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Catharine Morris
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Executive Editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social). Commissioning in Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer
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The new issue of the TLS - out tomorrow
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October 1, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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The new issue of the TLS, out tomorrow
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September 17, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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Helen Garner on the cons and pros of being a writer.

(From ‘On Turning Fifty’, from True Stories: Collected Short Non-Fiction)
and grim stubbornness required in order to keep going; the episodes of elation, the occasional sense of hitting your stride, or of being in tune with the force that creates the feeling that now you've got it, now you can't put a foot wrong then the guilt you feel, when your work's going well, that you are allowed to spend your days having this much fun and ultimately being paid for it, while others have jobs in offices or schools, and bosses, and laid-down work hours they have to stick to—then the arrival next morning at your desk, the dropping away of the floor from under your feet as you see the thinness of what yesterday seemed so rich and right; the picking up of the pen, the dogged keeping going-the sickly envy of people with jobs, because they have got bosses to tell them what to do next, and work hours that finish at a certain regular time so they can go home, and holidays, and secretaries, and superannuation-and they're allowed to ask for help; the pathetic pleas for encouragement you make, invariably to the wrong person—a child, a husband, a parent— someone who can't possibly know the right thing to say, or who is in the grip of some barely conscious hostility towards you that they can't help expressing at the most destructive possible moment; the hatred of your own name, because of its connection with this slogging labour and with the expectations which you have caused the outside world to have of you, and that you're afraid you'll never live up to; the despair of feeling trapped inside your own style.
September 17, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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The new issue of the TLS, out tomorrow @thetls.bsky.social
September 3, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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The new issue of the TLS:

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August 20, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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The new issue of the TLS
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August 6, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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The latest issue of the TLS - @thetls.bsky.social
July 17, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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London Bridge architecture. I’m a fan
July 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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This bit of Hard Times reminded me of the “Four Yorkshiremen” sketch:
June 14, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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It took me about four seconds to become obsessed with the Merlin birdsong app. Thank you, @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social!
Merlin (Cornell Lab)
April 18, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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I'll be running a three-day #travelwriting workshop at West Cork Litfest this summer. Loads of other great workshops too, if travel writing isn't your thing...
wcorklitfest.bsky.social West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · Apr 7
Our WCLF three-day writing workshops are now on sale. Poetry with @jesstraynor.bsky.social, Novel Writing with Claire Adam, Travel Writing with @timhannigan.bsky.social, Creative Non-Fiction with Katie Goh and Raise your Short Story Game with Cynan Jones
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List of West Cork Literary Festival workshops. Poetry with Jessica Traynor, Novel Writing with Claire Adam, Travel Writing: Place, People and the Past with Tim Hannigan, Creative Non-Fiction with Katie Goh and Raise your Short Story Game with Cynan Jones
April 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Pulled a calf muscle via the “explosive movement” of crossing the road
April 4, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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Mark Ronson’s memoir is a hoot. He makes 90s NYC sound even more exciting than 90s London. My review for this week’s @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...
Coming of age in New York’s music scene
“Every room was to be destroyed”, Mark Ronson writes in Night People, his rapturous account of his early life as a hip-hop DJ in New York in the 1990s.
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February 24, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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A wonderful piece by @akennedysmith.bsky.social about her father Joe Kennedy:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Joe Kennedy obituary
Other lives: Plant breeder who created new varieties of primula based on rare Irish primroses
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February 24, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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A lovely sentence from a segment of the Today programme: “Gorillas understand the concept of a friend of a friend”.
February 19, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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This story about Laurence Sterne (told here by Ian Campbell Ross) is new to me
Oxford World’s Classics
February 14, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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The Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism is looking for the best new voices in cultural criticism.

Entries close on 28 February 2026, so get scribbling!

First prize is £3000 and publication in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Find out how to enter: www.anthonyburgess.org/observeranth...
January 28, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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It’s a very good thing that @maryelmorris.bsky.social and I made ourselves do Parkrun this morning, because our reward was meeting this gentleman:
January 24, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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Bristol: the home of Aardman Animations
December 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Unity Street, Bristol
Unity St, Bristol
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Doing this very soon! Arrghh!
engfac.bsky.social Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · Nov 24
Don't miss the opportunity to hear our Professor of #poetry, A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social, talk in Oxford this week.

Rhyme as Experiment/ #Rhyme as Alchemy
26 November 2025, 5.30pm
Examination Schools, High St, Oxford

FREE! No booking required. ALL WELCOME!

#Oxfordevents #PoetrySky
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The US-China confrontation; beliefs vs facts; Tennyson, science and catastrophe; Iris Murdoch’s poetry; Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein; a history of shamanism – and much more.

The new TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
October 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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The aristocracy today; Sally Mann’s creative process; the majesty of László Krasznahorkai; the charge against Chaucer; how grey became cool; small press struggles – and much more.

Out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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As part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Lecture Programme, in partnership with Coventry University, I will be reading and discussing Indignity tomorrow. 6pm, free event, followed by reception and book signing but registration is required 👇!!!

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Dignity and Historical Injustice: The History of an Albanian Family
Join Professor Lea Ypi FBA as she reads and discusses her new book, tracing the journey of a woman from Ottoman Salonica to a life under surveillance in post-war communist Albania.
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September 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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It’s here: the newly refined and now fortnightly TLS.

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September 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM