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Brighton, England
Joined March 2014
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Delighted to be spending time at Shoreham Port this year!
We are pleased to introduce @CLEdwall as our first Writer in Residence at Shoreham Port!
We look forward to welcoming Christy and seeing how her plans develop through the winter. Christy will offer two creative writing classes for locals; details to be announced soon.
‘Notable authors and writers’ according to the Life in the UK test: Rowling but not George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter etc etc
What a lovely list! If you’ve got a spare minute, you can join the club & vote for the shortlist at notabeneprize.com
CHRYSALIS by Anna Metcalfe and HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT by @CLEdwall are both on the longlist for the @NBmagazineUK Nota Bene prize! 🎉
Anyone can vote for the titles they think should make it to the shortlist stage, so cast your votes here⬇️
notabeneprize.com/
Incredible news: Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus freed from Iranian jail in prisoner swap | Sweden | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/articl…
Enjoy!
What will you be reading for @WorldBookNight next week? Here are just some of our suggestions for the weekend ahead, all available to borrow from your library!
#WeekendReads #LoveYourLibrary
@Mary_Karras1 @LVaughanwrites @juliathrillers @CLEdwall
ALT Illustration of the moon and stars. Text reads: Grab a Good Book This World Book Night. Book covers for: Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire One Night Beneath the Lemon Trees by Mary Karras Hazard Night by Laura Vaughan What You Need From the Night by Laurent Petitmangin Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin History Keeps Me Awake at Night by Christy Edwall
‘We care for and nurture our children so that the government can rip them away from us.’ - Raphael López Catarino newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
Drop what you're doing and go to Ditchling. Modernist weavers/lovers, natural dyes, Ben Hur, it's all happening ditchlingmuseumartcraft.org.…
Christy Edwall retweeted
HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT, @CLEdwall's debut novel, publishes today in paperback
'An intelligent debut' Observer
'Fizzes with smart observations on modern life’ Daily Mail
'There’s a real energy and poise to Edwall’s prose' Literary Review
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hist…
Christy Edwall retweeted
Ok I got very confused about this, but A FLAT PLACE does seem to be on the New Yorker’s list of ‘Best Books of 2023’? newyorker.com/best-books-202…
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I'm delighted to be speaking and performing from my recent book, THE GREEN LADY, this Sunday at Shoreham Wordfest. For more on The Green Lady listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas… & podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas… @CLEdwall @LancingCollege @ShortBookScribe @pykelets @GeorginaEMW
AUTHOR TALKS
The Green Lady – Novel by #SallyBayley
£5 DISCOUNT!
Code: sally23
A22 - Adult tickets £10
October 15 @ 1:00 pm
#TheShorehamCentre
#LemnSissay loves Sally Bayley’s writing and says “No-one writes like Sally Bayley.”
shorehamwordfest.com/event/t…
#ShorehamWordfest2023