
Writer | Producer | Arts & Dementia @resonatearts | Winner: Seán Ó Faoláin Prize & Aurora Prize | Finalist Mcr Fiction Prize | 👉https://nitter.gq/t.co/VopEsel8nD
Honor Oak Park, London
Joined May 2009
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We are exceptionally proud of this year's writers and we hope you'll enjoy their work.
Eleven Stories 2025 is available for pre-order (and you can get the pdf today!):
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THE 2025 SHORTLIST:
"Generous, soulful distillations. A tasting flight of prosaic kerosene. Each story ignited a flare in a forsaken corner of my mind. I can’t wait to experience more from these voices." —Henry Hoke, judge
Get the pdf and pre-order the book on our website!
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It wasn’t part of the plan. In fact, you didn’t even think it was possible… not at your age. But it happened and now an impossible decision sits before you.
📚 Catch @DebAshWat's affecting story in our 2025 anthology & meet all our shortlisted writers: bit.ly/4dZRhIB
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🎶 Double the impact, double the joy!
Donations made before 12pm on 30 June will be matched — helping us hit our £5,000 goal to support Singing with Friends, our dementia-friendly choir.
Your kindness brings connection, creativity & community.
👉 Donate: donate.biggive.org/campaign/…
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Delighted to be one of three winners of the #LetterReview Prize for Short Fiction 2024. Congrats to the other winners and shortlisters :-)
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Friends, readers, writers 31/10 6.30pm Join me at excellent @OwlBookshop in London. 🎉 I’ll be talking about growing up in a 70s/80s commune, institutions, home, the story of silent witnesses & my memoir ‘Home Is Where Is Where We Start’ @FigTreePenguin
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Congratulations to everyone shortlisted, particularly (my pal) @larapawson for SPENT LIGHT. I was lucky enough to get to include an excerpt from it in ‘well I just kind of like it.’ SPENT LIGHT is a fantastic book. @CBeditions @PaperVisualArt
We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2024 shortlist!
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🎉👏🎉
Full details 👉 gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/
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Made the @Oxfordflash shortlist. Feels bloody great. Congrats to the other shortlisters
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📣We won an award at the National Dementia Care Awards for our Creative Befriender programme!! And we were finalists in the Inclusive Care in our Diverse Society Category! A huge shout out to all our incredible volunteer befrienders, the work you do is very special!
Congratulations to the winner of the Outstanding Approach to Supporting People Living with Dementia Using Creativity and the Arts
@Runwood_Homes and Creative Befrienders of @ResonateArts
Supported by
@PlutoPlaysUK @DPCIC
#NationalDementiaCareAwards
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We did it!!! 🏅We made it round @London10K, taking in the fabulous sights, helped along by the cheers from supporters. A real buzz!
THANK YOU so much everyone who has supported us, please share with friends/family and help us with a final push! 🙏
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I’m 🏃🏽♀️ this 10k to raise £ for the tiny charity I work for @ResonateArts - we run multi artform projects - improvisation, singing, film making, poetry +✨for those living with dementia & their family & carers. It’s special, careful, magic work. Pls help if u can. Link below 👇👇
Projects Manager Shelley, Director Sam and our trustee Annjana will be running in the Vitality London 10,000 on Sunday 22nd September, please help us to raise money for Resonate Arts! Thank you for any support you can provide, big or small.
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Tickets now available for #CorkStoryFest featuring Camilla Grudova, Mary Costello, Mark Anthony Jarman, Manuel Muñoz and many more from 16 - 19 October.
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have to piggyback off this brilliant tweet again to say that what's often gets overlooked is good conversation skills has very little to do with how great you can prove you are and more to do with how sincerely curious you are about other people.
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This is @OsitaNwanevu on Biden’s solipsism and Harris’s chances
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An opportunity to visit Carreg Fawr, Enlli and view Brenda Chamberlain's murals, as well as an exhibition of works by Amelia Shaw-Hastings and Jon Hastings. . #ArtExhibition #BrendaChamberlain #Art #Arts #bardseyisland #enlli #bardsey #ynysenlli
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The pride in the yng ppl’s faces as they performed to a packed delighted audience @southbankcentre absolutely floored me. @rODIUMrECORDS & @BACBeatboxAcad have created a beautiful, inclusive & radical thing.Keep on spreading the joy guys & taking everyone with you #kidsupratsdown
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Thrilled to get home to find this beauty on my doormat. Proud to be in the latest anthology of @thiwurd - thanks to the brilliant team.
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We played with a riot of colour at our creative space session @RegentHallSA on Monday. We projected our artwork so it filled the walls. Led by the wonderful Georgia Akbar with live music from our participant Euron. #creativityandwellbeingweek #artsanddementia








































