I enjoyed taking part in the filming of this interesting BBC Reel on ghost towns, alongside Alan Weisman (The World Without Us). Created by Alexander Trowbridge

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⁦BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland⁩ here’s some plants that grow on china clay waste sites, with much bare ground, easily eroded, colonised by plants like Small Cudweed and Chamomile

Today is publication day for CYPRIA! It's a travel and history book that shows how Cyprus is at the heart of Mediterranean history by exploring places like a Gothic cathedral converted to a mosque, crusader castles, and a ghost town deserted in 1974.

RIP Julian of Norwich, you would have loved X

Thanks Luca for this illuminating discussion of political assassinations for Five Books

Applications for our Advanced Writing Programme close in 3 weeks!

15 writers will be selected to complete a project through residential & online writing weeks, group workshops and 1-1 sessions with Arvon tutors.

⏰Friday 24 May
Caroline Bird Cal Flyn
arvon.org/writing-course…

Such a well written The Guardian Long Read about a remarkable man, by Samira Shackle

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

ICYMI: my conversation with the brilliant Cal Flyn about why tech ethics matters, some of the books that have inspired me—and the silliness of the Singularity.

✨ Join us online TOMORROW at 1pm for an exciting guest writer event where Cal Flyn will be reading from and discussing her work in conversation with Puja Changoiwala!

There will also be a short time for questions from our audience.

Book your ticket here: buff.ly/3QhrhOl

I spoke to the brilliant Cal Flyn about my 5 Books for the end of the world. You can read it here! fivebooks.com/best-books/end…

A very happy publication day to Caroline Crampton, as A BODY MADE OF GLASS hits the shelves 🎉

‘An intelligent, vulnerable and learned book about a condition so widespread and yet so misunderstood... The best book I've read in ages’ Cal Flyn

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-body…

A pleasure to chat to Paul Carlucci about historical fiction, atmosphere, ghost stories, and morally complex characters

Thank you to Cal Flyn and @Five_books for posting this interview. It was great to talk over some of the books that went into #WellBeings . Girton College, Cambridge University, Faculty of English, CRASSH, Cambridge. Shout-out to @william_bloom and Brigid Delaney.

A new offering from Arvon - the Advanced Writing Programme. Join myself, Caroline Bird & Jacob Ross for an extended creative writing course. 5 places for fiction, 5 places for poetry, 5 places for nonfiction. Full details (& info on grant funded places) in thread 👇

I had some very lovely news

Overjoyed to learn that the great Cal Flyn will be one of two recipients of the EM Forster Award 2024 from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Congratulations!

New Substack post! This one is my (unsolicited) advice on making life as a freelance journalist work in an increasingly unstable industry. I hope it's helpful. samirashackle.substack.com/p/what-ive-lea…

So much to enjoy and admire in this profile of Percival Everett, brilliant writer and very reluctant subject

newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…