Beth Barker

v excited to have a story published by @factoryintl this week as part of a folk horror series from emerging northern writers. (it’s me! i am emerging!)🪄 here it is: factoryinternational.org/factoryplus/ne…

Manchester Metropolitan University Creative Writing Masters students Beth Barker and Abby Walker have had short stories published in @DeadInkBooks’ “Motives Unknown” crime writing anthology. They will be reading at an event in Stockport on 6 May: ticketsource.co.uk/serenity-books…

I think having small friendly interactions with strangers is so important for humanity

sylvia plath

What a deeply unserious man 😭

An airstrike in Gaza hit a hospital courtyard on Monday, burning tents where people were sleeping. Strikes also hit an @UNRWA school where families were sheltering. The location was meant to be used as a polio vaccination site. A ceasefire is urgently needed to stop the devastation.

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@retirewrite @mr_jasondone solidarity sister 😭

@bethrdb @mr_jasondone Just reached this on the iplayer too! Distraught 😂😭

00:32 on a friday night and just reached the episode of waterloo road where tom clarkson dies. a northern hero, a working class socialist, a dreamy book reader. i’m now staring at the ceiling, officially dead inside.

perfect friday morning reading: this essay on celia dale, queen of domestic horror and mundane nastiness❤️‍🔥 v excited for another celia banger from @DauntBooksPub this sept lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

@samuel_mcqueen one for the 2024 history books

obsessed with her first landing place being blackpool. everyone can stop calling us ugly now, she has spoken !

slurp

R.I.P. Shelley Duvall (1949-2024)

@jessf_white so sad to hear this jess, sending love x

after eleven and a half years of pure joy, my best ever boy has gone to heaven. he had a mercifully short illness and passed on this afternoon. to be loved is to be changed

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just came in to this? even the most discerning readers can’t get enough of @JuliaArmfield’s new novel

this is pretty immense

the cure for election apathy? buying all the books you’ve been spying from your fave indie press @DeadInkBooks😌