Cath Holland
Writer of fiction. Published by Mslexia, NFFD, Dead Ink Books, Fictive Dream, Arachne Press. Features ed God Is In The TV:
https://bsky.app/profile/godisinthetvzine.bsky.social Infrequent DJ. Was trophy wife, now Andy's widow. cathbore@gmail(.)com.
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- I'm cock-a-hoop to see Hooters are no longer across the way from my workplace www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/hooters-confirms-closing-liverpool-flagship-33112245.amp
- Gene crime scene
- 11 years since 'and wife'
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- It's National Bereavement Week 2 -8 December. Read my handy tips on how to support bereaved friends, family or workmates, along with some griefy tunes. For @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/.../not-a-mo...
- I'm reading my poem Soft Words, Hard Truths at the Merseyside International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (and girls) vigil tomorrow, Tues 25 November. 5-6pm
- Do as I say and not as I do
- Incredible quote from Ashley Hickson-Lovence in support of Bread Alone, published by Indie Novella in March 2026. In my essay Dying Is An Expensive Business I write about how my writing was affected when caring for my husband Andy & my career change after his death in 2019
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- Thanks so much Launchpad Magazine for running a feature on me in the new issue, covering my fiction and nonfiction writing, public speaking, and media work. Much gratitude Cosy Kreations for their huge support.
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- Bought these candles today. The lady in the shop sniffed at them and said how nice they smell. I did the same, knowing full well they don't smell of anything until you light them. I was complicit in her lie.
- "The Stories So Far book launch, you say? At Write Blend Bookshop, Waterloo? 25 October at 1pm?" I'm pleased to have a flash fiction /creative nonfiction in this book about surviving caring for a loved one with cancer. Scanxiety, heartbreak and hope. Published 24 Oct x
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- The annual sharing of the 2016 love letter from Andy who, had life not taken such a grim turn, would've celebrated 60 years on this earth last week to John who'd be 85 today x OPINION: John Lennon – a love letter from a lifelong fan www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2020/12/08/o...
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- I had a wonderful time at Celebrate The Winners at Wirral Poetry Festival this afternoon at Gladstone Theatre. I read my poem, runner-up in the Wirral category, to a lovely audience. Thanks to the festival team, judge Pauline Rowe & huge congrats to my fellow prize winners
- (Would have been) 60 today. Photo: Wirral Globe or Birkenhead News (2002)
- I'm ordering a skip for next week. Really looking forward to male neighbours coming out of their homes and interviewing me thus: 'is that a skip' and 'have you got a skip then'.
- Come and see me read at the Wirral Poetry Festival competition award ceremony at Gladstone Theatre in Port Sunlight, Wirral next Sunday 5 October. I'm so looking forward to this, and meeting my fellow winners. #birkenheadwriter
- Entertaining the masses on a Friday with some Tim Buckley filth. Thanks Coffee and Turntables Vinyl Club and Artefact Liverpool
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- Having a bit of a clear-out. Looking at this 1990s poster through a 2025 lens - Oasis prepping for a Make Britain Great Again march, b/w Blur pretending to be working class.
- I'm giving a talk about the moral and practical value of charity shops on the high street next Monday 29 September at 'In Our Neighbourhood' at Ignite - Little Leaf/One Fine Day, Old Hall St Liverpool igniteliverpool.com/2025/08/in-y...
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- I'm so pleased my essay 'Dying Is An Expensive Business' is in Bread Alone : What Happens When We Run Out Of Working-Class Writers , published in March 2026 by Indie Novella. In my essay for the book I talk about widowhood and class. Pre-orders: www.indienovella.co.uk/product-page...
- At the Change prose poetry and art exhibition private view yesterday at Sips and Stories, Smithdown Rd Liverpool. Lovely to meet fellow contributors and enjoy some damn fine coffee. Big thanks Cosy Kreations. Exhibition open until 21 September. #flashfiction #poetry
- When your husband's bully from 30 years ago who called you 'middle class shite' on meeting you for the first time looks you up on Facebook for a nosey and sends a friend request by mistake. Victory is mine.
- Turning my place into a 60s /70s time capsule. With less sexism, racism, classism, homophobia though.
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- My feminist rants column is back. I wrote about classism and misogyny for @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/09/08/i...
- Sorting out spare room. Britpop-era birthday card to Andy from family - incredible I can't remember this.
- Can't sleep so googling Scott Walker fan art. What the heck.
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- The Changes exhibition opens today at Sip & Stories, Smithdown Road Liverpool, and I'm so pleased to have a flash fiction featured! Exhibition closes 21 September.
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- To be published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk has been on my wish list for a while. Today's the day: my flash fiction THE DAY WE GOT THE NEWS is online now. Many thanks Elontra, Kate and everyone @ IS&T inksweatandtears.co.uk/cath-holland/
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- Big thanks Jade Burns for featuring me again on the BBC Upload show on BBC Radio Merseyside, Manchester, Lancashire & Cumbria tonight. Interview + reading of Rush Hour, originally published by Fictive Dream I appreciate the continued support so very much! Photo @bevunit.bsky.social
- Hair salon drama. The manageress is slagging off my employer big time, all guns blazing. The woman doing my hair knows where I work. The unspoken tension level = v high.
- I have two new flash fictions out in the wild v shortly. THE DAY WE GOT THE NEWS is published by Ink sweat & tears on Sunday, WIDOW SURPRISES - TOP 20 THINGS THE LEAFLETS DON’T TELL YOU WHEN YOUR HUSBAND DIES is in the Changes exhibition @ Sips & Stories Liverpool 3rd - 21st Sept
- My reviews will now be heavily influenced by this. I especially like the part where she grasses up Le Bon for hiding his ciggies.
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- New interview with this one incoming... Tremendous photos: Unitpics
- Interesting new art installation in my neighbourhood. Not sure what it's trying to say.
- I am very pleased to have a poem in the Morecambe Poetry Festival 2025 book, along with work from Nigel Planer, John Hegley, Henry Normal, Luke Wright. The festival takes place 12-15 September. Photo: The Beatles on the MORECAMBE & Wise show, circa1963.
- A new Modern Nature album is always a major event in my house, and a fine excuse for a catchup with Jack Cooper. The Heat Warps out via Bella Union out next Friday. Read all about it over at @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/08/20/m...
- I've been a widow for 6 years today. Here's my husband Andy campaigning for the rights of women and girls in 2014. Something which he'd still be supporting now. Raising a glass of good whisky to him and the good men later x
- Happy birthday to this horror story.
- Today I heard my latest blood donation went to Doncaster to help produce platelets for cancer patients. In Andy's memory, as ever x my.blood.co.uk/sign-up/?int...
