Sarah is a GREAT poet, this'll be a brilliant collection!

enjoyed this, 'In Praise of Bad Writing' by Julia Bell, rang true to a lot of my experience of creative writing classes / workshops

tlth.co.uk/inpraiseofbadw…

🎭 Studio Theatre Club present post-war London struggling to return to normalcy. 3 women run a successful business, offering to predict the future and create the philosopher's stone. Will they get away with their schemes or face disaster?

19th - 22nd May
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🐢One Small Step, Tortoise 🐢

Here's a short excerpt from A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail as Helen Arney leads an audience in a song created from a poem by Brian Mackenwells

Incidentally, these two amazing folk and Jenni Pinnock have exciting news today! See next tweet!

Exclusive: Birmingham Hippodrome will work with creatives including Clean Break associate artistic director Lakesha Arie-Angelo (@La_kee_sha) and composer Aron Sood as part of a 15-strong cohort of writers developing new musical theatre shows.

Find out more 👉 thestage.co.uk/news/exclusive…

Big news! I'm writing a musical with Jenni Pinnock and @helenarneycomedy! And the Birmingham Hippodrome is going to teach us how, along with five other amazing writing teams!
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Helen turned one of my poems into a song, and then did it as a big group thing with an entire Unnecessary Detail crowd! It's in this episode, around minute 35 or so!

Typography on Pencils. instagram.com/p/C5I-wrUtuW5/

Photographed/sold by us over time.

For the day that's in it: here's a 10 minute talk by me about the Irish language and Irish names, which contains one of my absolute favourite jokes I've done on stage youtu.be/Bzc3Olobbp4?si… #stp

Uh-oh, godzilla is in trouble now

By Michael Rosen. In 2014.

No YOU wrote a 9 minute musical about the first long distance driver / first joyrider / a woman who knew how to fearlessly deploy a hatpin to fix a prototype motor car and swear in German...

youtu.be/bt6ldR3i7Zk

Feat the incomparable Helena Raeburn and @jennipinnock...

Hard-boiled and Noir are two distinct - but overlapping - genres of crime fiction. So it's no surprise that both have their roots in the same soil: a pulp magazine that broke the mould. Twice.

Let's look back at the legendary Black Mask...

“I love how there are so many layers to this story” - and I love that readers are getting this. Wonderful to see the book being reviewed in this way. instagram.com/p/C2y-QvEKzU7/…

More reasons to love Los Campesinos: enter into the raffle (for lots of lovely prizes: a NKAT t shirt! A Doomed football shirt! A gold leaf No Blues sign! Loads of vinyl!) and donate to the people of Palestine.

My book 'Uncivilised: 10 Lies That Made The West' comes out in 10 days, and because I can't wait to share it with you, this marks the start of a countdown of sneak peeks, highlights and stories, chapter by chapter, lie by lie, as you'll find them in the book.

Primary teachers! I’ve still got a few of these books to give away - you could have a copy before official publication on February 8th:

This is fantastic! A properly lovely old school Twitter thread where you learn stuff