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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had some exciting post today - my copies of Brutalist Ghost Stories arrived from @confingopublishing.bsky.social featuring my story 'Employee of the Month.' If you fancy some uncanny fiction as the nights draw in, the book will be out 15 October, you can pre-order now 👻 www.confingopublishing.uk

Two copies of book Brutalist Ghost stories are stacked on a shelf, one face out, against a row of red books

Contents page from Brutalist Ghost stories

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Periodic reminder that I wrote a book about an authoritarian government snatching people off the streets, banning books, restricting universities and the media. Who knew it would turn out to be quite this on the nose. It's called The Disappeared. srlpublishing.co.uk/product/the-...

Promo slide for a book called The Disappeared by Amy Lord. The slide shows themes including dual POV, urban decay, authoritarian control, resistance, dystopian future, banned books, Orwellian narrative.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Book news! New ghost story coming 15 October in this collection from @confingopublishing.bsky.social, inspired by Britain's concrete landscapes www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page...

Brutalist Ghost Stories 17 original ghost stories inspired by Britain's concrete landscape
15th October 2026 Confingo Publishing

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Tees Valley film festival has The Parmo D'Or as its biggest prize 😂 love it

a glass award with parmo d'or for best north east film written on it

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The Literary Consultancy @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Our May blog is by Julia Forster on 'Writing a work-in-progress over the long haul'. Julia share 5 things she did to finish her WIP, and framed some coaching questions to ask yourself to help you keep going. Read more: literaryconsultancy.co.uk/2026/05/work...

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Writing a work-in-progress over the long haul - The Literary Consultancy

Have you been writing your work-in-progress for more years than you care to remember? If so, the good news is that you are among friends.

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SI Leeds Literary Prize @sileedslitprize.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We're delighted to say that our 2026 prize is now OPEN FOR ENTRIES! If you're a UK-based Black or Asian woman writer with an unpublished fiction manuscript, this could be an opportunity to kick start your writing career. Please help spread the word! www.sileedsliteraryprize.com #WritingCommunity

Now open for entries SI Leeds Literary Prize 2026. Get your entries in by 25 May, visit our website for details www.sileedsliteraryprize.com

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Beaver tantrum!

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I'm running an online writing workshop next week exploring what makes a story memorable. We’ll think about some of things that make your story stand out from the crowd (good and bad!) and use this as the foundation to strengthen your work in progress. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-wo...

Colour coded bookshelves with the title writing stand out stories, Wednesday 25 March 7pm-8.30pm £15/£7 amylordauthor.com

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A new documentary about the mass die-off of crustaceans off the Tees coast had its world premiere yesterday at a film festival in Copenhagen. Here's a review... "Man of the people Houchen is, it turns out, only a man of the people who agree with him."

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‘All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea’ review: Jeanie Finlay follows ‘Your Fat Friend’ with empathetic portrait of a community in turmoil

This CPH:DOX premiere follows the beleagured fishing communities of England's north east coast

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Conduit Books @conduitbooks.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

✨ GIVEAWAY TIME ✨ We’ve got 5 proof copies of #MalcsBoy by @smwwriting.bsky.social up for grabs, and trust us, you're going to want to get your hands on it ASAP! To enter: 📚 Like & repost this post 📚 Tag a friend (each tag = an extra entry) 🇬🇧 #UK entries only ⏰ #Giveaway closes 23rd March

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Feel quite emotional at the idea that Middlesbrough could be City of Culture 🥰 Blackpool, Ipswich, Milton Keynes among nine finalists for UK City of Culture 2029 - BBC News share.google/XF2BmcQmuHAG...

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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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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

As an author whose work was used in training datasets for LLMs without permission or compensation, I'm happy to have signed my name as part of this project that asks the UK government not to weaken copyright laws to benefit AI companies. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. 🧵 1/3

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Once on holiday in Iceland, I booked a solo day trip horse riding. Driver turned up at our hotel reception looking for Amy. That's me! Got on the tour bus and started chatting to a couple who were going dog sledding. Hmm...

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This month, I'm leading an online writing workshop that's all about building realistic characters. Come along! 📆 Wed 18 Feb, 7pm-8.30pm GMT www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-wo... #WritingCommunity

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Writing workshop: Making Your Characters Human

Work on editing your fictional characters and making them more realistic.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Q for writer friends: when querying lit agents, how fast do full manuscript requests come in? Mine generally arrive within 24 hours of the query, which probably isn't typical, but does mean that I write off anyone who doesn't respond within a few days. Would love to know what others experienced!

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This month, I'm leading an online writing workshop that's all about building realistic characters. Come along! 📆 Wed 18 Feb, 7pm-8.30pm GMT www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-wo... #WritingCommunity

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Writing workshop: Making Your Characters Human

Work on editing your fictional characters and making them more realistic.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Running my first workshop of the year tomorrow on Zoom, when we'll be focusing on writing a great beginning for your story! I'd love to get a couple more people booked on if you fancy joining me 🥰👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-wo... #WritingCommunity

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Writing workshop: In the beginning...

In this online writing workshop, we'll explore how you write a story that will hook the reader from the first line.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Why do I insist on writing these multi character/timeline/ alternate life novels that are impossible to describe in a one-line pitch?! 😫

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My first writing workshop of 2026 is coming up! 📆Wed 28 Jan We’ll look at some famous story openings and think about why they might appeal to a reader, and consider some of the common mistakes with writing beginnings, before working on our own stories. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-wo...

A banner image with a blank notebook and the text Writing workshop: In the beginning, Wednesday 28 January 7pm-8.30pm on Zoom £15/£7 amylordauthor.com

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

NEW! I'm running another season of online writing workshops, this time with a focus on editing. We'll be exploring beginnings, writing realistic characters, making your story stand out from the crowd, and delving into underlying meaning and themes. www.amylordauthor.com/events #WritingCommunity

Spring writing workshops
In the beginning Wednesday 28 January 7pm-8.30pm
Making your characters human Wednesday 18 February 7pm-8.30pm
Writing stand out stories Wednesday 25 March 7pm-8.30pm
What's Your story? Wednesday 15 April 7pm-8.30pm
on Zoom £15/£7 amylordauthor.com/events

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Lovely way to finish the year with a chilly walk by the sea 🌊

People walking on saltburn pier above strong waves

Waves raging off saltburn pier, with the wind farm at Teesmouth in the distance

Looking back at Saltburn from the end of the pier, with the sun low in the sky, reflecting off the waves

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Louise @borolou.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Beautiful day for a visit to Saltburn with @tenpennydreams.bsky.social 🌊 #NewYearsEve #SaltburnByTheSea

Large waves on a sunny day at Saltburn, under a bright blue sky above, and Huntcliff in the background.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

A selection of my favourite reads of 2025 #AmReading

A stack of books in front of the Christmas tree: You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith, Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia, I see Buildings Fall Like Lightning by Keiran Goddard, clear by Carys Davies, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan, Black Car Burning by Helen Mort, Gunk by Saba Sams, Determination by Tawseef Khan

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Spent the last few weeks cutting down my current manuscript, which I thought was already pretty tight, but long. Just finished the second pass and I've cut 14,887 words just by tidying it up. Don't know whether to be smug, or mortified at the amount of blather 😂

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

My regular workspace is our dining table, so started clearing it ready for Christmas dinner and now I want to throw away everything I own.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Come and spend a fun, festive evening writing with me online next week, as we play around with the mystery genre, Christmas themed! 🎄🎁☃️ #WritingCommunity

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Lil Christmas themed writing workshop next week 🎄

Writing workshop Plotting a Christmas Mystery Wednesday 17 December 7pm-8.30pm on Zoom £15/£7

As the weather gets old, the shops fill with Christmas goodies and the year draws to a close, this fun writing workshop will help you take inspiration from the season to craft a winter themed mystery. Whether it's murder at the office Christmas party, or someone trapped in the snow, we'll think about seasonal tropes and how we can use them to build an engaging story - one that's a perfect read on a long winter evening.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Heading down to Birmingham today for work. Train journey so far looks like this... 🚅 Train is 10 mins late 🚅 Should be 5 carriages, but only 4 appear so people are standing in the aisles 🚅 Get to Sheffield and the doors on coach D stop working 🚅 Coach D passengers must change carriage

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 27/11/2025

It never ceases to shock me that the writer only gets maybe 10% of the cover price of a traditionally published book. And then pays their agent (if they have one) and the tax man. What’s left? About tuppence.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Finishing my prep for tomorrow's writing workshop exploring alternate lives stories. These are a few of the books we'll be taking inspiration from ✍️ Workshop details: amylordauthor.com/events

A stack of three books on the edge of a bookshelf. They are I,Divine by Rabih Alameddine, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Planning for next week's writing workshop - would love to get a few more bookings, if you're interested in exploring the possibilities of alternate lives in story, and what we can learn from that about change and decision making in our characters 👇 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Andrew McCallum @andrewemc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This is a really interesting reinflection of reading survey data - a welcome move away from the endless doomsaying of decreasing numbers

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

"...if you chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt... people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones."

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Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith

The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

November's writing workshop is all about writing stories featuring alternate lives. 📆 Wednesday 26 November, 7pm We'll explore some examples, look at the structures the writers use and think about how to build the rules of your shifting story worlds. www.amylordauthor.com/events #AmWriting

writing workshop alternative lives Wednesday 26 November 7pm-8.30pm £15/£7 amylordauthor.com

In this writing workshop, we’ll experiment with ideas for an alternate lives themed story, thinking about how to build and structure multiple narratives, shaping the story and giving our characters different lives.

This workshop will take place on Zoom. There are a limited number of places available for those on a low income.

We’ll be doing a variety of writing exercises during the session, which will be designed to get you working on an alternate lives themed story.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My book is on sale! Want a bit of *fictional* political dystopia? Go check it out 👇📖🔥

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Still time to join my Writing the Ghost Story workshop tonight on Zoom and flex the darker side of your imagination 👻👇 #Writing #WriteLife

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