Sarah Hegarty
Yes, that’s my book! Debut #shortstory collection out with Troubador. Readers love it, I’m sure you would too…
- Can’t believe I’ve wasted 10 hours of my life waiting for something to happen in #DaisyJonesandTheSix #Amazon 😱
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyTeach or facilitate creative writing? Grab your Early Bird ticket for the NAWE Online Conference: 'Inspiring Writing'. 7 & 8 November 2025. It's a great opportunity to meet with fellow writers in the field, share approaches & build contacts. Book bit.ly/3qesnem #creativewriting #writingineducation
- Excited to find my #shortstory #collection #MagpieAndOtherStories on the #shortlist for the #InternationalRuberyBookAward! Congratulations to all and good luck for the next round! 🤞
- Good luck! Very happy to find my short story collection #Magpieandotherstories short listed too! 👍🥳
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyOn Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?
- This piece @theguardian.com made me 🤣 yes you could do all this - or you could just make #toast 👍 #wastenot #time
- Delighted to see Melanie Reid has a fortnightly column in the new @theobserveruk.bsky.social & that it’s going to be about caring (her husband now has Alzheimer’s). Such an under explored subject and I really think she will do it justice.
- @yvonnearnaud.bsky.social brilliant production of #Handbagged #moirabuffini so inventively written and staged - clever and funny. Great performances! Congratulations all 👏👏👏 A #must-see
- Brilliant, insightful and thought-provoking piece. Love #HelenGarner and @thewrengirl.bsky.social too!
- ‘You might say she ended where she began, moving from being a plagiarist of her own life to an acclaimed celebrator of the poetic quotidian.’ Anne Enright (@thewrengirl.bsky.social) on Helen Garner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- sarahhegarty.wordpress.com My thoughts on #Conclave! What the world needs right now, obvs 🙄
- With a column by #NickClegg?! 😱😱😱
- The new Observer has gone to press. Buy your copy, available across the country, tomorrow morning. observer.co.uk/print
- Just started #WhiteLotus series 1… does it get better? 😴
- Oh dear has #Severance gone on too long? #series2 😴
- #Wordofmouth, #reviews, subject matter - #firstpage! #Voice is the clincher. Reading #AllFours by Miranda July atm - brilliant 👏👏👏
- #WritingCommunity - How do you choose a new #author to read? My slightly anal method below - what do you do? #amwriting
- Brilliant #shortstory #masterclass @lucycaldwell.bsky.social @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social - thank you for your generosity and insights 🙏Could have listened all night! 👏👏👏
- Reviews are subjective! Sometimes I’m sure I’m reading a different book… 😳
- Read what you like. No shame in giving up on a book that isn’t hitting the spot—you can always come back to it. A bad review doesn’t always mean a bad book, and a good review doesn’t always mean it’s worth your time. #Books
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyI’m happy to join Bluesky and I will be removing X account and I’m sure you all know why. Looking forward to seeing many friends here.
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyWe now have 10 #TeslaTakedown events across the UK today: England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Please RT to help folk find their nearest protest.
- Brilliant first episode, looking forward to more #TheResidence 👏👏👏
- It’s sooo good! So sad to reach the end of #BadSisters #Season2 - entertaining, moving, engaging to the last shot. We need #Series3!
- Such a great evening. Congratulations Paul McVeigh on your fab new collection. Thank you all for your generosity and creative insights 🙏
- Delighted to be hosting his live Word Factory event: Paul McVeigh and Kit de Waal in a fabulous evening of reading and conversation. tinyurl.com/2vyv25rb
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyThis looks great - please share :)
- So looking forward to this!
- Lovely to be hosting another series of @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social masterclasses. First up, Lucy Caldwell (on April 9) on Hamlet: a love story. Tickets flying out of the door. tinyurl.com/6p8jxkt6
- Thank you so much Liz! I’m looking forward to reading some wonderful writing for the #YeovilLiteraryPrize
- @sarahhegarty.bsky.social I love Sarah’s collection of short stories- Magpie and other stories. The Yeovil Literary Prize is delighted to have Sarah as the judge for our Writing Without Restrictions category. She is a twice past winner and a wonderful writer.
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyTwo notable deaths reported today from prostate cancer - Alex Wheatle and Eddie Jordan. Lads over 50, get yourselves tested - it’s just a quick blood test these days, nothing embarrassing! www.nhs.uk/conditions/p...
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyYou will not hear a bad word said about this man. An example to us all. I'm so grateful I got meet him. I will regret forever not messaging every time I thought of him lately. RIEP Alex Wheatle, who had time for EVERYONE
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyChildren’s writer and author of the award-winning Crongton series, Alex Wheatle MBE, has died of prostate cancer at the age of 62. 👇 #BookSky
- So sad to read this. Such a loss.
- Still so cross about wasting nearly 3 hours of my life in the #Odeon watching #Anora that I’ve written a #blog about it: sarahhegarty.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/a... Might TM #Asnora 😴🤪
- Watching #TheOnethatGotAway #BBC4 and wishing it had got away 😬 #badacting #badwriting #baddirecting 😱
- Anti-Trump dinner 👍
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyEvery cent of Paula Vennells' pension should be halted until these poor people are fully compensated. Talk about justice delayed is justice denied. Pay them goddamit!!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Sad to read this. RIP
- Late to the party but #BlackDoves @joebarton.bsky.social absolutely outstanding 👏👏👏
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyNobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro has joined calls for the UK government to “reconsider and change course” when it comes to AI, warning that “no one believes the proposed ‘opt-out’ system will work”. 👇 #BookSky
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyIndependent publishers dominate the 2025 International Booker Prize longlist, with the nominations including 11 novels and two collections of short stories. 👇 #BookSky
- Heartbreaking is the only word. A must-read
- Thought-provoking piece, worth reading
- Thanks so much @alicefwrites.bsky.social - it was really fun to think about such interesting questions from @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social
- Fabulous interview with @sarahhegarty.bsky.social #shortstories ✍️
- Thank you so much @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social delighted you enjoyed them!
- Fascinating and depressing piece. Explains much about current publishing 🤔
- The furore around fact-checking uncovers a deeper publishing problem, an anonymous writer says in a recent Comment article. 👇 #BookSky
- Thanks so much @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social for great questions! Excited to be part of the Bath team. Send us your stories! 👍
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyGreat prize here for writers who are also carers. Please share :)
- Lovely to see men and women scurrying about with flowers and buying treats… #romance is not dead! Happy #Valentines ❤️
- Love this 👏👏👏
- Insightful piece worth reading
- Latest column is on Trump’s repugnant plan for Gaza www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyKeir Starmer: "In December 2020 I was working... on one of the most important issues for our country in recent years. What were they doing? Suitcases of booze into Downing Street, partying and fighting, vomiting up the walls, leaving the cleaners to remove red wine stains. That's the difference."
- Looking forward to meeting #Moses and #SirGalahad in real life at #TheKilnTheatre #TheLonelyLondoners
- Is #Severance on #AppleTV the best show ever? (Answer: yes)
- Except that’s how everyone says it as they can’t pronounce Lumon🤔
- Reposted by Sarah Hegarty#REVIEW - The Lonely Londoners at Kiln Theatre "full of admiration for the inventiveness and energy of the production" northwestend.com/the-lonely-l... #TheatreSky #London
- Looking forward to seeing this!
- Here is this week's issue of The Crush Bar, featuring a chat with director and @swkplay.bsky.social programming associate Ebenezer Bamgboye, whose five-star staging of The Lonely Londoners has now transferred from @jstheatre.bsky.social to the Kiln Theatre. thecrushbar.substack.com/p/we-wanted-...
- @tomgauld.bsky.social nails it again 👏👏👏
- My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
- Yes!
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- Reposted by Sarah HegartyNice to meet you, my recommendations for useful & trustworthy resources: Jane Friedman, TheCreativePenn, Reedsy, Writers & Artists (Bloomsbury), Society of Authors, Alliance of Independent Authors. List of writing podcasts here: theempoweredauthor.com/lounge-blog/... (& Empowered Author newsletter)
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyAnd also, if you have a desire for our book world to NOT be driven by AI, big tech, terrible people, we all need to support the totally under-funded passionate idealists, like myself (and many others).
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyNo Other Land officially Oscar nominated with no US distribution. Someone release this film properly!
- Reposted by Sarah Hegarty10,000 of 3,000,000 millionaires left the country last year - 0.33%. These people would rather leave than pay tax - good riddance I say. Let’s not change our approach to appease rich freeloaders.
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyPalestinians confront a landscape of destruction in Gaza's 'ghost towns' flip.it/1jwtFe
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyThe violence against Palestinians in the West Bank is a reminder that genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid have not ended. We will never stop opposing the occupation of Palestine because we believe in a simple and moral truth: every human being deserves to live in freedom.
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyLooking forward to settling down with the latest #Psychological #Thriller from @wendyclarke.bsky.social out 5th March & available to pre-order now! My copy is ordered & LitPig will have the posh biscuits ready for this one. #MakeYourselfAtHome from @bookouture.bsky.social #WritingCommunity
- A fab collection, thoroughly recommend 👍👏👏👏
- Support a local #Bookshop & order/buy books from @bookshop-org.bsky.social. Check out the @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social loves Magical Realism page uk.bookshop.org/lists/magica... which lists some excellent books including my collection #TheNamingOfMoths. Tales of myths, monsters & mothers.
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyHelpful!
- My favourite colour! Beautiful
- Reposted by Sarah HegartyI will be @hayfestival.bsky.social on 30th May talking about my new book, The Best of Everything and introducing you to Paulette and Nellie. Tickets are on sale already - www.hayfestival.com/p-23021-kit-... Hope to see you there!
- Well how lovely is this! #shelfbuddy with @neilhegarty.bsky.social in #Guildford @waterstones.bsky.social Looking forward to reading #TheJewel - I think our #ancestors would be proud of us!
