Ian Nettleton

🎉We're delighted to share the winner and listees for the Bath Novel Award 2025.

Our heartfelt thanks to Laura Williams for judging - and huge congratulations to winning author Parker Barrington and all listees.

Full announcement at: bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-nov...

Wonderful! Well done all longlistees and shortlistees and major congratulations to Parker Barrington!

Today - 05/09/2025 - BBC Sounds News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Here's what the extreme right-wingers hoping to be in government in the UK think. Nick Robinson takes the f*ckers to task: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I taught some lovely people yesterday, every one of them refugees - educated, creative, thoughtful, humorous. My experience of people seeking a new life in England has always been positive.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”
– Mark Twain

Excellent. This cuts right through it. J. D. Vance must take Valium in order to sleep.

Brilliant. Cut to the chase.

That's the one!

It's a good photo, but your present one looks more professional. Is that a good thing? Either way, it's all a good look.

I think your usual profile pic is better.

Brilliant.

Brilliant! Congratulations to Sharon Boyle! Another Bath Novel Award win.

Ha! I was getting married the next weekend and I decided I'd had enough of all the organising and ran off to the cinema for the afternoon to watch this.

It's hilarious. And northern accents are just plain funny, though that's probably my roots showing.

I taught in Faust House in Charles Square, Prague, in 1993. Where Mephistopheles took Faust through the ceiling.

I'm reading this superb anthology at the moment. Every short story is followed by an interview with the writer, looking at how the story was formed. And the stories are excellent. It's a brilliant insight into the writing process.

Wow! Congratulations!

Send that novel in! Polish it up. You've got till May 31st. This is THE unpublished novel competition.

SUBMISSIONS CALL✨

The Bath Novel Award 2025 is a £5,000 prize for A & YA novels and is open until 31 May.

The Bath Children's Novel Award 2025 is a £5,000 prize for MG, YA, CB and PBT and is open until 30 Nov.

Both prizes are open to unagented emerging authors worldwide at👇

bathnovelaward.co.uk

📖In our latest literary agent Q&A, 2025 judge Laura Williams explains why potential is more important than perfection, plus what she will be looking for in the opening 5,000 words and synopsis of novel submissions.
bathnovelaward.co.uk/bath-novel-a...

YouTube video by gymnopedija Dylan Thomas — Love In The Asylum

Dylan Thomas reading a poem I hadn’t heard. Excited to find this.

#poetry #aloud #audio #spoken #mad

I used to love comics and still have an affection for Moebius and Metal Hurlant and will still read Alan Moore. But the idea of doing a comic is still there in the background. But the time needed...Anyway, it sounds fascinating.

Impressive.

Hi CB. Sounds great. Love the 'ravaged sandbox'. Hope it's going well. And a female protagonist too!

Great title. And great plot. I love cross-genre. Mine was a sci-fi thriller. Quatermass meets George Smiley. A comic series? Comic book? Are you illustrating it?

For the science fiction writers out there: My first publication was a novelette published in an anthology called Angles, about a secret war and an imminent visitation from space. I'm now working on a kind of post-apocalyptic novel. How about you?

As the song goes: 'Walk on by...walk on by...'

Just two weeks left to submit! Deadline 1st April

We’d love to see more:

-Nonfiction ✍️
-Plays 🎭
-Art 🖼
-Photography 📸

Link in bio

Two weeks PAID work experience working at The Guardian’s London Headquarters for Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic aspiring journalists. Closes 30th March.

Details in link.

Please share :)

workforus.theguardian.com/entry-level-...

Well I never felt more like singin' the blues,
'Cus I never thought that I'd ever lose
Your lovin'.
Why'd you do me this way?