art rail replacement service:

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

#Peterborough Plays! Poetry! Art! Film! Two days of events at Key Theatre brought to you by students of University Centre Peterborough - Live in Peterborough? Lucky you! Live in Norwich? London? Leicester? Lincoln? Get on a train. Tickets are hot cakes - selling fast, so book yours today!

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A wonderful World Book Day to everyone. Here are my top three books that I have loved reading with my children over the years: #WorldBookDay

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DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Lighthouse issue #30 open for submissions: storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/li...

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