Lydia Syson

Frankfurt is a weird time for writers; it can feel like everyone is getting 6 figure deals (they’re not!). To do something for those who aren’t yet at that stage, I’m offering a free critique of your first 10k words & synopsis (fiction only) - to enter RT by midnight Sat! 📚✍️

@JamesLucasIT Wow!

People who accidentally found their doppelgängers in museums - a thread 🧵

@candygourlay @LawrencePatrice From me too! You’re an inspiration! X

@LWriterhouse I think I’m a bit biased too!

I may be a tad biased but the team of author/educators who lead these sessions are fab! @LydiaSyson

Most refugees can't access safe routes under the UK's broken immigration rules. This is why we're calling for #RoutesToSafety to be created urgently. 🧡 Share this post to help us spread awareness 📣 Add your name to our campaign: safepassage.org.uk/routes-to-safe…

@LaurenceAnholt I’m so terribly sorry. Utterly unbearable.

Happy 10th Anniversary Ezra, Loveday and Mahmud! This little book is still in print, and still being read, thanks to teachers, librarians and readers for giving a small book a long life...

@rachelmsargent @eccobooks Hello Rachel! Any chance you could follow me back so that I can DM you? Many thanks.

Agents! I'm open to submissions at @eccobooks and looking to acquire literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. I've updated my bio on our website with a wishlist as well so ~let's connect~

@brixtonbard So sorry to hear this Alex. Wishing you well with your treatment.

@EJBarnesWrite @KatharineQ @Marikacobbold @blablafishcakes @MichelleLStyles @simonjedge @AndrewStickland So wonderful.

@LydiaSyson @KatharineQ @Marikacobbold @blablafishcakes @MichelleLStyles @simonjedge @AndrewStickland I loved The Summer Book, gentle, funny, enchanting – who doesn't need that?

A summer round-up of reading, and my TBR pile, including writers @Marikacobbold, @blablafishcakes, @MichelleLStyles, Michelle Smart, @EJBarnesWrite, @simonjedge, @AndrewStickland, @LydiaSyson and a 'hot take' on Jane Austen's female characters..katharinequarmby.com/2023/08/05/som…

Another busy day today teaching and helping Ntafufu S.S.S students to fill out their London application forms! This return trip is where your sponsorship really matters, please click the link in bio help provide these students with the same life changing experience! 🧡

THEY ARE OFF ! The skies might be grey but their spirits are sunny as Martha and Linda begin their mammoth 160km walk ! Sponsorship link in the bio, keep them going ! 🧡

Lost for 80 years, now - a bible belonging to a 13 year old boy, murdered at Auschwitz, has become the only tangible link to his existence. @DovForman meets the Hungarian antique book dealer who found it, and brings the book back to London, to Bela's older sister Lily. 🇭🇺✈️🇬🇧

@jaiceescribbler @ConversationUK Exactly that. What a government.

'Performative cruelty': the hostile architecture of the UK government's migrant barge theconversation.com/performative-c… via @ConversationUK

I just signed the @AuthorsGuild's Open Letter to Generative AI Leaders calling on them to compensate writers fairly for the use of copyrighted materials in their AI programs. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/auth…

Suella Braverman broke law by denying asylum seekers £3 a week, judge rules theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j…

‘Floating Prisons’: The 200-year-old family business behind the Bibby Stockholm - Corporate Watch corporatewatch.org/floating-priso…