@drkerryryan

writer + founder of @writelikeagrrrl
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@drkerryryan and I are delighted to announce that STILL - LIFE WRITING is back! 🖊️✏️🖍️✒️ If you would like to book onto the session please see the link in my bio.
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2 months ago
Join @drkerryryan for five wonderful weeks of community, creativity and compassion! Find your voice! Find community! IGNITE LONDON: First level course Dates: Wednesday 28 Jan-25 Feb (five weeks) Time: 6.45pm-8.45pm Venue: @st.margarets.house ⭐Pay in instalments options available⭐ ✮ ⋆ ˚。𖦹 ⋆。°✩✮ ⋆ ˚。𖦹 ⋆。°✩✮ ⋆ ˚。𖦹 ⋆。 Whether you want to write prose, plays or poems, Ignite is for you! If you haven’t written creatively before but always wanted to, or if you haven’t written for some time and want to kick-start your practice, then this low-cost, intensive course is for you. Come, hang out and learn to write more regularly with more joy in the relaxed atmosphere WLAG is famous for. ✮ ⋆ ˚。𖦹 ⋆。°✩✮ ⋆ ˚。𖦹 ⋆。°✩✮ ⋆ ˚。𖦹 ⋆。 With Ignite, you aren’t expected to write for big chunks of time or to share work. You’ll develop your skills and confidence in a small, supportive group, joining us in-person at The Create Place, Bethnal Green You’ll learn how to push through doubt, reduce fear of the blank page, create a regular writing practice and enjoy the process of writing so much more. You’ll become skilled in characterisation, dialogue, creating dynamic settings and other essential writing techniques. Hundreds of students have graduated from Write like a Grrrl. Join us for this low-cost course & Come and find your gang! @drkerryryan is an award-winning writer and the founder of Write like a Grrrl. She has won the Spilling Ink short story prize, the Hachette GYOS prize 2024, the New Writing South Prize, been shortlisted for the Myriad First Editions prize, the Writers & Artists Prize, the HG Wells Prize and had writing published in The Manchester Review, The Kenyon Review, 3am Magazine among others . . . . #kerryryan #writelikeagrrrl #riotgrrrl #amwri̇ti̇ng
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5 months ago
Saturday morning well spent. Our sold out Thrive course with @drkerryryan at @st.margarets.house is in its second week and Saturday's workshop was all about writing joy and making our writing practice joyful! 🥳🥳 Featuring the poetry of @kimaddonizio & the prose of @ramonaausubel & 18 brilliant #writelikeagrrrl students! . . . . . . . #writelikeagrrrl #amwriting #feminist #bookstagram #writer #kerryryan #writinglife #riotgrrrl #bethnalgreen
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5 months ago
SIGN UP NOW for our Strange and Uncanny course with @drkerryryan ❤️ Tuesdays 21 April-12 May ❤️ 7-9pm ❤️ Online via zoom We're looking at weird woods, weird water, weird bodies & weird & wonderful women amongst a whole host of other strange and spooky delights! Drawing inspiration from writers such as Mariana Enríquez, Helen Oyeyemi, Sayaka Murata, Mona Awad, Julia Armfield, and more, you’ll sharpen your craft, expand your imagination and strengt OUR GUIDE TO THE REALM OF THE STRANGE @drkerryryan won the Hachette GYOS Prize, the Spilling Ink Short Story Prize, the New Writing South Award and has been shortlisted for the Myriad First Editions Prize, the Writers & Artists Prize, and the HG Wells Prize. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Manchester Review, The Kenyon Review, 3am Magazine, and more. Kerry is the founder of Write like a Grrrl. She combines a Masters with distinction and a PhD in Creative Writing with extensive experience leading workshops, collaborating with fellow artists and creating inclusive creative communities. . . . #writelikeagrrrl #amwriting #kerryryan #writer #writingcommunity #feminist
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7 months ago
Sea air, sunshine, community support and a shit ton of words written, ideas brought to life and love shared! Thank you to all you dear hearts who attended another dreamy sold-out retreat in Folkestone! We can't tell you the value of witnessing such brilliant humans support each other and tell their stories! Thank you! ❤️ Our New Year retreat at the @burlingtonhotel is bookable now! 17-18 January! Link in bio! . . . #writelikeagrrrl #amwriting #kerryryan #writinglife #riotgrrrl #bookstagram #feminist #folkestone
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8 months ago
Multi-talented mutt
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10 months ago
Loved loved loved interviewing these amazing writers for Strange Horizons 💥 Pat @cadigan & @nicolagriffith have been writing brilliant SFF since the 90s. @juliannepachico @emilytesh & (@writelikeagrrrl grad!) @hannamade have published amazing spec fiction novels that I absolutely gobbled up so I loved speaking to them about process, gender and all things genre 😻 link in bio! . . . . . #hannathomasuose #patcadigan #nicolagriffith #juliannepachico #emilytesh #authorinterview #strangehorizons #kerryryan #amwriting
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10 months ago
I'll be there! Rosie is an amazing creative force & has been a brilliant mentor & writing friend for many years ❤️ Can't wait! Get tickets at @thefolkestonebookshop (link to book in their bio) . . Under the guidance of award-winning short story writer and novelist @rosiegarlandwriter learn how to take your writing to the next level during a 2-hour workshop. Rosie will support you with exercises in an intimate setting where you can work on an existing project or start something new. Rosie’s expert advice will help you reach your writing goals for 2025! The workshop will be in Kollectiv at 69 The Old High Street, where you can enjoy delicious coffee and pastries while you write, and there will be time before and after to mingle with other writers. Workshop will begin at 10:00am and finish up by 12:30pm Tickets are price at £15 per person, with the option to add on a copy of Rosie’s latest book for a discounted price of £9* Workshop attendees can attend Rosie’s author talk on Friday 25th April for free There are a limited number of tickets available for low-income writers, reach out to us on email or book in-store to reserve one. *Books are for collection either on Friday 25th April or at the workshop
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1 year ago
The Folkestone mermaid has got exceedingly good taste in literature! Bought at the one & only @thefolkestonebookshop ❤️ . Treat yourself to @hannamade 's beautiful book from publishers @brazen.books You can buy "Who Wants To Live Forever" everywhere but the best place to buy it is at rad bookshop @thefolkestonebookshop 😎 . . . What if Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow collided with Normal People in the universe of Everything Everywhere All at Once? It would spawn WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER, a time-bending, decades-long quest for immortality catapulting you from Japan to Silicon Valley to eternity. ‘I loved it so much I wanted it to go on forever’ Fern Brady ‘A timeless romance and a bold, inventive novel’ ELA LEE ‘Dazzling: a cold hard reckoning with reality; a constantly surprising fear of imagination, philosophy, humanity, warmth and love’ JESSICA STANLEY ‘This is a must-read book for 2025, especially for fans of Gabrielle Zevin’ JULIANNE PACHICO This is the greatest romance you will ever read without the happily ever after. Yuki and Sam are soulmates. They are destined to spend the rest of their lives together. They are supposed to love one another, forever. But when a miracle drug is released which can extend a human’s life indefinitely, Sam chooses to live forever, instead of loving Yuki forever – and the world they know is spun inside out. WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER plunges into a parallel universe where forever is on sale to the highest bidder. What comes next is a world-building epic narrated by an intersecting cast of characters that will drive you to the edge of reality and leave you to answer biggest questions of all: What is life without death? What is life without love? ‘A beautifully written book with a genius concept’ LOUISE HARE ‘Hanna spins vivid, compelling human drama from vast philosophical questions with wit, elegance and verve’ LISA OWENS ‘Who Wants to Live forever probes and searches like the best fiction does. Powerful. Highly compelling’ IAN RUSSELL-HSEIH ‘The best book I have read this year’ AJA BARBER
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1 year ago
This poem has been a good mentor these last few weeks. A random share on a poetry Whatsapp group, I watched the power of it ripple out into people's days and lives, shaping their outlook and their creative practice. An excellent reminder of the power of language & the power of steady practice that came when I needed it most. ❤️
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1 year ago
Inside the latest beautiful issue of @backstory.london you'll find an essay by me on Donne, marginalia and finding (then losing) a literary soulmate. Reader: she did not marry me. 💔 Also includes fantastic features by Claire Fuller, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan & an interview with Richard Coles & lots more literary goodies too. Buy it now!! Available online, in Waterstones & local bookshops too! . . . . . #booksmagazine #bookshop #indiemagazine #backstory #writelikeagrrrl #kerryryan #bookstagram #books
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1 year ago
New poetry from me in new issue of Streetcake... Link in bio ❤️🌞💓 Streetcake publishes poetry and fiction that surprises us, makes us laugh, looks downright weird and is a little out of the ordinary. we enjoy a range of innovative forms, including: visual poetry, unconventional ideas and presentations, hybrid forms, asemic writing, unique imagery, playing with forms and perspectives, non-linear writing, intermedia pieces, collages, and much more! . . . . . #streetcake #poetry #amwriting #kerryryan #poems #experimentalpoetry
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1 year ago