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jay walsh
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jay walsh
@badaude
- left-wing twitter is not an 'echo chamber'. it's a support network, a newsfeed beyond a bought & tied media, a contacts and ideas exchange, a hotbed, a prize and a consolation. i am happy to be here. it is also the uk.
- the binality of evil
- 10 yrs ago I first left a bad marriage it took 5 years to unwind. since I've written 10 books published 7 (2 to come binned 1) done a phd run an international literary campaign won a prize slept with women & men fallen in love every year I was single finally loved without falling
- I’m very sad to have turned down the great honour of a DAAD Artists in Berlin residency. I decided make my letter of refusal public in solidarity with @strikegermany, Professor Nancy Fraser, China Miéville, Eya Giannakopoulou, Jonas_Staal, and with the people of Palestine.
- if you are a reviewer interested in diy internet aesthetics, please request a proof!proofs!
- 10 years ago i walked out of a crushing marriage & committed to writing divorce is great-i don't know if i'd still be here without it and twitter is great-i don't know if i'd have found the confidence to commit without the support i found here thank you & happy new year :)
- writers who don't have a source of funds to buy time to write must take another job, which can slow work & publication: THIS IS MY PERIODIC REMINDER THAT IF YOUR ARTS OPPORTUNITY HAS AN UPPER AGE LIMIT IT'S PRO-DISCRIMINATION & ANTI-DIVERSITY. LUCKILY THAT'S EASY TO CHANGE :)
- Jean-Luc Godard and his wife, filmmaker Anne-Marie Miéville have now disappeared from the Googlemaps streetview image in Rolle, from which Robert Luxemburg made this eerie and beautiful, melancholy short tribute... youtube.com/watch?v=X2ryBq…
- so beckett died as the darkest day of the year made its turn toward the light? that's so beckett.Samuel Beckett died in Paris 30 years ago today - 22 December 1989
- This is a great thread celebrating writers who started later. Please use this celebration to ask for change: prizes, residencies etc often specify age-limits that contradict their own diversity guidelines.Did an MA in Creative Writing at 52, first competition win at 54, novel out at 55, second out at 57 next year and sooooooooo not finished!
