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Here you go. Thanks to everyone who has helped me along with this. Hoping you like it. @SceptreBooks
Wendy Erskine
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Wendy Erskine
@WednesdayErskin
THE BENEFACTORS, Sceptre, June '25, DANCE MOVE Stinging Fly/Picador/The Tangerine Press, SWEET HOME, Stinging Fly/Picador, WELL I JUST KIND OF, Paper Visual Art
Belfast
Joined June 2016
- So psyched to say that my collection Dance Move is on every night next week at 10.45pm on BBC Radio 4 - the old book at bedtime - starting with Mrs Dallesandro. You can get all the episodes on @BBCSounds. Lots of thanks to @roisingni, @ThatMShannon
- Really delighted to be a Seamus Heaney Fellow. Looking forward to working with lots of different people. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.news…
- A couple of disco balls, more than a few radiators and electric boxes. And a whole lot of new people. Picador cover xxx
- Yeah, it’s true, I got a new collection. A bit more sex, a few more commas.It's a good day when you get to share a story by @WednesdayErskin - here's ‘Gloria and Max’, the latest story in our online fiction series. And by way of NEWS, Wendy is working on a new collection, which we'll publish early next year. Whoop! stingingfly.org/2021/03/03/glo…
- How lovely, and a real honour, to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature last night. @RSLiterature. Thank you. Amazing.
- When Sweet Home came out I spent my money on a) a Vampire’s Wife dress and b) a 20 minute free bar at the launch and I have never regretted either of those things
- An amazing answer in all sorts of ways. Wonderful. Richard Milward!theguardian.com/books/2023/mar…
- Only sharing this so I can pin it. No need to like it or anything.Some lovely news to share today as @WednesdayErskin is announced winner of the 2020 Butler Literary Award from the Irish American Cultural Institute. Congratulations, Wendy! stingingfly.org/news/wendy-ers…
- yeah I will join the club, me at 20 with shadowy old me looming
- Write that short story or I’m gonna kick your head in pal m.independent.ie/entertainment/…
- Hey short story lovers. I am DELIGHTED to be on the Edge Hill Prize shortlist with these tremendous writers. Many many thanks @stingingfly @EHUShortStory
- So psyched to think people might read these stories before too long. Big thanks to @picadorbooks @stingingflyProofs of DANCE MOVE, the latest collection of short stories from @WednesdayErskin, are here! These new stories are filled with Wendy's brilliant dark humour, unflinching dialogue & a host of new characters you need to meet (Roberta from 'Mathematics'. . 😭🖤) DM for details!
- delighted to be published in the UK by @picadorbooks and to get to work with the exceptional @ansa_khan and @alicemaydewing again! Exciting and lovely.So excited that @stingingfly and @picadorbooks will once again get to publish the brilliant @WednesdayErskin for her new collection of short stories out next year – following the absolute smash hit that was Sweet Home. tinyurl.com/yj7fdj4v
