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TRUTH OR DARE 💘 My debut chapbook comes out two

TRUTH OR DARE 💘
My debut chapbook comes out two weeks today (Dec 13th)... and you can pre-order it now! A mini collection of short stories + performance pieces, Truth or Dare is a journey taking in illegal raves, toga parties, teen alienation, fear, activism + escape, featuring prophetic nightmares, pancakes, razorblade amnesties, freight trains, misadventures with punk drummers + losing your virginity to your best friend. ✨
Queerness, class, identity, teenage experience (all the JCB classics), playing spin the bottle, starting fires, and surviving the end of the world. Super limited edition for this first initial print run so if you want yours grab it fast! Link in bio. ⚡📘💕

HO HO HO 🎁💖 Coming atcha in the closest thin

HO HO HO 🎁💖
Coming atcha in the closest thing I have to a Xmas jumper to remind you that the FBS FESTIVE FAREWELL TO 2021 takes place two weeks today! Join the @forbookssake crew online on Friday 10th Dec for amazing spoken word (inc open mic opps if you've missed performing) + a ton of other treats + surprises.

As well as celebrating our collective survival through this wild ride of a year, this event is essentially mine + @icedpaul's LEAVING PARTY as we step down from FBS. If you've benefitted at all from anything I've done with FBS over the past ELEVEN (!!!) years, I'd love you to join us in celebrating that + seeing in our two new directors @flynx + @beehartyeah in style. 🎉✨

Real talk: it is HARD OUT HERE for arts orgs right now. As some in-person things return, selling tickets for online events has become TOUGH. We've kept this event online because we want it to be accessible to everyone + bc we want to bring together a wild array of talent across geographical lines in a way that'd be tricky to do in person. But we need YOU, our beloved audience, to show up for us too. You know what to do. 🙏💖

www.forbookssake.net

I'M STILL HERE ✨ Thank you @quiet_lightning for

I'M STILL HERE ✨
Thank you @quiet_lightning for homing this weird short story of mine about a mysterious woman who lives alone in a creepy house, sells witchy shit on Etsy + spends the proceeds on glass tentacle dildos, goddess candles + spraypaint. Thrilled to be featured alongside epically beautiful poetry + short fiction in this anthology of the 'literary mixtape' performance event. Writing this story was a peak lockdown vibe, informed by many hours in my garden, ordering random items off the internet + feeling like a ghost. Really pleased to see it memorialised in print all the way from San Francisco! Print copies available to order or you can get the free digital version via the QL website. 💖

ABSOLUTELY BUZZING to finally be able to share tha

ABSOLUTELY BUZZING to finally be able to share that my debut novel ⚡THE SUMMER EVERYTHING HAPPENED⚡ has been signed by the brilliant people at @hashtag_press + is coming out in June! 🎉💥

You can pre-order it now via the link in my bio! 🌈☀️🍦🔥

The Summer Everything Happened is the story of sixteen-year-old Cookie + her delinquent best friend Ash, following them from their shared tower block on a Salford council estate all the way to Ibiza. Expect family secrets, dangerous romances, explorations of trust, trauma, class, queerness and coming of age, and whether you can ever really escape who you are and where you're from. ☀️

Proper grateful to @nwnnewwritingnorth
for giving this book the Northern Debut Award (keeping my faith + hope in it alive), @naomi_r_booth
for endless wisdom, insight + support, countless others who encouraged me throughout journey, and especially @abiolabello + @literallyhelen of Hashtag for being so passionate about this novel. I couldn't be more excited to see this story get closer to being in readers' hands. ❤️

Portrait of the writer at work ❤️🐈💻✨

Portrait of the writer at work ❤️🐈💻✨

CH-CH-CH-CHANGES 📖 Big news, babes. After ELEVE

CH-CH-CH-CHANGES 📖
Big news, babes. After ELEVEN years as founder + director of @forbookssake, I'm stepping down to focus on other projects. Both my partner-in-crime @icedpaul + I are taking a step back from our roles as co-directors, but I couldn't be more confident to be leaving our baby in the custody of new co-directors @flynx + @beehartyeah. It may be the end of this chapter, but I am so excited about the direction + ideas they have for FBS. I honestly cannot wait to see its continued evolution from here.

The world has changed A LOT since I started FBS in 2010. Back then, I created it because it was the thing I wanted but couldn't find. Now, there are so many projects, presses, journals, zines + orgs dedicated to championing + celebrating marginalised voices, and it's been an absolute privilege + honour getting to play a part in that change. As a community, we are strongest when we support, celebrate + advocate for each other, and it's the community aspect of FBS that has been its greatest joy. So, to everyone who's ever come to a workshop or event, submitted your stories or poetry for the anthologies, been part of the behind-the-scenes team or shared your words at our live shows: THANK YOU. I've made a million mistakes + learnt so many lessons through this process, but I am so, so proud of what we've built + the impact that it's had.

Head over to @forbookssake YouTube for the full videos we made about all these changes. If you want to come + celebrate the past decade-plus of FBS + all the amazing things in its future, you can join the online party on Friday 10th December, where FBS will be bidding a festive farewell to 2021, me + Paul with some incredible performances + other surprises. Expect Santa hats, silliness + a whole lot of feelings. It's been emotional. 💖