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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Idly looking online about literary prizes & found a new post on the Barbellion Prize! Sorry if I'm very slow to find this, I couldn't see a date but after a bit of a hiatus (following brilliant @lettymchugh.bsky.social winning with Book of Hours) whoop for more news soon! www.thebarbellionprize.com

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The Barbellion Prize

The Barbellion Prize is dedicated to the futherance of ill and disabled voices in writing.

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axisweb.bsky.social @axisweb.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This month artist Lydia Catterall presented a curated selection titled ‘The Ones that Fizz'. Included in this selection is 'Anchorage', 2022 by Letty McHugh. Explore the selected works here: buff.ly/j5wA4xZ, and see more of Letty's work here: buff.ly/C0JoQ3u

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

March 20th is the feast day of Saint Cuthbert and there’s no better way to celebrate than reading about why I just can’t stop writing about him. open.substack.com/pub/lettymch...

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Here You Come Again

Inspiration, Creative Doubt, and Why I'll Never Escape Saint Cuthbert

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Chris Bridges @chrisbridgeswriter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Two weeks today! (Out in the US at the end of April) Meet Emma. Emma is sick. Just not in the way you think. Available to pre-order here and on Amazon/Waterstones etc. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sick...

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Sick to Death a book by Chris Bridges.

'A twist to rival Gone Girl left me gasping' KATY BRENT ––––––––––––––- Meet Emma. Emma is sick. She can’t work because of a neurological conditio...

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I don’t want AI suggestions to ‘help’ me draft this poem thanks word document.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It’s high time we start being honest about what’s behind a lot of the push towards “wellness”. It’s ableism and eugenics. Its scared people who can’t face the fact that they could lose their health at any moment. It’s people who desperately need to cling to control. 🧵

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too. Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.

Plasterwork of a skeleton blowing bubbles set against a pale blue wall.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

For someone who rarely cooks, I spend way too much time thinking about what I would make if I were challenged to create a round-the-world tasting menu while working as a luxury yacht chef on the reality TV classic Below Deck.

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Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

We all know GB News is fash nonsense but that doesn't mean they should get away with it. You don't need to watch the video (it's vile) - what he says is as stated in the description below. Please sign and share to pressure Ofcom into action.

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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Fantastic piece of writing from @lettymchugh.bsky.social.

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Amy Millios @amymillios.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I feel like my brain is broken right now, though not for reasons related to my illness. Nevertheless, I think I shall head over to read this to try and fill a small moment of my day with something about creativity vs destruction.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'm officially on substack. My first post is about radiator paint, but also MS, ADHD, and making art when you feel like your brain is broken substack.com/@lettymchugh...

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Sky Blue Radiator Paint

My artistic process, or why I never really felt like I have one.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I would really like someone to write a book called ‘A history of the apocalypse’ and it would be about how and why as humans we have so often been convinced the world is about to end. (I realise I’m a writer and could write that book, but I want to read it tonight)

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Conversations can be so weird when you are chronically ill, because you so often end up feeling like you have nothing to say in response to standard polite questions. I’m experimenting with just telling the truth like ‘I’m pretty sick, but also enjoying my hyper focus on the towers of Bologna.’

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I never got to use one, but often think fondly of fax machines, noisy enigma of my childhood. The mystery, the glamour, the unnecessary size. Just one time I would have liked to say ‘sure I’ll have someone fax that right over’ and then have someone fax that right over.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Every time I see millennial grey discourse I remember my Grandma E getting a new carpet a few years a go, which she described as ‘a lovely grey colour, right modern, just like something off Homes Under the Hammer’

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Every timeline is improved by ethically sourced cat content.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

20 year old Letty: I never want to move back to West Yorkshire. I will endanger my physical and mental health to avoid it. 30 year old Letty: West Yorkshire is the greatest place on earth. I will never leave. When I die burry me here so my bones can feed the scientifically significant moss.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My WiFi has been down for 2 days and I’m nearly out of data on my phone. I don’t know what will happen to me if I can’t stream trashy reality TV and/ or Christmas movies for another day. This is why I wouldn’t want to survive the apocalypse.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I take some meds every month by injection that make me feel pretty rough for a few days. As I was getting the dose out of the fridge I imagined the thing in horror films where they mange to get the bad guy with a syringe and how ineffective it would be and I can’t explain how funny that is to me.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I keep looking at starter packs, thinking, ‘I won't follow everyone, I want to make deliberate choices in this new place’ then getting distracted, putting my phone down and losing the list. 70% of the people I follow have names in the first five letters of the alphabet.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

POV: Mary Oliver wrote Wild Geese about how much she loves cheese as a musical genre.

A screenshot of text reading: you don't have to listen to ‘good music’
you don't have to spend 10,000 hours listening to a niche band from New York
that will look impressive in your Spotify-wrapped
you just have to make a fun playlist to put on while you empty the dishwasher
and let the soft animal of your body listen to Mambo No. 5

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

When Lucy Steele sends her brake-up letter to Edward in Sense and Sensibility and asks him to ‘destroy my scribbles’ - that's the Jane Austen equivalent of asking him to delete her nudes, isn't it?

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

MS fatigue is unexpectedly high today*. Can I add be kind and patient please my brain has been replaced with soup to my email signature? *unexpected in the sense this happens every winter like clockwork but in still shocked every year.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I've been reading about Louise Bourgeois recently, specifically about how often she destroyed her own work. Thinking how sad she couldn't see the value in what she made, what a waste, while very deliberately ignoring the parallel with my own habit of deleting the writing I just spent hours on.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Well Boney M left this out of the song.

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Maybe I’ll send this frozen lasagna’s cooking instructions next time I’m asked for an Acsess rider, because I also need to rest to be at my best.

The back of a frozen lasagna reads: OVEN COOK FROM FROZEN
OVEN
50 mins
Fan 170°C / Electric 190°C / Gas 5
Preheat oven. Remove cardboard sleeve and film lid. Place on a baking tray and cook in the top of the oven. Ensure this lasagne is piping hot when it comes out of the oven. Then WAIT 3 mins before serving - it needs to rest to be at its best.

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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Letty McHugh's Barbellion Prize Winning 'Book of Hours' is now available: "Borrowing wisdom from Anglo-Saxon hermits, contemporary artists & The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Book of Hours is a collection of lyric essay & poetry..and how to take solace in small joys." www.lettymchugh.co.uk/books

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Books — Letty McHugh

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Letty McHugh @lettymchugh.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I wrote this in my journal in 2020 then but it in Book of Hours. I’ve been feeling for a few years like Twitter has been bad for my brain and increasingly bad for the world. Maybe four years later it really is time.

Text on a white page reads: Time to Quit Twitter Watch
2AM A forgotten date in May 2020
"When your world has shrunk this much."
I saw this line on Twitter today and my first thought was, you have no idea. I'm sick of seeing people lockdown and isolation, about the new raw struggle of things old and familiar for me.

And it's not fair of me to think this because I know nothing about this stranger's life. Maybe she spent seven oil rig. Maybe she's just got back from a stint on the last manned lighthouse. Maybe she's that old knight guarding the grail in The Last Crusade and she's been alone with her shrinking world for a thousand years

It's just that when my world shrunk this much nobody was interested, I didn't have 30 people to like my tweets.
I just want to write something that isn't about my illness, I’m trying, but it always sneaks up on the inside rail.

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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

On everything abt writing & being written abt #chronicillness #disability - brilliant funny piece by Letty McHugh - on more than & also Living with Dignity "...isn’t chronic illness sad? (I feel so much better about my own life having read this)" #AssistedDying disabilityarts.online/magazine/opi...

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Living with dignity - Disability Arts Online

Letty McHugh reflects on why it’s imperative you listen to disabled voices before spouting off about assisted dying The other week I was scrolling down Instagram when, I came across the headline of an...

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