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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Rule number one in sign making: don’t make the thing look so cool

Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

75. Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris. All the grumbles and groupthink of office life carefully observed and run through the cycle until things start to come apart

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

74. Low-Flying Aircraft - JG Ballard. Sweaty, dirty, post-tech shorts - surprisingly not all featuring pilots (but most). Favourite one was about time travel television

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

73. A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf. Amazed I’ve gone so long without this essential reading. I’m guessing this is where Shakespeare’s Sister got their name.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

72. Get in Trouble - @kellylink.bsky.social Effervescent collection of stories from the surreal to the gothic. Uncomfortable but always enjoyable

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

71. Meander Spiral Explode - Jane Alison. Wonderful exploration of narrative structure with examples that show novels don’t have to have a hero’s journey to work

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

24. Prince Charles Cinema 🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥 The Holy Mountain (1973) 🍿🍿🍿🍿 Sprawling surrealist journey to enlightenment across a sumptuous and terrifying sci-fi religio-materialist landscape. You just have to see it to really get it

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

23. Prince Charles Cinema 🎥🎥🎥🎥 Trading Places (1983) 🍿🍿🍿 I’d never seen this before and it was funny but not half as funny as the NYE crowd were finding it. Still nice trip to the cinema on the last day of the year. Maybe should have had a sign to warn me about Ackroyd’s Jamaican ‘costume’ 🫣

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

22. Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com 🎥🎥🎥🎥 The Battle of Algiers (1966) 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 The most remarkable film I have seen in some time. Looked and sounded incredible and captured the people and place so effectively. Replaying so many moments of it in my head

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

21. BFI (again but big screen) 🎥🎥🎥🎥 Pierrot Le Fou (1965) 🍿🍿🍿 Wild and colourful Godard rom-com. Couldn’t get the warning sign outside out of my head until I saw the scene it was referring to and it was indeed very racist.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

20. BFI 🎥🎥🎥🎥 Tokyo Godfathers (2003) 🍿🍿🍿🍿 Usually not one for Christmas films but this was fantastic. Did not let up from start to end. Excellent animation and the soundtrack was so perfectly odd

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

70. Busy About the Tree of Life - Pamela Zoline. Wise and weird collection of science fiction from all sorts of strange angles. Formally experimental in a way that bewildered but never bored me

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

69. Confucius in Silicon Valley - Zumak. Gripping, well-detailed tech thriller about a social media company using Chinese Social Credit surveillance data to build a frighteningly accurate AI.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

68. Everything You Ever Wanted - Luiza Sauma. Reading like a hybrid of two projects I’m currently writing, I had to grab this from the library. A lucky number of people are given the chance to start again on a new, unpopulated planet but what will they leave behind?

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

67. Becoming a Writer - Dorothea Brande. Considering this is nearly a hundred years old, it was actually quite enjoyable and certainly encouraging advice on the writer’s life, if a bit dated.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

66. Flesh & Blood - Chris Geary & Simon Lewis. Graphic novel of minimalist art and a grim tone, mixing the supernatural with realism in a taut crime thriller of a paramedic’s search for her husband’s killer.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

65. Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates. Finally got round to reading this important work and noticed halfway through Equalizer 2 that Denzel was reading it so I’m in good company

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

19. Vue Westfield Stratford 🎥🎥🎥 One Battle After Another (2025) 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 Should have called this shopping centre Eastfield, but I braved it to tick off a new cinema to watch this movie and I’m glad I did. An absolute ride of a film, from start to end.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

64. Lanny - Max Porter. A village is turned upside down when an eccentric local boy goes missing. Kind of like a broken mirror reflecting different views of England

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

63. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. The story of a neurodivergent woman who finds herself working a routine retail job. Deadpan and very relatable the way she struggles to relate

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

62. The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett. Wise post-apocalyptic old-west sci-fi about a finding a hidden city that retains the banned scientific knowledge after a nuclear war, written by the screenwriter from Empire Strikes Back.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

61. The Passion of GH - Clarice Lispector. A wild book that pulls apart every moment despite its fabula being short and sweet: a woman finds a cockroach in her maid’s room…

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

60. Memoirs found in a Bathtub - Stanislaw Lem. In a society without paper, these mysterious notes are found which may reveal the truth of what happened to the paranoid bureaucratic world before. Perplexing and circuitous but amusing and clever

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

59. The Transition - @lukekennard.bsky.social Social satire on a near-future prison alternative that offers to rebuild the lives of middle class crims. Well-observed, surprisingly tender and of course very funny

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

18. Royal Festival Hall 🎥🎥🎥🎥 The Mastermind (2025) 🍿🍿🍿🍿 Slow-burning beautifully-shot turn on a bungled art heist including a brief Q&A with Kelly Reichardt and Josh O’Connor beforehand.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

17. Everyman Barnet 🎥🎥🎥 Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 🍿🍿🍿 Birthday treat with this fun Kurosawa remake in a glorious old cinema they’ve done up. The Puerto Rican festival action sequence was beautifully hectic

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

58. In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan. Another holiday read; murky shorts with an undercurrent of the dark and carnal. The stories still have punch all these years on

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

57. The Little Disturbances of Men - Grace Paley. Smart and funny in places, read these short stories on Jewish NY women as I’d finished all my other holiday books

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

56. Kallocain - Karin Boye. Swedish dystopian scifi from 1940 about suspicion and surveillance when a doctor creates a drug that makes users tell the truth. Shades of Brave New World and We. Drab terror that’s strangely intimate

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

55. Custard Heart - Dorothy Parker. These fun shorts are perfect for the back pocket if you’re on the move. Safe to assume I was the only person with a Dorothy Parker book in the football stadium.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

54. Jungle House - Julianne Pachico. Speculative tale of a girl growing up in an AI holiday home in S America. Sinister, smart and sensitive. Met the author during my MA interview and she’s great

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

53. There is no antimimetics division - qntm. Sci-fi horror about malevolent self-censoring ‘antimemes’ which attack memory and reality itself. The dept must fight an enemy no one knows exists @qntm.org

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

52. Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald. Psychogeographic walking tour of East Anglia that transports us across the world and back. Puzzling and delightful

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

51. Tales from Two Pockets - Karel Čapek. After inventing the word Robot, Čapek wrote this selection of semi-satirical mystery stories, mostly about crime. Some more interesting than other but some absolute gems in here almost fable-like.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

50. One day everyone will have always been against this - Omar El Akkad. With a title so powerful it almost saves you reading the book, this painful and surprising exploration of Western failure to practice the values it preaches is an urgent read

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

…that was when I finally spoke out. Free Palestzine

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

And when they came for the people who said nothing…

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

49. Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart. A tutor recommended this for its comic odd future style to help me think about a project of mine and content and I have to say I enjoyed it immensely.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

48. Wish I Was Here - M John Harrison. Wonderful ‘anti memoir’ full of advice for writing (and life) through a charming self effacing photo album style. Texted a mate to say I’d finished who happened to have a spare ticket to him reading his new one. What a delightful man he was

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

47. In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan. Bafflingly simple but dreamlike novella. Postmodern and post apocalyptic, funny and dark. Anything with 🍉 should be supported

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

2.5 Prince Charles Cinema 🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥 The Holy Mountain (1973) 🍿🍿🍿🍿 Sprawling surrealist journey to enlightenment across a sumptuous and terrifying sci-fi religio-materialist landscape. You just have to see it to really get it

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

16. Arc Cinema Great Yarmouth 🎥🎥🎥🎥 Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 🍿🍿🍿1/2 Great family fun in a cinema I haven’t visited since watching the Little Mermaid in 1990. Effects were great, especially in space. Fitting entry to the MCU

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

15. Ipswich Omniplex 🎥 🎥 🎥 Superman (2025) 🍿🍿 Some fun action but pretty corny for the most part. Glad the dog got a big role but found it hard to care what was happening in general

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

14. Vue Haymarket 🎥🎥 🎥 Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 🍿🍿1/2 Decent action set pieces and some good performances but so unnecessary, especially the big bad mutant. Bonus points for only 1/3 of the large dinosaurs they had to collect samples from actually being dinosaurs.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Making another zine of one liners if you like that sort of thing…

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

46. Mortal Engines - Stanislaw Lem. (Originally Fables for Robots) Playful science fiction fairy tales, ending with two shorts that are less fable-like; The Hunt, Pirx the Pilot pursues a deadly robot across the moon, and The Mask, a surreal shape shifting love story.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

45. 40 Stories - Donald Barthelme. Could have finished this earlier to match the numbers up but oh well. Hit and miss for me but when they were good they were really great. As with above, I still support experimentation, especially when it doesn’t quite work

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

44. The Hole - Hiroko Oyamada. Wasn’t sure what to make of this. Felt like a fun Ghibli film with the plot and setting and there was some interesting stuff about gender roles but just wish the paragraphs were broken up better (especially for speech) as my mind drifted.

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

43. Assembly - Natasha Brown. Read this in a couple of days after an inspiring talk by the author about experimental novels. Sharp and inventive - what a debut

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Will Conway - Writeacher @willconway.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

42. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things - Naomi Wood. Sharp, astutely observed tales about women making mean choices in a messy world. Was fortunate enough to have the author mark one of my MA assessed pieces. She’s excellent

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