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Isn’t this illustration wonderful?? It’s by @giulia_martinelli_x, to accompany my short story ‘THE GIVEN’ - which is February’s Featured Story in @shortfictionjournal! . It’s ‘a beautifully tender, exquisitely written depiction of love, loss & the ties th
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January reads! 📚 It’s been a fiction-heavy month, probably because I’ve also been working hard on my own novel, but there have been some absolute crackers. ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ has been on my TBR list for ages - and it’s safe to say I’m fast
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Good afternoon from the #writing desk, where I’m deep into editing the second novel. Please send coffee. And cake.
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Went to @bookendsbookshopcarlisle. Visited the #MyNameIsMonster brick. (Also the real book, but inside the shop where it was a bit drier.)
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Very grateful for the post van, which battled down the icy lane to deliver my contributor copy of the @aestheticamag anthology. ❄️📚💕 Also very grateful to all the judges who selected my story as the winner! A big thank you to Way
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A huge thank you to everyone who has borrowed #MyNameIsMonster from a library! 📚 My @plr_bl statement came through today - which pays authors for all the times books have been borrowed from libraries - and it always feels like a welcome new year bon
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COVER REVEAL! Over the moon to be dropping this bombshell of a cover into the grid, ahead of my debut poetry collection WHITE GHOSTS coming out from @ninearchespress in March. Isn’t she stunning?? . Signed pre-orders already available from the wonderful
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Goal for 2023: to get back to being this comfortable in the water. . If you've been following my posts, you'll know that, at the end of last year, I went to Australia. While I was there, I swam in a couple of hotel pools, went for a refreshing dip in the
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There’s still (just) time! Signed copies of #MyNameIsMonster in @samreadbookseller in time for Christmas - or to spend any festive book tokens on in the new year 📚
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Signed Monsters in @waterstones_kendal - just in time for Christmas! 📚🎄🎁
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I woke up like this 🚂
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November reads! One thing I love about travelling is the opportunity to read all those books that have been on my list for ages. Therefore I dedicate this post to planes, beaches, and too many chai lattes. . #bookaddicts #bookbloggersofinstagram #amwritin
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‘O Oberon, what visions have I seen’
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It’s a poetry & espresso martini kind of Monday
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In some ways, this is where my career as a novelist began, as it’s where I first had the idea for the book that would become My Name is Monster. (It’s also where I learned to read plainchant notation, but that’s another story.) It may have taken me anothe
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I love it when you get through security in an airport, and suddenly there are big windows and enormous skies, and that feeling of travelling onward. I’ve had the most wonderful two weeks at @ksp_writers_centre (and hugely productive - hello 28k words!) bu
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Very excited to have a story in this 4-story anthology from @flyonthewallpress. It’s a story about Carlisle, goose sex, grief, rage & the female body, and I can’t wait for you all to be able to read it! . A huge thank you to Fly on the Wall for selecting
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Beautiful Busselton… It’s been so good to get out of the city for a couple of days, and explore a little bit more of Western Australia’s incredible coast. Lots of walking along the jetty, and lounging on the beach reading & drinking coffee. A wonderful wa
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Quokkas! Maybe the smiliest animals in Australia…?
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Day 2 in Perth: a selection of the wildlife we saw on the kayaking adventure around Shoalwater Bay. (Not pictured: the hawk, osprey, crabs, chitons or octopus.) Another incredible day at the office.
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Reposted from @theliteraryconsultancy: . Treat your setting like a character to discover more about it, and its relevance to the story. . #TLCTips #AmWriting #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WritingCommunity
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And so my first full day in Perth draws to a close. Good night! 🌅
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How it started / how it’s going: Australia edition . In 2010, I travelled to Australia for a year to study at Melbourne University. Today, I’m heading to Heathrow - ready to fly back to Australia tomorrow, for a residency at @ksp_writers_centre & a catch
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Reading in a Viking longhouse should be on every writer’s bucket list. . Today I read as part of the very first Moorforge Book Flood: a 20-minute set which will be released as a podcast Fortune down the line, so you’ll be able to listen along later and im
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This is so exciting! My debut poetry collection, ‘White Ghosts’, is now available to order! Go to @samreadbookseller & search ‘Katie Hale White Ghosts’ on their website - they’ll ship anywhere, and I’ve promised to sign all their pre-orders with my best s
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SOME NEWS! My debut poetry collection, ‘White Ghosts’, is coming out in March, with the magnificent @ninearchespress! . ‘revealing, unflinching poems tracing maternal lines and difficult legacies of slavery and whiteness interwoven into the fabric of Amer
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Some news: I’m joining @thewritingsquadofficial as the new prose-specialist Core Team member! . I’ve been following the work of the Writing Squad for almost a decade, and have always looked on with a mixture of admiration and envy, so it’s wonderful to be
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Saturday afternoons are for walking to the shop to buy sweets, and for making friends along the way.
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Loved being part of #BBCLiveLessons on @cbbc for #NationalPoetryDay today - such a great bunch of children to be working with, and such wonderful budding poets!
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Happy National Poetry Day! . This year’s theme is The Environment, so here’s a poem from the forthcoming book 👀 about the meeting of nature & people. . Lanterns Kansas, 1997 The dark was close enough to touch when we took the jam jars from the shelf
