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Category Archives: Doings

A Writer’s Diary Launch and 30% Off

January 21, 2023 · by tobylitt | in A Writer's Diary, Doings

Hello, I hope you’ve been enjoying the last few days of the diary. I have exciting news – This Tuesday evening, there’s a launch event for the book version of A Writer’s Diary – online – and here is your invitation. I’m delighted to be speaking with Sally Bayley, author of The Private Life of […]

Why not just sit and write some more about climate?

November 28, 2022 · by tobylitt | in Activism, Bloggings, Doings | tagged CultureDeclaresEmergency, Extinction Rebellion, protest, Writers Rebel, writing, XR

If there is a single thing that has caused me to want to do more, to want to do whatever I can, then it’s just this: within my short lifetime, I’ve witnessed the English climate change.

My Arrest

November 22, 2022 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Doings | tagged climate and ecological emergency, CutTheTiesWithFossilFuels, Institute of Economic Affairs, Toby Litt, William Blake, Writers Rebel | 1 Comment

Yesterday morning, at around 11.20, I was arrested for the first time in my life.

The Sparkler – A Hallowe’en Poem

October 31, 2022 · by tobylitt | in Doings, Lyrics, Poetry | tagged amwriting, Hallowe'en, Halloween, Poem, Poetry, song, sparkler, sparkly | Leave a comment

It’s suddenly transformed
into a magic wand…

We Can Send Letters

October 10, 2022 · by tobylitt | in Doings | tagged climate and ecological emergency, GWPF, Writers Rebel

I’ve been focussing on A Writer’s Diary, over on Substack, for most of this year. It’s been going really well, and I’m grateful for all the support I’ve had from readers of this blog. However, there have been other things going on. Today, for example, I made public a letter I’ve written to Terence Mordaunt, […]

A Writer’s Diary – Marz Q&A

April 22, 2022 · by tobylitt | in A Writer's Diary, Doings | tagged #awritersdiary, Toby Litt, writing, writingcommunity | Leave a comment

Thank you for following the Diary. Your presence is transforming how I think about writing.

Radio, Radio

April 11, 2022 · by tobylitt | in Bloggings, Doings, Lyrics | tagged amwriting, Emily Hall, radio, Radio 3, song cycles, Toby Litt | Leave a comment

Two things you can listen to, if you feel like it.

On Radio 3.

Margaret Atwood and Lots of Other Writers

March 31, 2022 · by tobylitt | in Doings | tagged #Bedstalks, Extinction Rebellion, Margaret Atwood, University of Bedford, Writers Rebel | Leave a comment

It’s pretty hard to imagine The Handmaid’s Tale (not to mention all her other novels, short stories and poems) being forgotten in five or six generations.

How is A Writer’s Diary Going to Work?

December 31, 2021 · by tobylitt | in A Writer's Diary, Doings | tagged A Writer's Diary, autofiction, diary, Toby Litt | 1 Comment

But is it just your diary?

No.

How to be funny in words on a page for good reason

May 4, 2021 · by tobylitt | in Birkbeck Summer Lectures, Doings | tagged #amwriting, Being Funny, Birkbeck, Comedy, Creative Writing, Ken Campbell, Monkey, Nina Conti, Satire, Stewart Lee

What can we learn about how to be funny on the page for good reason? (In other words, to be satirists.)

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