@kerriandrewsuk
Writer & academic at University College Cork, where I am also Director of Creative Writing. Author of Pathfinding and Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherd’s letters. Walker, reader and single mum. Signed copies of all books: kerriandrews.co.uk
E&T paperbacks which will inspire you to get outside this Spring. All with 25% off @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rlYNDA
☀️Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social
This Allotment edited by Sarah Rigby
🪶Nature Needs You by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social
🥾Pathfinding by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social
Look at this! A bargain on the Highland Book Prize long listed Pathfinding in its gorgeous paperback guise. Only until Friday folks, so get in there while you can. Online orders only with @waterstones.bsky.social
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Sally Rooney and Niamh Ní Mhaoleoin longlisted for Dublin Literary Award. Award-winning writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alan Hollinghurst and Ocean Vuong are also nominated for €100,000 award
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
🥂Huge congratulations to @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social, whose book #Pathfinding: On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom has been longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2025! 🥾
‘Will leave you desperate to step outside.’ Resurgence & Ecologist
View the full longlist
www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/longlist/
Pictures of the twelve books longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2025
I’ve had to sit with this under my hat for a while, but I’m absolutely *delighted* to say Pathfinding has been longlisted for the Highland Book Prize. It’s among stellar company, and I couldn’t be more honoured. Huzzah @colwillandpeddle.bsky.social @eandtbooks.bsky.social
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Yes that’s what I thought re Kyros Walker. Bless your cotton socks x
Dearest #BookSky and Romanticism folks, what is the best published source for Coleridge’s account of his trip to Scotland with the Wordsworths? I have Carol Kyros Walker on my radar, but would love an actual edition of the diary/letters. Any leads, or indeed big obvious books I’ve missed?
It’s lovely to see this piece again. As I do every year on this date (and indeed others), I yearn to be in the Cairngorms. Happy birthday Nan.
Image of interview and pic of Kerry Andrews
Photo of Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (and dog Margot)
'A Better Bristol is a Better World'
Barbara Burns talks to Kerri Andrews, project leader of 'The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition' (@hannahmore.bsky.social),and Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull, the project’s Bristol-based MHRA Research Fellow this year.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Saw my first today too!
Happy PLR day to all who celebrate!
Amazing to see this on the BBC news all about the work we’ve been doing on Hannah More’s letters. We had a wonderful day launching our new website yesterday. Huzzah @hannahmore.bsky.social and huge congrats to the indefatigable Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull
Of a handmade chocolate cake made for my sister-in-law’s 30th birthday, hand wrapped in clingfilm to take on a boat trip to be revealed as a surprise: ‘that’s almost as good as shop bought!’
Happy Christmas everyone. Rare single parent post from me: doing Christmas with two children alone is much, much nicer than doing Christmas with two children while alone and partnered. Here’s to new beginnings, and a better 2026 for us all x
Well well, Way Makers is going into paperback! It’s a sweet little thing, quite unlike its hefty big sister. Thanks so much @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for the early Christmas present!!
Reckon I might know which ‘northern post-92 university’ Dan might be talking about alas. I’ll be tuning in.
Summit of Coire Etchachan Nan Shepherd But in the climbing ecstasy of thought, Ere consummation, ere the final peak, Come hours like this. Behind, the long defile, The steep rock-path, alongside which, from under Snow-caves, sharp-corniced, tumble the ice-cold waters. And now, here, at the corrie’s summit, no peak, No vision of the blue world, far, unattainable, But this grey plateau, rock-strewn, vast, silent, The dark loch, the toiling crags, the snow; A mountain shut within itself, yet a world, Immensity. So may the mind achieve, Toiling, no vision of the infinite, But a vast, dark and inscrutable sense Of its own terror, its own glory and power.
But in the climbing ecstasy of thought,
Ere consummation, ere the final peak,
Come hours like this…
—Nan Shepherd, “Summit of Coire Etchachan”
published in WANDERERS: A History of Women Walking, by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social
11 Dec is #InternationalMountainDay
#poetry
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My home writing festival is back, and what a line up. Some of my all time favourite writers and adventurers, plus I get to chair Ruth Allen! I’ll be there talking about Pathfinding, too. Whether you love running, walking, swimming, or just the outdoors, check it out: indd.adobe.com/view/3a0028a...
If you're in Sheffield, we can deliver by hand, on foot, to any address in the city encircled by the blue line (and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost). This might be useful for any last-minute Christmas orders (last day to order via this method is Tuesday 23 Dec).
Paging all those interested in the history of mountains and mountaineering. Check this out 👇🏼
THIS EVENING!!! 6-9 p.m., Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2!
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Irish Book Awards 2025: Roisín O’Donnell, Claire Gleeson and Manchán Magan among winners. Jacqueline Connolly, Andrew Porter, Cecelia Ahern, Andrea Mara, Elaine Feeney, Joseph O’Connor and Michael D Higgins also honoured
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
📣 REMINDER – this Sunday
ALL WELCOME to the launch of Talking Heads by Paul Muldoon
1 to 3pm sharp,
Sunday, 30 Nov. 2025
MoLI
86 St Stephen’s Green
Dublin,
D02 XY43
Guest Speaker
Professor Margaret Kelleher
🎟️ Free, booking required – www.eventbrite.ie/e/talking-he...
Apropos of … I’ve been thinking how lucky I was last year when I couldn’t see beyond my navel to have people tell me it would get better after redundancy. I just needed to hold on. The news out of UKHE gets no better so if it’s you where I was: hold on. It will get better. Hold on.
THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊
Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week!
Join us as we celebrate the launch in The Digital Depot, Dublin 8 next Thursday 27th November from 7pm 🎉
This event is free but space is limited and booking essential - book your ticket here: stingingfly.org/product/wint...
I am SO gutted to be missing this, bound as I am for Newcastle for a Books on Tyne event. If you’re in the Cork area please get along if you can!
Congratulations to Claire Power, incoming director of @poetryireland.bsky.social. We look forward to working with Claire and we extend huge thanks to outgoing director Liz Kelly for her years at the helm
I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
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We are not sane is the simple yet horrifying answer. Hope all survive the ride 🙃
Looking forward to reading from Ghost Mountain and taking part in a Q&A at 7pm on 6th November at the Dublin Book Fesitval
I'll be with Elaine Feeney & Lisa Harding. Live music from I Have a Tribe. Hosted by Derek Hand.
Free but booking required 👇
dublinbookfestival.com/event/class-...
