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Eleanor

@eleanorturney.co.uk
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Writer, editor and arts consultant. Theatre, editing, poetry, intersectional feminism, politics, writing, food and owls, mostly. Mum of two. New resident of Birmingham. She/her.

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 25/09/2026
1st: this is obvious bullshit (as parent of a child more than 2 years into a reportedly 3-year wait). 2nd: "the % of seven- to 18-year-old boys w. autism rose from 0.2% in 2000 to 4.7% in 2025." NO IT FUCKING DIDN'T. The % *diagnosed* rose. The % of autistic children probably didn't change!
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 25/09/2026
Professional development for freelancers From conversations to contracts: building a freelance pipeline with confidence Monday 5 October 2026 12:00 – 14:00 (online) Tickets from £35 www.many-hats.org/events/from-...
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From conversations to contracts: building a freelance pipeline with confidence — Many Hats
Freelancing often feels reactive - waiting for opportunities, chasing conversations, hoping something turns into work. This session introduces a simple, practical way to build a pipeline of opportunit...
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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 24/09/2026
Proofreading services too expensive? Try proof skimming! For only $10, I'll flip through your book and say "yeah, whatever, it's probably fine."
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tor (is summoning KRALDUM from the mud) @toothandshore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
a lot of love for the RNLI, as is right. once people are rescued and on dry land they need support and solidarity – consider donating to migrants' rights network too, or using their resources to get involved migrantsrights.org.uk
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Home - Migrants' Rights Network
We are a UK-based charity that works alongside migrants in their fight for rights and justice.
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 07/09/2026
I just love to see my cool, clever and talented friends being cool, clever and talented!
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tor (is summoning KRALDUM from the mud) @toothandshore.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
right would anyone i know with a podcast/stream/blog etc be up for letting me come talk about kraldum a bit? we could chat about archaeology in games, or designing around unique settings, i could do a mudlarking finds show and tell, tell you some river ecology facts, whatever feels fun
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 17/08/2026
I delivered a workshop for UCL's Creative Freelancers Exchange programme, on how creative freelancers and employers can build stronger, more collaborative working relationships. You can read the co-produced guidance document here: www.ucl.ac.uk/creative-cul... I'd love to know what you'd add?
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tor (is summoning KRALDUM from the mud) @toothandshore.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
hey hey #portfolioday if you'd like some illustrations collage style for ttrpgs or anything else, that's my jam! I love experimenting and collaborating :)
paper collage with a hilly monochrome island-form in a colourful torn scrap sea, a large yellow sun sinking behind itcolourful digital collage featuring poppies, fungi, sea-things, a salamander, buildings and cosmic imageryblack and white paper collaged dungeon map, the rooms made of various objects and images including a skull cross-section and decorative clay panelsdigital collage suggesting an old town by water beset by hovering jellyfish, with a background of narrow colourful rectangular strips
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 14/07/2026
If you're not following Tor you're missing a whole lotta cool, weird, queer, brilliant, beautiful stuff.
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 10/07/2026
I would like Sinner to absolutely dismantle Djokovic, please. #wimbledon
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 07/07/2026
Sorting out my kid's hearing aid might break me. Aid issued in Lancs; we now live in Brum. Can the hospitals share records? Apparently not. Has it been fixed by Brum after I was told it was impossible? Apparently. Will they give it back? Not without an audiology appointment. Waiting time? Unknown.
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tor (is summoning KRALDUM from the mud) @toothandshore.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I am so excited to share the preview for KRALDUM, my solo mudlarking RPG coming this autumn to Gamefound for RPG Party 2026. lots, lots more to come, but you can read a bit about the project here and click follow to see how it develops. I'd appreciate it grandly! gamefound.com/en/projects/...
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Kraldum: Solo Fantasy Mudlarking RPG by tooth & shore - Gamefound
Go down to the shore below the city. Collect what you can. Survive what lurks there and beat the rising waters to make it home.
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 01/07/2026
Sharon D Clarke in a queer Othello focusing on misogynoir? TAKE MY MONEY.
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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 25/06/2026
Oh look, it's @mrdavebyrne.bsky.social being brilliant again.
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Look, I know it's easy to have a pop at Starmer, but that was an incredibly honourable resignation he was forced into kicking & screaming, & his words that everyone who disagreed with him was morally bankrupt & his appeasement of fascists & transphobes was for the good of the country was v. moving
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 22/06/2026
Did you know you can just... have a massive bowl of coleslaw for lunch, and then have an ice lolly?
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 15/06/2026
"Books and biscuits" event at school this afternoon. Three emails this morning about sports day in a fortnight. Nursery closed on Weds so September's new starters can do a stay-and-play session. Thursday a face-to-face meeting with the little one's reception teacher. The admin of primary school!
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 22/05/2026
You can buy my brilliant friend's beautiful game, and you should.
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 08/05/2026
SE London 4Eva
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 05/05/2026
Spoke for 20mins without notes, said all the right things. I was impressed. #VoteGreenInBrum
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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Normal people, giving advice: Maybe some words of encouragemen? Me giving advice: You might have to Henry the Fifth them, give them a bit of Harfleur.
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 20/04/2026
Between trying to get paid by a university and trying to sort out my kid's broken hearing aid, I have been a down a lot of administrative rabbit holes this morning...
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 16/04/2026
Go fuck yourselves, you awful bastards.
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 14/04/2026
Tor is so talented, and also delightful. Hire them?
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 14/04/2026
I'm gonna laugh so fucking much when Lammy loses his seat in the next election.
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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Yesterday Hannah Spencer MP came to Birmingham to help us celebrate having a candidate in every single one of the 101 Birmingham local council seats, meaning EVERYONE in Brum can #VoteGreen on May 7! #VoteGreenInBrum
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Joe Peacock @brumgreenjoe.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Labour has succeeded in uniting Birmingham. The trouble for John Cotton is that he has united the city in wanting to get rid of Labour. www.expressandstar.com/news/birming...
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Birmingham Labour leader says city has choice between 'unity or division'
All 101 seats on the city council will be contested in May.
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Creative UK @creativeuk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
9 places longlisted for UK City of Culture 2029! Each place will receive £60k to develop their bid, with £10m for the winner. Proof that culture isn’t just identity, but economic growth, pride and regeneration - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Blackpool, Ipswich, Milton Keynes among nine finalists for UK City of Culture 2029
The nine-strong longlist of cities will receive a £60,000 boost of funding to develop a full bid plan.
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 18/03/2026
If you're trying to make creative work at the moment, come along to Many Hats' workshop tomorrow on global perspectives – how are artists around the world making art without government subsidy, in unstable political times and at the frontline of the climate crisis? www.many-hats.org/events/globa...
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Global perspectives: learning from other models, with Nadine Patel — Many Hats
Arts funding in the UK has been repeatedly squeezed over the past two decades, with standstill funding, cuts, redundancies and fewer opportunites. With arts council grants growing ever-more competitiv...
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 09/03/2026
My mission to make everyone see Operation Mincemeat continues. Got nine friends coming with me when it's in Brum in May.
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Zack Polanski is currently the most popular with the British public an experimental Fringe theatre practitioner has ever been
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 05/03/2026
Attached wings to my oldest child. Sent a Rainbow Fairy and Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon books off to school. Washed the green faceprint out from under my nails. Now ready to start work... #worldbookday #wbd
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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 02/03/2026
Freelancers, this one is for you!📣 Apply now for a free ticket to this year's #FutureOfTheatre conference, in association with Arts Council England ⭐ Find out more 👉https://www.thestage.co.uk/future-freelance-tickets
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 27/02/2026
Six months' work here, and great to see it out in the world. And a real pleasure to work with @jonturney.bsky.social properly for the first time after 20-odd years of editing/proofing/discussing each other's work.
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 26/02/2026
Always nice to see something one's been working on for months appear in the real world!
A purple A4 booklet with the title Realising the promise of neurotechnologies for personal care and support of neurodivergent children: A strategic roadmap
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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 26/02/2026
Publication day news! I am so thrilled. No One Talks About This Stuff, my "support group in a book" for everyone going through the utter hell of infertility, is out on audiobook today. You can buy it here, or listen for free by ordering it from your local library www.audible.co.uk/pd/No-One-Ta...
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No One Talks About This Stuff
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. No One Talks About This Stuff is a support group for almost-parents. A place to share their journeys of loss and limbo, to confront social pressure and to f...
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 16/02/2026
Long and detailed conversation with the 7-year-old about why we still have a King (they're studying monarchs at school), leading to discussion about electoral democracy, leadership, traditions etc. Agreed that we don't think it's sensible to have a King. 4-year-old's solution? "I should be Queen."
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 12/01/2026
Are you a neurodiverse freelancer? Would you like advice and tips from the woman who literally wrote the book on adult ADHD diagnosis? Well, you're in luck! @katbrownwrites.com is running a workshop for Many Hats in March – now online and under £50! www.many-hats.org/events/freel...
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Freelancing while neurodiverse, with Kat Brown — Many Hats
Freelancing can be empowering, brilliant and intensely stressful, often all at the same time. In this intensive four-hour course, freelance journalist Kat Brown will take you through key points for su...
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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I have said it before and I will say it again. A three generation global moratorium on men running for office or being hired for top jobs would do us a great deal of good.
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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 22/01/2026
Arts funding in Bristol will be protected in full for at least three more years, after planned cuts that leaders feared would put jobs at risk were put on hold. Read more 👇
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Bristol arts funding protected for three more years in council U-turn
Stay up to date with breaking UK theatre exclusives, casting updates, plus West End and regional UK show announcements from The Stage, the industry's trusted source.
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 12/01/2026
Are you a neurodiverse freelancer? Would you like advice and tips from the woman who literally wrote the book on adult ADHD diagnosis? Well, you're in luck! @katbrownwrites.com is running a workshop for Many Hats in March – now online and under £50! www.many-hats.org/events/freel...
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Freelancing while neurodiverse, with Kat Brown — Many Hats
Freelancing can be empowering, brilliant and intensely stressful, often all at the same time. In this intensive four-hour course, freelance journalist Kat Brown will take you through key points for su...
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 12/12/2025
The love of my life just walked in to our room at 10pm, dumped a huge pile of clean, dryer-warmed laundry on our bed, and apparently I'm not allowed to burrow in like a hamster and deal with it in the morning?!
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 11/12/2025
If you don't have melted cheese on your laptop do you really have Christmas joy in your heart?
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Benoit Blanc Beignet Blanc Baguette Blanc Briquette Blanc The more Knives Out variants, the better
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Beignet Blanc Stars in Surprise Sesame Street–Knives Out Crossover Short - Reactor
The best part might be the consideration given to Cookie Monster's nostrils
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 02/12/2025
If you're a freelancer with tax questions, or you're worrying about the Making Tax Digital switch over that's coming, last shout for the first Many Hats workshop on Thursday lunchtime. £25 tickets here: www.many-hats.org/events/every...
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Making Tax Digital and other tax essentials, with Mahmood Reza [Online] — Many Hats
Creative businesses and freelancers are facing new changes with HMRC’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) rules. Many will also continue to manage their obligations under the self-assessment system. It’s vital ...
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Dan Rebellato @danrebellato.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
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British Theatre Before and After Covid
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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 04/11/2025
Freelancers don’t get CPD from their employers and clients, so we need to invest in ourselves. I am really looking forward to running a Many Hats workshop for @eleanorturney.co.uk in December! There are £10 and half-price places available so see if there's a workshop for you: www.many-hats.org
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Many Hats | Professional development for freelancers
Many Hats offers professional development workshops tailored for freelancers to enhance skills, stay up-tp-date, and advance careers.
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 20/10/2025
When I launched many-hats.org, I wanted to make sure the workshops are as accessible as possible. There are £10 and half-price places available, allocated by a lottery. Please see the website for more details and to enter the lottery!
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 14/10/2025
The first Many Hats professional development for freelancers workshops are coming up in December 2025, with others in January, February and March. Check out the upcoming workshops at many-hats.org and use EARLYBIRD25 to get £25 off any day-long workshop booked before the end of October!
The words MANY HATS in capitals with a circle of rainbow hats over the M
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