Kit de Waal

I've seen a few posts about 'Irish slaves' going around again, a far-right talking point. While it's true that many Irish people were forced to become indentured servants, and many of those were badly abused, they were never treated as their masters' *property*. www.thejournal.ie/irish-slaves...

Great afternoon hearing @kitdewaal.com at #Barnsley #Library #Lightbox today and can't wait to read this #book

Kit de Waal‘s debut My Name Is Leon won Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2017 and was adapted for TV in 2022. In 2020 Kit co-founded the Big Book Weekend. She is a Fellow of the RLS & patron of Prisoners Abroad. Kit runs creative writing course Writing Kit. Pic: Henry J Allen @kitdewaal.com

We are at Barnsley Library with @kitdewaal.com in discussion with Kevin from @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social #booksky #choosebookshops

Just over two weeks to go until this event with @kitdewaal.com! #womenwriters #writingcommunity

🔔 5 places remaining 🔔 www.kitdewaal.com/six

Come and join me and the Women's Irish Network in London on 20th October! womensirishnetwork.com/upcoming-eve...

I'm very honoured to be giving The Carmen Talk on 30 September. Come! www.londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/376...

Had the best quote ever for #MyFuckingBook™ from good old @kitdewaal.com 💃🪩🕺

The Writing Kit Six Month Online Creative Writing Course is now open for enrolment. Come and learn the essentials of writing, plot, storytelling, voice and character with me over six months, with live writing rooms, prompts, examples from literature. Please share. www.kitdewaal.com/six

I am giving The Carmen Talk on 30th September at the London Library about who reads, who gets to write and more importantly who decides, in honour of the founder of Virago Books, Carmen Callil. Ticket in link Love to see you there.

I'm going to this #WritingWorkshop, see you there?

Me and @andrewwille.bsky.social on how to construct a DIY MA in Creative Writing - tickets in link

Me and @andrewwille.bsky.social on how to construct a DIY MA in Creative Writing - tickets in link

As I was saying … just looking for an excuse

Delighted to announce that I will be interviewing my friend and literary hero, Donal Ryan at Daunt's Bookshop on 15th October. Tickets in link here dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...

The slow deliberate ritual of wet plate photography leaves something far more living and physical. Alchemy... The wonderful @kitdewaal.com

Don't miss out

There will be news coming soon on my next Six Month Writing Course. My mailing list will get the details first before it goes anywhere else. Sign up here if you want to get first dibs on a place. www.kitdewaal.com/six

My profile picture by the extremely talented @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social

I'll be doing this on 30th September. Tickets in link.

Rupert Lowe: 'It is a fact that by 2063, white British people will be a minority on current trends. I don't think anyone disputes that.' It is massively disputed and is not remotely a fact, coming as it does from the Matt Goodwin school of demographic analysis (i.e. it's total rubbish).

Cambridge OCR set text for English Literature and Language A Level from this September. Hoorah for Common People!

Save the date: 7 September for this interesting conversation between @kitdewaal.com and @andrewwille.bsky.social about the ingredients of a DIY MA. #womenwriters #writingcommunity

Belgian team celebrating their win in the locker room.

An MA in Creative Writing is beyond many these days for many reasons but how to find out what to study to become a better writer? Join @andrewwille.bsky.social and me on 7th September and we will give you all the ingredients of a DIY MA. Link here. Please share.

That @naomialderman.bsky.social is so fucking brilliant. If you've found yourself falling out the reading habit, she has created a kind of Couch-to-5K of reading open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

An MA in Creative Writing is beyond many these days for many reasons but how to find out what to study to become a better writer? Join @andrewwille.bsky.social and me on 7th September and we will give you all the ingredients of a DIY MA. Link here. Please share.

RIP dear Simon

New Writing Prize below - two great organisations. Please share :)

My Name is Leon was first published 10 years ago today. I’ve written about my Decade of Joy on Substack. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/kitdewaa...

Congrats to @helencphillips.bsky.social for winning the @climate-fiction.bsky.social prize for Hum. @frediotto.bsky.social @kitdewaal.com @atlanticbooks.bsky.social #climatefiction #clifi #climatechange #environment #fiction

Maybe the last Friday of the month is payday for you. Maybe it isn’t. Maybe you should apply for this grant.

“Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.” ― John O’Donohue writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

Listen! @lauratisdall.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the amazing "We Have Come to Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain" newbooksnetwork.com/we-have-come...

There are a couple of tickets still available - get in quick! www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/memoir...

5 🌟 to The Best of Everything by @kitdewaal.com - thanks @helenliz.bsky.social & @biggreenbooks.bsky.social for my lovely #buyastrangerabook pressie 🥰 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Passing this along, with thanks to the OP. There are many specific courses I want to look into, as well as a lot of "electives" I have never encountered before. And, yes, it's free. #mit #onlinelearning #educateyourself

Now this is a PROPER review from a reader, a complete stranger. Makes the graft all worth it @kitdewaal.com Independent really seems like my happy place. #workingclasswriting #memoir

"You're an author? Would I know anything you've written?" "Have you heard of the book Eat Pray Love?" "Oh wow. I have, actually!" "Well, one of my books was printed in a typeface not totally dissimilar to the one in that."

I just finished The Best of Everything by @kitdewaal.com and am raving about it. It's excellent. So much that I'll buy a copy for someone who wants it. My first 5 star read this year.

ICYMI: Nine titles from independent publishers and seven debuts have been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, including books by Wendy Erskine, Lily King, Katie Kitamura and Kit de Waal 👇 #BookSky

Book 26 Title: The Best of Everything Author: @kitdewaal.com Published: 2025 Rating: ***** (Yes, 5 stars! You'll have realised by now that I mark hard, so this is something of a rarity!!) Why: Something reminded me to read more of her work, so I did and it is excellent!

74. The Best of Everything by @kitdewaal.com A tender and touching novel from the #WomensPrize fiction longlist about family, loss and attachment. @womensprize.bsky.social