This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Naomi Wood: An excellent collection irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Culture

I looooove this bookshop Desperate Literature do so much good stuff internationally too!

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Huge congratulations to current Literature@UEA MA Prose student Niamh Connolly for winning the #Discoveries2024 prize! What an achievement! 🎉🍾🥳

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This story is from my debut collection This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, and I couldn’t be happier or in better company.

Thank you Society of Authors !

I'll be discussing my new novel, Curandera for Fane A wild ride through shamanism, female desire & transformation across multiple dimensions. In conversation with the brilliant, rigorous Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou Novel & interview drop on the 27th June.
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Oh, Alice Monro, my first short story love ❤️

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A fascinating conversation between ⁦Naomi Wood⁩ and Helen Simpson on motherhood and the self and what it means to write about it, from 12 mins 30 here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Currently working on the UK campaign for Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker's An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children – an ABC of the plants that define our world, revealing the often brutal history of the garden world. A truly unique collaboration arriving on May 7 🌺

Percival Everett on #James and ⁦Naomi Wood⁩ and Helen Simpson on short stories and making motherhood funny - includes some pen throwing. #OpenBook ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b…

Can an AI dating coach mend a woman’s broken heart? Or will she just get aggy for her lack of progress?! On at 3.45 today! Radio 4!

‘Lesley in Therapy’ is the first story in This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, and it’s about a pass-ag woman who succumbs to rage during a corporate counselling session after returning from MatLeave. This is for all the women who have wanted to throw things, but didn’t.

Excited to announce for #MKLitfest in-person series this Saturday, April 6th! Livestream option now available for Panel event - £PayWhatYouCan tickets available with a suggested but optional £5 donation. Tickets can be found at - mklitfest.org/thinking-writi…

Guys if your kids are too much this Easter holiday then help is on the way with this host of charmingly toxic mothers! 💧This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things is OUT TODAY 💧

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EVENT TOMORROW NIGHT

Burley Fisher Books to celebrate our
2023 shortlist collection!

With Dr Andrea Mason, Nick Clark, Nicholas Petty, Naomi Wood and Dizz Tate!

Curtis Brown Books Our Breakthrough Scholarship for Short Story Writers with Low Income will award one talented writer of limited financial means a free place on our new nine-week Writing Short Stories – Advanced course. Taught by Naomi Wood!

⏰ Apply by 1 Apr: curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/breakth… (2/3)