Anna-Marie Crowhurst
@writercrow.bsky.social
Writer of books, lecturer of creative writing, sometime Guardian/Bookseller/Stylist journalist. The Illumination of Ursula Flight + Badly Behaved Women.
My friend Mark Pawson has left us - here’s an account of his brilliance: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Mark Pawson obituary
Other lives: Artist and maker of collectible badges, posters and stickers whose work found homes in the Tate and V&A library collections
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March 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
My friend Mark Pawson has left us - here’s an account of his brilliance: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
The phases of winter:
- Surviving, just - nice glass of wine after a hard day's work
- Distinctly rundown - lovely cocktail is spirit-raising medicine
- Ill enough to need to drink / too ill to be hungover - portioning whisky carefully
- Health is returning - hello, tequila
- Surviving, just - nice glass of wine after a hard day's work
- Distinctly rundown - lovely cocktail is spirit-raising medicine
- Ill enough to need to drink / too ill to be hungover - portioning whisky carefully
- Health is returning - hello, tequila
December 4, 2024 at 6:22 PM
The phases of winter:
- Surviving, just - nice glass of wine after a hard day's work
- Distinctly rundown - lovely cocktail is spirit-raising medicine
- Ill enough to need to drink / too ill to be hungover - portioning whisky carefully
- Health is returning - hello, tequila
- Surviving, just - nice glass of wine after a hard day's work
- Distinctly rundown - lovely cocktail is spirit-raising medicine
- Ill enough to need to drink / too ill to be hungover - portioning whisky carefully
- Health is returning - hello, tequila
Solidarity to all at the Gdn & Obs.
I am on strike today, along with many other journalists from The Guardian and Observer. We have downed tools for 48 hours and will be back at work on Friday. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
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December 4, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Solidarity to all at the Gdn & Obs.
They look like they… don’t read
What's interesting about this trend for book marketing AI companies—who secure £Xmil in seed funding, get a write-up in the Bookseller, and will now wither away, leaving only a slime trail of AI generated goop across the surface of culture—is mainly what it says about capital’s engagement with books
November 25, 2024 at 12:26 PM
They look like they… don’t read
£5000 prize + Curtis Brown representation on offer here 👇🏼
#Discoveries2025, a novel-writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers currently residing in the UK or Ireland, is open for entries until 13 Jan 2025!
Read our advice on how to enter:
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How to prepare your entry to Discoveries 2025
Our top tips to help you perfect your entry to Discoveries 2025. The prize accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a…
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November 23, 2024 at 8:09 PM
£5000 prize + Curtis Brown representation on offer here 👇🏼
Writing just isn’t interesting to huge swathes of people, is it? I’d say the majority of my (non-pub ind) friends & most of my family haven’t read my books… www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/17/my-wife-glazes-over-when-i-talk-about-my-writing-how-can-i-come-to-terms-with-her-indifference
My wife glazes over when I talk about my writing. How can I come to terms with her indifference? | Ask Philippa
Your persona as an author is in the public domain, so perhaps your wife wants to keep the private you to herself
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November 23, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Writing just isn’t interesting to huge swathes of people, is it? I’d say the majority of my (non-pub ind) friends & most of my family haven’t read my books… www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/17/my-wife-glazes-over-when-i-talk-about-my-writing-how-can-i-come-to-terms-with-her-indifference
Love this for her (& literary fiction in general)
The announcement of Orbital (Jonathan Cape) by Samantha Harvey as @thebookerprizes.bsky.social winner for 2024 has rocketed it to the top of the charts 👇 www.thebookseller.com/news/news/in... #BookSky
Into orbit: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital becomes first Booker champ to hit number one in week of its win
The announcement of Orbital (Vintage) by Samantha Harvey as the Booker Prize winner for 2024 has rocketed it to the top of the charts, breaking Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid's three-week run in first place.
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November 19, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Love this for her (& literary fiction in general)
Struggling to finish that book? Good news - you’re not useless, inept and lazy, you just haven’t tried ✨COCA WINE✨
Coca wine was a popular alcoholic beverage in the 19th century. Each bottle contained approximately 6 milligrams of cocaine per ounce. One popular brand, Vin Mariani, was enjoyed by Jules Verne, Alexander Dumas, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Thomas Edison claimed it helped him stay awake! #skystorians
November 19, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Struggling to finish that book? Good news - you’re not useless, inept and lazy, you just haven’t tried ✨COCA WINE✨
This thread is stupendous 👇🏼
1) Do not read the whole original post or what it links to, which will dilute the purity of your response and reduce your chances of rebuking the poster for not mentioning anything they might’ve mentioned/written a book on/devoted their life to. lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media
1) Do not read the whole original post or what it links to, which will dilute the purity of your response and reduce your chances of rebuking the poster for not mentioning anything they might’…
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November 18, 2024 at 3:26 PM
This thread is stupendous 👇🏼
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An erotic short story in three acts
August 14, 2024 at 11:50 AM
An erotic short story in three acts
Have recently moved; my first ever trip to a carpet shop. Refused to countenance *this* brand on the grounds of the shade names which (am I wrong?) make me feel violent, rageful, murderous, insane. I’m thinking of the copywriter who did this, presumably against their will, & how they are doing now
November 17, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Have recently moved; my first ever trip to a carpet shop. Refused to countenance *this* brand on the grounds of the shade names which (am I wrong?) make me feel violent, rageful, murderous, insane. I’m thinking of the copywriter who did this, presumably against their will, & how they are doing now
Hark! My favourite literary festival needs your guest recs! I still think fondly of the year with the frozen rosé machine (frozé???) in the green room. I drank it with Tessa Hadley in the sunshine 🌞
Hello everybody! We’re working on the 2025 festival (6-8 June) and interested to hear suggestions for our eclectic, counter-cultural, feministy, musicy, Londony programme. Please RT (do we call it that here?) so publicists etc can find us again 🤓. Thank you!
November 17, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Hark! My favourite literary festival needs your guest recs! I still think fondly of the year with the frozen rosé machine (frozé???) in the green room. I drank it with Tessa Hadley in the sunshine 🌞
Watched FIREBRAND last night, from @lizfremantle.bsky.social’s novel. It’s so hard to find a fresh take on the Tudors but I really loved the understatedness of it, the low-key intimacy of how we watch Katherine Parr, so very closely. The twisted vision of Henry & the revisionist aspects were fun too
November 16, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Watched FIREBRAND last night, from @lizfremantle.bsky.social’s novel. It’s so hard to find a fresh take on the Tudors but I really loved the understatedness of it, the low-key intimacy of how we watch Katherine Parr, so very closely. The twisted vision of Henry & the revisionist aspects were fun too
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Hello, hi.
I’ve made an inexhaustive starter pack of the bookish people I’ve found here so far 📚
go.bsky.app/EeTCv2s
I’ve made an inexhaustive starter pack of the bookish people I’ve found here so far 📚
go.bsky.app/EeTCv2s
November 16, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Hello, hi.
I’ve made an inexhaustive starter pack of the bookish people I’ve found here so far 📚
go.bsky.app/EeTCv2s
I’ve made an inexhaustive starter pack of the bookish people I’ve found here so far 📚
go.bsky.app/EeTCv2s
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
1. Music journalist
2. Club promoter
3. Vintage clothes-seller
4. Fashion editor
5. Wilton’s Music Hall tour guide when people (men) asked me SO MANY Qs abt Victorian toilets & plumbing & no toilets were not part of the tour
1. Music journalist
2. Club promoter
3. Vintage clothes-seller
4. Fashion editor
5. Wilton’s Music Hall tour guide when people (men) asked me SO MANY Qs abt Victorian toilets & plumbing & no toilets were not part of the tour
November 16, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
1. Music journalist
2. Club promoter
3. Vintage clothes-seller
4. Fashion editor
5. Wilton’s Music Hall tour guide when people (men) asked me SO MANY Qs abt Victorian toilets & plumbing & no toilets were not part of the tour
1. Music journalist
2. Club promoter
3. Vintage clothes-seller
4. Fashion editor
5. Wilton’s Music Hall tour guide when people (men) asked me SO MANY Qs abt Victorian toilets & plumbing & no toilets were not part of the tour
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My writing process is that I don't write, then for a while I write, then frustratingly I don't write again, then I'm old.
November 9, 2024 at 10:37 PM
My writing process is that I don't write, then for a while I write, then frustratingly I don't write again, then I'm old.
Tip for lecturers - don’t tell your students about your vivid anxiety dream that you were wearing bumsters. - Bumsters are from before they were born. - Now they’re thinking about your bum. - Formal complaint
November 14, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Tip for lecturers - don’t tell your students about your vivid anxiety dream that you were wearing bumsters. - Bumsters are from before they were born. - Now they’re thinking about your bum. - Formal complaint
So proud of my Booker-winning colleague, Sam. Slipping into Orbital is like literary lucid dreaming
Congratulations to Samantha Harvey, whose novel ‘Orbital’ won the 2024 Booker Prize.
In honour of this achievement we have removed the paywall on her short story ‘Flowers Appear on the Earth’, which appeared in Granta 122: Betrayal.
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In honour of this achievement we have removed the paywall on her short story ‘Flowers Appear on the Earth’, which appeared in Granta 122: Betrayal.
granta.com/flowers-appe...
Flowers Appear on the Earth | Samantha Harvey | Granta Magazine
‘In their deepest sorrow the islanders buried the ashes of their forty-six dead’ Samantha Harvey’s elegiac prose observes the power of rebirth in a community that blooms precisely when it feels most f...
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November 14, 2024 at 3:09 PM
So proud of my Booker-winning colleague, Sam. Slipping into Orbital is like literary lucid dreaming