Peggy Hughes

Extract from the newspaper with the broadcast date, time and cast details.

Details of the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV in today's Irish Independent. It starts on Friday 17th October at 9pm on BBC One.

Do tune in!

Path in grass

Apples on the ground

Gate and field

Self behind acorns

27.09.25: Strumpshaw Fen ❤️

Peach clouds above sea

Passing through Burntisland sandy beaches

Pittenweem chimneys in the sun

Setting sun on a Fife back road

Bottled some up for a dreich teatime in late November 🌅👍🏼💛

I can

I can

Little blue and white milk jug sitting on a table

Showered in a beam of light as is proper & correct: my new Oxfam jug 🩵🤍

Wonderful to welcome you all!

National Centre for Writing at Dragon Hall from the outside

View of the inside of Dragon Hall

This is the venue for our #BCLT2025 events today, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social and @bcltuea.bsky.social

Thank you to @hughespeg.bsky.social for a backstage tour of beautiful Dragon Hall before the audiences arrived! 🐉

Yellow & orange houses

Cement seats by the sea

Step covered in green seaweed

Brambles

28.07.25: Overstrand!

Thanks for sharing, friends!

Writing between genres: Michael Pedersen on Muckle Flugga In this episode of The Writing Life podcast, prize-winning poet and writer Michael Pedersen shares his experience writing between genres.

A @writerscentre.bsky.social podcast: @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks with @hughespeg.bsky.social about fusing genres, placing fantastic elements in real-world settings, & how pushing the boundaries of literary categories can enhance your writing
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nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...

Norwich Puppet Theatre! 😍 History Festival has begun!

norwichhistoryfestival.co.uk

‘Portstewart Strand'

NCW at Norwich Pride Come along and meet the NCW team at Norwich Pride! We’ll be stationed in The Forum all day to celebrate LGBTQIA+ writers, creators and communities.

Hi Mat, hi Ian! We’ve got a stall at the Forum: no opportunity to read or perform but perhaps to mingle / pick up some further info? nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/ncw-a...

Total pleasure to chat with David Nicholls on Friday. Here we are in sound check and then with our lovely big audience. I really loved You Are Here: beards, walks, knitwear, lovelorn-ness, pies and pints, real talk, and big weather - emotional and otherwise: only gorgeous and funny and wise ❤️

Unexpected to see The Nolans referenced in a Japanese short story.

Sea sky clouds

Green pathway with ‘walkers’ and arrows painted on it

Path through the foliage

Several ladybirds among the leaves!

29.06.25: Cromer!

Conversations with writers Wendy Erskine & Ronan Hession presented by The OtherSide - Siamsa Tíre Authors' Talk with Wendy Erskine & Ronan Hession presented by The OtherSide. Siamsa Tíre Theatre, Tralee, Co. Kerry.

Join us for the Ro of Tralee.

@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and I will be in Tralee on 5 July at 3pm.

It's pay-what-you-can but booking essential as there are only fifty seats.

Do come!

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siamsatire.com/event/author...

Hodder & Stoughton assembles largest-ever cast for The Benefactors audiobook Hodder & Stoughton has brought together its largest-ever cast for the audiobook of Wendy Erskine’s debut novel The Benefactors, a polyphonic presentation of modern-day Northern Ireland.

am very proud of The Benefactors audiobook. I do the main narration but over 30 others - family, friends, strangers - recorded the 50 voices that form the book’s monologues. Most had zero experience. All were BRILLIANT. Thanks to @hachetteaudio.bsky.social
www.thebookseller.com/news/hodder-...

Sun in Catton Park

Sun in Catton Park

Sun through grasses

Sun through pink roses

Honestly, Norwich tonight! 😍☀️💡🍑

Self among ferns

Pink harebell type flowers

Poppies!

Pink bluebell type guys

15.06.25 Norwich (in bloom!)

NCW recommends... five books inspired by gardens | National Centre for Writing | NCW From poetry to essays, gardening tips to memoir, here are five books inspired by gardens as recommended by CEO Peggy Hughes.

A little garden-themed reading list selected by me for you up on @writerscentre.bsky.social! 🌿🌿

nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...

Red poppies at Waterloo Park

Pink peonies at home

Pale pink roses in the rain at Dragon Hall

Orange roses at the Bishop’s Garden party on Sunday past

( it’s been a flowery week! )

Well, ditto! ❤️

Vanessa Bell in our podcast studio yesterday following a conversation about her book (the black & white one she’s holding), Monuments

Pleasure to have Québec City writer Vanessa Bell at @writerscentre.bsky.social with us this week. Here she is in our podcast studio after chatting with me about her book, Monuments. Catch as she travels on to events at Manchester’s Festival of Libraries, & in Nottingham & Exeter, cities of lit all!

Myself & Val McDermid in St Peter Mancroft church

Colleague Holly Ainley introduces Patrick Grant & Nina Nannar

Danielle Giles & Noreen Masud with Jeremy Noel-Tod!

Busy houses today for Norfolk & Norwich Festival x @writerscentre.bsky.social ❤️

YouTube video by The Booker Prizes Max Porter announces the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prize

‘Translated literature is a way of communicating over a border, under a wall, beyond an algorithm’s reach’

Listen to Max Porter’s wonderful speech from the International Booker Prize 2025 ceremony last night.

youtu.be/fc80efFKK6o

THE SWIFTS ARE BACK.

Navy jumper with anchors on it; small brown jug bearing words ‘1/2 cup’

Navy jumper with anchors on it label: ‘Margaret Denton knitwear: Tarbet by Arrochar’

I almost start to believe that someone is leaving stuff in my local Oxfam especially for me

‘Cream & Dairy’ ghostwriting on Smithfield

Dundee Courier building with Dundee Evening Telegraph, People’s Friend, People’s Journal & Dundee Courier on the gable

Red brick building with ‘Refreshments’ ghostwriting, King’s Cross

Postcard from London today 🌞

The Lost Folk, a book by Lally MacBeth sitting on a table beside our lilacs

I’m really enjoying The Lost Folk by Lally MacBeth, out from Faber 19th June, seen here in proof among wir lilacs!