Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids:
Minou Moonshine 2023/ Sam Singh 2024 Bloomsbury Kids
Poetry:
Empirical 2026
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren 2022 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing 2020
Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Gita Ralleigh
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🧵📸 Last week, we were delighted to co-host with @theclpe.bsky.social the latest community conversation, Children's Literature: Speculative Fiction and Colonialism, organised so brilliantly by @darrenchetty.bsky.social.
Through a series of activities and group, room and author-led conversations...
English and Media Centre
Interesting to compare Cade's state-of-climate-fiction reflections at the end of this (great) review-essay with those in this essay in Prospect, also jumping off from the Climate Prize shortlist www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7375...
Hummingbird of the Day:
Pirre Hummingbird
Near Threatened
📷 Andrew Spencer
So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
🎧Listen to BBC Radio's The Verb hosted by @imcmillan.bsky.social including guest writer @kymdeyn.bsky.social and the "deep and sonorous wells of folklore" reimagined in their shapeshifting debut #poetry book, FOLKISH.
Superb readings and discussion - a great listen.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Looking forward to this - tickets still available! www.arcgroup.io/uxbridge/eve...
Although the British authorities have nixed any possibility of a Benny the Raccoon follow up:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Famous authors asking you out
"I believe in story. It helps us make sense of the world in all its messiness, glories, mismatches, and marvels."
- Jane Yolen, 1939-2026
