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Katie da Cunha Lewin

@kdclewin.bsky.social
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Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey everyone, I currently have availability for freelance writing, researching, and/or teaching work between now and the end of the calendar year. Please see this document for further details, and share with anyone else who you think might be interested.
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AVAILABILITY FOR WORK
Hello everyone, This is just a notice to say I'm available for freelance paid work in the following areas until the end of 2026: WRITING: Whether for academic or public-facing audiences, in the areas ...
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have also been emailed by 'James Naughtie'. Such a specific fake!
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please do join me next week for a workshop with the London Writers Salon on writing using literary figures! 8th October 6-7
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📝 WORKSHOP: Writing Nonfiction with Figures from Literature w/ Katie da Cunha Lewin | LWS Community
How can the writers we read become part of the nonfiction we write? And what happens when we bring their lives, work, and ideas into conversation with our own? In this workshop, writer and critic Kat...
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It only really started to happen when my book was published in America - it seems the email senders (whoever 'they' are!) target American publishers lists the most
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seriously though, these AI emails keep coming, but I appreciate the inventiveness of this one
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think all I have to do is arrange a one-off payment for the costs and then let the dollars roll in - simple!
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fame at last! My nonfiction book of literary criticism and memoir, is going to be turned into a film just like Seabiscuit!!!!
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hi there. Is there another way to sign up? I can't access the form
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This gives me pause
Entry from Wikipedia that reads Untitled Whac-A-Mole film - co-production with Mattel Studios
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Definitely interested in this and such an important topic but I am very nervous of Moser as a writer post his books on Lispector and Sontag!
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Favourite writing from the perspective of an inanimate object?
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Okay I'm reading about private equity and its new reaches into literary estates, specially a company Atticus Works recently set up by Richard Hurowitz. Very interested to know what people think this will look like and what effects it will have
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The big question is will he be able to sort out whatever is going on with the lockers??
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Most students are already working!
timeshighereducation.com
Paid employment ‘biggest barrier’ to rolling out work placements
Survey comes after vice-chancellors said they wanted every undergraduate in England to undertake work experience as part of their degree
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I hate that this is a new interest of mine
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Okay I'm reading about private equity and its new reaches into literary estates, specially a company Atticus Works recently set up by Richard Hurowitz. Very interested to know what people think this will look like and what effects it will have
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Next weds! 📆
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Really pleased to hear this! Though absolutely cannot imagine what they'll say on November 1st. Hope you can sliigghhhttllyyy take a breather
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sharing again this essay I published last year - amazingly edited by the wonderful @marinabenjamin.bsky.social for @aeon.co. One of the bits of writing of which I’m most proud psyche.co/ideas/moving...
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Moving through the world pregnant, my body became everyone’s | Psyche Ideas
And I knew that, once I became a mother, I would be only more visible, more public, more available for scrutiny
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Solidarity Hannah!
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is horrendous. But SO grateful you are posting these updates
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s US PUBLICATION DAY for my acclaimed memoir Home Is Where We Start: Growing Up In The Fallout of the Utopian Dream. 🎉 🎉🎉 Out with great Heliotrope Books. Writing memoir is a wild and wonderful ride & I am grateful for readers, reviews, events & it all. Get your copy: bookshop.org/p/books/home...
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026
UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY
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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is utterly horrendous for everyone working and studying at University of Brighton, & the community more widely. It also feels like Brighton is the canary in the mine – their unjustifiable 2023 cuts have since been emulated across the sector. Will this removal of workers' rights come for us all?
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please do join us for this event online 30th September 5-7 celebrating the republication of our first three volumes. Programme and tickets here:
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C21 Literature: Then & Now
C21 Literature is celebrating the republication of its first three volumes.
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Horrendous news. The situation at universities keeps getting grimmer
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Well, it’s Sacking Day (to the tune of Tannenbaum), when we learn via Teams calls which one of the 4 of us left is to go. That will leave 3 (from 12) to teach English Language, Literature and Creative Writing and supervise 25 PhD students. I’m sure management have thought this through carefully.
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The Simpsons Airhorn
ALT: The Simpsons Airhorn
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Enjoying listening to Vivian Gornick’s The Situation and the Story so much! There aren’t many books that so neatly layout the problems of nonfiction storytelling. Strong recommend to anyone working on essay, nonfiction, or memoir.
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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can we stop saying "post-9/11" now? Please join @jshelat1.bsky.social and I for this @bacls.bsky.social virtual talk and discussion next Friday: luma.com/pujm2k86?tk=...
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Arin Keeble & Jay Shelat, 'Can we stop saying "post-9/11" now?' · Luma
Join us in the first of this year's BACLS seminars for a talk and Q&A discussion with Arin Keeble (Edinburgh Napier) and Jay Shelat (Ursinus College). We'll…
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Most of my students work already! I’m sure they’ll be super happy to do some work for free on top of the work they’re already doing to afford the education they have actually chosen to study 🙃
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really looking forward to this at the end of the month! Please do come along
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think I noted during the recent Belfast riots that a certain kind of man is not really interested in protecting women & girls; he's interested in protecting the exclusive right of his kind of man to abuse and control women and girls.
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Chuffed to announce our online event to celebrate the republication of our first three volumes! Please do join us to hear from some our early contributors in discussion with those from more recent issues. 30th September 5-7. Details below:
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Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com · 05/09/2026
I would like to report on the literary agents who are claiming a percentage of their clients' Anthropic settlement. But I need some authors willing to share info about who these agents are (privately - no need to go on the record). Reach out: hello@janefriedman.com
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Looking forward to leading this online course on the personal essay in October with the lovely Emma at Write Owls. We'll look at essays by James Baldwin, Anahid Nersessian, Ben Lerner, Annie Ernaux and more. Do share with anyone who you think might be interested!
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Courses — Write Owls
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wrote about the strange burden of stuff on my substack
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Getting rid
Notes on mess, sorting, living
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wonderful, cheers Chris
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Looking for examples of contemporary short stories that people have really enjoyed teaching/have had good student feedback?
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Oh thanks. I have never taught any Saunders come to think of it!
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Looking for examples of contemporary short stories that people have really enjoyed teaching/have had good student feedback?
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 28/08/2026
I learned today that some charitable trusts are now nervous about awarding grants outside the so-called Golden Triangle of Oxford-Cambridge-London. They‘re worried about wasting money as universities close departments & make staff redundant. Labour’s HE policy is entrenching elite privilege.
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Really looking forward to giving this talk later today. Do come along if you are so inclined!
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Creative Spaces: The Places Where Books We Love Were Written
What makes a writer’s space so fascinating? Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s reflections on the importance of space for creativity, author Katie da Cunha Lewin examines how writers have worked...
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Looking forward to teaching this course on the personal essay, in collaboration with Emma Silverthorn at Write Owls. See here for more info: www.writeowls.co.uk/courses
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Courses — Write Owls
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Looking forward to teaching this course on the personal essay, in collaboration with Emma Silverthorn at Write Owls. See here for more info: www.writeowls.co.uk/courses
writeowls.co.uk
Courses — Write Owls
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
That wasn't my point at all. I was saying that there are different outcomes and professional repercussions based on race
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Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We're 61% of the way there! But we need the support of more libraries to get to 100% - please come and join the @ojcollective.bsky.social community! Have questions or want to arrange a video call? DM us, email info@openjournalscollective.org or visit openjournalscollective.org.
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£1,620,399 raised of £2,650,000.

Help us to reach our 2026 target and support community-owned diamond open access journals.
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Not quite a 'test bed' as this model has already been adopted at several other institutions for a good while, but it's terrible that the subsidiary continues to be embedded within HE policy, as if it's a completely normal way to run things
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Is there a more satisfying book to read aloud than ‘Mr Brown Can Moo!’ The last page is *chef’s kiss*
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I’m a few months into my coaching journey and it’s been so brilliant to get to know writers at varying stages of their process and help them on their way. I’m keen to work with more people so do get in touch to discuss a first meeting and rates!
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