Writer. Alston Moor 1st September 2026. Dreams Before the Start of Time - Arthur C Clarke Award. A Calculated Life - finalist Philip K Dick Award. She/her. Books, birds, climate. Rep’d Sarah Such. https://linktr.ee/annecharnock https://annecharnock.com/https://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mtvdmzday22xA song thrush in my garden. Ventures out from the tall grass under the apple tree.25 Aug 2026 07:53 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvdmzday22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mtdqgs4th22xGetting close to publication day, 1 September! And pre-orders in the UK are shipping early 📚📚📚 @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social18 Aug 2026 07:54 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtdqgs4th22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3msx36pinbs26Over the moon to see When There Are Wolves Again win the Arthur C Clarke Award. Read this book! Congrats @catamaroon.bsky.social And congrats to all the shortlisted authors. 📚❤️📚 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/12/ej-swift-wins-the-2026-arthur-c-clarke-award-for-science-fiction?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other13 Aug 2026 07:02 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3msx36pinbs26https://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3msi2rgwoss2yScalpsie Bay. My happy place, one of several on the Isle of Bute, Scotland! 🙂07 Aug 2026 07:45 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3msi2rgwoss2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mscxy2lcqs2aAuthor copies! Such beauties 🥰. I’m so thrilled ALSTON MOOR is alive! And I’m immensely thankful to everyone involved @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social Pre-orders are open at all excellent bookshops. 📚🥰📚 Coming 1 September 2026. @sarahsuch.bsky.social05 Aug 2026 07:11 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mscxy2lcqs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mrwfkxr3vk2nAll excellent booksellers are taking pre-orders for my latest, a work of eco-fiction, set in the peatlands of North Pennines today and 500 years ago! ALSTON MOOR coming: 1 Sept 2026 @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social31 Jul 2026 07:10 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrwfkxr3vk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mrtz7dolps2l“Martin’s revisionist point is that Vargas Llosa crossed a shorter ideological distance than is often imagined. He never truly belonged to the left.” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/30/mario-vargas-llosa-by-gerald-martin-review-the-passions-and-politics-of-perus-nobel-laureate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other30 Jul 2026 08:23 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrtz7dolps2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mrn5vcapq22cA thoroughly delightful interlude: [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Jul 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrn5vcapq22chttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mrmf5doydk2hFor Monday: two curlews inflight over Ettrick Bay, Isle of Bute. 💚🙂💚27 Jul 2026 07:36 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrmf5doydk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mrjunoqqic24The ever-brilliant Michael Cunningham: “I’m wired differently. I see the train before I see the continent it traverses. For that matter, I see the passengers before I see the train.” https://lithub.com/michael-cunningham-on-the-question-of-scale/26 Jul 2026 07:35 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrjunoqqic24https://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mqt76l527s2hI am so grateful to Lancaster University for awarding me an honorary doctorate DLitt for my fiction ‘including near-future environmental collapse and ectogenesis.’ Many thanks to Dr Oliver Langmead for his oration, and Prof Rebecca Lingwood. A joy to share the day with all the graduating students!17 Jul 2026 07:12 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqt76l527s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mqbnkl57yc2iCormorant drying out and preening at the old pier, Port Bannatyne 💚🔆🙂10 Jul 2026 07:42 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqbnkl57yc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mq6ztlsixs2aGood morning. And here’s a juvenile eider. In the Kyles of Bute.09 Jul 2026 06:44 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq6ztlsixs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mpq4lvkfwk2o “People engaging in nature today are going to think the numbers they are seeing are normal, particularly children. But if you go back 50 years, they would have been able to experience a much richer environment.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/03/dawn-chorus-uk-birdsong-50-years-audio-landscape?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other03 Jul 2026 08:23 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpq4lvkfwk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mpowmkk6dc26Congratulations, Nina Allan! [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jul 2026 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpowmkk6dc26https://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mpbip5azuc2rBrilliant! “I literally would bet that if you made a kind of Marshall plan investment in soccer pitches, public libraries, public pools, and made it beautiful, you would see health benefits and lower crime and a lower cost to the state.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/make-people-dream-build-economy-common-good-mariana-mazzucato?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other27 Jun 2026 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpbip5azuc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mozhofx5hs2l“I’m here to question your relationship to the environment.” Photographer Shane Hynan. #peatlands #peatbogs #peatlandsmatter https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/24/documenting-irelands-vanishing-boglands-they-hold-millennia-in-their-layers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other24 Jun 2026 08:10 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozhofx5hs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3moucddn6y22fFor Monday: a robin redbreast on its usual perch in my garden. 🔆💚😎22 Jun 2026 06:51 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3moucddn6y22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mo5rhypu7k2w“Recruiters have begun advising applicants to leave a single deliberate typo in a cover letter, precisely to signal that an interested human wrote it.” https://appuk.newscientist.com/2026/06/01/2528529/content.html13 Jun 2026 07:51 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo5rhypu7k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/annecharnock.bsky.social/post/3mo5qnc7lmc2w“That I would be watching a stunning new species for Britain, with the imposing Caernarfon Castle as a backdrop, was not what I initially expected to be doing at the weekend.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/13/tropical-heron-spotted-first-time-uk-aoe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other13 Jun 2026 07:36 +0000at://did:plc:vz6d2iyd7vdh26ymlvmhdpha/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo5qnc7lmc2w