Tony Williams
Novelist & poet. Latest novel COLE THE MAGNIFICENT
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- Reposted by Tony Williams'the UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
- This poem from my 2014 collection The Midlands seemed a bit histrionic at the time, but I feel like the world has grown into it
- Horrifying grave of Paradise
- Reposted by Tony WilliamsBlistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...
- Deadline 23rd January...
- Come and do a funded PhD in Creative Writing at Northumbria. Happy to field queries on tony.williams@northumbria.ac.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
- Very much enjoyed Lidl's 'about 2000-piece' jigsaw. Five missing and two duplicates. 👌
- Reposted by Tony WilliamsMy fellow speakers are @tonywilliams.bsky.social from Northumbria and Anne Fulrong from the University of Prince Edward Island
- Come and talk to us about the pragmatics of producing text, including creative writing, at #MLA26
- I'm looking forward to our session at the #MLA26 MLA (Modern Language Association) Convention in Toronto northumbriaenglish.org/2026/01/03/m...
- Really looking forward to the latest Hollywood remake: One Angry Man
- The reason dogs became domesticated
- The new bumper issue of Long Poem Magazine is really tremendous. I'm very grateful that it includes my 'Return to Matlock', a piggybacking of Aemilia Lanyer's 'Description of Cooke-ham' or, as you might say, a Lanyerism.
- Come and do a funded PhD in Creative Writing at Northumbria. Happy to field queries on tony.williams@northumbria.ac.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
- New word just dropped. I do feel affectional about the Grauniad's legendary proofreading.
- I'd like my drag name to be 'Airy Thinness
- She's found something she loves more than her ball
- Reposted by Tony WilliamsThe future of UK Independent presses hang by a thread. Supporting the sector is vital: this is where ALL the bravery lies. The big houses are risk averse, but copycat small press successes to revitalise their lists. Small presses are the motor! www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...
- Please consider supporting indie publishing by contributing to this fundraiser for @saltpublishing.com You can of course also support Salt by buying a book or two - I particularly recommend Cole the Magnificent, Hawthorn City, Nutcase, etc... gofund.me/0fe44ad35
- Lydia Davis, from the Collected Stories
- I'm very much enjoying Andrew Neilson's pamphlet Summers Are Other from Rack Press, particularly the lovely lyric 'The Viaduct' @badlilies.bsky.social
- Ind Coope's Story of Testicles
- Cherry plums
- I call it an OranGINa
- That's like a cross between turning in his grave and rolling in the aisles - he's fuming, but he's also amused, because he knows how inflation works.
- A classic of the genre* *the genre = M John Harrison novels
- Lecturer in Creative Writing (poetry) at Bath Spa, 0.6 FTE www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOB269/l...
