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Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
@halekatie
❄️ The Edge of Solitude - OUT NOW! ❄️ / rep @agent_luck / White Ghosts / My Name is Monster / Northern Writers' Award 21 & 22 / Aesthetica Prize 23
Cumbria, UK
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    Jun 30, 2024
    Queerness is for life, not just for Pride month! 🌈 I can’t wait for you all to meet Ivy: the lesbian main character and narrator of #TheEdgeOfSolitude - and to join her on her journey to Antarctica. Out (in all senses of the word) on Thursday! 🎉 buythebook.online/the-edge-of-so…
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    Oct 1, 2020
    HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY DAY! Time to once again share the greatest poem ever written.
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    Sep 10, 2023
    SOME NEWS!! 💍💍 We’re not doing engagement rings so we had to use haribo as props for the photo, but we are planning to get MARRIED!!!
    Photo shows Katie and Loren standing close together in front of a river, smiling, holding up their hands to show haribo rings on their ring fingers
    Photo shows Katie and Loren standing close together in front of a river, smiling, holding up their hands and eating haribo rings from each other’s ring fingers
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    May 27, 2019
    I think about this Adrienne Rich poem at least once a week. Sometimes every day. On Friday I took it to show my young writers, who also loved it. What was sad & beautiful was how we all said we could relate to it.
    Adrienne Rich poem, ‘Song’
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    Dec 28, 2023
    How it started / how it’s going! SOME MORE NEWS… WE GOT MARRIED!! 💕🥂 Still planning a blessing & big bash in May - we just moved the legal ceremony forward a bit. We got married 2 days before Christmas: just us, our parents, & a great big Christmas tree! 🎄
    Katie and Loren standing in a river, smiling and wearing haribo rings
    Katie and Loren smiling, standing in front of a big Christmas tree in a church. Both wearing white dresses and holding up their left hands to show silver wedding rings.
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    May 13, 2020
    Replying to @SkyNews
    Hi @SkyNews - this is irresponsible reporting, blaming a public who are only following the rules. A more accurate headline would be: ‘Buses in London are packed with passengers this morning, after the govt tell people to return to work.’
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    Jul 3, 2024
    Folks, is this sparkly jumpsuit too extra to wear to my book launch at @Lighthousebks tomorrow?
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    Jun 16, 2023
    Just rescued this enormous beauty from the bathroom - anyone know what it is?
    Photo shows a huge moth on a windowsill. 863 very furry, and it’s body and wings are brown and a kind of raspberry red colour
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    Apr 28, 2024
    Replying to @aneercs
    You haven’t experienced the full folk horror of Wray till you go to lock up the village hall the evening before Scarecrow Festival begins…
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    Aug 27, 2019
    WRITERS! The summer bank holiday is over, and we're into the final third of the year. But instead of slinking meekly into the dark days of winter, here are a few opportunities you can apply for this autumn: #THREAD
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    Apr 15, 2020
    Over the past couple of days, I’ve been thinking a lot about this poem.
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    Dec 14, 2019
    WRITERS! We're in the heart of winter now - so why not spend these long dark nights taking advantage of opportunities available to #writers? Here's a #THREAD of #writing opportunities you can apply for over the Christmas / New Year period:
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    Aug 7, 2020
    Replying to @PhilipPullman
    Serious answer: we’ve been using ‘they’ as a singular pronoun for years when we don’t know someone’s gender, always followed by plural conjugation. Eg. ‘I saw the doctor today.’ ‘What did they say?’ Why should it be any different if it’s an individual’s chosen pronoun?
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    Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈
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    Sep 29, 2019
    RESOURCES FOR WRITERS: a list of organisations, opportunities & support, which you really ought to have on your writerly radar, and which I wish had been on my own radar earlier in my career. Hope you find them useful. #thread #amwriting #writer
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