Sarah Davy

Saw a bloke on the West Road with what I thought was a nice scarf but was actually a magnificent beard blowing in the wind.

17 book deal on the table.

✍️ We’re hiring! Link to apply in our stories and the link in our bio.

For the first time in over two years we are looking for an individual (maybe you!) to join our team as a bookseller and social media manager.

Apply: forms.gle/UUKUjuis1ZSum9gT7

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Prize — Galley Beggar Press

Final few hours of our short story competition! You can still enter here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Sarah is smiling and pointing at a copy of a book on a shelf

First ever sighting of my writing in an actual bookshop. Absolute scenes.

I'm excited to share my debut novel Communion will be released in April 2026 via @atlanticbooks.bsky.social.

Sarah is smiling and pointing at a copy of a book on a shelf

First ever sighting of my writing in an actual bookshop. Absolute scenes.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Dreamy 😍

[putting up halloween decorations]

spider who lives is my hallway: THIS IS GENTRIFICATION

Smashed my 110 camera coming out of The Rat with a full film in. Happy days.

Spook Night in town and some very....interesting hosting from a local dignitary. Scenes straight out of Alan Partridge. Wholesome family fun 🫠

If the onset of winter gets you down, take solace in the fact that it’s just 15,000,000 seconds* till the swifts get back.

*give or take

Can you recommend a really good video editor?

(Someone who is willing (for smallish but regular amounts of money) to edit videos and also post them to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc?)

I love this one 😍

Check out this 7 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove 7 bedroom detached house for sale in Rydal Mount, Rydal, Ambleside, LA22 9LU, LA22 for £2,500,000. Marketed by AshdownJones, The Lakes and Lune Valley

Anyone want to give me £2.5million to save Rydal Mount from the inevitable development any private buyer with that much cash to spare will subject it to? So awful to see this important piece of literary history being sold way.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Guy Bass stands in front of a group of children holding his book teething trouble

Children queue to get books signed by Guy Bass

Guy signs copies of his books helped by James

A table with a plate of chocolate biscuits, fruit and drinks for our visit

Out on the road with an author today. A lovely reminder why I spend so much time sending emails and wrangling people and schools and books. Belly laughs. Books in hands. Storytelling. Proper magic.

Tickets for Hexham book festival now on sale

www.queenshall.co.uk/whats-on/rob...

As I live and breathe, a full-time gig as a 'book gifting assistant'?! Imagine telling people this is your job! It's unbelievably cool.

Bit of chat after a comedy gig last night with lots of connections and think that the Northern version of seven degrees of Kevin Bacon is seven degrees of Ann Cleeves....

Graphic with images and text. In the top left and bottom right corners are line illustrations of plants. In the top right corner is Arc's logo. The text is in the middle of the image and reads: "Call for submissions: The new material ecopoetics. Deadline: May 15, 2025."

Call for Submissions: The New Material Ecopoetics! How do you write with nature? We're seeking unpublished experimental eco-poetry (lyric, visual, material & sound) for Fall 2025. Send your big swings by May 15! Check out our submission guidelines at buff.ly/3EUtM6m

Currently beautifully clear here so maybe a chance of moon and starlight to illuminate you...

A busy work week but also a satisfying one. New tattoo, crocuses for days and had a hand in getting the 2025 programme ready for launch. I will be taking to my bed for the next two days.

A busy work week but also a satisfying one. New tattoo, crocuses for days and had a hand in getting the 2025 programme ready for launch. I will be taking to my bed for the next two days.

Five Things Friday: issue 14 3 residencies + 2 submissions = 5 exciting writing opportunities!

Writers looking for opportunities! ✍️

Last week's Five Things Friday post is now available to free subscribers! Opportunities from @mslexia.bsky.social @gladlib.bsky.social @northerngravy.bsky.social & more! 👀
halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...

Want to rant about some awfully behaved kids on the bus and how it makes me sad about humans but everything is bad enough so here's a lovely still light sky and I'm allowed to start walking without my moon boot now so slowly slowly things get brighter.

Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures will be published in one week. Please pre-order it, come and see me on my tour and spread the word. I am so proud of this book and, honestly, I think you’ll like it. #booksky

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Feels very fitting that a young writer from one of my groups brought this along yesterday... lemon curd Cobain.