@davewakely.bsky.social
Househusband, cook, gardener, guitar player, composer, writer. Shortlisted for Manchester, Bath + Cambridge Short Story awards; fiction/poetry in numerous journals and anthologies. Owns huge number of cookbooks. Online Programme Mngr, @MKLitFest.
Honoured to have a poem in Issue 18 of 14poems - available from them at www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/issue-18 for those who support small presses.
Thanks to editors Troy Cabida and Helen Bowell, and to Sean Hewiit, Richard Scott, Derek Jarman and Jeanette Winterson for inadvertent inspiration.
A poem in the new edition of Caduceus Journal, with thanks to the poetry editor, Dawn Gorman @dawnpoet.bsky.social
caduceus.info
Tomorrow night (Tues 9th) in-person or online: a fascinating new website launches, with live readings of 12 excellent pieces of original writing about our city
Tickets (free): www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoiceslaunch
Honoured to be shortlisted for this forthcoming anthology - please support @arachnepress.bsky.social through their crowdfunder if you are able (and spreading the word is also a fine form of generosity)
29.11.2025 16:13 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Join @mklitfest.bsky.social online on Wed eve for 5 superb poets: Zoe Brooks, Anna Saunders, Julia Webb, Leo Boix and Lesley Sharpe. www.mklitfest.org/poetryspotli...
#poetry #poets #poetryreading
@julwe1.bsky.social @lesleysharpe.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social
Delighted and more than a little honoured to be reading in such talented company at 3pm on westwiltsradio.com today (and available on the Play Again pages from early next week).
"There should be a recipe. How to Make
a Perfect Day at Home..."
In collaboration with @mklitfest.bsky.social in August we held an online masterclass – Digging in the Dirt: adventures in ecopoetry with @clareshawpoet.bsky.social , @betarish.bsky.social , @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/the-magic-of... 1 /3
04.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
For #nationalpoetryday
02.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Something to do with sovereignty, perchance?
04.09.2025 08:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Delighted to be reading tonight for @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social fundraiser event - all welcome!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Delighted to have a poem, As if, on Poem Alone. Thx editor Colin Dardis (@purelypoetry.bsky.social_, and @annasaund.bsky.social (Cheltenham Poetry Festival) and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social, whose workshops helped mould my imagination into finer shape.
poemalone.blogspot.com/2025/08/dave...
Join local author Will Burns for a place-based creative workshop providing a framework for new writing with Milton Keynes and its environs at its heart.
www.mklitfest.org/cityofstories
@troubledstriker.bsky.social
#WillBurns
#writingworkshop
#shortstories
Last call for tickets for an exclusive, free creative writing workshop with @grindrod.bsky.social, looking at how to write non-fiction about places, locations, and modern cities. Thurs 7 Aug, 6pm
Last few tickets: www.mklitfest.org/writingthecity
#writingworkshop #CreativeNonfiction #miltonkeynes
Free event with Helen Bowell will help you write poems mining memory, history and place to paint pictures of MK. Places limited: please pre-book.
www.mklitfest.org/poetryaboutp...
#helenbowell
#writingworkshop
#poetry
#miltonkeynes
Duly noted. And the third part of his political studies trilogy is out at the end of August. I'd say 'Enjoy!', but it's not quite the verb, is it?
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All stories take place somewhere. Belfast-born fiction writer Paul McVeigh and Coventry-born poet Cathy Galvin invite you to disrupt your usual writing practice and look again at the familiar landscape of home.
www.mklitfest.org/lookagain
@cathygalvin.bsky.social
@wordfactoryuk.bsky.social
A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project
www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...
@clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@betarish.bsky.social
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
We're always going to recommend reading, of course, so why not try a few minutes perusing our Spring Festival Programme. Starts next week: 4 days, 18 events, and packed with books, words, writers and ideas!
www.mklitfest.org/downloads
#bookfest #books #miltonkeynes
Like #YAfantasy? #hungergames? Anna February joins us next Sat with the claustrophobic world of her new novel The Hive.
Before then, she talks to @caztricks.bsky.social on Stony Sunrise @stonyradiouk.bsky.social Mon 7am
mklitfest.org/anna-february
#miltonkeynes #books @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social
MK Literary Festival starts tomorrow: 4 days, 18 events. To start, Edward Stourton talks about 40 years of bringing us the news.*
*In-person or online!
Box Office open!
www.mklitfest.org/edward-stourton
#edwardstourton #journalism #broadcasting #Memoir #miltonkeynes
To mark 8 years of working with local writers, join us on 12/4 as we present just some of the 200 we've published. And we've a special announcement too! Tickets (incl livestream) free: www.mklitfest.org/raising-voices
#miltonkeynes #poetry #flashfiction #creativewriting
Join us in-person - or online (livestream tickets on same link) - on 9 April as we welcome Edward Stourton to Lit Fest, talking about his career and memoir: #Confessions.
Book: mklitfest.org/edward-stour...
#radio4 #bbcr4sunday #edwardstourton #journalism #broadcasting #miltonkeynes #newsreporting
Author Michael Stewart announces our 2025 #CreativeWriting Competition winners as we launch our MinK#5: 'Home' anthology at @theparkstrust.bsky.social Pavilion on 10 April.
Free event: mklitfest.org/mink2025-lau...
@hqstories.bsky.social #writingcompetition #poetry #flashfiction #miltonkeynes
Writers of #BUCKINGHAMSHIRE #bedfordshire + #northants, 2 weeks left to send us your #poems or #flashfiction to celebrate May Day or any of its associations. Details: www.mklitfest.org/dreams-for-b...
#writingcompetition #creativewriting #writers #amwriting #writingcommunity #miltonkeynes
#Writers need to find their own voice for their #stories to ring true. We've a workshop with writer and teacher Michael Stewart on 11/4 to help. Handful of places left: www.mklitfest.org/finding-your...
@hqstories.bsky.social #miltonkeynes #writingworkshop #creativewriting #michaelstewart
Don't miss the finale of our #freespeech and #literature series on 11/4: in-person (livestream option now available) with @akischilz.bsky.social @henrycporter.bsky.social and #sabrinamahfouz.
(Podcasts of previous episodes on the website.)
www.mklitfest.org/free-speech-...
After our Spring Festival (you've bought your tickets, yes?), join us on the footpaths of #miltonkeynes for A (free) Green City Literary Walk: original #creativewriting in the places that inspired it.
www.mklitfest.org/minkwalk2025
#poems #flashfiction @theparkstrust.bsky.social #MKWalkingFestival
Kaliane Bradley's #TheMinistryofTime is 1 of the 2020s' best debut #novels. Hear her inperson or online 11 April with Eley Williams: fiction fans shouldn't miss this!
www.mklitfest.org/kaliane-bradley
@giantratsumatra.bsky.social #kalianebradley #novels #books #miltonkeynes @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Podcast of Episode 4 of our #FreeSpeech and #Literature series - #Translation and #Censorship - is now available to listen. Translators Sawad Hussain and Monica Cure discussed taboos, cultural difference, banned words + more with Daria Chernysheva.
mklitfest.org/podcasts
@monicacure.bsky.social
