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Jo Dutton

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Committing crimes to paper 📝 Wells Lit Fest 2nd 25 @writementor mentee 23, NID Hon Mention 22, Yeovil Children’s Book SL 22, Room 204, DYCP, Stafford Litfest winner 20

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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Oh dear God!!! This is exactly what happens when dogs and cats lay down together. 😳 #Caturday
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Today I ‘interviewed’ Facebook whistleblower on stage at Hay…& she couldn’t say a word. Facebook took legal action to prevent her speaking. What pathetic, pointless vindictiveness. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
the BBC has agreed I can post some of the full interviews from my program, Human Intelligence. These interviews are so rich & fascinating, & we only get to use maybe 5 minutes out of an hour. Here is a brilliant one about Simone Weil and the power of attention. open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
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Simone Weil's philosophy of attention is what we all need now
attention isn't supposed to feel good all the time. but a tiny amount of true attention, wholeheartedly given, can change who you are
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Had a week off from the 9 to 5. Threw a ball with my kids. Walked with them. Went on Twitter once to post a photo of a fox. I feel so much better for it. Reality again tomorrow but I wonder sometimes - is it by design we spend so much time feeling smooshed and overwhelmed?
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Chatsworth’s House of Stories has rare books on display. I’m a sucker for a spredge so these marbled edge 1850s editions of Shakespeare & Milton caught my eye.
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Emma Finlayson-Palmer @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
If you have a book out this year and would like to be a guest on #ukteenchat please do reach out and let me know 🙂
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ToBeBooks @tobebooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Dear #booksky and #kidlituk #authors #illustrators this is a petition started by Paul of Excelsior comic awards to make school libraries statutory in secondary schools. It needs 10k signatures. Please sign 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Make school libraries statutory in all secondary schools
We think all secondary schools should have a school library with a dedicated full-time librarian, and that this needs to be compulsory for all secondary schools and not simply an optional "bolt-on" de...
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 17/11/2025
www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/the-si... Want to do a six month writing course with me? Or looking for a great Christmas present for the writer in your life? Sign up quickly as there are only 15 places. I would love to see you there!
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The Six-Month Writing Course with Kit de Waal - Gladstone's Library
Join Kit de Waal for a six-month journey into the art and discipline of storytelling, with two visits to the UK’s finest residential library.
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Fleur Hitchcock @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
So completely chuffed to have a brilliant review in the @scotnational.bsky.social for #MurderatChristmas I can't link to it but delighted to say that they think it's a "Young Adult Murder mystery that serves as a perfect introduction to the genre." I'll take that!
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Walker Books @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Share Michael Rosen's Manifesto for Reading with pupils, parents and colleagues - expert tips to spark a love of reading in young people 📚 www.walker.co.uk/michael-rose...
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
38d.gs/cicq
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Sign the petition: save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GBNews or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect...
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National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The book I’m querying starts on 10th November - the date I decided to follow the idea. Whatever does or doesn’t happen with the queries, I’ve absolutely loved my year with this book ✨
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Made of Stone @madeofstone1.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere). naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...
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November is for reading
or: a month of sheer luxurious intellectual pleasure
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
We’re all poorer because of the pandemic and wars and immigration* and there are far fewer billionaires now for the same reason. Wait, billionaire wealth surged last year*? www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel... *hmmm
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Billionaire wealth surges by $2 trillion in 2024, three times faster than the year before, while the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990 | Oxfam International
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The clocks changed for winter and I woke to a new hankering for slipper wearing, eating roast dinners and drinking mulled wine. Hbu?
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 25/10/2025
Wait a second, so Frankenstein: • Is immortal • Sneaks into houses at night • Sometimes leaves gifts for nice people • Lives in the North Pole 🤔
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Scrolling through my 5,000 photos on my phone, trying to organise them into albums, and stumbled on this important piece of journalism from 2022 🤣🤣🤣
It's all downhill for philosophy!
HISTORIAN Greg Jenner had a useful suggestion for utilitarian
philosopher Jeremy Bentham's preserved body. "I asked [its curator] whether it'd allow for maximum happiness if we could put Bentham in a bobsleigh and push him down the hill at the Winter Olympics," Jenner tells us, as Bentham argued for maximising happiness for the most people. But Jenner, host of the You're Dead to Me podcast, says his suggestion was met by
"disappointment and genuine alarm".
Happiness minimised.
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Should be fast asleep for work tomorrow but I’m buzzing with excitement from Wells Literature Festival. Stunning readings and a drive home past Diwali fireworks… so grateful to @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social for 2nd place & thrilled to meet Fleur, @drkshingler.bsky.social and other wonderful writers 🎉
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Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
New blog post - Passwords brian-moses.blogspot.com @piecorbett.bsky.social
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Ellie is 3 today 🥳 she’s celebrated with long walks and by inhaling peanut butter and carrot ‘pupcakes’.
A beagle spaniel looking derpy
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Found out Bring Me The Horizon and Arctic Monkeys went to the same high school, in the same year group, and now feel I owe it to my kids to move them there.
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Movement to BAN losing an hour’s sleep on Mother’s Day. SLEEP IS WHAT MUMS WANT MOST.
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This, 100% ⤵️ All the arguments of new and inflamed Twitter making me feel like a bonobo who’s strayed to the chimpanzee side of the river 🙈
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Anyone else looking out at blue skies, the lighter evening - daisies and daffodils - and breathing great lungfuls of sweeter air for it? I bloody love spring 💚
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Richard Nicholls @richardnicholls.net · 05/02/2025
Day 36 of #365DaysOfSmiles Break on through to the otter slide!
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This is brilliant. A declassified World War II guide for citizen saboteurs on how to fight fascism is going viral www.404media.co/declassified...
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
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Maisie Chan 🐼 CHI CHI THE PANDA out now! 🎋 @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
📣 HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 🐍 It's COVER REVEAL TIME! I'm proud to present my new novel 🏮NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST 💥 out June 12th. The wonderful cover art is by Simone Douglas @SimsDougie Published by @PiccadillyPress
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We took a walk yesterday that led us past Tolkien’s old house, “Rock Cottage”, and my eagle-eyed 9-year-old spotted something... 👀
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Ben Davis @bendavisauthor.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Oof
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Scott Evans, The Reader Teacher @thereaderteacher.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
👀📚Check out my JANUARY 2025 Children’s Books I’m Most Excited About video on my YouTube channel. Please subscribe! 📖🌟Each month, I put together #ComingSoon videos previewing my most anticipated children’s books releases to bump up your TBRs! ➡️ youtu.be/mDN2Kfg8k24?...
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Jenni Spangler @jennispangler.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Tell me about the weird thing that happened to you to that you’ve never been able to rationally explain. Hauntings. Premonitions. Mysteries. Even the most level headed and skeptical people I know have a story that starts with ‘I don’t believe in that sort of thing, but…’ Pleeeease tell me yours!
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Best (ruined) Christmas song m.youtube.com/shorts/IrJh9...
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Transcription of Mariah Carey but it’s ruined by @ThereIRuinedIt
YouTube video by Score Follower
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
When your phone suggests an automated ‘memories’ slideshow from your camera roll, adding sentimental music to happy, smiling photos - then randomly includes a snap you took of a gory foot injury 😂 Thanks, phone. Good to remember that!
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Sue Wallman @suewallman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
My eighth young adult thriller comes out on 13th March 2025 - whoooop 🎉 This lovely cover by Sarah Baldwin at Scholastic UK captures the suspenseful, toxic friendship mood nicely!
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Joanna Moult @joannamoult.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I've got some UK children's book publishers, reviewers and literary agents here, Darren: go.bsky.app/kRfNFe
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Anyone else send unintended stickers in WhatsApp? One of last year’s regrettables just shared with my sister 🤦‍♀️
A mum friends says nice things about my son and I reply with an angry pig face
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Steve Blackman @steveblackman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
So, I wasn't able to join #NaNoWriMo this year, but I started a new story today, and have given myself until New Year's Day to complete a first draft. (Yeah, I know.) I'm calling it #ChrimboWriMo. Hop on board if you like; there's loads of room on the magical story sleigh.
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Cheshire Novel Prize @saranaidinecox.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
We close for entries to our kids’ prize in exactly one month’s time on 1st January 2025 so do enter your work if you are writing for children! Thats only 30 days to go. www.cheshirenovelprizekids.com
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Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Ryan Gosling as geese. A thread.
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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It’s pay day and I’ve booked it off work to get Christmas presents 🎁 Santa’s little helper here is supervising the online purchases. Or watching for what I’m getting her, maybe? 🤔
Ellie the dog sitting on my lap
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Just earned some parental kudos getting tickets. If you’re not far from Salford, check out Olaf’s family comedy show 👀
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
IT'S THE FESTIVE BIG GREEN BOOK SWAP You let me know what kinda stuff you like reading I'll match you up with someone with similar tastes I'll post you both a book I think you'll like (+ choc & tea!) Read & chat with your book buddy Just £15 DETAILS HERE! www.biggreenbookshop.com/index.php
Two books, wrapped in Christmas paper, with two bars of delicious Green and Black's chocolate and two Pukka Teabags.
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Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In 1916, Tolkien moved to Great Haywood with his wife Edith, to train for WW1 at Brocton camp. Between the two locations, by foot, is this wonderful, human-like oak tree planted 500 years ago, during the reign of King Henry VIII.
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